Why Dennis Hopper did the Mario movie News

That movie was DA BOMB

It's a classic. Easily as good as He Man with Dolph.

Oi! Leave He Man alone you! :)

This was bad though, like many movies these days I am amazed anyone thought it would actually work.

Still, could be worse he could have done Street Fighter. Van Damme who?

That movie didn't even do anything mario-ish (where's the jumping on Goomba's head? where were the Koopa Troopas? WHY DIDN'T YOSHI EAT ANYTHING!?), okay i'm about 15 years too late to realise this, but man... way to take advantage of little ol' me. :(

I wouldn't say it was just a bad movie. It was a bad thing full stop, possibly one of the worst things ever made in the history of creation.

"IT'S A BO-BOMB!"

At least videogame movies in the 90s were cheesy bad in a gruesomely fascinating car crash sort of way. They failed, but they failed spectacularly. I know I'd have more fun sitting through a triple bill of Street Fighter, Double Dragon and Mario Bros than the Tomb Raider, Resident Evil and Doom movies.

Didn't he make the same excuse about Waterworld? I think his son remarked at the time that he did not need shoes that badly.

Dan has a point, they were crap and cheesy but fun unlike the likes of Alone in The Dark, Resident Evil and Tomb Raider (but Double Dragon Dan?? Jesus...).

Mind you my fav game movie ever is a recent one Silent Hill was ace, I'm so glad they didn't mess that up (although I still don't really understand what happened at the end????)

I don't remember waterworld being as bad as the Mario movie. Infact I remember enjoying waterworld in a brain disengaging way!

That move was bob-omb.

Edit: Beaten. :(

"Has your father ever had to appear in a pisspoor big screen adaptation of a popular videogame to get you a new pair of Hi-Tecs, readers?"

Actually, yes. Maybe you've heard of him. His name is Mark Wahlberg.

Maybe if Dennis hadn't snorted all the profits from his previous hundred movies, he could have afforded shoes for his whole family.

If it wasn't for Bob Hoskin's dressed as Mario I wouldn't of had a clue this movie related to the game!

Yeah but he was in blue velvet for christ sake!

Strangely I could see Hopper in a film version of Killer 7 directed by Miike Takashi. Can't see them selling much popcorn though.

"Has your father ever had to appear in a pisspoor big screen adaptation of a popular videogame to get you a new pair of Hi-Tecs, readers?"

My father is Uwe Boll... I have no shoes... :(

Hahaha, this film.... I fookin love it!!

Bob Hoskins and John Luigi-orgamso (can't remember his surname, plays Tibalt in R&J) were ace, their acting was oscar-winning!

Goombas & Koopas who had massive trench coats and tiny heads, looked like some of test tube experiment gone wrong

Yoshi.... well he was a fooking dinosaur

Iggy - well he was played by the "Johnny Five is Alive!!!" dude

Princess Daisy - Eye candy!

Narrator - Homer bloody Simpson!!!

Still brings a tear to my eye :D

My father appeared in 'Saving Private Ryan', which was a piss-poor rip-off of 'Stonkers'.

My father starred in D-Day, which was just a piss-poor rip off of the Somme, only set on a beach.

I think there is a market for a new Mario movie, but one done in CGI. I could see it pulling in kids and drawing a few million at the box office if they teamed up with someone like Dreamworks or Pixar.

From a meeting in "crap watchers anonymous":

- "Hi, my name is AOFanboi, and I have seen Super Mario Brothers three times. In the cinema."
- "Get out of here! We cannot help you! Leave before you contaminate us all!"

At least Dennis Hopper could make good movies afterwards to compensate. Raul Julia as M Bison in Streetfighter, though... dying of cancer and a great character actor's last hurrah is that POS...

I really enjoyed Water World.
And I thought the Mario movie was fun as well. Nothing special, but I watched it a couple of times.

I actually liked this film. I guess it was because even as a ten year old I knew how stupid and ridiculous it was.

Gimme Super Mario Bros-style adaptations of video games like this any day. The more I think about it the more I think this film was a work of genius - it's so batshit crazy upside down I can't help but admire it.

Having Dennis Hopper, a man with blonde hair, play a 15 foot turtle-dragon thing is inspired.

Having Spiny played by a rotund black whore is inspired.

Replacing the lush Mushroom Kingdom for a (really impressive) Akira-style mega-city with police cars with digger attachments? Genius!

Having the king of Mushroom Kingdom as a big blob of disgusting puss? Brilliant.

Using the super scope to kill Bowser in his SNES-style bucket final boss bit at the end - don't tell me this film wasn't loyal.

Making Dennis Hopper point and say "Monkey!", classic.

Replacing the Twin Towers of New York with broken, destroyed versions - political.

What the hell was that bit where the old woman mugs Maro & luigi for some Coins? I don't know what the hell that was. Actually I do - it was F*CKING AWESOME!

And it did the warp-through-solid-wall thing before Mario 64 dreamt of it.

I actually read the book ataptation of the film. I was on holiday with nothing else to read.