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I want to go over some preliminary things about the movie. So, uh, released on August 18th,

1995. So this is the fourth in a quartet of video game adaptation movies that came out around

this time. The first one was Mario Brothers in May of 93. Then we have a double dragon in November

of 94 and then Street Fighter in December of 94, like almost 1995. And outside of the sequel of

this movie in 97, the next video game movie we get is 1999's Wing Commander, which has really

little to do with the video game. Wow. And then we have 2001's Tomb Raider. And after that,

like the floodgates are open, Ouvable gets a bunch of money and the odds are just just

lousy with bad video game movies. But here they're just kind of trickling out and really like

Super Mario Brothers in America in live action is really the first one. Yeah, which, uh, it was a

shadow cast on all future video game movies. Even this one could barely get it passed out the door.

And if it wasn't at New Line, if they tried to sell this in like Sony or Universal, I don't think

this movie comes out. Yeah, I mean, the people who made the game didn't want to be a movie after

Super Mario Brothers. They were reluctant. Yeah. So, and it's also the biggest success out of these

early video game adaptations because Super Mario Brothers, we did a podcast about it. We did two

podcasts about it. It lost a ton of money. Double Dragon made for nothing, but still lost money.

Because who cared about Double Dragon in 1994? Oh my god. Yeah, nobody. Yeah. The series,

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