Mario Bros. Set to Jump to Big Screen in Movie Deal with Universal’s Illumination - Paging Movie Bob, Paging Movie Bob...

[Hal]

Movie had insane attention to detail and was fun over all liked it a lot. Also Spike from the wrecking crew looked like baked Alaska pitvipers and all, I had to hold back my laughter when I saw him

 

[deeman]

The question that seems to evade most people in this thread is; Is it better than the Double Dragon movie?

 

[No One of Note]

Movie was fine. Had its moments but definitely leaned on the typical dullness you see with Illumination movies. Nintendo properties have always been coveted for big screen tie ins and they really went with one of the worst studios for the job

 

[Cnut]

Did the strange new Mario give anyone uncanny vibes through the movie? I know it's been said before but they changed his appearance in a subliminally horrifying way.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Movie was fine. Had its moments but definitely leaned on the typical dullness you see with Illumination movies. Nintendo properties have always been coveted for big screen tie ins and they really went with one of the worst studios for the job

Illumination are known for middling movies, yeah, but most importantly, they are known for wildly profitable movies.

Plus, as hard as it might be to believe, Illumination was probably the only one to meet Nintendo on their own terms. Like, you talk to Pixar for example and they’re probably going to demand a bigger cut of ownership and merchandise. Nintendo is much too cagey for that.

The same probably goes for most other studios – Sony Animation, Blue Sky, Dreamworks, etc. What Nintendo wanted out of the deal and what they wanted out of the deal didn’t line up.

Illumination does good enough work and was probably the closest to what Nintendo wanted that it’s who they went with. I mean, Minions is only one of the single most profitable things on earth right now. It’s not like they’re slumming it.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Plus, as hard as it might be to believe, Illumination was probably the only one to meet Nintendo on their own terms. Like, you talk to Pixar for example and they’re probably going to demand a bigger cut of ownership and merchandise. Nintendo is much too cagey for that.

The same probably goes for most other studios – Sony Animation, Blue Sky, Dreamworks, etc. What Nintendo wanted out of the deal and what they wanted out of the deal didn’t line up.

I don't blame Nintendo for being cagey. Hollywood (and american film studios in general) is notorious for never EVER using the ENTIRE source material when it comes to vidya-related stuff and always seems to add their own stupid bullshit. Hell, even non-vidya things like Godzilla get raped by pretentious horseshit no one gives two fucks about.

Realistically, nobody is going to get a 1:1 copy of the games in movie form, but at the same time, if studios can't come up with something unique without resorting to add outside bullshit, then they are creatively bankrupt.

 

[Shroom King]

Uwe Boll's Postal

Uwe Boll should have got a fucking Oscar for Postal. It's amazing that it actually follows the plot of the games pretty much 100% too.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Illumination are known for middling movies, yeah, but most importantly, they are known for wildly profitable movies.

Plus, as hard as it might be to believe, Illumination was probably the only one to meet Nintendo on their own terms. Like, you talk to Pixar for example and they’re probably going to demand a bigger cut of ownership and merchandise. Nintendo is much too cagey for that.

The same probably goes for most other studios – Sony Animation, Blue Sky, Dreamworks, etc. What Nintendo wanted out of the deal and what they wanted out of the deal didn’t line up.

Illumination does good enough work and was probably the closest to what Nintendo wanted that it’s who they went with. I mean, Minions is only one of the single most profitable things on earth right now. It’s not like they’re slumming it.

Illumination is owned by Universal and is their premier animation division, they only recently acquired DreamWorks. Given that Nintendo has a theme park with Universal, I think the film rights just came as second nature. Why go with Pixar/Disney when your park is designed by the rival company?

 

[TVB]

Illumination is owned by Universal and is their premier animation division, they only recently acquired DreamWorks. Given that Nintendo has a theme park with Universal, I think the film rights just came as second nature. Why go with Pixar/Disney when your park is designed by the rival company?

