This meme makes no sense because SMB93 is a masterpiece.
Agreed. IMO it’s a coked-out SMB fanfic that became a movie, and I love it.
Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick
Pitch Black is pretty alright, it isnt great, but it is far from terrible. The rest of the films have a pretty strong downward trend though.
Only 4 1/2 stars?
I would love to see a director’s cut of that film because it was a victim of massive executive meddling after the fact.
It was directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, who created and directed both the British and U.S. versions of Max Headroom, which is why it has a cyberpunk look. It was co-written by Ed Solomon, who wrote Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Men in Black.
And then executives shat all over it.
You also have to remember that in 1993, there was almost no Mario lore. Mario was a guy who jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess and sometimes got extra powers to help him. Luigi was his brother who could basically do the same thing. There was really no characterization and plot to speak of. They had a ton of freedom to do whatever they wanted and that freedom was taken away from them.
There is a cut out there done by my friend Garrett Gilchrist, who also restored The Thief and the Cobbler, where he tried to get it as close to Jankel and Morton’s original cut as he could, using things like workprints. But we’ll never know exactly how good it could have been.
Tank Girl was a very similar situation, but still ended up an okay film.
From the stories I’ve heard, the husband and wife directors ran a terrible production with daily rewrites and an extremely unhappy cast and production team. I don’t think studio meddling was the major factor there.
yeah the leads being drunk all the time has to be a factor
It wasn’t until 2024 that the world understood how perfect it was to cast John Leguizamo as Luigi.
He’s always been a pest to society…
I finally got around to watching that after the missus kept referring to him as the pest guy.
As soon as well started the movie she just went “you’re going to hate it”
She was not wrong. How the man continued to have a career after that is anyone’s guess.
Watch his one man shows from the 1990s. He’s insanely talented.
I never liked him much, but he guest-hosted the Daily Show not too long ago and he was amazing. Maybe political satire was his true calling and he just never realized it.
Watch his one man shows like Spaz. He’s incredibly talented.
Fun fact, the two leads were drunk most of that movie because, well, because they were the two leads in that movie.
The directors, yes two of them, were horrible to work with according to pretty much everyone that worked on it.
Spare a thought for the animatronic Yoshi who remained stone cold sober for the entire shoot.
That thing was so cool, and disappointing, at the same time. We didn’t care though, we were kids. It was awesome.
I like to imagine Bob Hoskins was a fun drunk
I picture him as a fun cross between Capt Hook and Eddie (from Roger Rabbit) when drunk. Im down for it.
Except he was Shmee!
I wonder if he was still dabbling in water colors.
I’d sincerely like to think so; between Mario Bros., Hook and Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Bob Hoskins is a foundational part of my childhood…
To be fair to Morton and Jankel, they had never directed a big budget feature film before. All of their experience was in TV
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.
Go ninja go ninja go…
Hook my beloved. I understand objectively why it is not a good movie, but having watched it 852 times throughout my childhood, I could not find fault with it on a recent rewatch.
edit: I watched that movie so early and so often, that I can recite whole scenes not by word, but by phonemes and cadence, because my language skills weren’t fully developed at the time.
…why is it not a good movie?
It’s a terrible story that makes littke sense. I was in high school when it came out and people my agewere surprised it became a classic as it was received poorly.
Does anything make any sense? I mean, let’s be real here…
Don’t try to stop me this time, Smee… Smee?
IDK, I think it’s a great story that makes a lot of sense
I understand objectively why it is not a good movie
You fucking what, mate?
I haven’t seen this since my childhood, so I still assume it’s a fantastic movie.
The langoliers will always have a spot for me to watch it.
Also : OH HI MARK
I watched the Mario Bros movie as an adult a few years back and really enjoyed it. It was a fun take on the lore!
The only thing I felt was weak was Dennis Hopper. His performance had strong “I’m too good for this” vibes. Based on the other things I know him from, that’s wildly untrue - it should have been a great fit for him. Chew the scenery and be an arsehole - basically be the Deacon from Waterworld, or the villain from Speed!
Try watching him in better movies. Hopper is incredible when he works with David Lynch types.
…but I enjoyed him in those movies!
