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At the very least they could have used Welcome to the Jungle.
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doomrider7 posted:That makes sense. A few tracks like Battle Without Honor and No Rest Till Brooklyn actually work, but Take on Me and Holding Out for a Hero just feel WAY off and pretty overplayed respectively(would need to hear what they had in mind for the Obstacle Course for any more thoughts). Mr. Blue Sky was actually a really good choice since it's the closing song for this movie and was the opening one for GotG2 which also starred Chris Pratt. Mr blue sky also feels like a good morning music. But yeah, Take on me and holding out for a hero are the worst.
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I'm just glad they won the fight to not use Jump for the final fight cause holy poo poo that would've absolutely wrecked the entire tone of that scene
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I didn’t really mind Holding Out for a Hero but Take On Me was INCREDIBLY jarring and out of place. And hearing the original score makes it all the sadder. Thank god they didn’t change the climax music because the orchestrated star theme made that scene work.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:At the very least they could have used Welcome to the Jungle. Agree. Macaluso posted:I'm just glad they won the fight to not use Jump for the final fight cause holy poo poo that would've absolutely wrecked the entire tone of that scene Thank God for that one.
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MokBa posted:I didn’t really mind Holding Out for a Hero but Take On Me was INCREDIBLY jarring and out of place. So there's this old anti-sitcom called Get A Life that was on FOX for a minute in the early 90's. Despite the whole thing being surrealist and cynical, FOX execs insisted it have a laugh track. As was the custom of the time. The creators responded by sarcastically inserting the laugh track into the most inappropriate moments they could find. An alien beats up the pope? Laugh track. Little girl wheels severed body parts in her stroller? Laugh track. The main character drowns in his cereal while his parents ignore him? Laugh track. I choose to believe this is why Take On Me is where it is.
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Apr 30, 2023 19:54
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reminds me of an article I read about a sitcom where it was so inconsequential that they slowly made it a surreal nightmare and nobody noticed https://www.avclub.com/nobodys-watching-the-strange-genius-of-the-fourth-seas-1798220591
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https://twitter.com/catsuka/status/1652571106375598081?s=20 https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/interview/230428w So, yeah, apparently Mario and Luigi's mom and dad were canon all along and have had official designs for over two decades, it just never came up in the games before. Also, the Mario movie has officially made over a billion dollars so I feel like it's pretty safe to we'll be getting more films based on Nintendo properties in the future. Does anyone know how Illumination was chosen to be the one to make the Mario movie? I imagine a lot of other animation studios wanted to get a piece of that sweet Nintendo money pie. Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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Apr 30, 2023 20:16
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They hit the other studios in line with a freeze ray.
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mutantIke posted:reminds me of an article I read about a sitcom where it was so inconsequential that they slowly made it a surreal nightmare and nobody noticed https://www.avclub.com/nobodys-watching-the-strange-genius-of-the-fourth-seas-1798220591 Was not expecting to see Til' Death.
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I did a little digging and it turns out Miyamoto himself answered the "Why illumination?" question back in 2018: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/02/miyamoto_explains_why_illumination_was_chosen_for_the_upcoming_mario_movieBioEnchanted posted:They hit the other studios in line with a freeze ray. This was probably a factor as well
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Illumination does fit Nintendo's reputation not taking risks with their story in order to maintain brand image (see: the original pitch for the Lorax movie)
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I would not be surprised if Nintendo shopped the movie around at Dreamworks and Disney first but I imagine both of them wanted way more control over the movie than Nintendo would've wanted, while it seems like the most control Illumination had was the bad music choices
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Also, the Mario movie has officially made over a billion movies My god. It's spreading,
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Bleck posted:My god. It's spreading, I have gone back and edited my original post in shame.
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Apr 30, 2023 21:59
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The UK is currently in the first of three three-day weekends between now and the end of May and there's basically zero competition in kids films until Little Mermaid at the end of the month. Mario's going to keep bopping coins out of that ? block
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https://twitter.com/Wierd_o78033920/status/1652355981005783041 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzJvuswZ5ys
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Stick person fighting animations were my favorite part of the Flash animation era
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quote:Porco Rosso (pictured left) depicts an “ideal” workplace – Piccolo's factory, where the titular pilot (often seen as a stand-in for Miyazaki) – sees his new plane created by an army of industrious women and girls. Denison points out, though, that Ghibli's promotion of the film was cringe-worthy. Its cinema program boasted that Porco Rosso had been made by “an army of a beautiful woman.” quote:In Denison's research, she never found a Ghibli female director “for feature films, short films, music videos, or even advertisements.” That puts Ghibli well behind not just Kyoto Animation or Science SARU but also Disney Animation, Pixar, and DreamWorks Animation which are frequently framed as being less progressive than the home of San, Kiki, and Chihiro. It also contains info about one live action movie Studio Ghibli produced, that stars Steven Seagal's half Japanese daughter and is based on a book she wrote. and is directed by Hedaki Anno, creator of Evangelion.
