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[psiradish]

The director/producer/whatever commentary on the 3rd Pokemon movie confirmed what I've strongly suspected for a while. The schmucks basically said, "Our job was a lot harder than you might think because instead of just translating the movie like we SHOULD, we go through a great deal of effort to completely butcher all the dialogue, story, and

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[burning_roses]

I can't say it bother me much. When you have something like Pokemon, which is pretty much devoid of any real artistic value to begin with, changing the movie versions of it isn't exactly a mortal sin. I mean, if anything about the Pokemon movies offended me, it wouldn't be that. I know you like them and everything, but let's face it - the sole purpose of Pokemon, since the day of its creation, was to make a shitload of money for the creators by luring eight-year-olds all over the world into watching the show and the movies, playing the videogame, and buying cards, toys, lunchboxes, shirts, and anything else the word "Pokemon" can possibly be stamped on to. THAT offends me. THAT is something that they should be ashamed of. Westernizing the movie is just a small part of the blatant commercialism there, so I can't say I'm morally outraged by it.

[psiradish]

The games are good. The games are very good. If they're making a good product just to make money, well, isn't that how it's supposed to work? And it's not just the games, there are many pieces of the Pokemon cash-cow that have a lot of effort put into them. The show is crap, but it's honestly amazing that it's not much worse. The games, good as they are, are not TV show friendly. Making a TV show out of Tetris would only be marginally harder than making one out of Pokemon. And yet they did it, and it's loyal to the game while somehow managing to be coherent at least 60% of the time. And on a side-note, the episode Thundershock Showdown happens to contain one of the greatest battles ever animated