ccsears: Spartapuss: ccsears: Spartapuss: I thought we were done with the slow piano versions of songs in trailers by now. The movie looks fine.

My wife and her team orchestrated the score of the movie (not the trailer though).  You have no idea how much farking Mario music I've heard in the last couple months as she was arranging all those parts.  I was able to see the orchestra record a few bits live when I picked her up at the studio.  Saw one or two clips too.  I was very pleasantly surprised.  I know it will all be mixed in with synths and stuff, but listening to a full-on orchestra quote all the 8-bit sounds and melodies is really pretty fun.

It worked fantastically in the later games. My gripe is just with the trailer. It seems every goddamned high profile film gets the slow piano rendition, usually it's the dramas though and the kids film get some top 40s schlock. I guess I should just be happy that it wasn't a children's choir singing "Do the Mario".

yeah for sure, there are trailer agencies (usually ad agencirs) that make all kinds of money doing trailers.  Back in the day, iirc, big studios would reuse music they owned on all kinds of other trailers.  Stuff like Braveheart or Avatar or whatever.  About 14 years ago, I spent two years freelancing in LA doing movie poster design sketches--the ad agencies were toxic af.  I know there's huge money there, but it was really really stressful.  Much happier in animation.

But back to the music--I think everyone will be really happy with it.  I've seen my wife work on more than 100 films, and this one was probably one of the most difficult and inpressive projects.  Nintendo was super-involved.  And, of course, the film studio orchestra has farking badass players who can sight-read anything you throw in front of them.  It's pretty rare for music to make me laugh and smile, but some of this stuff did.