Well, Universal is the lesser of all evils in comparison to other major movie studio, especially Disney. Still, they're both evil as with many other major movie studio.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Well, Universal is the lesser of all evils in comparison to other major movie studio, especially Disney. Still, they're both evil as with many other major movie studio.

Universal lacks big IP, which is probably why. They have Jurassic Park and Back To The Future, along with tons of other b-c tier IPs, but nothing to really stand against a Star Wars, Marvel, Harry Potter, or even a DC Comics. Most of their park is material they got the rights to from WB, Fox, Viacom, and others.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The real question is if it's good enough for Moviebob to watch during his mother's funeral

 

[Foltest]

The real question is if it's good enough for Moviebob to watch during his mother's funeral

IT will be like his 6/1 moment!

 

[TVB]

Universal lacks big IP, which is probably why. They have Jurassic Park and Back To The Future, along with tons of other b-c tier IPs, but nothing to really stand against a Star Wars, Marvel, Harry Potter, or even a DC Comics. Most of their park is material they got the rights to from WB, Fox, Viacom, and others.

Jurassic Park, Fast & Furious, Jason Bourne, Despicable Me, Back to the Future and Jaws (and in some rare cares, Woody Woodpecker and Land Before Time) are the reasons why Universal is still alive in the first place. Other than that, they'll use whatever chances to release more B-to-C-grade-tier low budget comedies and horrors (even without either respective Apatow or Blumhouse labels).

I mean it could be worse anyway, they could be like Lionsgate (which was during the 2000s the king of horror) and try to milk what little IPs they have alive such as Twilight, Hunger Games, Expendables, John Wick, Saw or Madea. Hell, they could be like MGM and only continue to produce James Bond, Pink Panther, Rocky and Stargate to keep the company afloat. Meanwhile, Sony, WB, Paramount and especially Disney are huge with their respective IPs, but that's because they're more or less necromancers.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

The real question is if it's good enough for Moviebob to watch during his mother's funeral

I can't wait for him to justify it in his book while talking about how the Mario movie is actually a serious allegory about Hillary Clinton vs Trump and how it against the Sonic movie is just like the Iraq war

 

[huecoffs02]

Mario and FNAF becoming big Universal IPs in the cinema would be an amazing thing to see happen.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

I can't wait for him to justify it in his book while talking about how the Mario movie is actually a serious allegory about Hillary Clinton vs Trump and how it against the Sonic movie is just like the Iraq war

Wanted to make a joke, but I cannot find the video GameXplain made where they did the 2020 election with Mario characters, portraying Biden as good boy Mario, and Donald as greedy Wario.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Wanted to make a joke, but I cannot find the video GameXplain made where they did the 2020 election with Mario characters, portraying Biden as good boy Mario, and Donald as greedy Wario.

I mean it's not too far off from MovieBob who viewed Mario as an epic political thriller (part of why he was malding over the cast reveal because it wasn't the serious live action version he wanted). That and he compared the console wars to Vietnam and Mario 3's reveal to JFK's death and 9/11.

Just putting this out there for anyone ITT who doesn't know about blob.

 

[huecoffs02]

I mean it's not too far off from MovieBob who viewed Mario as an epic political thriller (part of why he was malding over the cast reveal because it wasn't the serious live action version he wanted). That and he compared the console wars to Vietnam and Mario 3's reveal to JFK's death and 9/11.

Just putting this out there for anyone ITT who doesn't know about blob.

I've never gotten why Mario 3 beign akin to JFK or 9/11. Because of it being huge for him? Or why exactly?

 

[ShitLurker]

I mean it's not too far off from MovieBob who viewed Mario as an epic political thriller (part of why he was malding over the cast reveal because it wasn't the serious live action version he wanted). That and he compared the console wars to Vietnam and Mario 3's reveal to JFK's death and 9/11.

Just putting this out there for anyone ITT who doesn't know about blob.

Every time I get a hankering to see what's up with Blob, I just end up reading 2 pages of screencaps of tweets of his and thinking "yep, that's enough for a few months". He is one of the lolcows that saturates me the hardest with their brand of lunacy.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Back to the Future and Jaws

They've been gone for a while