Film Theory: Mario EXPOSED the Movie Industry! (Super Mario Movie)

After watching this, I'm still as confused as ever as to why Boss Baby was nominated for best animated movie while A Silent Voice came out the same year and got zero recognition...

The ironic thing is Turning Red wasn’t released in theaters. The parents could just turn off the TV

My wife and I say the same things about rotten tomatoes scores. If it has a good critic score but an awful audience score then it’s probably technically well made but boring or a slog to get through. If it has a bad critic score and a good audience score it’s probably a bit less technically well made but is definitely crazy fun (fun bc it’s so bad or fun bc it’s over the top) We’d rather see an audience score movie than a critic movie bc at least we know it’ll be fun.

For me, it’s simple. I ignore ALL critics, ALL YouTubers, all anybody until AFTER I see it for myself (if I’m even interested in it in the first place), and can form my own opinion. Only then, is it fun for me to check out the reviews retroactively to determine who does or doesn’t agree with MY opinion. Not the other way around.

The real question is why they removed the audience score of Peter Pan & Wendy. It was so bad that they didn't want you to know how bad it is.

I like someone as huge as Matpat mentioning Pointless hub, Jeremy Jahns, Chris Stuckman, Moist critical or Cosmonaut. It’s nice knowing dope creators fw other dope creators

Not a critic, but I sympathize with them. When viewing any art I am constantly thinking, "What are they trying to say?" The problem is, some movies aren't trying to say anything more than "Hey! Look at me!"

i cannot sing Schaffrillias Productions enough praises as a media review, he’s so incredibly insightful

I quote Shigeru Miyamoto himself: “While many foreign critics have given the movie relatively low ratings, I think that also contributed to the movie’s notoriety and buzz.”

The critic score is looking at movies as art, while the audience score looks at movies as entertainment. It's like the difference between a restaurant critic's opinion of a Michelin Star dining experience vs ReviewBrah telling us whether a new fast food is worth trying or skipping. Both are useful, but they're serving different purposes.

The thing about Turning Red was that the demographic was more targeted than most Pixar movies. My daughter is 9, this movie was her jam. She sometimes goes nuts, randomly yelling parts of it out. None of the boys she knows watched the movie. I know so many little girls who loved this coming of age story tailored to them.

This actually isn't a new problem. I've noticed this issue even back in the 90's before internet reviews were even a thing. Reviews for movies that were widely popular among audiences were terrible and reviews for movies audiences hated were great. I even researched all the way back to the 1940's and found that trend has ALWAYS been a thing. The real answer to why this is a problem is because reviewers are essentially just people giving their personal opinions on something just like everyone else, the only difference is they're getting paid to tell other people what their opinion is. It's really an industry that never should have existed because the pool of opinions is so much smaller than the average movie goer there always was and always will be a huge difference in opinions. Plus really the only person who can tell you if your going to like a movie or not is YOU. A close friend or family member is going to do a better job reviewing a movie and deciding to recommend it or not based on other similar movies they already know you like but a random stranger recommending a movie doesn't know anything about you, why should their opinion matter to you? Even people who know me and the kinds of movies I like have reccomended some terrible ones completly misunderstanding what it is I like about the movies I watch. Oh you like the Terminator, you should watch the Matrix, it's also a man vs. Machine sci fi story. Nope just cause I like one man vs machine sci fi doesn't mean I'll like another. Oh you like Blade, lets watch Twilight. Nope those are not Vampires! Oh you like Comedies, here's an Adam Sandler movie, sorry I don't really find him that funny. When we're talking about a reviewer who is a total stranger to me the recommendations are going to be even worse cause they obviously wouldn't even have a sense for what kind of movies I do like and will give Jim Carrey films really low ratings even though I love his movies, even the "bad ones" like the Cable Guy. The issue has only gotten worse with the internet as a lot of reviews are given without ever actually having seen the movie in the first place. I have literally seen comments from people who admitted they never watched a movie or TV show but still posted a review of it making up things to hate about something they never watched. I've also noticed other people copy and paste comments from other reviews as their own totally unaware that they're spreading misinformation because the original source they copied from never actually saw the thing they reviewed. I watched it happen multiple times and information spreads so quickly online that opinions end up being taken as fact.

We love cinema therapy. It’s both a film production analysis as well as character analysis from the POV of a psychologist analysing the characters’ mental states etc

Whilst it was kinda covered in the video, it's important to note that when a critic reviews a movie, they watched as part of their job, not just casually, and aren't necessarily fans of the source material if it's from a previously established franchise. Also, the audience score isn't comprised of everyone, but specifically people who: 1) Decided to watch the movie, meaning they are likely part of the movie's demographic, including fans of the potential source material. 2) Are people who watched it, and then bothered making a review of it on Rotten Tomatoes.

Thank you so much Matpat for showing off so many YouTube movie reviewers, they’re some of my favorite videos to watch and see how others think about movies I love

I loved the fact that you gave a shout out to YT reviewers, as that’s actually where I’ve gotten my critic perspective from for years now! Sometimes I don’t always agree with them, but I like getting the differing perspectives! Especially as a filmmaker myself (animation college major). Finding the right critics that speak to you but also might not always agree with you is a healthy way to engage with differing perspectives and criticism. It’s healthy to see different perspectives and why others might think that way, but also acknowledge that it being different from your perspective doesn’t make your opinion any less valid. It’s what I love about art, it’s all subjective at the end of the day. Anyways, great video MatPat! I really appreciated all the points you made!

When it comes to reviewers, my two favorites are Saberspark and Schaffrillas Productions. They mostly review animated movies/shows, but I respect their opinions since they not only break down what they review into different aspects like animation, story, acting, etc., but also look at it from both their own personal tastes as well as from a general audience's point of view.

The whole video, the thing that stuck out most to me was how Mario's critic score was VERY SUSPICIOUSLY just 1% below "Fresh" and I'm glad you eventually called that out. You might say it's conspiracy-ish, but I think faked conflict is a huge marketing driver for the studios, and manipulating score outcomes is so easy to do. You don't even have to lie, just engage in the right amount of selection bias and everything falls their way. Whether that way is rotten or fresh doesn't matter, so long as the discrepencey is created.

I guess what I've learned from this video, is that rotten tomato scores are for how creative and unique a movie is, while the audience score is the overall liking people had for a film.

I love your videos! They just don’t feel like watching a normal boring YouTube video like it’s so interesting and entertaining naturally