#Rocky Morton

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new frontier, donald fagen |1983|

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"No woman can resist the charm of a Mario."

Super Mario Bros., 1993.

Dir. Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel | Writ. Parker Bennett, Terry Runté & Ed Solomon | DOP Dean Semler

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Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Directed by Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton

Cinematography by Dean Semler

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Super Mario Bros. (1993, dir. Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel)

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On February 24, 1994 Super Mario Bros. debuted in the Czech Republic.

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Super Mario Bros.

“Super Mario Bros.” looked like a movie that would be fun to make fun of, but ended up being extremely difficult to sit through.

Mario Mario and his brother, Luigi Mario, are plumbers working in Brooklyn. Luigi starts dating a girl named Daisy. When Daisy gets kidnapped and transported into another dimension, Mario and Luigi jump in to rescue her. Before Daisy disappeared, Luigi was able to procure her necklace. The Mario Brothers come to realize that the necklace is an ancient meteorite that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs in their reality. Placed in the wrong hands, the meteorite can be used to fuse the two realities back together.

I remember watching this movie when I was in middle school and thinking it wasn’t the best, but it was cool to see such a different take on the Mario Brothers. This was back when I thought turning every IP into something gritty was cool. Now that I’m older, I don’t really subscribe to the belief. I think some properties benefit from a more gritty take, but most don’t. A prime example is the Mario Brothers. People like their world because it’s vibrant and fun. “Super Mario Bros.” takes all of that and throws it out the trash. This universe is a seedy underbelly, almost like a dystopia. It’s constantly dark and people don’t know how to use their car brakes. I don’t mind Mario having a Brooklyn accent, but I will never understand why they chose John Leguizamo to play Luigi. I think he’s fine, despite the fact that I don’t like him in a lot of movies, but the age gap between him and Bob Hoskins makes their being brothers implausible. I think Bob Hoskins was fine as Mario, but I don’t think he’s a mascot that kids could get behind. There were a bunch of mind-baffling changes made from the source materials that just do not work. Goombas are known to be smaller creatures, but they’re hulking beasts in this movie. Yoshi looks like a generic dinosaur. They never refer to King Koopa as Bowser. King Koopa also just looks like a normal human until the very end when he turns into a generic, cheap-looking dinosaur. What pisses me off the most was what I learned about after I rewatched the movie. I always love hearing about actors enjoying their time on set and how the director fosters a positive environment while filming. I genuinely think this produces a better performance overall. Reading about the sheer incompetence of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel made my blood boil. You know it’s bad when a majority of the cast had to be under the influence of whatever they could get their hands on in order to get through production. Bob Hoskins would even talk badly about the director a couple of years later, even after they resigned from directing entirely. Dennis Hopper, the guy who played King Koopa, reportedly got so fed up that he yelled at the director for three hours straight. There’s even a story about how Rocky Morton poured hot coffee on one of the extras because he didn’t like them. Then, he later tried to deny this by saying he was only trying to make the extra’s costume look more weathered. This is the behavior of a trash human being. I normally don’t condone letting personal gripes be leveled in a professional setting, but I think this is the rare occasion where it’s warranted. I’m glad these two aren’t directing movies anymore. They don’t deserve to. They’re not only incompetent, but they’re also calloused, evil people whose legacy will be this stain on cinematic history.

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Rewatched on April 7th, 2023

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"Super Mario Bros." (1993) Directed by Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton (Adventure/Comedy/Sci-Fi/Video Game)

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Super Mario Bros.

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8/6/24

MAX HEADROOM: 20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE, directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, 1985.

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#78: D.O.A. (1988, dir. by Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton)

20: The Great Unstreamable (search all night with all your might, it still ain't found on any site--bonus for desert/drought content)...does heatwave count?

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new frontier, donald fagen |1983|

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This isn’t hilariously bad in the same manner that any of the other movies I’m featured this month – it’s not even close. Depending on how much you care about movie accuracy when it comes to video game adaptations, you may even find this movie infuriating. If you can get past that aspect though, this movie isn’t what you would call terrible, despite appearing on several “worst films ever made”…

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characters i‘d love to see as a rocky beach crimes investigator

morton we already know he can do it from tödliche spur, he deals with weird rich people on a day to day basis, there is something there for sure, he‘s classy he‘s sassy, maybe with cotta as backup

kelly we know she‘s an absolute queen & i‘d love to know more about her, bonus points if she‘s investigating with jeffery

onkel titus maybe something involving his past at the circus, his backstory sounds interesting from what we know

cotta but it would have to be outside of his normal police job. maybe he has some time off & somthing happens. something happens and no one at work believes him or maybe something with dirty cops again, would have to heavily feature goodween

monique carrera something in the music & club scene, seems unlikely as she‘s not a „big“ recurring character but i love her & it seems fun

jelena my beloved. we know she has what it takes & she deserves to be the main character, i know he already got a book but would love to see her & skinny interact more i kinda liked their dynamic in toteninsel

lesley always something going on at booksmith, i just like her

allie jamison always some weird shit happening in her life anyway, i think a lot of people really don‘t like her but i do

john william melvin roger „bill“ andrews mainly to investigate whats up with his name, but seriously his job should be enough set up, also dilf

clarissa franklin oh boy what an unpopular opinion but she is an interesting character

honerable mentions:

- august august silly name silly guy main character energy, even though he did kinda piss me of in feuriges auge

- bennington peck fun guy what can i say

- ty cassey canon might have forgotten you but i have not

- brittany another unpopular one ig & i think she‘s in jail but another kinda fun evil girlboss or whatever

- george he‘d be on the list above but already kinda had his moment with reynold but i‘d love to see more