How Super Mario Bros doomed video-game movies for a generation

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Ed Power looks back at how the big-screen version of Nintendo’s ‘Super Mario Bros’, which turns 25 this week, set all future video-game films up for a fall

A helter-skelter ride of a movie, satirical, very witty and showing its director’s immense affection for the B-movie actors, stunt men and hangers on who make up its cast. It’s also a tribute to Sharon Tate . Who would have believed that a film set just as the Sixties in LA turned sour could be so uplifting?The world isn’t scared enough of Scientology, but perhaps it would be if enough people had seen The Master. Paul Thomas Anderson depicts the cult as a trap for bruised masculinity.

 

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Tbh loved it

Silent Hill was good but the game was better.

...and soon we will have sonic the hedgehog to save us!

I am winner Mario Bros Loooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllll

I wish something would doom the rest of pop culture for this decade

I remember that movie lol.. As a kid I didn’t know it sucked lol

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