I think if they do it basically just like The Super Mario Bros. Movie but in the Zelda universe, almost as if it were created to eventually be combined with all the other Nintendo franchises in some Smash Bros. crossover movie, they will be onto a total winner.
Recapturing this kind of proper old fantasy action adventure look and feel but with a really high production value would work exceptionally well too imo:
And, to be clear, I don't mean it has to be traditional 2D art and animation, but just this this general visual/aesthetic art style and the various designs are totally spot on with the kind of look and feel that represents the fantasy action adventure Zelda game world best, and which Nintendo has never bettered imo, or actually even matched in-game.
I'm basically talking like peak-era Disney here in principle. Like, imagine this example below with the same art style as above, production quality as the classic Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King, and yet still even in 3D like The Super Mario Bros. Movie while retain the Zelda aesthetic (or just stick to pure 2D but have a stereoscopic 3D version like Disney did for the classic The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King a few years ago during the whole 3D renaissance, which look stunning by the way):
If they pull of something like that and stick to the same sheer level of quality of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, they'd be delivering one of thee greatest fantasy action adventure movies ever created as far as I'm concerned.
@Bunkerneath It would be 22/12/2003 for me here in the UK, that would be the 22 of December 2003, which actually makes sense as a date. But maybe the 03 was supposed to be 23, so 22/12/2023 MK 10 Soon. I feel like I'm reaching. Lol
@Yomerodes The ongoing stats, graphs, comparisons, trends, etc., on sites like The Numbers and Box Office Mojo show that it's likely The Super Mario Bros. Movie will make roughly another 10-15 million in the US, 10-15 million in the rest of the world excluding Japan, and possibly around 20-30 million in Japan (maybe even more), which would indeed take it up to and potentially just past Black Panther by the end of its run. I think Japan is the real key here and the market most people aren't paying full attention to. So I'm comfortable sticking with that prediction for now.
Again, people are free to do any of the math on this themselves:
Also, the numbers in Poland have continued to actually climb from weekend to weekend thus far rather than go down, which is crazy but cool to see, so it could do a little bit better than we might think there too (this was the last market for the movie to release in, so it's a bit behind the other markets):
There's a chance it could pass The Fallen Kingdom even this weekend (it has to make around 13 million across the world to do that, which isn't too far a stretch), and it's still got many weeks left at the box office if it plays out like basically every single other movie these days (it will be a trickle at that point, but every penny counts). So The Fallen Kingdom absolutely isn't end target here imo. I'd say at the very least that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is well within reach:
But, for sure, it ain't gonna go any higher than Black Panther no matter what as far as I can see. Regardless, it's a phenomenal achievement however you look at it.
The point with him bringing up the adjusted for inflation numbers around The Super Mario Bros. Movie was clearly to try and take away from what it's achieved as far as I'm concerned, not as some genuine topic point. Maybe he's some jealous and angry Sega fanboy or Disney shill or whatever, but it was too try-hard and gave away his motivations there, and I simply called it out by pointing out there's far more to things than simply throwing around the adjusted for inflation comment. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is absolutely killing it no matter how anyone wants to try and portray it, very much deservedly so, and that's all we really need to understand and indeed celebrate here.
@Anti-Matter Trust me, with a reported production budget of 250 million and a reported marketing budget of 140 million, it needs to make around 780 million just to break even if we accept that worldwide the cinemas take an average of roughly 50% of all the money the movie makes in theatres--and I certainly do--so right now it's statistically and mathematically and factually on course to being a flop unless some unforeseen miracle occurs.
Just follow them to their natural conclusion (both the domestic figures shown there and also the international figures that you can click around to find out more about yourself).
Yeah, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is all good whichever way we look at it. And I'm more than happy about that.
@Greatluigi It's never going to reach number 1. It just has too far to climb to make that much more money in the time left at the box office and with where the current daily and weekly figures are at now. But your passion and enthusiasm for this awesome movie is great to see.
My opinion is that in a vacuum the 2023 live-action The Little Mermaid might be considered an okay movie in its own right, if nothing special. In this reality where the brilliant original film already exists though, this live-action version is a soulless, drab, bloated, unauthentic, "the message" pushing, pale imitation cash-grab that does nothing to justify its reason for existing and just sucks people's attention away from the original movie that [still] actually deserves all the love for everything it did first and basically better in pretty much every single way. The original is the movie that was created with genuine passion and reverence and authenticity and respect for the people paying their hard-earned money to see it. The original is an animated masterpiece. The 2023 live-action remake is grey fluff.
I want The Little Mermaid 2023 to flop with an absolute passion, and thank God it's on perfect track to do exactly that.
Just in case some people don't believe me when I say The Little Mermaid 2023 is looking like it's on track to flop, here's someone else saying the same thing and quoting from mainstream media who are now also starting to get with the program and report the real truth too:
And it's well and truly earned this kind of result as far as I'm concerned based on everything I know about it and have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears thus far. It's not the kind of soulless, unauthentic, pale imitation, cash-grab movie we should be rewarding Disney for.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie on the other hand is a triumph across the board and deserves every single penny and bit of praise it gets as far as I'm concerned. These are the kinds of beautiful, joyful, reverent, magical and authentic movies I want to see much more of again in modern times, from Disney and Pixar too.
Good on Nintendo and Illumination for doing things the right way, and may the money continue to pour in if they absolutely deliver like this again going forward.
@RedXIII I'm coming at you simply with the truth (and the data to back it up). Trying to make sure we're not all [directly/indirectly/intentionally/unintentionally] pushing misleading and misguided narratives based on ignorance and/or simply drinking the Kool-Aid is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. It's not my fault if that makes you want to run into a safe space or whatever.
@RedXIII It could do anything. Everything right now is saying it will either flop or roughly break even if it's lucky. Both are flops by Disney's standards. That's the story here.
@Fiskern No, you are wrong. It's looking like it's going to lose money or break even if it's lucky based on all the current numbers and graphs, which I've already posted above. If it's very lucky it might just turn a tiny profit. The first two scenarios are undeniable flops for Disney, and the last one is a relative flop too, but just most people won't get that.
