New Mario movie from Illumination

[Festoon]

3 hours ago, barkbat said:

Given that this is Hollywood being asked to make a Mario movie, I really can't imagine better than what is in those trailers. Looks wonderful.

 

Well, France.

 

Looks great but the script and cookie cutter "well THAT happened" humour is flippin awful in the trailers.

[robotattack]

I like this a lot.

 

[Paulando]

That poster is glorious.

[makkuwata]

I don’t hold strong opinions on posters either way, other than idly thinking it’d be nice to frame a Struzan print one day, but that Mario poster is particularly unremarkable.

[robotattack]

[MidWalian]

Mario is on the baddie side of the poster and this makes perfect sense - the turtle killing, money grabbing shit!

[Stoppy2000]

I can't believe there isn't a game for this movie. Are we going to get a suprise one announced?!

[Capwn]

GRRRR!!! Why is princess at the front?!? 

[Paulando]

Yeah, she should be in the kitchen where she belongs.

[Fletch]

Even Mario is going woke, absolute disgrace I don’t pay my road tax for this nonsense. 

[El Pibe]

No doubt Luigi will be transitioning, there'll be no entry without a covid jab, and Mario Kart will end up like bloody Oxford.

[Nick R]

Before you know it, they'll be renaming this guy to "Wokey".

 

[Stig]

16 hours ago, Fletch said:

Even Mario is going woke, absolute disgrace I don’t pay my rainbow road tax for this nonsense. 

 

Ftfy

[SeanR]

Mario Kart - the series!

 

 

[jonamok]

Kudos to SNL. You gotta try very hard to be that unfunny.

[JPickford]

It's almost perfectly unfunny.  An achievment in itself.

[Festoon]

48 seasons, no jokes.

[Gabe]

Surprisingly high production values on that, for so little gain. 

 

SNL used to be actually funny in the 70s, right?

[Alex W.]

They did Elon Musk as Wario a while back, maybe someone’s working on the Super Mario Bros Guest Host Comedy Universe.

[Festoon]

21 minutes ago, Gabe said:

Surprisingly high production values on that, for so little gain. 

 

SNL used to be actually funny in the 70s, right?

 

Not really, no.

[JPL]

49 minutes ago, Festoon said:

 

Not really, no.

Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy we’re good on it, but that was probably the 80s.

[Nick R]

I liked Haunted Elevator/David S Pumpkins.

[Alex W.]

Weekend Update is consistently good.

 

Except for the bits where they have someone come on as a character.

[Capwn]

12 hours ago, jonamok said:

Kudos to SNL. You gotta try very hard to be that unfunny.

 

12 hours ago, JPickford said:

It's almost perfectly unfunny.  An achievment in itself.

 

You don't get it? Let me explain why it is funny;

 

Super Mario Brothers as a video game series is very bright, abstract and colorful, so much so that some would say it is even primarily aimed at children. Right now, in social circles, the video game series TheLastOfUs is very popular.

 

Unlike SMB, in contrast TLOU is a very adult narrative, dark and realistic/gritty action game.

 

What SNL has done, is to imagine ANOTHER show is coming out at the same time that shares many of the same traits of TLOU. What is funny then, is that they have presented a concept of a SMB show that throws away it's bright, abstract and colorful tones and shockingly replaces them with the same dark tones of TLOU.

 

The inclusion of Pedro Pascal (the same actor from TLOU) only goes to highlight this, they even make out that this new SMB show is also by HBOmax to hammer this home.

 

 

[makkuwata]

I think it’s quite fun.

 

But I do think Studio 60 was unfairly criticised in its day for being unfunny. They pretty much nailed it.

[Festoon]

3 hours ago, JPL said:

Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy we’re good on it, but that was probably the 80s.

 

They clearly had charisma, but it still wasn't funny.

[Festoon]

1 hour ago, makkuwata said:

I think it’s quite fun.

 

But I do think Studio 60 was unfairly criticised in its day for being unfunny. They pretty much nailed it.

 

They nailed the stilted humour, but 30 Rock did it better when they showed any sequence from TGS.

[Bacon Horsemeat]

Amazing

 

 

 

Website and phone number checks out too

 

 

[layten]

New poster art.

[Smoothy]

11 hours ago, Bacon Horsemeat said:

Amazing

 

 

 

Website and phone number checks out too

 

 

 

I love how she's clearly reading her lines off an autocue 😆