Idk, I think the issue here is that Mario is for plebians. I don’t know any “real” gamers who would answer a Mario game as their favorite game. Hell they likely wouldn’t be naming a platform game period. Why wouldn’t they throw in a song like that? Mario is fun for everyone, and it’s one of the video games that isn’t niche, has little to no barrier to entry and is just goofy and fun. Why wouldn’t the movie just be goofy and fun?
That’s the problem.
Why the hell is Mario fighting Donkey Kong to the song “Thunderstruck?”
Because that is the least common denominator between them.
They couldn’t take any of the music from any of the Mario games for that scene? Of course not; most people wouldn’t know it’s music from a Mario game.
No, we need to slam a Top 40 classic rock song in there because that’s the only thing the plebeians who see this movie will understand.
Idk, I think the issue here is that Mario is for plebians. I don’t know any “real” gamers who would answer a Mario game as their favorite game. Hell they likely wouldn’t be naming a platform game period. Why wouldn’t they throw in a song like that? Mario is fun for everyone, and it’s one of the video games that isn’t niche, has little to no barrier to entry and is just goofy and fun. Why wouldn’t the movie just be goofy and fun?
There are plenty of gamers who love Mario games, and there’s a huge depth of lore and music and characters they could have drawn from to make it
By using generic songs it became a movie that had a Mario skin on it.
See also: the Beastie Boys bullshit in JJ-Trek.
Exactly.