/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6016260
As a video game movie, of course not
As an american cyberpunk fantasy film, definitely yes

yes

dinopunk kino

It was painful to watch back then, and it's painful to watch now. Everything looks bad, nothing makes sense, the plot is poorly paced for what little plot exists, and the almost textbook sequel hook ending is the bloody diarrhea smear on top of the pile of shit that is the SMB movie. It was so bad the two main actors were three sheets to the wind for the majority of it, and you can tell by looking at their eyes during the movie.

>>6016260
>kino
fuck off >>>/tv/

>>6016276
>SMB3 castle blocks on the back
It's little details like these

>>6016260
Hated it as a kid because it wasn't faithful. Haven't watched it since.

I like it

I liked it as a kid, and I love it as an adult.
Dennis Hopper as King Koopa is one of the best gifts hollywood ever did to us.

A pipe dream of mine has always been to have a game based on the movie

>>6016347
Could work if done right. It ironically couldn't be a 2D sidescrolling platformer, though. It would have resemble like... Jak & Daxter.

>>6016260
It really didn't have much to do with the games at all. They borrowed some character names and threw in some dinosaurs.

It was pretty shit. They removed the series from the lighthearted 8 and 16 bit platforming game and tried to tie it into a dark "kewl" urban setting. This gave it neither the appeal of the video game, nor the appeal of being its own thing.

>>6016342
>pipe dream

>>6016342
Why did they have our music and military uniforms?

The Mario movie was dogshit, but this is a genuine work of art.

>>6016467
both are bad movies in normie-terms, but kino in patrician terms.

>>6016467
The game also has a very interesting backstory and development. The console ports actually play well.

>>6016467
SF and MK will always be unabashedly based 90s game-movies.

>>6016260
How about this? This worth watching?

>>6016476
They play well BUT it's still just Super Street Fighter 2. I'd rather play the actual Super SF2 rather than the version with ugly graphics.

>>6016881
Pixels isn't even a good bad movie to watch with friends

It was good for a kid's movie. But I didn't give a shit about Mario as a kid so I could just enjoy it for what it was.

>>6016881
It's cute and short. Won't offend you, and won't blow you away. It exists.

>>6017027

>>6016881
>Adam Sandler
No.

>>6016260
It's one of the top reasons why nobody ever considers "vidya movies" anything else than steaming pile of shit, even if they turn out to be good.

>>6016342
I had the Luigi figure when I was a kid. Fucking dropped it in some freshly poured asphalt and cried like the 4 year old bitch I was. Funny how my 3 year old has no such attachment to any of her toys.

>>6017009
>it was good for a kids movie
I didn't know anyone who thought that back when it came out

>>6018105
I enjoyed it as a kid, it had a more edgy take on the Mario universe, some of the references are very obscure or subtle I didn't even get as a kid though.
Also, it was dino-themed so that was an extra if you were a kid in the early 90s.
My only real disappointment with the movie is that actual dino-form King Koopa appeared on screen for like a second. But now as an adult I know that would have resulted in bad early CGI display instead of awesomeness, I'd rather have more Dennis Hopper on screen, but back then I didn't know who he was, and I wanted dinosaur Koopa.

>>6017502
Because your 3 year old has youtube.

>>6016296
holy shit

>>6017502
>her
You know the rules.

>>6020000
Fuck, I misread that as "my 3 year-old self". Someone please kill me.

>>6016260
>yes

I saw this as a kid at the theater opening weekend in 1993 and I was so confused. Like realizing about halfway through that Dennis Hopper was Bowser and wondering when Mario and Luigi were ever going to wear their red and green overalls and why Luigi is clearly not Mario's biological brother and 20 years younger than him.

>>6020624
I think I know the truth...

>>6016260

No. It's underrated though. It's kinda dumb and it doesn't do a great job of selling confused kids on the idea of reimagining everything. But it's also fun and inventive and sometimes intriguing. At least some of the people who worked on it clearly cared about it and tried hard, and the cast is pretty strong. It's successful in some ways and a failure in others. It's not great, but it's not just forgettable trash either.

I don't really like the grimy, depressing style they gave to the dino-people setting. It's not just incompatible with the bright, cartoon style of Mario - it's also ugly in its own right. But I think the imagination they put into it deserves some respect. The movie has spirit, and it works as a curiosity if nothing else. It could have been a lot worse. I don't think it should have been made to begin with, but it's good that they at least did something weird and surprising.

>>6016881

Just watch the RedLetterMedia video on it and be done with it. You don't need the actual movie.

>>6016347
>pipe dream

I always enjoyed the gritty look of the alternate dimension. Whoever thought that Mario's movie should have a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting was very based. Perhaps not sane, but very based.