Those show only the domestic daily figures, so actually go do some reading and clicking on some of the other tabs and stuff to get an idea of just how much trouble it's currently in internationally.
And then we can all start telling the real story here.
@RedXIII It's around the same as Aladdin in America only. In the rest of the world it is far behind what Aladdin was at during the same time and tracking worse. I assume you're not one of those people who think only America matters here. By those standards it is not off to a good start at all. That's the truth here. What you said pushes a false narrative that only encourages spreading a bunch of gibberish. The movie is on track to flop or maybe break even if it's lucky, which would be a huge fail for a Disney flagship movie, especially one where they've been pushing "the message" so hard too. The Little Mermaid looks like it's going to sink. That's the story here.
@RedXIII Given what you said, I know you didn't do any actual research on The Little Mermaid 2023's box office stats and the comparisons with other similar movies before making your comment, or else you would have said something more accurate and in line with reality around how well it's likely to do, or not as the case is looking very likely indeed. You likely saw some shill mainstream media article and regurgitated the spoon-fed narrative they want you to believe and indeed spread. Again though, the graphs and stats are all posted above for you and anyone else to check out for yourselves and learn the real facts. Then maybe you and anyone else can speak to those instead of the headlines and "news" articles posted by people who did roughly the same amount of work as you before posting their leading "news" pieces.
@RedXIII And all I basically said was go actually look at some of the data and get informed about what the truth is so what you say is in line with the facts rather than some misguided fiction.
@Phostachio You are free to like whatever you like, but you are completely and utterly ignorant of what constitutes a good [animated, kids and family] movie if that's what you believe about The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Literally, you don't understand what good cgi art and animation is, you don't understand what good film music is, you don't understand what good character design and world building is, you don't understand what good voice acting is, you don't understand what good action is, you don't understand what simple but good storytelling for the target audience is, you don't understand what good fan service is, you don't understand what good Easter egg inclusion is, you don't understand what a good runtime for the target audience is, you don't understand what good tone for the target audience is, you don't understand composition, you don't understand framing, you don't understand lighting, you don't understand the line of action, you don't understand colour theory, you don't understand timing, you don't understand editing, you don't understand performance, you don't understand foreshadowing, you don't understand humor, suspense, drama, action, mystory, etc.
My 70 year old mum, who walked away with a huge smile on her face after watching this movie, obviously understands most of that stuff better than you.
@RedXIII Aladdin did waaay better internationally than The Little Mermaid is tracking to do based on this first week. Without the international market it will almost certainly flop or thereabouts. The numbers are above, so do some basic research of your own and you will see beyond the narrative the mainstream media is currently trying to push.
@countzero The current numbers when compared to so many other movies in a similar situation suggest it's going to lose money at the box office worldwide or maybe roughly break even, which would be a major flop, especially for a tentpole Disney movie:
Now, it won't reach Frozen II, but I've been looking at all the numbers, and there's actually a chance The Super Mario Bros. Movie could climb to become the 15th highest grossing movie of any kind of all time when its time in the box office finally ends, surpassing Black Panther's worldwide box office gross of $1,347,280,838--that's adding another roughly 10-15 million for America, roughly 10-15 million for the rest of the world other than Japan, and another roughly 20-30 million min for Japan, which is about as high as the movie overall can realistically get--and by God would that be an achievement.
PS. To anyone bringing it up, most people don't give a crap about adjusted for inflation as none of the other movies on the same list have been adjusted for inflation either. If you do account for inflation, most of the movies we consider hits today wouldn't even make the top 100. And, regardless, it's a totally different world now in so many ways, from almost everything about the cinema experience to how we consume movies outside of that and the like, so just assuming inflation is the only metric that truly matters is utterly ridiculous and very ignorant. This not adjusted for inflation list is the list everyone is paying attention to, which means that's the one that matters to most people when judging the success of these movies beyond their own personal opinions, and on that list The Super Mario Bros. Movie is utterly smashing it.
If you think telling someone that Gone with the Wind or whatever decades-old movie did better than The Super Mario Bros. Movie when adjusted for inflation, you are a plonker. When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind beats every single other movie ever made. How ashamed we should all be of modern cinema and how big a failure it is that not a single movie could beat a movie from a bazillion years ago when we couldn't even watch films in colour, not even Avatar: The Way of Water. So, let's not even bother considering how well modern movies are doing today, they're almost all relative flops by that standard. And in terms of animation, it's just embarrassing how bad 99.99% of them have done then and how low they would appear on such a list, so let's not even talk about animation at all.
If the emulator is using a few things that it shouldn't be under the hood, I'm sure that could probably be fixed. In general though, emulators in and of themselves are entirely legal as far as I'm aware, so a fix to the emulator should fix any legal issues too.
Let's see who this plays out. . . .
Either way though, let's make sure all the source is out there and a bunch of people have it backed up, and then we all know it's still always gonna be available for those who really want to get their hands on it.
@KoopaTheGamer Ah, yeah, I see now: It's still running a ROM file, since it can't take the actual discs, but those ROM files are running on basically the original hardware just cut down and shoved into a little box. Not sure they wouldn't have been much better off just using an FPGA then, rather than cutting up a real GC motherboard.
If it doesn't take the actual physical disks (surely that means any games you play on it are ROM files then), how is this any different to just having an emulated version inside a similarly tiny box, as in what advantage is there to the end user to it using original components here? I mean, it doesn't take the original discs, original memory cards or even the original controllers directly, so it might as well just be some Pi version running ROMs that I can tell.
@sikthvash I watched it for the seventh time at the cinema on Sunday (now seen it in 2D four times, 3D, IMAX and 4DX), and I suddenly had the revelation that this might be one of my favourite movies of all time. I've never seen a movie at the cinema more than twice, and only then because someone else dragged me along for the second viewing. But after seven times watching The Super Mario Bros. Movie on the big screen, I honestly found it just as if not more enjoyable than ever. I don't know how they did it, but I just don't get bored watching any of it. Now, I know fine well it's not objectively the greatest movie ever, but I just think it's kinda perfect for what it is. Not literally perfect, but absolutely a 10/10 for me personally. Can't wait to watch it multiple times more at home too. And, if they maintain the same level of quality and reverence for the source material going forward, I cannot wait to see what Nintendo [and hopefully Illumination also] does next in the movie realm.
