new "Smurfs" teaser trailer online
- Thread starter Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Yeah, that looked pretty bad. Maybe future trailers will make it look better, but I'm not counting on it. The problem with movies based on cartoons like this is that right out of the gate, they change the formula. This creates a problem from the get-go. For example, if the Smurfs to go to NY, you've created a scenario where fans won't care for it, where they want it to take place in Smurfland. Setting it in NY, they're also preventing people that aren't familiar with the Smurfs and their world from taking interesting and learning about them and their world. This scenario would be better off for a sequel. Is Gargamel going to haunt NY too now? Will there be some Smurfette Smurfing?
Gargamel is going to be played by Timothy Spall, kinda like his role in Enchanted.
Peter Sarsgaard as Johann. Verne Troyer will play Pewitt.
Yes! Grim and gritty Smurfs FTW!
"Smurf those mother-smurfers!"
"Smurf those mother-smurfers!"
You all know what happened when they brought the Super Mario Bros. to New York City, don't you?
J
Jetfire
Guest
It looks dumb. I don't like the Smurfs In The City idea...rather it stay true to the cartoon. JMHO.
Yeah, it's been done already. "Seven Deadly Smurfs" was the best episode never produced.
Well I guess I am required to report in aren't I. 
I would get thrown out of the village and forced to live with Hogatha if I didn't.
But here is this Smurf fans take... the trailer itself blows. It is just horrible. And that song... yuck!
My cat could have scratched something together in her litter-box that would be better. What is that old saying, "Don't try to fix what isn't broke."
On the other hand, I love the character designs. I felt all squishy inside seeing Papa in 3D like that. *sigh* But I am hoping that those are temp renders. Their skin was way off. And the occlusion and sub-surface scattering looked like it had been done with a calculator from the 1970's. (But this is Sony Animation and their software is crap when it comes to rendering these things.)
But despite that I am feeling better about things now that I got to see what they are up too. Besides I love Neil and Hank. Combine that with my favorite little blue friends, I will be seeing it of course.
That is more than likely. Setting everything in the original period would be very costly to do live action. And this movie has been in development hell for almost a decade so I am thinking they are also attempting to keep the budget low to balance off what it cost the studio to develop it. And kids this is the first part of a planned trilogy so I am sure we will get back to the correct time for the second movie... when they can afford it... if the first one does well.
As for the movie's reasons for the NYC setting, it is due to a blue moon and a little magic. The film will start out in the proper time period where Gargamel finds the Smurf Village. The Smurfs run off to hide in a cave and are accidentally transported to Central Park through a time portal opened by the blue moon. Later Gargamel follows them. If you haven't figured out already, I have been watching this one closely. I know way more than I should.
I would get thrown out of the village and forced to live with Hogatha if I didn't.But here is this Smurf fans take... the trailer itself blows. It is just horrible. And that song... yuck!
My cat could have scratched something together in her litter-box that would be better. What is that old saying, "Don't try to fix what isn't broke."On the other hand, I love the character designs. I felt all squishy inside seeing Papa in 3D like that. *sigh* But I am hoping that those are temp renders. Their skin was way off. And the occlusion and sub-surface scattering looked like it had been done with a calculator from the 1970's. (But this is Sony Animation and their software is crap when it comes to rendering these things.)
But despite that I am feeling better about things now that I got to see what they are up too. Besides I love Neil and Hank. Combine that with my favorite little blue friends, I will be seeing it of course.
That is more than likely. Setting everything in the original period would be very costly to do live action. And this movie has been in development hell for almost a decade so I am thinking they are also attempting to keep the budget low to balance off what it cost the studio to develop it. And kids this is the first part of a planned trilogy so I am sure we will get back to the correct time for the second movie... when they can afford it... if the first one does well.
As for the movie's reasons for the NYC setting, it is due to a blue moon and a little magic. The film will start out in the proper time period where Gargamel finds the Smurf Village. The Smurfs run off to hide in a cave and are accidentally transported to Central Park through a time portal opened by the blue moon. Later Gargamel follows them. If you haven't figured out already, I have been watching this one closely. I know way more than I should.
Well, you just have all the answers, don't ya, AstroSmurf? 
I'm still not sold on this movie. In fact, I find the "reinvented" concept rather insulting for those of us who grew up watching the show. I could understand how they did a live-action/CGI Garfield and Chipmunks because those cartoons were set in modern day to begin with.
