{"id":8935,"date":"2023-02-10T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/10\/can-the-super-mario-bros-movie-end-30-years-of-terrible-video-game-films\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:39:10","slug":"can-the-super-mario-bros-movie-end-30-years-of-terrible-video-game-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/10\/can-the-super-mario-bros-movie-end-30-years-of-terrible-video-game-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Can The Super Mario Bros Movie end 30 years of terrible video game films?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Hoskins called the original Nintendo spin-off the \u2018worst thing I ever did\u2019, which has set the tone for video game movies ever since \u2013 can this latest effort buck the trend?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Bros. It was a fuckin\u2019 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! Fuckin\u2019 nightmare. Fuckin\u2019 idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are the words of the late, great Bob Hoskins to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2007\/aug\/03\/2\">Simon Hattenstone of the Guardian in 2007<\/a>. Anyone who has actually seen the horrifyingly bad 1993 film he is talking about, known for being the first mainstream Hollywood adaptation of a video game, might wonder why we are about to get a remake. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/dennis-hopper-speaks-candidly-about-his-role-as-king-koopa\/\">Here\u2019s Dennis Hopper<\/a>, who played villain King Koopa on his own feelings about the movie: \u201cI made a picture called Super Mario Bros, and my six-year-old son at the time \u2013 he\u2019s now 18 \u2013 he said, \u2018Dad I think you\u2019re probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros?\u2019 And I said: \u2018Well, Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,\u2019 and he said, \u2018Dad, I don\u2019t need shoes that badly.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/feb\/10\/can-the-super-mario-bros-movie-end-30-years-of-terrible-video-game-films\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a2b4cf0bebd9c5dc2294a0238255baea2d852cbf\/345_0_1340_805\/master\/1340.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fc41a4ff40458b4787bf310a4b7c3d37\" title=\"Can The Super Mario Bros Movie end 30 years of terrible video game films?\" \/>Bob Hoskins called the original Nintendo spin-off the \u2018worst thing I ever did\u2019, which has set the tone for video game movies ever since \u2013 can this latest effort buck the trend?<br \/>\n\u201cThe worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Bros. It was a fuckin\u2019 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! Fuckin\u2019 nightmare. Fuckin\u2019 idiots.\u201d<br \/>\nThese are the words of the late, great Bob Hoskins to Simon Hattenstone of the Guardian in 2007. Anyone who has actually seen the horrifyingly bad 1993 film he is talking about, known for being the first mainstream Hollywood adaptation of a video game, might wonder why we are about to get a remake. Here\u2019s Dennis Hopper, who played villain King Koopa on his own feelings about the movie: \u201cI made a picture called Super Mario Bros, and my six-year-old son at the time \u2013 he\u2019s now 18 \u2013 he said, \u2018Dad I think you\u2019re probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros?\u2019 And I said: \u2018Well, Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,\u2019 and he said, \u2018Dad, I don\u2019t need shoes that badly.\u2019\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Hoskins called the original Nintendo spin-off the \u2018worst thing I ever did\u2019, which has set the tone for video game movies ever since \u2013 can this latest effort buck the trend? \u201cThe worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Bros. It was a fuckin\u2019 nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/10\/can-the-super-mario-bros-movie-end-30-years-of-terrible-video-game-films\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can The Super Mario Bros Movie end 30 years of terrible video game films?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}