I want it, but I just can't justify £16 to rent a frikin' movie--does anyone else think that's a total joke, especially considering it cost me less to watch the movie at the cinema in 2D/3D/4DX/IMAX (I've seen it in all of those, so take your pick)--and I don't really have a good enough TV, PC and audio setup to get the best out of a physical version that would make it worth purchasing either (also don't have a Blu-Ray or similar, just a DVD player on my PC). Also, I'd prefer to have a 3D version anyway if I were going to get this at home for that price, so I can watch it in stereoscopic 3D on a giant virtual cinema screen in my own private virtual cinema in my VR headset, but they don't even offer it in stereoscopic 3D at home. It's not the best situation for me really. Still, I've seen it at the cinema seven times already, so I've enjoyed it in every form available there.
Christ, if it looked something like that art there, but with the budget and therefore high quality of a proper feature movie, I'd be interested. Just don't make it look like the fugly [imo] Breath of the Wild and Tears of The Kingdom games--and no frikin' motorbikes!
I'll be honest and say that I kinda don't want him to be too important in how it looks stylistically and the specific content, because I don't think he knows what great looking universally appealing art is, at least based on some of the looks of the recent Zelda games and particularly the two recent ones (although maybe the underpowered Switch graphical capabilities is making that art style look way worse that it could look otherwise--I dunno), and he adds in stupid stuff that just doesn't belong in Zelda, like a frikin' motorbike and now all these electrical vehicles and stuff (just no).
I want any Zelda movie to properly go back to the kind of classic fantasy, adventure, D&D, Tolkien-esque style that made it so popular and beloved in the first place. Ya know, this kind of stuff:
It genuinely still doesn't make the game look appealing to me. I just don't like the overall look of this particular art style and never have, and the same was true of BotW too. Also, I'm not liking some of the random stuff they've added into Zelda in these last two games, like silly motor bikes and modern tech that really doesn't sit right in what's largely been a fantasy, fairytale adventure, D&D, Conan, Tolkienesque world up to this point, and now this building/crafting mechanic, which could be good if done right, but currently just looks like it belongs more in some experimental indie version of Minecraft, Lego, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts game or whatever than a Zelda game.
I guess the sentiment of the ad was nice at least, even if I largely found it quite dull.
But, really, this is the kind of ad that would get me excited about a new Zelda game:
Basically, I'm just not excited by or interested in TotK, and this latest ad did nothing to change that.
I think Nintendo is going down some weird design paths with Zelda--there should never ever have been an actual motorbike in a Zelda game (unless Link actually travelled into the future/modern times or something)--and it worries me.
It's a 10/10 for me personally, even though it's obviously not literally perfect, because there's not one thing I have a single issue with and I think it was just a magical and amazing movie experience across the board.
I've never watched any movie more than twice at the cinema previously, and only then because someone else dragged me along for the second viewing, but I've now watched The Super Mario Bros. Movie six times, which I think speaks volumes regarding where I'm at with it.
This is one those movies that I think is greater than the analysis of the various individual parts that make up the whole, which are also all still great in and of themselves imo, and I'm so happy it happened in my lifetime with a Nintendo property.
@DdG1408 Apply that "because of the Mario name" logic to the Super Mario Bros. movie from the '90s and see how it plays out. . . .
And, honestly, I just can't take anyone serious who genuinely thinks this movie is anything other than great. They're entirely free to do so, of course, but I do not respect their taste on such things or indeed their understanding of what makes a great movie. People don't have to think it's perfect, but anyone dropping below a 7/10 bare minimum just isn't living on the same planet as me.
Thankfully, the vast majority of the audience disagrees with you, and the movie is also blowing the roof off at the box office, so it's all good from where I'm sitting.
@Ooyah I think Universal/Illumination has done the same with their last few movies and it's been fine. The movie isn't going to generate more than 100-200 million extra [give or take] in the rest of its time at the box office either way, if you follow the graphs, so it's probably a smart move on their part to get some extra cash from home rentals while it's still hot at the box office and before they finally release the physical versions and then put it on streaming services eventually. And it's possible the extra exposure in the home might even give it a final last boost in the cinema if the people watching it at home for the first time really love it and decide maybe it's worth going to the big screen to experience it in all its glory before they no longer have that option. I guess we'll see. Regardless, it looks like the movie is gonna land somewhere around the 1.2-1.3 billion mark at the box office, which is just amazing. Major kudos to both Nintendo and Illumination for creating such a brilliant and successful Mario movie that's truly an absolute love letter to all the fans.
@Maxz I'd say the issue for most people who are calling out the "professional" critics isn't with the critics who maybe scored it say a 7/10 or above and said they'd have ideally liked a little more story and additional character development, but the "professional" critics who have outright called the movie bad and claimed it has a terrible plot, no character development, rubbish pacing and so on. Most of them have also scored it far too low, with 36 out of 56 of them on metacritic [for example] rating it somewhere between 60 to 20 out of 100, which is laughable. Some have even said it doesn't look particularly good, which is completely and utterly absurd, as it's literally displaying some of the most beautiful 3D visuals ever rendered in an animated movie and indeed some of the best animation ever seen in an animated movie--and I'm saying that as a professional artist and animator. One "professional" critic, Grace Randolph, even claimed it was "problematic" and dangerous for children, which is bordering on insane as far as I'm concerned. So people are just [rightly] calling out those "professional" critics imo, as most of them are clearly delusional in regards to this movie.
And the plot, while simple, is still a well executed hero's journey that hits all the necessary beats and is very much perfectly structured and timed for the majority of the audience that will be watching it. There's also a bit more to it than you said. So your use of "insubstantial" regarding the plot, i.e, lacking, just doesn't sit right with me personally. Simple (which does not obviously carry any negative connotations) does not equate to lacking (which does carry some negative connotations). There's nothing essential lacking there, just a lot of deliberately trimmed fat. So I'd be far more comfortable hearing people say it has a simple but well-executed hero's journey plot targeted perfectly at the audience it is created for, or something along those lines, as that's actually far more accurate to the truth here.
