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Space Invaders: The Movie

rainmouse writes "Hollywood, clearly after witnessing the staggering success and endless critical acclaim of other computer game adaptations with their typically engrossing story line and deep, believable character development, have now apparently picked up the rights to make a film based upon Space Invaders. 'The classic 1980s arcade game from Taito and Midway, which is ranked as the top arcade game of all time by Guinness World Records, is heading to the big screen courtesy of producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Odd Lot Entertainment's Gigi Pritzker.'" Please help out by providing appropriate plot-lines and character sketches below.

244 comments

  1. Plot? by petteyg359 · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that game had one...

    1. Re:Plot? by chronokitsune3233 · · Score: 0

      Right? You play a space ship pilot (who knows if the pilot is from Earth or some other celestial body?), and extraterrestrials are invading your home world. The object of the game: defeat them before they defeat you. Seriously, how do you create a plot from something as simple as that?

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    2. Re:Plot? by Irick · · Score: 5, Funny

      It was about the struggle for woman's rights. You see, it was all symbolism for male oppression. You see, the phallic flack tank shot down the dreams of the the feminine invaders while skirting their attempts of rebuttal using the previously established male-bias structures in society. Very deep stuff.

    3. Re:Plot? by davester666 · · Score: 1

      just like most movies nowadays...

      Hell, you see virtually every important scene in a movie when you watch the 30 second trailer for it.

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    4. Re:Plot? by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      They added a kind of spoof plot in Space Invaders: Get Even. Including lines like "our weapons are not designed for fighting 2D enemies!"

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    5. Re:Plot? by Xemu · · Score: 1

      Ender's game? Pretty much a great story based on Space Invaders.

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    6. Re:Plot? by SilverHatHacker · · Score: 1

      It's a shame I wasted all my mod points yesterday. That was brilliant, except for your repeated use of "You see" to open a sentence.

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    7. Re:Plot? by Moryath · · Score: 1

      That's nothing new. Ever seen the trailer for The Princess Bride?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpBO9FRkGsY

      Basically EVERY scene is given away.

    8. Re:Plot? by redherring728 · · Score: 1

      That's already better than most stuff that comes out of Hollywood.

    9. Re:Plot? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Frankly, this seems like a very pragmatic move on the studio's part: If all you can do is create two-dimensional characters, a classic arcade game is perfect source material...

    10. Re:Plot? by graveyhead · · Score: 1

      Heh that's pretty funny but I'd be happy if Hollywood could put out movies with a plot anywhere near that good. Even with Card's freaky stance on copyright and his religious proselytizing, he did manage to write a couple good books there.

      Thinking about it though, after the third one in the series though it does start to go downhill fast. I wonder if Card himself has Hollywood-itis, the tendency to beat a dead horse until money stops falling out.

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    11. Re:Plot? by element-o.p. · · Score: 1

      I wonder if Card himself has Hollywood-itis, the tendency to beat a dead horse until money stops falling out.

      You mean like a pinata?

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    12. Re:Plot? by HornWumpus · · Score: 4, Informative

      That series started going downhill when he expanded 'Enders game' from an excellent short story (in one of the Pornelle 'There Will be War' collections) into a long winded and pretentious book.

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    13. Re:Plot? by korean.ian · · Score: 2

      No, like Star Wars.

    14. Re:Plot? by wisty · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Thinking about it though, after the third one in the series though it does start to go downhill fast. I wonder if Card himself has Hollywood-itis, the tendency to beat a dead horse until money stops falling out.

      How about this then?

      Scene 1:

      Han Sparrow - a scrappy, self interested, but charismatic space pirate makes landfall on a backwater planet. He has a brief confrontation with some blond guy, who is obviously keen on the princess of this planet (who wishes to return his affections, but is already promised to another). All is interrupted when the horribly warped "Space Invaders", led by Captain Vadar attack, kidnapping the princess; believing that her DNA contains the code to unlock the curse of their mutations. Actually, it's the blond guy's DNA they need, due to some kind of mix-up.

    15. Re:Plot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Very nice. How many suns does the backwater planet has, and what is the species of the ruling caste?

    16. Re:Plot? by tgeek · · Score: 1

      Plot? Plot? OK, you think you need a plot . . . here's what ya do: go take ANY basic zombie movie, change the zombies to "space invaders" and voila! There's your plot! You got endless hordes of approaching enemies, you gotta keep shooting at 'em to kill 'em, and as they get closer they pose a more imminent danger. Granted the greater danger from invaders comes from their increased speed as opposed to the proximity danger posed by hungry brain devouring zombies - but such is the magic of Hollywood . . . now just slap a few bits of dialogue down on some paper, put some film in the cameras, hit the strip club to find a couple of heroines and get to making a movie!

    17. Re:Plot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Talk about a left handed compliment. You're so attractive, I fucked your sisters, your mother and all your friends.

      I can't wait for the "Beat 'em and Eat 'em" porn version of whatever POS this movie will turn out to be. There's ways of making it good, Robert Smigel comes to mind. They won't though. They never do. I'm still waiting for Norm Macdonald as Burt Reynolds in a remake of "Smokey and the Bandit".

    18. Re:Plot? by ynp7 · · Score: 1

      Only one of the worst books ever written.

    19. Re:Plot? by eharvill · · Score: 1

      Starship Troopers was released in 1997. We all know how that one turned out...

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    20. Re:Plot? by mwvdlee · · Score: 2

      A movie with attacking aliens which can move very quickly, but only sideways.
      I've seen more ridiculous "serious" aliens in Hollywood blockbusters.

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    21. Re:Plot? by Lectrik · · Score: 1

      At the end of the movie we find out it's an alien pilot defending his world from.... Humans!

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    22. Re:Plot? by JadeBuddha23 · · Score: 1

      Game over, man! Game over!

    23. Re:Plot? by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      Starship Troopers was released in 1997. We all know how that one turned out...

      One of the best anti-war sci-fi films ever.

      And yes, I know that is the complete opposite of the fascist book on which it was based.

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    24. Re:Plot? by obergfellja · · Score: 1

      watch out for those invaders, possibly from space. It's Saturday night and I don't have a date. All I need now is a hand full of quarters, an all rush mix tape, and a 2 liter of Jolt. Time to kick some space invader arse.

    25. Re:Plot? by petteyg359 · · Score: 1

      You mean a piñata?

  2. Plot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Drop Down, Reverse Direction, and Increase Speed!

    1. Re:Plot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Instead of shooting where I was, you should have shot where I was going to be! Mwahaha!

    2. Re:Plot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Will Lrrr and the gang from Omicron Persei 8 be involved?

    3. Re:Plot... by Ihmhi · · Score: 2

      Seriously though, I think this is the only way they could pull it off.

      Just accept the fact that the idea is ridiculous and run with it.

      SCENE: a military installation monitoring space-based radar. A silhouette of mysterious signals appears on the radar screen, zigzagging ever closer to earth. Have the radar beep like the actual game. Throw in a joke about the radar being "from way back in the 70s".

      Cue Independence-Day like scenes, Fiery clouds over... Omaha, Nebraska. (It's never Nebraska.) Suddenly, big, blocky ships shaped like the invaders appear, advancing ever closer to the planet... zig-zagging and occasionally firing a downward laser pulse at the town.

      People run screaming. A tank commander laments the fact that his turret can't shoot straight up.

      Finally, the town is evacuated, and many people sit atop a hill roughly a mile away watching in anticipation. The column of ships stop... and turn sideways towards them.

      SPACE INVADERS: 3D

    4. Re:Plot... by Nationless · · Score: 1

      That sounds like the plot for the inevitable porn spoof.

    5. Re:Plot... by Billlagr · · Score: 1

      Of course, they need the quarters for their laundry

  3. I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by Hsien-Ko · · Score: 3, Funny

    and that Tetris film

    1. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by vux984 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Why? because two seasons worth of animated series wasn't enough?

      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083461/

    2. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by gilesjuk · · Score: 1

      The Pacman movie was about some people in a club munching pills and listening to repetitive music.

    3. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by cervesaebraciator · · Score: 1

      The Tetris film is great. The whole thing is a metaphor for twentieth century Russian history: The Complete History of the Soviet Union

    4. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Give this one a try next time: Pac Man The Movie

      I don't know, sir. It seemed to be some kind of Man... Some kind of Pac Man.

      It looks like the hunters have become the hunted.

