At this point I’m going to Ladbrokes and betting against everything Kotaku promotes. They are like Jim Cramer of the gaming industry.

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    Can’t speak for everyone, but the reason that I care when one of my favorite IPs has a terrible movie, is because the terrible movie ensures that a good one will never be made.

    They did a great job with Fallout, and now they are making a second season.

    Then there’s Borderlands.

    I still haven’t seen it, but I already know that the Borderlands movie I would have loved will never exist.

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      the Borderlands movie I would have loved will never exist.

      For me it’s Monster Hunter. I refuse to watch the one they made a few years ago. I wonder if there’s a supercut of only scenes that feature the monsters. Or anything involving the Charge Blade.

      After reading the synopsis, why tf did they have to make it an isekai?

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      Why do you need a Minecraft movie in your life though?

      Personally, I don’t need the things I like to be cross format.

      If it works as a movie, great.

      If it is never made, no problem.

      If it fails, meh.

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        Personally, I don’t have any interest in Minecraft or it’s movie.

        But somebody might, and I hope they get the movie they want, not a name-recognition cash grab.

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        I don’t think anyone needs any movies in their life at all. People would like a minecraft movie in their lives because they like mine craft I presume.

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      the terrible movie ensures that a good one will never be made.

      Super Mario Bros got another movie.

      But generally, video games don’t usually work as movies. So it isn’t that big of a loss, lol

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        They generally don’t work as movies because no one ever follows the story that’s right in front of them. They always add some stupid artistic bullshit preference of their own which causes a huge disconnect from the source material.

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          Writing for games is usually different than writing for movies.

          I believe this is why games tend to do well as TV series – more overlap there.

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        I haven’t seen it, but it was apparently good enough to earn nearly $1.4 billion worldwide.

        “Terrible” may be accurate in terms of plot, faithfulness, etc, but certainly not performance.

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          The new Mario movie was pretty good. There were a few times that I thought “this doesn’t belong here, and they just wanted to shove a reference in”, but overall, I think they did it justice.

          Even Chris Pratt.

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            I was with you until Chris Pratt, the dub cast in general was bad except for Luigi, Bowser and maybe Toad.

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                Yeah, I enjoyed it. It wasn’t a great movie, but it was fun for a kids’ film, and I loved all the references and stuff.

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                  The movie was great because it managed to do what movies should, entertain and (in this case) be fun.
                  I liked it a lot, I’ve rewatched it quite a couple of times and the dub cast is my only real complain, because they weren’t really picked to fit the voices, just to sell the movie… And that was not needed, the movie would have been a success without those big names either way so they could have chosen better voices instead of big names.

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          "Hey, what should our Goombas, a big head with feet and no body, look like in this movie? "

          “Obviously, they should have HUGE bodies and a tiny little head!”

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        Super Mario Bros got another movie.

        Not all of us have another 30 years to wait for everyone to forget about the first disaster.

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      And in some cases, the IP getting a shit movie or show can tell the game developers “well, time to drop the entire brand for 15 years”.

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      I made it about as far into the Borderlands movie as i did with the monsterhunter movie, bailing after about a 3rd of the film.

      Not really super popular take, but the sexual politics (as in the way the story treated women) in both were something I struggled to get past. Plus they were both goofy and not in a very fun way. I have very similar feelings about the fallout show lol, but glad you enjoyed it.

      But i think i teenager might have liked borderlands