From the creators of whatever Teen Titans Go is and the writer of Lego Movie 2 and an upcoming Minions boondoggle. Ugh.
-Tom
This is a good thing!
Am I sold on it as a Mario movie? No. Am I sold on the cast as actors? Yeah I am. For those roles? Uncertain.
Whatever, I have kids and will certainly watch it. It won’t be the worst kids movie I’ve watched for sure.
Chris Pratt is a natural Mario.
This may well be terrible, but I’m going to see it with my niece, and we’re going to have a blast, and I am forever going to have warm fuzzy memories of it.
The funniest part about twitter freaking out over the casting is the assumption that Mario was ever going to be played as anything but a generic everyman in this movie.
I saw the Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper version in theaters long ago. I think I’ll be able to survive this one.
This one better have some Joe Satriani on the soundtrack.
Is Chris Pratt the most bland, generic movie star in Hollywood history? I think he might be, but if there is someone worse, it only makes sense I wouldn’t remember them.
hell no. Do you not recognize Ryan Gosling? How about Sam Worthington.
Pratt at least has some charm and personality. A lot of it in fact.
I think it’s a toss up between Chris Pratt, Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans.
He’s not even the most generic Chris on that list!
Looking at you Pine.
This is as much about his choice of roles as his performances in them. Ryan Gosling had at least been in some good movies that made good use of his blankness. Sam Worthington hasn’t forced himself into that many leading roles in big productions. Pratt seems to star in at least one movie a year for the past decade, and almost all of them are utterly generic CGI tent-poles. Even Will Smith during the height of his success took riskier roles.
I’m not sure they are all different people. I know Hemsworth is Thor, so I bet he’s taller than the other Chrises.
Sam Worthington is close for my “most generic” award, but there’s one better.
The Dollar Store Sam Worthington: Jai Courtney.
There are some crazy opinions being thrown around in this thread!
Chris Pratt doesn’t seem to be very picky about his roles, so he’s in a lot of generic blockbustery stuff, but he’s funny and he’s got a lot of charm—that was obvious from Parks and Recreation. He was a great fit for Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy. And he used to do small but cool roles like in Her.
Now we’re besmirching Gosling!? He’s had success as a box office draw for sex appeal (The Notebook), but he hasn’t been afraid to do more experimental stuff and serious dramas, and continues to achieve critical success. Blue Valentine, Drive, Blade Runner 2049, plus he’s still doing fun stuff like The Nice Guys and La La Land.
Sam Worthington… okay I’ve got nothing there.
This is crazy talk. Chris Pine? The films have been uneven but he’s a charismatic Kirk in Star Trek. Carriers was a solid little indie horror/zombie flick. Z for Zachariah was another solid indie showing for Pine. Hell or High Water was fantastic. He was the only thing truly fun about WW84.
Hemsworth seems to have worse luck with picking projects (like Pratt), so he’s been a part of some duds like the last Ghostbusters reboot and the MiB reboot, but he’s a big brawny looking action star who turns out to have fantastic comedic sensibilities. See Thor Ragnarok and The Cabin in the Woods.
Chris Evans grew into his role as Captain America as the films got a better handle on the character and a whole generation will probably look back on him the way we look back on Christopher Reeves’ Superman for that role alone. But he’s been cool the whole time, shining in small roles in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Sunshine, and leading the excellent Snowpiercer.
Everyone in this thread not named Sam Worthington has demonstrated themselves to be charismatic and capable actors, even if sometimes they also end up in bad films.
If you don’t like someone, just say that, but you’re all crazy for thinking these aren’t all talented people.
I like how Chris Evans’ Captain American eventually becomes the badass mofo Chris Evans’ of Snowpiercer.
Close the thread. you win.
The only line from that movie I randomly think of more than, “it’s milk and eggs, bitch” is “sometimes I let 'im do the wide shots while I get blazed in my Winnie”.
I’m mostly down on Chris Pratt for his looney ass religious views, well encapsulated by this lovely twitter heehee:
He is exclusively in generic blockbustery stuff. Her was like 15 movies ago. People like, say, Oscar Isaac for example might do star wars movies but also take roles with more meat.
And of course Pratt is funny and got charm, he’s a professional, generically good looking actor. He would be good in commercials, or a network sitcom. I just don’t understand how he became this generation’s Steve McQueen.
That’s also the difference between him and the Jai Worthingtons of the world, those guys have the decency to fade away after somehow stumbling into careers that are too big for them.
It’s generally safer to assume all filmmakers, musicians and the like are vile degenerates, it prevents later disappointment.