    5. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by GrumblyStuff · · Score: 1

      I want a Mario movie based off this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdczoetXk4

    6. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Rahh.. I'm tired of this. Just because Dinky is dead doesn't mean we have to sit here crying about it all day..."

      What? We're BLUE!... RUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN!!!!!

      "We have got to get together and touch this thing!!!"

    7. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

      and that Tetris film

      You mean this one?

    8. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by MrNemesis · · Score: 1

      What are you talking about?! Tetris: The Movie was shown on british TV way back in 1999.

      http://www.tvgohome.com/121199.html (NSFW)

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    9. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by Abstrackt · · Score: 1

      This is probably the closest you'll get to a Tetris movie, though it is good for a chuckle. I also recommend the Minesweeper trailer.

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    10. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, there's no movie, but there is a fun piece of interactive fiction based on Pac Man. If you haven't played it, you owe it to yourself to give it a whirl, it's only a few minutes to play. It was part of a mini-competition in which people wrote short IF games based on classic arcade games. There are a few other gems from the competition (Centipede is harrowing, and tough to win, for one. I also got a kick out of "Unlabeled game") but I thought the Pac-Man game was fantastic in how it wove the elements of the game into a story.
        There's a Space Invaders, too, which has a neat little intro story before dropping you into a text-based implementation of the game itself.

      Here's a download link.

        You'll need an IF interpreter to play the games. If you don't have one already, I recommend Gargoyle as the best all-around IF player.

    11. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by PCM2 · · Score: 1

      Meh. I think this one shows more spirit.

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    12. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by SlayerofGods · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Wow... I was reading the trivia for that show and saw this.
      "Aired back to back with Rubix the amazing cube."
      ...
      I take back everything bad I thought about Space Invaders: The movie...
      Apparently the bottom was reached in 1983 and it's actually been all up hill since then.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYs_GCy9PRk

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    13. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by Confusador · · Score: 2
    14. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by eharvill · · Score: 1

      Niiice. Thanks for that link.

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    15. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by eharvill · · Score: 1

      Ahh, starring Kevin Costner. It must have been a box office bust and explains why I never heard of it.

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    16. Re:I'm still waiting for the Pacman movie by rainmayun · · Score: 1

      Remi Gaillard needs to do a GTA movie

  4. They are really running out of ideas aren't they? by Zandamesh · · Score: 1

    What's next? Pong: The Movie!!

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  5. A different angle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    A recently divorced man finds his house too large, with bedrooms and a living area now bare. A family of squatters discovers the situation, and plots to take over the free square footage.

    Space Invaders.....coming, this fall!

    1. Re:A different angle by Larryish · · Score: 1

      That is actually not a bad plot line.

      It should have Bill Murray as the divorced man.

    2. Re:A different angle by marcosdumay · · Score: 1

      Change squatters into zombies, and you can justify quite a bit of violence! But now I disgress wasn't that already made? Like a two or three hundred times?

  6. And here is the trailer. by nedwidek · · Score: 1
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  7. They'll simply profit from the name. by John+R.+Isidore · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The name 'Space Invaders' rings a bell for a lot of people. It has no meaning in regard to the story apart from alien invasion, but the name 'Space Invaders' has deep ties in popular culture, meaning much more people will go see the movie because of the it, even if it has little or nothing to do with the game.

    1. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The name 'Space Invaders' rings a bell for a lot of people. It has no meaning in regard to the story apart from alien invasion, but the name 'Space Invaders' has deep ties in popular culture, meaning much more people will go see the movie because of the it, even if it has little or nothing to do with the game.

      So it will be as much like the original as the "I, Robot" movie was like Asimov's stories.
      What a waste of time. I'll skip this one...

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    2. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by KDR_11k · · Score: 2

      Considering the alien sprites from the game are highly iconic and used as trademarks they'll likely be required to use them at least once in the movie.

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    3. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2

      Wait until next year: Battleship: The Movie. Yes, Battleship, the children's guessing game, is being made into a movie. Monopoly, too. Really, it's not too far-fetched when one realizes that GI Joe and Transformers were created solely to promote a line of toys kids 12 and under. And wasn't Clue a great movie based on another hoary old game?

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    4. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I almost thing this would backfire. As it has no story content associated with it I don't think it will cause people to decide they just have to see it. Additionally any rabid space invader fan boys will auto hate it because it doesn't have anything to do with SI except for the name. This seems like a very bad marketing idea.

    5. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by artor3 · · Score: 1

      Clue at least shared a plot with the game. Mr. Body is murdered, and all the characters from the game need to run around the mansion trying to figure out whodunit. With Space Invaders and Battleship, what plot is there to share? Are the Space Invaders going to be fended off by a single ship that can only move horizontally? Will Battleship be about a naval battle in which all the radars stop working and all the crew are suddenly stricken blind?

    6. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by Dogtanian · · Score: 1

      So it will be as much like the original as the "I, Robot" movie was like Asimov's stories. What a waste of time. I'll skip this one...

      Er... are you serious? I think it was implicit to anyone the reason the film would have little to do with the original game was... that the plot of the original game was virtually nonexistent anyway! Yes, Hollywood is notorious for dicking about with stuff, but in this case the joke would be trying to make a "film" using this as the plot:-

      A group of earth-invading aliens moves in lockstep formation attempting to shoot lone ship on ground that's trying in turn to blast *them* from behind some shields. Plot twist- occasional bonus ship appears at top of screen. Er, that's it.

      Even Michael Bay might struggle to stretch that to two hours of sound and fury.

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    7. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by mattack2 · · Score: 1

      So it will be as much like the original as the "I, Robot" movie was like Asimov's stories.
      What a waste of time. I'll skip this one...

      Were the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies all a waste of time? Those were movies "based on" a theme park ride.

      That's not actually meant as a complete defense, since at least the first 3, which I've seen so far (recently), I wasn't a huge fan of them... but they were at least mildly amusing.

      Basically, I don't think it's completely impossible that a movie called "Space Invaders" could be good (esp if it's filled with allusions to the actual video game, with extra points (heh) for other 70s/80s games.)

    8. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "They didn't ask to be born. They didn't ask to descend. Bur they will fight to survive, to live in the face of ...the laser cannon

      (Reverse scratching sound) Will Ferrell: "Wait-what? Why are we using a (beep) laser cannon? They're just squids and crabs! You people make me sick!" This Christmas, sit back and enjoy the carnage, the horror, the merriment as Will Ferrell, Seth Green, and Lady Gaga take on...SPACE INVADERS! They'll make you take sides.

      (Special appearance by Santa)

    9. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by crossmr · · Score: 1

      The army will use it on their map to indicate the incoming alien horde

    10. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, but why are the aliens in a lock-step formation, unable to take evasive action? Is it the result of an ingenious hero invading their staging area and inserting a virus in their flight control system? Or perhaps they move in formation because their warrior religion is based on obeying the commanding officer's orders without fear, and their commanding officer was seduced by the sexy human starlet in green make-up? And where does the bonus ship come from? What are the stories of the fearless defenders of earth manning those defense missile launchers? Who are the scientists who set up the shields capable of blocking alien death rays? Why did the love interests of those scientists elope with the love interests of the missile launcher crews?

    11. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by EdIII · · Score: 1

      In all fairness, the Clue movie was not actually that terrible. It had what's his face from the Rocky Horror picture show and was actually quite entertaining.

      Sure it was based on a board game, but in this particular instance it was not a complete bomb. B movie maybe, but I can think of far far worse movies that I have sat through.

      Let me put in this context.... Clue or the latest Justin Bieber movie? Yeah......... I'll make the popcorn and we can watch Clue.

    12. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      well, independence day was already created. the plot is very similar. a bunch of retarded aliens somehow manage to get hold of some space ships and get spanked by a single ship, buildings are destroyed and everyone had cake.

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    13. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      As an Asimov fan, thank you sir. The 'I Robot' was NOTHING like the books.

    14. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by roman_mir · · Score: 1

      What a waste of time. I'll skip this one...

      - hold on, hold on, but if the script will stay true to the plot line of the game, will you then go watch it?

      Really?

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      I actually have an idea. How about this: everybody in the theater is given a joystick, everybody is given one ship to run, there are a few earth defenders and many invaders, and everybody is controlled by one person from the movie audience and a set of instructions, that limit what anybody can do on the screen.

      So just don't bother with the movie, put the game on the screen but an interactive game, with everybody in the audience participating.

