The Crazy Story of The Super Mario Bros Movie (1993) Failure
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Published 2024-03-07
Nintendo was big. The biggest! And Super Mario Bros was the marquee name.
So the time was perfect to turn the Super Mario Bros Nintendo game into Super Mario Bros: The Movie (1993). Hire some writers, hire the people who created Max Headroom. How hard can it be?
Super Mario Bros The Movie didn't turn out how anyone that worked on it hoped it would. This is the story of chaos. This is the crazy story of The Super Mario Bros (1993) failure.
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All Comments (21)
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Dennis Hopper was famously asked by Conan O'Brien if he regretted being in any of his movies, and Hopper said, "I made a picture called Super Mario Bros. My six-year old son at the time - he now 18 - he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes.' And he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'"
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Land of the Dead is the unofficial Super Mario Brothers 2. The zombie plague cripples the Mushroom Kingdom, Koopa runs a fortress city, and Luigi is a renegade.
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My dad took us to this at the movies, then asked his 11, 10 and 8 year old sons "What the hell was that?" We couldnt answer. I still can't answer that question lol
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I was at Barnes and Noble just a few days ago and I found this movie in the Criterion Collection movie section. Exactly where it belongs.
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"It's gonna take a lot more than a plumber's helper to figure all of this crap out." Excellent description of watching that movie. Perfection.
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For years, I was convinced this movie was a literal fever dream I had when I was a kid.
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There’s a guy on BlueSky whose whole shtick is that a sequel to this movie MUST BE MADE and I agree with them.
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"No one sets out to make a bad movie" Dan, have you heard of The Human Centepede?
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This reminds me of the book "Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!" talked about how Hollywood loves to hire, fire, and rehire writers and offen end up with a bad script that way.
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Bob Hoskins was a regular at my last pub management job He was was very nice
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Maybe it wasn’t such a bright idea to have people who hate video games make a video game based movie. 🤔
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One of the three movies my wife says if I play again with her in the house she'll divorce me. I actually love it, as a science fiction film, but not as anything Mario. This, Star Wars Holiday Special, Barbie.
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I've always liked the cyberpunk aspects of it. Its a movie that should not exist considering the popularity of the super mario brothers and how different it is from the games. So its a wonderful anomaly.
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Super Mario Bros, Howard the Duck, Dolph Lundgren's Masters of the Universe, Dolph Lundgren's The Punisher, Monster Squad, Army of Darkness, Flash Gordon, and Highlander 2 are just a few box office bombs I absolutely love.
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One bad movie with a killer soundtrack including music from; Joe Satriani, Roxette, Megadeth, Queen
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Fun fact, this wasn’t Mario’s first big screen appearance. In 1986 Nintendo released the OVA Super Mario Bros: The Great Adventure to Rescue Princess Peach to over 200 screens in Japan. There was a tie-in manga and (according to Wikipedia) “phone cards, watches, rice containers, ramen noodles,” and an original soundtrack released on vinyl and cassette. To the best of my knowledge it’s never gotten an official release outside of Japan.
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I remember liking it for some of its wild early computerized sci-fi visuals. At the same time, it was also a movie not afraid to use real gunky and slimy props to decorate the set. It was gritty and fun for a summer popcorn movie... something to beat the Texas heat for a couple of hours. I want to revisit it soon and see how bad (maybe good) it really is.
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My parents had a passing familiarity with Mario, didn't see it in theaters but when it came out on VHS I went to rent it and I clearly remember my dad asking, 'Why do they have machine guns?'
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Just got the 4K Umbrella release of this movie. I can’t wait to watch it. I loved this movie as a kid that I wrote a “script” to a sequel as soon as I saw it involving the Koopa Kids fighting for the throne and bringing in Donkey Kong and making Yoshi rideable to fight on. It was…something. 😂
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It's crazy to think Princess Daisy made it into a film before Peach, though i guess Daisy in this film is Peach in all but name.
