With the exception of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 2023 was a fantastic year for films and television series overall. However, adaptations of our beloved video game titles had a particularly successful year. One excellent example is The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which was released in theaters in April by Nintendo and Illumination Studios. It was difficult to predict whether the film would succeed because viewers were offended by Chris Pratt's casting. Would they be open to Super Mario being shown on a large screen?
As it happens, they most definitely would. After Disney's Lion King remake and Frozen II, the Super Mario Bros. Movie became the third-biggest animated film ever, grossing over $1.3 billion at the box office. In addition, it's the second-biggest domestic and international film of 2023 and the highest-grossing video game film of all time. That is a significant shift from prior years.
believe that the structure of what makes a good game differs greatly from the structure of what makes a good movie, which is part of the difficulty in translating games to the big screen." Creator of Super Mario and Legend of Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto, is a video gaming icon overall. He stated as much back in 2007. After years of poor adaptations, such included Super Mario Bros.
"As a viewer, you unwind and simply take in the story that the movie is telling you. It's a lot more passive medium. In contrast, video games allow you to actively participate in the narrative while following along with the story," he said. I believe that the overall flow of video games is quite straightforward in terms of what's
Since the original Mortal Kombat movie was at the time the most commercially successful video game movie, Anderson naturally won the Resident Evil project. Aside from such ridiculous flicks, we also had a run of dreadful Uwe Boll adaptations, Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider movies, and even kind of fun schlock like Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. While some of these films are enjoyable (others are clearly not), none of them can be said to have been enormously popular or to have stood the test of time. In fact, Detective Pikachu, a video game movie, didn't receive a "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes until 2019.
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