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EFH
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
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 Posted - 03/12/2008 : 7:25:48 PM
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Very true. Anyone who has ever played D&D for any length of time can honestly say they have been in better plots. I mean letting your fellow party member go it alone with a villain and never trying to help, offer back up, get him out or anything except crying. I mean seriously, what the hell?
My best guess is that no one had any idea what the whole point was and flipped through a monster manual for some thing they could CGI. The beholder was the dead give away.
Anyway, not that my bile level is back to normal, I think a movie based on the guys who made monopoly popular would make more sense. But that would be boring and not prone to waste $70 million bucks. I'd lose $20 million tops. |
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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
644 Posts |
Posted - 03/12/2008 : 7:54:31 PM
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How many of these movies will simply involve the standard going to play in a national tournament plotline?
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dconner
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
104 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2008 : 10:40:19 AM
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I could actually sort of see Monopoly working as a sort of zany surreal period comedy about colorful rich people gadding about '30s Atlantic City madly buying up real estate. I envision something vaguely like It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, but without the same sort of chase/race dynamic.
The game pieces could represent characters, like:
Wheelbarrow: Early agri-business tycoon?
Battleship: Arms dealer?
Horse: Texas oilman
Car: Automobile businessman
Top Hat: the Mister Moneybags guy himself, perhaps
Scottie: Kilt-wearing Scottish haggis magnate
And they're all running around getting into trouble, occasionally thrown in jail, judging beauty contests, etc.... |
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2008 : 8:21:58 PM
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It's a slight digression, but the boardgame Last Night on Earth was designed to simulate a generic zombie film. The two times I've played felt uncannily like the outline for a film.
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dconner
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
104 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2008 : 10:58:22 PM
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A recent board game that could make an actually fun movie premise is *Monsters Menace America* (which I have under its previous version, *Monsters Ravage America*)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/17835
It's about 4 giant monsters stomping all over the USA. Each player controls both a monster *and* the US Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps trying to destroy the monsters! So effectively, it's Interservice Rivalry gone very, very crazily wrong.... :) |
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2008 : 07:53:33 AM
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Oh, Monsters Menace America was fun.
All shall bow before Zorb.
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