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Rad Brad - Gaming's New Movie Hero

Posted by simoniker on from the better-than-the-matrix dept.

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?

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  1. Forget "The Wizard" by Babbster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Last Starfighter is what it's all about.

  2. Wonderful. by Mmm+coffee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (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.