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The year was 1993 and the day when big-budget video-game-to-film adaptations were a proven draw at the box office were far in the future. But surely the biggest video game in the world would translate into an equally huge success on the silver screen...right?
Almost 30 years after the Super Mario Bros. movie premiered - and promptly bombed - movie fans are reassessing this trailblazing film. Is it truly the misbegotten adaptation of a beloved game like most people thought at the time, or is there more to this bizarre trip to a parallel world inhabited by sentient dinosaurs and fungus run amok?
In tonight's episode, we discuss just that - how this film came to be, how it's a generally insane trip of 90s cinema, and what our final ratings are on the first live-action video game film of all time.
By The Videostore JunkiesThe year was 1993 and the day when big-budget video-game-to-film adaptations were a proven draw at the box office were far in the future. But surely the biggest video game in the world would translate into an equally huge success on the silver screen...right?
Almost 30 years after the Super Mario Bros. movie premiered - and promptly bombed - movie fans are reassessing this trailblazing film. Is it truly the misbegotten adaptation of a beloved game like most people thought at the time, or is there more to this bizarre trip to a parallel world inhabited by sentient dinosaurs and fungus run amok?
In tonight's episode, we discuss just that - how this film came to be, how it's a generally insane trip of 90s cinema, and what our final ratings are on the first live-action video game film of all time.