The de-evolved human/dinosaur and loyal soldier of President Koopa known as a Goomba,Įffectively killing the filmmaking career of then husband and wife directorial team Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel – still best known for their mid-eighties faux digital TV character Max Headroom – the duo’s approach of throwing everything at the screen and seeing what sticks resulted in a bloated, confusing mess of a film which even hardcore gamers stayed away from. Even today, the film remains a textbook example of what not to do when trying to construct a credible feature-length narrative on the foundations of a simplistic platform game. One of the earliest attempts which failed miserably was 1993’s Super Mario Bros. Despite the odd exception – the low-rent Resident Evil movie series has had surprising legs – the cinematic landscape is littered with a host of bad-to-dire video games adaptations.
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