Actually, that's not entirely true. I've seen quite a few orginal ideas get released this year. The ideas that are remakes, adaptations, and sequels are the first that we hear about. releasing information early builds hype. These things are the first we're hearing about. Why ghave a news article for an original idea years before its release?

Why? You get to exist in the same world as Alan Moore.

It sounds really trite, but I do really think that big budget movies tend to be pretty lame these days. Good movies are usually small, since studios don't dare put big money towards anything that isn't retarded.

Exactly. Hype sells.

Look at the blockbusters from before the superhero movie explosion and know that things are definitely better now. Do we really want to go back to the days of Mathew Broderick Godzilla?

Yeah, but we're living in a world where he's seen as a grumpy weirdo. I think he's just being real. Aside from the whole "I'm a warlock" thing, of course.

Don't ever speak the name of *barf* Matthew Broderick...
I'm not sure things have ever been great, but it does seem to be true that the middle has dropped out of cinema. We either get juvenile huge-budget movies or tiny indie movies. I just want solid, grown up stuff that cost more than 50.000 dollars to make.
EDIT: it's all too easy to be caught up in whining about how things used to be better, but it does seem to me that all the good new movies I watch these days are obscure modest-budgeted movies.

I think being a wizard qualifies you as a weirdo in any society with electricity.

It's easy to write about Tetris. You have free reign to write anything creatively. Just open your mind and write and something will come together. You can use any plot you want. It's so much easier to write about Tetris than a game that already has a plot where you have to adapt it and make sure you don't piss people off that already know the story.

That is perhaps true, but also leads into some weird territory. After all, if you do much more in your Tetris movie/show than have some blocks falling and eliminating eachother, is it still tetris then?
Using Tetris as a metaphor, the idea could be stretched pretty far, perhaps. Then Tetris is all about that moment where everything in your life seems to fall into place, and also about all those times when nothing seems to fit together. I don't know...

No that would be some Uwe Boll ****.

Ive always wanted Final Fantasy Tactics to be made into some form of media. Favorite console game of all time.

You don't need to have blocks falling and eliminating each other. You could just do something small as a homage to the fans that need to see some stupid crap like that but other than that, the world is open to do so much more than that. I can't wait til the Trilogy comes out. I have a really good feeling about it.

People said the same thing about Legos and The Lego movie was awesome.

So no it wouldn't be some Uwe Boll crap.

The basic concept of LEGOs is about building stories. LEGOs themselves are potentially good storytelling devices. Tetris in no way lends itself to telling a story.

It doesn't lend itself to telling a story if you are closed minded.

That is a useless statement. Why did you even post it? I could be close minded about a movie based around actual footage of child porn, but that isn't an argument for a child porn movie.

You aren't open enough creatively to make your own story around Tetris. That's why I said it.

It's just like Minecraft. It would be so easy to create a story around Minecraft and they did it but making the story mode.

Tetris has no story. Is that the argument here?

BUT TETRIS HAS NO STORY!!! NOR THE POTENTIAL FOR A STORY!!! Hell, even Battleship had the most basic elements of a story.

Thats why you make one for it. What if the blocks were all worlds falling from the heavens and when they aligned they were erased. So the inhabitants of said worlds were constantly scrambling up the stack to avoid their inevitable fate or to reach the heavens where they are rewarded?

Bam! Tetris: The Movie.

But how many shrooms would you need to take to watch this movie?

None. Seems like a pretty straight forward scifi/fantasy with dystopian potential, and it took me a minute to come up with. I'm sure someone with a more creative mind and energy could think of something better.

I have no interest in watching a Tetris movie I don't need drugs to enjoy.

Yes from Batty's perspective.

My side of the argument is just to create a story for it. It is much easier to create a story from nothing than to have to use a story and adapt it.

What if the blocks are massive and destroying our buildings to make way for a new civilization made of of buildings made from the blocks?

Total, made up guess.

Pokemon two times and there are already movies for it... you're a lazy fuck.

I like the Rocket League thing. I imagine it being like Rollerball.

I looked back on it when it was published and I already want to change a bunch of stuff. I'll probably write a follow up eventually.

3. New series called Pokemon Generations is coming out.

What.

^I know about the show, but what does your response have to do with what DWV was saying?

He wasn't saying there were already two TV shows?

It was related to my article where I mentioned Pokemon twice, as a way to show that I was being lazy with my writing.