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    It wasn’t until 2024 that the world understood how perfect it was to cast John Leguizamo as Luigi.

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        I finally got around to watching that after the missus kept referring to him as the pest guy.

        As soon as well started the movie she just went “you’re going to hate it”

        She was not wrong. How the man continued to have a career after that is anyone’s guess.

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    Fun fact, the two leads were drunk most of that movie because, well, because they were the two leads in that movie.

    The directors, yes two of them, were horrible to work with according to pretty much everyone that worked on it.

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      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.

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    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.

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    The OG Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter movies are dope. I don’t care what anyone else says.

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      The first MK movie was the archetypal “It’s good… for a video game adaptation” movie for a long time. Luckily now we have great adaptations (not necessarily movies though) to point to that stand on their own merits.

      But yeah, there’s always a part of me that will have fond memories of MK and the JCVD Street Fighter movie. Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.

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        Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.

        I gotta watch it…I just remember panicked guys shoving trash into a van to fuel it during a car chase or something. It looked radical lmao.

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      M. Bison’s famous “It was Tuesday” line in Street Fighter (1994) is frequently misread by viewers as a statement of apathy. Instead, he is telling Chun Li that the day her father died was so important to him that he can instantly recall what day of the week it happened on.

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    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.

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      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.

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    Disney’s The Black Cauldron. Apparently it was so bad it like…almost killed off Disney animation for good? But I loved that shit as a kid. No idea why we had it, either. I was born almost a decade after it came out. Eilonwy deserves her place with the Disney Princesses, damn it!

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    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!

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    idk if it was terrible because I haven’t watched it in over 20 years… but that’d be Space Jam for me. Watched it so often, the VHS gave out and we had to buy it a second time.

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      Space jam holds up fine. I was an adult when it first came out I got to watch it recently with the kids.

      It’s not like I’d pay to go watch it in the theater but if it was on, I wouldn’t turn it off.

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    The Last Dragon. It’s a blacksploitation movie that was trying to mirror popular kung fu movies, but “in the ghetto”.

    It’s cringe. The fight scenes are meh. The plot is… something to do with a kidnapping maybe?

    It has some cool glowy bits. 10/10.