Dale Maxfield

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Take a beloved video game franchise and turn it into a live-action movie. This seemed like a great idea to movie producers in the 90′s and led to several fantastic examples of how it just doesn’t work. Super Mario Bros is one such example rife with bizarre choices; casting a British guy (Bob Hoskins) as Mario. Casting a Columbian-American (John Leguizamo) as Luigi. Make sure they spend the first hour of the movie out of their signature coveralls. Bowser’s too hard to pull off, so just cast Dennis Hopper and call him “Koopa.” Princess Peach needs saving in the video game, but in the movie it’s all about Luigi and Daisy. Don’t worry about Mario though, he’s got a clone of Fran Drescher as a girlfriend.

Step into the warp zone and visit the ultimate “minus world” of Super Mario Bros, the movie!

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Before there were women in the workplace, there were “girls in the office.”  The daily drama of keeping multiple girls from bringing ruin to your productive office was a new management challenge that required a powerful solution.  Enter the short film, “Bright Young Newcomer.”  Male viewers can take comfort in the fact that they were born that way, and women can take comfort in the fact that their current workplace is nothing like the one presented here.  Enjoy a free short!

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With the signature line “There can be only one,” the foreshadowing for what would become the second installment in the Highlander series could not have been more eloquent.  Highlander 2: The Quickening is known as being so bad that the storyline of Highlander 3 ignores it entirely.  “Pretend it never happened,” the producers seemed to say.  Oh, but it did happen and it is a complete disaster.  Since this is our first bad movie we’ve attempted to write a comic commentary for, we were determined to find one that did most of the work for us. Please note: This commentary is for Highlander 2: The Quickening.  It will not sync with the later releases Renegade Version or the Special Edition.  Highlander 2: The Quickening, which is the theatrical version was only released on VHS and, at the time of this posting, could be found on Amazon.com for $3 including shipping!