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Soundwave on 30 April 2023
Kakadu18 said:
Soundwave said:

Jurassic Park/World is also one of the 3 or 4 biggest movie IPs in the business with a 30 year old legacy. 

This is Nintendo's first movie. 

As an animated film it's going to outgross every animated film probably with the exception of like 3 or 4 Disney animated films (Disney's made like 70+ animated features). 

Like lets even look at say Pixar, this Mario movie is going to outgross every film Pixar has made in almost 30 years with maybe the exception of The Incredibles 2 and it still has a shot at Incredibles 2 (so more than any Toy Story movie). 

Dude, you said Mario will join Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun Maverick and Avatar 2 as the only films to have grossed over 1 billion post Covid. Jurassic World: Dominion also grossed over 1 billion. Idgaf what IP it is from.

I misunderstood your post, JW Dominion did barely scrape past 1 billion on the back of bringing back the original film's cast. Mario is going to zip past it with ease at this point though. 

Will be interesting to see what the next Jurassic film does, at some point I think it becomes difficult to keep justifying scenarios where dinosaurs break out/break free somehow to terrorize humans for the 7th/8th/9th time etc. 



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FarleyMcFirefly on 30 April 2023

Well deserved $1 Billion. My wife and I had a blast taking our eldest daughter to see this as her first movie!



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CaptainExplosion on 30 April 2023

Now they HAVE to do a Donkey Kong Country movie with the movie's version of the Kongs!! ^^



psychicscubadiver on 30 April 2023
CaptainExplosion said:

Now they HAVE to do a Donkey Kong Country movie with the movie's version of the Kongs!! ^^

I'm all on board for a DKC movie.
I just hope they replace DK's voice actor. Seth Rogen's voice acting was the worst part of that movie.



super_etecoon on 30 April 2023
psychicscubadiver said:
CaptainExplosion said:

Now they HAVE to do a Donkey Kong Country movie with the movie's version of the Kongs!! ^^

I'm all on board for a DKC movie.
I just hope they replace DK's voice actor. Seth Rogen's voice acting was the worst part of that movie.

Success will have the execs trying to chase that same success. I don’t think they’ll be changing any of the principle voice actors unless there are contract disagreements. But, yeah, he just sounds like Seth Rogan. Maybe he’ll work on it a bit. 



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CaptainExplosion on 30 April 2023
super_etecoon said:
psychicscubadiver said:

I'm all on board for a DKC movie.
I just hope they replace DK's voice actor. Seth Rogen's voice acting was the worst part of that movie.

Success will have the execs trying to chase that same success. I don’t think they’ll be changing any of the principle voice actors unless there are contract disagreements. But, yeah, he just sounds like Seth Rogan. Maybe he’ll work on it a bit. 

It was a good fit for his character. I didn't really like Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong. I was hoping for Gilbert Gottfried but he passed away before that could happen. -_-



Pajderman on 30 April 2023

Just watched the movie.
I think it was just ok. It had humor and great animation.

It overdid the slapstick comedy and the story often felt forced into different scenarios in order to match settings in the Mario games.

The best parts in my opinion was the brotherly love between the two Mario brothers. The backstory flashbacks was nice.

I think it is a fine movie for children, and that was probably the main audience.
Hope they can take on a more serious project with Metroid or Zelda. With the cashflow from this movie they at least have the monetary means to expand.



CaptainExplosion on 30 April 2023

Another actor I would've preferred for Cranky Kong is Christopher Lloyd. :)



super_etecoon on 30 April 2023
CaptainExplosion said:

Another actor I would've preferred for Cranky Kong is Christopher Lloyd. :)

Christopher Lloyd, while he is a great actor and likely would have been perfect, is also in his mid 80s. I’m not sure they would want to cast someone so up in years for a franchise that they are just starting. 

Speaking of all these voice actors, do we think that any of them will be reprising their roles in future games? 



CaptainExplosion on 30 April 2023
super_etecoon said:
CaptainExplosion said:

Another actor I would've preferred for Cranky Kong is Christopher Lloyd. :)

Christopher Lloyd, while he is a great actor and likely would have been perfect, is also in his mid 80s. I’m not sure they would want to cast someone so up in years for a franchise that they are just starting. 

Speaking of all these voice actors, do we think that any of them will be reprising their roles in future games? 

In future games, probably not. In new movies, sure.