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The only things i can remember about this movie from when I saw it was a child are giant lizard people, mario jumping on some moving metal platforms in some dystopia, and Dennis Hopper. Only just starting to watch the riff and it is already extremely good. Does anyone have a quick summary as to how this movie was created and became so incredibly awful?
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Mar 22, 2014 05:14
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Longreads: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/10/mario-s-film-folly-the-true-story-behind-hollywood-s-biggest-gaming-blunder.aspx http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/generation-xbox-super-mario-movie/ Basically different visions between the directors (who wanted a weird Blade Runner post-apocalyptic adult film) and everyone else.
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Mar 22, 2014 05:39
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"One action-packed treatment seemed inspired by Die Hard. The script itself contained a scene in which Bruce Willis could make a cameo, scurrying through the air ducts above King Koopa’s office. Another script featured Mad Max-style death races." I think the most amazing thing in the entire thing is that Nintendo just handed over the rights and was like 'welp go for it!' Good reading though. The entire thing just sounded like a perfect storm of terrible things.
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Mar 22, 2014 05:51
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I think this'll keep them from doing The Wizard for awhile  This was really incomprehensible. I get mammals suck but, besides laziness, why were all the mushroom kingdom people humans? They hate people but want to be them?
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Mar 22, 2014 06:43
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Sooo, who else noticed that a certain scene got cut for the VOD release?
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Mar 22, 2014 06:47
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Nope, it's been like 20 years since I've seen this movie. What was it?
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Mar 22, 2014 13:05
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I'm quite disappointed by the lack of accuracy in the car-based jokes in Cyborg Cop 2. This car:  is clearly a 5-door Ford Sierra Mk1 and not a Festiva.  But other than that, Cyborg Cop 2 was great riff, the movie is sufficiently cheesy and nonsensical that everything works out. Really looking forward to seeing Super Mario Bros now.
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Mar 22, 2014 16:06
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mobby_6kl posted:clearly a 5-door Ford Sierra Mk1 and not a Festiva. That car does not have 5 doors.
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Mar 22, 2014 16:09
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IUG posted:Nope, it's been like 20 years since I've seen this movie. What was it? Wellllllll......basically when during the climax Daniella is back on Earth and shouts "Look!" while pointing upwards...Koopa's tower phases in...overtop of the World Trade Center...and there's a hint of an effect showing the actual towers collapsing downwards... Basically, Super Mario Brothers called 9/11.
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Mar 22, 2014 16:17
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Wellllllll......basically when during the climax Daniella is back on Earth and shouts "Look!" while pointing upwards...Koopa's tower phases in...overtop of the World Trade Center...and there's a hint of an effect showing the actual towers collapsing downwards... I was wondering if they were going to leave that in. Normally I hate it when movies get edited but, eh, it's so short and inconsequential to the movie that I can understand the edit.
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Mar 22, 2014 16:20
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^^^ Seems like something that could be commented on in the riff. thexerox123 posted:That car does not have 5 doors. No poo poo!  That's because nice photos of the 5 door Sierra with the correct grille were more difficult to find. Here's one, except for the number of doors you can see that it's still the same model of car:
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Mar 22, 2014 16:40
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The Ape of Naples posted:I was wondering if they were going to leave that in. Normally I hate it when movies get edited but, eh, it's so short and inconsequential to the movie that I can understand the edit. Yeah, I just looked it up on YouTube, and it's less than a second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og6POlrNU64
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Mar 22, 2014 17:17
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mobby_6kl posted:^^^ Yeah, like a single "... well this is awkward" or something would've been better than editing it out.
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Mar 22, 2014 17:25
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Yeah, like a single "... well this is awkward" or something would've been better than editing it out. I can hear Mike saying that, and would've laughed hysterically at it. Otherwise, yeah, SMB is easily one of my top 5 VODs now.
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Mar 22, 2014 17:38
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muscles like this? posted:A couple of years ago there was an article in Game Informer that talked about the making of the SMB movie and apparently the whole situation was hosed on multiple levels. Stuff like nobody on the production end knowing or caring about anything Mario Bros as well as Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo spending the entire time drunk. Real question, would anybody actually pass up the opportunity to sit around and get drunk with Bob Hoskins? Dude's awesome, it'd be way fun.
