I kind of hate how well the recent mario movie did. I know people had lower expectations after the movie from the early 90s that didn't look anything like the games but that's kind of all the new one really is. It's almost an opposite extreme. The plot is by numbers and it feels like they knew that's all it had to be. Just make it look like the games and have an endless parade of references. They even play Mario Kart in pure video game fashion. It certainly conveys the difference between film and games at art forms. But Is that really all fans of the games want? Just to clap at beloved imagery? I know younger audiences and everything but I have seen adults lose their shit and it just feels so shallow.