The Super Mario Bros. Movie

[rich matrix]

is eligible to be

[astral briar]

Is it really an EXCLUSIVE that a song meets the requirements for “best song” eligibility?

The requirements are just “it is a song written for and played in the film”

[rich matrix]

I think you just got sharebaited (is there a word for that?)

[tall igloo]

clickbaited

[rich matrix]

well that too

[grim atlas]

I just prefer my villains to be serious I guess. I guess I'm the only one with this complaint.

I don't play Nintendo games, largely in-part to what I feel is excessive silliness

[fringe spruce]

"sharebaited"?

[rich matrix]

I just made up a word for getting tricked into sharing content that probably didn't deserve it

[fringe spruce]

oh lol

[grim atlas]

Eyeroll?

I'm just genuinely not attracted to Nintendo games.

[fringe spruce]

i mean, Mario is mostly silly but games like Zelda or Metroid aren't. they're both fairly serious (Zelda has some silly moments but has some pretty mature themes and stuff)

[grim atlas]

Zelda is definitely moving towards that demographic afaik

And again, it's also not my only reason.

[fringe spruce]

idk complaining about "excessive silliness" is weird on a MLP server but whatevs

[rich matrix]

they completely lost my suspension of disbelief when the blue shell exploded

everyone knows canon rainbows are indestructible, that level of OPness was just lazy writing

[fringe spruce]

[grim atlas]

MLP kept their villains serious

MLP had the right amount of seriousness

[astral briar]

Honestly I thought they were going for the blue-shelled guy with the giant machine being the blue-shell equivalent. Did not expect him to go actual blue shell after that.

[crisp oasis]

https://twitter.com/supermariomovie/status/1645522666265399296

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (@supermariomovie)

👀 who barreled their way to #1
#SuperMarioMovie

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Twitter · Apr 10, 2023, 8:22 PM

[grim atlas]

Even in the first episode, Twilight is absolutely taking everything seriously. She believes there are real stakes for her if she doesn't get ponyville ready in time for the Princess.

I love Twilight

I now have a shirt with Twilight on it so Light Flux and I can be a Twidash ship irl

[fringe spruce]

yes because Chrysalis talking to logs was played completely straight and not silly at all. idk, just going into a Mario movie and then coming out and complaining about how silly the Marioisms were is just weird to me

[grim atlas]

Fwiw I went as part of a group, I didn't really have an interest in seeing it

But I'm also nitpicking because it had a lot of potential

[rich matrix]

fair, I do expect this movie to only really land with the target audience of those who played the games

[grim atlas]

I genuinely wanted it to be a lot better

[rich matrix]

I basically told my mom that, and that therefore she should see the D&D movie instead

[fringe spruce]

well i thought it was a perfect adaptation of the source material and everything i would want out of a Mario movie. if anything it's better than the 93 movie which is a plus

[rich matrix]

oh right I keep forgetting to ask: is "Spike" a reference to anything?

[fringe spruce]

yes

[wanton forge]

Well, "Spike" is an enemy in the games

[fringe spruce]

he was the main antagonist of Wrecking Crew

https://www.mariowiki.com/Foreman_Spike

[wanton forge]

...Huh

Never heard of this guy

I thought Ixrec was referring to these guys: https://mario.fandom.com/wiki/Spike

[fringe spruce]

an obscure character who has appeared in 2 or so games

GT have you seen the movie?

[rich matrix]

I've never heard of this game

[fringe spruce]

remember the guy bullying Luigi at the beginning in the pizzeria? that was Foreman Spike

[wanton forge]

Not yet, but I don't care about spoilers anyway unless it's something like One Piece, which I want to savor.

[fringe spruce]

oooh

[crisp oasis]

They have a wrecking crew map in Smash

[grim atlas]

Huh, that explains Spike then

[fringe spruce]

i honestly think i like his Movie design more than his original

[grim atlas]

I just thought he was some random antagonist

But I do appreciate that it's not random

[fringe spruce]

i think anyone who doesn't obsess over Mario 24/7 did haha

[tall igloo]

I heard of Spike before, I'm like "I understood that reference"

[fringe spruce]

my fave non Mario reference i think is when Mario was playing Kid Icarus

he had exactly the face you should have when playing Kid Icarus NES

gahhhh

i dont want to wait till May 9th to see it again

[grim atlas]

May 9th?

[fringe spruce]

that's when it comes out digitally

so i can watch it at home

[grim atlas]

Ah

Just go see it again in theatres

[rich matrix]

I was just happy I got the Odyssey references because I played that for the first time so recently

(probably only the easy ones though)

[fringe spruce]

the theatre is expensive

[grim atlas]

I totally didn't obsessively go watch the MLP Movie in theatres 5 times

[fringe spruce]

I love how Pauline was in the movie that made me so happy

[grim atlas]

Who?

[rich matrix]

Mayor Pauline

[fringe spruce]

https://www.mariowiki.com/Pauline

she was the original damsel in distress in Donkey Kong and became the Mayor of New Donk City in Mario Odyssey

[grim atlas]

I must be having a stroke because I don't remember her

[fringe spruce]

she had a small cameo

[topaz pier]

only one month between cinema and digital release sounds short

is that normal for kids movies

[grim atlas]

^ ?

[fringe spruce]

i dont know

[rich matrix]

I first recognized her name on the news ticker, then later she was on-screen to say they had the flooding under control

[grim atlas]

Oh was she the news lady?

[rich matrix]

no, the mayor

[tall igloo]

she was on the news

[grim atlas]

The lady calling for someone to save Brooklyn?

[fringe spruce]

yes

[grim atlas]

Or am I remembering this all wrong?

Ah, I just thought she was a news lady

Must have missed something

I will say

The Super Mario Bros plumbing ad is one of the best ads I've ever seen

Absolutely S tier I loved it

I would call them to fix my pipes

[night niche]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cq3VyfAgtFP/ A video (Arab World release date version)

[dawn flower]

If I have something to critique about the movie

there was no bowsette

[drifting owl]

gotta save something for the sequels

[fringe spruce]

i can check the Mario Wiki but i dont think Bowsette has ever been officially acknowledged by Nintendo

yeah

[rich matrix]

yeah, AFAIK it's technically "just" an internet meme; anyone who played the games but isn't as online as us might not even know about her

[fringe spruce]

Bowsette redirects to the "Mario references on the Internet" page

which is a good read so I'll link it here
https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Mario_references_on_the_Internet

[rich matrix]

a background gag referencing her might've been nice but in the movie they were making, the other stuff they did with Bowser was all a better fit

[dawn flower]

I said this mostly because this slaps

https://youtu.be/l-FDFsHA20w

[drifting owl]

you mean we won't get bowsette voiced by lizzo?

