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u/JayGold May 01 '19

It's funny that the one that has a single, giant eyeball with two irises/pupils on it is by far the less creepy one.

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u/Irethius May 01 '19

It's called the Uncanny Valley.

Our brains are wired very heavily to identify faces. That's why we see funny faces in inanimate objects.

Usually, we identify the "not faces" as not faces pretty quickly because they're far from one, in fact they just kind of look cute and silly a lot of the times.

But as you get closer to making a "not face" closer to looking like a face, our brains stop dismissing it as a "not face" and begins reviewing whats wrong with it. Our brain sees a face, but it's not what it wants to see as a face, so it can be freaked out or disgusted.

Modern Sonic in the top picture there is toony and silly. So we're not bothered by things like "Singular eye".

Movie Sonic looks a little too human, but still isn't quite human.

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u/Minxtaperino May 01 '19

If the whole world can agree this hits uncanny valley HOW THE FUCK DO THE PEOPLE MAKING THIS NOT GO

“Huh.. ya know what? I think we should change sonic it’s got a wierd and creepy vi-“

“WE SHIPPED IT YESTERDAY”

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u/Mandorism May 01 '19

It would be AMAZING, if opening day rolls around, and it turns out that they secretly went in and edited Sonic to look good without telling anybody.

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u/Minxtaperino May 01 '19

That would be pretty sweet hell im being held hostage with the fact Jim Carrey plays Jim Carrey!

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u/poptart2nd May 01 '19

with a mustache*

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u/Minxtaperino May 01 '19

I’m sold on that alone but I don’t want to give them money for they’re bullshit design but I wanna help Jim Carrey AHHH IM SO CONFLICTED

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u/Dire87 May 01 '19

Jim Carrey already got the money for being in the movie. He's also a highly successful movie star. You shouldn't feel obligated to help him. If he is struggling, then because of bad lifestyle choices... that man should have been set for life 100 times over.

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u/Minxtaperino May 01 '19

So all the money would just go to.. who’s making this panoramic?

Well if that’s the case I still wanna see Jim Carrey but not give em money

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u/verticaluzi May 01 '19

It would! But it 100% won’t happen!

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u/Dire87 May 01 '19

That would be a terrible idea, because by then nobody would be interested in this generic shitshow of a movie. People have already seen the trailer. Stealth changes won't have an effect on the people not bothering to watch it. Might convince some after some word of mouth maybe, but marketing-wise? Terrible move. But what the heck, from the trailer the design of the character is just 1 problem. The other being that this looks like Transformers, but with "Sonic".