[QUOTE="AquaMantor"]Actually, and I'm not joking, the ancient egyptians used condoms made of animal hide for ritualistic purposes.
Of course, they've got nothing on the japanese. They used tortoise shells. That must have been painful.
ElZilcho90
You are aware that, with that new information, Mario has become at least 37 times more disturbing.
Super Mario Brothers: The Drama (R) Running Time: 133 minutes - ****
Super Mario Brothers is the tragic story of one man's addiction to, what he refers to as "shrooms". This is a surreal film that greatly benefits from its departure from reality. For example, every time mario (Paul Giamatti) takes a "shroom" he becomes larger, more capable of surviving in the world around him. And the world around him appears dangerous indeed, with strange, mushroom shape monsters, and turtles with a desire to bite his head off, you can see that this man is truly haunted, and that drug abuse is the only way he can make himself feel safe. Whenever one of his nightmarish apparitions even touches him, Mario becomes smaller again, no longer feeling the security that the shrooms brought him. The most tragic part of this movie, I thought, was when Mario defeated the evil Bowser, the avatar of his fear and pain, then went to save the princess, when a strange man with a mushroom for a head jumped out and told him, "I'm sorry, but the princess is in another castle", a chilling metaphor telling Mario that this "princess" he has been fantasizing about is not real, merely another hallucination caused by his unstable state. Paul Giamatti plays the drug-addicted, schizophrenic mario with a chilling amount of realism. The supporting cast is lead by Steve Carell as Mario's brother Luigi, who performs brilliantly in his first dramatic role, and Jessica Beil as Princess Peach, Mario's fantastical representation of the happiness that he will never have. Highly Recommended.
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