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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 11:33 PM
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Definitive proof that god doesn't exist:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/678/678023p1.html

Someone bought the rights to make a Pac-Man movie.

Let me repeat that: a Pac-Man movie. Someone paid for the right to make one. The human race is doomed. You know that, right?
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 12:59 AM
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1. Aw... did my thread title scare people away?
Come on. Someone has to be just as horrified as I am about the prospect of an ultra-low budget movie based on Pac-Man.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 01:03 AM
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2. Scary
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 01:03 AM
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3. Pac-Man.
How?
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 01:10 AM
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4. That's the part I don't understand.
Pac-Man is old enough that it's mindlessly simple. I can't fathom what kind of story could possibly come from a yellow blob running around a maze eating floating pills.
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 01:16 AM
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5. Maybe they'll cast Rush Limbaugh in the title role? n/t
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 01:19 AM
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7. Touché!
:rofl:
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 07:37 AM
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20. ...
:rofl:
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:10 AM
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15. Well, it did have a cartoon in the 80's
which was also mindlessly simple.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 01:18 AM
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6. Concrete proof that Hollywood has run out of ideas.
:puke:
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 01:21 AM
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8. This isn't exactly Hollywood.
The rights were sold to some no-name indy outfit that plans on doing very low budget films with these licenses.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 10:50 AM
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17. The 'straight-to-video' market, eh?
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 02:46 PM
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19. I'm not sure if it'll actually go straight to video or not...
…but yeah, expect the same stellar quality as you find in DTV products.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 02:01 AM
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9. eh...the made "Mario Brothers" into a movie as well
so what can you do?

and yes, hollywood ran out of original ideas a few years ago...
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Atmashine Donating Member (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 02:02 AM
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10. Cool!
I like cheesy movies. Mortal Kombat's the best.
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 02:07 AM
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11. I think there was once a Pac-Man TV show
I'm hoping this isn't a figment of my imagination... I swear I remember a Saturday morning cartoon based on Pac-Man when I was about three or four years old (so this is ca. 1986-87). Of course, that *was* during the eighties when the game was peaking in popularity so it's a bit more understandable. I'm not quite sure what would possess an aspiring filmmaker to focus on that topic more than twenty years after the game's peak popularity, though...

(Alright, I just checked on IMDB and saw that this cartoon did indeed exist, but was launched in '82. I must have seen it in a rerun, probably on some channel like the USA Network or something!)
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:16 AM
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12. Hell, I half expected the Brazillian joke when I opened the thread
Pac Man pales by comparison :P
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:02 AM
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13. True, true. ;) n/t
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:24 AM
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14. You think a Pac-Man movie will doom humanity?
Hell, Larry the Cable Guy got a movie.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:46 AM
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16. Pac-Man: The Movie
Starring Jim Carrey as Pac-Man

Reese Witherspoon as Ms. Pac-Man

Kevin Spacey, Paul Giamatti, Robert DeNiro, and Samuel L. Jackson as the Monsters

Vern Troyer as the Cherries

Andy Serkis as the Power Pellet

Mike Myers as the Normal Pellet

"Two BIG thums up!" Ebert and Roeper At The Movies

Nominated for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival

Seven Golden Globe Nominations

3 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay

Don'r miss this film! It will change the way you look at video games forever!
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 02:41 PM
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18. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! *runs away* n/t
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