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OMG Metal Gear Movie

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It was recently announced that a Metal Gear movie was being planned. With no surprise I have mixed feelings on the subject, just as I did when Ghost in the Shell’s live adaptation hit theaters and completely fucked the story. I could be wrong, perhaps the movie will be a shining example of how to adapt a video game into a good movie as the Metal Gear series is cinematic in its own right going as far back as Metal Gear Solid. At the same time that presents another problem. Each game is like a movie on its own, how are you going to take elements from each title in the series and make something coherent? Dune the movie was based on the Dune book series, and it is known for being notoriously bad due to trying to cram as much of the series into one film, and if they’re not careful this title could meet a similar fate.

Despite that I do like the concept art that was released. It looks like they’re mostly referencing MGS3 and MGS with some MGSV thrown into the mix. This also makes me wonder who they’ll bring in to play what characters? and what characters will appear in the movie? I can only think of this particular character chart someone did:

If he were still alive it would have been fun to watch him play every single character, including the women. :meeseeks: At that point it wouldn’t even matter if it were a terrible movie, people would be talking about how he played every fucking character.

In all seriousness though, I can sum up my feelings like this: You know that one episode of Futurama where the Amazonian women sentenced all of the men to death by snoo snoo? and all of them switched between faces of happiness and absolute horror?

Yeah, that’s how I feel right now.

Nat Geo hires Jeff Goldblum to be himself

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No, seriously they have.

The aforementioned Jeff Goldblum show—working title: The Curiosity Of Jeff Goldblum—which has just been green-lit at Nat Geo. Given that Goldblum already appears to exist in a permanent state of “Hmm, yes, fascinating,” we have to assume this new series (which will see him investigate the joys of common day phenomena like baseball and making toilet paper) falls securely under the “get paid to do what you love” rubric for human happiness.

I don’t normally post this kind of celebrity related junk but felt this merited a mention… what a world we live in.

The new Doom movie is Doomed before it even started (according to certain fans)

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Not an ideal Doom protagonist.

The latest thing in the gaming world for people to be really pissy about is the new upcoming Doom movie. My memories of the original Doom movie were never really that great, but like when most movies are announced or coming out I take all information with a grain of salt. It already sounded a bit off that it was going to be a straight to DVD/Blu-Ray movie… but that’s not what the big focus seems to be. There have been arguments in the fanbase over one detail… the protagonist is a woman. Oooh! How horrible! These same people have even been posing the question: What would happen if Hollywood cast a male to play Lara Croft? Considering Tomb Raider is actually heavily inspired by Indiana Jones, who last I checked was a dude… that argument is invalid. Plus there is a male Lara Croft out there, his name is Nathan Drake and he’s part of the Uncharted series… Not that it matters to these people, these extremely manly men need their safespaces unlike the rest of us. :zorak:

Throughout the Doom lore (yes, there is actual lore believe it or not, even more than I realized) there are female characters. Maybe not directly involved with the original game, but in the novels there was Arlene Sanders, and one even existed in Quake III Arena by the name of Crash (not the bandicoot). Of course that still isn’t enough for these so called manly men. I personally could care less if it were a male or female leading in a movie, hell I still don’t understand the anger around last years Ghostbusters being all female.

Back to the argument about gender flipping and how we should all totally be outraged about it. I could name a few movies ideas of my own. What about Pretty Woman, Driving Mr Daisy, Marvin Poppins, or lets really get crazy and make a male version of Juno where the guy gets pregnant, and maybe Legally Blonde where the guy is a bleach blonde surfer dude trying to become a lawyer, or my personal favorite The Brotherhood Of The Traveling Pants! The point I’m trying to make is that like many things this can go both ways, so why not have fun with it? :v: