My understanding is that Nintendo and Sony (outside of SIE) have a fairly cordial relationship, with Nintendo using Sony Music for some projects, and them having put games on the Switch.
I think a Mario Bros 2 that just brings in other things like Yoshi while giving Luigi more screentime than he got would be the sane option to go ahead with. Like Bowser is THE iconic villain, so I don't see them moving away from him just yet after one movie, and even if they did want to move away from him the other most iconic Mario villains are his kids, and you gotta have Bowser if you'll use Koopalings. DK wouuld naturally show up again to keep people with him in mind before he gets his own film.
...They can keep Mr. Blue Sky in as it was the a pretty good way to cap the movie without being too on the nose. But I agree, they should've let more of Brian Tyler's soundtrack shine through.
I think the issue is that there are basically 3 active threads on the matter.
Are they? The impressions/review thread I don't see much active at this point at all.
Hmm I meant more the past few days and that people maybe were confused where to write. Or maybe everyone is just too embarrassed to write among so many sad Mario faces.
I mean I can probably close both threads to force discussion here.
I mean those are cool but considering the high quality often associated with the mainline Mario franchise, Mario deserves a bit of those things in the film medium. This is a faithful Mario movie but it's not a very good movie on its own. You'd want Mario to get there too.
You know how some video games focus on narrative/character but others focus mainly on just gameplay? The Mario movie feels like the later, except in movie form. Personally, I think it’s a perfectly valid approach and doesn’t make it an objectionably bad movie or anything - just different. This movie is just pure fun imo, which is sorta Nintendo’s primary design ethos when you think about it.
yeah but the problem is this movie attempts to have an emotional core but it's undercooked.
Does it? Where?
Do you mean the “Luigi grow courage” or “Mario gains acceptance from family” moments? To me, these are the equivalent of something like Bowser/Bowser Jr.s relationship in Sunshine - not really important to the game itself, just some added flavor.
For me I'm just trying to avoid spoilers. And it's tough in this thread, so I'm mostly not engaging.
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You mean now right?Not the biggest opening of all time. Whew lord.
I agree wholeheartedly, and I think the bar has been so disproportionally lowered that criticizing something for being a pandering nostalgia cash grab has almost become lazy criticism in and of itself. Like if you want an example of a movie that fits the pitch perfect definition of this, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 should be held up as perhaps the golden nadir; a film that can't decide what plot it wants to be about every 15 minutes with inconsistent characters, all for the purpose of showcasing a literal room with every Spider-Man villain origins transparently laid out in factory assembly, serving no purpose to anything other than waiting to be inserted into the next film or spinoff. Next to that film Mario might as well be an Oscar nominee, although if Ralph Breaks the Internet is of any indication it doesn't take much to sell nostalgic vanity to a critical crowd.
I agree nothing happens in a vaccuum, but on that same note of contextualizing what we see, I've followed the work of the directors of this film for a long time and nothing here felt like something they wouldn't do/something tainted by external sources though. My instant reaction walking out of the theater was specifically that it felt like an episode of Batman Brave and the Bold except with Mario lore instead of DC lore as it's basis, I'd wager the guess that the movie ended up borked due to them being first-time-movie-directors with zero experience on this medium (something they've said themselves in an interview where they talk about how challenging it was to take this role for the film) before I'd bet on a form of Corporate Cynicism Conundrum.
This is starting to get shocking, but then again, maybe not shocking at all. I saw family and friends that don't even play games talking about wanting to see it more than a month before release. Curious to see Week 2 numbers.$55 million domestic friday (biggest ever for a non-opening day) and on track to be the biggest opening for an animated movie ever, beating frozen 2!
‘Super Mario Bros’ Hits High Scores: Record Opening For Animated Pic At $377M+ WW, 5-Day U.S. Record $204M+; ‘Air’ Soars To $20M – Sunday Box Office Update
The Super Mario Bros Movie is expecting a Friday of $59 million that puts it on course for a $146M three-day and $204M five-day opening. Worldwide at $377M it's a record for animated movie.