But The Smurfs' stories took place in the past (Medieval Europe) and not only that, in a fantastical view of that era--the age of fairy tales when kings and queens, knights, dragons, castles, wizards, and goblins existed. What I'm seeing in this upcoming movie is a poor imitation of a silly Disney film (Enchanted) about two worlds colliding (fantasy/past vs. modern-day civilization).
I'm still not sold on this movie. In fact, I find the "reinvented" concept rather insulting for those of us who grew up watching the show. I could understand how they did a live-action/CGI Garfield and Chipmunks because those cartoons were set in modern day to begin with.But The Smurfs' stories took place in the past (Medieval Europe) and not only that, in a fantastical view of that era--the age of fairy tales when kings and queens, knights, dragons, castles, wizards, and goblins existed. What I'm seeing in this upcoming movie is a poor imitation of a silly Disney film (Enchanted) about two worlds colliding (fantasy/past vs. modern-day civilization).
and did it have to be NYC(again!)? why not have the Smurfs end up in, I dunno, Johannesberg or something.
If they had to end up in modern times, they should have ended up in modern day Europe instead of NY. Would have made more sense. I mean, imagine ending up in the future and finding out that your homeland doesn't exist anymore, having been replaced with a shopping mall. New York? There isn't any parallel.
Because, ladies and gents, the imaginative people in Hollywood writes everything so that there are only two cities in the world: New York and L.A. 
And it is also being made by an artistically bankrupt American Studio filled with myopic movie execs that think Americans would not be able to "relate" to cities or places outside their own country.
And speaking of myopic, why can't these people just learn to leave things from our childhoods alone. They always think they need a gimmick or change things so people will find it fresh and exciting. But when you are banking on nostalgia to bring in movie-goers it is ASININE to screw them out of actually getting that nostalgia. Instead we are treated to more tired crap dressed up in a nostalgic name. Either use the idea as is or stay out of my KoolAid.
Of course I say all of that and already have plans on seeing this movie. I am always a person of hope. And maybe, just maybe, they won't break my little blue heart again.
And speaking of myopic, why can't these people just learn to leave things from our childhoods alone. They always think they need a gimmick or change things so people will find it fresh and exciting. But when you are banking on nostalgia to bring in movie-goers it is ASININE to screw them out of actually getting that nostalgia. Instead we are treated to more tired crap dressed up in a nostalgic name. Either use the idea as is or stay out of my KoolAid.
Of course I say all of that and already have plans on seeing this movie.
I am always a person of hope. And maybe, just maybe, they won't break my little blue heart again.
DonnyBaker
Lieutenant
This is gonna be shit. Why does it appear to be set in NYC? Fracking idiots...
Because apparently the idiots running things don't have a childhood of their own...
Nowhere Man
Commodore
I absolutely live d the Smurfs growing up along with Scooby Doo,Alvin and the Chipmunks, Garfield and Friends, GI. Joe, Transformers, Looney Tunes and Charlie Brown. Hollywood has made live action movies of every single one of those except Chuck. Thank god. Transformers and GI. Joe I can accept. The others not so much. Every single one of those have been sub-par at best. I would love to see all of those characters on the big screen as much as possible and have no problem with Hollywood attempting to bring these characters back, but for gods sakes can they just make them the way they fucking were when I was a kid? No 3D CGI, just old fashioned 2D. At least with the looney toons they stuck with that. No more live action bullshit mixtures and put them in the settings they are suposed to be in. You can still have a good 1 hour and a half cartoon comedy with a decent plot. The Smurfs live in Mushroms in what I assume is midevil Germany? Let them live there. I do have to say Hank Azara does look good as Gargamel. I really want to like all of these remakes, reboots and reimaginings, but most of them suck because the go fucking with shit. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Batman Begins worked because Batman was broken, The A Team was good because they didn't fuck with it too much to my surprise. Star Trek was good because it too was broken, so they fixed. There's nothing wrong with the Smurfs and all the others, but they go and fuck with it anyway. This movie will likely suck, but I will catch it on Netflix because like I said, I love the Smurfs and am willing to give it a chance like I did the others regretfully. I did like GI. Joe and Transformers. Alvin and the Chipmunks was tolerable because of Jason Lee. Like I said they were all sub-par at best.Sorry for rambling, but that's been on my chest for some time now.
If they make a Thunder Cats movie, it will be based in L.A. Mumrah will be a filthy rich Hollywood exec, while Lion-O and others try to get roles for a primetime courtroom drama on TNT.
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