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I put off seeing Mario for the past few weeks because I was hoping I'd manage to get a less packed theater with no kids. lol no dice there, pretty sure the kids behind me were at their (at least) 2nd show. Anyway, movie was surprisingly good, though maybe I had just set my expectations low after reading reviews. Echoing everyone else's thoughts about the music though. Normally I'm a sucker for a "Holding Out For A Hero" drop and like it even when others hate it but it just absolutely did not work for the scene in this movie. Although I will admit that the very beginning of Take On Me got a chuckle out of me at first because the 80s music combined with the appearance of the white-sportscoated Kong just somehow matched perfectly... then the song kept going and I was immediately like ohhhh this sucks. Anyway 8/10 will see the inevitable sequel.
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Party Boat posted:The UK is currently in the first of three three-day weekends between now and the end of May and there's basically zero competition in kids films until Little Mermaid at the end of the month. Mario's going to keep bopping coins out of that ? block https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVEu0ax0bw
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in the wake of all this Take On Me talk I heard what I presume is this sad acoustic version at the supermarket today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKM3mGt2pE so maybe you can all think about how at least the movie doesn't have this version in it and maybe you've got it pretty good actually hmmmmm?
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Sivart13 posted:in the wake of all this Take On Me talk I heard what I presume is this sad acoustic version at the supermarket today awwwwww, but I like it. You're right that it doesn't belong in a Mario movie though. Although, I tried playing that song over this footage of Mario gameplay: And it actually matched up weirdly well, so maybe a sad slow version of Take On Me SHOULD be in the Luigi's Mansion movie. Maybe Melody plays it on her piano before Luigi ghost-busts her.
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Macaluso posted:I would not be surprised if Nintendo shopped the movie around at Dreamworks and Disney first but I imagine both of them wanted way more control over the movie than Nintendo would've wanted, while it seems like the most control Illumination had was the bad music choices Yeah, and given what happened the last time they made a Mario movie I imagine Nintendo doesn't want to cede an inch more than they have to. On the other have, Illumination's visual style and movement has always been top-notch, and it really shows with the physical gags, action sequences and general kinetic feeling throughout the whole movie.
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Macaluso posted:https://twitter.com/Wierd_o78033920/status/1652355981005783041 Madness Combat feature film when
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SirSamVimes posted:Madness Combat feature film when My God those were amazing. 
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Saw the Mario flick w the hubby over the weeked. It was dogshit. Went home and washed out that bad taste by rewatching Chicken Run for the first time in prolly 20 years and goddamn what a good movie. Was like night and day, experiencing something capable of humor, warmth, jokes, visual storytelling, payoffs, fun voices, character arcs, literally anything that makes movies movies. Perfectly Bri'ish too.
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Pootybutt posted:Went home and washed out that bad taste by rewatching Chicken Run for the first time in prolly 20 years and goddamn what a good movie. Was like night and day, experiencing something capable of humor, warmth, jokes, visual storytelling, payoffs, fun voices, character arcs, literally anything that makes movies movies. Perfectly Bri'ish too. Still kind of in disbelief about that sequel. Pretty funny that they replaced Mel Gibson with Zachary Levi only for Levi to get wrapped up in some insane anti-vax controversy. No clue why they replaced the lead actress, though
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Weird rear end ageism according to her. She was told she was too old for the part .. and was replaced by an actress four years younger.
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Why the hell would that matter? It's an animated movie. She won't even be on screen.
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That was the reason for most of the cast changes wasn't it? Which is pretty ridiculous, I can't imagine any of them would sound that different, and it's set in the future anyway since Ginger and Rocky's kid is a character
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People's voices do age, but I can't imagine it'd age drastically enough to warrant a recast
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Maybe it was just cheaper but they wanted her to feel bad.
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Counterpoint: Have you heard the voice actors for The Simpsons these days?
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No. I haven't seen an episode of The Simpsons newer than maybe '11. I didn't think anyone had.
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doomrider7 posted:My God those were amazing. Series is still going, too. Even got a big video game adaptation.
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ccubed posted:Counterpoint: Have you heard the voice actors for The Simpsons these days? 
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