[rich matrix]

oh, wow, I completely forgot the original Bowsette lore: https://twitter.com/ayyk92/status/1042465252221181954

haniwa (@ayyk92)

The Super Crown's some spicy new Mario lore

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Twitter · Sep 19, 2018, 5:27 PM

[fringe spruce]

yea

https://twitter.com/thecappuccino04/status/1646214972979183618?s=46

cappuccino (@TheCappuccino04)

shoutout to whoever painted this peach display at the theater I was at bc it's so fucking cute

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Twitter · Apr 12, 2023, 6:13 PM

[rich matrix]

come to think of it, technically no one said this but

I appreciate that they made Peach so competent that Bowser literally needs an army around to keep her captured for any length of time

[fringe spruce]

yea

[rich matrix]

not that pop culture's been lacking in strong female characters lately, but considering how rare that is in the source materal it's still nice

(I'm aware Peach got a game but most of us haven't played it)

[fringe spruce]

she's literally been like this since SMB 2 USA

[drifting owl]

I'm really looking forward to the next mario game

hoping they build on all this

[fringe spruce]

hopefully a new mainline game gets announced soon

[drifting owl]

Super Mario Iliad

[fringe spruce]

lol

[drifting owl]

Super Mario Gilgamesh

do it nintendo

[rich matrix]

what do you even do with Mario at this point

I've only played ~4 of the mainline games and I feel pretty saturated on the formula

[solar loom]

If I remember, there's only been 4 rpgs where Peach was playable: Super Princess Peach, Super Mario RPG, Super Paper Mario, and 3d World. Having not played 3 of those 4 (I never beat chapter 1 of paper), I'd love a new game where she's playable

[fringe spruce]

3d World is a mainline game not RPG

[drifting owl]

tbh a big part of the charm of nintendo games is that they don't really stray from their formula

Mario is always going to be a platformer

[solar loom]

Oh and that dream one. SMB2

[drifting owl]

etc

[solar loom]

I was trying to say: Non-sports related games...lol

[fringe spruce]

Odyssey was a pretty big departure from the previous 3d Mario game, 3D World

[fringe spruce]

oh lol

[rich matrix]

I wasn't suggesting it should not be a platformer

[fringe spruce]

which 4 have you played

Ix

[rich matrix]

but that's a weird thing to bring up since Mario probably has more off-genre spinoffs than any other franchise ever

uh

[solar loom]

Mario and the Time Machine intensifies

[rich matrix]

SM64, I forget how much of Sunshine, Galaxy, Odyssey, PM:TTYD, and some failed attempts at SMW and SMB3?

[fringe spruce]

i see

[solar loom]

I bought Odyssey a year ago and have never played it past the tutorial. I could not get a handle on the movement controls. I played a little of SM64 DS, I never beat either Galaxy game but the disks are missing so big sad, and if I ever learn how to use an emulator I'll play TTYD

[rich matrix]

huh, I thought Odyssey movement was mostly the same as SM64 (until you add the cap moves)

[fringe spruce]

i cant comprehend not getting the controls of Odyssey

[rich matrix]

tbf it took me forever to figure out how to do a cap dive jump

[fringe spruce]

press y then press right trigger and then b

[rich matrix]

(yes I only needed it once )

[misty karma]

Mario has had the same framework of controls for a long time, even sometimes retaining moves that aren't necessary for the specific game.

[rich matrix]

iirc the triple jump is very rarely useful

[fringe spruce]

what? triple jump is the move i use the most

[misty karma]

Same with that old Mario 2 move where you hold crouch to jump with height.

[rich matrix]

I do it all the time for the heck of it, but to actually get onto a high platform, it seems to almost never be the easiest way (and even when it's required it's a real pain to get it to work)

yeah crouch jump is slightly less high but usually faster and far more consistent

[fringe spruce]

ground pound jump and hat bounce are the ones i use the most actually

[rich matrix]

I don't think I was even aware of the ground pound jump until very late into Odyssey

[misty karma]

That's because you are experience what Mario gets about platforming and where others tend to fall flat.
Mario platforms often allow you to use his movement set to skip parts of a level, sometimes to an extreme degree.
Other platformers try to limit this with invisible walls and such and force advancement as the level intended.

[fringe spruce]

idk i just dont think Odyssey would be nearly as fun without all these cool moves

[rich matrix]

I'm not sure we're disagreeing on that

I thought I was regularly doing several kinds of jumps when I played Odyssey

[solar loom]

I never played the original SM64 and I played the tiny amount of the DS version 10+ years ago.

[fringe spruce]

ive played SM64 and DS

both are very good but the controls for DS aren't good

[drifting owl]

SM64 really suffers from being a first attempt

[fringe spruce]

what are you talking about SM64 is a flawless game

[solar loom]

I never played Super Mario Bros Wii but I did complete Wii U, tempted to buy Deluxe, and I never completed New Super Mario Bros. 2, to name a few games. I'm currently trying to complete World Crown in 3d World and have beaten Bowser's Fury twice as well

[fringe spruce]

yooo

good luck on Champion's Road

[solar loom]

Surprisingly in the remake for Switch, you don't need every level completed with every character to get there, as I have yet to complete World Mushroom and Flower with all 5

[fringe spruce]

oh you didn't in the WiiU version either

[solar loom]

Currently on Luigi's go around

[fringe spruce]

just every stamp, green star, and gold flag

[solar loom]

Oh really? I thought that was a requirement? Or is that just for the star on the title select?

[fringe spruce]

completing every level with a certain character gets you their stamp on the stamp page

and i think another star on the profile screen? i cant quite recall

[solar loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCRroAlrRM

OOO???!!

[topaz pier]

now featuring origami king combat

[fringe spruce]

i thought Origami King combat was fun just that there wasn't much of a reason to fight enemies because no xp

[topaz pier]

no its a chore

easily the worst part of that game

someone who hasn't played TTYD wouldn't understand bro sorry..

[fringe spruce]

yeah...

when they port it to Switch i will play it ok

[solar loom]

You're right, I don't understand the hate lol. But as a person who likes Sticker Star almost religiously, I have no room to talk

But I will for sure be playing TTYD if it's ported

[fringe spruce]

https://twitter.com/ccncartoonnews/status/1646261213658062848?s=46

Cartoon News Network (@CCNCartoonNews)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE’ has surpassed ‘WARCRAFT’ and is now officially the highest grossing video game movie adaptation of ALL TIME. 👑

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Twitter · Apr 12, 2023, 9:17 PM

[tall igloo]

Mario really is number one

[misty karma]

It's all money.

[drifting owl]

<picture of mario groundpounding a ? block>

[topaz pier]

how is this possible they dont even have Medivh

[fresh drum]

Kamek do the same sound he do in SMW it brings me a big nostalgia.

[night niche]

https://twitter.com/hollywoodhandle/status/1646516585446912004

The Hollywood Handle (@hollywoodhandle)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE’ nears $490M at the box office and is now the highest grossing movie of the year at the worldwide box office.

Read our review: https://t.co/iAS6Di41sD

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Twitter · Apr 13, 2023, 2:11 PM

[fringe spruce]

ye

[tidal cloud]

[wanton forge]

Critics be sweating nervously right now, lol

[tall igloo]

critics will prolly say something about audiences are easy to please or something

[warm vine]

I hope so, i don't want a challenge when i go to enjoy a movie I'm watching

[solar loom]

I finally decided to buy the expansion pass so I'm starting Paper Mario!

[fringe spruce]

epic !

[solar loom]

Aren't there action commands in this game? I'm at the Goomba Bros and still can only do 1 damage...

[topaz pier]

at the end of the prologue

[solar loom]

Ohhhh...okay!

[fringe spruce]

@subtle ember Ice Peach was epic

[hazy ivy]

Yeah it was a cool moment

[subtle ember]

this shoudve been ice peach

[fringe spruce]

wel she had a wedding dress on so it was different than what would have happened if she had her normal one

[hazy ivy]

Yeah the primary color of her dress changing from pink to white is more stark than it changing from white to white

[fringe spruce]

ye

ALSO

wait let me find it it was really cool detail

https://vxtwitter.com/itsa1001/status/1646569258476863488?s=46

isn't that adorable

[subtle ember]

king bomb omb from 64

[fringe spruce]

yes

but did you see the Bob Omb in the pew next to him

[subtle ember]

koopa shell

rainbow road from mario kart appeared in the movie

[fringe spruce]

correct

[tidal cloud]

After I've had some time to digest my single viewing, I gotta say I did quite love this movie

[fringe spruce]

so did the N64 Rainbow Road music!!!!!