For some reason, I can't see 3D properly in the cinema anymore, but I can in my VR headset, so I really want to watch this in 3D at home on my VR headset.
How can these companies not see the future leading towards showing their movies in stereoscopic 3D in VR--it boggles my mind.
@Maxz "I think people’s animosity towards critics is, on the whole, less about the critics being ‘wrong’ and more about people being too insecure to admit that they like stuff that is… well… a bit insubstantial."
Except that belief is based on a similar ignorance to that of the "critics" regarding what makes a movie like this "insubstantial" or indeed substantial.
How about you accept that you are just insecure about not being able to fully comprehend exactly why The Super Mario Bros. Movie is so brilliant across the board and does every single thing it needs to do to succeed as a truly brilliant kids, big kids, family and fan movie. Hence the VAST majority of the people who watched it completely loving it and it blowing away endless records at the box office in its category and beyond.
@Clyde_Radcliffe Yeah, you already said that you didn't like it. And I said what I said.
Clearly we both have opinions, and outside of those The Super Mario Bros. Movie is absolutely killing it at the box office and is now the highest grossing video game movie adaptation by a looong ways, completely and utterly deservingly so.
@Clyde_Radcliffe I thought The Super Mario Bros. Movie bettered both the Sonic movies in literally every single way.
Either way, it's made more money in around a month at the box office than both the Sonic movies made in their box office lifetimes combined, and with enough cash spare to possibly cover the third Sonic movies' lifetime box office take when that releases too--kinda mind boggling how much more popular and bigger a success The Super Mario Bros. Movie is across the world. The cinema-going audience is doing all the talking methinks.
@theModestMouse To be fair, she was a bit Girlboss, but at least she wasn't an ass to Mario. She even showed a bit of affection for him and kindness towards him at times. So I think they landed just on the right side of showing a kickass female without falling off into overly woke, virtue-signally, agenda-pushing territory and with a female character that was just and ass [usually towards any men] and unlikable like so many other modern "strong", "capable" and "empowered" female characters. I actually like Peach in this movie, despite some initial worries when I saw the first couple of trailers, thankfully.
I would much rather have something from Chris Pratt on how to be a hero like Mario instead of Anya Taylor Joy on how to be a leader like Peach, seeing as this is The Super Mario Bros. Movie and not The Princes Peach Movie, but it's pretty transparent why we're getting this stuff from her about Peach instead. Maybe they at least could have given us both so as not to give the agenda away so obviously. But, hey, they movie is still amazing, and that's really what I care about, not the whole pushing the girlboss stuff.
Thank God Miyamoto and Nintendo got in there before it was too late and made them reign in what they had planned for Peach, which was basically making it her movie with her front and center and her saving the day and so on, and instead we got The Super Mario Bros. Movie we actually wanted and deserved.
Also, yeah, as some people have said, I really would rather have seen a whole making of documentary and concept art and stuff like that, things that actually go into how this film was made and all the blood, sweat, tears and obvious love that went into, rather than some celebrities talking about whatever random stuff.
I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did (I've watched it six times at the cinema), and maybe some of them were even inspired to go see it at the cinema too.
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I think if they do it basically just like The Super Mario Bros. Movie but in the Zelda universe, almost as if it were created to eventually be combined with all the other Nintendo franchises in some Smash Bros. crossover movie, they will be onto a total winner.
Recapturing this kind of proper old fantasy action adventure look and feel but with a really high production value would work exceptionally well too imo:
And, to be clear, I don't mean it has to be traditional 2D art and animation, but just this this general visual/aesthetic art style and the various designs are totally spot on with the kind of look and feel that represents the fantasy action adventure Zelda game world best, and which Nintendo has never bettered imo, or actually even matched in-game.
I'm basically talking like peak-era Disney here in principle. Like, imagine this example below with the same art style as above, production quality as the classic Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King, and yet still even in 3D like The Super Mario Bros. Movie while retain the Zelda aesthetic (or just stick to pure 2D but have a stereoscopic 3D version like Disney did for the classic The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King a few years ago during the whole 3D renaissance, which look stunning by the way):
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/01/zelda-a-link-to-the-past-artwork-brought-to-life-in-absolutely-stunning-animation
If they pull of something like that and stick to the same sheer level of quality of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, they'd be delivering one of thee greatest fantasy action adventure movies ever created as far as I'm concerned.
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I'm not convinced.
Re: Random: Some Fans Think They've Spotted A 'Mario Kart 10' Teaser In The Mario Movie
@Bunkerneath It would be 22/12/2003 for me here in the UK, that would be the 22 of December 2003, which actually makes sense as a date. But maybe the 03 was supposed to be 23, so 22/12/2023 MK 10 Soon. I feel like I'm reaching. Lol
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@Yomerodes The ongoing stats, graphs, comparisons, trends, etc., on sites like The Numbers and Box Office Mojo show that it's likely The Super Mario Bros. Movie will make roughly another 10-15 million in the US, 10-15 million in the rest of the world excluding Japan, and possibly around 20-30 million in Japan (maybe even more), which would indeed take it up to and potentially just past Black Panther by the end of its run. I think Japan is the real key here and the market most people aren't paying full attention to. So I'm comfortable sticking with that prediction for now.
Again, people are free to do any of the math on this themselves:
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Frozen-II-(2019)/Incredibles-2/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Aladdin-(2019)/Beauty-and-the-Beast-(2017)/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Alice-in-Wonderland-(2010)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=weekend_comparison
And some Japan number comparisons:
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1077838593/weekend/
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4207182593/weekend/
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3835986433/weekend/
Also, the numbers in Poland have continued to actually climb from weekend to weekend thus far rather than go down, which is crazy but cool to see, so it could do a little bit better than we might think there too (this was the last market for the movie to release in, so it's a bit behind the other markets):
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl395281153/weekend/
There's a chance it could pass The Fallen Kingdom even this weekend (it has to make around 13 million across the world to do that, which isn't too far a stretch), and it's still got many weeks left at the box office if it plays out like basically every single other movie these days (it will be a trickle at that point, but every penny counts). So The Fallen Kingdom absolutely isn't end target here imo. I'd say at the very least that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is well within reach:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films
But, for sure, it ain't gonna go any higher than Black Panther no matter what as far as I can see. Regardless, it's a phenomenal achievement however you look at it.
