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Ridley Scott's MONOPOLY Movie Is About...
Merrick here...
The Los Angeles Times talked with Frank Beddor about writing the big screen adaptation of Hasbro's MONOPOLY board game. Ridley Scott was previously announced as director (HERE).
"I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good at his job but he’s great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they're playing the game and there’s this big fight. And he’s holding a Chance card and after they’ve left he says, ‘Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card,’ and he throws it down. He falls asleep and then he wakes up in the morning and he’s holding the Chance card, and he thinks, ‘That’s odd.’"
Yes, this is all going where you think it is. Beddor continued:
"He’s all groggy and he goes down to buy some coffee and he reaches into his pocket and all he has is Monopoly money. All this Monopoly money pours out. He’s confused and embarrassed and the girl reaches across the counter and says, ‘That’s OK.’ And she gives him change in Monopoly money. He walks outside and he’s in this very vibrant place, Monopoly City, and he’s just come out of a Chance Shop. As it goes on, he takes on the evil Parker Brothers in the game of Monolopy. He has to defeat them. It tries to incorporate all the iconic imageries -- a sports car pulls up, there's someone on a horse, someone pushing a wheelbarrow -- and rich Uncle Pennybags, you're going to see him as the maître d' at the restaurant and he's the buggy driver and the local eccentric and the doorman at the opera. There's all these sight gags."
...says Beddor HERE.
There's very little that I can say here that hasn't already been said in our tsunami of previous reports about these game-to-film adaptations.
Yes, this is all going where you think it is. Beddor continued:
"He’s all groggy and he goes down to buy some coffee and he reaches into his pocket and all he has is Monopoly money. All this Monopoly money pours out. He’s confused and embarrassed and the girl reaches across the counter and says, ‘That’s OK.’ And she gives him change in Monopoly money. He walks outside and he’s in this very vibrant place, Monopoly City, and he’s just come out of a Chance Shop. As it goes on, he takes on the evil Parker Brothers in the game of Monolopy. He has to defeat them. It tries to incorporate all the iconic imageries -- a sports car pulls up, there's someone on a horse, someone pushing a wheelbarrow -- and rich Uncle Pennybags, you're going to see him as the maître d' at the restaurant and he's the buggy driver and the local eccentric and the doorman at the opera. There's all these sight gags."
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It's as bad as any of us imagined.
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Just Wow! Are we in the 80's for creativity?
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This sounds terrible. Why do they have to make movies about friggin' board games?
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Where's my Coke Zero?
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that is a black vortex of retardedness.
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are you my doppelganger? my evil half? i wrote that the same time you wrote yours.
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... is someone gonna get butt-hurt and bring up Alien and Blade Runner?
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i was going for a first poster hat trick. you cockblocker...actually thank you for saving me from myself...
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i kinda like the idea
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must be my evil twin if you're not drinking classic
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Maybe???
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This can't be true.
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Just like the beards in Star Trek classic (forgive the terrible attempt at a pun) your evil universe twin drinks Coke Zero.
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remember when ridley scott was credible?
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...he wakes up at the end and it was all a dream.
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...an ass 2 ass scene at the end may save it.
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There's your tagline
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And then, there's all those other ones.
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i figured this would be turned into some "Wall Street" sorta movie where it was basically Monopoly in name only. but he literally goes into the game? my word...that's just mentally challenged.
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NEXT!
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I'm not surprised. You know that only one of us can live right?
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and Ridley Scott is really attached to this? And Brett Ratner isn't? *head explodes*
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follows Ken, a hapless, happy-go-lucky sailor who's just trying to get a break. He loves the game Battleship and wants to earn notoriety for his skills. After some fierce buttsex with a colleague in his bunk, Ken is called to the main bridge where he has to handle an attack from the Middle Eastern nation Plastikistan. But when he fires torpedoes, millions of little plastic pegs shoot out. McDonald's tie-ins ensue.
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I misread that Ridley Scott isn't attached anymore, but still. Somehow I bet Will Farrell will star.
