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Definitely Not A Cop said:

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If I show my thumb calluses from beating bowser in Super Mario 64 twenty years ago, do I get in for free?

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How about the palm blisters from the Mario Party tug of war minigame? That **** ruptured in my hand

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In his 2007 autobiography John Leguizamo states he and Bob Hoskins hated working on the film and would frequently get drunk to make it through the experience. Both men apparently knew the movie would turn out bad, so they simply tried to make the best of it. He also stated he felt one of the biggest reasons the movie turned out the way it did was because the directors wanted a more "adult" movie while the studio, considering the source material, was looking for a children's film.

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Dennis Hopper explained why he did the film - "I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' and I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'"

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Dennis Hopper described the film's production - "It was a nightmare, very honestly, that movie. It was a husband and wife directing team who were both control freaks and wouldn't talk before they made decisions. Anyway, I was supposed to go down there for five weeks, and I was there for 17. It was so over budget."

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In a 2011 interview with The Guardian, Bob Hoskins described the film's production - "It was a f*ckin' 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*ckin' nightmare. F*ckin' idiots."

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After the film bombed at the box office, Nintendo stopped producing live-action theatrical films based on their video game franchises for a long while. A "Metroid" film was put into development, but never went past pre-production. Nintendo would eventually release another adaptation, Detective Pikachu, to improved critical and commercial success.

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An article in "Spy" magazine claimed that the script was being rewritten so many times during production that the actors stopped paying attention to these daily rewrites.

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John Leguizamo accidentally broke one of Bob Hoskins's fingers during a stunt involving the Mario van. According to Leguizamo, when it happened, Hoskins started cussing profusely and incoherently, but instantly forgave him.

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According to John Leguizamo in his autobiography, Rocky Morton once poured hot coffee on an extra's head because he didn't like the extra's costume.

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In addition to breaking his finger, Bob Hoskins recalled that he was stabbed four times, electrocuted and nearly drowned. "And that's just what happened to me".

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Rocky Morton reflected on the movie in 2016 as a "harrowing" experience. He explained that he and Annabel Jankel, along with the rest of the cast, agreed to make the movie based on the script originally written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, which focused on Mario and Luigi's complicated but loving family dynamic that they had developed in the absence of their parents. However, just a few weeks before shooting was to begin, the studio financing the film demanded significant rewrites to make the film more childlike and comedic. The final result, according to Morton, was a script that was not at all like the script that he, Jenkel, and the cast had signed on to film, and that the tone of the new script was not at all compatible with the sets, which had already been built. Morton also reflected that he felt very uneasy being put in the position of having to defend the new script. In addition, working with Dennis Hopper was "really, really hard. Really hard. I don't think [Dennis Hopper] had a clue what was going on." Despite describing the overall experience as humiliating, Morton is proud of the film considering the chaos created as a result of the late and unexpected script rewrites.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Warcraft has the record with $439M. Not gonna be hard to clear that.

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This was probably one of my last "Santa" Christmases, and remains the most memorable one by far.

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OnlyForNow said:

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Coming downstairs on Christmas morning in about 1989/1990, I was 4 or 5, me my brother and my sister heard the distinctive du-dut-duut-da-du-dut-dutt opening of the original game on NES.

My dad was in the study, and had turned it on when he heard us coming down the stairs. Was a really cool Christmas.

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Yoooo pic.twitter.com/89S3EA4e2b

— Puff (@BigBadHuff) October 6, 2022

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Decay said:

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So is this the second movie in the Bros Cinematic Universe

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Between this, Detective Pikachu, and the Sonic movies we are setting up the Smash Bros Universe!

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