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I’m failing to see where a lesson was learned. Nintendo can’t make a movie without a movie studio.

by dangus 3y ago

izzydata 3y ago
Can any gaming studio make a movie without a movie studio?
- candiddevmike 3y ago
  Blizzard could make a WoW movie better than any movie studio. Their cinematics are legendary, which makes you wonder why they farmed out the Warcraft movie.
  - TheAceOfHearts 3y ago
    Blizzard doesn't have the resources to make a full length movie at that quality level. My understanding is that some of their big cinematics sometimes take nearly a full year to produce. If they committed all of their artists to making a movie they wouldn't be able to produce any cutscenes for their games.
  - sleepybrett 3y ago
    Blizzards storytelling may 'shine' in the videogame space but take it out of that and it's the most one note cliche shit imaginable. Anyone with any intellectual honestly would agree.
  - sleepybrett 3y ago
    Cinematics are not movies. They are 1 or 2 scenes stitched together.
  - moralestapia 3y ago
    You're looking at them through the lens of nostalgia. I can assure if you put them on a cinema screen and removed the Blizzard logos you'd say "what is this cheap looking CGI trash". Also, there's a world of difference between a one minute cutscene and a full-feature length film.
micromacrofoot 3y ago
It's in the article > Once regarded as a notoriously hard company to work with, it has clearly learned its lessons. Increasingly, it’s partnering with others to boost revenue from its vast catalog of intellectual property, from Pokemon Go maker Niantic Inc., to Nintendo-themed areas at Universal Studios theme parks across the world. This isn't entirely true though, many are aware of the terrible animated Zelda show in the 90s, and the Super Mario Super Show and original Super Mario Bros. movie. I think this is probably a similar story to early Ghibli partnerships with western media — their early distributors didn't "get" movies like Princess Mononoke and tried to completely butcher the initial US release. This put Ghibli off of partnerships for a while, but they eventually re-approached and are doing wonderful dubbing work with Disney.
- dangus 3y ago
  Yes I read that part and I didn’t find that idea to be very compelling. Nintendo has partnered with a ton of companies in the past. I don't think that partnering with some more proves anything about difficult or ease of working with Nintendo.

I’m failing to see where a lesson was learned. Nintendo can’t make a movie without a movie studio.

by dangus 3y ago

I’m failing to see where a lesson was learned. Nintendo can’t make a movie without a movie studio.

izzydata 3y ago

Can any gaming studio make a movie without a movie studio?

candiddevmike 3y ago
Blizzard could make a WoW movie better than any movie studio. Their cinematics are legendary, which makes you wonder why they farmed out the Warcraft movie.
- TheAceOfHearts 3y ago
  Blizzard doesn't have the resources to make a full length movie at that quality level. My understanding is that some of their big cinematics sometimes take nearly a full year to produce. If they committed all of their artists to making a movie they wouldn't be able to produce any cutscenes for their games.
- sleepybrett 3y ago
  Blizzards storytelling may 'shine' in the videogame space but take it out of that and it's the most one note cliche shit imaginable. Anyone with any intellectual honestly would agree.
- sleepybrett 3y ago
  Cinematics are not movies. They are 1 or 2 scenes stitched together.
- moralestapia 3y ago
  You're looking at them through the lens of nostalgia. I can assure if you put them on a cinema screen and removed the Blizzard logos you'd say "what is this cheap looking CGI trash". Also, there's a world of difference between a one minute cutscene and a full-feature length film.

micromacrofoot 3y ago

It's in the article > Once regarded as a notoriously hard company to work with, it has clearly learned its lessons. Increasingly, it’s partnering with others to boost revenue from its vast catalog of intellectual property, from Pokemon Go maker Niantic Inc., to Nintendo-themed areas at Universal Studios theme parks across the world. This isn't entirely true though, many are aware of the terrible animated Zelda show in the 90s, and the Super Mario Super Show and original Super Mario Bros. movie. I think this is probably a similar story to early Ghibli partnerships with western media — their early distributors didn't "get" movies like Princess Mononoke and tried to completely butcher the initial US release. This put Ghibli off of partnerships for a while, but they eventually re-approached and are doing wonderful dubbing work with Disney.

dangus 3y ago
Yes I read that part and I didn’t find that idea to be very compelling. Nintendo has partnered with a ton of companies in the past. I don't think that partnering with some more proves anything about difficult or ease of working with Nintendo.