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with a broken tabasco bottle and be done with it?
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And everyone would've thought it was a great joke. I mean honestly though, Ridley fucking Scott?
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Somebody get this guy a 3 picture deal, pronto! There's money to be made people!
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Pass. I mean it. I fucking pass on this movie. I will make all the efforts I can to avoid seeing this movie.
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That's all I got.
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We all know this movie will not pass GO right? (I had to do it)
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o and make the lead gay
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...What?
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Mike Myers as the Shoe. Eddie Murphy voicing the Dog. Ben Stiller as the Thimble. Vince Vaughn as the Car. Natalie Portman as the Iron.
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Thank you Ace Ventura!
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That Is All!
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...that came up with this one?
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Get out of sodomy free.
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this sounds like something a child came up with.
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Most landed upon space in the game. Take the reds and you're golden.
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A Parker brother, per chance?
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This sounds like the best movie. Ever. In the history of movies. Shut down the Oscars next year. I can't think of a single award this movie won't win. Documentary and Foreign included.
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Was completely awesome. Someone should make a movie about it.
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ASS.
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Are you fucking kidding me? This guy pitched this to Ridley Scott and Ridlet said "OH MY GOD! I have to make this glorious idea become a reality!"???? Hell, I would pay to see a new Eddie Murphey flick before I would pay to see this future steaming POS.
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That's the dumbest fucking thing I've heard in years. Not even retarded toddlers would stand for garbage like that.
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Nov 12, 2009 12:04:55 PM CST
This is like the madlibs for boardgame-to-movie ideas...
by wickedjester
Amazing people get paid for these ideas.
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take every piece of screenwriting I've ever done out to the backyard, douse it in lighter fluid, and set it on fire. Fuck this movie.
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Nov 12, 2009 12:11:57 PM CST
wow Tony's chippendales movie's lookin pretty good right now
by meadowe
At least in that fliq they'll counter all the dudes in thongs with some no name chicks butt azz nekkid. This just sounds duuuuuuuumb.
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Epically fucking terrible. That is the funniest synopsis to an opening I've ever heard. Can't be real. That's what really crappy eighties movies used to do to get characters into the world. This is amazing. I can't believe this is really going to happen. With Ridley Scott. My god, what happened to him? I mean, his last few movies have sucked (IMO, at least) but this is just...shocking.
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go back to sci fi ridley, for fuck sake. you're good at at...or black rain 2!!
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Will it include a unicorn?
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and his funny titles for Harry's missing DVD column from the Rambo talkback.
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this movie will probably be dumb, but the eventual hollywood remake will be AWESOME!
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Bloody hell...
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...as the Community Chest. A childish sense of humour about this is the only defence against the tears.
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The Parker Brothers portrayed by CGI Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche, and the evil Milton Bradley by John Glover. Oh wait, I'm acting like I'm taking this movie seriously...whoaaa.
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It's the only rational explanation for this.
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Monopoly: The Movie. You're gonna cream your jeans.
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Pee. You.
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damn brackets got rid of his name....if only that could happen irl
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Starring The Fat Boys, the animated cadaver of Marlon Brando and Kirstie Alley. Oscar Gold shall flow!
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George Lucas could get in on this and make a Star Wars Monopoly movie. I used to have that board game...
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I know. I'm surprised as well.
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Will have to get in on this. Of course at this rate he will need to be in every movie made.
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I can't believe that he read this quote the next day and didn't say to himself, "This sounds like absolute shit."
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Roads will be Railed!!! (I couldn't help myself)
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I know buttnumbathon and getting out of bed takes up all his time, but I've been wanting to rave about the North By Northwest BluRay...
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The guy's on drugs! And whatever those drugs are... i want some!
