Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Making Pikachu talk was a great success.
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The Mario movie set to cruise past a billion at the box office and become the bigget video game movie by a huge margin
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Musashipan
Member
Good
Now, give me dark twilight princess zelda and alien like metroid and perhaps a f-zero
Now, give me dark twilight princess zelda and alien like metroid and perhaps a f-zero
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
This cameo melted my heart.
It was always my dream to see him and more in a movie.
In that era i was a huge fan of the franchise.
It was always my dream to see him and more in a movie.
In that era i was a huge fan of the franchise.
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You mean like entertainment?
My thoughts on Avatar 2 (haven't seen Mario yet)
chromhound
Gold Member
Smash Bros will be the sequel? 
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Cyberpunkd
Gold Member
Boy, Peach sure showed Bowser his place when he came to collect.
Oh wait, she didn’t, it’s Mario and Luigi that wasted him. So much for agency.
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supernova8
Banned
Also remember it's not even out in Japan until April 28th, and you can guarantee practically everyone in Japan will go watch it.
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Bragr
Banned
Nintendo is pretty damn strict when it comes to mainline Mario games, I honestly don't think they give a fuck about making any sort of movie-tie-in.
And they got the Switch and tons of Mario games out, and everyone knows where to get them. It's not the same thing as something like The Witcher or The Last of Us. With those shows, some people will get tuned into the respective franchises as they never heard of them before, with Mario, everyone already knows exactly what it is and where to get it.
ManaByte
Banned
The contest between Strange World and this is astonishing. Strange World shoved ultra woke BS down people’s throats and was a massive flop. Mario pushes no agenda, gets trashed by critics due to that, and is going to fly past $1B.
It didn't really push anything, one of the characters was gay, and it wasn't part of the plot or anything. Don't believe the rage baters.
It was just a bad movie.
btw, the same rage baters are claiming that Mario is a side character to Peach and akshually she saves him, so you maybe it's time to tune them off.
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gaming_again
Member
I wonder if they learned their lesson?
Sybrix
Member
Right, took my niece and nephew and they loved it, this is who that movie is aimed it.
This movie isn't aimed at Mario fans since 1982.
If you're a 20-35+ year old Mario fan thinking this movie is for you....... it isn't.
It's 100% is. I loved it. I don't think it's amazing, but it's fun and fan service galore.
Vestal
Junior Member
jufonuk
not tag worthy
45 year old man watched it with my brother. Enjoyed it. Really liked it and want to watch it again.Soon to be 45 year old here and I loved it!
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Chris Pratt is a gold mine. They knew what they were doing.
ResilientBanana
Member
Yes, not to mention, all Nintendo IP should be animated. There's no reason not to have it that way. Pokémon could be an exception to the rule, but a live action Zelda (or Cellda) would suck.
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Randy Solo
Member
I haven't seen it (like most movies from the last decade), but I'm happy for Nintendo. They are a better company than most.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
As someone with a contrarian tag, I went in with the same mindset... i.e., its a kids movie, as long as my kids enjoy it and i see great CG, it will be fine... everyone else is overreacting.
But man, it was a very hard watch. I was constantly looking at my watch. The movie has constant action but nothing else. Bowser's song was literally the only highlight of this otherwise mediocre movie.
This honestly felt like a michael bay movie. It is way too action packed and doesnt allow its characters time to grow and shine.
It's all in the wrist
Member
Is there a way to place bets on shit like this? Because this was 100% obviously going to be the highest grossing video game adaptation ever.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I'm more amazed Warcraft actually sold $439 million worth of tickets.
Kev Kev
Member
I'm gonna give it a month till the crowds at the theatre die down, but I can't wait to watch this with my niece and nephew. Their parents don't let them go too hard on the video games, so I like to spoil them when they come visit. I'm not sure they've ever even played Mario, but they're both excited for the movie. It's so much fun to share these experiences with them and see how they react to and enjoy the same things I grew up with.
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AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
I hear your niece and nephew think you are great. You are the cool uncle.
Trunx81
Member
So… No mushrooms?
I think it was a success in China iirc
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Tiago Rodrigues
Member
About that...
This is Warcraft's box office numbers:
WW: $439M
Domestic: ..... $47M (yeah...)
China: $225,547,500
Yeah...more than half of the movie's gross came from China alone. Since it cost 160M to make, it never even broke even and that's why there's no sequel.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
No wonder. I didn't know it did so well outside the US.
Umbasaborne
Banned
They just hired a director and writer for detective pikachu 2 actually. Hope it comes out soon, i love the first movie
ChorizoPicozo
Member
I wanna se that second-week drop before anything else.
I saw it streaming, I like these types of silly movies but yeah, wouldnt've seen it in a theater.
DetectiveBananas
Member
If this kicks off more Nintendo IP movies that would be a nice change of pace from Disney and Super Heroes.
Rockondevil
Member
I’m not surprised in the slightest. It’s Mario. I always expected it to dominate.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
It’s going to be above 700M with this weeks numbers + next weekend alone…
Wildebeest
Member
Ten years ago "experts" on game forums were telling me that Mario was a dead IP for children that is overused and nobody will care about it in the future due to mature gritty western IP changing everything.
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NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
I saw the movie tonight. It’s good fun. It doesn’t really do anything wrong. Whoever says the live action was better is an idiot and should be banned to idiot island, never to be heard of again, and cancelled from history. Because there’s a limit to how much of an idiot one can be, and that is definitely far beyond that limit.
JC 1080P CRT
Member
I like the live action film (mostly from an ironic viewpoint), but I'll easily admit that it's not a better film, or more enjoyable for most audiences, than this new one.
I hope it is. I'm just hesitant to declare a billion dollar victory until it hits a billion. How much of a drop will the second week be. Everyone was raving over john wick doing so well, I was starting to think that was going to be nearly a billion from the way folks were talking.
Always a possibility it won't, but John Wick has a very specific audience, while SMBM is really everyone.