The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Mon, 18 May 2009 10:11:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Cinematic Board Game Adaptations Prey On Nation's Idiocy http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/cinematic-board-game-adaptations-prey-on-nations-idiocy http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/cinematic-board-game-adaptations-prey-on-nations-idiocy#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 10:11:27 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/cinematic-board-game-adaptations-prey-on-nations-idiocy 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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]]> 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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