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Wyvern
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This means that Alucard Castlevania, Willy Wonka, and Mario all have the same Japanese voice actor. This information is sending me to the Shadow Realm. |
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Minos_Kurumada
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Saw it this weekend... its an interesting film and I quite frankly couldn't give it a qualification.
Its a 70 mins glorified ad, but it's made with so much love and care that you completely forget that. It's 100% embraces the source material and doesn't waste time explaining anything because fully expects you to already know your Mario stuff so the movie fully trusts its audience. Its such a weird felling in a good way... |
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MarshalBanana
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AiddonValentine
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Video game companies are going to get deluged with phone calls. I anticipate cinematic versions of Pac-Man, Ghosts 'n Goblins, and Star Fox
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MFrontier
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Pretty awesome!
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Silver Kirin
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Mario's performance in the box-office is incredible, especially for an animated movie in a post-covid era, it has already surpassed other animated movies like The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, don't know if it'll surpass Illumination's own Minions 2. Kind of funny that Universal is the only studio whose animated movies had been a success since theaters reopened while Disney's features bombed.
Kind of reminds me of the early 2000s when movies like X-Men and Spider-Man made studios fight to obtain the rights to various comic book characters, it seemed like even the most obscure characters were going to be adapted into film. |
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jdnation
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The inevitable SMASH BROS movie is going to rake in the dough at the end game of the Nintendo cinematic universe.
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Zalis116
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I remember seeing a trailer for this back in December at the Quintessential Quintuplets movie, and thinking, "Wow, this is what we all really wanted back in 1993*." I know my brother took his sons and our oldest niece (ages 8-10) to the Mario Bros. movie, and contributed to its success. Although part of that success could be chalked up to the fact that there's been pretty much nothing in the theaters for kids over the last few months:
https://popculture.com/movies/news/parents-blast-movie-industry-lack-family-friendly-options-theaters/ * Though really, no disrespect to the live-action SMB movie from 30 years ago; it did the best it could with the material available, and I enjoyed it at the time. |
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BadNewsBlues
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Kinda already beaten to the punch https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pac-man-movie-live-action-1235194679/amp/ Don’t expect the other two. |
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Haterater
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@Zalis116
That's depressing that there's no good kid movies lately. Glad that Mario is giving them something! |
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TarsTarkas
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I guess 'good' could be subjective.
I remember my grand kids talking about Puss N Boots not to long ago. I don't think kids are starved when it comes to cinematic entertainment. |
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Beatdigga
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I still say if the writer pulls that off he's a hero. Then again it was the guy who did the Sonic films. While I don't expect a Smash Bros universe ever (the cinematic universe is probably going to be left to Marvel and DC) there has already been a rise in video game movies of varying qualities. Movies about games (Pinball and Tetris) adaptations that people seem to like (Mario and Sonic), and long-form prestige shows about prestige narrative titles (Last of Us, God of War is in development). I think Hollywood is looking for new IP centers to mine now that the comic book well is pretty firmly tapped out and the public seems tired of superheroes (I say seems because the DC reboot might make people fall in love with those characters all over again), and video games appear to have that combination of existing IP and designs + built-in audiences. |
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@ASAnime6
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