      The goal should be cake....

    15. Re:They'll simply profit from the name. by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      Natch. G.I. Joe had nothing to do with the original concept, Transformers barely acknowledged it...

      I can understand them whoring out the Space Invaders name since it has little worth these days as a "quality" brand, but what I can't figure out is why companies like Philips do it. Philips has a good reputation, or at least they did until they started letting PC World make laptops with their name on it. They were cheap crap and Philips made no mention of them anywhere on their web site (just to add to the confusion when looking for specs and drivers). Why sully their name this way? I can only assume PC World offered them a stupendous amount of money or they are selling themselves short.

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  8. It wasn't released in the 80s. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Space Invaders was released in 1978. It was old hat by the time 1980 rolled around. There were a few squeals released in the 80s though. Space Invaders Part II and Return of the Invaders come to mind.

    1. Re:It wasn't released in the 80s. by CanEHdian · · Score: 2

      Space Invaders was released in 1978. It was old hat by the time 1980 rolled around. There were a few squeals released in the 80s though. Space Invaders Part II and Return of the Invaders come to mind.

      Though not sequels, Space Invaders was made old with the release of Galaxian (space invaders with up to a squadron of 3 dive-bombing aliens), which in turn was uprooted by Galaga (Galaxian but now the flying around was the main thing).

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    2. Re:It wasn't released in the 80s. by PCM2 · · Score: 1

      Though not sequels, Space Invaders was made old with the release of Galaxian (space invaders with up to a squadron of 3 dive-bombing aliens), which in turn was uprooted by Galaga (Galaxian but now the flying around was the main thing).

      Then Gorf gave you a mish-mash of all of the above.

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  9. I've read the proposed treatment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The pacing starts out a little slow, but by the ending it really flies with a back-and-forth recklessness that is thrilling.

    1. Re:I've read the proposed treatment by ArsonSmith · · Score: 2

      Sounds like my general review of most porns

      The pacing starts out a little slow, but by the ending it really flies with a back-and-forth recklessness that is thrilling. Then I lose interest.

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  10. It's not April is it? by king+neckbeard · · Score: 2

    Somebody tell me this is a joke. This is in line with the Robot Chicken sketches where Hungry Hungry Hippos and Chutes and Ladders were made into films.

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    1. Re:It's not April is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, there is a Robot Chicken sketch about Space Invaders. Probably even has a more realistic plot as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfBcCRHPDrU

    2. Re:It's not April is it? by arthurpaliden · · Score: 2

      It's not 'Chutes and Ladders' it is 'SNAKES and Ladders'. Damn PC police.

    3. Re:It's not April is it? by vux984 · · Score: 2

      Its not the PC police.

      The game is still sold as as "Snakes and Ladders" in many places from other vendors, even in the US.

      Its "Chutes and Ladders" to many because that's what Milton Bradley called his version when he "introduced" the game to the United States in the 40s.

      I expect it was probably done for copyright and / trademark / marketing reasons not PC reasons.

    4. Re:It's not April is it? by jd2112 · · Score: 1

      Its not the PC police.

      The game is still sold as as "Snakes and Ladders" in many places from other vendors, even in the US.

      Its "Chutes and Ladders" to many because that's what Milton Bradley called his version when he "introduced" the game to the United States in the 40s.

      I expect it was probably done for copyright and / trademark / marketing reasons not PC reasons.

      They probably thought that a game without 'snakes' in the title would sell better.

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    5. Re:It's not April is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lets not forget that there making the battleship board game into a movie.

    6. Re:It's not April is it? by jojoba_oil · · Score: 2

      Sadly, I think a movie about Hungry Hungry Hippos would be more interesting.

      All these aliens-invade-Earth movies get really old: aliens come to Earth with high-tech guns and start killing everyone, humans almost die off entirely, some hero with a hot girlfriend kill off all the aliens, hero and girlfriend repopulate the Earth...

      If they did a "Triple-H" movie, they could mix it up: Hippos surround every major city and bounce people between each other devouring them as they get close, humans almost die off entirely, some hero with a hot girlfriend kills off all the hippos, hero and girlfriend repopulate the Earth...

    7. Re:It's not April is it? by quenda · · Score: 1

      No, The PC version is called "ladders and ladders". It is harmful to the little ones' self esteem to be sent down.

    8. Re:It's not April is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Its not the PC police.

      The game is still sold as as "Snakes and Ladders" in many places from other vendors, even in the US.

      Its "Chutes and Ladders" to many because that's what Milton Bradley called his version when he "introduced" the game to the United States in the 40s.

      I expect it was probably done for copyright and / trademark / marketing reasons not PC reasons.

      Thanks, vux984, for stating the obvious - that business decisions are made for business reasons. Beside which, can someone explain what about snakes is not politically correct? Scary maybe - I know my daughter would have run screaming from a game with the word "snakes" in it.

  11. Only if... by 25or6to4 · · Score: 1

    ...Lrr is a main character. "Increase speed, drop down, and reverse direction!"

  12. Re:They are really running out of ideas aren't the by rainmouse · · Score: 1

    What's next? Pong: The Movie!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u5YaGU3ELk

  13. Theme song.. by bmo · · Score: 1

    ....is already written.

    "he's hooked, he's hooked, his brain is cooked... Spaaaaace Invaders!"

    I first heard it on Dr. Demento, a long...long time ago.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McteLDT01Ig

    Song by Uncle Vic.

    I love the "fair use" and "disclaimer" and other stuff this guy has on the posting.

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  14. excuse me by NEDHead · · Score: 1

    Didn't The Last Starfighter cover this plot territory?

  15. Been There, Done That by sehlat · · Score: 1

    See "Battle: Los Angeles," and "Skyline."

    Is there any way we could just convince some aliens that Hollywood is our planetary capital....?

  16. This reminds me.. by kav2k · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of this one: PIXELS by Patrick Jean

    1. Re:This reminds me.. by rekoil · · Score: 1

      Or Royksopp's video for "Happy Up Here"...

  17. Sounds as if a pastiche is needed here: by h1q · · Score: 0

    Battle Royale times Bible Black divided by Tentacle porn to the power of Pachinko modulo

    buxom,Junoesque,adipose,agreeable,amply endowed,attractive,becoming,beefy,big-bellied,bloated,blowzy,bonny,bosomy,braw,brawny,built,built for comfort,burly,busty,callipygian,callipygous,chesty,chubby,chunky,comely,corpulent,curvaceous,curvy,distended,dumpy,fair,fat,fattish,fleshy,frivolous,full,gleeful,goddess-like,gross,healthy,hearty,heavyset,hefty,hilarious,hippy,imposing,jocular,jocund,jolly,jovial,joyful,joyous,laughter-loving,likely,lovely to behold,lusty,meaty,merry,mirth-loving,mirthful,obese,overweight,paunchy,personable,pleasing,plump,pneumatic,podgy,portly,potbellied,presentable,pudgy,puffy,pursy,rejoicing,risible,roly-poly,rotund,shapely,sightly,slender,square,squat,squatty,stacked,stalwart,statuesque,stocky,stout,strapping,swollen,thick-bodied,thickset,top-heavy,tubby,vigorous,well-built,well-developed,well-favored,well-fed,well-formed,well-made,well-proportioned,well-shaped,well-stacked

    young woman, while separated from her friends, has to learn to use a semi-disabled tank to fight off swarms of horribly implanted aliens waves disguised as parents / bosses / ugly women / creatures from Australia.

  18. triangles by PrinceAshitaka · · Score: 1

    At least they'll save money on the CGI graphics. Triangles shouldn't be that difficult to render.

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    1. Re:triangles by PrinceAshitaka · · Score: 1

      oh wait, wrong 80's arcade game, what was the spaec one with the triangle? That, unlike space invaders would be a good film. Something tells me the only thing this film will have in common with the game is the name.

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    2. Re:triangles by SilverHatHacker · · Score: 2

      You're thinking of Asteroids. Which is also being made into a movie. Which also only has the name in common with the game due to a lack of plot and developable characters.

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    3. Re:triangles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Either one could be a pr0n flick: Face Invaders... ASSteroids.. (not to mention "Grabatard", "Depender", "Missile Cummand", and "The Temple of Ass-Shy")

    4. Re:triangles by EdIII · · Score: 1

      Well I may be geeking out extra here..... but couldn't we consider the Darth Vader's SSD to be more of less a triangle and that going into an Asteroid field (You never want to hear the odds of successfully navigating one) and firing on the asteroids was not pretty much the movie already?

