Such a weird flick. I don't know how you could make something so far removed from the source material. Its like someone badly described the game, then 20 people played telephone and we ended up with that
What source material? Games in the 80s and 90s were fricking threadbare in terms of story. Only thing consistent with Mario at the time was the Mushroom Kingdom, Peachtree, Bowser, Mario and Luigi. Everything else was a blank. Zoomers have only grown up with games with a semblance of setting and plot now so they can't fathom adapting a game at a time when games had almost no plot to begin with aside from " kill the final boss"
>like someone badly described the game
The game back when this movie was made?
"Italian plumbers go on a quest to save a princess kidnapped by a giant monster"
Super Mario World came out 3 years before the movie. That was what was in a lot of peoples minds as to how Mario stuff should look. The movie could change every characters name and it would be almost entirely unrecognizable as Mario related
>Super Mario World came out 3 years before the movie.
The first game was the only one that was a real adventure.
Super Mario 2 was just a recurring dream he had as a result of his adventure.
Super Mario 3 is a play he put on with his friends to relive the adventure which is why it was so much more colorful, theatrical, and exaggerated.
>Now look at this screenshot and tell me if this looks like its in any way related to Mario
Who gives a shit? Mario has no story. It's a bunch of random shit thrown on screen and it's fun to jump around in it.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>MUH STORY
I'll repeat it to you moron: ICONOGRAPHY
I want a Mario movie that looks like the illustrations from the manuals. and I got exactly that lol
There was also 3 western cartoons they could have used as inspiration too.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Yet nobody ever talks about the 3 cartoons, they remember that weird Dennis Hopper movie from the 90s.
>What source material?
"Accurate to source" in the context of this type of game means getting the iconogrphy and the idea of it right. Making Bowser a human guy in a suit that turns into a T-Rex for a few seconds is missing the point to an extreme degree.
>like someone badly described the game
The game back when this movie was made?
"Italian plumbers go on a quest to save a princess kidnapped by a giant monster"
Are you homosexuals seriously arguing that this movie is faithful to the source material? You can like the movie all you want but it's objectively not faithful to Mario, even the games that were out at the time
>like someone badly described the game
The game back when this movie was made?
"Italian plumbers go on a quest to save a princess kidnapped by a giant monster"
>I don't know how you could make something so far removed from the source material.
Have you not played the first three super mario games on NES/SNES?
They are incredibly far removed from each other.
Video games where still very young at the time and the cultural impact they had was still mostly with kids. The people who made the recent Mario movie grew up with the games so they cared about source material.
The 90's Mario movie is like if your uncle who didn't even know how to turn on a console was suddenly tasked with making a movie about Mario.
It did its own interpretation of the source material. >Dinosaur Land from SMW - All the reptilian-themed elements >Corridors from SMB3 >Mushroom Kingdom - The entirety of the other world covered in fungus >Big Bertha - Big woman in red >Mario Bros. jumping so high - jet boots >All the other secondary elements being referenced via signs, characters or even part of the set
I have no nostalgia for it, as I watched it properly in 2013 as an adult and it was a surprisingly fun movie with references that didn't seem too out of place given the setting. And I love the parallels with our world and the other world being composed of humans who evolved from dinosaurs/reptiles. It's a really cool setting and having the Bob-Omb as a 1:1 replica of its game counterpart was awesome considering all the other liberties taken. I legit wanted a sequel in that same world, like if the bros. got captured and were cloned, we could have gotten Waluigi a few years earlier.
What's really funny is we've had 40 years of Mario games to develop the lore and characters and setting and yet the recent Super Mario Bros. movie is one of the most simple and boring films I've ever seen. It's almost like Mario games don't make for good films or something, but at least the 1993 movie tried to do something unique.
It's amazing how this series has had 3 different movies and all are borderline unwatchable garbage. The Illumination movie is at least light enough entertainment you can stomache the mercifully short runtime but the other are something else.
>it's not le accurate to le games!!!
How the frick do you make a live action Mario movie that doesn't take liberties, especially in the early 90s? It can only be possible as an animated movie. SMB 1993 is perfectly fine for what it is.
plumberpunk
Dinopunk
terrible movie
chris pratt movie
moron leguizamo lost
>terrible movie
filtered midwit
Filtered. 1993 Mario was kino
You're not fooling us.
Same production designer as Blade Runner.
i think this move literally planted the seed of TDS in liberals minds
Cyberpunk kino and one of my favorite pleb filter.
Such a weird flick. I don't know how you could make something so far removed from the source material. Its like someone badly described the game, then 20 people played telephone and we ended up with that
In the 90s, Hollywood didn't care about adapting things accurately, they just cared if it looked cool or not. Good times.
it makes perfect sense
Even as a kid, I wasn't mad. It may not be a perfect translation, but it was a majorly fun interpretation.
