What is the worst job you’ve done?
Super Mario Brothers.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Super Mario Brothers.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
I wouldn’t do Super Mario Brothers.
Q&A: Bob Hoskins [The Guardian]
What is the worst job you’ve done?
Super Mario Brothers.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Super Mario Brothers.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
I wouldn’t do Super Mario Brothers.
Q&A: Bob Hoskins [The Guardian]
Aaron
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 10:36 AMApology accepted.
Rocket
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 10:58 AMIt’s a shame he cant see it for the genius that it is.
Tofu
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 11:08 AM… I liked the movie, it’s a guilty pleasure
weresmurf
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 11:41 AMIm sensing a pattern…
Scruffy
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 12:05 PMI watched it again recently, and while it has absolutely nothing to do with the games, and you know it’s a bad movie…. i kinda enjoyed it.
Stevorooni
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 12:07 PMStrangely I think it’s the only movie I’ve ever seen him in
Picky
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 12:08 PMLol no kidding
RichardH
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 12:10 PMHm, I’d kind of like to know why he hates it so. I mean, it wasn’t a great film but why does he wish it expunged from existence?
tpc
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 1:08 PMI’ve read about Bob Hoskins feeling towards SMB before, from memory most of the hatred fell towards the directors who were married and constantly fighting the whole time and treating the cast like shit, and that’s mainly why it turned out to be a complete disaster.
It would be really interesting to know whether the rest of the cast had similar feelings towards the movie, apart from John Leguizamo who has said the same thing.
It’s a shame really, it makes me wonder how different the movie would have been had Harold Ramis directed it as he was being considered at the time.
Snacuum
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 1:16 PMI’m seriously disappointed Bob Hoskins.
I mean, did you not even have fun doing it? The last thing I would do is regret fun and enjoyable memories just because some ignorant people thought it was bad.
Steve0410
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 4:02 PMhttp://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoneyDearBoy
“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.’”
tpc
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 5:22 PMAs I mentioned, that was the problem, he didn’t enjoy making the movie. I recommend having a browse through the IMDB trivia, quite a lot of interesting tidbits in there. One in particular being that he and John Leguizamo hated the experience so much, they frequently went out and got drunk just to get through it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/trivia
Chris
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 8:23 PMZZZZZIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!
Snacuum
Monday, June 20, 2011 at 6:51 AMFor the record, my post was clearly “moderated” after yours, and also I don’t see how the thing Steve0410 said has any relevance to someone’s experience in making a movie.
I will admit I didn’t know about any of the ‘behind the scenes’ problems, however these articles point to ‘Super Mario Bros.” as a movie to blame, when it was the process that the poor actors had been through that made it a bad experience.
Sam Timmins
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 1:23 PMAw, being way too hard on yourself Bob. It was cheesy yes, but not a complete loss. A guilty pleasure WAY more fun and inventive than bloody TRANSFORMERS. And you worked with Dennis Hopper dude! And Fisher Stevens!
MattC
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 1:43 PMGlugluglugluglug!
simon
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 2:06 PMim outraged.
super mario brothers was a great movie.
its as lame as any b grade movie, but thats its charm – good fun, not too serious.
simon
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 8:34 PMand the goombas! they were brilliant
Shane
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 2:11 PM:(
Lyndon L
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 2:18 PMMeh, I didn’t mind it.
It’s almost nothing like Mario Brothers the franchise, but that aside it was entertaining.
TheJagji
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 2:44 PMlol. just lol.
Allanon10101
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 3:59 PMAs crappy a movie as it was… it was just right for that “this is so stupid” laugh-a-thon
Tewak
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 5:34 PMit was a product of its time,
i wonder if they did a remake of it, what the story would actually be about..
N0NEoftheAB0VE
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 5:37 PMI keep thinking about the recent uproar when details leaked about the proposed Uncharted movie and how in the end a bullet was dodged with the director and Marky Mark pulling out of the project. Just think about how history could’ve been changed had the internet been as prevalent in 1990!
Ty
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 5:51 PMEh, eff the naysayers. Everyone knew a live action SMB movie wouldn’t work. I’m glad they made something entertaining.
OPEN THE DOOR
GET ON THE FLOOR
EVERYBODY WALK THE DINOSAUR
[Razor]
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 6:04 PMhahaha someone got excited with making tags
cyk
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 6:06 PMWow talk about recycled news: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2007/08/method_acting_bob_hoskins_the_/
Debs
Monday, June 20, 2011 at 4:32 PMThat’s exactly what I thought when I saw this article pop up.
Running a little dry on stories, Kotaku?
VGP
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 7:14 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v51a3CnhSs
Thomas
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 9:07 PMMore than anything in the article, the set of tags pointing to it are just hilarious.
Dissection
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 9:40 PMThe tags for this article are one of the many many reasons I’m hating the US Kotaku articles more and more each day.
Shane
Monday, June 20, 2011 at 7:11 AM+1, +10