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Topic: 'Space Invaders' movie is closer to becoming a reality
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 07-14-2019 01:35 AM
Just off the top of my head, here's a story suggestion (copyrighted 2019 by your's truly, Bobby Henderson), set the movie in the 1979-1980 time frame. Center it around a Soba Shop restaurant in Japan where every dining table is actually a table-top Space Invaders game. FYI, I personally saw this kind of thing during my childhood when my Dad was stationed in Japan. The movie will have a mix of interesting Japanese characters. And then there's some American characters us "Gaijin" Americans can relate to since they're either American military personnel, wives or American kids from one of the nearby Army, Navy or Marine Corps bases. It can kind of work like a Japanese-American re-boot of Clerks or Mallrats, all without having to pay Kevin Smith anything!! Isn't that great!? Work in a lot of retro late-1970's cultural shit, like the movie Alien or Disco dying and the arrival of New Wave. The concept I'm suggesting is bound to be 1000% times more interesting than the bullshit they'll probably vomit onto theater screens everywhere.
Space Invaders was kind of a tiresome game. But that last invader could be a bitch to hit, especially with those slow-ass 1980's era computing systems. I loved coin-op games like Defender and Robotron: 2084 infinitely more than freaking Space Invaders. Even Pac-Man was more interesting. Still, anyone who was alive in 1980 probably could remember that "thump thump thump thump" march of the Space Invaders.
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Marcel Birgelen
Film God
Posts: 3357
From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 07-16-2019 12:37 AM
Ah, yes... Defender. That game actually had an engaging and addicting game-play and pretty great graphics for the time. Still, barely anything there to fuel the backstory of a movie.
There is a lot of cool stuff you could do with some 70s or 80s retro culture, especially if you make it a bit more international and include e.g. Japanese culture at the time.
The problem is, Space Invaders has as much background story as Pong: Zilch. And it resonates with the younger movie-going generation like a wooden spoon...
So, what we'll probably get is another "Battleship", where the story is lame and we get some gimmicky references to one of the lamest video games of the late 1970s.
Hollywood seems to be bad at judging their own track record of big-budget train-wrecks. When was the last really successful video-game based release?
The irony is that many recent video games have much more engaging story lines than your average Hollywood blockbuster now dares to bring to the table. If you really need to get your story material from video games, why not from the likes of Bioshock, Half-Life, What Remains of Edith Finch, Portal and many more... or if you want to go retro, some of the old LucasFilm Games/LucasArts classics like Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island... you know, stuff that comes with characters and story...
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