    5. Re:triangles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Star Castles?

      loved it ;)

  19. Another vehicle by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...for Megan Fox to exhibit her thespian excellence.

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    1. Re:Another vehicle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you mean lesbian?

    2. Re:Another vehicle by cshark · · Score: 1

      I think that the movie should be based on this Slashdot conversation.
      It would still be long and plotless, but at least it would be amusing.

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    3. Re:Another vehicle by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 1

      I didn't even know she liked girls.

    4. Re:Another vehicle by korean.ian · · Score: 1

      Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  20. FANTASTIC!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Awesome idea. Why did no one think of this before? I only hope the film is as good as the game.

  21. Obviously, this movie is about... by Faulkner39 · · Score: 1

    ...a young man whose parents-in-law move in to his home.

  22. Lur, from Omicron Peresi 8 by Culture20 · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Increase speed, drop down and reverse direction!"

    1. Re:Lur, from Omicron Peresi 8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's Lrrr, not Lur.

    2. Re:Lur, from Omicron Peresi 8 by EdIII · · Score: 1

      Well that does not sound to bad now. We at least know the soundtrack will be a Rush mix tape.

  23. Might be good.... by bickerdyke · · Score: 1

    If they somehow manage to bring the iconic "Invaders" style to the big screen in a way that leaves it recognizable but not looking completly outdated, this might result in a truly outstanding movie. Regardless of the plot. You know, some completly new visual style like what Matrix gave us.

    There should be a law that forbids buying the rights to only the NAME of something.

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    1. Re:Might be good.... by ae1294 · · Score: 1

      If they somehow manage to bring the iconic "Invaders" style to the big screen in a way that leaves it recognizable but not looking completly outdated, this might result in a truly outstanding movie. Regardless of the plot. You know, some completly new visual style like what Matrix gave us.

      Yeah what he said.... and 3D!

  24. Desperation in Hollywood by Animats · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hollywood is out of second-tier comic book superheroes and the plastic-toy genre has been well covered. As for remakes, "Police Academy 8" has been green-lighted, so the bottom of the barrel has been reached there. Some major franchises have reached end of life. The final Harry Potter movie, and what's probably the final Bond movie, are about to come out.

    On the video game front, Rockstar won't let a studio make a GTA game; they think it would devalue the franchise. So Hollywood has to go through the bargain bin of video game rights.

    The state of the industry is pathetic. Warner Bros. is doing so badly that only one of their movies last year made the top 100. (It was "Hot Tub Time Machine".) There's a backlash against bad 3D movies.

    The desperate attempts to insure a hit on a big budget by redoing something that worked before are backfiring.

    1. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

      As a comic book fan, I can assure you that tons of first, second, and third tier heroes and villains still need recent movie treatment. When Forbush-Man is the star of a movie, you'll know it's time for them to move to greener pastures.

    2. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      They are merely trying to make media that isn't worth downloading, thereby thwarting online piracy.
      Personally, I'm waiting for an action-ized version of "Epic Mealtime".

    3. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by NeoMorphy · · Score: 1

      There's still a lot of movies they can do remakes of!

      • "Gone with the Wind"
      • "Citizen Kane"
      • "The Searchers"
      • "The Godfather"
      • "Casablanca"
      • "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
      • "Blade Runner"
      • "Metropolis"

      I think Hollywood should seriously consider doing a remake of these movies in 3D! I'm really hoping someone in Hollywood reads this and starts thinking about it.

    4. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As a comic book fan, I can assure you that tons of first, second, and third tier heroes and villains still need recent movie treatment. When Forbush-Man is the star of a movie, you'll know it's time for them to move to greener pastures.

      I like the comic book form, but believe most protagonists don't even deserve full graphic novel treatment with the exception of archiving collections.

      Sitting down with a list of tropes and canceling out story elements that the public already associates with higher profile protagonists you will usually end up with a few Rob Liefeld dark/troubled types and a few bizarre/absurdly powerful beings to work with. The dark characters usually get translated to PG-13 motives for movie treatments - and thus can still seem original when allowed to be rated R in a manner that moves the story forward.

      The super-powerful ones are too hard to work with and usually get pushed off-screen, thus can seem fresh. Think of how hard it was to even make Magneto plausible, and then consider how far down he is on the chain of powerful villains... The plausibility of an entire universe gets strained when you introduce characters more powerful than Magneto - something along the lines of a Monitor character pretty much ends emotional investment in an adventure for an audience. Where is the human challenge etc...

      There have just been too many revolutions of the creative wheels in the comic industry for an idea to seem new.

      I was stunned the Green Lantern got green lighted. Within a week or two of getting my first D&D rule book as a kid I lost all love for Green Lantern due to the lack of bounds in-context. I haven't seen the recent movie, but can't imagine anyone could make a series out of the premise without reducing the super-powers to a seldom seen sub-plot around an otherwise normal adventure framework.

      Anyhow, the comic scene is only deep for those invested in the form's particular suspensions of reality. The granularity of perceived originality dissolves when you step beck and look from a populist or generalist perspectives - one poorly understood display of super-human power bleeds into the next and everyone becomes less accessible to the audience the further dehumanizing the displays of abilities become.

    5. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Dynedain · · Score: 3, Informative

      Ummm... the Harry Potter franchise are Warner Brothers pictures. I'm pretty sure that made it into the top 100 movies of last year. So was Inception. That's 2 in the top 5 grossing for 2010, proving you don't know what you're talking about.

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    6. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by daffmeister · · Score: 2

      Warner Bros. is doing so badly that only one of their movies last year made the top 100. (It was "Hot Tub Time Machine".)

      I think you mean MGM. Warner Bros had a ton in the top 100. http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2010&p=.htm

    7. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "final bond movie"

      rofl

    8. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Animats · · Score: 1

      Right, MGM. Sorry.

    9. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They should remake Student Bodies

      PS: "ensure"

    10. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The last Bond film was the one before the collosal flop of all time, casino royal!!

    11. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Thing+1 · · Score: 1

      Crank was very much a GTA-style movie (San Andreas, that is).

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    12. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by HumanEmulator · · Score: 2

      As the total cost of filmmaking becomes cheaper and cheaper, Hollywood has to focus on doing things the little guys can't. Like 3D, or CGI or pay expensive fees to give their movies recognizable names. That said, I generally am not a fan of movies based on rides, games or tv shows, but Slumdog Millionaire was a story based on the rights to 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' and that was a amazing movie.

    13. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by Dynedain · · Score: 1

      And that wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that MGM has been going through bankruptcy for the last 3 years? Picking one once-glorious company and pointing to its downfall as indicative of the industry is like saying "Computing is a dying industry because Osborne isn't putting out an industry-leading product."

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    14. Re:Desperation in Hollywood by jackbird · · Score: 1

      They did, but they botched it. It was called Scary Movie.

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  25. Where's Uwe Boll when you need him? nt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    no text

  26. Minesweeper by TypoNAM · · Score: 2

    Surely it will be a big hit like Minesweeper: The Movie! Hopefully the question of "Why are the mines even here!?" is answered in Minesweeper 2: Flag Down.

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    1. Re:Minesweeper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  27. Hopefully Tempest is next ... by damn_registrars · · Score: 1

    I've been yearning for a long time to hear what those staples are really after...

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  28. I know by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bad Guys come, threaten the safety and well being of all loving earthlings - especially a Young Hero and his Unconsummated Love. Young Hero gets the shit kicked out of him. Unconsummated Love somehow placed in mortal danger. Young Hero finds a way to overcome the Bad Guys, rejoin his Unconsummated Love and save the entire world. Mix in oodles of special effects magic. $8 please, or whatever it is they charge for movie tickets nowadays.

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    1. Re:I know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      man you just ruined super 8 for everyone

    2. Re:I know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      $8? Sign me up! Here it starts at $11.50, plus some obscene amount for a "digital experience" with an addition fee for the "3D" abomination.

    3. Re:I know by EdIII · · Score: 1

      So in the rated R version of your story does the Unconsummated Love turn into Consumated Love? Basic Instinct style?

    4. Re:I know by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      Nah, in the R rated version you get to see a breast for 2 seconds and there's some moaning and frolicking under the covers and hints at consummation.

