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Caesar Saladin posted:Its funny how nowadays, if that 90s mario movie was released everyone would completely melt down but it sounds like when it was released in the 90s, everyone shrugged and went "Welp i guess that's what we got." Of course at the time Mario itself was a pretty new franchise, none of us had grown up with it from birth and no one over 15 cared. It was easy to ignore the weird movie and keep following the games and cartoons and everything else that was still in its peak. A much bigger crime for our generation was when Mario 64 came out and Nintendo tried to memory hole Mario being a gruff-voiced adult and turned him into a barely-literate Mickey Mouse. And now everyone's freaking out about them doing the opposite.
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Canonically waluigi cannot exist without waluigi, hence Luigi ultimately is responsible for waluigis many crimes. In my 370 page thesis I will discuss how this relates to the ultimate causes of 9/11...
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I like that the movie explored Mario's superpowers more closely. I never thought of him as an Iraq war veteran, but it kinda makes sense considering he is a recent Italian immigrant and probably couldn't get citizenship any other way. His jumping ability being the product of army experiments with leg DNA was spot on because we never see him have super strength in his arms and it makes so much sense. It was all very respectful to the original cannon and the writers spent a lot of time thinking about it.
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Knormal posted:A much bigger crime for our generation was when Mario 64 came out and Nintendo tried to memory hole Mario being a gruff-voiced adult and turned him into a barely-literate Mickey Mouse. And now everyone's freaking out about them doing the opposite. i'm still genuinely pissed that everyone just started calling king koopa "bowser" one day
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That DICK! posted:love waluigi, dont care for daisy. what's her deal? who is she? she just shows up? no thanks Hi! I'm Daisy.
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:i'm still genuinely pissed that everyone just started calling king koopa "bowser" one day King Koopa is a lot better than Bowser. When did that start? 64?
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sigher posted:King Koopa is a lot better than Bowser. When did that start? 64? He was always Bowser, though often referred to in copy as "the Koopa King" or "King of the Koopa" for the original game. Super Mario Bros 3 started using his name more often. "King Koopa" was an invention of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show (I was the opposite from you all and found it a little annoying as a kid that thanks to the cartoon people didn't seem to know his name) and this carried over in the subsequent cartoons, though I recall a couple times in the "Super Mario Bros. 3" cartoon Mario referred to him as "Bowser Koopa." 
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Speaking of characters with multiple names, I like "Princess Toadstool" and I like "Peach" but somehow "Princess Peach" irritates me. Yes, I know that was always her name in the original Japanese but it's like how I'm not gonna call an NES a Famicom, nawmean? Also I miss when she was a redhead.
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Since "Peach" means "rear end" now, they're renaming her. But for some reason they are keeping the eggplant wizards from Kid Icarus
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Knormal posted:A much bigger crime for our generation was when Mario 64 came out and Nintendo tried to memory hole Mario being a gruff-voiced adult and turned him into a barely-literate Mickey Mouse. And now everyone's freaking out about them doing the opposite. Interesting, because personally the Mario voice in 64 didn't phase me at all when it came out. Seemed very natural, and it stuck.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:He was always Bowser, though often referred to in copy as "the Koopa King" or "King of the Koopa" for the original game. Super Mario Bros 3 started using his name more often. There are several ways to kill him, but you only get points if you use fireballs.
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EorayMel posted:There are several ways to kill him, but you only get points if you use fireballs. *You [might] get one extra life throughout the entire game, if you collect enough points.
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Reminder this is canon:
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The real question is what are the chances Mario rides in a go kart at some point in the movie
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EorayMel posted:Reminder this is canon: Looks more like pistol to me
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Caesar Saladin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9VM-y5o7TI "I used to play King Lear!" lmao
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i have the novelization of the 90's Mario Bros Movie I forgot where I put it
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only way I'd watch this is if Mario was played by Werner Herzog
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i'll wait for the snyder cut
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The painted SNES super scopes
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:"I used to play King Lear!" lmfao
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Lawrence Gilchrist posted:Lewiggy 
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chris pratt more like piss shat
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My turtle tip broke my NES into some weird beyond the 8-bit vocabulary. I don't think there is an ascii for the continuing 1-ups. I should not tell you about my excite bike maps. I went into a 256 dimension. Zeluth fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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I dunno what they've done, but Mario's face looks wrong. Not Sonic film wrong, but off somehow. I suppose they needed to redesign it for more talking and emoting.
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goatface posted:I dunno what they've done, but Mario's face looks wrong.
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Exactly, they got it right before.
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Bowser Junior is now voiced by Steve Harvey, Howie Mandel was unavailable.
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Knormal posted:Nah we all had a pretty "What the hell was that?" reaction. It was considered bad by everyone I knew and didn't really start getting it's cult hit status until decades later. Honestly everyone already knew a live-action Super Mario Bros movie was a bonkers idea in the first place. We all indeed thought "what the hell was that?" but nobody really had any particular expectations for such a movie so there wasn't anything to backlash against, and so we all just shrugged and moved on or ignored it entirely. I recall I was a surprisingly good sport about it and enjoyed the movie at the theater even if I couldn't receive it as a "real" Mario movie. I remember really liking Bob Hoskins in the role and that went a long way. It was also fun to see John Leguizamo's career evolve throughout the following years.
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Looking back I think younger me might've been able to embrace the movie more if they'd just had the Mario bros visiting some other world rather than try to pass it off as "it's the Mushroom Kingdom but through some kind of movie reimagination filter." I managed to roll with it, but if I didn't have to put in the effort of "okay these things that look nothing like goombas are the movie's equivalent of goombas etc." it would've been easier for me to just enjoy it on its own terms, and there'd already been plenty of games where Mario had ventured to other worlds so there was precedent. Maybe give us a glimpse of the Mushroom Kingdom at the end after rescuing the king and/or princess, and then it could've been more acceptable for it to look cheesy/cartoony with the toads and such in a cameo as we would've just been through a whole movie in gritty photorealistic live-action wherever-land. Sort of the best of both worlds where we get a taste of our "direct from the games" to quench that thirst and have us saying "yeah maybe it was for the best we didn't spend the entire movie there."
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It is me. I'm Mario.
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Biohazard posted:It is me. I'm Mario. Let us go.
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