DaftyduxJul 11, 2025

What big budget movie had absolutely no buisness getting made?

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/48810254

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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 threadthisbenzingringJul 12, 2025

it was fine. it checked the boxes and the kids loved it

as a family friendly movie, it’s a good one for everyone

Show threadBoomer Humor DoomergodJul 12, 2025

That’s the problem.

Why the hell is Mario fighting Donkey Kong to the song “Thubderstruck?”

Because that is the least common denominator between them.

They couldn’t take any of the music from any of the Mario games for that scene? Of course not; most people wouldn’t know it’s music from a Mario game.

No, we need to slam a Top 40 classic rock song in there because that’s the only thing the plebeians who see this movie will understand.

Show threadChexMaxJul 12, 2025
Idk, I think the issue here is that Mario is for plebians. I don’t know any “real” gamers who would answer a Mario game as their favorite game. Hell they likely wouldn’t be naming a platform game period. Why wouldn’t they throw in a song like that? Mario is fun for everyone, and it’s one of the video games that isn’t niche, has little to no barrier to entry and is just goofy and fun. Why wouldn’t the movie just be goofy and fun?
Show threadBoomer Humor Doomergod

There are plenty of gamers who love Mario games, and there’s a huge depth of lore and music and characters they could have drawn from to make it

By using generic songs it became a movie that had a Mario skin on it.

Jul 12, 2025 at 3:37pmWeb
Show threadChexMaxJul 13, 2025
I think I was unclear. Mario is my favorite. I’m the plebian I’m talking about. I’m a gamer and Thousand Year Door on GameCube is my favorite game of all time. I don’t mind a bit that they threw thunderstruck in. My dad was in the theater with me and my brother, and my sister, and my nephews. All of us are obsessed with Mario but my Dad and sister, and thunderstruck meant my dad and sister were enjoying that scene as much as us, even though they didn’t get the more subtle Mario Easter eggs.