He’s good in those movies but in “Wild at Heart” or “Easy Rider” you’ll see why he gets the reputation for being a great director and actor.
I’ve always enjoyed it for what it was; A campy, goofy movie based on a video game. It never took itself too seriously, and it just kind of accepted itself. Just watched Borderlands, for example, and it was horrible and flat. The characters were there, but they weren’t the characters, just 2D imaginings of them. Anyway, looking up reviews, I found a great one that compared it to the '93 SMB. They said that we needed another SMB, and we didn’t get it, Borderlands wasn’t “interestingly stupid”. That’s a great term. Interestingly Stupid is definitely what SMB was, simultaneously a blast, while also being the dumbest thing you ever saw, and you can never quite put your finger on the reason it(kinda) worked.
Riddick was awesome and I’m tired pretending that it was not
Willow 1988 my first taste of fantasy
Airborne 1993 put me in a rollarblading phase
Tremors 1990 all three are good fun
You seem like a man of culture.
Does anyone else remember The Pagemaster?
I had a vague recollection of a fantasy movie about libraries and a them traveling to a “book world” sort of. I would prolly get pretty immense nostalgia from watching that. Or I’ll ruin the memories I have. Perhaps better not?
Hell yeah pagemaster.
Also that one movie with a cubby that brings toys to life. Kid brought an native american to life and his friend brought a cowboy to life… The Indian in the Cupboard
The Indian in the Cupboard is a great kids boook too
I didn’t know I had that memory.
Ah, thanks for unlocking some more nostalgia.
That was one sassy Indian guy if I recall correctly.
Yeah the native american carried that movie.
He did yeah. I hope you weren’t judging me for my use of “Indian”. No offense meant if it was accidentally given.
I’m not gonna comment on it more but there is a nice 40 second clip from Slavoj Zizek on him telling a story about talking about the nomenclature with a native American.
Not judging. I myself wrote Indian first and went back to fix it. Twice.
Funny I was just discussing this movie nostalgically with my wife and we had an interesting realization:
The Night at the Museum movies were a fantastic improvement on the concept. :D
Hell yes. Pagemaster is top tier nostalgia. Loved it.
At grandma’s, raining outside, fire in the living room, small-ish CRT tv with a VCR, granny on a rocker with the cat in her lap. Sitting on the floor.
Nostalgia used to be fatal, better take care to avoid too much of it.
Willow and Tremors are S-tier
I love all the Tremors movies
The OG Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter movies are dope. I don’t care what anyone else says.
M. Bison’s famous “It was Tuesday” line in Street Fighter (1994) is frequently misread by viewers as a statement of apathy. Instead, he is telling Chun Li that the day her father died was so important to him that he can instantly recall what day of the week it happened on.
I don’t think I’ve seen the Street Fighter movie, but Mortal Kombat rocks.
Traci Lords remix if the movie theme is great if you never heard it and like EDM.
Note if you do not know who Traci Lords is please make sure you include “Mortal Kombat soundtrack” in any search for it as she famously did porn before turning 18
Raul Julia is SO GOOD in it. Campy as hell.
Raul Julia was a legend… I firmly believe that, at least later in his career, the dude would do whatever shlocky film he could for a paycheck, so he could spend the rest of the time doing theater for fun. And he’s often the best part of those movies.
Street Fighter is far superior.
Everything about it is terrible, but it’s saved by Raul Julia in the same way that Tim Curry saves the Three Musketeers and Alan Rickman saves Robin Hood.
A classically trained actor treating the whole thing like a pantomime. It’s glorious.
I love coming across this shortly after using this meme on Lemmy. Enjoy lol
Test your might!
MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAATTTTT!
Gotta love techno syndrome on the Simpsons as well haha
The first MK movie was the archetypal “It’s good… for a video game adaptation” movie for a long time. Luckily now we have great adaptations (not necessarily movies though) to point to that stand on their own merits.
But yeah, there’s always a part of me that will have fond memories of MK and the JCVD Street Fighter movie. Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.
Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.
I gotta watch it…I just remember panicked guys shoving trash into a van to fuel it during a car chase or something. It looked radical lmao.
Sleepaway Camp
