Topic: Illumination Mario Movie

Okay, am I the only one that actually thinks that Mario's face looks good? It honestly looks like it could be used in a next-gen game in like 5 years or whatever.

The face isn't really the sole problem (as the angle doesn't give a great view) it appears they have slimmed him down and given him more real life portions. Also the collar is an odd thing to add.

Since the movie is gonna suck anyway there's no need to get worked out up over it.

@jump Yeah I mean, I don't think he looks perfect, but some people are treating this reveal like a national tragedy. Nintendo fans gonna be Nintendo fans though.

@StarPoint It's not really a Nintendo fan thing, just the usual internet hyperbole the same way people complain about the black elves in Lord Of The Rings despite never reading the books or that Turning Red is unwatchable rubbish because they aren't a teenage girl.

I'm counting down the hours now... I'm really curious how much they're actually gonna show.

I could honestly see it being a very short trailer that ends with Chris Pratt saying something to reveal the voice. No matter what I don't think it'll be very long.

It wouldn’t be long if it’s just a teaser but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a normal length.

I just wonder about the voice acting right now, and not just Mario. Because, to be blunt, the characters won’t sound the same. People need to be ready for that. Even if the actors sound surprisingly close, there’ll still be something “different” about the characters. But I might live with that if the characters are still faithful. Nintendo has claimed to really care about how their IP is portrayed.

I have a feeling it's going to be a pretty long trailer. I would take a teaser, though.

@Dev9417 well having the characters speak in full sentences is a massive change to begin with.

I mean, I’m sure Mario will still say his trademark catchphrases but I don’t know if he’ll be dropping “-a” after every few words besides “Let’s-a”. Don’t-a you know? Hearing him talk like that for a whole movie may or may not be weird for some.

I don’t know; at least we’re just hours away. Also, be careful on the Internet. I saw a headline that Peach has been leaked.

@Dev9417 Yeah I did see that, the logo and Peach got leaked so if you don't wanna see that be careful. I will say I like what I've seen of all these designs, hopefully they're real.

I have looked into all of the leaks and I will say that Peach looks really good, at least in my opinion.

Even in the leaks, which I must say I find quite odd, there isn't a single Luigi design. It's called The Super Mario Bros. movie, so uhh where's the better brother?

I kinda hope they treat Luigi like they do in the Mario and Luigi games.

Less than an hour to go, ngl, I'm looking forward to hearing how Jack Black's Bowser sounds, lol.

Whelp, half an hour to go, see you guys on the other side! I'm personally hoping we get to hear Charlie Day's Luigi, that's the casting I've been most excited for myself.

The trailer was pretty good.

Wow, well I was way more impressed with that trailer than I thought I was gonna be. The animation looks incredible. Not too keen on the humor that was shown but the voice acting seemed good too.

Yeah Jack Black seems like a great match for Bowser.

Ok, that looked better than I expected. Don't know if I'll ever get used to Mario and Toad's voice, but Bowser does sound like how I imagine Bowser would sound like when talking. Better than I was expecting. Hopefully they'll do another trailer, I want to see more.

The real question remains, when are we getting that game with the Super Mario 64 penguins?

Based on the trailer, it seems better than I thought it would be.

To be honest, I didn't think it was gonna be a disaster or lowest common denominator trash, just incredibly meh. But it seems like a genuinely decent attempt to put Mario into an animated story without compromising it at all.

Now also to be fair, I wasn't blown away either. I'm very indifferent to the two major jokes in the trailer, and it seems as standard as a Mario plot tbh. There are many better animated movies to watch, even modern 3d ones. But it seems decent, and with how low the bar is, I'll take it. I do really appreciate they were willing to do a fairly serious trailer instead of being "OMG SO WACKY" every 5 seconds.