'Super Mario Bros. Movie' Sets Record for Highest-Grossing Animated Movie Openin...
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'Super Mario Bros. Movie' Sets Record for Highest-Grossing Animated Movie Opening Ever
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And of course, the film has blasted past every box office opening record for video game adaptations, nearly doubling the three-day domestic record of $72.1 million set by "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" last year and shattering the $210 million global record set by "Warcraft" in 2016. "This weekend's record-breaking debut proves audiences of all ages and demographics will pour into theaters for a hysterically funny and authentic universe expansion of an already iconic franchise," said Universal's domestic distribution president Jim Orr. "Nintendo and Illumination's creative synergy along with Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri's extraordinary leadership created an entertaining juggernaut that will be sure to power up the box office for weeks to come...."
Thanks in large part to "Super Mario Bros.," overall weekend estimates have risen to $194 million, 76% above the same weekend in 2019.
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It had enough Nintendo that adults will recognize the Easter eggs and enough action and fun to keep the kids entertained. Also, the lore about "Mario and Luigi" was advanced quite a bit in this movie. I wonder what Nintendo will do with this new canon material? I was not disappointed after watching it, I got more than what I expected of a "video game" movie adaption and was quite pleased. The voice acting that many fans worried about was not an issue for me or my kids, they had no idea that Mario, Luigi, etc. were being voiced by different people than who was used in the games. We watched the 3D version and while it was an expensive day for me, my family enjoyed it and that's all that counts for me in the end.-
my family enjoyed it and that's all that counts for me in the end.
That's what the Germans originally said about Hitler too.
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Lore? What lore? All the movie said was that they were two brothers living in Brooklyn with their extended Italian family trying to start their own plumbing business. Not much lore there.
I would have also loved to hear some lore on Peach, but all we got was, "She appeared mysteriously one day as a baby in the Mushroom Kingdom, so we made her the queen!" Or King Koopa, but we didn't get nothing about him. Or why there are pipes connecting these worlds, but strike three to that, too.
Would it have hurt to hav
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Haven't seen the movie yet. How does it treat the canon established in Super Hornio Brothers? This is a major concern for me.
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You're asking too much for the target audience. The live action 90's film had 6 games to work off, had a somewhat more interesting "lore" reason for being, but ultimately it could be described as "parallel universe of dinosaur world that exists as a parallel Manhattan.
The trend at the time was "video game tie ins, no matter how stupid and campy", See Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat additionally as "bad video game movies" , hell this trend continued, and pretty much was only broken by "Sonic the Hedgehog" w
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Hollywood finally understands that we want to be entertained. We don't want to be lectures in movies.
Star Wars, Avengers, and many other hit franchises lost these in recent times. Yes, we can take new things, yes, society moves on. But lackluster stories, wooden acting, and actors don't actually having fun is not the right thing. Remember “He's not my Luke Skywalker" quote from Mark Hamill.
Seems like this is our Mario. And critics hate it.
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False. You don't care about wokeness. Movies have always been "woke" and pushed political agenda. What you want is a good written story or something entertaining so you can actually enjoy the movie.
When you don't enjoy the movie you look for reasons why, and when people don't understand writing, character development, visual storytelling, etc, they grasp onto the only thing their simple minds fall back on, "wokeness".
Hollywood will continue to lecture going forward. And you'll continue to enjoy it when it's
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Even those original examples all had a message underneath;
The Galactic Empire is fictionalized version of Nazi Germany
The Ewoks were inspired by the Viet Cong and indigenous population rising against imperialist invasion.
The first Iron Man centers around an arms dealer having a moment of reflection on his life from the people his weapons were used against, to say nothing about so much of the original comic source material.
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That's because most stories begin with a systemic injustice which needs rectification. The Matrix has enslaved humanity, George McFly was still being bullied, Sauron is kind of a shmuck, Mr. Banks needs to learn to be a father to his children, Christmas isn't about the presents, et al.
Someone who is truly satisfied with the status quo doesn't go on a hero's journey. They'd sit in their swamp and go "Gee, there's all these fairytale creatures showing up in my front yard, but this is fine. [knowyourmeme.com]" Roll credits.
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Let alone, the first issue of Captain America literally has him punching Hitler.
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It's Mario. Of course people are going to see it.
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Hollywood finally understands
Uh, no. They made Princess Peach into a badass and the fascists are going apeshit she wasn't portrayed as being helpless [twitter.com]. They're afraid girls will see this and become feminists.
Clearly there was a political message to this movie. *eyeroll*
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They made the princess into a badass? Now where have I seen that before? Almost 22 years ago. [youtube.com] Technically made by same studio, even (Universal bought DreamWorks in 2016).
I don't recall there being any similar stink being made back then. Kinda like how Disney had an actual gay man voice a character with a drag scene [youtube.com], in one of their animated movies back in 1994, and somehow that movie was hugely popular and critically acclaimed.
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Which goes to show this is all political pandering. As we saw from the Fox tabloidtweets, they'll say one thing to keep their base, but say the complete opposite in private.
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LOL, yeah sure. As if people really don't like females kicking ass. We've had female leads well back to the 80s and likely before that. Sigourney Weaver from Aliens to Linda Hamilton in Terminator to Angelina Jolie from Tomb Raider. Women kicking ass.
Nothing wrong with a strong female lead. Of course, all those movies were actually GOOD.
