The Sonic movie wasn't great either but I enjoyed it to a certain level. Maybe watch the movie first. For me the trailers were great fun, not expecting much else.
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Twitter says Super Mario Bros movie is mediocre, boring, uncreative - the Live action movie was better
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firenskill2000
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So….you’ve seen it? This post looks like it belongs on era. Maybe go back there?
It’s a movie for kids, were you expecting Dave Chapelle?
Trailer was enough for me. Never liked anything made by this studio.
Oh I triggered someone
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firenskill2000
Member
Lol and such an era response
Holammer
Member
To be fair, American Studios are SSS grade when it comes to every aspect of CG animation. From rigging models down to the writing.It's made by an American studio, what did you expect?
Only thing holding them back at the moment is the needless politicization of the product. Lightyear for example was sacrificed on the altar of diversity rather than changing minor plot points required to not get the product banned in a dozen+ countries with a combined 500'ish million potential customers (not counting China).
Fbh
Member
You can put a Mario skin on it but ultimately it's still an Illumination movie written by the same dude who wrote Minions: The Rise of Gru. It was never going to be specially good.
But kids will love it and Mario fans will enjoy all the fan service, this will easily make at least a billion.
But kids will love it and Mario fans will enjoy all the fan service, this will easily make at least a billion.
Astral Dog
Member
You know its gonna be good when these weirdos hate it
Fuz
Banned
Oops, the adults entered the thread, pack it up boys.
Astral Dog
Member
It was pretty good, the issue is that its far from a 'conventional' Mario plot,you can take some of its humor but not the whole premise
What? A lot here defending this are calling the movie for children (as defense for being poor), that's why I put it in quotes. I thought it was funny since those same adults are excited for it.
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Beastclaw Raider
Banned
Oh well, still seeing it with the kids
BlackTron
Member
The thread title is really kinda BS. The old movie is more creatively inspired by mere virtue of the fact that it was live action and all of the props and costumes had to be hand-made. That's certainly more creative than a CGI movie lifting its material from a video game. Does it mean it's a "better movie"? I guess if you're a "movie critic" looking between the lines at everything, but for its role as a Mario game movie I can pretty confidently say the new one is better without having seen it yet.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
I understand being a revisionist for clicks and all, but if you cut all the sex scenes from a lot of porn flicks you still get a better show than the live action Mario movie.
SteelCurtain 59
Member
Twitter says a lot of things
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Because sitting through a 2hr movie with no story in the cinema is a waste of time and money. These reviews inform consumers.
Why are you so triggered?
CrustyBritches
Gold Member
Don’t care what twitter says. I’m taking my boys to see it in the next few days. We’ll come to our own conclusion on the entertainment value of the film.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
GAF's Resident Saturn Omnibus
Can’t say I’m at all surprised. Hardcore fans love to hate on everything in order to prove their know-it-all status.
Meanwhile, on Planet Reality, every family in America will go see this movie and have the time of their lives. I know my daughter (age 2
1/2) will want to watch this over and over and over…and over and over.
I’m not complaining at all. I’m just glad I’ve been able to avoid Disney’s Frozen so far. I’ll take Mario Bros over that any day.
Robbinhood
Banned
This movie does look generic and cookie cutter, I said that on the first trailer.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Twitter isn't saying that at all.... There's a handful of dissenting opinions that OP has decided to focus on and make a clickbait thread title around it.
Vast majority of Twitter impressions are very positive.
It's annoying that threads like this are allowed to be made here. Brings the vibe of the whole forum down.
Vast majority of Twitter impressions are very positive.
It's annoying that threads like this are allowed to be made here. Brings the vibe of the whole forum down.
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diffusionx
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It might be like everything Illumination has made, but they're popular and presumably Nintendo went with them for a reason, one of them being that they wanted an Illumination take on Mario.
I don't know why anyone has to demand anything, it's a movie.
