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Twitter says Super Mario Bros movie is mediocre, boring, uncreative - the Live action movie was better
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Teletraan1
Banned
People with ideological bents (losers on twitter, loser reviewers on twitter) will hate this movie for various reasons that have little to do with the movie. Chris Pratt went to church so he is a Transphobe. He hunts so he must be a conservative. He has failed all of these stringent infallible purity tests. Whenever the audience score is almost double the critic score something else is at play and for the last 6-8 years it is usually ideological. At least when the audience score is higher we don't have to listen to a bunch of crying about review bombing. It is only OK when "professionals" do it. The movie could be shit but who knows. I don't trust people here to be honest about video game related adaptations. The Last of Us was mid AF but is praised to heaven here.
HoodWinked
Member
tracking to beat Frozen 2 WW for opening start
deadline.com
‘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.
deadline.com
ramuh
Member
Had a great time w my daughter. It was story-shallow, sure but it doesnt try to be anything but a pure Mario movie. I thought it was a great introduction, hopefully we get sequels. Daughter loved it, she got a lot of references since we play so many Mario games.
Also got my preorder -power up popcorn tin - from AMC. It was fun watching the other kids eyeball and ogle at my daughters tin as we walked out (they sold out like first day).
Also got my preorder -power up popcorn tin - from AMC. It was fun watching the other kids eyeball and ogle at my daughters tin as we walked out (they sold out like first day).
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Methos#1975
Member
It's at 387 now, which also tracks higher than Endgametracking to beat Frozen 2 WW for opening start
‘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.
Cyberpunkd
Member
But to be fair, the Endgame and Frozen 2 numbers are from a shorter period, no?
Come, jam with me.
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LordOcidax
Member
Just amazing. And that’s without Japan and Korea…
Needlecrash
Member
I think a sequel including Wario, Waluigi and the Koopa kids would be awesome.
Ammogeddon
Member
Just finished watching it with the family. We loved it.
Not sure what people want from a kids film, it ticked all the boxes as far as I’m concerned.
Not sure what people want from a kids film, it ticked all the boxes as far as I’m concerned.
Chiggs
Gold Member
Correct, which isn't to take anything away from what Super Mario Bros is doing. But I'll be shocked if it dethrones Frozen 2, which is at 1.45 billion.
For reference:
- Avatar: The Way of Water's 5-day WW Box Office take was 441.7 million (and that was hampered by The World Cup finale).
Where are you getting 387 from?
Deadline's Sunday update is saying 377+?
https://deadline.com/2023/04/box-office-super-mario-bros-movie-air-amazon-ben-affleck-1235318951/
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F31 Leopard
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My son was never into Mario he's more of a ipad gamer (Roblox, Minecraft and some drifting game). After the movie all he wants to play is Super Mario 3d World and Mario Kart 8 for the past 3 days on my Wii U. He hasn't touched his iPad since. I wouldn't be surprised if the movie will also have the same effect and influence people to buy and play Mario games. I may have to buy my son a Switch which he never cared for either. Damn you Nintendo
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Cyberpunkd
Member
In France before the movie there was a gigantic ad featuring Mario games on the Switch.
Wheeljack539
Member
My son was never into Mario he's more of a ipad gamer (Roblox, Minecraft and some drifting game). After the movie all he wants to play is Super Mario 3d World and Mario Kart 8 for the past 3 days on my Wii U. He hasn't touched his iPad since. I wouldn't be surprised if the movie will also have the same effect and influence people to buy and play Mario games. I may have to buy my son a Switch which he never cared for either. Damn you Nintendo
Oldie but goodie.
gaming_again
Member
There was a Zelda ad at our showing and the whole theatre started buzzing.
NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
I just got out. I enjoyed it well enough. If I have a complaint, it's that the pacing is fucked. They throw so much shit at you that all the nostalgia bombs and eater eggs have no time to register. Especially for the music cues. I think at one point they go through something like 15 classic Mario songs in under 2 minutes.
Still it's fun. Voice cast is mostly good, including Pratt. They really should have gotten Larry David for Cranky Kong, instead of Fred Armisen doing his best Larry David impression.
Still it's fun. Voice cast is mostly good, including Pratt. They really should have gotten Larry David for Cranky Kong, instead of Fred Armisen doing his best Larry David impression.
TLZ
Banned
Super Mario movie number wan.
I hope you're reading this in your basement and raging at this post.
Jsisto
Member
I legitimately don't get it. What do people want from this? It's mario. Sure, most of us are adults and grew up on mario, but its always been a franchise marketed to kids. And even STILL, I viewed this as a fully fleshed out story. We have a whole backstory for mario and luigi. We meet their family. We have a strained relationship with his father and the disrespect of his peers that provide motivation for him to develop as a character and earn their admiration. We learn about the mushroom kingdom, how to get there, and the surrounding lands and their relationships(or lack thereof) with one another. None of this stuff even had to be explained to the extent they did because it's fricking mario, a cartoon italian man who jumps on turtles....but they cared enough about this movie and the franchise to give it a shot. And we have arguably the best, most faithful version of Bowser that does justice to the development of the character as he was in Paper Mario. Sorry I seem to frustrated but I just don't know what some of you expected or wanted from this movie.
Revolutionary
Member
This movie reminds me of TMNT2: Secret of the Ooze. Yes, it's a fun + popular movie for kids, and I can look back fondly on memories of watching it as a child, but as an adult I can acknowledge that it has major issues and is just mediocre overall.
Having said that: Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, and Jack Black knocked it out of the park with their VO. Anya Joy just sounded like she was playing herself, though.
Also, Seth Rogen as DK was just wrong.
5/10
Having said that: Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, and Jack Black knocked it out of the park with their VO. Anya Joy just sounded like she was playing herself, though.
Also, Seth Rogen as DK was just wrong.
5/10
Gamerfan81
Member
Some of the criticism leveled at this movie is the lack of story and rapid pace, I get. But other critics and reviewers want the Mario movie to stand and represent something, they want this movie to send some message, either subtly or overtly. Take that for whatever you want.
I interpret that is that it wants the Mario movie to display some political or social issue message. Like that Baymax film that was a huge hit with critics because it shows support for the LGBT community, especially the Trans community, there's a scene in that movie where a Trans man is looking for tampons in a store for his menstruation. They say the Mario film plays it safe and doesn't support any type of message.
Hoppa
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What reviews are saying it’s bad because there’s no politics??
Fake
Member
More like they hate Bowser toxic masculinity, woman cliche dating a man.
In other words, they want a kid movie to be an adult movie. This is self reflect to generation Z behavior 'everything need to be about me'.
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Randy Solo
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John leguizamo is the test for whether or not your penis is limp or hard.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
What does it mean if Bob Hoskins makes me moist?
Randy Solo
Member
It means you have good taste. Bob is hot sauce.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
This would be my major gripe. It is just Seth Rogan reading lines. No character or anything interesting. They should have had someone interesting do DK. Sean Astin, or someone like that.
Astral Dog
Member
i think Twitter is trashy,boring,uncreative, doing anything else,like watching the Super Mario Bros movie with popcorn, is better
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NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Twitter should burn to the ground and rot in hell. If here is no hell, it’s high time one was made for Twitter. Imagine seriously arguing that the live action SMB is better than this. I wouldn’t believe these people if they told me I need oxygen to live. That’s how much one ruins their credibility by arguing something so utterly idiotic.
On the other hand, someone on Twitter created these which swaps the 80s songs with their original scores:
And it's really great, watch before they poof.