Amid word that Universal will distribute a film adaptation of the classic video game "Asteroids"-there's a first look here, although I don't know why they don't just take the screenplay for Armageddon and change a couple minor characters-the question arises: How many of the scenarios above will also eventually become movies? The answer is, of course, all of them. I am particularly looking forward to Viggo Mortensen's interpretation of the role of Q*Bert. Also, Jesus, remember what it was like to be a kid in the '80s? If you don't, don't answer, I feel old enough already today.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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Don't feel bad, Balk. I remember when "Space Ace" cost 50 cents, instead of the traditional quarter, to play at the arcade even though IT WAS A STUPID FUCKING CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE GAME!!! I wanted to drive the Spy Hunter car into it and destroy it.
80's =
- VIRGINITY (Most of the 80's anyway)
- THINKING MADONNA WAS THE NAME OF A BAND
- ZITS
- HAVING PONG STILL AND A FATHER FEELING BETRAYED
- READING INTERVIEW MAGAZINE AND JERKING OFF TO VALENTINO ADS
- JERKING OFF TO EVERYTHING
- CAR OWNERSHIP
- ACCOLADES, TROPHIES, AND BEING TOLD THE WORLD WAS MY OYSTER
Fuck the 80's bro.
What do I win if I still hit four of these? (Three, if "zits" don't count?)
HUH??
You feel old? Anyone remember Land of the Lost? The Kroft Superstars? Playing that new Saturday Night Fever record?
When Q*Bert winked at me I ... I felt funny.
For me, saturday mornings were spent at the Lycée, practicing grammar and penmanship and doing marching exercises in the quadrangle.
Just like every other morning, except for the Sabbath.
I hated having to go to that stupid French school.
To be fair, it's not toooooooootally impossible to imagine an interesting movie about a taskforce of space fighters who's job it is to save their planet by blowing up an incoming wave of asteroid, which are used as a cover for an alien invasion or something.
Just wanted to get this out there so I can point to it later and say that I called it.
You know, everyone laughed at "Untitled Pac Man Movie" but it ended up putting M. Night Shyamalan on the map.