Super Mario Bros. Pitch Meeting

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In the early 1990’s, Mario and Luigi were all the rage. The Nintendo video game franchise had become a massive worldwide phenomenon, so it only made sense for Hollywood to try and cash in on it. The Super Mario Bros movie was the first movie based on a video game ever made, and it did not exactly inspire confidence in the genre.
Starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper and Samantha Mathis, the movie is completely bonkers and raises a whole lot of questions. Like how did dinosaurs also evolve into humans? Why do none of the characters have anything to do with their video game counterparts? Why did they go all-in on the plumbing aspect? Why does President Koopa not just go through the portal? How did they think this would get a SEQUEL?!
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the pitch meeting that led to Super Mario Bros! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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[@opi_is_me1576]

"I don't care" pretty much sums up the entirety of the development of this movie.

[@mallios13]

Exactly, Bob and John said as much. Bob even stayed largely drunk throughout it and John joined in on that, just to tolerate the production.

[@ryanross6973]

I just can't believe that the whole abomination went through writing, casting, pre-production, filming, and post-production and nobody stepped up and said "Jesus christ, what the hell are we even doing?" There were so many stages where this should have failed, and yet it passed all those with no issues.

[@xgray2012]

Ain't that sad?!

[@HABO2210]

It's like Ricky Gervais created that movie

[@marcorizo1387]

The people making this movie thought what they made was good.

[@itsakingproduction727]

"I... I just... I just don't care." --every person involved in this movie.

[@avada0]

@Itsa KingProduction Most movies these days.

[@Copaxatl]

Itsa KingProduction I see it as these two “artistic” filmmaker couple are given a lot of money, they’re not reined in on their “vision” and allowed to do whatever, but ultimately, they don’t know Mario Bros. And didn’t understand it as it was

[@marclewis5505]

So damn true yo.

[@windowguylol]

Itsa.... Me?

[@charleshetrick3152]

Hey! Bob Hoskins cared! Poor fool almost died making this movie!

[@opedromagico]

he writes he pitches but most importantly: he doesn't care

[@daniyalkadar886]

Hey I know you, you're the one guy

[@ratoh1710]

Hollywood screenwriters in need of a paycheck in a nutshell

[@aidtheking9744]

Not caring is tight

[@Wanda-wi4hp]

@@aidtheking9744 yeah yeah yeah

[@MrCoww]

Wow wow Wow.

[@sheolcodemonkey4027]

"You know what they say about little girls, don't you? They never forget the first time they were kissed by a lizard" I don't even know how to try and describe how horrible this line was to hear with my own two ears

[@khalidahmed3125]

It is true tho if i was kissed by a lizard when i was a kid i would not forgot it

[@johngr1747]

I'm always gonna mute the video in that part, I decided!

[@quinnready2936]

Lizard mouths are tight!

[@EliAs-ub6yf]

@@quinnready2936 Wtf are you trying to insert in a lizards mouth?

[@SilverVolo]

@@EliAs-ub6yf some *tight* stuff

[@mr.lechat6649]

“It’s exactly like that except not that at all” is that movie in a nutshell

[@soulsabr4472]

I believe that was the entire description printed on the back of the VHS home video release.

[@AshleyWilliamsN7]

The actors said during filming everyone was doing multiple shots. As in, both Mario, Luigi, and the director.

[@charliedawson6318]

'Manhatten' is actually old English for _man who wears ten hats_

[@adamalakshar4226]

Your comment is the first thing to make me smile in days. Thank you.

[@handsomebrick]

Actually the man wears tan hats.

[@videoplusdvd]

@@handsomebrick The Man With The Tan Hat, and his monkey Curious Donold...

[@elementneon]

@@ratkeep I see what Unfunny did there

[@ratkeep]

ShaneX 😳

[@IcetricX]

This is my favorite pitch meeting. This level of apathy and frustration is unmatched.

[@wyattangle]

This is my favorite one as well....for the exact same reason mentioned. "I don't...I just DO not care."

[@rottenhead8385]

Plus he says that insane sentence about the fungus that wants to help and used to be king!

[@Simp_Zone]

His "heyyy get outa here" in NY accent had me rolling. This is THE best episode of this.

[@isaacland249]

I like the Mario movie a lot

[@timiliscousthe69th72]

“ It would have completely messed with my acid trip” I’m laughing so hard!

[@tyronelivingston67]

I scrolled down too far to read this comment.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Cracks me up everytime I re-watch; the timing is just so great.

