At this point I’m going to Ladbrokes and betting against everything Kotaku promotes. They are like Jim Cramer of the gaming industry.

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    2 months ago

    the terrible movie ensures that a good one will never be made.

    Super Mario Bros got another movie.

    But generally, video games don’t usually work as movies. So it isn’t that big of a loss, lol

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      2 months ago

      Super Mario Bros got another movie.

      Not all of us have another 30 years to wait for everyone to forget about the first disaster.

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        2 months ago

        "Hey, what should our Goombas, a big head with feet and no body, look like in this movie? "

        “Obviously, they should have HUGE bodies and a tiny little head!”

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      They generally don’t work as movies because no one ever follows the story that’s right in front of them. They always add some stupid artistic bullshit preference of their own which causes a huge disconnect from the source material.

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        Writing for games is usually different than writing for movies.

        I believe this is why games tend to do well as TV series – more overlap there.

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        2 months ago

        The new Mario movie was pretty good. There were a few times that I thought “this doesn’t belong here, and they just wanted to shove a reference in”, but overall, I think they did it justice.

        Even Chris Pratt.