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Our hero is Chance Chester (get it?)a mediocre real estate agent but great at Monopoly. He unwittingly gets into a 'zany' situation between a major bank and the rich father of the girl of his dreams over the purchase of some high priced land in New York. Out of options and against all odds, he realizes that he can use his skills at Monopoly to get the best of his uppity rival and win the heart of his love and the respect of her father (who happens to look exactly like the Monopoly guy). It all comes down to a high stakes mediation hearing over a mortgaged hotel property on Park Place and the bad guy rival ends up defeated and arrested. Having won his lady's heart, and watching his rival be hauled off for white collar crimes, our hero's last line as he crosses paths with his rival pleading with the cops is, "Sorry old chap, there's no such thing as a Get Out of Jail Free card!"
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Why do the movie gods hate us so?
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I know I really shouldn't be questioning the logistics of this awful idea, but are they away that Monopoly is based on Atlantic City?
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DOG AND CATS, LIVING TOGETHER, PEOPLE!
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Can we put a moratorium on that phrase?
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No way that script is getting greenlight.
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Nov 12, 2009 12:48:42 PM CST
ITS FUN GETTIN INTO TROUBLE: THE MOVIE
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
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Cause I really think that's the last seal in Revelations.
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So I can't get a halfway-decent Superman movie, but I can get MONOPOLY? There is no God.
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...that Hollywood has completely run out of original ideas. Time to close up shop and let the indies take over.
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Normally you get a fanboy or two defending even the worst sounding movie. But not in this dojo, my friends. Here's where we hit rock bottom.
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This was in the news today:
http://tinyurl.com/yk5jcqh
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... it's so much weirder than I expected it to be. I don't love the idea of the actual boardgame being in the movie. At the same time, I think it takes a lot more creativity (and balls) to try to make a narrative film out of a boardgame or action figure than adapting a book/play. The only reason these intellectual properties get bought up is because of the brand-recognition. It's business bullshit. (If PIXAR were doing this and we could cut out the Twilight Zone set-up and just focus on the Monopoly World, it'd be cooler.) Big corporations see the brand recognition as a bonus that will contribute to box office, but the creatives are needed to actually make these narratives work. Everyone's just trying to work in this industry. Don't hate the players, hate the game.
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what?................ the fekhh!!!!
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AND this crappy monopoly concept NYDAY
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You know it to be true.
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Nov 12, 2009 1:20:16 PM CST
...time for some strategic "creative differences" Mr. Scott.
by flickapoo
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Of all the films that David Fincher and Ridley Scott can make....Is this what they think the viewers want to watch????? Enough already..
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..this is "Bee Gees in Sgt Pepper" awful.
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starring Keanu Reeves...
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Nov 12, 2009 1:27:19 PM CST
DON'T WORRY, I'LL MAKE SURE THIS WON'T GET MADE.
by total fucking destruction
Scott's Monopoly has a scheduled meeting with TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION.
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For a while I considered Scott to be Kubrick Lite (conveniently forgetting things like Legend), but my denial will not survive this level of Bozosity.
Ridley, people used to think of you as something of a genius thanks to Alien and Blade Runner and the like. At this stage of your career, you should be kicking back and just picking and choosing choice projects instead of sullying your name with this. What's next? A Mortal Kombat movie?
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That and this Monopoly movie concept are the two funniest things I've heard all month.
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...I had for the ALIEN prequel has now dropped to zippo.
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There's a damn sight more to bring up than Alien and Blade runner. Cos' there pretty low on MY list.
Lets all say Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and pretty much all he's ever done is credible, even GI Jane.
I may not particularly like them that much, or want to see them twice, the 1sy two mentioned spring straight to mind, but I've never seen anything he's been near that isn't artistically credible.
But, yes, this Monopoly thing sounds SHITE. Somebody close to him read this thread and get Ridley the fuck away from this movie... Also I've got a $10,000 bet that Russell Crow is gonna be in it. -
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I hope the twist is at the end, the guy has a brain tumor, and his friends who thought he was an idiot to want to break that record are all sitting around him, crying in the mental hospital he now currently resides in, flinging his own feces at them since he's off in la la crazy shit land
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Nah, the ending is he's literally drowning in monopoly money. He swims to the surface and then he's at sea and surrounded by battleships. The end coda says "BATTLESHIPS, COMING NEXT SUMMER".
