[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Talk like a pirate day

[Saitaina]

Amy wrote:

<it's the whole idea that one could
actually create a movie out
of something as thin as a video game or a
theme-park ride>

Okay, this proves beyond any shadow of a
doubt that we're just at completly
opposite ends of the spectrum as I rather
like movies made out of video games or
rides.

I'm a gamer at heart, which means I spend
a great deal of the time I'm at the
computer (which as some may know is every
waking hour) or game system playing games
of all sorts.  So watching movies about
said games...isn't that far off for me.
Neither is watching a movie that was
'inspired' by a theme park ride (not
about, inspired by) I love.  Sure I go to
movies that actually aren't based on
something such as a book, or a game, or a
ride, or what have you...but I like
things I'm familiar with, things I
already adore.

That's the basic point of ripping off
already done over characters...something
fans of the game (or ride or what have
you) know and love and are willing to
shell out money to see.  Granted most of
the time you SHOULDN'T go see them
(Scooby-Doo for instance) but we're still
drawn to them by the familiar and loved
brand name.

Maybe I just cling too much to the
familiar but for me, it makes me happy to
see my heroes in a medium where I"m not
controlling them (and thus killing them
off every five seconds).

On a side note, Mario (and his brother
Luigi or Lugi if you prefer) are
plumbers...thus the pipes.

Saitaina
Off to find her copy of Super Mario
Brothers the Move again.
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