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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 12:46PM (Unverified) said

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What about Spore the movie, with DRM of course so 1 ticket per household.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 12:48PM BigD145 said

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You can remember it 3 times, but after that it melts your brain and you can't remember it anymore.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 12:45PM (Unverified) said

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I wouldn't see it...but it's a little better than I thought. I pictured it being all CG and it was actually the characters being Sims. Now it's just an hour and a half ad for the game.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 12:46PM (Unverified) said

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JUMANJI!!!
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 3:14PM (Unverified) said

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Indeed, it is Jumanji.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 3:19PM ThornedVenom said

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Man I loved that movie... and has anyone seen Zathura?
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 7:35PM (Unverified) said

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I saw the end, absolutely terrible.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 12:46PM (Unverified) said

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so sort of like clockstoppers but not really?
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 12:47PM BigD145 said

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So it's The Master Computer stories taken at a slightly different slant and without any "adult" content? Old meme is old.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 3:12PM rocko213 said

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thank god, I thought I was the only perverted freak who read those stories, and actually thought this sounded a lot like it.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 12:50PM (Unverified) said

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Heres a better plot: make 10 sims that are exactly the sames as each other, and watch them all fight to the death.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 3:44PM (Unverified) said

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hahahaha
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 9:02PM (Unverified) said

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I can honestly say i'm lol.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 12:59PM baron said

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How long will it take them to build a small moat around some, neglect to feed them, wash them or let them go to the bathroom to the point they cry and go on themselves?
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:03PM (Unverified) said

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The twist is the whole movie is spoken in Simlish with thought balloons.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:36PM Ignatius said

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Every topless scene is, of course, blurred out by pixelated garbage.

And mysteriously, Sims will run towards fires, freak out and wet themselves... then dive towards the fire in an attempt to save their skins.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:03PM Ricky Bango said

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HA HA HA. This movie will never be released in theaters, mark my words.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:07PM Sinnix said

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It's still better than most movie concepts coming out of Hollywood.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:07PM 007craft said

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Sounds alot like wired scinece (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090305/), except they get to control their own world rather then some hot girl appearing and controling it for them.

Sounds like fun to me. I mean sure its no theater movie but I like watching cooky kids movies like this. Deffenitly will be downloading the blu-ray rip once it hits the net. Im sure its gonna be better then most video game movies, like the crap uwe boll makes.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:34PM Vegnagun said

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Has anyone ever told you that you have bad taste in movies?
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:11PM Swizzler said

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who says that ISN'T what The Sims already does? how do we know we haven't been erasing doors in homes of people who were never seen again?? Will Wright is a Witchdoctor, you know...
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:02PM (Unverified) said

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Logic
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:23PM (Unverified) said

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Maybe the DRM is like a Death Return Machine and you can only get reincarnated three times?
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:24PM Swizzler said

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sarcasm
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:12PM jhowlett said

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Ishtar?
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:13PM John Z said

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You know, it's pitches like this which inspire me that maybe I could realize my dream of writing a big-budget, pull-out-all-the-stops movie someday. I already have a title in mind, too: "Not The F#@$ing Sims".
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:13PM jimplayercoop said

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In other news I just got paid a million dollars to adapt Minesweeper into a film.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:14PM CyberKnight said

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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:16PM Dirty said

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They stole my idea!
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 3:16PM MrHashbrown said

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...well then I just pity you.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:29PM (Unverified) said

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i cant see it really being a sims film
just a film the cashes in on the sims success
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 3:09PM (Unverified) said

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Stargate: Atlantis already did this as I recall.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0902891/
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:34PM (Unverified) said

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Hi, Uwe Boll.


No wait, WHAT?
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:46PM (Unverified) said

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I think the movie studio should take the money they are going to spend on this film, give it to me and I can come up with something that wont be HALF as bad as this film will be.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:38PM (Unverified) said

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The only problem with this pitch, aside from it being a pitch for a Sims movie, is that the characters are teenage boys. How many teenage boys play the Sims? College age girls? Then you have the movie.

Really, if they rewrote this to star Tina Fey and Amy Pohler, then I might check it out. That would work.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:41PM (Unverified) said

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Didn't 'Malcolm in the Middle' have an episode similar to this premise??
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:42PM (Unverified) said

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O GOD WHY?!?!
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:42PM foxhound said

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Close to what I had thought of years back before SIMS2 was released.
Here's my pitch for a Sims Movie:

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Movie begins with repeated shots of a young male going through the usual morning routine, work shift, short evening freetime playing videogames/watching tv, eating and sleeping. There's shots of obvious mood swings ranging from annoyance (A "case of the Mondays" shot) to petty joy (wins chump change on a lottery scratch-off).
The routine goes on, pitilessly until one day, he literally falls out of the opposite side of his bed and finds a nightstand that wasn't there previously. The protagonist shrugs it off, continues on with routine... until more 'oddities' and out-of-place mishaps occur. His car is green instead of black. His pet is a goldfish instead of a dog. The landscape and names of long-standing buildings change name. Even his own vocabulary has changed from calling money "bucks" to "simoleans"(a nod to the game's currency).
Then his world hits the extreme... He returns home from work one day to find a supposed wife, of whom he's never seen nor met previously. The house is completely redecorated and even the aforementioned goldfish is now a bird named "Wright". And that's where the movie takes off into a full supernatural tone, of which the protagonist eventually discovers that he's nothing more than the virtual figment of a "Duck Amuck" inspired tale.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 3:51PM (Unverified) said

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nice Idea
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:48PM (Unverified) said

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hahaha, justin mcelroy, i love you
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 1:49PM daedalion18 said

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Nice Justin. That's going to be the best post of the week. Loved the setup, and then the short and sweet delivery just nailing it on the head. There's a reason i only read Joystiq, and it's posts like this that is the reason why.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:06PM (Unverified) said

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Thanks gang.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:04PM (Unverified) said

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Well, I didn't think it was possible to make a Sims movie that didn't operate on some ridiculously farcical premise, and it would appear that my assumptions were correct.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:09PM Dirty said

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farcical sounds delicious.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:20PM (Unverified) said

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I'd eat one.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:21PM CyberKnight said

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Every time I hear that word, I think of aquatic ceremonies conveying supreme executive power.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:22PM (Unverified) said

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"and obviously it turns against them"

I'm guessing that the kids try and launch one of those rockets indoors. Or maybe they got real good at making those lawn gnomes, but some jerk kept stealing them and/or kicking them.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 2:30PM donarumo said

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It may not be all bad. If it falls somewhere around Groundhog Day, Click, or Blank Check, it could be a nice film.

Not that I expect Joystiq to have an open mind about it.
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 3:00PM Stop said

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JUMANJI!
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Posted: Sep 22nd 2008 5:34PM theenglishman said

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Picture = win.
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