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Post by nucleusofswarm on Feb 27, 2021 2:28:28 GMT
One of the poster boys for bad video game films, as well as one of the first. It's such a weird duck of a film that repurposes and rethinks the characters and world in a way that you wonder if anyone involved even liked the games to begin with.
Yet, I find it really fascinating. I like Hoskins and Leguizamo. I even like the weird sets from the same designers as Blade Runner. Anyone else?
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Feb 27, 2021 17:20:35 GMT
Also, Dennis Hopper is weirdly watchable here, even though it's a bad role. I mean, he's Hopper so expected odd, but he makes the bizarre 'jokes' work, like all the puns.
And 'Monkey!'
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Post by grinch on Feb 27, 2021 17:30:17 GMT
The only way I could possibly describe this film is that it wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t about the Mario Bros.
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Post by Digi on Feb 27, 2021 18:53:17 GMT
The template for horrifically bad game-to-film adaptations.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Feb 27, 2021 20:13:27 GMT
The template for horrifically bad game-to-film adaptations. True, though I think most movies of video games are awful. |
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Post by mark687 on Feb 27, 2021 20:58:58 GMT
Similar thinking here in that its an Ok slim but the whole genre and choices of video games for live action adaptations is odd. I've never been a Gamer but the only one i think could really work and they still haven't done it is Zelda.
Plus they nearly always attach odd Actors to them
Hoskins
Hopper
Raul Julia
Regards
mark687
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Post by grinch on Feb 27, 2021 21:36:54 GMT
Similar thinking here in that its an Ok slim but the whole genre and choices of video games for live action adaptations is odd. I've never been a Gamer but the only one i think could really work and they still haven't done it is Zelda. Plus they nearly always attach odd Actors to them Hoskins Hopper Raul Julia Regards mark687 It’s a strange casting choice I’ll grant you but Raul Julia made for a great M Bison. |
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Post by constonks on Feb 27, 2021 22:40:08 GMT
It's awful. I enjoyed it a lot.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 28, 2021 0:02:17 GMT
I really enjoy it for cheesy switch off your brain fun
Also when you consider the amount of different drafts and ideas that were thought up, before we even got near this reiteration. The tone even changed halfway through production lol
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Post by pazzer on Feb 28, 2021 0:16:09 GMT
Apart from Hoskins as Mario remember very little about it. Video games don't seem to turn into good movies and tend to gets lots of negativity as soon as are announced. So how bad it actual is is likely exaggerated.
Just checked out the trailer and it looks crazy.
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Post by Digi on Feb 28, 2021 2:52:39 GMT
Apart from Hoskins as Mario remember very little about it. Video games don't seem to turn into good movies and tend to gets lots of negativity as soon as are announced. So how bad it actual is is likely exaggerated. Just checked out the trailer and it looks crazy. Generally they're panned by fans because the filmmakers show zero interest in adapting the game/story that they like and just make a cheap/lazy cash-in movie, and then also panned by general audiences for being just plain bad movies. There really is no silver lining to the vast, vast majority of video game movie adaptations. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2021 17:46:02 GMT
I thought the movie was fantastic!
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Mar 7, 2021 18:02:15 GMT
I thought the movie was fantastic! Not the response I expected, given what's in your name. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2021 23:35:00 GMT
Hoskins a few years after Roger Rabbit seems pretty perfect casting to me, honestly. There's also some lovely art direction in the dystopian city scapes, clearly someone wanting to "do a Blade Runner". Yet...futuristic cities, Goombas with big bodies and little heads and a humanoid Bowser? If you're too embarassed to work on a property that you need to change everything bar the main characters...maybe don't sign up.
Even as a kid this one bored me. Gimme the same year's Demolition Man if I have to pick a good cheesy actioner. Ach well, there was always the Super Mario cartoon...
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