If Sakurai Created a Smash Bros Movie?

[WaddleKing]

Right, because if a cartoon is made in Japan it's automatically awful. Even if the characters they use originally come from Japan.

Diddy Kong comes from Japan!?

 

[ChikoLad]

A successful TV show means that the franchise is already popular on the TV market. The Kirby movie was the last episode of a popular TV series. Obviously if the TV series is good, the movie of that TV series has a good chance of being good too. I did not know that the Sonic movie wasn't from the TV series, but based on reviews I've found, it wasn't exactly great or popular either. Decent.

And yes, Smash Bros, the series we are talking about a movie being made of here, has 30 something equally important characters (based on Brawl that is, 50 if the movie is of Sm4sh), so that is relevant.

TV Market =/= Movie Market

The Sonic Movie didn't do amazingly commercially because it wasn't advertised enough, but it's a very solid movie that is very faithful to the games while also knowing how to do it's own thing.

Every Smash Bros character is not equally important, because the importance of a character in the series is in the eye of the beholder. Marry might be important to you, for example, but a lot of people don't give a damn about him.

Obviously the more popular and well known characters would take precedence over others.

Smash is more suited to an anime if you ask me though, since you can avoid that dilemma. But a movie would simply have to compromise.

 

[Altea77]

Every Smash Bros character is not equally important, because the importance of a character in the series is in the eye of the beholder. Marry might be important to you, for example, but a lot of people don't give a damn about him.

And for the people making the movie, there are a million beholders all with different opinions on who is important. Therfore they all need to be equally important to live up to the Smash Bros name. This isn't Mario and Friends, this is Super Smash Bros.

Also, the TV market does not equal the movie market, correct, but if the tv show is popular, they are obviously doing something right, and considering the movie was an episode of the tv series, it most likely would do the same things right. The only thing that could go wrong is the transition from tv show to movie, but with Smash Bros, there is a lot more that could go wrong.

 

[ChikoLad]

And for the people making the movie, there are a million beholders all with different opinions on who is important. Therfore they all need to be equally important to live up to the Smash Bros name. This isn't Mario and Friends, this is Super Smash Bros.

Also, the TV market does not equal the movie market, correct, but if the tv show is popular, they are obviously doing something right, and considering the movie was an episode of the tv series, it most likely would do the same things right. The only thing that could go wrong is the transition from tv show to movie, but with Smash Bros, there is a lot more that could go wrong.

No, because in that situation you give more precedence to those who are most marketable.

And "a lot could go wrong" is not a good excuse not to do something.

 

[Altea77]

No, because in that situation you give more precedence to those who are most marketable.

And "a lot could go wrong" is not a good excuse not to do something.

So basically you want a Super Mario meets Legend of Zelda movie with a few side characters from other series. That's not Smash Bros.

A lot could go wrong certainly is a good excuse for not doing something. It's not an excuse for not doing everything, but it's an excuse not to do a lot of things. Most things even. That's why people don't do things that are dangerous like jumping off buildings onto moon bounces. Because a lot can go wrong.

 

[ChikoLad]

So basically you want a Super Mario meets Legend of Zelda movie with a few side characters from other series. That's not Smash Bros.

A lot could go wrong certainly is a good excuse for not doing something. It's not an excuse for not doing everything, but it's an excuse not to do a lot of things. Most things even. That's why people don't do things that are dangerous like jumping off buildings onto moon bounces. Because a lot can go wrong.

Never said that. I'm not gonna type some grand synopsis up on my phone, but it's possible to fairly split up the screen time in a fair manner.

Jumping off a building is in no way comparable to making a movie.

 

[Altea77]

Never said that. I'm not gonna type some grand synopsis up on my phone, but it's possible to fairly split up the screen time in a fair manner.

Jumping off a building is in no way comparable to making a movie.

Not if you are only focusing on the marketable characters. If we're no longer focusing on the marketable characters, then we are back to the 30 equally important character issue.

Jumping off a building is as good a comparison as any other for the point I am trying to make that you shouldn't do something if an overwhelming amount of things can go wrong. A movie is no different. Of course, if this was a small company with nothing to lose, then sure why not go for it, even if it has tons of problems. But this is Nintendo, a big company, with a lot to lose, and a lot of people to make angry.

