r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Apr 30 '23
‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Officially Passes $1 Billion Globally News
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/super-mario-bros-movie-1-billion-box-office-milestone-1235598832/2.8k
u/Herbandtea Apr 30 '23
Yo it just opened in Japan this weekend. It’s gonna get wild. .
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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ Apr 30 '23
How is Japan the last country that gets this movie?
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u/Immakilzu Apr 30 '23
They wanted to open it during Golden Week, a week long national Holiday in Japan
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u/SFLADC2 Apr 30 '23
Man, for a country notorious for shitty work life balance, a week off holiday is pretty dope
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u/Malt___Disney Apr 30 '23
I'm sure that plenty of people are still working
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Movie theaters are closed because the employees are celebrating Golden Week
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u/Marak830 Apr 30 '23
We only have 3 days off this time around. Monday and Tuesday are not public holidays -.-
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u/sercommander Apr 30 '23
When I was there it was pure chaos and stress. People rushed to get to their vocational resorts, traffic jams, kids shouting and screaming, those who did not book their places beforehand went from one place to another in search of free rooms/inns etc.
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u/Delicious_Aioli8213 May 01 '23
There’s a ton of holidays made just to force people to take time off.
And tbh the work life balance isn’t all that different from America. It’s definitely still worse, but the company also gives you bonuses, extra bonuses for major life events, and a fat check when you retire.
They just also extended parental leave of 1 to help years full of fully pay if both parents take the leave.
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u/BobTrain666 Apr 30 '23
Poland opens in like a month, but yes, Japan is the last major market open
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u/Idratherhikeout Apr 30 '23
Jeez Chris Pratt has been in a lot of 1b movies
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u/JayCroghan Apr 30 '23
Zoe Saldana has been in the top 3 grossing movies of all time, and 4 of the top 6. Two Avatars and two Avengers. He was in two of them.
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u/Cabbage_Vendor Apr 30 '23
The key to getting a top grossing movie is to paint Zoe Saldana in another colour.
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u/drybones2015 Apr 30 '23
So what your saying is... Zoe Saldana as Poison Ivy?
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u/aMinorAggrievance Apr 30 '23
No. What I'm saying is a gender swapped reboot of White Chicks.
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u/TheMaxBoom93 Apr 30 '23
White Hicks
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u/reddit_sage69 May 01 '23
I was gonna say White Dicks but I guess that'd be a hard sell
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u/MrZAP17 Apr 30 '23
I know they’re not at the same level box office wise but I still think her best performances were as Uhura, where she looked like herself.
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u/Cabbage_Vendor Apr 30 '23
See, that's why those movies didn't make a billion. If Zoe Saldana had been a Klingon, guaranteed money maker.
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u/sasha_baron_of_rohan Apr 30 '23
It's odd because she isn't the main draw for any of those movies, but she's very versatile in her roles so she is a go to for big movies.
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u/souse03 Apr 30 '23
To be fair most people don't go to see avatar because of the actors (with the exception of Sigourney i guess). Heck a lot of people probably don't even know who the actors are behind the creatures
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u/Ed_Durr May 01 '23
Sam Worthington is the lead of the first and third biggest movies of all time, yet nobody would recognize him walking down the street.
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u/WhoShotMrBoddy Apr 30 '23
She was only in the 1st POTC. She was supposed to be in more of them but there were a bunch of behind the scenes politics and she didn’t go back
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u/Idratherhikeout Apr 30 '23
oh yeah, she was in that. She and Pratt are the unexpected billion dollar movie stars
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u/Yoss0 Apr 30 '23
Scarlet Johansson, per https://www.celebrityangels.co.uk/top-ten-actresses/
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u/ToastyKen Apr 30 '23
And she's the top grossing actor, regardless of gender. Saldana is 4th, after Robert Downey Jr and Sam Jackson. The comes 5 Chris's and Toms. :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_actors
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u/clauderbaugh Apr 30 '23
Wow 7 of the top 10 on that list have been in the MCU.
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And 2 made bank from Harry Potter, although both other have huge box office hits. Only Michelle Rodriguez isn't in Harry Potter or MCU movies. She of course has Avatar and God knows how many F&F movies though.