What source material? Games in the 80s and 90s were fricking threadbare in terms of story. Only thing consistent with Mario at the time was the Mushroom Kingdom, Peachtree, Bowser, Mario and Luigi. Everything else was a blank. Zoomers have only grown up with games with a semblance of setting and plot now so they can't fathom adapting a game at a time when games had almost no plot to begin with aside from " kill the final boss"
Super Mario World came out 3 years before the movie. That was what was in a lot of peoples minds as to how Mario stuff should look. The movie could change every characters name and it would be almost entirely unrecognizable as Mario related
>Super Mario World came out 3 years before the movie.
The first game was the only one that was a real adventure.
Super Mario 2 was just a recurring dream he had as a result of his adventure.
Super Mario 3 is a play he put on with his friends to relive the adventure which is why it was so much more colorful, theatrical, and exaggerated.
Now look at this screenshot and tell me if this looks like its in any way related to Mario
A shitty Power Rangers show maybe, but not Mario
Given the play was so far off from the original adventure, I wouldn't doubt that the movie would be completely different than the play too.
>Now look at this screenshot and tell me if this looks like its in any way related to Mario
Who gives a shit? Mario has no story. It's a bunch of random shit thrown on screen and it's fun to jump around in it.
>MUH STORY
I'll repeat it to you moron: ICONOGRAPHY
I want a Mario movie that looks like the illustrations from the manuals. and I got exactly that lol
There was also 3 western cartoons they could have used as inspiration too.
Yet nobody ever talks about the 3 cartoons, they remember that weird Dennis Hopper movie from the 90s.
>nobody ever talks about the 3 cartoons
tourist
>What source material?
"Accurate to source" in the context of this type of game means getting the iconogrphy and the idea of it right. Making Bowser a human guy in a suit that turns into a T-Rex for a few seconds is missing the point to an extreme degree.
Are you homosexuals seriously arguing that this movie is faithful to the source material? You can like the movie all you want but it's objectively not faithful to Mario, even the games that were out at the time
Are you seriously trying to argue that its not a movie about plumbers saving a princess from a lizard monster and his various henchmen?
>like someone badly described the game
The game back when this movie was made?
"Italian plumbers go on a quest to save a princess kidnapped by a giant monster"
>I don't know how you could make something so far removed from the source material.
Have you not played the first three super mario games on NES/SNES?
They are incredibly far removed from each other.
Video games where still very young at the time and the cultural impact they had was still mostly with kids. The people who made the recent Mario movie grew up with the games so they cared about source material.
The 90's Mario movie is like if your uncle who didn't even know how to turn on a console was suddenly tasked with making a movie about Mario.
They had videogames in the 70s anon. nintendo was like 3rd generation
Did they ever adapt Line vs Dot?
It did its own interpretation of the source material.
>Dinosaur Land from SMW - All the reptilian-themed elements
>Corridors from SMB3
>Mushroom Kingdom - The entirety of the other world covered in fungus
>Big Bertha - Big woman in red
>Mario Bros. jumping so high - jet boots
>All the other secondary elements being referenced via signs, characters or even part of the set
I have no nostalgia for it, as I watched it properly in 2013 as an adult and it was a surprisingly fun movie with references that didn't seem too out of place given the setting. And I love the parallels with our world and the other world being composed of humans who evolved from dinosaurs/reptiles. It's a really cool setting and having the Bob-Omb as a 1:1 replica of its game counterpart was awesome considering all the other liberties taken. I legit wanted a sequel in that same world, like if the bros. got captured and were cloned, we could have gotten Waluigi a few years earlier.
We are all Waluigi, anon.
I imagine it started off as an unrelated script and then the studio bought the Mario license and decided to loosely retool it into a Mario movie.
What's really funny is we've had 40 years of Mario games to develop the lore and characters and setting and yet the recent Super Mario Bros. movie is one of the most simple and boring films I've ever seen. It's almost like Mario games don't make for good films or something, but at least the 1993 movie tried to do something unique.
Shoving a billion things into a movie doesn't make it good. The Mario movie we got already has way too much stuff on it, it should have been simpler.
Pipe Runner
I liked it.
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It's amazing how this series has had 3 different movies and all are borderline unwatchable garbage. The Illumination movie is at least light enough entertainment you can stomache the mercifully short runtime but the other are something else.
>it's not le accurate to le games!!!
How the frick do you make a live action Mario movie that doesn't take liberties, especially in the early 90s? It can only be possible as an animated movie. SMB 1993 is perfectly fine for what it is.
>fantasy movies never existed back then
Pure soul.
This movie can never be a good Mario movie, but it could have been a very fun action-comedy flick with some editing.
Mario 1993 is STILL the best Mario movie of all time and always will be, it's pure SOVL.
It’s kino