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[ultimateemail5000]

IGN has an article about the SMB movie that never was, I havent read it yet but check it out.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/23/ ... mario-bros

[1upmushroom]

Well that sucked. Barely any information on the movie? Check. Writing that;s negative to the movie? Check. And no acknowledgement of the source (in this case the podcast) that this hack article got it's info from? Mother-bleeping Check!

[ultimateemail5000]

Yeah I read it, it's just stuff we already know. uselss

[Redstar]

Reiterating the same tired old talking points on the film. It's interesting, but lazy journalism to source articles and interviews published nearly a year ago. I wish someone would just Google the movie once and find our site.

[1upmushroom]

It's not even that long! At least the other articles were at moderate length, this is barely two paragraphs!

[ultimateemail5000]

I was reading the comments on this and omeone said these wuold be Arnolds lines

Gonna have a shell of a time!
Gimme da shroom!!
Get in da pipe!!
It's me..... Mario....
Who is Wario?
Get your ass to the Mushroom Kingdom!
Gimme dat leaf! It's time to fly!
BOWSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!
(To Birdo) P***y
(To Bowser 64 ver) Have a Nice flight!
This isn't over. Not till I get my cake.
(To Bowser) You are one UGLY mutha f***a

Funny stuff and probably true.

I think we as fans of the movie and members of this ite should bash IGN for their article in hte comments section for addin things that we already know, or say visit smbmovie.com

oh to be clear, whoever made these quotes stated that they know arnold was gonna be koopa and said that they ould only htink of what mario would say

[ultimateemail5000]

I found this on my tumblr last night it says it was from gameinformer. It looks like it has Rocky Morton in it t6o which is rare.

The 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie might have creepily predicted 9/11, but it was also one of the biggest box-office disasters of the decade - setting the stage for many, many more ill-fated movies based on video games. A new article at gameinformer.com tells the whole, sad story:

Directors Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel didn’t have many movie credits to their names. In fact, the husband and wife team had only directed one other film, a critical and commercial bomb called D.O.A.. The duo cut their teeth directing commercials for Coca-Cola and Hardee’s restaurants, eventually finding small success after creating the television series Max Headroom. Lightmotive loved Max Headroom’s zany vibe and felt that Morton and Jankel had the right imagination for a film like Super Mario Bros.

Morton and Jankel’s vision for the film was much darker than the Nintendo game series. They wanted their film to take place in an alternate reality version of New York, a place called Dinohatten. After an asteroid struck Earth 65 million years ago, all of the planet’s dinosaurs had been banished to a dystopian version of our world, but the two realities were still connected by a portal under New York. As the eons passed, the dinosaurs slowly evolved into humanoids and grew to hate the mammals that blissfully walked around Earth prime.

Nintendo’s hands were off the project by this point. “I met with the game’s designer [Shigeru Miyamoto] very briefly, like for a half an hour meeting or something, but that was about it really,” director Rocky Morton told us. “Nintendo let us do whatever we wanted. They just put a crushing deadline on the project. The movie had to be made by a certain date, otherwise there were all these financial penalties, which added a lot of extra stress to the project.”

[…]

The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Bros.,” Hoskins told The Guardian in an interview back in 2007. “It was a f—-in’ nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! F—-in’ nightmare. F—-in’ idiots.”

“From everyone’s point of view, the film was a mess,” Morton admitted. “It just got rushed into production with a script that had been written two weeks before principle photography, and which had no input from either Annabel or myself. Most of the actors had signed up on the old script, not the new script, so it was very hard to coax them into this new one. I don’t think anyone was really happy with the end result.”

A lot of excuses can be made for Super Mario Bros. It was made during a different era. No one had tried to make a big-budget video game movie before. Video game companies didn’t know how much input they should have on the production. And special effects technology limited directors’ abilities to portray some of the more fantastical elements often found in a game. However, it’s hard to escape the fact that Super Mario Bros. was a bad film – a byproduct of a hundred bad choices and unfortunate mishaps. Super Mario Bros. should stand as a testament for the wrong way to make a video game movie. Maybe the industry will figure out how to do it right some day.

[1upmushroom]

While this one was at least more informative that past articles I still felt this one was a dud. One, they forgot to mention that Shigeru Miyamoto actually WANTED the movie to be distant from the games and two, it should NOT be looked as an example of how not to do a video game movie! There are a LOT worse out there, like Uwe Boll's House of the Dead or hell, ANY of his video game adaptions.