Yeah, but he refuses to call him friend.
He even refuses when Goku asked for his help to participate in a tournament (that will decide the fate of their universe) because his daughter was about to be born.
He does see him as a rival to surpass though, so a friendly rivalry relationship.
To refuse to participate in the tourney with him is one thing, but because he wants to be present for the birth of his daughter is understandable. Goku going to a major tournament that decides the fate of the world is like a fan going to their favorate convention. So it's understandble if you've been planning to go to a convention with your friend for years only for them to flake on you because their kid is expected any day now, it's completely understandable. I can't let that tarnish a friendship over such reason.
Yeah, nostalgia also the things that made people mad over tiny thing like .... Carnival Night Zone music in Origins.
Well, me included.
Nostalgia is marketable if done right. Just ask Disney and Nintendo. Half of their success is pioneering of what they made in the '80s and '90s.
It'll be a hard fight though in 2024.
He's gonna compete with ................ Jesus !
The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection is also planned to be released in 2024.
No offense to Jesus but I don't really think Sonic has to worry about that. While Christianity is still the leading religion, with our way of lives being more cultural mixed than it was the last few decades means more people of variety of religions or branches of atheism. That said I imagine Jesus' movie will be more popular amongst the Christian demography than the general audience. Unlike Sonic movies which seems to be popular for general movie-goers who know only so much on Sonic.
I myself ID as an atheist but lean towards agnosticism. Whenever Jesus still has a state of existence to this day we cannot comprehend, I don't know myself. I mean, I believe Jesus was a real person who lived a long time a go. Whenever his gifts were divine or alien I don't know but I believe they were genuine and I've heard stories of near death experience of coma dreams of people of different faiths outside of Christianity who claimed they met Jesus, that Jesus is looking out for us all regardless of our faiths or way of life, or that he will help certain individuals if they just believe and ask for him or something like that.
As an atheist, I don't believe everything religious tells us. But as an agnostic I believe there could be some elements of truth to these stories or there are simply established facts and truths that are beyond our comprehension of our perception of reality.
But I'm going off on a doddle, I'm just saying the only people who would watch Jesus' movie would be the Ned Flanders type.
