Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/23/cast-of-tetris-movie-falls-int.html
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Obligatory…
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I’m relieved to know this is about the people behind the game, not a movie about the game itself. Because, let’s face it, Hollywood would absolutely make that movie - they made “Battleship” and this really wouldn’t be all that different.
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Cast of Tetris movie falls into place
I see what you did there.
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Also obligatory…
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One of those “parodies” that’s indistinguishable from the “real” thing except only by budget size…
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Yes, exactly. Although, lately it’s hard to distinguish parodies with small studios making demo’s to attract work.
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They’ve been toying around with the idea of a “Monopoly” movie since at least 2015 but mercifully it still hasn’t quite got off the ground yet. May it be forever confined to Production Hell, along with Minesweeper and Jenga: Tower of Terror and the dozens of other ill-conceived game tie-in movies that have almost certainly been pitched at some point.
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1996’s Twister did pretty well at the box office though (#2 movie for the year), so I’m sure Milton Bradley is going to keep trying.
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I’m saving my money for the inevitable Hungry Hungry Hippos by Michael Bay.
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Oh, I can think of a way to do Monopoly. I mean the IP holders for the game wouldn’t like it, but…
ETA: think more Knives Out! and less “fun, family board game.”
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Wait, that board game was supposed to be fun??
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Oh, I thought this movie was normalizing ‘watching livestreamer have intense one hour game [no spin cheat]’ which is something I do not do because I am also a normal person he he.
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I actually found it pretty good. I mean not top tier, but certainly not a complete waste of 90 mins.
I mean it was on par with Pixels…
(I also love the “drop some lead” line.)
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As a piece of cheesy Navy propoganda it was certainly less gay than Top Gun.
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That brings back find memories of playing Milton Bradley’s ‘Sharknado’ in 19A3.
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Yeesh. Monopoly sucks as a game. McDonald’s is probably the only adaptation of it that’s been worthwhile. Although I’ve never played the original version…
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Quality of the movie aside, it was just a random movie that certainly wasn’t “based on” anything in particular. I can’t imagine that if it had been made without the tie-in, that anyone would have watched it and said, “You know what this reminds me of?..”
Damning with the faintest of “praise”…
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Posting this one in this context sort of ruins it, but it’s still worth watching.
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