[subtle ember]

the movie also had the donkey kong level

[fringe spruce]

yes

[tidal cloud]

The soundtrack alone consisted of more than 120 distinct Mario references.

[subtle ember]

spike from wrecking crew was there to

[dapper root]

Thank you for your keen observations

[tidal cloud]

Oh shit I knew he was familiar

Wasn't sure why

[tidal cloud]

This was according to the composer, I believe

But yeah, not really worth trying to exhaustively enumerate them all here

The Mario wiki will have a field day with it though

[dapper root]

fucking awesome movie

[fringe spruce]

I CANT WAIT FOR THE MOVIE TO COME OUT FOR HOME VIEWING SO I CAN READ THE TRIVIA SECTION ON THE MARIO WIKI ONG

[dapper root]

mostly because they compliment Saxophonists

[fringe spruce]

sorry i got excited

[subtle ember]

https://youtu.be/1EEReqjlCY0 this song about peach

[dapper root]

Like "You're right, spirit, I do want to play saxophone now that you mention it."

[tidal cloud]

I loved the Luma

Best character.

[fringe spruce]

it's coming to my theatre soon i should go see it again

[dapper root]

Thats the name, Luma xd

[subtle ember]

luma is blue

[tidal cloud]

My local theater is becoming unavailable due to renovations soon

[dapper root]

can you tell I've never played a mario game

[fringe spruce]

acchually it's Lumalee

[tidal cloud]

One of those proper terms I don't use because of how obscure they are haha

[dapper root]

I couldnt name most of the creatures, Im a bad gamer

[fringe spruce]

Lumalee was the shop Luma that could be found in levels in Super Mario Galaxy

he sells either a life up mushroom or a one up mushroom

(life up is arguably more valuable)

[tidal cloud]

Always the life up because the 1-Ups were a dime a dozen

[subtle ember]

https://youtu.be/pUpQLU3J7fU remember the live action one in 1993

[fringe spruce]

yes lol

what a glorious trainwreck

and now people are being revisionist and saying it was an incredible critique of capitalism but like

it was regarded as one of the worst movies ever made a mere month ago

[dapper root]

We have a better Mario movie now

[fringe spruce]

yes

one that is way more faithful and respectful of the source material

Bob Hoskins didn't even know what a Mario was until after he signed on

[wanton forge]

I love how the king just calmly and rather gently stops the Koopa from bouncing back and forth against him. Sure, it was for his own benefit, but he didn't even look annoyed, he just stopped the shell safely and then went back to doing his own thing. Surprisingly wholesome.

[fringe spruce]

literally all of the main Mario bad guys have a degree of wholesome

except for most of the rpg villains those suck

[tidal cloud]

Yeah, that gave me a chuckle.

[fringe spruce]

now im remembering some of the dialogue from SM64

like

King Bob Omb straight up breaks the fourth wall half an hour or so into the game lmao

[subtle ember]

https://youtu.be/9_isGjxR7ZU this clip

[wanton forge]

He knew exactly what kind of game he was in.

Oh Christ, I forgot about that face...

[fringe spruce]

ack !

[dapper root]

nah, show me the plumbing advertisement

that was boppin

[fringe spruce]

https://youtu.be/MdrlALQVEKM

[subtle ember]

https://youtu.be/pUDgsm7H71I here you go

[dapper root]

[dapper root]

ngl

I hope they do a sequel

I wanna see Yoshi and Luigi's Mansion

[dawn flower]

From the trailer I was really expecting more Luigi in the mansion

hope the sequel we get that

but what I truly want is Rosalina

[dapper root]

Not enough Luigi in the movie, more Luigi >C<

[dawn flower]

Gimme Rosalina

[dapper root]

also yeees Daisy and Rosalina

[solar loom]

My only complaint with a luigi's mansion sequel movie, is King Boo's design. In the games his design is more gloomy and has souless (lol) eyes, but the movie version is the main/party games design: A giant boo with a bejeweled crown, and that's it for his personality...They're 2 different kings entirely personality-wise

[night niche]

Premiere screening for Super Mario Bros Movie was begun at Reel Cinemas in UAE
https://instagram.com/stories/universalpicturesme/3080207316243226162

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrBktA5JsPT/

[soft path]

They late af

[night niche]

It was yesterday and I forgot to check out lol

Before the film to be released in Arab world in Eid

Also, https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1646907279717945346

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE’ has passed $500M worldwide.

Read our review: https://t.co/QXygmQUMEc

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Twitter · Apr 14, 2023, 4:04 PM

[tall igloo]

$1B here we gooo

[solar loom]

Yo the Super Mario Bros. Main Theme is officially being preserved in the Library of Congress!! Lessss aaaa gooooo!!!

[fringe spruce]

ye

[wanton forge]

Ngl, I'm shocked no other video game song has been preserved

Also, guaranteed, Nintendo planned all of this from the beginning. They release the movie, it makes bank, and then they announce all the accolades and the song preservation on top of it. The song has probably already been preserved for months and they were just waiting for the right moment to announce it.

[astral briar]

The Library of Congress has a bunch of video games and recordings of their gameplay, and so has implicitly also stored their soundtracks

[wanton forge]

Then why did some news sites label it as "the first one ever"?

[astral briar]

First one in, specifically, the National Recording Registry

I guess alternatively, first video game soundtrack intentionally added in its own right, rather than as part of a game

[solar loom]

Which means Super Mario is sitting next to Shrek.....lol

[astral briar]

Yes, well, headlines.

[solar loom]

Because it's the soundtrack specifically. Like, a recording of the theme not just the game. i guess?

[solar loom]

that too...

[warm vine]

i just got back from the theater

[fringe spruce]

here's my favourite @warm vine

[warm vine]

skrungly blorbo

bob-lorbo

honestly i completely forgot about chriss pratt like negative twelve seconds in, it just sounded like mario to me

[fringe spruce]

yes good job you're using the lingo properly 🙂

yeah honestly i thought he had a great performance

everyone did tbh

the only voice that was off for me was Cranky but i got used to him

[warm vine]

i can already tell there's gonna be a bunch of kids who's internal coming out moment is bowser from this movie

[fringe spruce]

so many people are thirsting over Bowser it's insane

[solar loom]

I loved Cranky's voice. Donkey Kong was just...Seth, in a gorilla suit.

But it fit mostly

[fringe spruce]

weirdly enough Seth's voice worked for me

[solar loom]

Petition for Keagan and Joy to voice Toad and Peach from now on in anything, games or otherwise lol

Imagine a fully voice acted Mario or Luigi game with Charlie or....I've honestly forgotten Mario's official voice actor other than Pratt....I'm so sorry

[fringe spruce]

Charles Martinet

[solar loom]

Charles! Dangit, thank you

[wanton forge]

SomeCallMeJohnny has posted his review! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqNzkAdPlVQ

[abstract lodge]

Great movie

Really put me in a good mood too after being sick earlier

[restive cradle]

I'm floored by how fantastic the Mario film is

the only complaint I have is that Cranky wasn't...uh...cranky enough

he sounded way too young

[warm vine]

i really liked it

though it was very clearly perfectly and precisely engineered to invoke maximum nostalgia in millenials

[restive cradle]

I mean...you say that like it's a bad thing lol

We know who the film was for

[warm vine]

i mean i did really like the film so it worked lol

[abstract lodge]

That's fine because everything else in society is engineered against us

[restive cradle]

that's because we're killing everything

[warm vine]

i wasn't expecting as much 80's music

[restive cradle]

right?

