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Zithers posted...

grownups love toons. ask @blue_inigo he thinks toons are better than live action movies despite 30 years old. i should also make it clear that tv shows based on video games is super cringe as well and bad for the medium btw.

uncharted still made 400m in a recovering theatrical landscape. studios will see that number and think they can make something cheaper and put it out in a more normalized box office era post-covid and do well. dunno how pikachu can be called a flash in the pan when we are now seeing video game adaptations receive critical acclaim and/or big box office numbers. also again there are tons of grownups who like the two sonic movies, which made 300m and 400m (pikachu made 430m).

mario will blow the doors off and immediately get a sequel, probably some nintendo spinoffs, until they get a smash bros movie. last of us is gonna rake in emmy's and legitimize the medium as worthy of prestige tv adaptations. david e kelley or sam esmail or d&d will be asked to adapt some bullshit for tv. its gonna be super embarrassing to see adults who know better acting like video games have rich narrative texts.

Doesnt change that animated movies have absolutely no impact on anything other then trends of other animated movies. Less that even, and really more like they just inspire twin films, which has been an issue since like the 20s. A successful animated Mario movie isn't gonna get Sony to hurry production on that MGS movie for instance.

That's another thing. Video game companies are incredibly disjointed. The Marvel's and DCs of the industry are Nintendo, Sony, and MS. Nintendo has to hand off their rights to Illumination to get anything made (so far) and they already have like 10 franchises running at any given time. Sony has film studios and yet the only vg movie they have in production is Gran Turismo (doesn't exactly scream "optimistic") and they're still churning out bad Spiderman villain knock off movies instead. Microsoft has tried for years to get a movie off the ground and they've been unable to.

I just really don't see video game movies ever becoming as popular as comic book movies have been. TV show vg adaptations are fine. Who cares. TV is filled with way worse schlock than video game adaptations, and it won't even come close to controlling the TV space like something like bad fantasy has been for the past few years.