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    5. Re:I know by sorak · · Score: 1

      Bad Guys come, threaten the safety and well being of all loving earthlings - especially a Young Hero and his Unconsummated Love. Young Hero gets the shit kicked out of him. Unconsummated Love somehow placed in mortal danger. Young Hero finds a way to overcome the Bad Guys, rejoin his Unconsummated Love and save the entire world. Mix in oodles of special effects magic. $8 please, or whatever it is they charge for movie tickets nowadays.

      You forgot the part where unconsummated love gets in fight with young hero, shortly before he gets the shit kicked out of him. He must lose everything while they play the "gee, your life has turned to shit" music. Then it is that much more dramatic when everything falls back into place.

  29. Simps..., err, Futurama Did It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=162725&title=space-invaders

  30. This will set a new record by jwijnands · · Score: 1

    Worst movie after a game, ever. This will make tomb raider 1 and 2 look like oscar worthy masterpieces. It will make resident evil look good! I shudder to think what will be done to this poor classic game

  31. Invaders, from Space? by riker1384 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All right. It's Saturday night, I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape... Let's rock.

  32. futurama Series 3 FTW by TDyl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Futurama S3 E18.

    Who needs anything else?

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    1. Re:futurama Series 3 FTW by genner · · Score: 1

      Futurama S3 E18. Who needs anything else?

      A 2 liter bottle of Shasta and an all Rush mix tape would be good.

  33. Should have an awesome soundtrack! by Chris.Nelson · · Score: 2

    Rhythmic and increasing in tempo throughout the movie. Enkt ... Enkt ... Enkt ... Enkt .. Enkt .. Enkt .. Enkt .. Enkt .. Enkt .. Enkt .. Enkt .. Enkt .. Enkt . Enkt . Enkt . Enkt . Enkt . Enkt Enkt Enkt

  34. Been done. by Artifakt · · Score: 1

    There actually was a short film based on space invaders. It was used as filler between movies on HBO in their very early days, and was credited as someone's student animation project. It involved a bunch of characters off of pinball games, including an Egyptian style god, coming to life and trying to fight off the waves of space invaders and defend civilians. Scenes where the defenders ducked and popped out from behind brownstones much like using the four space invaders shield walls still stick in my mind, but that's as much as I remember.

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  35. oh buddy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    OK...the fact that Lorenzo di Bonaventura---the guy who co-produced the awful Doom movie---is behind this speaks volumes. Second...WTF?????? SPACE INVADERS HAS ABSOLUTELY ZERO PLOT AND NO CHARACTERS. YOU'RE JUST ZOOMING AROUND THE SCREEN OBLITERATING ALIENS. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO BASE THIS MOVIE AROUND. NOT UNLESS THEY PLAN ON FILMING IT IN TOP-DOWN 1D DISPLAYING HOW MANY POINTS THE CHARACTERS GOT FOR DESTROYING THE RANDOM SPACESHIP. WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS?

    1. Re:oh buddy... by Idbar · · Score: 1

      SPACE INVADERS HAS ABSOLUTELY ZERO PLOT AND NO CHARACTERS

      So does Twilight, and there's the movies and girls screaming for the actors. Put a hot chick, a hopeless romantic guy and ships coming down the sky back and forth and there you have it! Ah, wait, that was transformers.

    2. Re:oh buddy... by genner · · Score: 1

      SPACE INVADERS HAS ABSOLUTELY ZERO PLOT AND NO CHARACTERS

      So does Twilight, and there's the movies and girls screaming for the actors. Put a hot chick, a hopeless romantic guy and ships coming down the sky back and forth and there you have it! Ah, wait, that was transformers.

      Someone call Michael Bay.

  36. MPAA! by Teun · · Score: 1

    Once the movie is out they'll start going after the owners of the original consoles for infringement.

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  37. And here is the main theme. by Zumbs · · Score: 1
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  38. Plot! by graveyhead · · Score: 2

    4 regular old marines that have more personality than most military types you meet - the black guy, the hispanic guy, generic WASP white guy and butch (but still cute and wears lipstick) lesbian girl - are sent new orders to show up to a secret base. In the secret base there's fancy new laser beam weapons that the marines are going to have to learn (queue montage).

    But wait! Evil Liam Neeson has made a deal with the aliens and sold out our greatest secret! The fact that we start to suck at shooting things when the targets move faster.

    Suddenly there's alien spaceships in the sky! Oh no, and they start moving faster and faster! So fast in fact that you can't actually see what's happening on the screen! How did they know our greatest weakness (DAMN YOU LIAM NEESON). The hispanic guy gets wounded, then the black guy dies. The white guy saves the day (by finishing the level) and the lesbian goes straight and marries the white guy. The hispanic guy is the best man at their wedding.

    The end.

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    1. Re:Plot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey cool. When does it come out?

    2. Re:Plot! by Mr+Z · · Score: 1

      You forgot to specify which character gets the comic-relief one liners...

    3. Re:Plot! by mabhatter654 · · Score: 1

      tropes say the token black guy....

  39. It's clear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    why I haven't set foot in a movie theater in five years. Apparently I'm not missing anything.

  40. Considering what they did with Doom by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 1

    I think after what they did with Doom the only thing that is certain about this movie is that it will not have space or invaders. Otherwise it is all open.

    As others have said, this is probably sheer desperation in needing to use a title people know to get punters to go rather then say a trailer with all the action shots or a female star taking her top off.

    Space Invaders the movie... when people mention it dear Hollywood they were making FUN of you. NOT making a suggestion.

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    1. Re:Considering what they did with Doom by PCM2 · · Score: 2

      I think after what they did with Doom the only thing that is certain about this movie is that it will not have space or invaders.

      Eh? The way I remember it, the Doom movie was a pretty dead-on version of Doom III, albeit with more characters a fewer monsters. They even had a whole section of the movie that went into first-person shooter mode. How much more like Doom could they have made it?

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  41. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. by sneakyimp · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll base the plot here on what I've seen in other movies like Independence Day and War of the Worlds (the Tom Cruise version).

    Aliens attack earth to steal our water on account of its amazingly high specific heat capacity which they need for cooling their interstellar space drives. Despite the ability to travel interstellar space easily, the aliens somehow failed to read Sun Tzu's "the Art of War" and, assembling in a highly primitive phalanx formation reminiscent of the techniques of Ancient Romans, they are slaughtered wholesale by Global Hawks and F-22/F-35's manned by a people's army of inspiring ethnic diversity.

    1. Re:Lather, Rinse, Repeat. by sorak · · Score: 1

      I'll base the plot here on what I've seen in other movies like Independence Day and War of the Worlds (the Tom Cruise version).

      Aliens attack earth to steal our water on account of its amazingly high specific heat capacity which they need for cooling their interstellar space drives. Despite the ability to travel interstellar space easily, the aliens somehow failed to read Sun Tzu's "the Art of War" and, assembling in a highly primitive phalanx formation reminiscent of the techniques of Ancient Romans, they are slaughtered wholesale by Global Hawks and F-22/F-35's manned by a people's army of inspiring ethnic diversity.

      Ah, the Stargate SG1 explanation: these people are a super advanced warlike society, but because they don't have access to western culture, they never learned the basics of combat. Well played, sir.

    2. Re:Lather, Rinse, Repeat. by sneakyimp · · Score: 1

      Eastern culture, my friend. Eastern culture. Or at least the Western culture translation of it.

    3. Re:Lather, Rinse, Repeat. by sorak · · Score: 1

      I stand corrected. I knew the "Art of War" was eastern, but I guess I wasn't going to let fact stand in the way of a favorite rant.

  42. Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Required+Snark · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The sad truth is that this was all sparked by the critical and financial success of Pirates of the Caribbean. The Disneyland ride had no plot and no characters. All it had was a bunch of cartoon like stereotypes.

    So starting with nothing they came up with a witty plot and some great acting, and they had a legitimate hit. Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow is an inspired character and he and Geoffrey Rush make the movie. Keira Knightley is no slouch either. It is a classic, and will be appreciated by generations of movie goers.

    This success brought the 'Dark Side' of the Hollywood machine into play. Producers realized that they could look for movie concepts where there was no plot to begin with. From their point of view all they need is a recognizable concept/title. Think Alvin and the Chipmunks, Marmaduke, etc. So we are now facing the dreadful reality of the Space Invaders move. In 3D.

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    1. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "The sad truth is that this was all sparked by the critical and financial success of Pirates of the Caribbean. The Disneyland ride had no plot and no characters. All it had was a bunch of cartoon like stereotypes."