[abstract lodge]

Not fast enough

[restive cradle]

But maaaaaan the ORCHESTRA SCORES

aaaaaaa

I need the soundtrack yesterday

[warm vine]

yeah no kidding

i followed it up with the owl house finale and now i'm playing hollow knight so i'm getting a firehose of music quality tonight

[restive cradle]

Big, bold orchestral arrangements of retro themes just...does shit to my brain that nothing else does

oh shit

right, Owl House

[warm vine]

have you heard the hollow knight soundtrack?

[restive cradle]

we need to watch that

[abstract lodge]

Yes we do

[restive cradle]

I've heard portions, it's fucking gorgeous

[warm vine]

it makes me think of your music

[restive cradle]

hnghgnf

Thank you, that really means a lot

[warm vine]

like if you wrote something really fucking somber and poingent

[restive cradle]

I really hope to achieve production quality like the scores featured in all these amazing games and films

Oh I can write somber

it's just not my usual style

but whenever I actually sit and play the piano, most of what I play is somber stuff

I just prefer to make people smile with my music, and I've only really had one opportunity to write something somber, and it wasn't exactly the most pleasant of circumstances

[abstract lodge]

Peach was the best part of the film

[restive cradle]

PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES

[abstract lodge]

[restive cradle]

I am ALL for Bowser playing the piano

this is absolutely canon now

[warm vine]

blue dress peach made me feel things

[abstract lodge]

Same rom

[restive cradle]

she's a better Elsa

[abstract lodge]

Very same

[restive cradle]

also FIRE FLOWER DK

the branding on Bowser's piano made me smile

there is so much to gush about

I can't wait to have the film at home so we can get high out of our minds and rewatch it, turning it into a 5-hour ordeal while we pause every 20 seconds to just gush about all the little references and shit

[warm vine]

the part where luma(?) was like "the only hope is the sweet release of DEATH" i was like wow they are NOT fucking around are they

[abstract lodge]

Embrace the void

[restive cradle]

oh my god the Luma added so much depth to those scenes

[abstract lodge]

Also the Luma was totally able to leave anytime

[restive cradle]

he was just really happy to be there

[abstract lodge]

He literally slips outside his cage for one shot

[warm vine]

all the other prisoners were like jesus christ, loosen up will ya?

[restive cradle]

Narrator: "But little did they know that the little Luma was the loosest of them all."

[abstract lodge]

I can't believe they killed King Bob-omb

[restive cradle]

I can't believe we basically had the intro to Luigi's Mansion but no actual mansion

hell, King Boo was there

I'd give anything for an animated film adaptation of Luigi's Mansion

that would be fucking incredible

[rich matrix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qytUdbOK0RQ perhaps?

(I often had this on repeat when I was reading Background Pony)

[restive cradle]

I appreciate the shout out with this song, and I do love out it turned out. But I can't take credit for it being completely my work because it's comprised of 2 melodies of existing songs

[rich matrix]

true

[hard oriole]

What the hell was that thing?!?!?

I'm Gen X, I'm too uncool to get the reference, but it was fucking hilarious.

[fringe spruce]

it was a Lumalee who was a shop Luma in Super Mario Galaxy

the death talk is invented for the movie though lol

[hard oriole]

Okay, yeah, I never played the more modern games, so that just hit me out of left field.

[wanton forge]

Ngl, it was probably one of the very few times that death was mentioned in a piece of Mario media.

Usually they use euphemisms

[hard oriole]

I mean, the whole movie reminded me of 80s films where you could talk about killing characters. Bowser even got to say he was going to kill Luigi in front of Mario, I was impressed.

[wanton forge]

Damn

[night niche]

https://twitter.com/hollywoodhandle/status/1647251971668074500

The Hollywood Handle (@hollywoodhandle)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE’ crossed $650M at the worldwide box office.

It’s already one of the biggest animated movies of all time.

Read our review: https://t.co/iAS6Di3tD5

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Twitter · Apr 15, 2023, 2:54 PM

[fringe spruce]

damn

[rich matrix]

I've seen Lumas in SMGalaxy, but none of them talked like that; you weren't missing any deep lore cuts there, the humor was all in how out of place the lines were

[hard oriole]

Okay, good. I just had no idea what it even was.

I did love a lot of the little nods to how silly some of the game conventions are, like the floating platforms and how the pipes may take you somewhere you didn't expect.

Plus the musical cues were fantastically subtle.

[rich matrix]

if I had to guess why they picked a luma for that role, I'd say because lumas aren't from any of the environments they visited or even mentioned in the movie (they literally live in outer space with Rosalina), so the critter felt as out of place as its dialogue did

[hard oriole]

Makes sense. It was hilarious, and I loved all the prisoner's reactions.

Peach was an absolute badass, and I love they made her floating power part of her fighting style.

The MarioKart bit felt a little forced, but was still fun. I was not expecting the suicide blue shell koopa.

Also, Jack Black was perfect as Bowser.

[sinful quest]

Jack Black was phenomenal. Properly menacing when he needed to be scary, but also a total goof for all the goofy bits

[night niche]

Omg 😳

[fringe spruce]

what's indiese

[night niche]

Anyway, it's at The Beach, JBR in Dubai, UAE

[subtle ember]

I wish they could sell Lego Mario movie

[tall igloo]

[subtle ember]

Lego sets of the Mario movie

[sinful quest]

There is already Lego Mario stuff, not specifically for the movie though

[tidal cloud]

The Lego Mario stuff is excellent, too

Wouldn't surprise me if they made more

Zelda sets are likely coming, too.

[subtle ember]

Brickheadz mario movie

[solar loom]

I (used to) have a Super Mario K-Nex set. Never finished building it and sat uncompleted in my closet for a year before I dismantled it and lost most of the pieces

[sonic oriole]

https://www.slashfilm.com/1258701/renfield-opening-box-office-weekend-super-mario-bros-movie/

"The Super Mario Bros. Movie Battles The Pope's Exorcist At The Box Office In A Troubling Display Of Italian-On-Italian Violence"

[night niche]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CrIf3oHMu2d/

voxcinemas

Here’s a combo that’ll make you go, “It’s a-yummy!”
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Available atCandy Bar and Home Delivery.

اليك كومبو رائع لتتلذذ به! 🤩🍄

قم بتخصيص كومبو سوبر ماري...

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[crisp oasis]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1648009189489254400

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE’ has passed $700M worldwide.

Read our review: https://t.co/4Bxh7jIQLd

Twitter · Apr 17, 2023, 5:03 PM

Note that this film has been still less than 2 weeks since it got released and some region got it even later than that, including some region where it hasn't even released yet

This is fast

To compare with, Avatar 2 hit 1bil at this point (Dec 28, 12 days after release), but it also had Christmas holiday.

[tidal cloud]

I’m genuinely surprised that this is as successful as it is, but given the global recognition of the Mario brand that should be reasonably predictable in hindsight.

But it still feels weird how successful this is.

[drifting owl]

It’s super Mario successful

[tidal cloud]

This will certainly encourage further exploration into other Nintendo based movies, but given that Nintendo aggressively hates money… I wonder if they would bother.

And their other brands may not be as recognizable

Zelda might pull it off

But the rest probably couldn’t

[wanton forge]

I'm not surprised. I knew the moment they announced that it was gonna be an animated Mario movie that it was gonna make BUNDLES of cash.

I think the only other IPs that Nintendo can put to screen and make money off of are Zelda and Metroid.

Maaaaaybe Star Fox, but I doubt it.

[tidal cloud]

Personally I doubt they could realistically do a Metroid movie and have it financially make sense. Much to my sadness.

[wanton forge]

Why not? People love good sci-fi.

And Metroid is as good as it gets

[tidal cloud]

Sure, but I suspect that the brand recognition would be important for its success and Metroid doesn’t exactly sell well.

