Topic: Illumination Mario Movie

@TheBigBlue movie snobs critics don't get video games.

@TheBigBlue If a critic can call this good (below, and it is good) then they can call the Mario Movie good at least.

Not naming names, but some comments in the NL article seem mighty smug about what some of the critics are saying. You can dislike the movie all you want, but there's no need to show off how you expected/hoped it would "fail".

I am just going to enjoy the movie for what it is. I don't put much stock into opinions about franchises I already love.

@BrazillianCara I get what you are saying and I agree. Don’t wish for the movie to fail. Be nice to the people who are pumped to see it instead of spreading the message around of “this movie is going to suck”.

I'm gonna wait and rent it on digital... I keep getting ill when I go to the theatre.

@Owl1 if that’s the case your reasoning is vary, vary justifiable. I wouldn’t want to go ether lol.

@Snatcher after seeing Avatar I got a cold that hit me harder than COVID ever did. Then I saw Shazam 2 and got a little tiny cold.

To say I am skeptical (if that's the right word) of theatres now is somewhat true.

getting sick is weird.

@Owl1 If you do decide to go, bring some disaffecting wipes, and wipe down whatever seat your going to sit in, something tells me people aren’t being sanitary.

@Snatcher don't worry once I go back I will, I'll walk in wearing a hazmat suit if needed.

@Owl1 if you got sick three times, it sounds like it lol. Like goodness.

@Snatcher yep. going to the theatre is scary now.

I was going to pre-purchase our tickets but I just checked and Thursday during the same seems wide open. So I don't see the need to pre-purchase and tack on a "convenience fee." I'll take the risk and walk in Thursday hoping we're good for seating.

I’m surprised about the amount of Mario movie hate on this site especially since it’s not out yet

@FawfulsFury Well people were moaning about Pokemon, Zelda Kingdom Sad, Splatoon 3, Paper Mario etc before it was released so it's only fair for people to moan about a movie from the Minions company before its released too.

I am so disappointed by what I have seen so far. It seems to be just like the games with some light jokes sprinkled in.

I find that especially surprising, because about the first Mario Movie, Miyamoto said that movies should not be straight translations of video games :

"Well, when we first initiated talks about a Super Mario Bros. movie, I tried to emphasize the point that the Mario Bros. games are fun as videogames and if we were going to make a Mario Bros. movie, that movie should be entertaining as a movie, and not a translation of the videogame,"
(from https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2007/11/miyamoto-remebers-the-...

Based on this critique I thought the new Mario Movie would have a more elaborate plot than the games.

Yes, I know that Miyamoto was against stories in GAMES because he thought that the actual gameplay should take the place of a story in video games. But as he said in the quote in the my last post, Movies should not be straight translations of video games, so story has a different role in a movie.

The complaints seem like it's less "story" related and just there's no structure. In games you naturally have the structure of levels starts and then reach the goal which it hasn't compensated for so the movie sounds like it's a series of Youtube clips which young gamers would probably like anyway since alot of them spend hours of just watching people playing games and the standard of writing in alot of games is abysmal.

Imagine if there was a lore heavy storyline that folk insisted was 'canon' and be forced into every game going forward for continuity. Sounds unbearable to me.