[@superfurryfox1]

So am I .... But I am on acid... Though technically LSD is fungus

[@Level_Eleven]

@@superfurryfox1 Idk about that

[@personjc567]

“That would’ve completely messed with my acid trip”, this was my exact thought of the writers state of mind while watching this movie

[@lilmissknowitall5775]

best line and this is the best Pitch Meeting

[@anton7354]

yeah, right?

[@herbderbler1585]

I'm pretty sure the original creators of Super Mario Bros. were tripping balls. The game only seems normal in comparison to this movie. If you explained it to someone who had never seen video games, they'd think you were on acid as well.

[@andrescastillo7328]

absolutely

[@PhillyViking96]

That part had me dying.

[@c187rocks]

“That would’ve completely messed with my acid trip.” He's got a point, you know.

[@nunyabusiness6693]

Only people who had a lot of fun in their young days know that statement is completely accurate. Never mix the 2.

[@chrisoliver3642]

Acid, schmacid. This movie was obviously the product of an extended ether binge.

[@procrastinator547]

Nunya Business I’ve many times wondered what the combination of the two would be like. Good to know it’s seemingly not a good idea

[@georgetrapp6666]

I once videotaped this movie to watch another time, and left the tape in the VCR. The movie got taped over, and to this day, I've never seen it. Was that a curse or a blessing?

[@kassanetheridge4098]

@@georgetrapp6666 blessing

[@JunKazamaFan]

I love how Ryan took a typical "mushrooms" joke and spun it into comedy gold.

[@DarnHooligan]

the amount of times Ryan says "I don't care" is TIGHT

[@patrickrobinsob1464]

And it was super easy barely an inconvenience

[@reaganlaurel6688]

Oh, wowowowowowow. Wow.

[@kristibrown1159]

@@patrickrobinsob1464 Oh really?

[@nicki5271]

“How?” “I don’t care.” That is a most accurate depiction of the pitchmeeting.

[@NickCorvello]

"no no, that would have completely messed with my acid trip" Lost it there 😆

[@timj.]

Baking soda

[@phoenix4256]

Me too, laughed so hard it hurt.

[@davidt8087]

Lol at Ryan poking fun at evolution not being real science like chemistry or physics or even math and poking fun at it lmao. Evolutionist thinks: give it enough time and magically a creature will mutate functioning and useful parts and change entirely and somehow reproduce with a female of itself that also evolved at the same time nearby so they reproduce and then inbreeding wasn't a problem and natural selection selected those mutations somehow even though we never see this happen ever today and woallah after millions of years they develop self awareness, consciousness, and have two arms and two legs and a brain that understands language like humans"

[@Dankman9]

Mushrooms definitely don't mess up acid trips. @DavidT he's not making fun of evolution.

[@joeyhammer6702]

Oh my god

[@Kattywagon29]

"That sounds, you know, completely insane." Best Line

[@justinwalker5742]

"He's gonna try and get intimate with Daisy...." "Ohhh...no." Kills. Me. Every. Time.

[@xavierrobinson55]

This movie was so bad that he didn't even say, "Get off my back about this" and started saying, "I don't care!" Hahahaha

[@bluethunderandfrankchallen3825]

Lol hillarious

[@bofetada6841]

So true!

[@No-onesgayformoleman]

That's because he cared about the other plot holes.

[@kinyutaka]

"I don't care, I literally don't care." Not even about him being all over your back? He should probably get off that thing

[@MP-lc7vy]

Wanna make a guess on how many times he'll say "I don't care" when the pitch meeting for Fast and Furious 9 drops? I'm gonna guess 16

[@robdude999]

@@MP-lc7vy Why not 20?

[@davidt8087]

Lol at Ryan poking fun at evolution not being real science like chemistry or physics or even math and poking fun at it lmao. Evolutionist thinks: give it enough time and magically a creature will mutate functioning and useful parts and change entirely and somehow reproduce with a female of itself that also evolved at the same time nearby so they reproduce and then inbreeding wasn't a problem and natural selection selected those mutations somehow even though we never see this happen ever today and woallah after millions of years they develop self awareness, consciousness, and have two arms and two legs and a brain that understands language like humans"

[@PoemJunkie]

David T that was neither the joke Ryan made nor what scientists know about evolution, but whatever.

