According to this documentary, there was a serious breakdown in communication between the directors, actors and producers and the screenplay was rewritten multiple times, even during filming.
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So recently i watched the Rifftraxed Super Mario Bros movie and three things struck me hard.
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According to this documentary, there was a serious breakdown in communication between the directors, actors and producers and the screenplay was rewritten multiple times, even during filming.
No I'm pretty sure I watched a GoodBadFlicks episode on this movie. I'm surprised it isn't showing up.
The main thing I remember about this movie is that a few years later Cowboy Bebop would rip it off for its worse episode
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, I unabashedly love this film. I love the set design, the characters, and the actors all had good chemistry and gave as good of a performance as they could have with what they had to work with. It was a production nightmare plagued by script rewrites, infighting, actors that were so miserable they would drink on set, etc but it was highly ambitious, and an adaptation as uncontrolled as this of an established franchise will never happen again, which is why I appreciate its existence.
Really fun fact:
Mario was ALMOST played by Tom Hanks.
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Mario was ALMOST played by Tom Hanks.
How Super Mario Brothers Saved Tom Hanks' Career
With the release of Sonic the Hedgehog, and the excellent reception the movie has received, it only seems right for us to look back at the movie that
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Swap the order of these two sentences and you can probably remove the last question mark.
I get it. Rifftrax leans much harder towards insult humor so I can see why it turns people off. Their SMB movie is particularly bad in that they really bag on Leguizano too much. It seems like they NEED to do this for Hollywood movies that have less technical flaws to make fun of. Their obscure VoDs and shorts rely less on that and are more enjoyable to watch IMO. They're more classic MST.
This is exactly how I feel about the Mario movie. I spend an absurd amount of time to think about how newer Mario characters/games would be interpreted in this setting.
Leguizano hate aside, I actually really love the Rifftrax for the game references they throw in like during the police car chase how Mike says something like "This gritty reboot of Mario Kart is a little much but hey no more @#$%ing Blue Shell"
I believe the Rifftrax version is the only legal HD digital version in the US.
I get that Disney gives no fucks about it, but you wouldn't think it would take that much effort to just throw an HD copy onto VUDU.
Maybe it's a rights issue with Nintendo?
Name.
Mario.
Last name.
Mario.
And you?
Luigi.
Luigi Luigi?
No, Luigi Mario.
Okay how many Marios are there between the two of you?
Three: Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.
Mario.
Last name.
Mario.
And you?
Luigi.
Luigi Luigi?
No, Luigi Mario.
Okay how many Marios are there between the two of you?
Three: Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.
This is the kind of movie that normally doesn't get made, and later on you hear about the scrapped plans for it and say "man, I would have paid to see that."
It's not even in the top (bottom?) hundred of worst movies lol
I've seen worse movies just this year already.
Exactly.
Didn't the writer want to make a sequel to this? And they were making it into a comic instead or something?
I should try to watch it again, I don't think I've seen it since it released in theaters.
With Illumination doing the animated movie I wonder which one will turn out being the better Mario flick >__<
I should try to watch it again, I don't think I've seen it since it released in theaters.
With Illumination doing the animated movie I wonder which one will turn out being the better Mario flick >__<
You just had to go and mention that.. now I have to watch/post this.
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I always liked the movie because it was so batshit crazy. I wouldn't call it a good movie, but it's definitely an interesting movie.
I'll echo those that said that I too, like this movie. Granted I was a kid when I first saw it on TV, but whenever I knew it was coming on, I would make time to watch it.
I'm older and wiser now, and know it's a bad movie.......
But...... I think I would watch it again. I'd make a movie night out of it with my kids.
I'm older and wiser now, and know it's a bad movie.......
But...... I think I would watch it again. I'd make a movie night out of it with my kids.
I'm an old, but yeah...I honestly enjoy the film to a degree.
I remember my old man, who knew next to nothing about "Nintendo", was completely confused on what this was supposed to be.
Rifftrax has never been my favorite of the riffing groups, but...what? This makes no sense to me.
What do you mean riffing groups? There are wannabe Rifftrax? I'm afraid to look.
Rifftrax is basically the 5th MST3K team variant. They have been around for a while, but it's what they do now.
Mario bros wasn't my favorite. I was mostly confused by it. I watched it a few times not really knowing what to think. It's not mario, but it's still a fun story, but it's not mario, but Hoskins is fun to watch. I definitely watched and enjoyed the Pest more.
I do think the Mario bros movie primed me for the Judge Dredd movie.
I do think the Mario bros movie primed me for the Judge Dredd movie.
Watch the rest of the film and come and get him!
I genuinely like Leguizamo. I just want him to win an Oscar, but during his speech obligated to explain The Pest.
I still have the card collection for this movie in a binder. Also, it wasn't that bad. Gun to my head I probably couldn't make a better live action, gritty 90's Mario movie.
By the bye, sometimes I can use Rifftrax to persuade my friends to watch movies they had no interest in previously. They did Casablanca and Charade, and I happily got my friends to watch Casablanca because of it. In the end a friend remarks, "huh! That movie was actually pretty good!"
I wonder if sometimes they pick certain movies in an attempt to expand the palettes of their patrons.
I wonder if sometimes they pick certain movies in an attempt to expand the palettes of their patrons.
...I genuinely liked some parts of The Pest. Especially the bad guy's extremely sheltered gay son escaping with Pest, realizing he fit in with the normal club goers amazingly well, and deciding to just stay with the protagonists.
My thoughts exactly. I hated it as a kid because I was expecting a straightforward adaptation, but now I appreciate how audacious it was. It's a big mishmash of ideas loosely inspired by the backs of some Nintendo game boxes that got put through production hell and end up being held together by some really great set design. (I will go to bat for these wonderful sets every time this movie comes up)
Honestly I loved it as a kid, hated it as an adult during the era of "hate your nostalgia" and have come back to loving how fucking insane the movie.
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