Author Topic: Movie --> Videogame Continued  (Read 15347 times)

Dorvid Barnas

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Movie --> Videogame Continued
« on: January 30, 2008, 12:09:38 AM »
My dodgy cellphone prevented me from sharing with Tom my ideas for a Magnolia video game.

In one scene you are Phil Parma, male nurse.  Using your Wii Controller you must untangle yourself from the phone cord while overcoming many obstacles.  If you trip over a dog, you lose the call.  If you don't light Earl a fake cigarette every two minutes, his pained moans will enrage the dogs and drown out the call.  If the dogs eat too many pills, their corpses will scare off the spank-mag delivery man.  All the while, you're racing against Earl's Die-With-Dignity-o-Meter, and forgiveness power-ups are at a premium. Can you handle it, Phil?  Will this be "the scene in the movie" where you kick butt?!

Other possible scenes:

- A panicked production assistant dodging camera jibs and show-biz parents in a desperate race to fetch Luis a glass of milk. 

- A dance-revolution-type mini-game where you must simulate Frank Mackey's opening dance moves - bonus points for maintaining the ponytail and erection.

- You are Quiz Kid Donnie Smith.  You have so much love to give, and now you have exactly five minutes to find out where to put it. Watch out for the frogs!

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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2008, 12:39:17 AM »
For once, I listened to the show live, but was unable to call in. A few ideas:

THE KING OF KONG - made to look like Donkey Kong, only you're running around in Billy Mitchell's hot sauce warehouse, avoiding hot sauces that Billy throws at you, and Billy's goons. There's a time limit, and if you don't make progress fast enough the old referee guy shows up and berates you (lose one life). You obviously play the other Guy, the challenger.

ROCKY BALBOA - for Wii; giving life to that awesome video game simulation that got people talking!

CONTROL - not as a stand-alone game but as a ROCK BAND expansion! Only Joy Division songs. On further levels, you get distracted by beautiful Belgian fanzine writers, boring housewives, and suicide.

FIGHT CLUB - split up as part round-based strategy game (for Project Mayhem), and fight game. Lots of multiplayer options, possibly a full-out MMORPG. (Might be an even better game once FIGHT CLUB: THE MUSICAL opens.)

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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2008, 09:16:47 AM »
It's sick, but the most popular video game to come out of a movie would be Gus Van Sant's ELEPHANT.

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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2008, 12:56:10 PM »
A Two-Lane Blacktop road racing game would be great. Drag race to win money, then put it all on the line as you do a coast-to-coast run with your car's pink slip as the prize. Halfway through the game you gradually just wind up sitting around attempting awkward conversation using Mass Effect-style dialogue choices (CHOOSE ONE: 1- Make an observation on how your car's engine needs to be tuned better; 2- Stammer haltingly about the sex life of cicadas; 3- Stare into space), there's a license-plate-switching mini-game, and eventually you beat the game by giving up on any pretense of finishing your race to D.C. and finally gazing into the void of endless, futile momentum. The ending is your 360 breaking down and popping up an error message.
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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2008, 01:12:47 PM »
In the Two-Lane Blacktop game, would you recharge your character's energy by eating hamburgers from a roadside diner?

Along a similar line, Vanishing Point would work as well.
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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2008, 01:54:07 PM »
After my call ended, it dawned on me that the bonus round of my Monster in a Box game should be Castro speeches, and soccer games.

Apropos of nothing, as I was typing this short message, Elvis Costello stopped singing (The Sweetest Punch) and Joanna Newsome started (Emily.) Call me up on the phone and I will let you listen in.

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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2008, 02:25:42 PM »
In the Two-Lane Blacktop game, would you recharge your character's energy by eating hamburgers from a roadside diner?

Or, if you're playing as Warren Oates' character, putting on a fresh cashmere sweater.  Just don't fall asleep stealing license plates! 

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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2008, 03:04:24 PM »
I thought of a potential alternate Grizzly Man game:  You're Werner Herzog and you have to stop that woman from listening to the tape of Treadwell's death.  There's a countdown in the corner of the screen and Herzog has to run through the streets, dodging bullets, cops and Klaus Kinski.  Whatever it takes, Jewel MUST NOT listen to that tape.  It would be TOO HORRIBLE. 

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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2008, 03:20:03 PM »
I was thinking of a two-lane blacktop video game as well!

really can't believe Tom hasn't seen "Get Crazy." So terrible it's brilliant!

also, i was going to recommend a "Tango & Cash" videogame, which in actuality i'm surprised wasn't made into a videogame.