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Btw, doesn't this sound more like something Michel Gondry would make? Written by Charlie Kaufman?
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...with a touch of Jumanji.
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The after the credits sequence would be the Candy Land Kids skipping around in their happy gumdrop and lollypop filled world, when a giant Battleship peg falls dead onto Glorpy the Molasses Monster, and explodes, leaving Princess Lolly screaming, covered in the sweet, tasty innards of all her friend. Cut to black, end music, like the end of the Sopranos, lights up in theater.
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Hollywood will probably prove me wrong though
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there's no way possible that this dipshit wasnt high as a fucking kite when he gave that interview. and i want his stash.
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Nov 12, 2009 2:08:32 PM CST
"BATMAN & ROBIN IS BETTER THAN DARK KNIGHT"
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
huuuuuuuuuuu..........FAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAIL
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You know what. Today we just had a total U-turn on that godawful Rambo V synopsis.
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That alone tells me that this script isn't real. Why would Parker Bros. license their board game for a movie only to have their company name associated with the heavy in a game about business? Think about it.
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cause, we haven't seen enough of those. Christ on a stick, this sounds horrid...
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They are going to have to go through ALL the different monopolies. From Power Puff Girls, Pokemon, Star Wars Episode one (thats a really good one actually), NFL, British Monopoly, Spongebob Monopoly, Make Your Own Monopoly, Kissopoly and so forth and so on.
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Will I have to wait until Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi come out? Cranium? Trouble? Payday? Scrabble? Sorry? Yahtzee? Oh Hollywood. Stop this. It's silly!
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Batman and Robin Monopoly? http://tinyurl.com/yaqwxkr
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He was just an everyday loveable goofball playing Monopoly UNTIL ONE DAY, ROB SCHEINDER BECAME...THE MONOPOLY GUY. And he's about to find out, being a boot isn't as easy as it seems
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You...
Will...
Be...
Tossed!
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I was all upset that Scott was wasting his time on stuff like this when he should be moving ahead with the Forever War. After reading this though, it's just as well if he doesn't touch it. Has there ever been a great director who didn't suck in his later years? I honestly can't think of an example.
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I thought that about the Parker Brothers as well, perhaps the script writer just doesn't have a clue about the games history?
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For the good of humanity.
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that will also be based on the movie? "Monopoly The Game: Monopoly The Movie Edition" like they did with Star Wars and Lord of the Rings?
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and some of you have made me laugh in this TB, you just CANNOT beat the synopsis. Seriously it's fecking hillariously bad. I'm full out laughing as I type this.
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that causes time and space to fold in upon itself in 2012 and destory us all.
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Is not how shitty this movie will be, nor how ridiculous it is to imagine that Ridley Scott - RIDLEY SCOTT! - would even consider directing this film, nor that movies based on board games continue to be developed... what really gets under my skin is that the Mediterranean Ave. hotel will not be a crack den/$10 handjob hooker flophouse, as it should be... Pussies...
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How about he's playing Monopoly for his soul ala Bill & Ted?
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this movie turns out to be the most awesome thing Scott has done or ever will do and we all end up looking like a bunch of tools for bitching about how stupid it sounds and how much it would fail.
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A rags to riches story of some real estate slaphead could be funny I guess, but the way this all reads if fucking lame. It'll probably cost $150 million and not a soul on Earth will go see it.
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If this movie must be made, please give it to a hack director like Peter Berg or Bret Ratner. Ridley Scott is getting too old to waste his time on this when he could be making much better movies.
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if this movie gets made, i'm praying to the Mayan sky wizards to smite this clearly lost world in '12. Cusack be damned.
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Interesting typo.
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What has been said that I'm sure most of you guys haven't already said.. but i am with you people who think this is ABSOLUTELY the worst idea possible in the history of well.. since the Caveman first invented sequential art and someone thought it would be a great idea to paint a story about a rock...
