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Offline Saxman

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Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« on: May 17, 2009, 11:17:54 PM »
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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2009, 11:21:32 PM »
You've GOT to be kidding me... HOLY %^&#!!! Did you read the other board games being made into movies?!?

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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2009, 11:24:06 PM »
Lack of ideas and lack of any quality actors......... yup sad.
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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2009, 11:24:29 PM »
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i9ffdbbfa915bd89c57a661db36154a27

Makes me long for the unnecessary sequels and remakes....

There are 1,001 stories from *actual naval engagements* that would make an excellent movie...and we get this?
"Crikey, sir. I'm looking forward to today. Up diddly up, down diddly down, whoops, poop, twiddly dee - decent scrap with the fiendish Red Baron - bit of a jolly old crash landing behind enemy lines - capture, torture, escape, and then back home in time for tea and medals."

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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2009, 12:28:21 AM »
whoever makes half way interesting script out of this is  a fricking genious...

next: checkers :D

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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2009, 12:50:14 AM »
whoever makes half way interesting script out of this is  a fricking genious...

next: checkers :D


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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2009, 02:40:11 AM »
Lewis Carroll's "Through the looking glass" (second part of Alice in wonderland) follows the moves of the pawn in a chess riddle. That turned out alright, though I doubt Carroll is writing the script to this one.
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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2009, 06:06:06 AM »
There are 1,001 stories from *actual naval engagements* that would make an excellent movie...and we get this?
  Oh, they would much rather make something up and make the uneducated masses believe it is history rather than educate themselves and others. The creators are now a product of their own dead-head system which is why their creativity is sapped and they have no capacity for the detailed technique that proper history requires. And the cycle continues because they breed more dead-heads that are worse than the first. 
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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2009, 10:52:01 AM »
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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2009, 02:03:54 PM »
Rock Paper scissors anyone  :rofl
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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2009, 02:36:40 PM »
I suppose Monopoly wouldn't be that hard, they're working one...
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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2009, 04:39:11 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2009, 05:22:50 PM »
"...Officer Chutes, and Officer Ladders were soon to be...PARTNERS!??" In "Chutes and Ladders"


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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2009, 06:45:57 PM »
Yes, Hollywood has been out of fresh ideas for a long time.  Those ruling Hollywood are hardly the men who started the movie business, those guys were all about movies.  Now they are all about money.  If a movie is successful, all they can yell is "sequel".  Most sequels suck, they are just greedy attempts to milk a dry cow.
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Re: Is Hollywood really THIS out of ideas?
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2009, 07:02:17 PM »
whoever makes half way interesting script out of this is  a fricking genious...

next: checkers :D


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Chinese Checkers: Shanghai Battle.
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