Video games that would make excellent TV shows

JGuy Grungeman · 09-09-2016, 06:49 PM

Actually, that's not entirely true. I've seen quite a few orginal ideas get released this year. The ideas that are remakes, adaptations, and sequels are the first that we hear about. releasing information early builds hype. These things are the first we're hearing about. Why ghave a news article for an original idea years before its release?

The Batlord · 09-09-2016, 06:52 PM

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Alan Moore:

""The same is true of music and cinema," he adds. "It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.""

Sometimes I'm embarassed to be alive right now.

Why? You get to exist in the same world as Alan Moore.

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-09-2016, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman

Actually, that's not entirely true. I've seen quite a few orginal ideas get released this year. The ideas that are remakes, adaptations, and sequels are the first that we hear about. releasing information early builds hype. These things are the first we're hearing about. Why ghave a news article for an original idea years before its release?

It sounds really trite, but I do really think that big budget movies tend to be pretty lame these days. Good movies are usually small, since studios don't dare put big money towards anything that isn't retarded.

JGuy Grungeman · 09-09-2016, 06:55 PM

Exactly. Hype sells.

The Batlord · 09-09-2016, 06:58 PM

Look at the blockbusters from before the superhero movie explosion and know that things are definitely better now. Do we really want to go back to the days of Mathew Broderick Godzilla?

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-09-2016, 06:58 PM

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Why? You get to exist in the same world as Alan Moore.

Yeah, but we're living in a world where he's seen as a grumpy weirdo. I think he's just being real. Aside from the whole "I'm a warlock" thing, of course.

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Look at the blockbusters from before the superhero movie explosion and know that things are definitely better now. Do we really want to go back to the days of Mathew Broderick Godzilla?

Don't ever speak the name of *barf* Matthew Broderick...
I'm not sure things have ever been great, but it does seem to be true that the middle has dropped out of cinema. We either get juvenile huge-budget movies or tiny indie movies. I just want solid, grown up stuff that cost more than 50.000 dollars to make.
EDIT: it's all too easy to be caught up in whining about how things used to be better, but it does seem to me that all the good new movies I watch these days are obscure modest-budgeted movies.

The Batlord · 09-09-2016, 07:01 PM

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Yeah, but we're living in a world where he's seen as a grumpy weirdo. I think he's just being real. Aside from the whole "I'm a warlock" thing, of course.

I think being a wizard qualifies you as a weirdo in any society with electricity.

djchameleon · 09-09-2016, 07:30 PM

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How does one even write anything about Tetris? I'd watch any attempt to make a movie out of that, just because it seems impossible.

It's easy to write about Tetris. You have free reign to write anything creatively. Just open your mind and write and something will come together. You can use any plot you want. It's so much easier to write about Tetris than a game that already has a plot where you have to adapt it and make sure you don't piss people off that already know the story.

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-09-2016, 07:36 PM

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It's easy to write about Tetris. You have free reign to write anything creatively. Just open your mind and write and something will come together. You can use any plot you want. It's so much easier to write about Tetris than a game that already has a plot where you have to adapt it and make sure you don't piss people off that already know the story.

That is perhaps true, but also leads into some weird territory. After all, if you do much more in your Tetris movie/show than have some blocks falling and eliminating eachother, is it still tetris then?
Using Tetris as a metaphor, the idea could be stretched pretty far, perhaps. Then Tetris is all about that moment where everything in your life seems to fall into place, and also about all those times when nothing seems to fit together. I don't know...

The Batlord · 09-09-2016, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

It's easy to write about Tetris. You have free reign to write anything creatively. Just open your mind and write and something will come together. You can use any plot you want. It's so much easier to write about Tetris than a game that already has a plot where you have to adapt it and make sure you don't piss people off that already know the story.

No that would be some Uwe Boll ****.

09-09-2016, 06:49 PM	#81 (permalink)
JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	Actually, that's not entirely true. I've seen quite a few orginal ideas get released this year. The ideas that are remakes, adaptations, and sequels are the first that we hear about. releasing information early builds hype. These things are the first we're hearing about. Why ghave a news article for an original idea years before its release? __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me.

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