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Mar 22, 2014 18:07
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Yeah, like a single "... well this is awkward" or something would've been better than editing it out. It could have been part of the deal with the studio to edit it out.
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Mar 22, 2014 18:40
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therealjon_ posted:It could have been part of the deal with the studio to edit it out. Could be. Hey, rereedrumr, what's the deal on it?
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Mar 22, 2014 19:24
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I would thinking it better for them to err on the side of caution. It's just the kind of thing that could ruin the rifftrax for some people - if not their day.
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Mar 22, 2014 21:59
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I had forgotten a lot of details about this movie, probably because most of them didn't have any substantial payoff. Like, why was King Koopa a hypochondriac? Was there a draft of the script where Mario threw a used tissue at him? Fun riff, here's hoping they can get the rights to Double Dragon or Street Fighter.
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Mar 23, 2014 00:16
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So I used a professional contact to get a hold of a copy of an educational short made by the people who did Setting Up a Room. Not the block one, sadly; this one is called Dramatic Play: An Integrative Process for Learning. As you might expect from the title, it's about children play-acting: playing house, etc. It is also 32 minutes long. And it's not as polished as Setting Up A Room. And the last three minutes or so are... well, can you imagine a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf performed by 5 year olds? Youtube upload impending. I'm not certain it's funny, but it's sure something. E: http://youtu.be/t0-KUkz32us HypnoCabbage fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 03:49
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HypnoCabbage posted:So I used a professional contact to get a hold of a copy of an educational short made by the people who did Setting Up a Room. Not the block one, sadly; this one is called Dramatic Play: An Integrative Process for Learning. As you might expect from the title, it's about children play-acting: playing house, etc. The twist is that all those kids playing "house" with the blonde girl were actually hostages. I think the short would work with some editing for pacing reasons but then again Setting up a Room was really great and I don't think we were spared a minute of that.
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Mar 23, 2014 04:59
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The National Geographic site has updated with actual information on the Rifftrax show, and it's getting picked up as a thing on various news sites. Seems like it might be legit, despite its April 1st air date.
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Mar 23, 2014 07:00
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TotalHell posted:The National Geographic site has updated with actual information on the Rifftrax show, and it's getting picked up as a thing on various news sites. Seems like it might be legit, despite its April 1st air date. Why would that make it less legit? It's obviously Nat Geo's April Fool's joke. Having a bunch of people mocking their shows for the day seems like the joke itself.
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Mar 23, 2014 14:14
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IUG posted:Why would that make it less legit? It's obviously Nat Geo's April Fool's joke. Having a bunch of people mocking their shows for the day seems like the joke itself. I was moreso trying to determine if this was leading into anything more than just an April Fool's Day special. I guess that's still up in the air, though.
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Mar 23, 2014 15:40
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Could be. It just seemed to us like editing was the way to go, since it's such a powerful image. We've edited movies before, Guy From Harlem in particular has some parts that get pretty grim back at the shack. No reason to have people drawn out of laughing mode.
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Mar 23, 2014 18:35
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rereedrumr posted:It just seemed to us like editing was the way to go, since it's such a powerful image. We've edited movies before, Guy From Harlem in particular has some parts that get pretty grim back at the shack. No reason to have people drawn out of laughing mode. I can't imagine how much worse it could've gotten without being outright pornographic 
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Mar 23, 2014 18:56
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The whole thing's on archive.org. I think that some of it is towards the beginning. It just made it very clear the type of thing that was going on in that shack... As far as I know, nobody ever noticed.
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Mar 23, 2014 19:05
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rereedrumr posted:It just seemed to us like editing was the way to go, since it's such a powerful image. We've edited movies before, Guy From Harlem in particular has some parts that get pretty grim back at the shack. No reason to have people drawn out of laughing mode. So no Irreversible in Rifftrax's future?
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Mar 23, 2014 19:18
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So here at the Rifftrax site they're suggesting we save the date for the next live event, on July 10th... but they aren't telling us what the movie is. Judging by how they're hyping it on the page, though, it's gonna be something big.
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Mar 24, 2014 06:39
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Thanks to rifftrax I just watched the super mario movie for the first time in my life . The movie left me confused. so very confused.
