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If people really were discerning, stuff like Spiderman and the Super Mario Galaxy movie wouldn't have been big hits. There's demand for slop and demand for good
by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
If people really were discerning, stuff like Spiderman and the Super Mario Galaxy movie wouldn't have been big hits. There's demand for slop and demand for good blockbusters like The Odyssey and demand for indie horror.
- dragontamer 2mo agoVideo games remain underserved. Video gamers do want movies, even if it's just slop. In a few years probably not. Pokemon Pikachu and the Sonic movies were way better than Mario. And I think Zelda needs to be WAY better than Mario to get a real audience. But Hollywood is so bad with video games that "Mario with proper sound effects" is currently the bar. Like it's either Mario or Mortal Kombat for recent video game movies and somehow the Mario and Minecraft movies are objectively better.
- Grombobulous 2mo agoThere are “high art” blockbusters and then there are crowd pleasers. Super Mario Galaxy is not what I would call slop. Is it a good movie for typical movie-going adults? No, but it satisfies its target audience (kids) and has a 87% audience score on rotten tomatoes. The difference between that movie and the Moana remake is that the Moana remake doesn’t have an audience that it satisfies.