[@kristibrown1159]

I bet it’s hard for him to get off his back though…

[@DCLK]

Can't wait for the upcoming Mario movie pitch meeting

[@wooshydog]

I was about to comment the same thing XD

[@isaacland249]

Me to but this one is fine also I’m not talking about pitch meetings

[@mathidew]

I’ve watched all pitch meetings and this is my favorite, hands down. “I - I don’t- I do not care” NEEDS to be a new catch phrase!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TurtleBerd]

Ah yes, Mario's second most popular quote: "I'm gonna break every bone in their bodies and THEN I'm gonna kill em"

[@dlxmarks]

Bob Hoskins fully recycled his "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" character for this film. He probably thought creating a new character wasn't worth the effort.

[@claudiataylor2955]

Could ya blame him!?

[@dtester]

I think that is what you hear when you play the super Mario theme backwards...

[@EchoWinters]

David Marks well yeah, the script that convinced him to sign up for the movie was completely scrapped and it became a completely different story. He probably just wanted to get it over with

[@davidt8087]

Lol at Ryan poking fun at evolution not being real science like chemistry or physics or even math and poking fun at it lmao. Evolutionist thinks: give it enough time and magically a creature will mutate functioning and useful parts and change entirely and somehow reproduce with a female of itself that also evolved at the same time nearby so they reproduce and then inbreeding wasn't a problem and natural selection selected those mutations somehow even though we never see this happen ever today and woallah after millions of years they develop self awareness, consciousness, and have two arms and two legs and a brain that understands language like humans"

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

I love how fervently he keeps saying "I don't care." That had me laughing more and more every time he said it.

[@k.ubaidullahkhan2336]

I III DON I don't care

[@spongebobsquarepants2981]

I DON'T CARE.

[@startingQB]

Sure... Yeah... Why not... I don't care... I DON'T CARE!

[@FunZies.]

Oh god, I just- I don't care. I do not care.

[@Galliut]

I was coming down to make that comment.

[@doormatt72]

i've watched almost all the pitch meetings, and now coming back to rewatch this one, i think it's my favorite of all of them.

[@timtreefrog9646]

Coraline is mine x

[@rottenhead8385]

It IS a top level pitch meeting. Dumbo/GhostRider/PacificRim being others

[@jimmydcriket4086]

5:06 that is the funniest line delivery I've seen in a while

[@danielcharland1374]

"I don't care." These pitch meetings are getting a lot more blunt and realistic than they used to, lol.

[@anton7354]

realistic pitch meetings are tight!

[@princessnodak]

@@anton7354 realistic pitch meetings are super easy, barely an inconvenience LOL

[@samuelhatlestad6676]

I’m gonna need you to get ALL THE WAY off my back on this ^,^

[@ggt47]

Is that good?

[@brandonmusic9712]

warren byrne I don’t know,

[@davidjohn758]

O no did i miss the catch phrase?. Ryan : I just don't care!

[@mistawinta]

whoops. whoopsie

[@lonesquiff6551]

I'm surprised he didn't ask the director to get all the way off his back lol.

[@jeremymain7303]

Mario didn't say "It's'a me" yet.

[@CETHEFUTURE]

@davidjohn what catch phrase he says slot of them lol lol

[@TracyNorrell]

@@mistawinta wow wow wow wow wow

[@vsratoslava]

The most emphatic and also often used “I DONT CARE” ever, love it

[@jackellis6550]

He's gonna say "I'm gonna break every bone in their bodies and then I'm gonna kill 'em" Well it does have the potential to be as catchy as "It's-a me" This killed me

[@Blucham]

It didn’t kill me, but it did break every bone in my body.

[@EuclideanAl]

"I'm gonna break every bone in their bodies and THEN I'm gonna kill 'em." -Super Mario

[@astupiddumbguy3537]

Excuse you, his name is Mario Mario.

[@cmdrreggit]

Breaking bones before killing is tight!!

[@reinaemiya]

@@cmdrreggit barely an inconvenience

[@EuclideanAl]

@@cmdrreggit Yeah yeah yeah!!

[@MrDigztheswagking]

😂😂😂

[@Joe-qh4ft]

“Their names are Mario Mario and Luigi Mario?” “That’s what were going with.” Hahahahaha wow

[@siobhancadogan9836]

Their last name should have been jump man Mario's original name was jump man

[@tuschman168]

That actually always made sense to me. Why else would they be called the Mario Brothers?

[@MetalSonicReject]

tuschman168 Same.

[@MoramothHauntz]

Wow wow wow

[@robspiess]

That was their names in the Super Mario Brothers Super Show as well.

[@catbatrat1760]

2:26 "For some reason, I'm convinced." The Producer's character in a nutshell.

[@klaymanpanime5779]

To be fair, we were used to hearing Mario with a Brooklyn accent example being “it’s the super Mario brothers super show!”