The point with him bringing up the adjusted for inflation numbers around The Super Mario Bros. Movie was clearly to try and take away from what it's achieved as far as I'm concerned, not as some genuine topic point. Maybe he's some jealous and angry Sega fanboy or Disney shill or whatever, but it was too try-hard and gave away his motivations there, and I simply called it out by pointing out there's far more to things than simply throwing around the adjusted for inflation comment. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is absolutely killing it no matter how anyone wants to try and portray it, very much deservedly so, and that's all we really need to understand and indeed celebrate here.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@Anti-Matter Trust me, with a reported production budget of 250 million and a reported marketing budget of 140 million, it needs to make around 780 million just to break even if we accept that worldwide the cinemas take an average of roughly 50% of all the money the movie makes in theatres--and I certainly do--so right now it's statistically and mathematically and factually on course to being a flop unless some unforeseen miracle occurs.
The numbers do not lie:
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Aladdin-(2019)/Beauty-and-the-Beast-(2017)/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Alice-in-Wonderland-(2010)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=weekend_comparison
Just follow them to their natural conclusion (both the domestic figures shown there and also the international figures that you can click around to find out more about yourself).
Yeah, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is all good whichever way we look at it. And I'm more than happy about that.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@Greatluigi It's never going to reach number 1. It just has too far to climb to make that much more money in the time left at the box office and with where the current daily and weekly figures are at now. But your passion and enthusiasm for this awesome movie is great to see.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@Anti-Matter Good for you.
My opinion is that in a vacuum the 2023 live-action The Little Mermaid might be considered an okay movie in its own right, if nothing special. In this reality where the brilliant original film already exists though, this live-action version is a soulless, drab, bloated, unauthentic, "the message" pushing, pale imitation cash-grab that does nothing to justify its reason for existing and just sucks people's attention away from the original movie that [still] actually deserves all the love for everything it did first and basically better in pretty much every single way. The original is the movie that was created with genuine passion and reverence and authenticity and respect for the people paying their hard-earned money to see it. The original is an animated masterpiece. The 2023 live-action remake is grey fluff.
I want The Little Mermaid 2023 to flop with an absolute passion, and thank God it's on perfect track to do exactly that.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
Just in case some people don't believe me when I say The Little Mermaid 2023 is looking like it's on track to flop, here's someone else saying the same thing and quoting from mainstream media who are now also starting to get with the program and report the real truth too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2e1xiIQgQc
And it's well and truly earned this kind of result as far as I'm concerned based on everything I know about it and have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears thus far. It's not the kind of soulless, unauthentic, pale imitation, cash-grab movie we should be rewarding Disney for.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie on the other hand is a triumph across the board and deserves every single penny and bit of praise it gets as far as I'm concerned. These are the kinds of beautiful, joyful, reverent, magical and authentic movies I want to see much more of again in modern times, from Disney and Pixar too.
Good on Nintendo and Illumination for doing things the right way, and may the money continue to pour in if they absolutely deliver like this again going forward.
Re: Mario Movie Home Release Bonus Features Seemingly Detailed
@Ramouz Yeah, it's just a great film that deserves the attention it's been getting.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
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Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@RedXIII I'm coming at you simply with the truth (and the data to back it up). Trying to make sure we're not all [directly/indirectly/intentionally/unintentionally] pushing misleading and misguided narratives based on ignorance and/or simply drinking the Kool-Aid is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. It's not my fault if that makes you want to run into a safe space or whatever.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@RedXIII It could do anything. Everything right now is saying it will either flop or roughly break even if it's lucky. Both are flops by Disney's standards. That's the story here.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@Fiskern No, you are wrong. It's looking like it's going to lose money or break even if it's lucky based on all the current numbers and graphs, which I've already posted above. If it's very lucky it might just turn a tiny profit. The first two scenarios are undeniable flops for Disney, and the last one is a relative flop too, but just most people won't get that.
Here they are again for you:
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Frozen-II-(2019)/Incredibles-2/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Aladdin-(2019)/Beauty-and-the-Beast-(2017)/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Alice-in-Wonderland-(2010)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
Those show only the domestic daily figures, so actually go do some reading and clicking on some of the other tabs and stuff to get an idea of just how much trouble it's currently in internationally.
And then we can all start telling the real story here.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@RedXIII It's around the same as Aladdin in America only. In the rest of the world it is far behind what Aladdin was at during the same time and tracking worse. I assume you're not one of those people who think only America matters here. By those standards it is not off to a good start at all. That's the truth here. What you said pushes a false narrative that only encourages spreading a bunch of gibberish. The movie is on track to flop or maybe break even if it's lucky, which would be a huge fail for a Disney flagship movie, especially one where they've been pushing "the message" so hard too. The Little Mermaid looks like it's going to sink. That's the story here.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@RedXIII Given what you said, I know you didn't do any actual research on The Little Mermaid 2023's box office stats and the comparisons with other similar movies before making your comment, or else you would have said something more accurate and in line with reality around how well it's likely to do, or not as the case is looking very likely indeed. You likely saw some shill mainstream media article and regurgitated the spoon-fed narrative they want you to believe and indeed spread. Again though, the graphs and stats are all posted above for you and anyone else to check out for yourselves and learn the real facts. Then maybe you and anyone else can speak to those instead of the headlines and "news" articles posted by people who did roughly the same amount of work as you before posting their leading "news" pieces.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@RedXIII And all I basically said was go actually look at some of the data and get informed about what the truth is so what you say is in line with the facts rather than some misguided fiction.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@Phostachio You are free to like whatever you like, but you are completely and utterly ignorant of what constitutes a good [animated, kids and family] movie if that's what you believe about The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Literally, you don't understand what good cgi art and animation is, you don't understand what good film music is, you don't understand what good character design and world building is, you don't understand what good voice acting is, you don't understand what good action is, you don't understand what simple but good storytelling for the target audience is, you don't understand what good fan service is, you don't understand what good Easter egg inclusion is, you don't understand what a good runtime for the target audience is, you don't understand what good tone for the target audience is, you don't understand composition, you don't understand framing, you don't understand lighting, you don't understand the line of action, you don't understand colour theory, you don't understand timing, you don't understand editing, you don't understand performance, you don't understand foreshadowing, you don't understand humor, suspense, drama, action, mystory, etc.