      So, what you're saying is, it was practically ready-made for a Hollywood adaptation?

    2. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe those shots in 3D will finally stab my eyes out for good. Would be nice.

    3. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am still waiting for the tomorrowland transportation authority movie.

    4. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by GrumblyStuff · · Score: 2

      It is a classic, and will be appreciated by generations of movie goers.
      No... No, it isn't.

      It's a convoluted, excessively long trilogy with backstabs and double crosses galore, and with each successive film, there is yet another story thread added. There's no suspense because only two non-nameless, non-faceless people actually die and everyone else is immortal, uninjured, and/or just plain too fucking slapsticky to die. It's tiresome to watch due to the length, yet another comeback or double cross, and the sheer amount of crap flying across the screen.

      It's like if George Lucas did the Star Wars prequels with pirates. Okay, I take that back since there are some well defined, likable characters. However, I can't even watch it for free on TV it's that bad.

    5. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe you should just blame the people injecting millions of dollars into the studio by going to watch those pirate films. Called capitalism buddy, who cares how good something is as long as it makes money for the producer.

    6. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Fentekreel · · Score: 1

      if it is in 3d i wonder how long we will have to watch someone play before they run out of space.

    7. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's not true. The ride did have a plot. The pirates stole Aztec gold and became walking skeletons. Same plot as the first movie.

    8. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The sad truth is that this was all sparked by the critical and financial success of Pirates of the Caribbean. The Disneyland ride had no plot and no characters. All it had was a bunch of cartoon like stereotypes.

      So starting with nothing they came up with a witty plot and some great acting, and they had a legitimate hit. Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow is an inspired character and he and Geoffrey Rush make the movie. Keira Knightley is no slouch either. It is a classic, and will be appreciated by generations of movie goers.

      This success brought the 'Dark Side' of the Hollywood machine into play. Producers realized that they could look for movie concepts where there was no plot to begin with. From their point of view all they need is a recognizable concept/title. Think Alvin and the Chipmunks, Marmaduke, etc. So we are now facing the dreadful reality of the Space Invaders move. In 3D.

      Your only mistake is thinking pirates of the caribbean was the start of this crapfest.

    9. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by carlzum · · Score: 2

      I don't know, Pirates of the Caribbean was entertaining because it didn't rehash old characters and plot lines. It's not responsible for the A Team, Transformers, etc. The fact Space Invaders is starting from a blank slate gives it a chance. The moment "let's remake Planet of the Apes" was uttered, it was destined to suck.

      PS: Don't rip on the Chipmunks, my 6 year old's kindergarten will be on you like Muslims on a Danish cartoonist ;)

    10. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Bloodwine77 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The first Pirates movie is good. As with the Matrix, I pretend that Pirates has no sequels.

    11. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So we are now facing the dreadful reality of the Space Invaders move. In 3D.

      But the original worked so well in 2D!

    12. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not nothing.

      Around 2005, there were rumors of a script being written for a movie based on the Monkey Island games. The movie deal fell through, but the fact that the script was written was confirmed later in 2006. One of the authors that worked on the script was Ted Elliot. He has a script credit on the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

      A lot of people have noted the similarities in plot elements from the Monkey Island games and the first two Pirates of the Caribbean films.

    13. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" by jackbird · · Score: 1

      I liked the second one for the way the action scenes were structured - Each one had three characters or groups fighting/saving each other rock-paper-scissors style.

  43. Some work with even less plot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Michael Bay cranks out 2 hour epics with less story.

  44. I don't know if it's a good idea by roman_mir · · Score: 1

    it's gonna be all back and forth, back and forth, the ending is totally predictable, the only question: who'll play the hot chick?

    1. Re:I don't know if it's a good idea by mabhatter654 · · Score: 1

      I think it should be any of the "geek and gamer girls".

      I think use the Air Force and spoof on the old SAC and NORAD radar stations. It's the mechanics of how the aliens would work. Although if you went for more of a "Saturday SyFy Channel movie" you could never actually show the alien ships.. just the radar screens. We could get Amanda Tapping to spout techobabble!!!

      Makes me long for the Sims Movie... but only if we can get the College Humor folks to write it!

  45. Re:They are really running out of ideas aren't the by tepples · · Score: 1

    What's next? Pong: The Movie!!

    I seem to remember seeing that in theaters under the title Forrest Gump.

  46. Creativity Bankrupt / Fear Crysis by Tei · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of unwritten and written stories that are worth translating to movies. The frame of invaders is not.

    I hope Hollywood achieve some economical bankrupt to acompany the creativity bankrupt and the paralizing fear to tell new stories. I know is because money is coward, but I feel I am allowed to hate this cowardize.

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  47. Already done by Psicopatico · · Score: 2

    As per subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VczbbiRmDik

    From the description:
    SPACE INVADERS is the 2nd video performance of the GAME OVER Project, directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). This stop-motion video was shot and played during and for the "Belluard Bollwerk International" festival (Fribourg, Switzerland | www.belluard.ch) on June 24th 2006.

    Can someone argue about some copyright issues? TFA states the option to acquire the rights, not that they've been granted.

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  48. Re:They are really running out of ideas aren't the by agesilaos · · Score: 1

    I think MS Office saga would be more interesting. Part I -- "Word", Part II -- "Excel" and so on.
    Than sequels "Son of Excel" or "Word 2.0".

  49. "Spaced Invaders" will profit too by perpenso · · Score: 1

    The name 'Space Invaders' rings a bell for a lot of people...

    Some people will make a little mistake and accidentally rent "Spaced Invaders", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/, and they will probably be far better off. :-)

  50. As long as it is in 3D by WizardMarnok · · Score: 1

    As long as it is in 3D it will be a smash!

  51. Who wouldn't want to write this? by Woogiemonger · · Score: 1

    coming up with a captivating universe, especially for video game adaptations, is no easy task.

    I think the screenwriting experience is vastly underappreciated. While it's rough, perhaps, to think about what an alien world would be like, and then try to imagine some fictional situation, a much easier route is to just write about what you know, and then, embellish! Every day you go through events that you later tell others about, because they're inherently interesting stories... they're real world situations that people can relate to. These are perfect as inspiration for a movie plot.

    For instance, perhaps I would talk about my first botany experiment. I grew a few plants in my apartment, and while I'm at first entranced at how things spring to life.. how my sunflowers, for instance, reach for the ceiling in weeks, I soon learned that if you overwater them, you fall prey to fruit flies that plant their eggs in your watery soil and soon multiply and become a problem.

    So, let's embellish! Replace fruit flies with aliens. Archaeologists have been researching the reproduction of extinct animals using ancient DNA a la Jurassic Park, right? Don't worry about repeating prior art.. it's impossible to avoid, and if you tell your own story, it'll have a fresh perspective that will be appreciated on its own. But we want this to be an invasion with spaceships, right? So let's have them make this discovery in a Martian colony, and they decide to interbreed them with llamas. Surprise, this DNA was from an egg sent off by evil aliens from Alpha Centauri, that happen to reproduce fast like fruit flies, or maybe Zerglings. The Earth loses touch with its remote sister world, and soon send out a rescue spaceship to investigate. You see flashing across the 200 inch wide screen display on the bridge or whatever a face of a creature that looks like a cross between an insect and a llama. It hisses a warning to the ship's captain, along with the rest of the human race, that the human colony has been eradicated, they have regained contact with their mother race at Alpha Centauri, and soon, the entire race will be either enslaved, or destroyed. Their choice.

    I'd watch that! The real challenge with filmmaking is NOT coming up with a good story. The challenge is coming up with reliable, knowledgeable people and locations, and the funds for the equipment/props you need. Money solves all of that. Making a well-funded movie is a complex task, but it sure as hell is a lot easier than if you have a low budget and volunteer/low-paid crewmen/actors. For the many well-funded movies that turn out to be crap, in my opinion, they have no excuse.

    Dark Kidney Films

    1. Re:Who wouldn't want to write this? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2

      The above comment is exactly what is wrong with movies today. Scriptwriters are frigging morons.

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    2. Re:Who wouldn't want to write this? by PCM2 · · Score: 1

      The above comment is exactly what is wrong with movies today. Scriptwriters are frigging morons.

