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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    2 months ago

    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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      2 months ago

      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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      2 months ago

      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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        2 months ago

        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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          2 months ago

          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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        2 months ago

        "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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      2 months ago

      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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        2 months ago

        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.