I haven't seen this Mario movie, but making Peach awesome won't be a problem if it's actually a well written movie.
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Certainly somebody is having that bad reaction, but not most people. The majority of fans loved the movie [metacritic.com]. Anyway, in the Mario games that I played when I was a kid, Princess Peach was a playable character, and a badass. So this seems to fit with cannon anyway.
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If you're referring to Super Mario Bros. 2, that's only because the game was just a re-skin of a Japanese game called "Doki Doki Panic". That's why 2 seems so oddball compared to the original and Super Mario Bros. 3 - Nintendo was too lazy to make a proper sequel for the US market. Nintendo did make an actual Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Japanese market, but they determined it would be too difficult for the US market. It was eventually released in the US as "The Lost Levels".
So yes, the entire reason the
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The most popular video on YouTube is Pinkfong's "Baby Shark" song. Produce something parents want to take their kids to see and you'll make bank, simple as that.
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Actually, there was a lecture in the movie. It was Princesses don't need saving. And they can use their female charm to guile smitten men to lower their defenses whenever it works to their benefit.
Oh, and that they can twirl and swing battle axes one handed with ease.
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movies are released without competition these days. I remember the Weird Al movie (UHF) was considered a failure, but the studio put it out against 3 blockbusters for this goofy little comedy. Nowadays the release would be timed like this one was.
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I'm surprised as I hadn't heard of this movie yet...
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Lightyear made $220 million, total, from a $200 million budget last year. That's not a good showing, especially for a Pixar film. There were no kids movies out at the time. It's only competition was a second week of Jurassic Park, and in it's second week, Top Gun came out - not exactly family movie night stuff.
Two weeks later Minions raked in $700 million from a $80 million budget in theaters alone.
It's not competition that is causing problems.
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Some of Pixar's more recent-ish films seem like they'd be tough for a kid to sit through. I can't imagine the preadolescent version of me having the patience required for WALL-E or UP.
It's very likely that Lightyear's undoing was that parents didn't feel like sitting through another snooze-fest while their kids whine that they'd rather be at home playing on their iPads.
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It couldn't decide if it was a children's or a young adult movie. It doesn't help that space themes outside of Star Wars always have an uphill battle. It also didn't help that moviegoers could safely assume they'd be able to watch it on Disney Plus pretty Darn quickly.
I think it could have done a lot better if not for the state of toy and video game tie ins too. You just don't see the same level of multimedia advertising as you used to. It did get Happy meal toys but those don't get nearly as much of a-
Wait wait wait. Space theme movies outside of Star Wars aren't uphill battles. Where do you get that crap? Most the Star Trekk movies were enjoyable and there have been others that were fun to watch also. The Alien movies were good and there have been other one offs that were enjoyable as well.
Star Wars itself is the uphill battle. It wasn't been good since the 90s, and the 90s movies are only considered "good" when pitted against today's horrible showings. In the 90s, those prequils were just "okay" compar
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The entire problem with Lightyear was that they retconned an established character (from Toy Story and the rides at Disney's theme parks) to a point where it broke suspension of disbelief. Few people wanted to see Buzz Lightyear reimagined as a character who inspired his namesake toy. It was just too meta.
It would be like if JKR wrote a story about how some real-life guy named "Harry Potter" who was like her plumber or something, went about his daily life doing his job. If that got made into a movie most
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I prefer to think of UHF as the movie that explains why Netflix can put out a documentary about some weird dude's drama involving tigers and lots of people willingly watch it.
"Let's see what's in the box? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! STOOPID! YOU'RE SOO STOOPID!"
UHF is also a great example of Rick and Morty's unoriginality. Weird Al was doing "Interdimensional Cable" before it was cool.
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Rick and Morty is funny because it's more about parody then originality. Never really thought of that show as "original" just really entertaining because of all the various references and random stuff it goes on about. Futurama did a lot of that and so did Family Guy.
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Movie ticket prices keep going up so if they aren't breaking records every year something is wrong. How about numbers of tickets sold as an actualy metric so we can compare to a movie from just a few years ago?
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Which runs into the problem of population increase, for which the fix is 'tickets sold per capita'.
But then you have changes in audience habits - more people wait for streaming now rather than rush to the theater, so you have to wait longer to get a decent comparison... and it's more difficult to do when you don't know how many people are watching the streams.
If you're focused on just seats in a traditional theater, tickets sold per capita is still flawed, because it doesn't account for distribution confide
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Not with a bang but covered in derivative garbage designed for the lowest common denominator.
The people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
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Theater was packed with as many kids as adults. And the movie pandered to both audiences. I hope Hollywood takes notice. If they want to put butts back into seats, family movies pack the most bang for the buck.
(I felt the movie itself was subpar. It definitely catered more to younger audiences. And there was hardly any plot or character development. I enjoyed Sonic the Hedgehog a lot more, as they at least tried to create a story that attempted to do both, while SMB just filled time with race sequences and
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How do figures compare historically to number of asses in seats? Ticket prices are horseshit, therefore dollars sold is a horseshit metric
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How is it Hollywood can brag about record ticket sales and yet there are no calls to tax the record income?
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Kids today have it good with their video game-based movies like Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Super Mario. Back in the dark ages, people were stuck with crap movies like Super Mario, Mortal Kombat, and Double Dragon.
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Mortal Kombat wasn't a bad popcorn flick in its day. But yeah, the original live-action Super Mario Brothers movie was weird as fuck.
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