I mean, Hudson Hawk got the videogame treatment!

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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2008, 03:29:10 PM »
In the Two-Lane Blacktop game, would you recharge your character's energy by eating hamburgers from a roadside diner?

Or, if you're playing as Warren Oates' character, putting on a fresh cashmere sweater.  Just don't fall asleep stealing license plates! 

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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2008, 04:39:52 PM »
I thought of a potential alternate Grizzly Man game:  You're Werner Herzog and you have to stop that woman from listening to the tape of Treadwell's death.  There's a countdown in the corner of the screen and Herzog has to run through the streets, dodging bullets, cops and Klaus Kinski.  Whatever it takes, Jewel MUST NOT listen to that tape.  It would be TOO HORRIBLE. 

Oh, I like it.  While I admire the movie, Herzog was a bit of a grandstander showman in that moment.

A friend told me about a GRIZZLY MAN parody he saw on youtube.  In that scene, "Herzog" warns her that she must never listen to the tape, and then he hands her a copy of Da Vinci Code and tells her never to read it.  "Why, is it too violent?"  "No.  It's crap."  He then hands her a twinkie and warns her to never eat one of those.

Regarding the Rocky Balboa "that simulation really got people talking" line -- I watched the movie recently and didn't notice it.  Is it something Rocky himself says, or an announcer, maybe?

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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2008, 07:01:23 PM »
A Two-Lane Blacktop road racing game would be great. Drag race to win money, then put it all on the line as you do a coast-to-coast run with your car's pink slip as the prize. Halfway through the game you gradually just wind up sitting around attempting awkward conversation using Mass Effect-style dialogue choices (CHOOSE ONE: 1- Make an observation on how your car's engine needs to be tuned better; 2- Stammer haltingly about the sex life of cicadas; 3- Stare into space), there's a license-plate-switching mini-game, and eventually you beat the game by giving up on any pretense of finishing your race to D.C. and finally gazing into the void of endless, futile momentum. The ending is your 360 breaking down and popping up an error message.

One of the distractions is that of a teen girl who you can never figure out as a bonus. But you just know she'll end up running off with a biker.
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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2008, 07:48:01 PM »
I thought of a potential alternate Grizzly Man game:  You're Werner Herzog and you have to stop that woman from listening to the tape of Treadwell's death.  There's a countdown in the corner of the screen and Herzog has to run through the streets, dodging bullets, cops and Klaus Kinski.  Whatever it takes, Jewel MUST NOT listen to that tape.  It would be TOO HORRIBLE. 

Hwoah man, I wanted to hear that tape so badly!!

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« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2008, 08:27:29 PM »
I tried calling in with this idea a few times only to get a busy signal every time.

"Adaptation" The Video Game.

In this RPG you play a video game designer trying to figure out how to turn "Adaptation" into a video game. The game itself is affected by the decisions you make with many branching story arcs based on your own desperate imagination. This happens until a deus ex machina intervenes at the beginning of the final third of the game at which point the game turns into a profanity-laced, ultra-violent action/first person shooter. Imagine "Grand Theft Auto" meets "Ninja Gaiden" with a sci-fi/fantasy twist. In this last third your goal is to fight through the swamps of Florida battling giant insects, dark samurai and psychotic assassin droids in order to find the rare Ghost Orchid which will grant you godlike powers. You will then use these powers to rescue Susan Orlean (who here resembles a scantily-clad, manga-like, nubile young lady) from John Laroche, the evil serpent king of the everglades.

I think it's got potential.
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Re: Movie --> Videogame Continued
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2008, 08:32:21 PM »
I thought of a potential alternate Grizzly Man game:  You're Werner Herzog and you have to stop that woman from listening to the tape of Treadwell's death.  There's a countdown in the corner of the screen and Herzog has to run through the streets, dodging bullets, cops and Klaus Kinski.  Whatever it takes, Jewel MUST NOT listen to that tape.  It would be TOO HORRIBLE. 

Am I the only one who watched Grizzly Man and found it very touching and tragic?

Everyone seems so quick to make fun of it like it's some big fucking joke he was killed. Has anyone actually ever watched it or are you all just those people who think "it's a credit to the gene pool when stupid people die" or some bullshit like that.

I dunno, maybe I'm taking shit to seriously again but I don't really see humor in it.

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