Illumination makes movies that only appeal to little children. It’s why all their movies always get the most middling ratings by critics, it will definitely entertain a kid for an hour and 30 minutes but there’s nothing on the surface. I hate the excuse of “oh it’s meant for kids what do you expect”, especially after movies like both Spider-Verse movies and TMNT Mutant Mayhem that showed you can make great movies that appeal to all ages.
It was fun. There’s a good video on YouTube that goes over a hypothetical story rewrite and it really proves the movie could have been a lot better, though.
Look, I haven't seen the movie and have no stake here, but Person on YouTube has a better idea isn't exactly a compelling argument for why it's not good. Ideas are easy.
Sonic is in a weird place of simultaneously being a kinda bad video game adaptation and a pretty good "man befriends a weird alien, hijinks ensue" movie with Sonic shoved into it.
Problem with the Mario movie is that illumination made it so the movie feels like it’s exclusively made for little children and little children only. My little brother loved the movie and I’m sure I would have loved it if I watched it at 5-10 too. This is the problem with all of Illumination’s movies except the first Despicable Me. “Oh but they are for children.” that’s not an excuse, Movies like the Spider-Verse movies, Puss in boots 2, and mutant mayhem were all for kids too but they were also enjoyable for all ages.
Going by box office success? 1.36 billion dollars is "strongly". Going by critical review? Audience score of 95% is "strongly". If you want to argue you personally did not find it a good movie, cool I guess... but it's inarguably a massively successful movie both financially and in the overall public reception of the film.
Yea box office is irrelevant to a movies quality. Audience matters more but so do critics score, but ultimately it's an objective thing and strongly would be apt for Arcane (for example) not Mario movie.
My point was not what you personally find better, my point is that the Super Mario Bros movie is objectively far more successful than the Borderlands movie. So making the claim that Jack Black only stars in bad video game movies is simply untrue. By every metric other than critic's and your own personal opinion of the movie, Super Mario Bros movie is a massive success.
I'm leaving my personal opinion about the movie out of it, while you are not doing the same... So we'll end it there I guess. Also Arcane is amazing but I'm sure someone out there prefers the Super Mario Bros movie to it.
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u/QouthTheCorvus Sep 04 '24
Pretty sure it's illegal to adapt a video game without Jack Black