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Monopoly 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Opening scene is an Orc from Lord of the Rings running roughshod all over the game board. He steps in feces and throws it at the audience giving a cool 3-D effect. Ridley Scott steps in for a cameo and throws a device at the Orc that looks like a miniature spinner from Blade Runner. Orc pisses in Ridley's face and then Samus Aran from Metroid pulls out her fat black dick and makes Ridley suck it.
The ending sequence could be Ally McBeal chopping up the bouncing baby into little bits and feeding the remains into a blender. Ally wouldn't be caught or sent to jail and would avoid that nasty square from the board game.
Later, Peter North the porn star can make an all-star appearance by taking a huge shit on the community chest pieces and then distributing them to all the starlets as little edible wafers. He'll stick a large silver game piece up his gay ass and then shoot a phat load all over Harrison Ford's ninety year face as both of them hold hands in complete faggotry while they pass go. Instead of collecting two hundred they rim each other and tongue prostates while sucking off blind homeless asians from a Laotian ghetto.
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Wow. and Ridley Scott is actually directing this? Anyone actually still excited that he's directing this Alien thing anymore?
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I think I missed seeing Elizabeth Mitchell in the shower on this past Tuesday's episode of "V". Damn.
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...Ridley does remember he's not in advertising anymore, right?
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isn't what really matters, it's his love for "the girl next door that he never noticed even though she was right in front of his eyes." Hypocritical, considering the only point in doing this movie is making money.
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it's Scott.
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Now that we've entered the arena of movies based on toys and board games I say food is the final frontier:
"Pepsi: The Movie"
"Cool Ranch Doritos: The Movie"
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This seems like such a retarded idea ... but it's Ridley Scott, who is as a god to me!
So...conflicted...
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Nov 12, 2009 3:10:09 PM CST
Der Mr. Scott, in all seriousness and humility, you don't have..
by flickapoo
...so very many productive years left. The clock is ticking. Is this how you want to spend your time?Miyazaki always asks himself..."if this ended up being my last movie...how would I feel about that?"Just think about it Sir...
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I know how this ends too - "... and he wakes up and it was just a dream. The End." It'll be fun to see how many director's cuts Ridley Scott comes up with. The Narrated version, the non-narrated version, the version where it's Life instead of Monopoly.
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Please join the Facebook group I just created "Boycott A Movie Based on the board game Monopoly directed by Ridley Scott" If i could post the link I would.... just search for the group on Facebook..
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I wish Hollywood would burn to a cinder.
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Who thought this was a good idea?
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I mean, 2 wrongs do still make a right...right?
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Did you ever see the Monopoly movie...
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- there lesson, when it comes to hair-brained schemes like this. Barry Levinson's Toys, that stoooopid Cat and the Hat movie with Meyers, etc, etc.
Jesus, just go ahead and admit that we will never see a studio film ever again that isn't a tv-remake-pop-culture-idea ever again !
Just ... Fuck, man!
I'm going to Netflix and request an old movie.
Perhaps a Ridley Scott movie.
A good one.
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Fuck no.
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Fuck no.
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Damn.
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coming out with a marble rye based on the board game would be more fitting than a movie...directed by Ridley Scott...that's going to be made...:|
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Nov 12, 2009 3:46:27 PM CST
Does anyone here belong to any of the internet chat interest gro
by internet_chat_helper
Internet chat is intriguing and fun!
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Christ almighty.
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Oh look, a SPORTS CAR just pulled up (wink wink), and here comes a guy pushing a WHEELBARROW (nudge nudge)! Wait a minute, is that some guy on a HORSE? What a coincidence! Quick, hand me that SHOE so I can throw it at Ridley Scott for even thinking about making this flick!
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This has the potential to fail in a way the likes of which haven't been witnessed since the Super Mario Brothers movie.
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And they'll be lots of glittery shiny magic fairy monopoly dust everywhere and unicorns and everything will be oh so wacky and happy good fun time and *snnnnooooooooortttt*!
