You've got to see Pac-Man: The (other) Movie

by Justin McElroy { Aug 11th 2008 at 10:30PM }

As Hollywood continues to deny us the Vin Diesel-starring Pac-Man feature film we all know is coming, amateurs have filled in the gap with their own takes on how gaming's pizza-shaped patriarch could make the leap to the big screen.

We've already seen Pac-Man the action hero, now Tyler Russel and Stanley Wong bring us a much more honest, unflinching vision: Pac-Man unstoppable force of saffron terror. Watch what happens when four innocent ghosts are terrorized by the insatiable yellow menace, but be warned: It isn't pretty.

Tags: fan-art, pac-man

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

LordChimp @ Aug 11th 2008 10:36PM

I am speechless..... -_-

MOT @ Aug 11th 2008 10:44PM

Genius.

Obie @ Aug 11th 2008 10:45PM

That vid managed to be silly, disturbing, cool, retarded, lame and awesome at the same time.....gotta love youtube!

d1srupt0r @ Aug 11th 2008 10:45PM

Isn't Blinky supposed to be the baddest mofo? He get's pushed around by Inky......Bad scripting i guess.

Gewurztraminer says: R.O.B. is the last Cylon! @ Aug 11th 2008 11:00PM

could use less grating angry yelling. but ok otherwise. 3 1/2 Power Pellets (out of 5).

SPAGHETTI @ Aug 11th 2008 11:04PM

pac man is a g liek i am cuz we r both gamgstas

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Aug 11th 2008 11:11PM

....

Haggard @ Aug 12th 2008 8:41AM

Are you some kind of fictional creation? Intended to draw out flamey comments that will be used on a youtube video mocking gamers?

Or are you just a cretin?

gir @ Aug 11th 2008 11:06PM

The funny thing is, this will be better than the movie.

Ihavepants @ Aug 12th 2008 12:51AM

Get your own avatar.

gir @ Aug 13th 2008 12:49AM

I've been a member since April 2007, before you have been. Therefore, you get your own avatar!!

wait...I mean

Hi baby!

PS36Wii Fanboy @ Aug 12th 2008 12:02AM

That's odd the blue one was always the pussy in Pac Man while the Red was all LEEROY JENKINS! but anyway... rofl you go trash bag wearing ghosts!

NightSoD @ Aug 11th 2008 11:19PM

Deep Blue Sea reference for the win

Obie @ Aug 11th 2008 11:37PM

I noticed that too, hehe. Sam Jackson FTW.

Paustinj @ Aug 11th 2008 11:24PM

Pure
Epic
Win

Jarret @ Aug 11th 2008 11:31PM

It would have been better without the ending. Less is more kiddos. Leave them wanting . . .

Stanley Wong @ Aug 12th 2008 12:16AM

Wow, I am in complete shock my movie actually made it to the website. Thanks a lot for the comments you guys.

To the people saying Inky is supposed to be more passive while Blinky is supposed to be more agressive, is this in the cartoon or something or are y'all just making A.I. assumptions? We purposely made each character represent a survival horror stereotype. It seemed fitting for Blinky to be the false leader of sorts. For Inky, I just wanted to be an asshole.

Grey Acumen @ Aug 12th 2008 12:47AM

You did an awesome job, only issue i had is that it looked like there were 2 red guys. I thought one of them was supposed to be orange. If they were actually different colors, it didn't show up really well.

Honestly, best pacman movie I've ever seen, only thing I would have changed is I would have left it as the retro pacman so that it just had a black mouth and black eyes instead of giving it the face and tongue and stuff. I suppose you could always go back and redo that though, provided you have the original base film to add the CG into.

Grey Acumen @ Aug 12th 2008 12:48AM

Oh, and forgive me, but I just had to add this one last comment.

"how can something so wong feel so wight?"

okay, sorry, I'm done now.

Stanley Wong @ Aug 12th 2008 1:06AM

Ugh. I've gotten that my whole life....

It's weird you mention that about the color. I've never really noticed that before and no one else seemed to complain about it, but I did recently add more blue to the picture overall so maybe that made it harder to distinguish.

We had a number of models to choose from in the final film and I went with the one you see now because honestly I really wanted the "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Effect" where you have a walking giant of death with a huge smile on his face. IMO, it adds more to the hilarity.

5th hot meal @ Aug 12th 2008 1:39AM

absoloutly brilliant, very well done indeed!

Chris Are @ Aug 12th 2008 2:02AM

I really enjoyed it. Well done.

Obie @ Aug 12th 2008 3:25PM

Ah I see, well great stuff. Any reason why you went CG for pac-man? And plastic bags for the ghosts? Why not vice-versa?

Stanley Wong @ Aug 12th 2008 4:11PM

Well the whole point of the movie is following the perspective of the ghosts. If we made them CG, I don't think it would the story would come off as effectively. I can't even imagine how ridiculous it would be if we did anything other than CG for the pacman. At one point we were considering using green screen and just having a floating human head go around because our original intention was for the look of the movie to completely contrast to the game and then when we intercut scenes from the game in there it would I guess add comedy or something.

For those complaining about the inaccuracies laid throughout the game, not every movie is a complete adaptation. I used what works best for the movie. I even took out the entire concept of power pellets and no one seems to mind.

Spooky @ Aug 12th 2008 1:30AM

Not to be rude, Even though I know I am. I hated it, was boring and long. My friends and I were bored one day and made a pac-man movie Idea. A corrupt Lawyer named Mr. Pacman (like goldman not gold-man) who is addicted to Pills (power pills reference), he eventually gets arrested in a high security prison and must find a way to excape from the jail (maze) The guards are nicknamed Inky, Blinky, etc.. for various quirks they possess. Oscar Caliber stuff. LOL

Stanley Wong @ Aug 12th 2008 1:59AM

Too long and boring? Wow, I honestly don't know what to say. We really did try to accommodate the people with attention spans under 5 minutes, but I guess we forgot to think about those who can't handle anything above the length of a commercial.

Also, as long as we're being honest here, your idea sounds pretty poor as well. Especially if you managed to fit all that story in less than 5 minutes.

Jimmy @ Aug 12th 2008 6:16AM

I'm also going to concur that it's a bit long, at the risk of another quip about attention spans.

But only make one if you REALLY think that less than five minutes of ANYTHING couldn't possibly be too long.

Also as people said before, the annoying yelling actor, and the Pacman were a bit off. It's always a disappointment when you see the monster. :D

I really liked the start, the flash to a ghost running in a frenzy, and the idea of the panic room they tentatively emerge from, but the last 3 minutes or so did make it a bit of a chore for little reward.

Ihavepants @ Aug 12th 2008 8:19AM

Pure epic win.

Ihavepants @ Aug 12th 2008 8:20AM

OMGZ NOES VOTE ME DOWN

ZeroCorpse @ Aug 12th 2008 12:28PM

Errors:

Pinky is supposed to be male in the game. SUE is the only female ghost-monster.
Blinky is the toughest in the game.
Who the hell is "Dinky"??? This isn't 80s Pac-Man lore that I know of.
A FACE? Pac-Man has no face! He's just got those little eyes on opposites of his sphere.
Ghost-Monsters flashed Blue-White, not blue-original color.

Still, a good concept. Enjoyable. Could be a Troma film.