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u/indianajoes Apr 30 '23
She was only in the first Pirates film and that was the lowest grossing of the whole series. It's a bit of an exaggeration to talk about that series as "one of hers"
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u/-mostlyharmless1 Apr 30 '23
She’s also unrecognizable as herself in those 4 films
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u/lynypixie Apr 30 '23
For someone who is heavily hated here
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u/Speedy059 Apr 30 '23
Lets be honest, most of us would be severely hated on reddit if everyone knew us.
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u/Viveric Apr 30 '23
It’s almost like the takes of chronically online people don’t align with everyone else
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u/_kevx_91 Apr 30 '23
Yeah, it's obvious. Practically everyone I know isn't aware of any controversy or his politics or religious views, etc. and just watch his movies anyway. People need to understand that a vast majority of people outside of social media don't give a crap about an actor's personal life and just watch movies as escapism.
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u/jaytix1 Apr 30 '23
Yeah, their beef with him (whether justified or not) is super irrelevant to the average person. You have to be an actual criminal for your career to suffer, and even that isn't a guarantee.
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u/dj_soo Apr 30 '23
Very few people are going to not go see a Mario movie because it’s got Chris Pratt in it
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u/portuguesetheman Apr 30 '23 edited May 01 '23
It sounds exhausting to be pissed off at dozens of celebrities at all times. No wonder so many redditors are depressed
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u/LordofAngmarMB Apr 30 '23
So many people here think they’re better than participating in outrage culture, but I’ve seen so much utterly pointless vitriol at actors whether they deserve it or not.
Sure, [insert celebrity here] is a piece of shit, but why are you using your limited time and energy to be obsessively angry at them online?
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u/dorkswerebiggerthen Apr 30 '23
Yeah, I got an opinion on just about everything. You want to hear about it? Too bad cuz you're gonna.
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u/komodo_dragonzord Apr 30 '23
incoming nintendo cinematic universe
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u/Pizza_Saucy Apr 30 '23
I mean the fight between Mario and Donkey Kong felt like a Smash Bros. stage!
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u/Godkun007 Apr 30 '23
I mean, that was literally what the scene was referencing.
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u/Pizza_Saucy Apr 30 '23
I felt the movie as a whole was it dipping its toes to see what was interesting. Luigi's Mansion, Yoshi Island, Smash Bros etc. Mario Kart was the most obvious.
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u/Godkun007 Apr 30 '23 edited Apr 30 '23
Ya, that is what I felt also. The Mario universe is so massive that they can probably have the next 3 or 4 movies written quickly. They even hinted at the Mario Galaxy characters and Rosalina.
However, in the after credits scene, they basically confirmed that Mario 2 will be about Yoshi.
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u/maxdragonxiii Apr 30 '23
which is a bit weird (because Yoshi's Island made Mario&Luigi Mushroom Kingdom natives) but Yoshi have appeared before Yoshi's Island so
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u/Fern-ando Apr 30 '23 edited May 01 '23
The movie is more based in the 80’s American cartoon than the games, Pauline is the mayor of New Donk City not 2023 New York and Mario and Luigi childhood home was a mushroom.
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u/bman123457 Apr 30 '23
It seemed to be more a reference to the Donkey Kong arcade game
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u/nickburrows8398 Apr 30 '23
A Zelda movie is basically inevitable now
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u/PayneTrain181999 Apr 30 '23
“Well, excuuuussse me princess!”
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u/hardspank916 Apr 30 '23
Live action like the cartoon is the preference. Unless we get an adaptation of Orcarina of Tim
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u/DFGdanger Apr 30 '23
Live action like the cartoon
wat?
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u/bagboyrebel Apr 30 '23
It's awkwardly worded, but I think he's saying he wants it to be like the old cartoon but in live action.
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u/TheGoodNamesAreGone2 Apr 30 '23
I'd honestly love a smash bros cinematic universe
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u/lk05321 Apr 30 '23
Hell. Yes. The end credits scene where they get the red envelope 🧧
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u/Helian7 Apr 30 '23
A silent lead character.