      That's not fair. The average screenwriter gets contracted to write a script, gets paid for said script, and has nothing more to do with it after that. The script sits in some producer's desk for a year or two, then gets pulled out, dusted off, and handed off to some script doctor for rewrites. Then it gets handed off to someone else, and if we're really lucky, it gets handed off to someone else to polish so that all the product placements fit into the plot. Then it gets shot, and the director rewrites a few scenes on the fly, on the urging of the producers. And then we have our movie. If screenwriters were such idiots, you'd think we'd hear more of them showing off wherever they could when their movies make hundreds of millions of dollars. The truth is, the finished films have long since ceased to be "their" movies.

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  52. Colour by arthurpaliden · · Score: 2

    Will it be shot in 4 bit colour and in a none wide screen format?

    1. Re:Colour by Scarletdown · · Score: 1

      Will it be shot in 4 bit colour and in a none wide screen format?

      It will be filmed in tall screen format, and monochrome. But, there will be strips of transparent colored tape across the screen at various levels to simulate a color display.

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    2. Re:Colour by arthurpaliden · · Score: 1

      Now that you mention it I seem to remember playing one of those Yea, I'm dating myself big time.

    3. Re:Colour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nonsense... The colour will be added with gels on the screen !

    4. Re:Colour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It needs to be one bit, and they'll just overlay large strips of orange and green cellophane over the screens at each theater.

    5. Re:Colour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Space Invaders was 1 bit with coloured plastic overlays iirc.

  53. Happy up Here by Spikeles · · Score: 1

    Hoping it'll be something like This

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    1. Re:Happy up Here by 91degrees · · Score: 1

      "This is blocked in your region on copyright grounds"

      To be honest, I'm hoping it will be something like that as well.

    2. Re:Happy up Here by Spikeles · · Score: 1

      That sucks, try this one instead (probably should've linked to it first anyway) http://vimeo.com/3281558

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  54. Didn't we already see this movie? by Jack9 · · Score: 1
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  55. Fill in the Blanks Plotline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The ____ aliens invade and have amazing weapons that shoot ____ and are powered by ____.
    *insert amazing special effects here*
    They kick our butts leaving nothing but a rag tag rebellion force on the run.
    *insert amazing special effects here*
    With no way to defeat the aliens, the rebels decide to make a last stand at ____, because ____ always wanted to see that place.
    *insert amazing special effects here*
    On the way, the lead protagonist learns that the ____ aliens visited Earth before, and we happen to have some of their power source, ____, hidden at a secret
    government location at ____; in the opposite direction.
    *insert amazing special effects here*
    The protagonist goes off on a mission to obtain ___ at ___ and bring it back to ____ for the final standoff with the ___ aliens.
    *insert amazing special effects here*
    As the rebels are about to be wiped out, the protagonist arrives with the ___ power source.
    *insert amazing special effects here*
    Using the ____, the rebels are now able to levitate huge rocks in front of them, thus deflecting any ___ alien attacks
    *insert amazing special effects here*
    The ____ aliens realize they cannot win against their own technology and vow to return again with more powerful weapons.
    *insert credits here*

  56. Shouldn't be long now by eugene2k · · Score: 2

    Can't wait till they make a movie about differently shaped blocks falling from the sky.

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  57. Hollywood thinks by present_arms · · Score: 1

    That with the Atari 2600 console version they can make 112 Movies out of it

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    1. Re:Hollywood thinks by Scarletdown · · Score: 1

      That with the Atari 2600 console version they can make 112 Movies out of it

      And one of the gunners discovers that if he holds down the ignition switch in his tank while powering up, he can have 2 shots in the air at a time instead of just one.

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  58. subject by Legion303 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dear Hollywood: Fuck you.

    1. Re:subject by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Dear slashdot poster,

      No, Fuck You.

      Sincerly,
      Hollywood

    2. Re:subject by UtsuMaster · · Score: 1

      I knew it! Hollywood couldn't write 4 lines without fucking one up.

      To be fair, the others aren't capitalized correctly either. So they only got 'Hollywood' right, and it must be because that's copyrighted.

      Alright, it's definitely authentic.

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    3. Re:subject by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ^ what he said

  59. Space Invaders was NOT from the 1980's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Space Invaders was a game from the 1970's not the 80's. There is a huge difference.

  60. Our Hero wins the war with a simple trick... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    At the climax of the film, he fires his anti-air cannon concealed in a nearby hanger, shooting through the roof and defeating the alien menace!

  61. Re:They are really running out of ideas aren't the by c6gunner · · Score: 1

    "Clippy Returns" would be an excellent title for a horror film.

  62. it was a cold dark night by decora · · Score: 3, Interesting

    on the dark side of this planet. this ugly, misbegotten planet. another hole in space to make, another sphere full of screaming, dying blobs of flesh.

    i try not to think about it, but it gets to you after a while. last week lenni went crazy. he started writing on the wall with his blood and his shit mixed together... sort of like an 'outline font'. he wrote something about the 'last coming of the jesus lizard'. i couldnt read the rest of it. they closed off his bunker and hosed it down so nobody was really sure what happened to him, exactly. someone said they heard a shot, a loud shot in the night. but i dont think that was like lenni. lenni was more into knots and ropes. although i guess a plasma burst would be a hell of a lot faster and more painless.

    i wonder what he was thinking, those last seconds before he pulled the trigger. probably nothing. thats what this job does to you. a hundred years of extermination. a hundred years of terror. a hundred years of making way for civilization - a civilization that you will never get to take part in. sure, maybe if you retire, but how many make it that far? out of my first squad class, there are only 3 left. 3 out of 50. all of the rest are dead or insane.

    so why do i keep doing it, you ask? and who are you, i wonder? im writing this in a secret code in an ancient form of communication, called 'paper'. i picked it up on beta star seven stroke 6, alpha quadrant. some dead rat had a whole room full of the stuff, and a long cylindrical object that you use to scratch with onto the surface. it leaves an impression and a marking. its kind of fun once you get the hang of it really.

    but im just avoiding your first question. why keep doing it? this shit hole fuck up of a job? no life, no future, no responsibilities, no nothing. actually thats kind of the good part. the bad part, the nightmares, the voices, the memories. the emptiness. you fill it up. the ship has an endless supply of drugs, of joues, of fake anthropods from every species upon which you simulate procreation. they even got simulated babies and families if you want it. dont know why you would, sick fuckers who do that shit are the ones you have to watch out for. they are the ones that really got nuts - they dont just off themselves in the privacy of their own cube hole. no. they take out an entire squad with them. they rain down parts onto whatever shit hole we are invading, like some kind of kid throwing candy from a pinata. they laugh, like corricks, that guy, he just started laughing and killing everyone. friend, enemy, commander, didn't matter. base lost 4 of its top ribbons, each with 200 years planet clearing experience... wives, pensions, families.

    they tell us we arent supposed to mention his name. they killed a guy last week for doing it. actually it wasnt 'they', it was this shit hard sergeant named dooley. he's about as fucked up as lenni was, but dooley would never off himself. he loves pain too much - seeing other people in pain. he keeps them like that for weeks, keeping them barely alive so he can listen to them scream. then he offs them right as he ejaculates. dont ask me how i know this.

    i would like to chop his dick off, though. just to see the look on his face. and then what? id become like him i guess. whatever. thats just a way to stay alive - either go crazy and off yourself, or go crazy and off everyone else. where is the middle ground here? go crazy and write into a little secret book, that nobody can find. hide it under your sleeper, train yourself to pass the mind-scanning test they do every week. become expert at logic twists and bending diagrams, to explain that 'no, you have no contraband information on your person or in your thoughts' because, well, technically, they dont even know that 'paper' exists... and so how can it be contraband?

    anyways. another mission up. some shit fuck ass planet called 'earth'. it looks blue with smears of brown all over it, some green. and white all over the place. the inhabitants are like little blood pustules, stubby

    1. Re:it was a cold dark night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That could actually make a descent campy dark military sci-fi movie. So I'm sure they wouldn't use it.

    2. Re:it was a cold dark night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You have way too much time on your hands... no wait! this is slashdot, I should say, you have way too much of your employer's ( or mum's ) time on your hands...

    3. Re:it was a cold dark night by xhrit · · Score: 1

      +1 epic

    4. Re:it was a cold dark night by addie · · Score: 1

      No mod points, but wanted to acknowledge your post. You're a few pages away from a pretty decent sci-fi short story! That said, you and I both know that Hollywood doesn't have the balls to make such a movie. Sad, ain't it.