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Is Ridley sucking Satan's big black scaley cock in a desperate clawing attempt to get another hit? This is fucking awful! It's like The Duellists, Alien, Blade Runner etc were all made by a different filmmaker. The more films he makes, the more ordinary and bland he gets. That is all the outrage I have to express on this topic.
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It will be made.
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Make something original.
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There will be a scene where the main character goes to jail and converses with a CG top hat (with animated mouth)and an ironing board. Then he will pay $200 and skedaddle. How can this possibly be any good? This is the kind of thing that if made in the 80's would star Judge Reinold (or Steve Guttenberg) as the real estate agent and Wilford Brimley as Mr. Moneybags. Complete with a stop-motion metal dog chasing him about. Ridley Scott's last movie - Monopoly. A terrifying thought. From Blade Runner to this. Where did it all go wrong?
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Anyone?
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AND U AND MATTMAN FAG ARE OFFICIALLY FUCKING HOSER LOSERS!! BWAWAWAWAAAHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHH FUCKING LOSERS!
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I have to say thanks to everybody on this thread. It's been a while since I laughed so hard. I couldn't even finish reading them all. Tears were literally rolling down my face. Which is bad, as I'm at work.
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in for a penny, in for a pound :)
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Shia the Beef as the Racecar.
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I'm not even playing. I totally sincere. I would actually rather hack my nuts off with a bandsaw then see this movie ever.
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This is probably the dumbest idea for a movie adaptation I've ever heard of. At least Clue had a plot to base a movie around.
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Nov 12, 2009 4:57:56 PM CST
I can defend Emmerich, the TF movies, remakes, even game movies
by geomancer21
But I can't defend this. That is shit. someone may like it, but i can't. and I like practically anything.
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Astounding. We can't get universal health care in this country, but by God we'll have our big-budget movies based on children's board games! [Note: movie will not be meant for children.]
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dumb.
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... that sounds like what an eight-year-old would conceive of for a MONOPOLY movie: "It'll have all the pictures from the box!" How about doing a fun movie set in the UNIVERSE of MONOPOLY without the dream element and casting old man Pennybags in an UP capacity - nobody takes him seriously and he uses his last pink fiver to buy the world.
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even my great granny could do better, and shes dead.
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http://www.chatropolis.com/who chat/underground.html
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that they didn't use JettL93's script for this one. His was way better. He'll have to talk about it with R-Scott next time they meet up for a wheatgrass shot.
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I always thought Monopoly was a simulation of Marx's theory about capitalism's self-destructive nature: everyone starts equal and by chance alone, eventually one person ends up with all the money and everyone else is homeless.
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and the young. delicious!
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The movie
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whoever wrote that won my heart
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whoever wrote that won my heart
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Nov 12, 2009 6:03:25 PM CST
Don't worry folks- this movie will never be finished!
by flim springfield
No one ever finishes a game of Monopoly.
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The best option to make a monopoly movie in this manner if you must make a monopoly movie. far better than modernizing the crap out of it.
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Hahahahaha im so happy i just smoked before i saw this. I'll buy a ticket for the sheer insanity of this alone.
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sounds like a lame story but Paul would def bring it to a thumbs up.
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Well, you can make a good movie out of any premise... so as long as Ridley's attached I'll keep an open mind. He's earned it in my book. Though this sounds like it would do better as a Tim Burton flick...
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I predict....AIR: THE MOTION PICTURE
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Isn't the execrableness of this concept more in keeping with his style?
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... completely and totally in the realm of "d'uuuuh!" That's right folks, we're in the Corky Zone!
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is fucking 71 years old, rich and British. He doesn't give a flying fuck.
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and Ridley Scott do a Transformers trilogy?
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...yer talking my language. This could be amazing if done by people with genuinely leftfield sensibilities and the will to take it into weird, unanticipated corners.Ridley Scott however, is not one of those people, in fact with the lack of humour in his films he's probably the last director in a position to make this project anything else but shit.
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Must be hallucinating. Will check again in morning...
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Disgusting
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directed by James Cameron
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directed by Tim Burton
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Nov 12, 2009 7:36:47 PM CST
This seriously sounds like a "script by numbers" effort
by mrevilbreakfast
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directed by Victor Salva
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The surprise inside is only the beginning....
