Author Topic: Who's Going To Go See The Asteroids Movie? (Read 4717 times)

Glorb · « **on:** July 07, 2009, 04:58:04 PM »

I know I am!

TEM · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2009, 05:40:30 PM »

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2009, 05:40:47 PM »

What basis or justification is there for an Asteroids movie?

Heck the game wasn't even that good. If they wanna make a video-game-based movie set in space, Metroid deserves it more.

Glorb · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2009, 05:49:45 PM »

That's a filthy pile of filthy lies and you know it.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2009, 05:52:10 PM »

Oho, but whose CT labels him a liar? Not mine, man.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2009, 06:07:23 PM »

How in the heck can you call Asteroids "not that good"?

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2009, 06:23:37 PM »

Well, the Metroid movie still hasn't come out.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2009, 06:27:46 PM »

Quote from: Turtlekid1 on July 07, 2009, 05:40:47 PM

Heck the game wasn't even that good.

Please list all the videogames better than Asteroids released before 1980.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2009, 06:31:23 PM »

What does before 1980 have to do with it? I'm not talking about in a certain context, just in general; in general, Asteroids just wasn't that great.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2009, 06:37:38 PM »

Is this guy serious?

Am I being trolled?

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2009, 07:39:10 PM »

When has game quality ever had anything to do with the quality of a movie based on it? If anything, there's an inverse relationship.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2009, 08:11:45 PM »

Aw, heck, ShadowBrain has a point. This could be an excellent movie.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2009, 08:50:25 PM »

Yeah, but there's still a problem here: Turtlekid1 said Asteroids wasn't good.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2009, 08:56:18 PM »

Lizard Dude, remember what games Turtlekid does like. He probably can't handle something as awesome or as difficult as an arcade shoot-'em-up.

He probably doesn't like Raiden Fighters either.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2009, 08:57:34 PM »

You play as a little space ship that rotates around and shoots rocks. Other than the nostalgic factor, there's not much there to make it good.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2009, 09:00:36 PM »

Quote from: Turtlekid1 on July 07, 2009, 08:11:45 PM

Aw, heck, ShadowBrain has a point. This could be an excellent movie.

Well, I actually meant that (on average) the better the game, the worse the movie.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2009, 09:27:47 PM »

Turtlekid1, you used the past tense in every post up to your last. You can't judge a 30-year old game as if it came out today. Asteroids was one of the most important, most popular, and most fun arcade games of all time.

And it's still fun in a simple way.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2009, 09:53:44 PM »

I can and will judge it as if it came out today if it's having a movie made about it before games that deserve a film adaptation more (or for that matter, games that could even have a plausible story and characters in a film adaptation).

It would be like making a movie based on Pong.

Weegee · « **Reply #18 on:** July 07, 2009, 10:08:53 PM »

Quote from: Turtlekid1 on July 07, 2009, 09:53:44 PM

It would be like making a movie based on Pong.

Already been done.

SolidShroom · « **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2009, 10:10:24 PM »

Heh, I remember back when I didn't like Donkey Kong. Similar situation.