    5. Re:it was a cold dark night by xenn · · Score: 1

      Love your work. Fucken great. How do you come up with this stuff?

      But cutting to the chase scene decora, the studio execs think it's a little bleak. Could ya lighten it up a bit? Maybe throw a romance in?

    6. Re:it was a cold dark night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That is so painfully familiar. I hate you for evoking those memories.

    7. Re:it was a cold dark night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I might actually go to see that in the theater... and I haven't done that since E.T.

  63. I never liked Space Invaders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I think I will wait for Asteroids.

  64. Soundtrack is out by i+ate+my+neighbour · · Score: 1

    The original score implies something dramatic with plot twists.

  65. Look East by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bottom of the barrel, by no means. Hollywood still has a virtually unlimited pool of movie ideas to pillage, for a modest price. There's still a ton of anime, J/K-horror, and possibly Bollywood franchises that can be adapted for the consumption of US and other English-speaking markets.

  66. Fuck Space Invaders. Someone Do Joust Please by Scarletdown · · Score: 2

    Personally, I think as far as classic video games go, Joust has much more story and plot potential than Space Invaders.

    Though John Newcomer and Williams didn't give any deep details about the world the game takes place in, it at least has the makings of just a good sword and sorcery fantasy flick, featuring bird mounted knights fighting other mounted knights throughout the course of whatever quest and adventure they are on in thrilling bird on bird action.

    Sadly though, it appears that Joust is already on the road to being fucked as far as movie possibilities go:

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  67. Sigh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This just proves that Hollywood can not longer create new original stories, so they just resort to ruining perfectly good stories already made - hooray for creativity!

  68. Will it be like Doom the movie? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All they need to do is make sure (a) it has no invaders (b) not be set in space.

  69. Re:Lrrr, of the planet Omicron Peresi 8 by siglercm · · Score: 1

    "Drop down, reverse direction, prepare for landing. You are defeated. Instead of shooting where I was, you should have shot where I was going to be. Muahahahaha!"

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  70. you recorded Rush? by jabberw0k · · Score: 1

    An all-Limbaugh mixtape? That's pretty scary, I never heard him sing.

  71. Re:8 Bit Soundtrack! by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 1

    I smashed together a soundtrack based on an old Commodore-Format Sid tune from somewhere!

    http://taophoenixmonitoring.dontgetcaughtwithoutone.com/sid2mp3_idler_fi_1310268370.mp3

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  72. OT: Anyone know of a good PC implementation ? by Tetch · · Score: 2

    Sorry to hijack the topic like this, but availability of an audience of evident fans of the genre is too good an opportunity to miss, so .... does anyone here know of a good implementation of Space Invaders for the PC (Linux or Windows would do) ? .... one with reasonably faithful reproduction of the original action, graphics and sounds (it doesn't actually have to say "Taito" at the top tho'). I'd even pay :)

    Cheers

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    1. Re:OT: Anyone know of a good PC implementation ? by PCM2 · · Score: 2

      Get MAME, get the original ROM, have the exact experience of the original (because it really is the original).

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    2. Re:OT: Anyone know of a good PC implementation ? by Tetch · · Score: 1

      Thanks very much ! .... Now downloading ... (please don't hurt me Midway)

      PS: I'm gonna be really surprised if it turns out nobody has ever implemented a native-mode clone or look-a-lot-alike ...[thinks] ... hmm, a project for me maybe

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  73. Already been done by VendettaMF · · Score: 1

    Already been done, or as near as makes no difference.

    Flight of the Navigator

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  74. I can't wait for Pong! by n2rjt · · Score: 1

    The epic video game movie to end all video game movies: Pong.
    Just imagine what plot lines they could dream up for that one!

  75. Why, oh why can't Hollywood... by LongearedBat · · Score: 1

    ...put it's money into a sci-fi movie that's original (unlike all the movies that share the same story that the other posts are making fun of) while not trying to be weird (such as the "unspeakable fear in space/ocean/arctic" type) and actually making a proper effort with it.

    Every now and then they put a huge effort into a movie and they seem to make lots of money (esp. with merchandise). And that's despite regurgitating the same basic stories and premises. I don't believe that sci-fi is not profitable, even with high production costs. But I do believe that it's a waste of money and effort reproducing the same ideas over and over, and that is not profitable.
    Also, everyone sees through the veneer of "famous name" (in this case Space Invaders) but some of us cling to hope enough that we might see a movie anyway, just in case we get lucky. We got lucky with Transformers. Sure, many of you don't like those movies, but many of us do find them very entertaining. :)

    But what if a movie was both entertaining and... thought provoking, or even informative, or even tickling our imaginations? When last did we see something like that? Examples are the excitement between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and the Matrix movies. (Yes, yes, they only made one according to some, but the other two as least tried, too hard by being cryptic, to be thought provoking as well, though they required too much mental effort for some.)

    Surely there's enough written material out there to make use of? Perhaps producers need to start reading books from different authors, instead of using the same script writer every time.

  76. I liked this one better by Mateorabi · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE_1KlWFJyA is closer to the video-game-based-movie-plot theme.

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  77. Pitfall by guttentag · · Score: 1

    As long as we are remaking Atari games as movies, let's do Pitfall.

    Plot: Man runs left on screen, falls into pit of alligators and is eaten. Man comes back to life, tries to swing over pit of alligators, falls into pit of alligators and is eaten. Man comes back to life, tries to jump on heads of alligators like stepping stones, falls into pit of alligators and is eaten. Man comes back to life, runs right on screen, successfully swings over pit of alligators only to fall into a pit of scorpions, in which he has to run back to the beginning using the mysterious jungle sewers and climb a ladder to get back where he started, only to realize dying would have been more efficient than running from the scorpion.

    Add various symbols and allusions to sub-prime lending, and you've got a deep film about the modern world economy.

  78. Pong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Coming soon: Pong, the Musical!

  79. I smell sequel! by magusxxx · · Score: 1

    Space Invaders: The Pinball Machine! -- Which, they really made. http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2252

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  80. They could just... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Finish making the Halo movie.
    Same thing, right?

  81. Re:They are really running out of ideas aren't the by Evtim · · Score: 1
  82. Inevitible by andrewa · · Score: 2

    Michael Bay: "Challenge accepted!"

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  83. Um by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I *think* I saw my first S.I. game in an arcade in 1978. Carter was President. Cars had no electronics and didn't run right. Ever. My main "teaching" computer had magnetic core memory.

    Hardly an '80s phenom.

    You kids. Get the frack off my lawn. I worked my ASS off replacing mainframes with networks in the '80s so you could poke your electronic dicks everywhere. Enjoy your crappy, offshored jobs, you ungrateful, forgetful, 24-hour shopping/downloading/stealing-whatever-you-feel-like louts.

  84. Audience participation by FlynnMP3 · · Score: 1

    Make it an audience participation movie. A few members of the audience, random chosen and willing or even an auction, will be issued an arcade light gun (ala Duck Hunt) and at certain points in the movie will need to shoot the aliens on the screen. Simple infrared light sensors behind the screen will trigger the different projectors upstairs to show either a successful or a failure scene ending. Gimmicky? Yes. Worse than the current 3D craze? Eh, make the movie a decent parody on it's own source material, and I'd go see it at least twice to see how it was different based on successful shooting(s) or not. That's twice more than I'm seeing 3D stuff these days.

  85. Re:Fuck Space Invaders. Someone Do Joust Please by david.a.judge · · Score: 1

    > in thrilling bird on bird action. That's sold it for me!

  86. Time Warp by Rock · · Score: 1

    The plot is obvious. Appropriate "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. With lyrics like:
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    All:
    Let's do the time-warp again.
    Let's do the time-warp again.

    Narrator:
    It's just a jump to the left.

    All:
    And then a step to the right.
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    It's a natural fit!

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  87. Tetris - THE MOVIE! by roman_mir · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you are so right.

    How about Tetris Meets Pacman THE MOVIE!

    Ohhh, this could be good.

    How about this: Command Keen? Actually that sound fine.

    How about this: Monster Bash?

    Snakes?

  88. G.A.M.E O.V.E.R by ardeez · · Score: 2

    The opening credits for this movie are gonna be so great!

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  89. Perfect Plotline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As the alien paratroopers swing side to side while dropping to earth, humans run out from under their shelters and try to shoot them in the crotch.

  90. Relevant parallels by Phat_Tony · · Score: 1

    The Tetris Movie

    The Angry Birds movie.

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