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Nov 12, 2009 8:00:59 PM CST
From the dude who made Bladerunner, we give you: Monopoly!!!
by redjester
WTF lol, are you really telling me he didn't have any projects available that looked better than this??! That's laughable.
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That is all.
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This film. Stop, buy my scripts for about 1/3 the price and make HUGE profits. I'll be waiting for your call.
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thats the best they could do?
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The first test audience of this "movie" will end up like the Nazis at the end of Raiders when they open the lost arc.
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There will be some joke about "community chest" that will involve a well-endowed woman.
Guarantee it.
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Not to eat, but to continue working in Hollywood and working in the sort of projects that fulfill their artistic desires. In this sense - i.e. their dependency to the movie industry - they're essentially the biggest tools around. Not because they don't know where their checks come from - everybody eventually has to find a way between balancing basic needs with personal wants - or not to bite the hand that feeds them, but because they, even more than most, don't even realize how dependant they really are. The money, the prestige, the work itself - it's all a Faustian pact with the god of the arts (the devil, or Orpheus). But because it all looks like such a wonderful life, most aspire to it. This adulation in turn feeds their egos, pays their checks... but enslaves them even more. It enslaves them because they become more dependant on the attention (psychologially, but also to improve their professional status, and bankability), and to the illusion which masks what it is all for in the first place: to create; to be artists. We, the spectator, are slaves insofar we desire the illusions they present us with, but also represent in life. But atleast we know we're only spectators; and when we really how much power we hold on the 'gods' of the silver screen, we can free ourselves from being simple consumerist tools. But also from being tyrannical masters; for we are the ones - now more than ever - that can destroy and make a career. Even more so when people are willing to do anything for fame, or when they'be been touched by the artistic muse.
So, don't be so harsh on Ridley Scott. Like the actors that sign contracts obliging them to participate in press junkets, he's only jumping through the hoops so he can get the backing for his own projects.
But ignore this movie like the plague. Only that will minimize the insult to decency wrought upon us by those studio suits trying to capitalize on property rights that should never have been bought in the first place. Don't pay for it, don't download it, don't talk about it. Do not pass Go; do not collect shit. -
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Nov 12, 2009 9:14:35 PM CST
Thought it was going to be some wild sci-fi thing a la BLADER RU
by smokefilledtavern
An evil corporation that has a monopoly over a vast futuristic metropolis would be a much better vehicle. It could still involved lots of imagery from the game. Capitalism as future shock isn't very new, but Scott could make a compelling film I'm sure.
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Someone always cheats playing that fucking game.
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even i couldn't make that up
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No I haven't.
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since Mutt in KOTCS.
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Ah, you're being sarcastic. Gotcha.
And what's even more painful is that it's being directed by a helluva good director. I say Ridley Scott and Roland Emmerich make a trade: Monopoly for The Foundation straight up.
Win, win right?! We get to see a Ridley Scott directed Foundation and let's be honest, who here wouldn't want to see a Roland Emmerich directed Monopoly movie? It would be f*ck*ng hilarious. -
Send it to me NOW!!
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His nephew calls 911. "My uncle has had a heart attack" "We'll send help. Where are you?" "Mediterranean Avenue""Can you spell that?""Uh, I'll just drag him to Baltic"
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those shitty places aren't even in monolopy
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C'mon, we are being punked. There's no way this is real. Even the way the guy describes it, it's like Michael Scott pitching a movie. No way this is real.
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Well at least there's no tooth fairy
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...that is worse, more embarrassing, or that will point out more directly just how fucking stupid an idea this is that what the writer has already said himself above. I mean...wow. Just...wow.
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what kind of cat shit is this?
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Isn't that something. Not unlike having McDonald sponsor a bio-pic of John Wayne Gacy. I hope they both look like Dick Dastardly or that villain from Dudley Doright.
