tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459905009657230221.post6069995396739898131..comments2023-04-02T07:09:04.439-07:00Comments on Turn On a Paradigm: You Sunk My Battleship!Ariminthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068895493773870624noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459905009657230221.post-41978128923101212932012-05-24T10:25:42.800-07:002012-05-24T10:25:42.800-07:00It's not the source of the film idea that is i...It's not the source of the film idea that is important, but the execution of the film itself. Terrible films may stem from great books and excellent films from mediocre books; bad films are lensed by directors with undeservedly great reputations while unknown directors produce sparkling gems; and even board games can be the jump-off point for terrible films (Clue) and excellent films (Battleship). To decry the source of a film (good or bad) is akin to denouncing penicillin because it comes from mould, or a book because the author got the idea while sitting on the toilet. In the case of "Battleship," the game accounted for about five minutes of the film; the rest of it was a great alien invasion film. The lack of characters and plot in the actual game forced the filmmakers reach deep into their creativity -- contrast that with the game "Clue" which has oodles of characters and resulted in a film best forgotten, along with "Super Mario Brothers" and "Dungeons & Dragons"...there is a very real danger in taking a fully formed concept and saying "film the game." The advantage afforded the filmmakers by "Battleship" is that the game offered nothing more than the targeting system, which was worked into the plot very cleverly; and, actually, the same could be said of "Real Steel" (Rock-em Sock-em Robots).<br /><br />And, yes, Hungry Hungry Hippos would make for a great film, an ecological disaster/alien invasion/love story of the first water. "There can be only one,,,pray that it is Pink."Ralph E. Vaughanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06326668196800976578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459905009657230221.post-61725882608491410202012-05-14T19:08:55.589-07:002012-05-14T19:08:55.589-07:00Admittedly, you're right, but even those were ...Admittedly, you're right, but even those were based on something that had characters. And whether something was original and got rebranded or not, it still got rebranded. My point is that while many movies that are rehashings of tv shows, movies, or cartoons, those were still scraping the bottom of the barrel while turning a game that really had no characters is beyond scraping the bottom of the barrel and to the point of taking the barrel apart to search for the dregs lingering between the cracks. At least Hungry, Hungry Hippos had hippos which you can kinda care about. Battleship's main characters were battleships, which you couldn't afford to get too attached to since most of them were going to get sunk.Ariminthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068895493773870624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459905009657230221.post-28578687495281433682012-05-14T12:56:00.279-07:002012-05-14T12:56:00.279-07:00I can see your point however we've been battli...I can see your point however we've been battling with unoriginal material for movies for ages now. Come on... remember Josie and the Pussycats? And many movie scripts begin as original stories and then rebranded for a franchise (Of course all my sources are cracked http://www.cracked.com/article_19012_5-hollywood-secrets-that-explain-why-so-many-movies-suck.html). <br /><br /><br />THAT said, there is one original movie out, Pirates Band of Misfits, that is worth a see. And I will pay money to see a movie based off Hungry Hungry Hippos.Atkaymahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10835471952914200234noreply@blogger.com