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Dredd shows you can make a great film and keep the helmet on. Unfortunately that movie bombed!

Nintendo has a pretty diverse array of tones that just doesnt suit Illumination normally. Other than the broader Mario universe and Pokmon the franchises really dont fit their style. Even a Zelda movie from them would seem weird.

The helmet is intrinsically tied to Dredd's character though. He's someone who has killed his ego to become an avatar of the law. I think Samus has enough personality at this point that going the helmet-heavy route would be a mistake. It would have been a mistake in all those Marvel movies, too.

do a Breath of the Wild adaptation where Link immediately storms the castle after leaving the plateau and make it a one hour special

they could do a pikmin movie and really minionize those fuckers

Any Metroid movie has to open with like, 10-15 minutes of silent storytelling IMO just because it is the most correct way to convey the tone of the franchise. Samus speaking and unmasking should be a 'whoa' moment. Not easy to storytell that way tho, admittedly

Mario and Rabbids is right there as long as we're doing cursed Illumination things

we could get Minions vs. Rabbids for ultimate boomer meme supremacy

Is NINTENDO going WOKE??? Samus is a GIRL in new Metroid trailer! NINTENDO ILLUMINATION UNIVERSE ALREADY RUINED!

I think a few writers just figured out how to do something sort of ok after seeing a bunch of bad attempts.

theyre still putting out dog shit, unsuccessful video game movies too. Remember there was both a bad RE movie and a bad tv show in the past two years? And a Monster Hunter movie!

actually maybe its just capcom that is the problem

Still pissed well never get another Detective Pikachu

There's no mystery/conspiracy as to why critics liked the Sonic movies and Detective Pikachu but not Mario. They're simply better written films, with actual character development and less obviously formulaic.

Mario is literally 6% behind Detective Pikachu and Sonic 2 on RT. The reviews were more or less in the same range.

You can tell I watch a lot of Dan Murrell.

I could not tell, I do not know who that is

Mario is literally 6% behind Detective Pikachu and Sonic 2 on RT. The reviews were more or less in the same range.

I feel like the biggest reason critics don't like this movie is that it's really made with fans of Mario in mind. There's a lot of stuff in this movie that isn't even really properly introduced, just assuming you are already acquainted with the world and the characters in it and their associated gags. I was thinking about the "blue shell" gag, for instance; if you've ever played Mario Kart, you get it, it's a funny little joke/reference. If you've never played Mario Kart, there is absolutely no context to that moment whatsoever, it's just a guy yelling "blue shell!" and attacking. It makes no sense. The movie is rife with that kind of stuff which has to make it a hard watch if you're not invested in the Mario universe. Similar movies don't really have this problem - Sonic 2 for instance has plenty of easter eggs and Sonic-related stuff in it but it tells a fairly traditional story that you don't really need to be previously invested in the universe to get. SMB really foregoes nearly all worldbuilding and normal storytelling in favor of just assuming that you already kind of get it.

I feel like the biggest reason critics don't like this movie is that it's really made with fans of Mario in mind. There's a lot of stuff in this movie that isn't even really properly introduced, just assuming you are already acquainted with the world and the characters in it and their associated gags. I was thinking about the "blue shell" gag, for instance; if you've ever played Mario Kart, you get it, it's a funny little joke/reference. If you've never played Mario Kart, there is absolutely no context to that moment whatsoever, it's just a guy yelling "blue shell!" and attacking. It makes no sense. The movie is rife with that kind of stuff which has to make it a hard watch if you're not invested in the Mario universe. Similar movies don't really have this problem - Sonic 2 for instance has plenty of easter eggs and Sonic-related stuff in it but it tells a fairly traditional story that you don't really need to be previously invested in the universe to get. SMB really foregoes nearly all worldbuilding and normal storytelling in favor of just assuming that you already kind of get it.

Yeah but its a multiplayer game, those 60 million copies will get played by several people each and thats just one game in the series. My granddad played Mario Kart Wii once. This movie will sell about 100 million tickets. Thats a lot compared to one video game but not a lot compared to the whole franchise.