DaftyduxJul 11, 2025

What big budget movie had absolutely no buisness getting made?

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Show threadUsernameblankfaceJul 11, 2025
The Minecraft Movie
Show threadBoomer Humor DoomergodJul 12, 2025
It _could _ have been great. But it ended up - like the Mario movie - being a formulaic piece of drek.
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Jul 12, 2025
I feel better knowing I’m not the only one who didn’t like the new Mario movie for the same reason.
Show threadDaftydux
Ok but which mario do you prefer? The new one or the 90s Mario Brothers?
Jul 12, 2025 at 1:59amWeb
Show threadBoomer Humor DoomergodJul 12, 2025
90s by far
Show threadFondotsJul 12, 2025

I do a movie night once a year and every year we do a different theme. Sometimes it’s a pretty normal and straightforward theme, the first year or two I did it was Robert Rodriguez movies (this party is nominally a Cinco de Mayo part) but we quickly ran out of those, so we pick a random theme every year

One year the theme ended up being "movies that got a better “remake’” (we watched the worse versions)

I believe that theme was 2023, it’s been a wild fucking 2 years so I can’t remember all of the movies we watched, we usually manage to squeeze in about 3

But I remember David Lynch’s dune was on the list, as was the Super Mario Bros movie. None of us had actually seen the new Mario movie, so we just kind of took it on faith that it had to be better.

If I had a point to this story, I’ve long since forgotten what it was, but I’ve typed it out and I’m gonna post it.

Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Jul 12, 2025
The 90s one at least has some creativity and is hilarious for the fact it is nothing at all like the games.
Show threadDaftyduxJul 12, 2025
Hmm, I wonder if they kept the story and actor voices but CGI’D it… nah that could possibly.
Show threadRob T FireflyJul 12, 2025
The trouble with something like that is we already have the 90s Mario movie, and the actors’ performances (visual as well as voice) and the delightfully bonkers direction and production design are the best things about it. There’d be absolutely no benefit to throwing everything but the soundtrack out and redoing it line-by-prerecorded-line as a cartoon, when if you want a Mario cartoon which looks like the games you can more easily just make a new cartoon (which is what they did.)