(Dread did, though)

Just a guess anyway

Metroid has much potential for a movie or series of movies, absolutely. Just a question of whether Nintendo would care.

[wanton forge]

I think there might just be enough financial gain in Metroid for at least a mini-series, or a full-blown show. Perhaps not a big blockbuster movie though, you're right.

Sorta like the Mandalorian S1 style, with Samus going to various planets early in her bounty-hunting career and catching criminals, and while she's doing that it starts to build up to the events of the first Metroid game and the Metroid experiments.

[astral briar]

I do not think they could pull off the level of general interest required for a show

[wanton forge]

I think they absolutely could, but not just yet. If they want to do that, they gotta first release a Zelda movie to build up hype for more Nintendo IPs making it to the big screen (it's got a lot of brand recognition and worldwide fans to make a killing, if not as big as Mario), and then release Metroid Prime 4, and then follow that up with a Metroid show.

[tidal cloud]

A show would be more investment than a movie, really

[astral briar]

If they did a Zelda film they might have to consider actually having a story

[wanton forge]

With Zelda it's a lot easier to have a more compelling and deep story.

[astral briar]

“String of video games references” works for Mario and approximately nothing else

[tidal cloud]

Heh. Well BotW/TotK seem to be going for a more solid storyline

[wanton forge]

Certainly easier than Mario, at least.

[tidal cloud]

I could buy that Nintendo wants to make Zelda more coherent

[rich matrix]

Zelda and Metroid have much more coherent worlds in which a story could be written, but... yeah I really don't know how much potential there is here

[wanton forge]

It honestly would not surprise me if Nintendo already has plans for a Zelda movie or show, they just wanted to make sure that the Mario movie was gonna make bank first, since it's a much safer IP to lead with.

[tidal cloud]

They tried to delve more into the Metroid universe in a way that was almost movie like with Other M

The storytelling needed help.

But the presentation was definitely intending to be viewed that way

[wanton forge]

Now that it has and is still going very strong (strong enough to potentially make it beyond 1 billion), I think Nintendo has more than enough reason to greenlight their third-biggest franchise for a movie (second being Pokemon, but that already has several movies and a show).

[astral briar]

“Several” feels like an understatement

[tidal cloud]

Pokémon has like 17 movies, if not more

[wanton forge]

Lol

[tidal cloud]

I lost count at around the 14th

[astral briar]

(It’s also not really a Nintendo property anyway)

[wanton forge]

Tbf, a lot of those are anime films, so they might not count as "movies" to general audiences, even though they are.

[astral briar]

23 animated and one live action, apparently

Though the 22nd was a remake of the first

[wanton forge]

By technicality, yes. But Nintendo still owns the IP for the most part, sharing it with Game Freak and Creatures.

[tidal cloud]

I think it’s split 1/3 between the three?

But yeah it would have to be The Pokémon Company who does it

[crisp oasis]

Nintendo, against expectation, actually has a bunch of media stuff based on their games, it's just that they really stopped doing it at certain point

Like if you think about it, Mario had a TV show and 2 movies at this point

Zelda had an animated show

Kirby has an anime, F-Zero has an anime, AC has an animated movie and bunch of mangas

[rich matrix]

any of them good?

[crisp oasis]

I think Kirby was pretty decent, fans like it and they recently released BD of it

F-Zero was pretty good

AC I heard it was pretty good but it is extremely obscure as it only released in Japan

Mario and Zelda, I think western fans will know better than me

[hazy ivy]

We don't talk about the Zelda show

[crisp oasis]

Excuuuse me, princess

Apparently Mario also had a 60min animated movie long ago

Donkey Kong had 40 episodes long animated show

FE and Star Fox had short animations

[fringe spruce]

i dont want a big interconnected Nintendo universe

a Mario movie universe would be cool though :3

[solar loom]

Stillll holding out for a Kirby movie. Fully voiced with Hispanic Meta Knight and British DeDeDe to boot

[solar loom]

Oh at least 40 last I checked...Not including Detective Pikachu tho lol

[tidal cloud]

23 animated, 1 live action.

[solar loom]

Huh...could have sworn there were more..but maybe I'm just misremembering special episodes or somethin

Anyways still hoping for a Kirby adaptation. Movie/show continuation of Right Back At Ya

[wanton forge]

Heeeeey, Hispanic Meta Knight. I understood that reference.

[solar loom]

🫡

[crisp oasis]

jajajaja

[drifting owl]

do you think the japanese mint will put out a solid gold coin in the shape of a mario coin?

(Does japan even have a mint?)

[rich matrix]

of course lol

[crisp oasis]

What, do you think they mine their coins from a mountain

[drifting owl]

yes

[crisp oasis]

[drifting owl]

or gather them from long grass with a sword

[crisp oasis]

Those aren't coins, those are gems

[drifting owl]

they're money

[crisp oasis]

If you try to argue that you get money from grass, go India because they use Rupee

[drifting owl]

mmm

I'm not sure if they do special mintings like western countries do

[crisp oasis]

Of course they do

[drifting owl]

well their english website wasn't very helpful then

[crisp oasis]

https://www.mof.go.jp/policy/currency/coin/commemorative_coin/list.htm

Official list of Japanese commemorative coins

[fringe spruce]

that's like

10 bucks?

[crisp oasis]

1000yen is roughly 10 bucks, yes

[fringe spruce]

😎

[crisp oasis]

They usually don't have such expensive coins

[drifting owl]

these all seem serious, rather than fun

[hard oriole]

https://twitter.com/harddrivemag/status/1648009004117794842

Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag)

Nintendo Concerned That Mario Movie Sequel Will Be Too Challenging for Western Audiences

https://t.co/9OVXiy7I5T

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Twitter · Apr 17, 2023, 5:02 PM

[fringe spruce]

LMAO

ok that's very good

[tall igloo]

[tidal cloud]

[wanton forge]

[crisp oasis]

What will they do, bring a different movie and reskin it to Super Mario Bros the Movie 2 exclusive in USA?

[soft path]

Nintendo loves to muzzle anyone and anything that touches to something Nintendo

Probably their fault the movie's story was so basic

[crisp oasis]

The whole thing is a joke about how Nintendo decided to not release the original Super Mario Bros 2 to western audiences because "it is too challenging"

[hazy ivy]

They were right to do so

[night niche]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1648334239937486854

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘Peaches’ from ‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE’ has been added to the Billboard Hot 100.

Read our review: https://t.co/4Bxh7jIQLd

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Twitter · Apr 18, 2023, 2:34 PM

[soft path]

omg,???

[hard oriole]

Jack Black rocks once again

[tidal cloud]

Hahahaha

That’s amazing

[solar loom]

Okay I'm real annoyed now. I just beat Paper Mario on the Switch, but the game is supposed to give me the option to save after the fireworks scene to continue after the final battle, but it's been going on for 5 minutes with zero button commands doing anything! WTH Nintendo??

[soft path]

This is the channel for the movie lol

[topaz pier]

no theres no saving after that.

but yes movie channel

[solar loom]

Literally 2 weeks ago everyone was talking about Star Fox games and Paper mario. Whatever

[crisp oasis]

https://twitter.com/Nintendo/status/1648938391814443008

任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo)

ファミリーコンピュータ向けソフト『レッキングクルー』などに登場するキャラクター「ブラッキー」の名称を、欧米での名称と同じ「スパイク」に変更いたします。なお、2023年4月28日に公開される『ザ・スーパーマリオブラザーズ・ムービー』での名称も、同様に「スパイク」となっています。

Twitter · Apr 20, 2023, 6:35 AM

Nintendo decided to change the JP name of Spike to Spike

It was Blacky/Blakky before.

