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Dunst Demands Asset Reduction For Spider-Man 2 Videogame
Thanks to IOL.ie for its article discussing actress Kirsten Dunst's issues in approving her videogame likeness for Activision's Spider-Man 2 game. According to the lengthy news story, "The actress was asked to give her approval for the sequel's new merchandise and had to chastise the game's saucy creators." Although the Treyarch-developed Xbox/PS2/GameCube game has been well-received, certain dimensional inaccuracies were less appreciated by Ms.Dunst, as she explains, regarding her character Mary Jane Watson: "I got to approve the video game, the way she looks. They made her boobs gigantic. I was like, 'Tone down the boobs, please!' It was a little ridiculous."
"It's a bug in the program. A buffer overflow."
One of the recent episodes of the TV show x-play showed some ridiculous examples of physical modeling and costuming in video games. Many characters had huge breasts that must have contained helium bladders to keep them upright, plus a titanium support structure built into their costume. They reminded me of Frank Frazetta's cover illustrations for Conan the Barbarian.
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If I were the developer, I would have made them bigger and bigger and bigger until she paid a visit to our offices. :P
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Many characters had huge breasts that must have contained helium bladders to keep them upright, plus a titanium support structure built into their costume. They reminded me of Frank Frazetta's cover illustrations for Conan the Barbarian.
Uhh, remind me again why this is supposed to be A Bad Thing(TM)?
The penny-arcade was ragging on her late last week also. funny comic.
I applaud dunst for standing up and requiring some normality in video games, especially with a character portraying herself.
But on the other hand I'm a breast man.
Not quite. She's got saggy boobs that are at least a C-cup.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
Um, ok I understand that it was a license of a movie, but it is also a comicbook character. In fact, she may not know this, but it was a comic book character first.
Have her go pick up a comic book from the last 10 years, and then look at the size of most of the female characters chests.
Anyway, I do think it's a bit annoying that developers have to put huge tits on everything. I get a feeling they think that no matter what shit they release, put some big tits in the ads and on all the female characters and people will still buy it.
Pic anyone? Pic?
...they don't make a Fight Club video game. I don't think I could handle that one guy's breasts being any bigger.
It seems a little silly for her to complain about computer games focusing on her breasts when her entire movie career has done the same... I'm sure everyone remembers that infamous Spiderman scene in the rain (to name just one).
I can't help but feel she just wants some more attention. Same with her recent comments about killing spidey off...
Haven't looked at my old copies of The Amazing Spiderman in a long time, but didn't Mary Jane have huge boobs in the comic books? Maybe the developers were honoring the original, rather than the movies?
[SIG] It's like putting a moose in the blender -- a recipe for disaster!
Game developpers are just the archetypical teenage closed in an adult body that refuse to grow up.
Don't flame me, just look at the unccountable examples of female characters in games.
No wonder women are turned off by gaming, given the sexist nautre of the people around it.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
I mean, it's not like they usually portray the typical male hero as a square-jawed muscle-god with abs to die for... right?
Apparently while trying to access the article on Kirsten Dunst's boobies, I got this error, caused by a slashdot effect on slashdot...
Please, no articles on Natalie Portman. I can't deal with the downtime.
Enemies could include a newborn (your life force is draining!), middle school boys (the devious purple nurple!), and Fundies (...harlot! Bind those objects of Satan!)
I think the solution to this 'breast obsession' is to make all game devs watch 'Showgirls' at least 20 times. I saw it once and was sick of tits for at least 2-3 hours.
Why didn't she demand a better face? Her in-game model is the usual lumpy, misshapen mess we get whenever a game has to present a real-life likeness. Aside: Tobey Maguire is a terrible voice over artist. Stop having him recreate his role in the games.
I just hope they keep those amazing nipples... All those lovely rain scenes... :-)
A good physics model would also be highly appreciated.
Oh come on, I just finished spider man2 for xbox (which was no easy task mind you) and I saw the model of mj in discussion , I will be honest: I didnt noticed anything "gigantic" in her model probably only her jaw that appears to extent miles away from her neck but other than that the model looks average (all models were low poly to keep with the city frame rate) but not unproportionate.
Is not a quake 3 paul steed model to put in few words.
I think this could qualify a shameless plug by dunst to say "hey look Im there! and that my voice" curious thing is it doesnt sound like her her at all while peter parker/spiderman was played by an immitator that sounds EXACTLY like Tobey Mcguire. (?) It could also a publicity stunt on the videogame itself. (for some reason I believe me people would like to see the "busty" Kirsten Dunst model)
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I can't expect the average lonely pathetic geek to understand, but to any guy who actually HAS CONTACT WITH FEMALES, this sort of ridiculous exagerration is an embarassment to me as a gamer.
I keep wanting my girlfriend to take an interest in video games, and then little touches like those just make gaming on a whole look like a booy's club. So why WOULD she take an interest in oggling polygonal tits?
Tobey Maguire was okay with the, ahem, large package they provided him with in the game.
"Change? Yep, big change!", looking at his crotch.
I worked on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game, and even though Sarah Michelle Gellar wouldn't do voice work, she still had nine yards of harpy silliness about her in game model. We modelled no less then 6 versions, and the only one she would approve looked like a 12 year old boy-not suprising, considering her current "starve myself into oblivion" state. We eventually got the publisher to nix her veto power, and released the game with a bit more stylized version: not over the top, but not ironing board either.
and so do videogames, only just in the breast area
the infamous scene in Spiderman 2 where she's chained up...and wet...
Personally I'm waiting for the IMAX version for that scene...
The devs should have demanded "hands on experience" to get the proportions right.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
...anyone have a screenshot so I can judge for myself?
The bigger the breasts of her character, the more money she will make on game sales.
Do you think that any of the DOA games would have sold a fraction of the copies they have if all of the dimensions were accurate to real life women?
LK
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She should have gone and asked them make her teeth look more normal in the movie, never mind the game.
Have you seen those things? Little animal teeth.
Is that a real poncho? I mean, is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
I applaud dunst for standing up and requiring some normality in video games
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Normality is easy at her age, lets see if she has the same "honesty" at age 40.