May 18, 2009

Cinematic Board Game Adaptations Prey On Nation's Idiocy

by Balk posted @10:11 AM

Oooh! "Peter Berg is in talks to direct a big screen adaptation of Hasbro's board game Battleship for Universal Pictures." It may also star Robert Pattinson! (Because everything may also star Robert Pattinson! He's hot right now! And great for SEO!) Anyway, Peter Berg's Battleship, like Ridley Scott's Monopoly, is yet another example of how the POWER OF BRANDING has supplanted the importance of originality, as Hollywood has decided audiences will only pay attention to something they played with/watched as a child/saw the previous installment of. It depresses me. On the other hand, greenlight Charlie Kaufman's Yahtzee or Lars Von Trier's Hungry Hungry Hippos and I promise to be there.

 
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  1. Tyler [#451]

    I bet 'Don't Wake Daddy' would be really sexy. Someone call Gus Van Sant.

  2. sigerson [#179]

    The Coen Brothers present "Chutes & Ladders"

  3. Tyler [#451]

    David Lynch's Scattergories.

  4. jolie [#16]

    Quentin Tarantino's Operation

  5. NinaHagen [#131]

    Ron Howard's Checkers or was that Frost/Nixon?

  6. Chris [#417]

    This is just sad. Hollywood has sunk to an all time low. I hope these board game movies suck as bad and are as big of a box office failure as Speed Racer.

  7. sauer [#148]

    Do you like Kipling, Ms. Scarlet?
    Sure, I eat anything.

  8. FeyBoohoozer [#410]

    oh just Tiddly Winks to it all

  9. My Number Is My Address [#237]

    Peter Berg is a punk capable of great evil but this smells distinctly of bullshit to me.

    But also, in spite of the obvious shortfalls of Shia leBeouf's performance, is there anyone else who prefers Michael Bay's "Scrabble" to Sayajit Ray's "Scrabulous Trilogy?" It's just so much more pa-ZOW!

  10. chia [#405]

    Is it too late to rename Von Trier's Antichrist as Hungry Hungry Hippos? Seems like it could be appropriate.

  11. Slapdash [#174]

    Jim Carry IS Stevan Seagal in CHARADES.

  12. musicmope [#428]

    Claire Denis' Trouble. To be played very day.

 

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