The last movie I saw was...

[B E C K]

How much of that reaction do you think might just be bias against the D&D name?

Also, in the Mario movie, tell me there's not an a-ha song in it like I heard. Why do these movies do this shit? You have an entire catalog of bopping tracks to use and remix and you dig out fucking Bonnie Tyler. Fuck off. Eat shit. Argh, I'm so triggered.

[jonhammstein]

Preconceptions about D&D? Definitely. I mean, I fully expected it to suck. Also, I'd be interested to know what actual tabletop gamers think about it. Maybe they've got a bug up their collective ass over it? You know how some fandoms react when their "precious" is appropriated for mainstream use, and it's all, "We were here first!" and the like. Although it kind of feels like D&D has been "cool" for a minute or two already, so... I don't know.

Mario movie is loaded with "tried-and-true" pop songs. It's nauseating.

The weird thing is that's directed by the Teen Titans Go! guys... but it's just the most paint-by-numbers, inoffensive fluff imaginable. I really wonder if Nintendo put the brakes on anything that could have been considered too "out there". Purely speculation on my part, but the film plays it so straight and safe, it's baffling considering the dudes at the helm.

[Rama]

Mario movie was just kinda meh. Kid wanted to see it so it was that instead of D&D. It seemed like a lot was cut from the Mario movie. Like what was peaches back story? Oh well…why the hell was Luigi even there? Oh well. Just so much that could have been explored but wasn’t.


And I couldn’t make it all the way through Black Adam…just couldn’t

[jonhammstein]

Donkey Kong and everything Donkey Kong-related shouldn't have even been in the movie. You're right that Luigi was barely in it, they shouldn't have been separated at the beginning, and the story should have focused on... you guessed it: The Super Mario BROTHERS.

It made a killing this weekend too, sadly reinforcing the notion that it's actually worth a fuck. No justice.

[Rama]

I knew it was going to. That was the most full of theater had been since Covid. So I knew this move is going to make a ton of money.

[B E C K]

I don't think Mario stuff has a high bar. All it had to do was not be the 1993 movie. Just look pretty and shiny and have the most basic Dry Bones skeleton of a story possible.

[jonhammstein]

I rewatched Mario '93 tonight, because I've seen some people saying that the new one retroactively makes the old one a masterpiece by comparison, but it's still awful, just in different ways.

It's so inexplicably bizarre.

[B E C K]

I'll always remember the theater cutting off the credits when I went to go see that movie and it still bothers me 30 years later. I've always been very OCD or whatever about watching the movie credits in the theater. Not because I actually care about reading them that much. It just doesn't feel like I've completely watched the movie if I don't. I guess the exception would be movies I didn't like or hated. Like, surely, I didn't stay until the end of the credits for that Mummy IV or whatever movie with Jet Li. Holy fuck, what a miserable experience. Or Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brenden Fraser. Merla made me watch both of those. Because Brenden Fraser.

[jonhammstein]

There's a post-credits scene in that one, too! But would you have even known that then?

Not that it's anything noteworthy.

[B E C K]

When post-credits scenes were becoming more and more popular, it started irritating me because I liked having the theater be relatively empty when I'd watch the credits. I mean, now I don't go to the movies at all so problem solved, I guess.

[jonhammstein]

I was contemplating going to see Suzume, but apparently its screening was very limited in my area, so I missed out.

[Rama]

First movie I remember seeing an after credits scene in was Masters of the Universe 1987

Ferris buller had one but I didn’t learn that till later in life

[jonhammstein]

Guardians 3 was pretty good. I felt real human emotion stir within my cold, dead heart at several points throughout the movie. If nothing else, it serves as a great sendoff for the MCU.

Because I don't know that any of the stuff on the horizon is going to be worth a whole hell of a lot.