[@amy_grace]

RIP Captain Lou 😔

[@reloadpsi]

@@amy_grace He did not go to hell before he died, and certainly not after for that matter.

[@JonSmith-hk1bq]

To be even more fair Mario 64 was three years from being released. To put bluntly, the version of Mario that Ryan's talking about hadn't made his gaming debut yet.

[@menageriestudios]

@@JonSmith-hk1bq You are correct plus the princess was just known as princess toadstool not peach yet and he was just king koopa not bowser yet so the producer shouldn’t have brought that up. They called the princess daisy because of the super Mario land game on gameboy had a princess daisy instead of the normal princess toadstool

[@JonSmith-hk1bq]

@@menageriestudios Little correction. He was identified as "Bowser, King of the Koopa" in the North America instruction booklet for Super Mario Bros. So the Bowser name has always been attached in the United States.

[@slowandgentle9087]

Not caring about the plot of your own story line is tight.

[@deathbysvent]

It is barely an inconvinience.

[@gladiatorgamingnoob2035]

@@deathbysvent its super easy barely an inconvenience

[@gnomewarlord6221]

@SlowAndGentle, actually I imagine it to be super loose due to not caring about it.

[@goofyaahratproductions5580]

@@gnomewarlord6221 uh...

[@darthdestructor927]

@@deathbysvent oh hollywood not making good adaptations of video games for near 30 years until sonic and pokemon are tight!!!

[@beautifulmidnight]

“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.'” I think Dennis Hopper’s son nails it.

[@Daniel-jk6ve]

Fair enough.

[@khoichau8316]

Kid's got a good head on his shoulders!

[@sloppyphart7879]

That didn't happen.

[@joelyt1682]

"Exactly like Super Mario but not like Mario at all" can be the whole movie summarized.

[@SeraphsWitness]

The Mario Bros. Movie is to the Mario Bros. Game, just like Mormonism is to Christianity. They use basically the same names and words, but that's where the similarities end.

[@CDRW24]

@@SeraphsWitness Pretty weird thing to make a comparison off of.

[@SeraphsWitness]

@@CDRW24 If you know anything about Mormonism, you know how accurate that is.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

"Mushroom King is for some reason played by Lance Hendrickson." "Wow, he's an actor who's been in important movies. Won't he be hard to get?" "Actually it was super easy. Barely an inconvenience."

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

"Those video game movies come with a built-in audience!" "Oh really?" "Yeah yeah yeah. So what we should do is everything in our power to disappoint those by making the movie completely unrecognizable to the fans!" "Well if you say so!"

[@shirubionicle]

Uwe Boll, anyone?

[@garreswe]

Did you mean Halo? Or maybe Prince of Persia? Or Mortal Kombat?

[@river-yuki]

That pretty much sums up every video game movie ever 😒

[@river-yuki]

@@garreswe Or maybe Uncharted? Or Assassin’s Creed? Or Doom? Or Dead or Alive? Or Tomb Raider?

[@GenericUserName443]

@@river-yuki The last Tomb Raider movie was relatively faithful to the game, and it did have it´s good moments! (and an less than satisfying ending and a dad that could just not stay dead)

[@tobiasbenedictdrager965]

"That would've completely messed with my acid trip." This made the joke perfect and completely unexpected.

[@cristonsloan]

The most satisfying jokes are those where the punchline, even though masterfully unexpected, becomes blatantly inevitable upon hearing it. Such was the case here. Perfect. as you said.

[@NinjaMuffinLive1]

Agreed. I thought it was hilarious, was unexpected

[@tobiasbenedictdrager965]

@@cristonsloan Especially because you thought you already heard the punchline and it was just a lame joke. That made the final punchline such more powerful.

[@cristonsloan]

@@tobiasbenedictdrager965 Yes indeed, excellent point. Ryan obviously understands comedy on a deep level - I wonder if he's ever considered doing stand-up?

[@SuperMadnessmaster]

I honestly can't fathom how this was ever approved and most importantly how some people got paid millions to produce this atrocity.

[@chrisoliver3642]

Now's a good time to familiarize yourself with the "sunk cost fallacy" that most of us are prone too. Both so you know how movies like this get made and so you can avoid making similar mistakes yourself.

[@pauldavis9649]

Summed up by this video perfectly...a cash grab...by people who didn't care. There was clearly a segment of movie people back then who never played a video game in their lives and assumed anyone who did was completely brain dead and would just pay to see any garbage thrown on the screen with their game's title in it.

