Rad Brad - Gaming's New Movie Hero

Thanks to the Gaming Age forum regulars for pointing to a newly optioned videogaming movie called Rad Brad: Modern Warrior. According to the article, the movie, possibly set to star Jack Black of Tenacious D fame, will "..revolve around Rad Brad, the world's most accomplished and beloved video game player, who gets recruited to save the world from a rogue military faction that has developed a robot with superhuman destructive powers." Since the movie is written by the creator of Dude, Where's My Car? and its forthcoming sequel called, uhm, Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?, hilarity is 'bound' to ensue - but can any gaming flick stand up to the epochal The Wizard?

Comments

Forget "The Wizard"

[Babbster]

The Last Starfighter is what it's all about.

Re:Forget "The Wizard"

[KU_Fletch]

No way man. The Wizzard ruled flat out. I mean really, how many people would have ever found that warp pipe in Super Mario Bros. 3 if it wasn't for that movie showing us where it was. Come to think of it, how did that kid know where it was? Hmmmm.

Oxymoron?

[Lshmael]

Since the movie is written by the creator of Dude, Where's My Car? and its forthcoming sequel called, uhm, Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?, hilarity is 'bound' to ensue

Anyone else find this statement a bit questionable?

Re:Oxymoron?

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh... because it's a little thing called 'sarcasm' and he's actually making fun of it - not saying it's going to be any good.. :)

In addition, the phrase "hilarity ensues" is used a lot over on Fark.com to describe a laughably horrible or stupid sequences of events.

This movie is bound to be stupid.

Re: Oxymoron?

[Omniscient Ferret]

Since the movie is written by the creator of Dude, Where's My Car? and its forthcoming sequel called, uhm, Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?, hilarity is 'bound' to ensue

Anyone else find this statement a bit questionable?

Yeah! Last I heard, the sequel was off!

Re:Oxymoron?

[Naikrovek]

Yes. Dude, Where's My Car wasn't that funny.

The Wizard sucked, too.

The Last Starfighter kicked ass, as someone else said.

my two pence.

Re:Oxymoron?

[ArmorFiend]

Yeah, and normally when you see something in quotes, like hilarity is 'bound' to ensue this is a tipoff that the writer is quoting someone who he doesn't necessarily agree with.

Although another school of thought has it that quotes are just for adding emphasis, e.g. "Free" Car Wash. When misunderstood to be the first, more common interpretation, hilarity often ensuses.

Re:Oxymoron?

[Lars T.]

Lshmael, meet sarcasm. Sarcasm - Lshmael. Maybe you would like the movie after all?-)

Re:Oxymoron?

[JorenDahn]

Since the movie is written by the creator of Dude, Where's My Car? and its forthcoming sequel called, uhm, Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?, hilarity is 'bound' to ensue

Dude, where's my money back?

D Rules!

[TheRoss]

Who the fuck cares about video games? JB and KG need to get off thier asses and make a new album.

The D is the only band that matters.

Ever.

Words of wisdom

[Zapateria]

To quote Ben Cousins, one of the developers of BC:

"I haven't seen it, but I can safely say it's shit"

What about Wargames?

[Baloo Ursidae]

Would you like to play a game?

Just in case you didnt catch it...

[bmnc]

a ROBOT with SUPERHUMAN destructive powers... get outta here! =)

Wonderful.

[Mmm coffee]

(1) Think of every possible stereotype revolving around the words "videogames", "cool", and "hip" from the perspective of a 50 year old rich white male.
(2) Turn those stereotypes into an unorigional script.
(3) Sell to clueless studio execs who see another "sure hit", PROFIT!!!

Mod me as flamebait, but I think I have a point. Studio execs see a script that just screams "low risk moneymaker" and predictabally hop on it like a robot with bad AI. However, 90% of the time those low risk moneymakers are the most bland, boring, stereotyped, overhyped, and predictable wastes of 90 minutes one can come up with. Movies like this are almost always totally superficial and it's not hard for me to see it as such by just looking at the premise. Reading the /. synopsis alone I could imagine some overpaid producer saying "Wow, this is... 'cool'! The 12-25 male market will just LOVE this!"

This thing's going to flop harder than Street Fighter, and thankfully there aren't any well-respected actors on the cast for this movie to kill.

Hope I wasn't too harsh.

More importantly...

[bluemeep]

Does this aforementioned saving the world involve wire-fu combat with the fighters duking it out while wearing Power Gloves? If not, I'd hardly call the guy the most "beloved" gamer of them all. That's just the kind of title that carries certain expectations of a Power Glove-y nature.

Three Words

[Sentry21]

The Last Starfighter

--Dan

updates to the list...

[newsdee]

Uhm we will see if this entry will make into the incredibly bad or the at-least-somewhat-faithful-to-some-aspect-of-gamin g category. :-)

"DIRECT CONVERSIONS":

. Super Mario Bros.
. Street Fighter
. Mortal Kombat
. Mortal Kombat Annihilation
. Dungeons & Dragons (ok, it's a table RPG, but still...)
. Wing Commander
. Resident Evil
. Tomb Raider
. Final Fantasy
. Double Dragon
. Clue (table game, see D&D)
. Last Bronx

(MISTAKENLY THOUGHT AS CONVERSIONS)
Parasite Eve (not really, book and movie released first)

"INSPIRED FROM VIDEOGAMES":

. Avalon
. Arcade
. Brainscan
. Brainstorm
. Cloak and Dagger
. eXistenZ
. Joysticks
. Jumanji
. The Last Starfighter
. Lawnmower Man
. Matrix
. Mazes and Monsters
. Nightmares - Bishop of Battle sequence
. Strange Days
. Tron
. Virtuosity
. War Games
. The Wizard

-BORDERLINE-
Video-game "feeling" but comes from other source.

. The 13th Floor [actually inspired from a book, Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye, 1964]

. Starship Troopers [looks like Starcraft but actually from Robert Heinlen's book of the same title, 1987]

Three MORE Words

[CoreyGH]

The First Post

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