Along with 1994’s Street Fighter, the legendarily awful Super Mario Bros. movie helped stain the reputation of videogame-to-movie conversions for years. At nearly two hours long, the film was a poorly scripted exercise in wooden acting and haphazard directing, and the image of such productions still hasn’t been redeemed. Even the leading star of Mario’s celluloid debut isn’t overly proud of the film.

Speaking to The Guardian in a colourfully worded interview, Bob "It’s good to talk" Hoskins reflected (with not a terrible amount of fondness) on his role as Mario in the so-bad-it’s-almost-good film.

"The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a f****** 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****** nightmare. F****** idiots."

Cheer up though, Bob: the internet may think Super Mario Bros. is bad, but at least it’s not Street Fighter bad.