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Mar 24, 2014 19:31
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admataY posted:Thanks to rifftrax I just watched the super mario movie for the first time in my life . The only thing you know is that Luigi only owns two variants of the same t-shirt.
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Mar 24, 2014 19:37
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I have to say, if that movie contained a shot for shot remake of the bank robbery from Heat about halfway through, it would not only make the whole thing worth it, it also wouldn't even feel particularly out of place.
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Mar 24, 2014 19:45
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This is my first time seeing it too. Descriptions and Wiki summaries don't do it justice.mobby_6kl posted:I have to say, if that movie contained a shot for shot remake of the bank robbery from Heat about halfway through, it would not only make the whole thing worth it, it also wouldn't even feel particularly out of place.
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Mar 24, 2014 19:58
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It's very clear that the movie suffers from being re-written too many times. I can only assume some early version of the script, for example, showed Koopa seizing power in a military coup, since, in the first few minutes of the movie when he's pursuing the fleeing Princess Egg, he's got this military general outfit on that's never seen again. And doesn't thematically match at all with the weird 'it's a living!' VGA-graphics dinosaurs that also start the movie. I remember seeing this as a nine year old in the theaters. I can't recall if I thought it was good or bad, but I do remember thinking the jump-boots were awesome.
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Mar 24, 2014 20:24
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This was my first time watching the SMB movie and left me scratching my head how a movie could be butchered so badly. I read this Game Informer article published last year on the disastrous production and found a few gems: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/10/mario-s-film-folly-the-true-story-behind-hollywood-s-biggest-gaming-blunder.aspx quote:Filming was scheduled to last 10 weeks, but it slowly stretched into 15. Everyone had different ways of dealing with the frustrating production schedule. John Leguizamo, who had been cast as Luigi, started drinking. In his biography, Leguizamo describes how he started doing shots of scotch with Hoskins between scenes. During a scene in which Leguizamo was driving a van, the actor was reportedly drunk and braked too hard, causing the sliding door to smash shut on Hoskins’ hand. During certain sequences of the film, Hoskins can briefly be seen wearing a pink cast quote:The end of Super Mario Bros. was a hack job. Morton and Jankel had hoped to film an epic battle sequence on the Brooklyn Bridge. Storyboards were drawn up in which the two realities would start to merge as Mario faced off against Bowser on the iconic structure. Mario eventually won after dropping a Bob-Omb down Koopa’s throat then kicking him into the river before he exploded. The scene would never be filmed. The film’s producers were tired of spending money on the production. Instead, Koopa was blasted with the Super Scope guns and reduced to a primordial sludge.
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Mar 24, 2014 20:27
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Count me in as another who watched this movie for the first time with RiffTrax. Just finished it a few minutes ago, and, well, what the gently caress did I just watch?  I have no idea what it was going for or why it got made, and I'm pretty sure I could watch it a hundred more times and still not understand. That was wonderfully bizarre.
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Mar 24, 2014 22:13
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I've always wanted to watch it after seeing snippets as a kid. Is it entertaining in how bizarre it is, or just a trudging slog?
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Mar 24, 2014 22:23
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Count me in as another who watched this movie for the first time with RiffTrax. Just finished it a few minutes ago, and, well, what the gently caress did I just watch? I watched it one time years and years ago with friends, and fell asleep partway through... so what memories I do have of it are vague... it should be interesting to watch it again, haha.
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Mar 24, 2014 22:24
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Gaspy Conana posted:I've always wanted to watch it after seeing snippets as a kid. Is it entertaining in how bizarre it is, or just a trudging slog?
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Mar 24, 2014 22:27
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I know nothing of the mario games lore or story, if any even exist. But it takes a special kind of creative drive to sit down to adopt them to the big screen and end up with.. this . Why dinosaurs? Why setting it in grimy urban decay sets ? Why a stereotypical mafioso character as a semi villain ? Why mojo nixon ? why John Leguizamo ? Why spend so much screen time of this allegedly kid movie on sexy dance with an aggressive obese lady ? The fungus, oh god why so much Fungus . also the fungus is lance henriksen ?!
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Mar 24, 2014 23:00
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