This is to follow his name in the movie.

[night niche]

Super Mario Bros Movie will release in my country at 8 pm (I was just looking at VOX cinemas website), if I'm going to watch the film in the premiere day or lately on Saturday? I think I will watch the film later I guess.

[subtle ember]

https://youtu.be/dR_AkrgXwUk

https://youtu.be/uX8Ajn0j6Y4

[wanton forge]

Lol, my military coworkers were just talking about the movie and most of them were saying that they thought it was trash and that their kids "weren't entertained at all".

Sometimes I wonder if they're being deliberately obtuse and/or contrary just because they can.

[hard oriole]

Probably, because they don't want to be seen as enjoyjng children's fare

[solar loom]

"Oh no, our children are having GASP funn! UNACCEPTABLE!" -them right now

[wanton forge]

Nah, according to them, their children didn't like the movie at all and thought it was an unfunny, lazy snooze-fest.

[hard oriole]

I'm going to call them liars.

[cedar trout]

https://youtu.be/ycoC5_PfCu4

[crisp oasis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdm63jgzbfY

[fringe spruce]

yeah

[night niche]

https://twitter.com/hollywoodhandle/status/1649124416222003224

The Hollywood Handle (@hollywoodhandle)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE’ has now surpassed ‘MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU’ and became the highest grossing Illumination movie EVER at the domestic box office.

Read our review: https://t.co/iAS6Di3tD5

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Twitter · Apr 20, 2023, 6:54 PM

[astral briar]

“Highest grossing Illumination film as measured by US ticket sales” feels like a particularly uninteresting one of these tweets.

[hard oriole]

https://twitter.com/LizardbethArt/status/1649572586672513024

🦎Lizardbeth☕ (@LizardbethArt)

🍑 I LOVE YOUUUU 🍑

Twitter · Apr 22, 2023, 12:35 AM

[crisp oasis]

Miyamoto said that they will make more movies, and not only Mario movies

[fringe spruce]

there's going to be a Pikmin movie

[crisp oasis]

Switch sales is obviously dropping, nothing too bad there, and their IP sales is not very large yet, but apparently their stock price rose by 4% or smth after Mario movie's hit

The gaming giant is finally awake, they are trying to move to becoming the media giant. Will they succeed? We shall see...

[wanton forge]

If the Mario movie is any indication, they will absolutely succeed.

[wanton forge]

Also, this this confirmed? Because if so, that is soooooo not what I expected.

[fringe spruce]

no

it's just a guess

but Miyamoto loves Pikmin and there have been shorts made around them

[night niche]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1649795225584320513

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE’ has passed $800M worldwide.

Read our review: https://t.co/4Bxh7jIQLd

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Twitter · Apr 22, 2023, 3:20 PM

[fringe spruce]

lol it passed 850 million a few hours ago

[hard oriole]

The long tail on this movie might push it past the billion mark in a few weeks.

[fringe spruce]

it hasn't even released in Japan yet

[hard oriole]

[fringe spruce]

it's def going to make well over a billion dollars

yeah lmao

[night niche]

next weekend https://twitter.com/hollywoodhandle/status/1649818791621140480

The Hollywood Handle (@hollywoodhandle)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE’ is expected to reach $1B at the worldwide box office by next weekend.

That would make this the first animated movie to reach that mark since 2019 with ‘FROZEN 2’.

Read our review: https://t.co/iAS6Di3tD5

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Twitter · Apr 22, 2023, 4:53 PM

[night niche]

I forgot

[crisp oasis]

It might not be as a big hit as it is currently in Japan, but we should see

It also has to compete against Detective Conan movie

[night niche]

Update (because I forgot and that was fast) https://twitter.com/TheCartoonBase/status/1649816273461604354

Cartoon Base (@TheCartoonBase)

'THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE' has surpassed $850M worldwide.

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Twitter · Apr 22, 2023, 4:43 PM

[dapper root]

The Mario sweep is real

[tall igloo]

mario be speedrunnin' $1B up in here

[grave oyster]

and yet we're still waiting for pikmin 4

[fringe spruce]

this summer!!!

[grave oyster]

oh yeah, i forgot about that, though it has been a decade since pikmin 3 came out

[fringe spruce]

Mario movie concept art (thread)
https://twitter.com/dfffaz/status/1649931122220859401?s=46

D001 (@dfffaz)

#TheSuperMarioBrosMovie SUPER ART THREAD

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Twitter · Apr 23, 2023, 12:20 AM

[weary wraith]

I can come back in here and not be spoiled on things

[night niche]

I don't want to be spoiled!

[night niche]

aaaaaaaaaaaand, he deleted that tweet

|| https://twitter.com/Aiden1291/status/1649936271186313216 || backup concept art (I found this one I think after D001 deleted his original tweets), tagged as spoiler

Aiden129 (@Aiden1291)

MARIO MOVIE CONCEPT ARTWORK??

These look AMAZING!!

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Twitter · Apr 23, 2023, 12:40 AM

[gritty ermine]

Just watched the movie

[soft path]

i'm frustrated by the movie

[gritty ermine]

[hallow hawk]

these look absolutely BEAUTIFUL, shame we couldn’t get any of these scenes in the movie
then again they do have part of the Captain toad theme in the credits so it’s better than nothing

[gritty ermine]

For me, I feel this is my favourite illumination movie. I still have to watch it a few more times to see if I will like it more

[finite flint]

That movie been great as I've been watching it the other last weekend

one week ago

[night niche]

FACTS: The Super Mario Bros. Movie was released early in Egypt on April 19th, 2023 before the Arab world was released the film on April 20th, 2023. yes, it's true.

[soft path]

What's fun about that

[night niche]

I just mean "facts" not "fun facts" oops

[soft path]

Well I'm not less confused

[night niche]

Arabic:

كل ما تريد معرفته عن فيلم الأنيميشن Super Mario Bros وموعد عرضه في مصر

English (translated):

All you need to know about the Super Mario Bros. animated movie and its release date in Egypt
https://www.khabrabyad.com/27352/كل-ما-تريد-معرفته-عن-فيلم-الأنيميشن-Super-Mario-Bros-وموعد-عرضه-في-مصر for anyone didn't know, I will translate that what it was mean

[tall igloo]

tf is goinjg on with that link

[night niche]

Arabic:

فيلم The Super Mario Bros سوف يعرض بمصر بداية من غدا الأربعاء

English (translated):

The Super Mario Bros. Movie will be premiered in Egypt starting tomorrow, Wednesday [April 19th, 2023]

[night niche]

That's just the Arabic in that link url, but they messed up into that after I copied and posted it lol

[astral briar]

Out of curiosity: https://www.khabrabyad.com/27352/كل-ما-تريد-معرفته-عن-فيلم-الأنيميشن-Super-Mario-Bros-وموعد-عرضه-في-مصر

Better

[night niche]

I just embbed for reasons oops

[night niche]

https://twitter.com/supermariomovie/status/1650967922708193284

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (@supermariomovie)

SUPER NEWS! For a limited time you can enjoy #SuperMarioMovie in Japanese at select screenings starting Friday April 28.

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Twitter · Apr 25, 2023, 9:00 PM

"you will watch the anime tonight" /hj

[solar loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT_5XmZp47A

That's a big YIKESSSS from me, bruh

Someone in Argentina is getting soooo fired

[night niche]

it was happened back in April 16 when someone reported about that on twitter before some news articles reported lately

[night niche]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1651267545905741824 it continues lol

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE’ has passed $900M worldwide.