[@areacode3816]

To be fair most adults at the time did not understand or respect video games or the gaming culture. I would not be shocked if they thought this movie was similar to what the game was actually like. That and kids have a high tolerance for bad movies. I remember liking the Garbage Pail Kids movie. As an adult I can't even finish 25 minutes of that one.

[@Simonporter89]

Having watched a bunch of videos about how this mess of a movie got made, the studio basicly gave the keys to the entire project to a pair of unknown directors that didn't want to make a Mario movie and lied to get the gig. They wanted to make a cyberpunk sci-fi movie and decided to use the massive budget at their disposal to make their project instead and just slapped mario names on everything. The studio not being video game fans, didn't really understand what they were making and just went along with it

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Same reason there were five (or fifty?) Twilight movies: build-in audience.

[@kormagogthedestroyer]

For the record, Mario and Luigi actually have the last name “Mario”

[@Samtagri]

I loved each “I don’t care” more. They were all SOOOO TRUE!!

[@spectredude7884]

"These two bad guys are from the bad dimension" "That can't be good"

[@limitlesspursuit]

Every pitch meeting where he says “Sure I don’t care!” Absolutely cracks me up everytime 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tefweebz]

Because you know that’s exactly what the writer thought.😂

[@mrgreen3956]

Love how that"I don't know" is 50/40 genuine confusion and I don't care, with just a dash of How dare you?!

[@mr.vargas5648]

"Were thoose magic mushrooms?" "No,no they would totaly meesed up my acid trip." I feel this lines arent so far from the truth.

[@jwe2223]

Why not do both, it's called hippy flipping

[@blackdecaymusic]

@@jwe2223 Incorrect, a hippy flip is Mushrooms and MDMA. Candy flip is LSD and MDMDA. Jedi flip is Mushrooms, LSD and MDMA and Nexus flip is 2C-B and MDMA.

[@7thwardlord882]

@@blackdecaymusic sorry we dont know all about drugs😑

[@blackdecaymusic]

@@7thwardlord882 that's completely okay as long as you don't actively spread false information which could potentially be dangerous, which is why I cleared it up :)

[@NickCorvello]

@Bro Den *urge to know more intensifies*

[@theoharris8978]

I feel like this movie desperately needed a pitch meeting.

[@ryanross6973]

I feel like this movie desperately needs to be forgotten.

[@xgray2012]

@@ryanross6973 Agreed.

[@derp-7274]

Yes

[@wiht3630]

Yeah I feel like if they talked about it at all before starting filming they could have fixed some things

[@devinpaul9026]

Feeling that things desperately need other things is TIGHT!

[@LetsBuild_withBabyByrd]

"Did... did you take magic mushrooms while-" "No, no no no no. I ate some portabellos" "Oh okay okay, okay" "Yeah, that would've completely messed with my acid trip" *oh, my god* 👁👄👁

[@firefistofweehaa]

I love when Mario says its Morbin Time

[@mweble1407]

Damn bro, that was so hilarious 😐

[@Negajoe]

Producer: "So you have a Super Mario Brother's movie for me?~... Script-Writer: "Uh...." *looks down at script for dark, gritty, Sci-Fi creature feature set in a dystopian future he thought he was supposed to write* "....Yessir I do!!!"

[@agonleed3841]

lmao

[@matthewpatrick7263]

lol

[@maliktyson18]

This comment deserves more likes lol!

[@flarfy9000]

Fact is, that while the movie isn't exactly a good Super Mario movie, it's actually a pretty good dark, gritty, Sci-Fi creature feature set in a dystopian future in it's own right.

[@devoncoyle7700]

I heard they had someone writing an actual Super Mario script but they fired him and brought on these other people who just added some Mario elements to their pre-existing script for an entirely unrelated project.

[@lunayoshi]

"A big ol' fungus, all over the place, and it _wants to help!"_ I'm dead

[@tesswinker2482]

Well, he's a helpful fun-guy.

[@darthdestructor927]

@lunayoshi oh your photo of 11's facial expression being every mario bros fan's reaction to this film is tight!!

[@whoputyouontheplanet3345]

​@@tesswinker2482 😂

[@WombatDave]

Sometimes I watch these and I think, "Yes, I imagine that is more or less how that meeting went." This, however, is a masterpiece that could not have done a better job summing up everything involved with the movie in question.

[@mindblownstudios2027]

“Pretty much exactly like that but not like that at all” is the perfect description of this movie

[@wille5080]

Writer of Mario Bro’s movie: No I didn’t take mushrooms... That would have messed up my acid trip. ... It all makes sense now.