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u/HowardDean_Scream Apr 30 '23
He yells!
Its also implied he's speaking in several games.
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u/thedaddysaur Apr 30 '23
Not just implied, but straight up said. "What did you say?", "You said ____?", and more. Plus BotW says that Link talks to Zelda all the time.
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u/drybones2015 Apr 30 '23
Pretty much every response you give to an npc in BotW is supposed to be Link saying it. Also the quest menu is worded like journal entries by Link in the Japanese translation.
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u/EnTyme53 Apr 30 '23
I would love to see them cast a trendy actor like, say, Timothy Chalomet just to yell "Het, het, hyah!" for 90 minutes.
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u/SolomonBlack May 01 '23
Henry Cavil carried an entire series with two grunts and a swear word, I'm sure someone can manage our OG monster slayer.
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u/DazeLost Apr 30 '23
I can’t imagine a bigger clash of unmoving, stubborn forces than Nintendo and Hayao Miyazaki.
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u/lynypixie Apr 30 '23
That would be the most fitting studio, I agree. Zelda needs to be Japanese animation. I don’t want to see it Americanized.
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u/MoeNopoly Apr 30 '23
i hope too, that they don't give all their projects to Illumination, but spread it out to the most fitting studios.
I also don't see Metroid a fit for Illumination. Would like them do Luigi's Mansion though.
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u/lynypixie Apr 30 '23
Imagine a Metroid in the same style and vibe as Arcane.
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u/MarcusForrest Apr 30 '23
METROID is one of the few Nintendo properties I'd love to see adapted into live-action
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u/INmySTRATEjaket Apr 30 '23
That's just Alien.
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u/MarcusForrest Apr 30 '23
Yes, but for all the good reasons!
- Its own thing
- Very stylized
- Horror-SciFi
- Badass Female Heroine
And it'd go full circle, as METROID was explicitly inspired by ALIEN
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u/In_My_Own_Image Apr 30 '23 edited Apr 30 '23
It's definitely the one of their properties that would be the easiest to go live action.
The inevitable danger is they cram in a bunch of extra characters for Samus to team up and interact with. Other M showed that doesn't work too well (her characterization in that game didn't help either).
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u/MarcusForrest Apr 30 '23
I agree - the first movie should definitely feel solitary, claustrophobic, very much like the first ALIEN movie. I'd love to see NINTENDO try different movie genres across their different properties
- TLoZ - Fantasy Epic
- METROID - Hard SciFi with some Horror elements
- STARFOX - Space Opera
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u/NaughtyGaymer Apr 30 '23
Illumination could probably make a fun Rabbids movie too lol.
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u/LeVampirate Apr 30 '23
Hear me out, as someone who has been a staunch supporter of this idea since it crossed my mind:
Metroid by Genndy Tartakovsky.
Seriously, after his work on Primal, I feel like he could hone in on that isolated, claustrophobic feeling you get exploring Zebes or SR-388 while also being able to show the brutality that comes from the boss fights against Kraid or Ridley.
And 2D animation needs some more love so, wins all around. I like the Arcane idea though, and at this point we know Nintendo can afford to choose any studio after the success of Mario.
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u/Shakezula123 Apr 30 '23
You say that... but I don't think Zelda has the recognition Mario does. Ask any middle aged or older parent what sound Mario makes and probably they'd be able to tell you, ask them who Link is and idk they'd be able to - same for young kids
Mario 2 for sure will be a thing, but it'll be a while before they branch out I think
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u/Rebelofnj Apr 30 '23
ask them who Link is and idk they'd be able to
More likely, they may assume Zelda is Link's name.
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u/Cualkiera67 Apr 30 '23
A lot of people won't even have heard about Zelda. I think almost everyone knows why Mario is.
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u/kidbuu42 May 01 '23
I’m the biggest Nintendo fan and I don’t know if I could tell you why Mario is.
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u/correcthorsestapler Apr 30 '23
They’ll introduce Link when he recruits Mario into the Smash Bros Initiative at the end of the second Mario movie.
