• sweatersocialist [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    imo mario isn't a children's franchise. it's a 'anybody who can buy it' franchise. it's just kid-friendly. and my criticism isn't that i expected an adult movie, it's that the movie had all those stars and references in it to draw in an older crowd, but they did nothing beyond that to keep the older crowd engaged. they did just the bare minimum. and i didn't expect anything pixar quality but i did expect at least despicable me quality. all i'm saying is the movie definitely could have been a lot better but nintendo obviously just wanted to make a cashgrab. and obviously that's not some new revelation to me, that nintendo would do something like that

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      imo mario isn’t a children’s franchise.

      Yes it is! Lol. Edit: I don't mean this as an insult. I enjoy plenty of children's media also like Avatar Last Air Bender, Disney, even the occasional marvel. But still..yeah...its children's media.

      • sweatersocialist [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        that's not children's media tho, you're conflating media that's kid friendly with media that's made for kids. the creators of avatar specifically said it's not for kids. it just happened to be on nickelodeon.

        kid media would be something like bluey. it's made for kids, but adults can also watch it with their kids if they can tolerate it.

        mario is something an adult can play just because they want to enjoy it for its merits

        • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          See I know people say that, but nah, they're fooling themselves. The only "difference" is that one of them is "good", and one of them is "bad".

          Mario is a "kids" movie cause its dumb and middling kids movie. Lego movie is a "family picture" because it's actually a really fucking good kids movie. The truth is that they're both kids movies.