My 70 year old mum, who walked away with a huge smile on her face after watching this movie, obviously understands most of that stuff better than you.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@RedXIII Aladdin did waaay better internationally than The Little Mermaid is tracking to do based on this first week. Without the international market it will almost certainly flop or thereabouts. The numbers are above, so do some basic research of your own and you will see beyond the narrative the mainstream media is currently trying to push.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@countzero The current numbers when compared to so many other movies in a similar situation suggest it's going to lose money at the box office worldwide or maybe roughly break even, which would be a major flop, especially for a tentpole Disney movie:
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Frozen-II-(2019)/Incredibles-2/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Aladdin-(2019)/Beauty-and-the-Beast-(2017)/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Alice-in-Wonderland-(2010)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
So, unless something kinda miraculous happens in the next week or two--very unlikely--it is what it is.
That's how people can call it a flop.
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
Now, it won't reach Frozen II, but I've been looking at all the numbers, and there's actually a chance The Super Mario Bros. Movie could climb to become the 15th highest grossing movie of any kind of all time when its time in the box office finally ends, surpassing Black Panther's worldwide box office gross of $1,347,280,838--that's adding another roughly 10-15 million for America, roughly 10-15 million for the rest of the world other than Japan, and another roughly 20-30 million min for Japan, which is about as high as the movie overall can realistically get--and by God would that be an achievement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films
PS. To anyone bringing it up, most people don't give a crap about adjusted for inflation as none of the other movies on the same list have been adjusted for inflation either. If you do account for inflation, most of the movies we consider hits today wouldn't even make the top 100. And, regardless, it's a totally different world now in so many ways, from almost everything about the cinema experience to how we consume movies outside of that and the like, so just assuming inflation is the only metric that truly matters is utterly ridiculous and very ignorant. This not adjusted for inflation list is the list everyone is paying attention to, which means that's the one that matters to most people when judging the success of these movies beyond their own personal opinions, and on that list The Super Mario Bros. Movie is utterly smashing it.
If you think telling someone that Gone with the Wind or whatever decades-old movie did better than The Super Mario Bros. Movie when adjusted for inflation, you are a plonker. When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind beats every single other movie ever made. How ashamed we should all be of modern cinema and how big a failure it is that not a single movie could beat a movie from a bazillion years ago when we couldn't even watch films in colour, not even Avatar: The Way of Water. So, let's not even bother considering how well modern movies are doing today, they're almost all relative flops by that standard. And in terms of animation, it's just embarrassing how bad 99.99% of them have done then and how low they would appear on such a list, so let's not even talk about animation at all.
No, it's really not that simple at all.
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
If the emulator is using a few things that it shouldn't be under the hood, I'm sure that could probably be fixed. In general though, emulators in and of themselves are entirely legal as far as I'm aware, so a fix to the emulator should fix any legal issues too.
Let's see who this plays out. . . .
Either way though, let's make sure all the source is out there and a bunch of people have it backed up, and then we all know it's still always gonna be available for those who really want to get their hands on it.
Re: Random: Modders Build World's Smallest GameCube Using Authentic Nintendo Hardware
@KoopaTheGamer Ah, yeah, I see now: It's still running a ROM file, since it can't take the actual discs, but those ROM files are running on basically the original hardware just cut down and shoved into a little box. Not sure they wouldn't have been much better off just using an FPGA then, rather than cutting up a real GC motherboard.
Re: Random: Modders Build World's Smallest GameCube Using Authentic Nintendo Hardware
If it doesn't take the actual physical disks (surely that means any games you play on it are ROM files then), how is this any different to just having an emulated version inside a similarly tiny box, as in what advantage is there to the end user to it using original components here? I mean, it doesn't take the original discs, original memory cards or even the original controllers directly, so it might as well just be some Pi version running ROMs that I can tell.
Re: Cat Quest: Pirates Of The Purribean Sails Onto Nintendo Switch Next Year
Actually looks like it could be fun. But I'd rather have just seen a minute of proper clear gameplay to get a better idea.
Re: Wahoo! The Mario Movie Is Now Available To Buy Or Rent Digitally In The UK
@sikthvash I watched it for the seventh time at the cinema on Sunday (now seen it in 2D four times, 3D, IMAX and 4DX), and I suddenly had the revelation that this might be one of my favourite movies of all time. I've never seen a movie at the cinema more than twice, and only then because someone else dragged me along for the second viewing. But after seven times watching The Super Mario Bros. Movie on the big screen, I honestly found it just as if not more enjoyable than ever. I don't know how they did it, but I just don't get bored watching any of it. Now, I know fine well it's not objectively the greatest movie ever, but I just think it's kinda perfect for what it is. Not literally perfect, but absolutely a 10/10 for me personally. Can't wait to watch it multiple times more at home too. And, if they maintain the same level of quality and reverence for the source material going forward, I cannot wait to see what Nintendo [and hopefully Illumination also] does next in the movie realm.
Re: Wahoo! The Mario Movie Is Now Available To Buy Or Rent Digitally In The UK
I want it, but I just can't justify £16 to rent a frikin' movie--does anyone else think that's a total joke, especially considering it cost me less to watch the movie at the cinema in 2D/3D/4DX/IMAX (I've seen it in all of those, so take your pick)--and I don't really have a good enough TV, PC and audio setup to get the best out of a physical version that would make it worth purchasing either (also don't have a Blu-Ray or similar, just a DVD player on my PC). Also, I'd prefer to have a 3D version anyway if I were going to get this at home for that price, so I can watch it in stereoscopic 3D on a giant virtual cinema screen in my own private virtual cinema in my VR headset, but they don't even offer it in stereoscopic 3D at home. It's not the best situation for me really. Still, I've seen it at the cinema seven times already, so I've enjoyed it in every form available there.
