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Remember The Wizard?
trotski writes "I remember when I saw The Wizard as a kid, I thought it was the perfect movie. X-entertainment has released a review through the eyes of geek of this classic. Few movies have ever dwelled in pits of infamy quite so deep as The Wizard, Nintendo's 100-minute video game commercial that vaguely masqueraded as a real movie. The Wizard should've been able to keep kids well into their late teens interested, but the entire thing goes down the tubes once you hear the villainous cool kid's pickup line: "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." The site includes video clips of this and other great moments in the movie."
There's also a
just-the-facts plot review of this timeless classic, at the Onion.
i saw it with my parents and they bought my SMB3 on the way home because they liked the movie so much. Few people ever did as much for the quality of my life as that movie did
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Who didn't have a crush on the red head girl from that movie?
i saw this movie just to see pictures of the (yet-unreleased) super mario brothers 3. dude, that was probably the most anticipated game of my entire life (and amazingly, it didn't disappoint. still up there among my favorite games ever).
btw, the powerglove was a piece of crap. i think i still have mine in a closet somewhere. completely unuseable.
If you live here in the states, you may know it as "the movie" the USA network played from 1994 well through 1997 between the hours of 8 and 10 eastern time.
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
remember the wizard?
no.
Cory(Fred Savage) to Lucas in a vain attempt to save face after the awesome power glove is revealed, "Keep your power gloves off my girl."
Merchindising, Merchindising, Merchindising. Where the real money from the movie is made.
... the "Close Encounters" tune that the Power Glove played? doo dee doo doh daaaaaaaaa
"Derp de derp."
... the Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour.
"You can count on us Mr. President. Major Nuggut, Gooey, Cocco, put down those entertaining Mattel products."
...when George Lucas will release a 20th anniversary edition with all the videogame sequences updated to feature Nintendo256 titles.
(and maybe, just maybe, re-add the deleted scene where someone touches Haley's breasts).
Of course, shrewd viewers will know he's just building back up the Wizard fan-base for the Colecovision/Atari 2600 Prequels.
Taken from the website:
"There's a video clip of this following the review, and it's worth every byte of my bandwidth."
Insert Slashdotting anal rape joke here.
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Thanks for lowering my consumer expectations.
When I saw this movie as a kid (which I enjoyed at the time), I bought the PowerGlove shortly after. After less than an hour attempting to get it to work, it went into the closet. Aside form the 2 or 3 times I've broken it out in worthless attempts at playing with it, it's stayed there for the last 10 years, until I realized its worth $50 on eBay, and out the door it went.
This was the first time that several things happened:
1) I bought something that was of horrible quality, thinking it would be of excellent quality
2) I spent a lot of money (+/- $100?) on something that was really "throw-away"
3) I realized that I was a sucker to marketing
4) My expectations of items that I purchase were lowered forever
You've only begun to redeem yourself. The good games you've given me over the last 7 or so years have been working away at your debt. The way I see it, you still owe me four Mario's, three Zelda's and a Metroid. Otherwise, we may find out how much a childs innocence is worth in court!!
P.S. As a favor, I expect to see Mario set on fire much more in the next Mario.
Who didn't have a crush on the red head girl from that movie?
She was...a girl...who liked...VIDEO GAMES!!
Oh my god, I think we just struck gold!
1989 was the year I turned 21- I remember nothing from that year-- and after reading about 'the wizard' I'm much happier for this fact!
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Nobody. The Wiz!!!
Holy shit - I apologize for the above post. My mind is most definitely not on the topic at hand. For some reason, I skipped a sentence or two and missed the link to X-Entertainment in the story. Bah. That's what I get for Slashdotting at 4am (and not completely, uh, in my best state of mind shall we say).
Ah well, the Atarihq.com link I gave above is interesting, at the very least. See? I did contribute something.
*embarassed sigh*
"Examples include Power Rangers, Transformers, Pokemon..."
Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones...
not just for its 80s feel, but for its bizarre moments above all.
... Spanky?
-for example, the kids hitch a ride with a giant black trucker named Spanky
-the kids surreptitiously ride in the back of a farmer's truck and then get beaten up by the farmers. their money is stolen. CMON WHO DOES THAT?!?!? the kids are like 10 years old.
-fred savage's character dons a monster mask and tries to scare the girl as a little practical joke. she stares at him incredulously for a couple of seconds. then she hits him square in the face, bare knuckles style, knocking him out cold for the entire night! WTF!!
-sam, the kids' dad, is supposed to continue the journey but he's caught up in playing zelda. the elder son, nick, gets his attention: (lifted from imdb)
[Sam is playing Zelda II The Adventures Of Link]
Nick: Pop I think we got it.
Sam: Wait a second. I'm on the sixth palace of Hyrule. Yeah, Got past the river devil.
Nick: Right.
[Turns off the Nintendo]
Sam: What the hell are you doing? I had the magic key. I got the cross. I was closing in on the barbarian!
Nick: You're losing it pop.
-the girl utters a memorably idiotic line:
Haley: She packed it in. She was a showgirl. Great legs. I got her legs, what do you think?
-calllifoooornia!
it's surreal. hilarious. as un-timeless as movies get.
rent it today for a laugh. and remember, quoting The Wizard out loud definitely makes you cool.
The Powerglove was bad.
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Just spit it out pal - YOU were Nintendo World Champion from 1990-1993. It says so on your website.
boo.