Read our review: https://t.co/4Bxh7jIQLd

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Twitter · Apr 26, 2023, 4:50 PM

[tall igloo]

only $100M more to go

[sinful quest]

Can I have some of it

[hazy ivy]

I've been asking but they keep saying no

[subtle ember]

https://youtu.be/ml4xc207YPs

[sweet crystal]

Anyone else heard cranky say sh!t instead of ship?

[night niche]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1651371146791600128

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Illumination founder Chris Meledandri says ‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE’ is proof of the enduring power of cinematic experience. #CinemaCon

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Twitter · Apr 26, 2023, 11:42 PM

[soft path]

no it's proof that people like mario

[drifting owl]

Mario is the cinematic experience

[topaz pier]

Mario is really good

i havent seen the movie and even I know that

[drifting owl]

people say "I want cinematic battles in star trek" and directors think "they want high production values!" but in reality we just want to see Mario stomping klingon BopS

[hazy ivy]

Yeah, until the Mario movie I wasn't too sold on this whole "movie" fad

[hard oriole]

They're trying to push the idea that everyone wants to go to movie theaters, rather than watching at home.

And they're wrong, I'd have much rather seen this movie at home.

[warm vine]

I liked seeing it in the theater, but i wish it didn't cost so much

[sinful quest]

This is why I almost exclusively go to movies on Tuesdays at AMC. With the Stubs membership ($15/yr) you get discounted tickets on Tuesdays and if it's a daytime showing a ticket ends up being like $7

[abstract lodge]

I almost never see films in theaters anyway

[rich matrix]

I do maybe 5-10 times a year, mostly for theater exclusives that I'm going to forget exist if I wait months for a proper digital release

[abstract lodge]

The last film I saw before this was One Piece Red

Prior to that was Star Wars IX

[hard oriole]

We went to a local tiny theater with like two screens. It's dirt cheap, even if it's not a matinee showing. But they don't have the big THX sound or anything, so they're not where you go for big spectacle films. Was perfectly fine for SMB tho.

I literally haven't been to a theater since 2020. SMB was the first movie I saw in theaters since.

[hazy ivy]

I like seeing movies in theaters with the boys, but if I'm by myself or with just one other friend I'd rather watch at home where I can actually afford the popcorn and beer

Horror movies in particular are good in the theater

[subtle ember]

i hope of the mario movie would release on netflix

[wanton forge]

It'll become digital in time

[fringe spruce]

Digital release is May 9

Netflix is October iirc

[fringe spruce]

scratch that :(
https://twitter.com/dfffaz/status/1651763836511490049?s=46

D001 (TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY) (@dfffaz)

Universal will now officially release #TheSuperMarioBrosMovie on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD on July 1st

It was originally planned for June 6

The digital version has been delayed indefinitely for now

(via Amazon)

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Twitter · Apr 28, 2023, 1:42 AM

[hallow hawk]

must be to draw the box office sales out more or something

[tidal cloud]

That is definitely cashing in

[subtle ember]

https://youtu.be/l-FDFsHA20w

[fringe spruce]

https://twitter.com/stealth40k/status/1652410599207231491?s=46

Stealth (@Stealth40k)

To compare:

1. Super Mario Bros. - $921.8m
2. Warcraft - $439.0m
3. Detective Pikachu -$433.2m
4. Rampage - $428.0m
5. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - $405.4m
6. Uncharted - $401.7m

30 years after the live action movie, Nintendo has a Mario movie they are happy with.

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Twitter · Apr 29, 2023, 8:32 PM

this is making my head spin ngl

[tall igloo]

more than double than the 2nd place

[wanton forge]

Ngl, despite the quality of the Sonic films, this is making me wish yet again that they were animated films instead. Imagine the BUNDLES of money they would make, just like Mario is now.

[abstract lodge]

TIL there is an Uncharted film

[sinful quest]

Yes it stars Spiderman

[fringe spruce]

Spider-Man

respect the hyphen >:(

[tall igloo]

*Spider Man

/s

[sinful quest]

Spoodler Guy

[wanton forge]

There is an Uncharted film, and it sucked major ass.

Absolute garbage casting.

And then there was an Uncharted fan film that was a million times better, and made by people who actually cared about the games and understood them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5CZQpqF_74

(Oh yeah, starring Nathan Fillion, a muuuuch better Nathan Drake and a great guy in general.)

[tall igloo]

when i first saw the casting, i legit thought that tom holland was the side kick instead of Nathan

[dawn flower]

with the amount of money they making on theaters

they will not release digitally any time soon

[solar loom]

https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/super-mario-bros-movie-hits-one-billion-global-1235598692/

It was inevitable

[tidal cloud]

Honestly, it’s actually probably surprising to everyone involved

Maybe Nintendo will look into exploring movies for other IPs

But I guess this guarantees a sequel at the very least

[topaz pier]

Imagine if he turns into ice mario in the sequel

[topaz pier]

I liked it, some of the craziest action scenes ive ever seen in a movie

but I havent played the game so didnt really bother me that tom didnt look like nathan drake

[weary wraith]

honestly, I'd like to see more one time use powerups, like frog mario

Penguin Mario mayhaps; have best of both worlds

[tall igloo]

propeller Mario when

[hard oriole]

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1653097224845287428

IGN (@IGN)

Millions of people watched the entire Super Mario Bros. Movie on Twitter after a user uploaded it using the Twitter Blue subscription’s new feature to post long, high quality videos. https://t.co/S7kUl7pEBt

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Twitter · May 1, 2023, 6:01 PM

[fringe spruce]

apparently it was up for hours

Nintendo will probably not be happy with Twitter

[tidal cloud]

It was uploaded by several different accounts which each managed to clock 10M+ views

A bunch of other movies were also uploaded

Which again took many hours for Twitter to respond to

This is what happens when you axe your entire moderation department

[glad imp]

omg it was twilight https://twitter.com/EquestriaDaily/status/1653458767785369601

Equestria Daily (@EquestriaDaily)

Twilight Sparkle has been in the news for uploading the whole of The Super Mario Bros. Movie to Twitter.

https://t.co/DZgPrjascQ

Twitter · May 2, 2023, 5:57 PM

how could she

[hazy ivy]

Got the checkmark, it's really her

[crisp oasis]

https://twitter.com/36srkn/status/1653808683749629952

シラス📣🐱 (@36srkn)

本編後は仲良くなっててほしい

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Twitter · May 3, 2023, 5:08 PM

[fringe spruce]

really good

godDAMN Spike is a hunk here

[karmic pumice]

Finally watched the movie, it is good

Soundtrack absolutely the highlight, outside of the licensed songs

[solar loom]

Not being a person of culture or whatever you call it, I didn't really mind the licensed songs. I just saw it as is, a movie made for Mario fans, and that was good enough for me.

[soft path]

made for mario fans

[wanton forge]

@fringe spruce Thought you might enjoy this, if you haven't already seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVi2yJwKErA

[fringe spruce]

yes i saw it 30 seconds after it was uploaded hehe

[wanton forge]

Ah, lol

[fringe spruce]

but thankies anyway :3

[karmic pumice]

Enjoyed much more the second time round

Y’all it’s always the music that gets me tearing up, every time

[fringe spruce]

yay !!!

[fringe spruce]

the part where Bowser just incinerates that koopa turning him into a dry bones made me full on belly laugh this time lmao

DK RAP

the Mario vs Donkey Kong fight is still so much fun

[fringe spruce]

yep still the best movie ever

[subtle ember]

https://youtu.be/2Ml6pnEKiVM miku version

[night niche]

Finally watched the film, it was amazing!!!

(yeah, I was originally planned to watch it at the theater but I already cancelled my plan, so I already watched the HD version of it at home lol)

[subtle ember]

i hope it comes out on dvd

[fringe spruce]

June 13th is when it comes out on Blu Ray and DVD!!

