The Worst Video Game Movie Idea Ever
The Sims is a very boring game. What could possibly be less entertaining than doing all the mundane actions of everyday life, with the only reward being a bigger virtual house or a nicer virtual piece of furniture? For some reason I can’t begin to comprehend, the Sims is still the best selling PC game ever. And it’s about to get a lot worse.
Not to be outdone by anyone, the geniuses at 20th Century Fox have decided they want to create the worst video game movie ever and so have purchased the rights to make a live-action Sims film.
I’m not sure how they expect to translate such a dull game into a movie. I’m no movie executive, but I honestly can’t see how a two hour movie of people peeing, eating, and buying furniture is going to make any money at all.
Seriously, this is the worst idea for a video game movie ever, possibly even the worst idea for any movie ever. What the fuck is Fox thinking?
Garbled Zombie
May 25, 2007 @ 6:07 am
Really, what asshole’s idea was this?
Brandon Undead
May 25, 2007 @ 7:17 am
“I honestly can’t see how a two hour movie of people peeing, eating, and buying furniture is going to make any money at all.”
Minus furnitures, add vomitting, and you’ve got Jackass!
Nidis
May 25, 2007 @ 8:21 am
There would have to be some sort of concept behind it. I’m sure fox executives didn’t just look at a sales chart and go “LUL THE SIMZ IS SELLIN SOOOooo MUCH, WE GOTTA MAEK A MOVIE OUT OF IT>”. Someone has probably had -some- sort of remotely clever idea for meshing the two mediums… I just can’t wait to see what though.
Brandon Undead
May 25, 2007 @ 9:25 am
Nidis:
“LUL THE SIMZ IS SELLIN SOOOooo MUCH, WE GOTTA MAEK A MOVIE OUT OF IT>”
I imagine that’s EXACTLY what they said. They’ll worry about making it work after the fact.
Dexter345
May 25, 2007 @ 10:38 am
zizzy, they’ve been making movies from the Sims for years now. They’re called romantic comedies, and they’re awful. All they have to add are those green octahedrons above everybody’s heads, and they’ll have it made.
sissy3
May 25, 2007 @ 11:41 pm
“I honestly can’t see how a two hour movie of people peeing, eating, and buying furniture is going to make any money at all.”
Minus furnitures, add vomitting, and you’ve got Jackass!
you got that right!!!sims would probably be better than jackass though.
mathias
May 26, 2007 @ 2:35 pm
My guess is that the movie will be similar to “Stay Tuned”, where the two kids get sucked into the television and are trying to get out.
Also, my guess is that it will be 80 to 90 minutes.
Picture a 16 year old kid who has no life. People at school make fun of him, his parents hassle him, and he generally blows at life. He starts playing the Sims. His father, some scientist at the local lab, brings home a “secret project” which he works on in the room next to his son’s. There is a slight earthquake (OH NO!) and the project falls over, causing a strange new gas to seep through the air vent right onto the computer in the kid’s room. Some weird reaction happens that sucks the kid into the game where he now has to find a way out (meeting new sims/friends in the process and learning how to deal with life). Now, when he returns to the real world he is more confident and can finally fight back that bully at school, earning the respect of his peers.
10 bucks says the movie is very close to this =)
mathias
May 26, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
and i KNOW it was the parents that got sucked into the tv on stay tuned, i just wrote the wrong word…
zizzy
May 26, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
@mathias
So it will only be a very bad movie, instead of a completely horrible one?
mathias
May 27, 2007 @ 3:20 am
@zizzy
I never said it wouldn’t be horrible, just what I thought the plotline would be like. It was a response to what Nidis was saying.
And from my description, I would consider it worse than horrible. =)