Because it very clearly and obviously was? Mario - the property and the character and the video games - is for small children. That has always been Mario’s target audience, since the NES/Famicom (a toy for children). Just because you grew up doesn’t mean the little guy who jumps on turtles did. The movie runs on a kid-…

Agreed. What I love about the Super Mario Movie is that it doesn’t overthink the adaptation. It’s a fun romp that embraces the oddities of the source material without trying to overplot a movie based on a platform videogame. I can only imagine all the versions of this script that strained to justify every aspect of…

There’s a three hour docudrama about Oppenheimer building the A-bomb and fucking that’s about to hit $300 million domestic. It MAY actually be possible for both escapist fare and high art to co-exist and succeed without the former signaling “THE DEATH OF CREATIVITY”, as a talking point beaten to death for decades.

Okay but I don’t think it was mindless garbage? Was it as complex as, I dunno, Turning Red or the Spiderverse films? Of course not, but those movies are for older audiences.

If you think The Super Mario Bros Movie is mindless garbage, you have no idea of the depths kids movies and shows can sink to.

I don’t say this lightly, but this is a dreadful, dehumanizing take.

I will never understand what people’s problem is with a movie pitched firmly at five year olds doing well at the box office. Having sat through a great many movies meant for that age range, the Mario movie was basically Citizen Kane for kindergarteners.

Supporting Trump, and claiming to be a patriot, are not compatible. Period.

Ted.  Ted, Ted, Ted.  The party who is afraid of voters would be the one actively attempting to stifle the rights of voters in every state in which they have the power to do so.  You know, the party that tried to send slates of fake electors to DC to delay or reject the results of a certified-50-times-over election? …

“Again, since we lost at the ballot box and the courts the first time.”

Sure, but my point isn’t that creators should be beholden to audiences (which I feel like is closer to what Hank_Dolworth was saying when they suggested Selim should’ve reversed Maria Hill’s death) or even that they should listen to audiences. It was that it’s possible to have a dialogue with an audience about a…

Can you be an evil storm chaser in this, where you’re in it for the money, not the science?

I was very concerned when I saw the crafting stuff ahead of release, and thought that it meant it wouldn’t be a game for me. But I can assure you it’s not a valid concern. The game is so damned well made, and when the fusing isn’t optional, it’s far more of a puzzle-solving style than the amazing crafting shown off in…

I would question how the state is served by this prosecution. If someone commits murder, there is a state interest in locking that person up to protect the rest of the citizenry.

I wouldn’t take it as a real criticism of Nintendo, it’s just moreso a statement about how wild the crafting system allows you to make the game and how understated that reality was.  Like even if you’re not using it to one shot bosses you can do some wack ass stuff with it.

Right but what you can do is so bizarrely out of this world that even his enthusiastic representation of the limitless nature of the possibilities undersells it.  

First one was the only good one.

Voller’s plane finds the tear in time he believed the Dial was directing him to; his aim is to return to Germany before World War II, kill Hitler, and assume command of the Nazi army. However, Indy mentions that Archimedes didn’t account for continental drift and that Voller’s calculations are off. They aren’t going…

I’m sure Nintendo is loving this. Sony and Microsoft fight while they just drop another Zelda and laugh from their mountain of infinite cash.

As the article explains, there’s some pretty obvious queer coding for these two characters specifically. The “statue of one riding the other’s back” is weird, but not too out there for a Zelda game. But “bending on one knee to give his ‘friend’ a ring” is basically unmissable.