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Homer J. Fong said:
Mario should be inept because the Super Mario experience for everyone is Mario dying and being hurt. It's a goofy fat Italian who gets crushed by giant levitating stones and falls into lava. This aspect just lends itself to slapstick humor.
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Yeah, in Donkey Kong he does a comedic pratfall type flip when he dies, in SMB he mugs at the screen
64 he runs around with smoke coming from his butt.
 
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Homer J. Fong said:
Mario should be inept because the Super Mario experience for everyone is Mario dying and being hurt. It's a goofy fat Italian who gets crushed by giant levitating stones and falls into lava. This aspect just lends itself to slapstick humor.

The message of the movie should just be "You can still be the winner no matter how many failures you have." I don't even care that Peach is not going to be damsel in distress, just as long as it isn't her going "OH YOU MEN ARE SO PATHETIC." With that said I didn't mind when Nintendo actually did that moment in Super Mario Odyssey. This was a showing of a "strong woman" done right. FYI the whole inspiration for Mario is Popeye and the only reason we wound up with Donkey Kong was because Nintendo couldn't secure the rights to the Popeye at the time. I could see Olive Oyl doing the same thing to Popeye and Bluto.
Super Mario Bros perfectly translated the spirit of Popeye to Mario, the hero is tasked with a incredulous situation, eats his magical healthy food powerup and saves the day. I'm guessing the movie will be mediocre, looks like they're shoehorning way too much stuff in a 90 minute cartoon, characters are way too chatty for their own good. I'm just gonna be a boomer and watch Fleischer Cartoons lamenting how they don't make em like they used to.
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Exactly! It's cliche, but have having Mario play the role of the bumbling zero to hero makes since given what we know about the character.
 
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Nauseated Courgi said:
Exactly! It's cliche, but have having Mario play the role of the bumbling zero to hero makes since given what we know about the character.
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Even the 1980 Popeye movie with Robin Williams as the titular character implemented the idea way better.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
Seth Rogan is exactly what I imagined, and it's fucking awful
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
I just don’t like Seth Rogan.
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Fat cringe kike. Weed is the Reddit of drugs.

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Homer J. Fong said:
Mario should be inept because the Super Mario experience for everyone is Mario dying and being hurt. It's a goofy fat Italian who gets crushed by giant levitating stones and falls into lava. This aspect just lends itself to slapstick humor.

The message of the movie should just be "You can still be the winner no matter how many failures you have." I don't even care that Peach is not going to be damsel in distress, just as long as it isn't her going "OH YOU MEN ARE SO PATHETIC." With that said I didn't mind when Nintendo actually did that moment in Super Mario Odyssey. This was a showing of a "strong woman" done right. FYI the whole inspiration for Mario is Popeye and the only reason we wound up with Donkey Kong was because Nintendo couldn't secure the rights to the Popeye at the time. I could see Olive Oyl doing the same thing to Popeye and Bluto.
Super Mario Bros perfectly translated the spirit of Popeye to Mario, the hero is tasked with a incredulous situation, eats his magical healthy food powerup and saves the day. I'm guessing the movie will be mediocre, looks like they're shoehorning way too much stuff in a 90 minute cartoon, characters are way too chatty for their own good. I'm just gonna be a boomer and watch Fleischer Cartoons lamenting how they don't make em like they used to.
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Honestly, Popeye works best when he's not the hero!
 
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I've said it before, but I am not a fan of the movie just having so many elements and locations from the mario universe, from the trailer it just seems like the pase will be break neck speed, I know this is a glorified game commercial, but I would have liked it if the movie had been just simple like the old ova.
 
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Becomemysoulreaver12 said:
I've said it before, but I am not a fan of the movie just having so many elements and locations from the mario universe, from the trailer it just seems like the pase will be break neck speed, I know this is a glorified game commercial, but I would have liked it if the movie had been just simple like the old ova.
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I'm still reserving my thoughts for when it comes out. You do have a point, but it's likely that the trailers are just showing all of this stuff off to appease the "I get that reference!" crowd.

Those elements will probably be delivered in a more subtle way in the actual film.
 
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Becomemysoulreaver12 said:
I've said it before, but I am not a fan of the movie just having so many elements and locations from the mario universe, from the trailer it just seems like the pase will be break neck speed, I know this is a glorified game commercial, but I would have liked it if the movie had been just simple like the old ova.
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Like with most things these days
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
Another poster dropped:
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Looks pretty alright but Peach's face sets off all of the "girlboss" alerts:
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I still think people are overreacting about “girlboss Peach”… buuuut it’s really hard not to notice how even the poster focuses more on Peach than Mario.

It kinda makes me wonder if Illumination wanted to go full grrlpower but Nintendo had to reign them in, so they’re trying to squeeze as much of it into the marketing as possible. hit me with those rainbows
 
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Two Dollars said:
I still think people are overreacting about “girlboss Peach”… buuuut it’s really hard not to notice how even the poster focuses more on Peach than Mario.
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Mario's still higher up and slightly bigger on the poster than Peach and Bowser's looking down on him, which is important in conveying the evil on-looker's intentions. Peach stands out a bit simply because she's so pink, a lighter shade of red, on top of all the shades of purple and blue that's there. It's a serviceable poster.

If anything, I think the poster's slightly darker/Americanized in contrast (not thematically) to other Super Mario Bros posters and artwork out there.
 
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As far as the Peach thing is concerned, I do have ideas about a sequel as to what would happen if Rosalina & Luma and/or Daisy would have her being jealous over the fact that Mario would rather follow their leads instead of her, even while she’s captured by Bowser.
 
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