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Kotaku being Kotaku (lemmy.today)
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At this point I'm going to Ladbrokes and betting against everything Kotaku promotes. They are like Jim Cramer of the gaming industry.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

the terrible movie ensures that a good one will never be made.

Super Mario Bros got another movie.

But generally, video games don't usually work as movies. So it isn't that big of a loss, lol

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They generally don't work as movies because no one ever follows the story that's right in front of them. They always add some stupid artistic bullshit preference of their own which causes a huge disconnect from the source material.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Writing for games is usually different than writing for movies.

    I believe this is why games tend to do well as TV series -- more overlap there.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I don't buy that. It's possible but the producers always want to make it "theirs" and it's not. It'll never be theirs. The best they could do is just follow the source material as much as possible.

    No one cares about your "quirky" changes. And this is quite evident in all the video game tv series that fail. Because the source material was basically thrown away completely. Because they think we'll gobble up anything just because of the name.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The new Mario movie was pretty good. There were a few times that I thought "this doesn't belong here, and they just wanted to shove a reference in", but overall, I think they did it justice.

    Even Chris Pratt.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fair enough. I don't think it was as bad as everyone made it out to be, but I get it.

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