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u/In_My_Own_Image Apr 30 '23
Mario: Well, that's Bowser defeated again. Time to relax.
Voice: Haaaah!
Mario: Huh?
Link emerges from the shadows
Link: Haah! Hyeeah! Haah! Huyaah!
Mario: What?
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u/lynypixie Apr 30 '23
Millenial are entering middle aged now. My husband is 41. If a Zelda movie comes out, he will prepay an IMAX seat.
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Apr 30 '23 edited Apr 30 '23
I was going to say, elder Millenials (raises hands) and even tail end Gen Xers grew up with Zelda (I did) and would know the series. Now Boomers might not, but I'd argue anyone born in the late 70's to up to 10 years ago would definitely know what Zelda is.
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u/JavaOrlando Apr 30 '23
Boomers who paid any attention to what their kids were playing night, but in any case, they're not really the target audience, are they? I doubt many saw the Mario movie, unless they were taking their grandchildren or something.
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u/CruisinJo214 Apr 30 '23
You’re clearly unaware how often middle age men think about breaking clay pots to find the ruppees inside.
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u/lynypixie Apr 30 '23
I think my husband has more Zelda cooking knowledge than real food knowledge.
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u/silverhammer96 Apr 30 '23
Will be interesting to see how they give him a voice. Hopefully nothing like the Zelda cartoon from the 80s
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Now just as feared of course we will get a non-stop flood of movies from other studios about plumbers and other trades people who go to magical lands rushed out. /s
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u/ROBtimusPrime1995 Apr 30 '23
Plumber movie fatigue.
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u/DrDrewBlood Apr 30 '23
The PCU
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u/AdjunctFunktopus Apr 30 '23
WE’RE NOT GONNA PROTEST!
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u/WorldClassShart Apr 30 '23
That's the beauty of college, you can major in Gameboy if you know how to bullshit.
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u/brianborden Apr 30 '23
GUTTER IS A TOOL!
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u/Jomanderisreal Apr 30 '23
How dare you. My screenplay of a carpenter named Leonardo going to a magical world full of broccoli people is totally original and I am not going to take any slander that it isn't.
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u/nerf___herder Apr 30 '23
This sounds a lot like my story about a HVAC technician named Guiseppe who gets called to a house because of a weird smell coming from a vent. He crawls in to investigate and gets transported to the asparagus fiefdom where he has to battle an evil iguana overlord.
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u/supernintendo128 Apr 30 '23
Sounds like my original story about an electrician from Chicago named Ronnie who falls into a crawl space investigating faulty wiring and ends up in a magical world of green bean people and has to fight an evil raccoon king.
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u/Frickelmeister Apr 30 '23
So you've decided to blatantly plagiarize my original idea of an Italian-American welder named Giovanni in a magical world saving the duchess of the onion people from the big evil iguana king.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Apr 30 '23 edited Apr 30 '23
Took 26 days
As of Sunday, the animated video game adaptation, from Universal, Illumination and Nintendo, has grossed $490 million in North America and $532 million at the international box office (1.022B Total). It’s only the fifth movie of pandemic times to join the $1 billion club, following “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Jurassic World Dominion” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
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u/arbitraryairship Apr 30 '23
Would 'post pandemic' be a better term?
COVID is still circulating but I wouldn't say it feels the same as 'pandemic times'.
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u/suckmyleftunit Apr 30 '23
Covid distorts time. Felt 2020 for the longest of time then BAM! 2023 already?!? And it's almost half year now???
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u/stubbywoods Apr 30 '23
Probably but then No Way Home wouldn't count. They probably could've used since the Covid pandemic instead though
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u/njdevils901 Apr 30 '23
Hey remember when people made a Super Mario Bros movie an underdog because critics didn't like it? That was funny
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u/Alive-Ad-4164 Apr 30 '23
It’s Reddit
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u/lalala253 Apr 30 '23
This is like r/gaming and that harry potter game lmao
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u/Godkun007 Apr 30 '23
You still get banned on multiple gaming subreddits for even mentioning that game. Mod abuse is a serious problem on Reddit.