[sly heath]

@fringe spruce why didn't you tell me how good this movie is

[fringe spruce]

🤨

[warm vine]

jeez cap, you were hiding this from us?

[fringe spruce]

you can see my raving here (spoilers so be warned if you havent finished)

[sly heath]

Smh

[fringe spruce]

also im pretty sure i screamed about how good it was in #manechat

[tall igloo]

is it ur fave movie of all time?

[fringe spruce]

hmmm

it's def up there i think

idk if it's my favourite ever though

[warm vine]

of course, the 90's mario movie exists

[crisp oasis]

https://twitter.com/TheCartoonBase/status/1663908187916111872

Cartoon Base (@TheCartoonBase)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE’ has passed ‘FROZEN’ at the worldwide box office.

Which movie did you enjoy more!?

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Twitter · May 31, 2023, 2:00 PM

A little bit late but still

[tall igloo]

3rd highest grossing animated movie now iirc

[subtle ember]

https://youtu.be/_Us9RfMvJ6E

[night niche]

https://issuu.com/epeditora/docs/lb99/16

https://image.isu.pub/230524174437-7619eb9fc08916f917ba8542b5b8683d/jpg/page_16.jpg

the super mario bros movie danette (real)

found the original: https://www.abcdacomunicacao.com.br/parceria-de-gigantes-danette-e-super-mario-bros-o-filme-se-unem-em-parceria-inesquecivel/

[night niche]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1665371670654115840

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE’ has passed $1.3 billion worldwide.

Read our ranking of all Illumination films: https://t.co/PcevK1P0W5

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Twitter · Jun 4, 2023, 2:55 PM

[wanton forge]

It's still going!

Wtf

[crisp oasis]

Almost there

[wanton forge]

Once it passes Frozen 2 it's the highest-grossing animated film.

NO, The Lion King remake does NOT count. Disney themselves say it's not an animated film and shouldn't be in this category. It's the media that spun it that way. It's NOT an animated film, by thunder!

[weary wraith]

I'm sure it'll surpass it anyways regardless

[tidal cloud]

It’s possible to edit Wikipedia

[wanton forge]

And face the thousands of counter-edits? No sir.

[solar loom]

Wikipedia is like r/place but for "information"

Anyways, going to see this again next week with friends!

[rich matrix]

...wait, why doesn't The Lion King remake count as "animated"?

[solar loom]

Because it's cgi

It wasn't drawn or computer generated and captured.

[rich matrix]

afaik CGI animation has been a type of "animated" for as long as we've had CGI movies

a bunch of other stuff on that list is CGI, including Frozen and Mario

[solar loom]

Well Frozen is an animated film, and the original Mario is live action with cgi. Have you seen the lion king remake's models? They are not animated "naturally"

[rich matrix]

...Mario is live action?

[abstract lodge]

Hold up I thought the lion king remake backfired

[rich matrix]

like, when

[solar loom]

The old old one

[abstract lodge]

How did it make so much money

[rich matrix]

oh

I'm talking about the one that was on the list screenshotted above, i.e. this year's

[solar loom]

Yeah the new one is animation

[solar loom]

I don't think there was cgi in that one?

[rich matrix]

...it was nothing but CGI

seriously I have no idea what anyone's talking about here

[solar loom]

Okay I'm clearly lost on something...I thought cgi and computer animated were different things.

[rich matrix]

CGI literally stands for "computer generated image(ry)"

[solar loom]

Well I didn't know that okay?

[rich matrix]

so "computer animated" is borderline synonymous with CGI, other than saying the images it generates are being used for animation rather than, well, anything else you might do with an image

[solar loom]

^^^^^^^^^^^

[rich matrix]

so... I get that there was a bit of confusion over which Mario movie was referenced, but you were making assertions about what is or isn't CGI; that kind of implies you know what the word means

anyway, I'm still confused by the claim that the Lion King remake is not animated, and the claim that Disney themselves claimed this

what google's telling me is that it was 100% CGI lions, not even motion capture of real lions

[abstract lodge]

I was under the impression that they used mocap and/or a mix of real lions as well as CG

[solar loom]

I thought cgi was used in the old mario movie and the lion king remake, because I was thinking there's no way those were costumes/motion tracking animation. I thought cgi was all the stuff that was neither practical effects or straight up animation.

[abstract lodge]

But I've never seen it

[rich matrix]

yeah, "cgi" broadly is that, since "computer generated", "a-guy-drew-it-by-hand generated" and "old-school camera generated" are pretty much your three options for creating images

fundamentally, "animation" means taking things which don't move and making them appear to move; there's always going to be some vagueness in the terminology here, but it's usually interpreted to include most of the ways computers generate video files, as opposed to recording video of real-world stuff that's moving around by default

ok I think I found some of the quotes GT was referring to

[solar loom]

So this all comes full circle. On that definition, Is the Lion King Remake an animated movie or not?

[rich matrix]

it seems like what the director meant is that the techniques they're using are different enough from merely recording real-life actors and from traditional animation (including traditional motion capture) that he's not sure either term properly applies

which is fair enough, we should just avoid reducing that to "it's not animated"; the lions are definitely still being rendered by computers so for taxonomic purposes like that wiki list, animated is the category that makes more sense

[solar loom]

Okay, glad we cleared that up. I've been in enough debates this morning alone lol

[rich matrix]

the article I found used a term "virtual production" which seems reasonable enough to me

[hard oriole]

On that note, it looks like Apple showed off a background from the live-action Moana film as part of their presentation about their more powerful computers today.

[fringe spruce]

huh

i was looking around the Super Mario Bros Movie's IMDB page and Alex Hirsch (creator of Gravity Falls and voice of Hooty on TOH) is listed in the special thanks

[sly heath]

Alex Hirsch also voiced King in TOH

[fringe spruce]

yes but Hooty is more important

[sly heath]

Says you

[fringe spruce]

yes

https://tenor.com/view/hooty-hooty-smug-owl-house-grinch-grinch-face-gif-22623678

[sly heath]

He had a guest bit on The Simpsons too

[fringe spruce]

that's awesome

[sly heath]

Well

As Bill Cypher, so

[fringe spruce]

iirc Simpsons is a big inspiration for him

yeah !

that's still cool

[sly heath]

Cap if I wrote a fan fiction about Bill Cipher, The Core, and Emperor Belos teaming up to get revenge on their respective protagonists would you read it

[fringe spruce]

yes

but only if Ford is in it

[sly heath]

Well duh

Both Stans have to make an appearance

[fringe spruce]

listen i just wanted to make sure because Ford is my favourite character

[solar loom]

Wait what!?

[solar loom]

Make the "Eda is Stan's ex wife" theory canon in it!

[hard oriole]

I love that the backstory behind this is he was doing readings for Dana, just to help her get a feel for the dialogue, and he decided to just do Hooty as a completely demented Mickey Mouse voice to make her laugh. But it worked, so they kept doing it.

[fringe spruce]

haha yeah

i love Hooty <3

[soft path]

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1666203585716125696

IGN (@IGN)

Nintendo revealed that Mario's longtime arch-enemy Bowser is canonically 34 years old through a video showing Switch owners how to create a Nintendo Account. https://t.co/jJUN9Fa1cB

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Twitter · Jun 6, 2023, 10:01 PM

bowser is canonically my crush

[weary wraith]

this image feels like such a shitpost even if it's officially canon

[soft path]

to me it makes him even hotter

holy fuck what the fuck am i saying this is manechat

[echo tartan]

He's as old as me, it's cannon now 😔

[edgy lagoon]

New Mario movie is expected to release at 2026.4.3