Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Linus’ Mario Movie Review”.
Do you want to talk about the Mario movie, uh yeah sure now you haven’t seen it? No right? No, have you read reviews uh, uh or looked at watched reviews? I don’t know how do we pull review these days? Sort of okay, it’s doing better than I thought it was going to do. What are your expectations? Are you? Are you gon na watch it because you like never go to the movies. I very rarely go to the movies when’s. The last time you went to a movie – I literally don’t know, was it when we went to see the second Kingsman. I think so yeah because I was like there’s the third one is like out, you know: did we go see that one? No, we watched that one at my place.
Oh yeah, very disappointing, because I remember it yeah. It was pretty bad yeah um. Are you gon na go? I don’t know. I am planning on going to the movies soon. I want to go see John Wick 4 with Brandon, okay, all right cool cool.
I like I want to see cinematic movies with Brandon, because then he gets a geek out about them afterwards and it’s like that’s that’s fun um, but I don’t know. I probably wait for it to come to some service, but I can definitely watch because I definitely subscribe to it. It’S surprisingly, fine, okay, my expectations based on the critical reception were pretty low.
Oh yeah, I assumed it was garbage and then apparently people seem to like it a decent amount, yeah right now on Rotten Tomatoes. Let me jump to my screen, not that one, oh boy, um the the Tomato Meter, so the the reviewers gave it a 58 but audience 96. yeah people like it.
Those are both completely wrong. It is. It is not a 96 piece of Storytelling um. Well: okay, no! It’S a visual Fiesta! That’S not how Rotten Tomatoes works because Rotten Tomatoes is yes or no, and if you vote Yes, it’s like it shows up: okay, yeah, but but in general, what we’ve? What what would typically be a 96 would have to have everything it would have to be great fun for the whole family. You know all the multiple layers of whatever you know.
Something like an up is, is oh yeah, masterful animated film? Definitely um, it’s not up. It’S right what is UPS ratings? Oh it’s probably close to 100 percent. I mean I kind of hope. So, 98 yeah, it’s not two percent yeah! It’S not two percent! Worse than up it’s, not it’s not close. The audience score for up is 90..
The Tomato Meter is 98.. People have bad days, yeah so anyway, um the Super Mario Brothers movie, though what it is is good, clean, fun. It’S Nintendo, I mean that’s, probably good.
It’S good clean fun. It’S um, you know everything that I was worried would be kind of garbage about it, uh like if they, if they over, did the the references and and they they they did. It’S, of course, there’s a lot of it’s from one reference to one reference to to another reference, but you know Nintendo has what what are we? What are we coming up on, like you know, 40 Years of, like modern era, video gaming yeah playing cards, whether whether it’s, whether it’s music or characters or environments or or game or mechanics or whatever else, it is sorry, plumbers, uh, um, Nintendo Nintendo has so much To draw on that, they can do that without it feeling stale and I actually I I enjoyed it. It’S not the kind of thing that I would watch again. I I don’t I don’t need to. I don’t need that um I I definitely you know I prefer Despicable Me if I’m gon na you know pick an illumination film that I that I like better okay, but it was fine good enough yeah.
It was totally good enough. The kids loved it do. You feel like the voice acting detracted from it. You know what controversial take here we go.
I thought Chris Pratt was fine. I thought Anya Taylor Joy was terrible. She took me out of the movie. Basically, every time Princess Peach opened her mouth and it didn’t take.
You out for Chris Pratt. No, it’s fine, interesting yeah. The thing that’s crazy to me is that the voice actor for Mario is like alive he’s in the movie.
Oh, what the heck, yeah yeah, it’s fine! It’S like actually like. I said everything that I thought was terrible and I’m not really spilling anything he’s revealed in like the first couple minutes. Uh everything that I thought was gon na be bad was fine.