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a reworking of bruce almighty, change freemans god for a little man with a big head and little tash and there you are. they will have a relization of power montage, bet ya!
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Hmmmmm....
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If it is made as a mock comedy of the whole "I wake up in a magical world, in the 80s" films.
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Nov 13, 2009 7:32:08 AM CST
I dunno. Why dont we wait & see what it actually is like?
by col. tigh-fighter
Crazy idea, I know. Just like that fucking film about a lame ride at Disneyland. You know the one that.......oh wait.
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You know the movie will feature at least one scene with people peeling little stickers off drink cups, someone will make a run for "mcflurries" or a character will express a need for a sweet tea.
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That fucker can EAT.
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Nov 13, 2009 8:16:15 AM CST
GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT $200
by zombieheathledger
For this completely awful idea.
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Mr. Show was so ahead of it's time.
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I loved playing Monopoly as a kid and now I'm just so excited to see the story of playing that game come to life on the big screen. It really speaks to me and I'm sure it will connect with everyone who has played this wonderful family game.
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Yeah what in the fucking hell is this supposed to be? I can't wait for the prequel where we learn what the fuck they were thinking.
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ht tp://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/The_Looking_Glass_ Wars This guy loves his visual twists.
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I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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Englehast could be running Sony Pictures right now!
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OMFG! Please let someone else film forever war while you do coco chanel and monopoly movies. Fag.
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This just in: Warner Bros has acquired the movie rights to the board game based on the popular SyFy (formerly SciFi) television series Battlestar Galactica.
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Nov 13, 2009 2:54:01 PM CST
This is such a poor idea. Just walk away... Just walk away...
by snake foreskin
In the words of the Humongous, "Just walk away!" Bonus points if you can do the voice.
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as we all it will spell S-U-C-K.
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Actually it was Slip N Slide and Chutes and Ladders. Man that show was great!
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Will there be a dog?
The original Monopoly was English, wasn't it? I'm not English, but having it set in America seems wrong. Just like Simpsons Monopoly or Spongebob Monopoly or Star Wars Monopoly or whatever-the-fuck the latest cross-licensing opportunity is Monopoly... -
Yes, he always intended the game pieces to be Pewter, not plastic. You misunderstood The Top Hat's speech to the old Shoe. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...
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The "Monopoly" game we all know was created in 1935. The street names and railroads and everything are all based on real places in Atlantic City.
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Nov 13, 2009 10:03:26 PM CST
everyone starts equal and by chance alone, eventually one person
by ptsdpete
That would be reality.:)
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..A Good Movie.
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And yes, I realize the movie is very heavily flawed. But hey, it makes me want to go to France, what can I say...
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Battleships made into a film at the studio that swallowed up Orion. I've watched Twilight vampires glitter in talentless emo shite. All those moments lost, to lameness, like putting Monopoly...on film. Time...to die.
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Still, no dog no dice. And how the hell are they going to work the thimble in?! Without making it contrived. Oh, wait...
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"NANOO! NANOO!"
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Nov 14, 2009 9:26:46 AM CST
and then David Alan Grier starts screaming like a pussy
by the_crimson_king
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Nov 14, 2009 10:36:12 AM CST
There is no way I will see this movie.
by johndillingers20inchseveredcock
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Are they going to go back in time so it can come out in 1994?
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Wow, that could not sound shittier. Not as a kids movie, not as a comedy, not as a porno.
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Nov 14, 2009 6:17:33 PM CST
You only agreed to do this to get funding for The Forever War ri
by tradeskilz
Please tell me its true.
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"Are they going to go back in time so it can come out in 1994?" hahahahahahahah
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Monopoly! the game where corporations repeal trust law and the rich get richer!
Guess I'll have to settle for Moore's latest instead, if it played anywhere within 100 miles of me. :/ -
Barry Levinson's Toys is actually a good movie (first time I've ever seen that movie mentioned on on this site), I mean it's miles ahead of this Monopoly shit, that's for sure
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sherrif of nottingham
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Yeah, but in real life a few players start life "more equal" than the others...
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