And no one is getting mad at the new Flintstones series because nobody gives a damn about the Flintstones. they didn't give a damn about it back when it got that awful 90s movie. The Flintstones was basically "What if we set the Honeymooners back in the Stone Age and did a lot of gags about modern appliances being made out of rocks and twigs?"
Actually they are upset for a ton of reasons:
1. Elizabeth Banks is a talentless cunt who is super fucking woke and screams "MISYGONY!" whenever she fucks up, produces a huge steaming flop, or called out on being a cunt of the highest order to people who are fair game for abuse by members of the church of the anti-life. She's basically desperate for a franchise of her own to make her big bucks and famous too, but has repeatedly failed miserably due to her woke shit and her general cunt nature.
2. Seth McFarlane TRIED to reboot the franchise but ultimately ran screaming into the night because Fox wanted mean spirited Family Guy 2.0, which Seth EXPLICITLY refused to do to the point that he sat on the rights until they expired (and were scooped up by Banks) rather than rape the franchise, as Seth explicitly wanted to make a reboot of the franchise that fit the G-Rated tone of the original.
3. The only other major Flintstones project of the last ten years was a comic reboot written by an edgy anti-God atheist who got fired from DC for wanting to write a story about God disowning Jesus for an edgy Superman expy and who's entire career has been filled writing smarmy SJW "all establishments and institutions are corrupt because of those evil old white men!" bullshit.
The run was a hot mess to put it mildly: Fred was raised by a random gay couple who lived in a compound of strangers who had orgies all the time and that Fred didn't know which of the sex cult members was his real mom and dad and that Wilma/Fred themselves are living in sin and refuse to get married because his gay adopted parents couldn't. Both Fred and Barney are war veterans and have killed people, with Bam-Bam being a war orphan Barney adopted after murdering the kids family. The town's mayor was a Trump stand-in who the town boarded up into his office building so they could ignore him and his authority (and the mayor being too dumb to realize what happened to him), and God/Christianity a literal scam several "intellectuals" came up with to try and control the town with Peebles repeatedly mocking the concept of God via atheist talking points about the 'absurdity" of religion relating to whether or not God existed.
The only redeeming thing is a tearjerker story about the animal appliances and one of their deaths that only had power due to the artist drawing them in a kawaii fashion; but the bulk of the twelve issue mini-series was smug liberal bullshit that mocking small town America and society while offering no real solutions except being smug "too cool for school" liberal cynics.
I'm going to assume you are a zoomer who was born right around 1999/2000 and as such, never grew up with the Flintstones (who were fucking EVERYWHERE in the 1980s and 1990s, until they got shipped off to Cartoon Network around 1995-1996). But for those of us who DID grow up with them on TBS and WGN, watching them religiously as kids, it is a big fucking deal that a cancerous cunt like Ms Banks is going to rape the franchise.
It's incredibly disturbing to read that passage and illustrates how psychotic Bob truly is by trying to frame The Wizard as some cultural watershed moment. The film itself grossed nearly $15 million dollars, which made it a moderate success and more of a cult film for Nintendo fanboys. Compare that to the $250 million dollar North American gross of Batman--a film that has more claim to being a watershed moment than The Wizard. I was five going on six at the time and remember Batmania, Part II with some clarity while I never learned The Wizard's existence until I saw it at my neighborhood video rental years after its release. While I have little doubt that the film raised awareness of Super Mario Bros. 3, magazines like Electronic Gaming Monthly and GamePro (to say nothing about Nintendo Power) were around to cover the game because it was released in Japan in 1988.
Bob has to be a narcissist of epic proportions to believe the game that warped his personality had the same impact every kid of his generation. I can only speak for myself, but I was more interested in LEGO at the time and only played SMB3 whenever I went to a friend's house. Hell, I would argue that Sonic the Hedgehog and its sequel had more of an impact on me because I asked Santa (AKA my parents) for a Game Gear when I was nine whereas I never bothered to ask for an NES before then. Maybe I was deprived because my parents never took me and my siblings to The Wizard in December 1989. Oh, woe is me.
Not to defend Bob, but your ignorance is showing HARD.
The major video game magazines of the time of 1989 was mainly in their super infancy (Nintendo Power formally launched in 1988, EGM very late 88, and Game Pro in 1989. NONE Of THEM gave a fuck about Japan, or had any sort of section put aside to cover Japan's gaming scene and in the case of Nintendo Power, the magazine was 100% subscription only save for a brief 6 month period (where two issues and the four strategy guide issues dedicated solely to Mario 3, Ninja Gaiden 2, Final Fantasy, and the four player game add on were released for individual sale in electronics departments in late 1990) and EGM didn't even have wide distribution until around 1990.
Nintendo heavily leverage the promise of footage of SMB3 to get asses to see The Wizard and even put out a mini-magazine about the game for select theaters to sell to push the hype.
The hype was done in this manner in part, due to the fact that Nintendo of America opted to turn Doki Doki Panic into US Super Mario 2 and largely embargoed coverage of SMB3's release in Japan to avoid hurting SMB2's sales. They were willing to play the waiting game, because they knew SMB3 was going to be a big game and milk a super slow reveal for the game to maximize fan anticipation to the point of incorporating it into "The Wizard" while making sure that they got every penny they could ring out of SMB2.
But that said, The Wizard and it's standing in pop culture applies largely for capturing the zeitgeist for Nintendo in that moment of time. The Wizard is a pretty crappy movie and even the writers saw through the shameless Nintendo shilling (besides SMB3 it shilled HARD the Power Glove, which by the time of the film's release was a MASSIVE flop for Nintendo), which is why they inserted the last act twist towards the final 20 minute mark where the autistic kid KEEPS running and we find out that he was never trying to get to the video game championship tournament; the who point was to get to the park where he and his dead sister once played at so he could bury a time capsule of photos of him and his sister/keepsakes of her as part of an attempt to get closure on her death. That last 20 minutes is the only redeeming part of the film IMHO, but even then the whole thing is one big circle jerk for Nintendo that it only works as a curiosity of that moment in time in pop culture and even then, not even a good one as far as not holding up upon viewing save for the last twenty minutes.