Random: The Golden Globes Is The Place For Top Super Mario Bros. Banter

Didn't watch, but it's very rare that Jo Koy isn't funny. Now I'm inclined to...

Dehnuhnehnuhnehnuh!

Nice. I was thinking the reason for this happening might have been because the "Peaches" song from The Super Mario Bros Movie had been nominated ! 😂

Erm, actually, the duhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuh sound isn't from the levels where you fight King Koopa! 🤓☝️

There, now nobody else can post that, but completely seriously.

Wow, im shocked Mario didn't win best animated movie of the year. It was a cut above the competition for sure.

@GoshJosh the Mario movie is fine for what it is but on an animation wizardry level Spider Man is an absolutely gorgeous technical achievement and The Boy & The Heron is such a rich film in narrative and themes so it’s not really surprising Mario didn’t win.

In any case just look at it being given a nomination as an award itself rather than being disappointed it didn’t win.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie should have at least won the award for best plumbing.

I love when comedians host these things. Koy and Gervais have been my fave so far hosting this.

Compared to other HM films, The Boy and the Heron was good if you paid attention, but it was honestly boring for me.

@IronMan30 Koy and Gervais should double host at the next GG!

@Vivianeat Calling either of them comedians is debatable for sure.

I love it that nowadays, everyone can be a celebrity, you don't need to be known or famous, in most cases they are just people dragged off the street. I haven't heard of 99% people being called celebrities in the past 10 years

@Princess_Lilly Just because you haven't of them doesn't change anything. All that means in the past 10 years you haven't bothered to pay attention. Which is fine,a s I don't keep up with Hollywood myself.

And you are right, anyone can be celebrity. However, it;s not nowadays, it's always been that way. There are different levels of celebrity status and the word just means someone who's famous or well known. There isn't a level one must reach to be called one.

I believe the kind of celebrity you are talking about is an old fashioned one molded by Hollywood execs. Those days have been long gone for decades.

Ever heard of a local celebrity? Probably not. Those are people who are famous within their communities. Again, celebrity just means well known or famous.

One doesn't have to star in big budget productions to be considered one.

YouTubers themselves are considered celebrities. Not because Hollywood says so, but because their fans of millions say so.

The status of what counts as a celebrity, you are thinking of, hasn't been important or relevant for decades.

@Maxz I dunno, that scene with Marilyn Monroe in a bathtub in Seven Year Itch is a good one too and Bound has lots plumbing scenes where you notice Gina Gershon fixes things without making a big fuss unlike the Mario Bros.

Nice and wholesome. Sonic and Mario fans getting along.

Just hear for the Ko Joy comments, didn’t disappoint.😂

Nah gotta call a flag on the play here with Ollie saying go watch the boy and the heron. Any of the movies in that category are what you should go watch tho Mario is probably the one everyone has seen. At least see Suzume. You go watch the boy and the heron and you’ll come out of it like those Scott the Woz gags where he sits there staring towards the ground with a thousand yard stare and not for good reasons.

@Vivianeat I wouldn't hate that, in some ways...

@Bratwurst35 yeah, that's exactly what I meant. I mean with Hollywood, and music industry falling apart and not meaning anything anymore, there are no real celebrities, no universally known people, just some people that are famous in very specific, particular areas.

What I meant is that to be considered a celebrity, you had to meet some "level" of being known at the very least. And the best example is music. Nowadays, there are no great, universally known bands. In the 00s, you had to be a member of an uncontacted tribe not to know, say, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Rolling Stones, Abba, or Bon Jovi. You didn't have to know their songs, they were just in the public memory due to the sheer volume of their works. There is are no artists of such magnitude anymore ever since music quality plummeted in 2010s.

So yes, I fully agree with you that the term celebrity has devolved into "a person being known by a particular group", a local celebrity.

@Princess_Lilly A natural effect of much more media availability and how fans are spread into more specific niches.

Here's an alternate consideration:

Not being up with the latest trends is something older people have experienced for centuries. You don't keep up because music and entertainment takes a backseat to more important needs, and then you find yourself saying "it all went downhill" since back when I cared about it, back when it was "the best".

It's a cliché because it's a perception that is hard to avoid. People stop making music you care about because your tastes become irrelevant and, frankly, you are better "served" by reselling you the only stuff you will think is good.

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift ruled the media world in 2023 in a way that few artists ever have and is a nice example of a celebrity just as famous (or more) than "the old days". (I'm not really a fan, nor do I know anyone that is. Though "shake it off" comes to mind occasionally.)

It takes effort to follow trends and find what people are liking in modern music and other media that you are most likely missing or dismissing because it's not what you are used to and probably is not made to speak to people like you in the first place.

It's the kind of effort I have little time for, myself. That doesn't make the latest trends objectively worse, just harder for me to perceive or appreciate.