[@davincent98]

I had to pause for a minute on that one

[@avanticurecanti9998]

"Going all-in on plumbing" sounds like a euphemism. And it disturbs me.

[@markuhler2664]

It is a euphemism and it shouldn't disturb you. All in on Plumbing is just a date with only the sex part, a relationship with only the sex part, or having your 7 best friends over with only the sex part.

[@cthulhustar997]

Mark Uhler sounds more like a gamble on someone who might have an std

It's an euphemism, and a TIGHT one at that.

[@Wardog01Actual]

Brazzers approves.

[@stevedenis8292]

When it comes down to it plumbing should be tight or you will get nasty leaks.

[@bandicootsauce4569]

"So, over a long enough period of time..." "Literally everything evolves into a human being, that's right." Well, that explains Splatoon's entire premise. Lol!

[@Daniel-jk6ve]

MCU and Star Trek here we come.

[@GameTalkEddie]

4:30 - perfect hahahaaa!

[@RionE23]

“Let’s just try it... for a few decades..” “What?” A movie I’d like to see a pitch meeting for: “Star Trek Insurrection”

[@Lycanthromancer1]

What? Star Trek: Insurance Salesman? Is that a thing?

[@RionE23]

Lycanthromancer no but let’s make that a thing, is your starships warranty about to expire? Lmao As many times as the enterprise gets attacked it could use insurance

[@Lycanthromancer1]

Well, it's better than Star Trek: Incensed Erection. Maybe. Wait, I wanna see that, now.

[@raffyssiti6871]

Lmao

[@Temmie321]

Or doom!

[@PjPerez]

Mario: It's a me-- Writer Guy: I just don't care.

[@Wyeuca]

"It might be." "It's not." No idea why, but that made me laugh probably more than it should.

[@ICE-je9cz]

Ryan's indignancy whenever he says "I dont know" is amazing

[@abalog1867]

It's simple. "Look at the door. Get on the floor. Everybody do the dinosaur." Where's the confusion? Whoops. Whoopsie.

[@raphaelnunes5925]

D O T H E M A R I O ! !

[@priscillajimenez27]

Where's the whoopsie?

[@SirAthiro]

I could feel the frustration trying to explain this movie.

[@MrGUnit27]

In an interview, Dennis Hopper said that his son asked him why he did this movie and he replied "So I can buy you new shoes." His son responded, "I don't need shoes that badly." 😂😂

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Okay, so that might be an urban myth, but it's a great one. Also, perfectly awesome six-word critic on this movie.

[@SpaceCase132]

Also, Bob Hoskins, the actor that plays Mario, didn’t even know who Mario was until after he accepted the role when his son showed him that Mario was a character in a video game.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

That ending hits a bit different now that Sonic's succeeded and Mario's getting a movie where the only person who doesn't care is the actor doing his voice.

[@PrinceFloof]

Yea, everyone else is doing a fine job except Pratt

[@PrinceFloof]

Tho considering it's Illumination apart of this project I'm a little worried

[@ts25679]

I'm starting to feel like "I don’t care" could be a new catchphrase for the series given how applicable it seems to be to most studios.

[@Bladez10]

Going to be hard to beat: "It's going be super easy, hardly an inconvenience". I mean, I bet that's their answer to :"How hard is it going to be to get people to spend their money on these movies?"

[@tieck4408]

I felt like he was channeling Alex Kurtzman for this one.

[@cat5kable]

I'm gonna need you to get ALL the way off my back about adding a mew catch phrase.

[@TheJoker-qo4fg]

ts25679 yeah Using it would be super easy, barely an inconvenience

[@wickedwitch785]

My dad and brother were extras in this movie, so I've seen this many times. I was laughing SO hard during this, because you hit it spot on LOL. My dad was sometimes a double for Mario. Near the end when Mario is loading the bullet for the flying shoes, (wtf is up with those too!) thats my dads hand loading the bullet. My brother is staring straight at the camera after King Kupa is slimmed standing behind Princess Daisy LOL. I loved this and will be sharing this with them!

[@rowboat10]

really cool

[@carl_consumer.of.reality]

You’re like famous now

[@BiggisDickis]

Can I get an autograph?

[@virtualryan5683]

Főfasírozó who cares

[@boofmcgoof1534]

You have to tell us what their response was....

