5:22 AM on 05.25.2007
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According to Harry Knowles' AICN, 20th Century Fox now has the rights to make a movie adaptation of The Sims based on a script penned by the genius who brought you Scary Movie 3.
Doesn't this sound like exactly the sort of thing I would make up to parody the increasing idiocy of the Hollywood machine as regards gaming? My version would have had a subtext about the increasing irrelevance of the proletariat in our modern, mechanized world, and maybe the word 'indubitably' in it, but otherwise, this whole thing is starting to get eerie.
I'm going to go hide in the cellar. I'll see you down there when the sky starts raining ducks and blood.
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As much as I like Sims, the idea seems a bit too ridiculous. Yechh.
How many?!?
At least 6 more. We can each take 3 if that's cool with you.
No. No I can't imagine. Explain yourself.
SPAM!
Pathetic
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460780
Love that avatar as an animated gif, but I feel conflicted about fapping to it. Is it robot love at that point?
Also, isn't the Sims basically done and over with? Are people still playing this when WoW, Second Life, and Animal Crossing can divvy up your wasteful gaming hours in a much more efficient way?
This would be almost as timely, exciting, and culturally relevant as a biopic about the Dell dude.
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Enjoy that with your morning latte, bitches.
@ the post- worst/greatest idea ever. first, how the hell do you make a movie based on the sims? why not just make a reality movie where they just follow a family around and edit it to make some resemblence of a story and plot. it's the greatest idea ever cuz people will still go see it to see how they do it, and or just laugh at the sheer stupidity of the idea. the sad thing is people go see shitty movies to laugh at the shittiness and thats why they keep making them. they laugh at you saying why the hell make this crap and then go watch it, and they laugh at you cuz they still got your money. if people stop seeing shitty movies just for the crap factor and they don't make money, they wont make such crap movies.
i played the first sims game for about 5 minutes before i realized it was boring to play real life when i can just live it. seriously... who is buying these damn games? i think EA might be buying them all and dumping them in a ditch a la ET on atari just to boost sales. they are demonic like that.
Sad, MGS and Splinter Cell would be perfect for the big screen. Tons of plot twists and shoot em up action. Hell, they're voiced by actors already.
I just don't get it.
i was just kidding about that anime part.
only most of it is shit.
Tentacle porn is always and forever awesome.
As is Cowboy Bebop, Shin Chan's Crayon, and Urusei Yatsura.
The rest is, in fact, shit. So, good call there.
If I change my position, even for Trigun, then that means I gotta let shit in like Maison Ikkoku, Dragonball Z, Naruto, or Magical Nyan-nyan Taruto. And trust me. The less you ever see of Nyan-nyan Taruto, the better. It's like having testosterone drained out of your body to be replaced by hot Dell dude on Dell tech support action.
GAMES are meant to be PLAYED. the appeal of GAMES has to do with the fact the user CONTROLS THE OUTCOME OF THE GAME. While certain genres do, in fact, have stories, and the story is PART of the appeal, by and large the STORIES IN GAMES ARE THROWAWAY ELEMENTS. (with like a said, a *few* exceptions.) now, THE SIMS is the DEFINITION OF USER CREATED "sandbox" games. IE THERE IS NO PLOT. basically
HOW THE FUCK COULD ANYONE POSSIBLY MAKE THIS A MOVIE
It's called Stanger than Fiction staring Will Ferrell! Don't make me edit a clip of that movie with green diamonds over their heads!
DVD I will agree with you there, but, I'm too much of a sucker for anime. I have to have the biggest useless collection of anime in the world (on DVD not the net)
You name it I prolly gots it. It's sad really. I blame the wife.
you got
doggy poo?
my twin sister wants some sailor moon dvds. you got the lesbo episodes?
I hated sailor moon, even though I watched it as a kid before going to school, but I *think* my girl might have Season 1 or something. Sadly she prefers the American dubbed version, so obviously they didn't include that in the American version.
Besides, season 1 is way off. I think that episode was with all 5 (six?) sailors established as characters.
Combine Dark City with a bit of The Matrix, The Truman Show, and In The Mouth Of Madness, and set it all in the happy sunny Sims world to make it ultra sinister, and you've got a winner.
Start it out like 90210: The Movie, with the Sims just kicking back and chilling out and doing whatever they do for the first 20 minutes, and end it in a whirlwind of savage, hopeless destruction, as they become aware that they're being utterly manipulated by a giant 12 year old girl with a PC, have no real identities or purpose of their own, and utterly lose their minds as a result.
The film ends with them charging around, screaming nightmarishly in Simlish, while Nihilistically laying waste to their surroundings and each other.
I'd pay to see that. Twice. If fact they should put an FMV of that in one of the games.
Dunno, I tend to shy away from transexual entertainments.
i dunno guys, the only anime i've really liked was my neighbor totoro, some of miazaki's other stuff, and i though steamboy was really different. Anime without asians? who would'a thought?!
I was going to buy Tokyo Godfathers. Instead I bought a Mario energy drink.
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I will continue to double post until they invoke an edit button. this kind of genius doesn't happen all at once
In regards to anime, FLCL and koi kaze uber alles, with an honourable mention for vampire hunted d: bloodlust. Used to watch a lot of anime back in the day, then stopped for a few years, only started again recently. It's amazing how overrated 90% of popular anime actually is. That said, trigun does kick major ass.
"The Sims based on a script penned by the genius who brought you Scary Movie 3."
I know a special little guy that is going to get a kick out of this line.
But yeah, since we are all geeks here, I thought it worth noting that this writer is also doing the Angel: Season 6 comic series with Joss Whedon. And I can only speak for myself, but I think if anyone knows good writing, it's Joss Whedon.
And for the record the writer Brian Lynch did not write Scary Movie 3, he just pitched them a couple of jokes that they looked over and threw away or chose and (ultimately) ruined. A ton of great people did. That's Hollywood's dark secret, every comedy created in the past ten years has thrown money at ACTUAL funny people after the fact in an attempt to salvage a sinking ship.