Re: Best Zelda Games Of All Time
My God, there is no chance that Link's Awakening is better than A Link to the Past.
Re: Eiji Aonuma "Interested" In Zelda Movie After Mario's $1 Billion Box Office Success
Christ, if it looked something like that art there, but with the budget and therefore high quality of a proper feature movie, I'd be interested. Just don't make it look like the fugly [imo] Breath of the Wild and Tears of The Kingdom games--and no frikin' motorbikes!
Re: Eiji Aonuma "Interested" In Zelda Movie After Mario's $1 Billion Box Office Success
I'll be honest and say that I kinda don't want him to be too important in how it looks stylistically and the specific content, because I don't think he knows what great looking universally appealing art is, at least based on some of the looks of the recent Zelda games and particularly the two recent ones (although maybe the underpowered Switch graphical capabilities is making that art style look way worse that it could look otherwise--I dunno), and he adds in stupid stuff that just doesn't belong in Zelda, like a frikin' motorbike and now all these electrical vehicles and stuff (just no).
I want any Zelda movie to properly go back to the kind of classic fantasy, adventure, D&D, Tolkien-esque style that made it so popular and beloved in the first place. Ya know, this kind of stuff:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfIizkSWAAAzNqS.jpg:large
https://zeldauniverse.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/link-to-the-past-sleeping-e1615821710401-886x447.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMRzOLfXEAY37eZ?format=jpg&name=large
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/5/57/ALttP-FS_Link_Dash.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20130317192215
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/7/7c/OoT_Child_Link_Artwork.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20110416154800
If a Zelda movie looked like that, even if it were in 3D but with basically the same look, I think it could be stunning.
This, however, is not what I want:
https://sm.ign.com/ign_nordic/screenshot/default/switch-zeldabotw-dlc-pack2-tgas2017-scrn14-bmp-jpgcopy-15127_jddk.jpg
Re: Nintendo's Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom TV Ad Might Be Its Best One Ever
It genuinely still doesn't make the game look appealing to me. I just don't like the overall look of this particular art style and never have, and the same was true of BotW too. Also, I'm not liking some of the random stuff they've added into Zelda in these last two games, like silly motor bikes and modern tech that really doesn't sit right in what's largely been a fantasy, fairytale adventure, D&D, Conan, Tolkienesque world up to this point, and now this building/crafting mechanic, which could be good if done right, but currently just looks like it belongs more in some experimental indie version of Minecraft, Lego, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts game or whatever than a Zelda game.
I guess the sentiment of the ad was nice at least, even if I largely found it quite dull.
But, really, this is the kind of ad that would get me excited about a new Zelda game:
https://youtu.be/1sWWs_AZx4I
All it needs is some actual game footage interspersed and sorted.
And this ad is quite creative and fun too:
https://youtu.be/TVoq1H9yLMI
Also, remember when Zelda ads made you excited about actually playing the games:
https://youtu.be/iu_nQwZn02E
https://youtu.be/r7qozxgX4c8
Basically, I'm just not excited by or interested in TotK, and this latest ad did nothing to change that.
I think Nintendo is going down some weird design paths with Zelda--there should never ever have been an actual motorbike in a Zelda game (unless Link actually travelled into the future/modern times or something)--and it worries me.
Re: Every First-Party Nintendo Switch Game That Has Sold Over One Million Copies
@reporterdavid Amazing for Nintendo. Not so great news for all the third party developers out there I'd say.
Re: The Mario Movie Might Be Appearing On Streaming Services Very Soon
@JohnnyMind That's fair enough.
It's a 10/10 for me personally, even though it's obviously not literally perfect, because there's not one thing I have a single issue with and I think it was just a magical and amazing movie experience across the board.
I've never watched any movie more than twice at the cinema previously, and only then because someone else dragged me along for the second viewing, but I've now watched The Super Mario Bros. Movie six times, which I think speaks volumes regarding where I'm at with it.
This is one those movies that I think is greater than the analysis of the various individual parts that make up the whole, which are also all still great in and of themselves imo, and I'm so happy it happened in my lifetime with a Nintendo property.
Bring on the next "NCU" movie!
Re: Mario Movie Sets New Box Office Records
@FirstEmperor Yeah. She said quite a few ridiculous things.
Re: The Mario Movie Might Be Appearing On Streaming Services Very Soon
@DdG1408 Apply that "because of the Mario name" logic to the Super Mario Bros. movie from the '90s and see how it plays out. . . .
And, honestly, I just can't take anyone serious who genuinely thinks this movie is anything other than great. They're entirely free to do so, of course, but I do not respect their taste on such things or indeed their understanding of what makes a great movie. People don't have to think it's perfect, but anyone dropping below a 7/10 bare minimum just isn't living on the same planet as me.
Thankfully, the vast majority of the audience disagrees with you, and the movie is also blowing the roof off at the box office, so it's all good from where I'm sitting.
Re: The Mario Movie Might Be Appearing On Streaming Services Very Soon
@Ooyah I think Universal/Illumination has done the same with their last few movies and it's been fine. The movie isn't going to generate more than 100-200 million extra [give or take] in the rest of its time at the box office either way, if you follow the graphs, so it's probably a smart move on their part to get some extra cash from home rentals while it's still hot at the box office and before they finally release the physical versions and then put it on streaming services eventually. And it's possible the extra exposure in the home might even give it a final last boost in the cinema if the people watching it at home for the first time really love it and decide maybe it's worth going to the big screen to experience it in all its glory before they no longer have that option. I guess we'll see. Regardless, it looks like the movie is gonna land somewhere around the 1.2-1.3 billion mark at the box office, which is just amazing. Major kudos to both Nintendo and Illumination for creating such a brilliant and successful Mario movie that's truly an absolute love letter to all the fans.