[@swindlrmagician]

"For some reason, I'm convinced" could've been one of his iconic Lines in these pitch meetings

[@bjchit]

You know that part about Daisy’s dad being turned into a fungus and wanting to help was actually sorta taken from the game; to wit, the original Super Mario Bros. had Peach kidnapped because Bowser had taken over the Kingdom and turned all the people who objected into bricks or blocks, the ones Mario can hit, so when they give up a coin or a fire flower it’s them offering something to help on his journey. Source: the original instruction manual.

[@DotaCandies]

"I...I do not ... I DON'T CARE." "Ok, alright."

[@zammmerjammer]

They should have put this on the poster for this movie.

[@MrDerekMagnuson]

I love that the “get off my back” line was replaced with an exasperated “ I just don’t care.”

[@braddockakalatis2]

"Yeah, sure, I don't care." There would only be about 10 movies ever made without that philosophy.

[@tickkid]

Ok, this is my favorite one. Every time I watch another one, I come back and bookend it with this one. Just cracks me up every time.

[@arfansthename]

"Its-a-me" I have a feeling that Ryan is time-traveling...

[@MickMcN]

Suggestions: - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. - Van Helsing.

[@elliotlucassimmons5138]

Both amazing movies XD

[@ionlyeatbrainsdummy9858]

I co-sign!

[@bigdad1211]

Great movies!

[@toddc3988]

Please please do Van Helsing. That movie BEGS to be made fun of.

[@b.m.933]

Forget doing this. He is not listening to your suggestion

[@shawnhenry3380]

This pitch meeting is somehow less ridiculous than the actual movie.

[@Magekind]

Just the amount of effort he puts into expressing, "I don't care."

[@Playingwith3D]

"going all in on plumbing is tight" hmmm, that is a loaded statement if I ever saw one. 😂 The writing is very clever. Love it.

[@thewayofthebeard3680]

More... We need more pitch meetings lol Inception Interstellar The Martian The Mask Lord of the Rings Gone Girl? I, Robot? Titanic Bruce Almighty Armageddon Chappie?

[@the7thmagazine]

Yes.

[@DUANEYAISER]

The Way of The Beard Chappie? More like “Crappy!” :-)

[@filiporvik2782]

I just know that he's gonna bring up «why didn't they fly the eagles to Mordor».

[@stickman3208]

Yes

[@L.Keml0]

I'd love to see a pitch meeting for the mask!

[@justinhackstadt6677]

5:35 "I don't care!" Sums up the directors mantra entirely on this movie. Lmao

[@Q_QQ_Q]

lol

[@wesleyoldham4222]

This is just Doki Doki Panic in movie form. The studio probably took a random script and said "What if we make the heroes Mario and Luigi?"

[@ajschultz2676]

I love the line:" why?... - well because.... - that makes sense" 😅❤️😂

[@dudedysseus]

I really want "I don't care" to become a new catch phrase/running joke.

[@jdbjicase]

The way movies are written nowadays, it would be super easy to do that.

[@jdbjicase]

Crap, I forgot to say "Barely an inconvenience.". Whoops.

[@dudedysseus]

@@jdbjicase I'll let it go this time.

[@horridhenry8342]

@@jdbjicase whoopsie

[@ShazeemKhan]

That works!

[@JUTUUBFAN]

Screenwriter Ed Solomon is known for telling a hilarious story about how he was on vacation when the script arbitration for this movie happened. Despite very little of his work making it to the finished product, he ended up getting final screenwriting credit because none of the other writers attached wanted to be associated with Super Mario Bros. and he was the only one who wasn't there to object.

[@kerrybarneyiii1202]

A brave man... or maybe just desperate...

[@feldon27]

@@kerrybarneyiii1202 Or the FAX machine in Fuji was down.

[@dlxmarks]

This film essentially ended the movie making careers of its two directors and caused a 10+ year hiatus on their entertainment work in general.

[@diplamatikjuan3595]

@@kerrybarneyiii1202 Nah, he could just use the acid trip defense

[@VicJang]

One of the best. Thank you for making this!

[@JackieGoehner]

In fairness, Charles Martinet (voice of Mario) said the "it's a me!" line for the first time only a couple years after the movie was released

[@tntkff9901]

"Oh, a goomba, one of those little mushrooms with the big head?" "I don't know, I've never played the game nor any intention of doing so, I just heard the name and thought 'Giant Tiny Headed Lizard'."

[@mr.vargas5648]

let make them giant lizards with small heads.

[@meleardil]

In hungarian gomba literally means mushroom. I dont know how many more languages use this word.

[@Its__Good]

"It must be hard to make a movie from a popular computer game?" "Actually it's Super Mario, barely an inconvenience."

