Didn’t penny arcade mock ridiculous video game adaptations years ago with a Tetris movie poster? It definitely sounds familiar.
ETA: Yup
As to the movie Battleship, Taylor Kitsch starred in two big-budget movies that year. Battleship was one. The other was John Carter, compared to which Battleship was OK. (Faint praise, I know.) And honestly, I didn’t really think about the board game while watching the movie. So they managed to have the movie stand on its own merits.
I forgot to point out this hilarious McSweeney’s piece, which I usually do when the Battleship movie is mentioned.
I was about to say that, I thought the Battleship movie had some silly Hollywoodisms but overall was pretty frikken good, it kept me thoroughly entertained for a couple of hours and was a lot more memorable than the generally more critically acclaimed sci-fi invasion movie of the same time, ‘Battle: Los Angeles’.
I also thought ‘Skyline’ was a lot better than I was led to expect.
I’ll wait for Asylum’s version, Bloxeed.
Make that scientist a sexy blonde with glasses, and you just wrote a Michael Bay movie.
I highly doubt it will come up in the movie (if there is one- an idea this stupid is something I will refuse to believe is real even if I end up watching it), but there’s actually an interesting social angle to Tetris. Think about it: only a few years after the Crash of '83 essentially kills the market (for a while, anyway), we get this game that comes from Evil Empire, and here’s how I imagine the sales pitch:
“Blocks! Blocks are falling from the sky! Quickly, we must arrange them into complete lines so they disappear!”
“Why?”
“FOR MOTHER RUSSIA!”
And the reaction of the public was to shrug and shake their heads, rather than having a widespread screaming moral panic about Communist propaganda. I don’t know how much Soviet software the US got in those days, but I’m willing to bet it wasn’t much. I do suspect, however (I was quite young at the time), that the knowledge of ‘Hey, Russian video game makers are pretty weird, too’ helped (or at least helped illustrate) the social belief that these people aren’t so different from us, after all. There’s probably a good story there, though I will admit that possibly the only thing more Bwuh?-inducing than a movie of Tetris is a movie starring Tetris.
Yes. Great special effects for the time, and the soundtrack was awesome.
Tetris’s history IS rather fascinating stuff. Before G4 went to pot they had a documentary series, their Tetris special being especially fascinating.
The story of The Tetris Company co-founder Vladimir Pokhilko is particularly tragic:
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“I’ve been eaten alive. Vladimir. Just remember that I am exist. The davil.”
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