Re: The Mario Movie Might Be Appearing On Streaming Services Very Soon
Sweet. I'll be watching a seventh time and more once it releases on digital.
Re: Mario Movie Sets New Box Office Records
@Maxz I'd say the issue for most people who are calling out the "professional" critics isn't with the critics who maybe scored it say a 7/10 or above and said they'd have ideally liked a little more story and additional character development, but the "professional" critics who have outright called the movie bad and claimed it has a terrible plot, no character development, rubbish pacing and so on. Most of them have also scored it far too low, with 36 out of 56 of them on metacritic [for example] rating it somewhere between 60 to 20 out of 100, which is laughable. Some have even said it doesn't look particularly good, which is completely and utterly absurd, as it's literally displaying some of the most beautiful 3D visuals ever rendered in an animated movie and indeed some of the best animation ever seen in an animated movie--and I'm saying that as a professional artist and animator. One "professional" critic, Grace Randolph, even claimed it was "problematic" and dangerous for children, which is bordering on insane as far as I'm concerned. So people are just [rightly] calling out those "professional" critics imo, as most of them are clearly delusional in regards to this movie.
And the plot, while simple, is still a well executed hero's journey that hits all the necessary beats and is very much perfectly structured and timed for the majority of the audience that will be watching it. There's also a bit more to it than you said. So your use of "insubstantial" regarding the plot, i.e, lacking, just doesn't sit right with me personally. Simple (which does not obviously carry any negative connotations) does not equate to lacking (which does carry some negative connotations). There's nothing essential lacking there, just a lot of deliberately trimmed fat. So I'd be far more comfortable hearing people say it has a simple but well-executed hero's journey plot targeted perfectly at the audience it is created for, or something along those lines, as that's actually far more accurate to the truth here.
Re: Super Mario Bros. Movie DVD, Blu-ray And 4K Steelbook Pre-Orders Are Now Live
Why is there no 3D version?
For some reason, I can't see 3D properly in the cinema anymore, but I can in my VR headset, so I really want to watch this in 3D at home on my VR headset.
How can these companies not see the future leading towards showing their movies in stereoscopic 3D in VR--it boggles my mind.
Re: Mario Movie Sets New Box Office Records
@timp29 Breaking records all over the place. Lol
Re: Mario Movie Sets New Box Office Records
@Maxz "I think people’s animosity towards critics is, on the whole, less about the critics being ‘wrong’ and more about people being too insecure to admit that they like stuff that is… well… a bit insubstantial."
Except that belief is based on a similar ignorance to that of the "critics" regarding what makes a movie like this "insubstantial" or indeed substantial.
How about you accept that you are just insecure about not being able to fully comprehend exactly why The Super Mario Bros. Movie is so brilliant across the board and does every single thing it needs to do to succeed as a truly brilliant kids, big kids, family and fan movie. Hence the VAST majority of the people who watched it completely loving it and it blowing away endless records at the box office in its category and beyond.
Job done.
Re: Mario Movie Sets New Box Office Records
@Clyde_Radcliffe Yeah, you already said that you didn't like it. And I said what I said.
Clearly we both have opinions, and outside of those The Super Mario Bros. Movie is absolutely killing it at the box office and is now the highest grossing video game movie adaptation by a looong ways, completely and utterly deservingly so.
So there we are.
Re: Mario Movie Sets New Box Office Records
@Clyde_Radcliffe I thought The Super Mario Bros. Movie bettered both the Sonic movies in literally every single way.
Either way, it's made more money in around a month at the box office than both the Sonic movies made in their box office lifetimes combined, and with enough cash spare to possibly cover the third Sonic movies' lifetime box office take when that releases too--kinda mind boggling how much more popular and bigger a success The Super Mario Bros. Movie is across the world. The cinema-going audience is doing all the talking methinks.
I guess Illumination + Nintendoes.
Re: Mario Movie Sets New Box Office Records
https://youtu.be/HU80R7jGanE
Nintendo should release a new version of that ad made specifically for The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
It would sooo just sum up the situation perfectly.
Re: Mario Movie Home Release Bonus Features Seemingly Detailed
@theModestMouse To be fair, she was a bit Girlboss, but at least she wasn't an ass to Mario. She even showed a bit of affection for him and kindness towards him at times. So I think they landed just on the right side of showing a kickass female without falling off into overly woke, virtue-signally, agenda-pushing territory and with a female character that was just and ass [usually towards any men] and unlikable like so many other modern "strong", "capable" and "empowered" female characters. I actually like Peach in this movie, despite some initial worries when I saw the first couple of trailers, thankfully.
Re: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Breaks More Box Office Records Around The World
Keep climbing, Mario....
Re: Mario Movie Breaks Multiple Records In Japan's Opening Weekend
@Anti-Matter Yeah, I've seen it six times (there's reasons for that, but it's still six times when all is said and done).
It's the first time in my life I've even done such a thing, and I'm totally comfortable with that.
Absolutely loved the movie. 10/10 for me personally.
Re: Mario Movie Home Release Bonus Features Seemingly Detailed
I would much rather have something from Chris Pratt on how to be a hero like Mario instead of Anya Taylor Joy on how to be a leader like Peach, seeing as this is The Super Mario Bros. Movie and not The Princes Peach Movie, but it's pretty transparent why we're getting this stuff from her about Peach instead. Maybe they at least could have given us both so as not to give the agenda away so obviously. But, hey, they movie is still amazing, and that's really what I care about, not the whole pushing the girlboss stuff.
Thank God Miyamoto and Nintendo got in there before it was too late and made them reign in what they had planned for Peach, which was basically making it her movie with her front and center and her saving the day and so on, and instead we got The Super Mario Bros. Movie we actually wanted and deserved.
Also, yeah, as some people have said, I really would rather have seen a whole making of documentary and concept art and stuff like that, things that actually go into how this film was made and all the blood, sweat, tears and obvious love that went into, rather than some celebrities talking about whatever random stuff.
Re: Random: Mario Movie Illegal Upload Watched By Millions On Social Media
I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did (I've watched it six times at the cinema), and maybe some of them were even inspired to go see it at the cinema too.