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How did the Mario Brothers movie happen?

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Odoul

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I remember actually liking this thing when I was younger.

I saw it on an old VHS a few days ago, though and it's just fukken odd. Though oddly still enjoyable.

Did it start out as another movie and they made it a Mario movie like two days into shooting? What the hell was up with Koopa being a slimeball politician? And fukken cars?

The little Bob-ombs did kick ass though.
 
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belgurdo

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Take a game with no plot and add one for the sake of a movie script. Then when you realize that no adult in their right minds would go see it in its current state, you make it "darker" with a political/sci-fi subplot and sell it to the masses. It still fails anyway, but 20 years down the line people are still talking about it
 
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xsarien

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How did the Mario Brothers movie happen?
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The producers lost a bet. See also: Baby Geniuses.

(Fun fact: The SMB movie was brought to you by the fine folks that gave us Max Headroom. How the mighty have fallen, eh?)
 
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teiresias

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The Mario Brothers movie is neat to watch just for catching little references to the games, and I thought the translation of Yoshi was actually pretty good since they obviouly couldn't make him some hugely adorable green dinosaur with boots (and the momentarily shirtless John Leguizamo was nice for my young gay self), but try watching the Double Dragon movie and tell me there's any reason AT ALL to watch that trash!
 
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Willco

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I think what's funny is that if the Internet existed, that movie probably would've never been made. I don't think people realize how much power the Internet has given them in Hollywood. Sure, the suits can tone people out and such, but they listen too. Why do you think we got Christian Bale as Batman? Or Jar Jar Binks continually erased from the prequels? Or Ratner and Abrams off of Superman?

Stuff like that.
 
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DenisDuckFat

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xsarien said:
The producers lost a bet. See also: Baby Geniuses.

(Fun fact: The SMB movie was brought to you by the fine folks that gave us Max Headroom. How the mighty have fallen, eh?)
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Baby Geniuses was better because it featured Joshua Ryan Evans, the adorable Timmy from Passions. Passions has gotten way worse since he died.
 
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LakeEarth

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Mejilan said:
I need to see this movie!
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No you don't. A list of everything it has in common to the videogame is as follows.

There are two brothers named Billy and Jimmy Lee.
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That is IT!
 
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SolidSnakex

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Jill Sandwich said:
No Abobo?! Boo!
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He's in there

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Arwen

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The Mario Brothers movie should be an Oscar winner compared to the live action Street Fighter movie. It made me hate Jean Claude Van Damme forever.
 
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LakeEarth

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What's the point of making a movie based on a videogame, then have nothing about the videogame in the movie? Sure you might get a few more people in the seats opening day, but they'll most likely hate it and not see it again, tell everyone it sucked and not buy the DVD
 
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SolidSnakex

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They were both bad movies, but atleast you could tell that SF's characters were based on characters from the game. Mario was a disaster.

And besides, SF had Kylie

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Also there are reports that Van Damme is going to make another SF movie. :p
 
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Ronin

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Arwen said:
It made me hate Jean Claude Van Damme forever.
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I'm gonna get on my boat, and I'm going up-river, and I'm going to kick that son-of-a-bitch Bison's ass so HARD... that the next Bison wanna-be is gonna feel it. Now who wants to go home... and who wants to go with ME!


You can't say that part didn't move you.
 
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Willco

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Street Fighter killed Raul Julia.

... And videogame to film adaptations can succeed, but only if studios start taking the source material seriously. Videogames have become so cinematic that there's stuff that'd translate well to film, like Halo or recent incarnations of Zelda, but nobody is going to take a risk on 'em.
 
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SolidSnakex

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This was the best SF quote

Chun Li: My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away. A hero at a thousand paces!
Bison: I'm sorry... I don't remember any of it.
Chun Li: You don't remember?
Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday.
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Willco

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Street Fighter and Super Mario Bros. are those horribly dated, so-bad-they're-good movies from the 90s. Like Hackers.
 
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Dragmire

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And thus the end of Dennis Hopper's career. I haven't arsed myself to watch the movie, but I'll bet a million dollars that there's a good ten seconds devoted to Bowser laughing maniacally.
 
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Fuzzy

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Willco said:
Street Fighter and Super Mario Bros. are those horribly dated, so-bad-they're-good movies from the 90s. Like Hackers.
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The movie where Angelina Jolie played a Vulcan. :lol

hackers-angelina-jolie.jpg
 
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Willco

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The best part of Hackers was obviously the Recycle Bin that had 3D graphics and floating file extensions.

Also, giant translucent keyboards that glow red and make noises.

And giant servers that are clear and glow red.

... and 28KBPS OMG!
 
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SolidSnakex

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Mejilan said:
28k. OMFG. HAHAHAHAH.

Wipeout... was it an unreleased version, or sumtink?
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This is what MobyGames said about it

The "version" of Wipeout seen in the Hackers movie (see previous trivia) was from a very early SoftImage animation created before the original Wipeout, to see how the game could possibly look. It was spotted by some movie people who wanted to put it into Hackers, so an extended version was created and tailored for the film. The sound effects track was created by PC Music.
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-=DoAvl=-

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Willco said:
The best part of Hackers was obviously the Recycle Bin that had 3D graphics and floating file extensions.

Also, giant translucent keyboards that glow red and make noises.

And giant servers that are clear and glow red.

... and 28KBPS OMG!
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wtf?? i thought angelina titty scene would've been the best part? hehehe



Are there any SUCCESSFUL videogame -> movie translations?
 
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Sapiens

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-=DoAvl=- said:
wtf?? i thought angelina titty scene would've been the best part? hehehe



Are there any SUCCESSFUL videogame -> movie translations?
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You know, within 3 years we had Mario, Street Fighter, Double Dragon and Mortal Kombat. Based off of seeing those four films in three years, I'd say Mortal Kombat was a success.

The only thing holding it back was the PG13 rating. Damn, Mortal Kombat is Citizen Kane compared to the rest of the vidgame movies.
 
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SolidSnakex

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Mejilan said:
Interesting, thanks. I must confess, I do not recall the Wipeout portion of Hackers.
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This is what they controlled it with

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The tracks looked similar to Wipeout, but there were big gates that you'd have to shoot a ball through to open it up before you smashed into it.
 
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