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Dr. Wilkinson
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Right. It’s an animated Mario Bros movie made by Illumination. No question it will be exactly what it was meant to be. And will be enjoyed by many/all of us who’ve never gotten a good Mario movie.
Bruno_Arrais85
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Twitter says...
SeriousCrayon
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can't wait! I'm taking the wife and kids on Friday afternoon to see it. Looks like a fun time.
00_Zer0
Member
I'm going to see it twice so let's see how far it can go. It doesn't seem like there is any competition for the movie till GotG 3 comes out. Any Disney animation has failed on all fronts recently so this will be a treat and breath of fresh air to watch.
touchfuzzy
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It looks fun, I'm really just here for the nostalgia and references and music. Kids are pretty excited too, it's going to be my youngest's first time at the theatre so that'll be fun.
I showed my oldest son (turning 8 this week) the trailer for the old live action version and he said "It looks like they just made a random weird movie and called it Mario" -- pretty accurate actually...
I showed my oldest son (turning 8 this week) the trailer for the old live action version and he said "It looks like they just made a random weird movie and called it Mario" -- pretty accurate actually...
KloetenQuetsche
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I love the Live Action Movie. Leguizamo, Hoskins....legendary. The Soundtrack, the score, the mood was supercool.
Speed of light, baby!
Speed of light, baby!
I like it as well for how bizarre it is. The tunnel chase was fun. It wasn't really a Mario movie, but it was fun in its own way. At least it didn't pretend to be based on the games.
Guerilla Munch
Member
Lmao at the man-children "critics" bashing a fucking Super Mario movie for not having a substantive plot. These are the same people who unironically consider Marvel movies to be high art.
Personally I can't wait to ingest five pounds of edibles and watch this in imax 4d.
Personally I can't wait to ingest five pounds of edibles and watch this in imax 4d.
Neff
Member
Calling it now, Wreck-It Ralph did it better.
I mean Pirates of the Caribbean was based on no plot, no characters, just a vague setting. The writers basically pulled that entire movie out of their asses, and it was fantastic.
There are great family movies, average family movies, and bad family movies. People were probably expecting an above average family movie.
I mean Pirates of the Caribbean was based on no plot, no characters, just a vague setting. The writers basically pulled that entire movie out of their asses, and it was fantastic.
There are great family movies, average family movies, and bad family movies. People were probably expecting an above average family movie.
BbMajor7th
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That's the brilliant thing about optioning recognisable IPs. You can literally make the movie equivalent of a dump-truck of diseased oysters and people will defiantly fork over their hard-earned cash either to 'make up their own minds' or 'see how bad it is' or simply stick it to some random online personality who has nothing to gain or lose either way.
It really is just IP pull as well. You tell people about some god-awful indie movie they've never heard of and you won't see them reaching for their wallets, desperate to 'make up their own minds' or 'see just how bad it really is'. Exposure effect is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
It really is just IP pull as well. You tell people about some god-awful indie movie they've never heard of and you won't see them reaching for their wallets, desperate to 'make up their own minds' or 'see just how bad it really is'. Exposure effect is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
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ZoukGalaxy
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"Twitter says"
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Captain Toad
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One was guaranteed to be great, possibly the best videogame adaption ever. The other was a joke months before release and the only interest was in just how bad it would be.He won.
Then, the opposite happened for both.
a multicultural team of v
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I think there is a particular irony in that most of the time when someone says "they will see it to make up their own mind" they have actually already made up their mind.
BbMajor7th
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Gamerfan81
Member
One of the mods change the title to the thread, it was actually movie critics and most are affiliated with Rotten tomatoes that criticize this Mario movie as being mediocre, hey I'm just passing the message.
Gamerfan81
Member
You know what? I've never seen the '93 movie. It does look far more creative as one of the RT critics say. I mean just look at this trailer!
Imtjnotu
Member
Fuz
Banned
NGL I kinda like it.
