First of all, the film adaptation is an astonishing achievement Worldwide box office breaks $1 billionDuring its first month in theaters – Destruction films such as research and development Movie, Renfieldand sports drama Air There’s an intensity of video game nostalgia in Mushroom Kingdom that few can rival.
That puts this animated plumber movie in the same class as last year’s Top Gun and avatar Sequel, which showed Nintendo was ready for the big leagues — and made a live-action 1993 super mario bros The movie feels like a pleasant distant memory (John Leguizamo, you deserve better).
We’re not surprised to see how well this movie works — Mario is an all too familiar face, and countless generations of gamer parents and gamer kids have helped propel this family-friendly movie to Bowser-like proportions.in our super mario bros movie reviewwe called it “a very funny, nostalgic family-friendly film filled with visually arresting imagery, slapstick gags, tons of secrets, and a rich thematic core.” From Charlie Day to Jack Black playing Bowser, the inspired casting certainly helps.
Somewhere, a Wario-esque Nintendo exec happily fiddles with his rapacious mustache. But the Mario movie also had the honor of being the most viewed movie on Twitter this week.
that’s right. A handful of Twitter users uploaded the Super Mario Bros. movie to the social media platform, spending most of the weekend before anyone at the company seemed to notice.
As of this writing, the videos appear to have been taken down, but before nearly 10 million other users had a chance to see them (thanks, edge).
Since December 2022, Twitter Blue Subscriber Already being able to upload up to 60 minutes of video in full 1080p HD quality makes Twitter a surprisingly not-scary movie-watching place, we guess — though we’d really recommend seeing it in theaters if not Spend the night with one of the best TVs around.
Mushrooms for all!
The brief stint on Twitter is unlikely to affect Nintendo’s bottom line — after all, this is already a $1 billion movie with a few weeks to go in theaters and a long way to go on home streaming platforms .
More than anything, it’s a sign of disarray in Twitter’s cadres, with the moderation team especially hit by Elon Musk’s reorganization, and more of a free way to engage users, especially if users pay for their blue tick .
It’s also possible that many of those 10 million views were just cursory views, so we can imagine that the actual number of people sitting down to popcorn on Twitter.com is far less than that.Let’s hope Twitter is a little better organized by then All Those Mario Movie Sequels start coming out.
