Escape to the Movies: Super Mario Bros. (Rough Cut)
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I'd just like to say that it's sad how long it took me to realize this was a huge April Fool's joke. Good gravy.
So... source code not intriguing? Ditto for Hop and Insidious? So much so that you put together a 6 1/2 minute video that it took me 35 seconds to realize was an April Fool's joke (including opening credits)?
I guess if I was really into the movie business, this would be funny. As is, it reminds me of some of SNL's lamer parodies.
I guess if I was really into the movie business, this would be funny. As is, it reminds me of some of SNL's lamer parodies.
The terrible thing is, that if Nintendo DID come out with a new movie like that, I can see Bob drooling all over it.
Ahaha, fantastic. Your straightfaced ambivalence is what sells it. Got a little greedy with some of those gags (Southern Mongolia? Wommy Tiseau?) but I guess you figured that if we hadn't caught on by then, we were never going to.
Lampooning Marvel's celebrity roles and cameos as well as inter-film continuity seems a bit strange considering that most of the films were as well received as we've seen; even though the goal seems to be illustrating how absolutely horrid a Hollywood treatment of Nintendo characters would be (and I'm sure there would have to be a few reboots before anyone "got it right," certainly), I'm unashamed to say that if the end product were anywhere near as well done and high quality as Marvel's offerings (setting aside 3D, which I'm not entirely sure is just a fad anymore and damn I hope it is), I'd probably give it a chance.
That said, Thor shows just how difficult a tightrope it is to balance realism and fantasy in film when the source material is almost wholly fictional; Marvel characters at least occupy a world (that's intended to seem) much like our own, whereas Nintendo characters occupy a whole other universe entirely. It would be very, very difficult to get away with Hyrule, or Popstar, to say nothing of Mushroom Kingdom.
The production costs of the Iron Man series are astronomical, and it's supposed to be happening in America's backyard; I can't imagine what the costs of creating entire virtual worlds would be, except to hazard a guess that the CG Beowulf film would probably be a fair comparison.
That said, Thor shows just how difficult a tightrope it is to balance realism and fantasy in film when the source material is almost wholly fictional; Marvel characters at least occupy a world (that's intended to seem) much like our own, whereas Nintendo characters occupy a whole other universe entirely. It would be very, very difficult to get away with Hyrule, or Popstar, to say nothing of Mushroom Kingdom.
The production costs of the Iron Man series are astronomical, and it's supposed to be happening in America's backyard; I can't imagine what the costs of creating entire virtual worlds would be, except to hazard a guess that the CG Beowulf film would probably be a fair comparison.
Let me see if I got this right:REMAKE MARIO BROS. !!! ,batman is to gritty, after credits clips are great, Avenger type cluster f**k movies rule, Expendables sucked, 3D is to expensive, Michael Bay sucks. Is Moviebob paid to rehash the same ideas again and again ?
That was absolutely wonderful. I actually wasn't sure if this was a prank or not until the 5D joke. Great ending too 