This meme makes no sense because SMB93 is a masterpiece.
Agreed. IMO it’s a coked-out SMB fanfic that became a movie, and I love it.
Only 4 1/2 stars?
I’ve always enjoyed it for what it was; A campy, goofy movie based on a video game. It never took itself too seriously, and it just kind of accepted itself. Just watched Borderlands, for example, and it was horrible and flat. The characters were there, but they weren’t the characters, just 2D imaginings of them. Anyway, looking up reviews, I found a great one that compared it to the '93 SMB. They said that we needed another SMB, and we didn’t get it, Borderlands wasn’t “interestingly stupid”. That’s a great term. Interestingly Stupid is definitely what SMB was, simultaneously a blast, while also being the dumbest thing you ever saw, and you can never quite put your finger on the reason it(kinda) worked.
Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick
Pitch Black is pretty alright, it isnt great, but it is far from terrible. The rest of the films have a pretty strong downward trend though.
Riddick was awesome and I’m tired pretending that it was not
The langoliers will always have a spot for me to watch it.
Also : OH HI MARK
I would love to see a director’s cut of that film because it was a victim of massive executive meddling after the fact.
It was directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, who created and directed both the British and U.S. versions of Max Headroom, which is why it has a cyberpunk look. It was co-written by Ed Solomon, who wrote Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Men in Black.
And then executives shat all over it.
You also have to remember that in 1993, there was almost no Mario lore. Mario was a guy who jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess and sometimes got extra powers to help him. Luigi was his brother who could basically do the same thing. There was really no characterization and plot to speak of. They had a ton of freedom to do whatever they wanted and that freedom was taken away from them.
There is a cut out there done by my friend Garrett Gilchrist, who also restored The Thief and the Cobbler, where he tried to get it as close to Jankel and Morton’s original cut as he could, using things like workprints. But we’ll never know exactly how good it could have been.
Tank Girl was a very similar situation, but still ended up an okay film.
From the stories I’ve heard, the husband and wife directors ran a terrible production with daily rewrites and an extremely unhappy cast and production team. I don’t think studio meddling was the major factor there.
yeah the leads being drunk all the time has to be a factor
Sleepaway Camp
Krull the conqueror which not only is a terrible movie but also a terrible game and I love both. Then again Im 50 and I love many bad videoganes from the Atari era such as ET or Delta Force (also bad game and movie also produced by Cannon films)
edit Krull not Kull the Conqueror
Krull?! We can agree on that. It really is an amazing and entertaining mess of a film. I can just hear the writers now…
Hrm, the script just seems kinda… flat. I know… <<massive bong rip>> let’s add storm troopers and lasers to the mix.
However…
videoganes from the Atari era such as ET
That is a game that is difficult to love. You may be in a very exclusive club on that one.
I was five or six and gaming was new. It never occurred to me that having to reset the game because I fell down a hole was a bad thing. To me it was just like dying in any game but you only had the one life. I loved ET and beat the game often.
That being said Yar’s Revenge and RealSports Tennis are the best Atari 2600 games IMO
Krull or Kull?
Krull I got mixed up and added the conqueror.
Underrated classic
Oh, I forgot to mention the not good movies that I watched over and over again on VHS in my childhood.
Number one would be the 1959 version of Journey to the Center of the Earth where James Mason plays a Scotsman and doesn’t even bother with an accent and Pat Boone also plays a Scotsman but gives up on the accent after about 10 minutes. The whole plot is moronic and the effects are terrible and I love every single minute of it. The only true compliment I can give it is that Bernard Herrmann’s soundtrack is terrific.
Then there was the 1980 attempt that Disney made to appeal to college kids, Midnight Madness. It was a total flop and I love every single minute of it. FAGABEEFE!
Third would be an animated movie that was made in France and dubbed into English called The Secret of the Selenites. It was a Baron Munchausen film, but I’m guessing they thought Americans wouldn’t know who that was, so they left his name out of the title. It has a terrible pop song in the beginning that is in the “so bad it’s good” territory.
For me its Fatty Finn. A 1980 movie adaptation of an Australian cartoon strip character from the 1930s. Why it was translated and published in Norway and what made my mother buy it I don’t know. But I have seen it enough times that now over 30 years after I last saw it I can probably quote parts if it Verbatim.
The Tripods (the BBC show). I loved it so much, still love it tbh. Still angry, that there was no season 3.
I watched the Mario Bros movie as an adult a few years back and really enjoyed it. It was a fun take on the lore!
The only thing I felt was weak was Dennis Hopper. His performance had strong “I’m too good for this” vibes. Based on the other things I know him from, that’s wildly untrue - it should have been a great fit for him. Chew the scenery and be an arsehole - basically be the Deacon from Waterworld, or the villain from Speed!
Try watching him in better movies. Hopper is incredible when he works with David Lynch types.
…but I enjoyed him in those movies!
He’s good in those movies but in “Wild at Heart” or “Easy Rider” you’ll see why he gets the reputation for being a great director and actor.
Hook my beloved. I understand objectively why it is not a good movie, but having watched it 852 times throughout my childhood, I could not find fault with it on a recent rewatch.
edit: I watched that movie so early and so often, that I can recite whole scenes not by word, but by phonemes and cadence, because my language skills weren’t fully developed at the time.
…why is it not a good movie?
It’s a terrible story that makes littke sense. I was in high school when it came out and people my agewere surprised it became a classic as it was received poorly.
IDK, I think it’s a great story that makes a lot of sense
I understand objectively why it is not a good movie
You fucking what, mate?
I haven’t seen this since my childhood, so I still assume it’s a fantastic movie.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.
Go ninja go ninja go…