 

[maxpower1227]

I don't get why anybody would want this. Video game-based movies are mediocre at best and usually awful. And 90 minutes spent watching a Smash Bros movie is 90 minutes I could be spending playing Smash Bros.

 

[ChikoLad]

I don't get why anybody would want this. Video game-based movies are mediocre at best and usually awful. And 90 minutes spent watching a Smash Bros movie is 90 minutes I could be spending playing Smash Bros.

You shouldn't generalise movies based on their archetype. Movies are bad not because they are video game movies, but because they have bad direction or funding, or any issue like that.

 

[BlitznBurst]

A full-scale movie would never happen and probably wouldn't be very good, considering the entire cast would probably be mute and there isn't really much they'd really be able to do with it beyond "watch these video game characters, most of whom have never been in anything resembling an actual story, aimlessly run about for an hour and a half while fighitng some vague threat that's really just an excuse to throw your favourite Nintendo characetrs into a movie together."

That said, an animated short in the style of the game's CGI trailers could actually be really entertaining. Twenty minutes of mute shenaningans from your favourite Smash characters, pretty-looking action-packed fight scenes, and loads of Nintendo fanservice would be great to watch.

 

[Lazyboy0337]

A full-scale movie would never happen and probably wouldn't be very good, considering the entire cast would probably be mute

Just for the sake of discussion, the following are all characters that have voiced a full sentence from a canon source:
( debatable)//

Not exactly a horrible line up.

 

[ScoutShellby]

Subspace Emmisary HD: No Gameplay Edition

YES

 

[Mobes]

Can someone get Vinny from Vinesause on the horn for Mario/Luigi voice-acting

 

[Sleeplost]

I just like witnessing interaction between characters of different franchises that I love. It's part of the reason I loved Brawl so much with specific win-quotes, the Snake Codecs, and the SSE cutscenes. While I wouldn't want a full 90 minute movie, I'd want maybe a 30 minute OVA of them. Maybe make it a slice of life film where the characters live in a mansion together, or make it heavily action based like the SSE. Either way I'd still get the interaction I so crave with Smash Brothers.

 

[Kraetyz]

Dead Or Alive. Tekken. Street Fighter. Mortal Kombat. All fighting games with movies that I'd rather forget. Let's not also forget that Subspace Emissary had a terrible attempt at a story and that anything else that could be conjured up for the Smash Bros roster would be just as vapid and bland.

 

[S_B]

Dead Or Alive. Tekken. Street Fighter. Mortal Kombat. All fighting games with movies that I'd rather forget. Let's not also forget that Subspace Emissary had a terrible attempt at a story and that anything else that could be conjured up for the Smash Bros roster would be just as vapid and bland.

This.

The SSE was so bad that Sakurai had to explain the plotline on the SSB website afterwards because the whole thing was a confusing pile of terrible.

Let me repeat that: the SSE was so bad that it couldn't even successfully convey its own story.

That's the end of the discussion right there...

 

[KRBAY]

Using the same artstyle as Bowser Jr.'s trailer

Fixed.

 

[KimKarsmashian]

Id prefer a series of short films, 10 minutes or so. They could focus on a set of characters, e.g. mute characters go through wacky hijinks together. A speaking character struggles to communicate with a silent partner. Villains pit their egos against each other. I think this way all characters could get screen time in a way that satisfies their fans, as well as it being less overwhelming to make short stories for 5 characters at a time than a story that spans 90 minutes at the least and 30+ characters.

I guess you could go old school and have a 2 part film, like Gone With The Wind, but that's even more plot you have to pull out of a hat.

 

[EgeDal]

i wish that could happen

 

[Sehnsucht]

As per recent rumoured leaks, Tarantino's The Hateful Eight is set to feature the Original Eight from SSB64.

 

[3D Dillon]

Here's a better question:
what if someone said "the Sakurai" instead of Sakurai?
Someone should made a typo and said "the Sakurai" as if the surname is a species and not a name.
What if surnames are replaced with common nouns? What'd we call Sakurai?

 

[majorasmaskfan]

benedict cumberbatch to play charizard and/or ridley.

 

[Pit_Icarus]

I'd watch it on release day no matter what.

This was the intent of the question, right?

 

[Gaea p]

O gawd please no fanservice it'd be all ruined for me

 

[RayZ FALCON]

Hey im new here and was wondering how to start a new thread

 

[Cyn]

Please do not bump old threads.