[@agonleed3841]

nice

[@jamesgreen125]

4:25 I almost woke everyone else up laughing at this🤣

[@adny02]

"Oh my God, I dont care!" LOL..... I can't stop laughing at that....I honestly can't make it to the end of the video! I can't stop laughing!

[@isaac1670]

"Going all in on plumbing is tight." "It sure is." I see what you did there.

[@dae57]

Yes! Someone else caught it!

[@Danyko33]

I think I didn'r catch it, what's the special joke there?

[@richardgarrison8328]

DomNeek please explain

[@lordn3m3sis]

we are all normies here in the comments, please captain explain it to us

[@ismaeldomingues41]

@@lordn3m3sis because pipes até tight..

[@TF2Fan101]

Producer: Are there any mushrooms in this movie? Me: There were a lot in the writer’s room when this movie was being developed.

[@uncah_bucchal2953]

LOL! You beat me to it!

[@punkwrestle]

But didn’t that interfere with the acid trip?

[@uncah_bucchal2953]

@@punkwrestle I meant Ryan!

[@mr.vargas5648]

thees meetings are getting to real.

[@pizza_tony374]

This movie is amazing, the special effects are super convincing

[@jackparsons2433]

I feel like this movie was never intended to be a Mario movie, they just changed the names of the characters and title of it to make more money a few months before release

[@Kautiepye247]

Generic Name I feel like you’re right

[@Wired4Life2]

This, but y'know, in pre-production because that's how the film business works.

[@benjamindotore3657]

They actually had scripts way closer to the game, but production kept dragging on and in the end ended up with a director duo that basically rewrit the script every day until we got this mess.

[@dickwallace8567]

There's actually a documentary-type video that explains this train wreck of a movie. It was intended to be a Mario Bros movie all along but it got scrapped and reworked so many times it turned into the garbage we got in theaters.

[@Wired4Life2]

@@dickwallace8567 Link please!

[@maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337]

I'm so glad I get to know everything that happens in the movie without actually needing to see it, honestly it was very convenient

[@J.R.__]

MaxZaps Gaming super easy...

[@fiberpoet6250]

jarodsimon barely an inconvenience

[@matthewgilmore4307]

super easy, barely an inconvenience

[@ToyKeeper]

It was an odd movie for sure. It was from 1993 and a lot of it was about what life would be like if Trump was president. King Koopa was styled after him, as were rather a lot of other movie villains. It has a weird amount of depth and prophetic political commentary for a movie which was supposed to be about Mario Bros. If you ever find yourself with time to kill, the full analysis is in "Our Popcorn Movie Dystopia" by Some More News.

[@patrickd8654]

Even with Riff Trax, I was only able to get about halfway through that movie.

[@devinspencer1678]

This is actually one of my favorite "so bad it's good" movies. Nothing in it make any sense at all, even in it's own context. It really is like its own acid trip, and I love it.

[@rogerfricke1785]

This is probably the best pitch meeting on the channel

[@teloxy6579]

So, "I don't care" is the new "get off of my back"?

[@JeroenDoes]

sounds a bit worse. Get of my back sounds like something the writer did no thought about or just wanted to do something in the story. I don't care sounds like he has no interrest in his work at all to begin with.

[@MattGOG666]

@@JeroenDoes which can work depending on the context

[@julioarcaiko]

I think “get off my back” is when the writer generally cares but there’s a story line he can’t explain. “I don’t care” is literally not caring at all about the story he’s creating.

[@iYourDaddy]

I don't know and get off my back about it XD

[@mightbearer]

@@iYourDaddy well I'll off that thing 😂

[@mekman4]

And they never spoke of it, again.... I actually loved this weird movie, it helped to set my expectations really low for future film adaptions of games. Great Stuff!

[@bjwessels]

Oh yeah, good times, somehow.

[@jamescanjuggle]

It wasn't built to be a success It was built as a warning for what was to come

[@biowarelover9435]

Hopefully Sonic is very fun and good movie

[@chaihill1837]

@@bjwessels that's actually genius

[@Rob_Thorsman]

Double Dragon: Hold my beer.

[@halfdbsr3454]

this is definitely the funniest pitch meeting Ryan has put out there

[@wyrlismike]

Totally didn't want to watch this one for awhile, not sure why. But oh jeez that made me laugh harder then any pitch meetings I've seen yet. Brilliant, love this guy

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

"Maybe dinosaurs were slime before they were dinosaurs... I... I just don't care" I laughed far harder at that than was probably necessary