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Super Mario Bros. actor Bob Hoskins dies

British actor Bob Hoskins passes away at 71.

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Super Mario Bros. movie actor Bob Hoskins died this week after being hospitalized with pneumonia, his publicist confirmed to The Chicago Tribune today. He was 71.

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Hoskins rose to prominence through movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook, but gamers know him best as the man who played Mario in 1993's infamous Super Mario Bros. In a 2007 interview, Hoskins recalled what a trainwreck the Super Mario Bros. movie was.

"The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a f**kin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! F**kin' nightmare. F**kin' idiots."

Hoskins was nominated for an Oscar in 1987 for Mona Lisa. He has appeared in dozens of films, the most recent of which was 2012's Snow White And The Huntsman. Hoskins retired from acting in 2012, explaining at the time that he was suffering from Parkinson's disease.



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i loved him in Unleased


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rip that movie rocked when i was a child

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It still does.

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Thanks for Roger Rabbit, Bob... RIP.

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RIP- Bob you shall be missed

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Great actor. He will be missed.
Super Mario Brothers was a terrible movie, but that wasn't down to him.

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We will [hopefully] forget SMB, but we'll never forget you Bobby.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> SMB will never be forgotten it has a cult following outside the Gamer community

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@Deadlysyns87 @mattcakeyou realize "cult following" just means no one likes it except for a handful of morons? Everything from the holocaust to the leprechaun movies has a cult following....

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<< LINK REMOVED >>, Mario's creator stated, "[In] the end, it was a very fun project that they put a lot of effort into," but also said, "The one thing that I still have some regrets about is that the movie may have tried to get a little too close to what the Mario Bros. video games were. And in that sense, it became a movie that was about a video game, rather than being an entertaining movie in and of itself."

the man himself,... he gets it. you don't base a movie's setting on a game's and make the movie like the game; that'll make a shiste movie. you base the movie on the setting in the game and you make the movie different then the game. simple. God.

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Loved him in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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R.I.P, Bob, you were a brilliant actor.

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RIP Bob Hoskins

and Super Mario Bros had a movie?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yea it sucked sooo bad

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Sucks just like Nintendo now.

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"Super Mario actor" have some respect video game site or not there is no excuse most people know him best for "Who frame Roger rabbit", not super Mario brothers and film connoisseurs know him best for "The Long Good Friday" an awesome performance, one of many from a brilliant actor and genuinely and thoroughly decent human being ! Rest in peace Bob

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@de-astroturfer The excuse would probably be that this is a video game site and explaining why his death is news here requires making the connection that he acted in the Super Mario movie, otherwise a bunch of folks would be in here complaining about non-gaming news on a game site.


Not like the article tramples all over him. Mentions his nomination for an Oscar and stated he appeared in dozens of other films.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Fair point I guess Im just annoyed that other sites such as IGN are doing the same, which is both a gaming and a movies site. and it could be argued Gamespot is too with its recent star wars episode 7 coverage

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That quote amuses me.

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Nintendo doesn't even like to acknowledge that the movie exists.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Too bad the movie has lots of non gamer fans

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Ill have to watch Roger Rabbit again with a bottle of wine. good times

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>That hat only makes him look MORE badass.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> he also played Smee in the TV Mini series

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I'm truly saddened by this news, I'll miss him.

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He was the reason Roger Rabbit was awesome. Roger was nothing compared to Bob Hoskins.

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Bob Hoskins was an excellent actor, and delivered many great performances. My sons loved him in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and I will always remember him for The Long Good Friday and Mona Lisa.

On a side note, it's painful seeing his name shackled to that abomination Super Mario Bros. by this headline. :/

R.I.P. Mr. Hoskins.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I was going to say something similar. I was in first grade when I saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and as an adult, seeing his performance in The Long Good Friday became my favorite performance of his.

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Sad news. I always liked Bob Hoskins. His performance in Roger Rabbit was unforgettable.

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While this is definitely sad news, I'm sure Super Mario Bros. is one of the LAST films Hoskins wishes to be remembered by.

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its really sad to know when actors you used to watch as a kid in movies pass away.

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ill portents for nintendo

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I remember reading an article that Bob Hoskins regretted doing Super Mario Bros. Movie, it was the worst job he ever did in his career. If it was all about the Money, It's understandable.

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