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u/lolthenoob Apr 30 '23
I got banned from /r/insanepeoplefacebook by saying it is not ok to harrass people who wanted to play hogswart legacy
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u/Excelbindes Apr 30 '23
I got banned for transphobia for saying that playing the game didnt make you transphobic and not buying it didnt make you an ally.
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u/In_My_Own_Image Apr 30 '23
Anyone who thought this wasn't gonna make bank was huffing something really strong.
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u/kylat930326 Apr 30 '23
It not the first film disliked by critics but success in box office.
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u/Poignant_Porpoise Apr 30 '23
I mean, ya, they're interested in film as an artistic medium, not whether it will have broad appeal. Idk why anyone would take critics' opinions as an indication of how well a movie will do in the box office, they're hardly related at all.
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u/ItsAmerico Apr 30 '23
Man going back to the announcement topic is just… some aged like milk shit lol
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u/-Economist- Apr 30 '23 edited Apr 30 '23
Do you think a 5-year would like this movie? My boy has never been in a movie theater. I would like to take him but I doubt he’d last the entire length. He does good with Toy Story movies and he does love Mario.
Edit: thanks for the awesome feedback. I’ll definitely take him.
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u/BMCarbaugh Apr 30 '23
Definitely.
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u/siccoblue Apr 30 '23
Can confirm. My 5 year old absolutely loved it
Not as much as me, but still
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u/muffle64 Apr 30 '23
Yes, it's a brightly colored film with an easy to understand plot. Very little dark/scary scenes. And lots of fun, danceable music
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u/MoreMegadeth Apr 30 '23
My only real complaint is the amount of licensed music that plays. I mean I kinda get it, but would have loved to hear what original music they woulda came up with instead. And by original, I mean for the movie, not the tracks we got from the games already.
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u/the_shams_bandit May 01 '23
I'll give a pass to the Beastie Boys and Ah Ha needle drops. Even need a hero made sense for the scene but Kill Bill and Thunderstruck seemed so random. Why Thunderstruck? Why not Panama or Highway Star?
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u/notapigeon Apr 30 '23
Yes. Absolutely. Lots of first timers when we took our five year old. All the kids were enthralled the whole time.
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u/NostalgicClover Apr 30 '23
There was a 5 year old in the row in front of me when I went to watch the movie. Kid was having so much fun and laughing at the jokes. The film is also short, so he'll probably be able to sit for the whole runtime.
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u/Dr_broadnoodle Apr 30 '23
My 3 year old has seen it twice and made it through fine both times. There was enough ear and eye candy to keep him engaged and as others have said, the plot is pretty straight forward. Mario, Luigi and Princess = good. Bowser = bad.
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u/Vollkommen Apr 30 '23
My 5 y/o did really well with it - it was her first theater experience and we made an afternoon of it with snacks, popcorn, and all that.
She did okay staying for the mid credit scene, but staying for the post credit scene was tough. :)
She did need the restroom part-way through.
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u/Alukrad Apr 30 '23
So, did it out sell Mario Kart 8?
Someone from another reddit post said Mario kart 8 is the best selling Mario game.
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u/altruSP Apr 30 '23
MK8 and the Switch port sold a combined 60.46 million units according to google.
60.46 million X $60 a pop = $3,627,600,000
The movie is barely at a third of Mario Kart 8’s lifetime sales numbers.
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u/MichaeltheSpikester Apr 30 '23
We're definitely getting sequels. Can't wait for Rosalina (The deranged Lumalee is a clear hint we'll be getting her eventually).
And the DK spin-off. Really hoping King K. Rool's the villain, come on Nintendo you should know at this point how well beloved he is after the demand of him in Smash! Don't cuck him again for villains like the Tikis.
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u/NgoHaiHahmsuplo Apr 30 '23
Fun fact, luma was voiced by one of the director's daughters. They just need a scratch voice, mom recorded it on an iphone and sent it in. Nintendo loved it and just kept her in.
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u/Butwinsky Apr 30 '23
In every spin-off, Jack Black plays the villain.
K Rool? Jack Black.
King Dedede? Jack Black.
Ganon? Jack Black.
Ripley? Jack Black.