I want to ask like how they explain that away and stuff, but it’s going to be two spoilers. No, no! It’S it’s just it’s fine! Okay and it’s fine, yeah um! The second one is going to be dog foreign. All the good references are spent exactly any character development that they can do for. Mario is God, there’s there’s plenty more to explore. They have set up a Cinematic Universe worth of things to explore. Yeah yeah, which means someone is on a Time, is on a time crunch, creating the next cookie cutter installment of this. That is meant to come out on X, schedule, come hell or high water and don’t forget about the the TV show tie-ins and all the the video game tie-ins that you’re gon na have to that you’re gon na have to play in order to know what’s happening When Peach gets captured by Bowser and goes there and she gets rescued and there’s a gon na be a little wink to the audience and Super Mario Brothers movie 4 and Toad’s Standalone Adventure movie when he has Toad’s Adventure 2 or whatever it’s going to be awful. I’M calling it now, it’s gon na get super self-referential to itself rather than to the rich video game.
History or I could be totally wrong and Nintendo could go an utterly different Direction with it spoilers. No there’s no spoilers, I’m just I’m just I’m just talking about it, spoilers for the movie that isn’t out yet yeah, exactly exactly guys, but yeah yeah Smash, Bros Multiverse is 100 gon na be a thing, and it’s going to be atrocious, because the other thing too, Is they went with all their most recognizable characters right out of the gate? So what it’s going to be like Icarus and uh Game and Watch like right? Do you think they could do the adventures of someone else I mean they could they could just wouldn’t perform? As well, I think if they wanted it to be good, they would probably go separate universes um. Do you think they could do stuff like like someone in float plane chat mentioned Luigi going Ghostbusters? Do you think they could do like uh like a murder, mystery style thing with, like the Luigi haunted house stuff, there’s so much room for them to do something? Creative and amazing? You know I’d I’d, love to see a Zelda movie. Oh I’d love to see it done really well, it has to be done really well totally different, like I’m still burnt off the Warcraft movie, like I still like, have a huge lack of trust because, like I almost want like like Castaway kind of Vibes where, where It really focuses on on link and his lonely wandering uh or something or something do something tonally different.
The problem is that this is now the most successful animated film of all time, in terms of like its first week, take yeah and you know how Bean Counters work, whether they’re Nintendo Bean counters number two or Disney, be encounters that that more of that yeah um Yeah yeah, it’s disappointing yeah I like breath of the Wild uh like Legend of Zelda spin-off movie, could actually be super sick, like a like a hardcore survival film. But it’s like link trying to ooh live action would be cool yeah. It could be good uh. You want it to be animated.
My thing is my thing: is, I don’t think it should be cute? They took the Warcraft movie yeah, which has like, like people would watch. This was actually a thing people uploaded just all of the cinematics for Warcraft 3, which don’t even go into each other properly and just uploaded all of them in one video file onto YouTube, still, a better movie than Twilight and people would just watch the whole thing. All the way through it had tons of views back in the day yeah, because the cinematics that blizzard made for so long even now when they make full-fledged ones because they not the in-game ones when they make full-fledged ones, are like just absolutely legendary cinematics and then They’Re, like Warcraft movie, live action like what what are you doing, and so I, oh man, so I I I I question that a little bit sure I actually think it would be like more legit I’d. I Hazard saying this. I think it would be more legit to do that with Legend of Zelda than it is with uh Warcraft or really any blizzard title to be completely honest, but I still just I Hazard that there’s all these like Disney, like oh we’re, gon na live action Lion King, that’s stupid. Don’T do that! Well, yeah! It’S not even live action.
That’S just an animated movie Dumb, just like in a realistic yeah style. Well, let’s take all the emotion out of it cool uh, so I yeah I’m speaking out of ignorance. I haven’t watched it because I don’t care yeah, yeah yeah, I just uh. I read the comments, I’m just I’m just like concerned.
That’S all about this link. Okay, you guys are memeing. Now, that’s not funny. It’S like super immersive about it.
There’S like Shia LaBeouf, gets arrested for like smashing pots at Like Home Depot or something. Oh, my God. I mean it’s not Ezra Miller, so I don’t know who that is. Oh, that’s the that’s. The actor that is just plays The Flash and is, as far as we can tell just a complete weirdo. Oh okay, yeah. I don’t know man speaking of method actors, though I I would love. Oh man. This is embarrassing. Uh Viggo Mortensen, I’d love him as like Ganondorf or something just like play. A villain for a change. That’D be cool, yeah, that’s Aragorn! I know I knew that he doesn’t know actors yeah, but I knew that one because I’m like a Lord of the Rings, nerd yeah .