Mewtwo? Jack Black.
Medusa? Jack. Black.
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u/becherbrook Apr 30 '23
Can't wait for Rosalina (The deranged Lumalee is a clear hint we'll be getting her eventually).
The bigger hint was Peach saying there are a ton of galaxies out there when Mario speculates she might be originally from his world.
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u/E_R_G Apr 30 '23
I don’t care if he doesn’t have the recognizability that other actors have, I want the actor from the DKC cartoon to play K. Rool
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I read a comment awhile back that said they would have preferred if Dreamworks had done this movie instead of Illumination. For those who agree, why? For the record I'm not super knowledgable about all these new CG animated movies and the studios that make them.
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u/Griffdude13 Apr 30 '23
I think the big thing with why they paired with Illumination is because they wanted to have a lot of creative control and Illumination was just happy to be included. Nintendo is notorious for having specific requirements for how their characters look, act, talk, etc.
I remember Wreck It Ralph animators saying how they gave a lot of notes regarding how Bowser should be holding a cup of tea. Like, really specific levels of detail.
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u/Blackfist01 Apr 30 '23
From what I understand Nintendo stopped them doing maybe too much with Peach that could have made her well, make Mario look less Heroic.
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u/Arael15th Apr 30 '23
Yeah, the whole "boys are dumb and girls exist to roll their eyes at them" trope seems to be absolutely immortal in the US media market but Nintendo wasn't about to let us do their boy Mario dirty like that
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u/VirinaB Apr 30 '23
Thank crap for that, we saw the worst of it with Thor 4. The "dumb down the male characters to justify a woman's involvement in the plot" is so tiresome. Two people can be smart. If you have a duet and it's a movie with action, write the woman like you'd write for a man and put them into buddy cop situations.
That's it.
Done.
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u/Retr0mancer Apr 30 '23
I imagine it’s because Dreamworks takes more risks with their storytelling and don’t shy away from mature themes. Think Shrek and How to Train your Dragon. They probably would have tried to find an interesting angle in their Mario adaptation.
Illumination on the other hand plays it safe. Family friendly with wide appeal. Despicable Me, and Sing aren’t going to challenge you but you’ll have fun.
Evidently Nintendo went with the right studio for making money, but we could have potentially gotten an amazing movie rather than a good one.
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u/beefcat_ Apr 30 '23
This is pretty much it, and why critics thought this film was just ok while the masses ate it up. It’s a fine movie but I feel like I’ll mostly forget about about what actually happened in it within a few months.
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u/thejude555 Apr 30 '23
Just take a look at each studio’s filmography and you’ll see that illumination pretty much only pumps out 6/10 movies while Dreamworks is able to crank out the occasional masterpiece like Puss In Boots 2, Megamind, or Kung Fu Panda.
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u/AmericanCobra Apr 30 '23
Dude yes the pop songs made no sense in Mario when the rest of the soundtrack was really very good. I get Mario is a product of the 80’s but I don’t associate the character with Take On Me or I Need a Hero. Just felt like a lazy attempt at reference bait.
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u/beefcat_ Apr 30 '23
Dreamworks usually hires better writers, and puts a lot more money into the actual animation than Illumination
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u/PineDude128 Apr 30 '23
At this point Nintendo would be foolish to not make movies for their other IP's.
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u/freelifemushroom Apr 30 '23
It was fun!
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u/MarcsterS Apr 30 '23
Yep. There was a room for improvement but it did its job as a Mario movie. When they make the sequel, maybe they could make it a bit longer.
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u/stevil77 Apr 30 '23
Leguizamo is thrilled
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u/cubs223425 Apr 30 '23
His behavior on this movie really confused me. For a long time, I thought he was Italian because of his presence in the old Mario movie. Seeing him complain about accurate representation of Latinos while clinging to his role as an Italian came off very strangely.
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u/Batman2130 Apr 30 '23
Honestly not surprised. Someone asked me how much I thought it make. I said if it’s a good movie it will hit a billion because it’s Mario
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u/GarlVinland4Astrea Apr 30 '23
Mario knows how to collect coins.