this movie will be at best 'indian in the cupboard' quality, not a BTTF quality product, but if they try hard, they might make a nice children's picture.

Marmite the movie.

So the idea you have a movie built around and old toy doesn't bother me. WHAT BOTHERS ME is the people who are going to write it, that is where I lose faith.

my sister even had a "Peanuts Drive-In" which was a player for those mini film cartridges but instead of a 'viewmaster' like device, it was a mocked up drive in with Snoopy and Linus in a car watching the screen (Woodstock was there too of course)..used a shitty bulb versus ambient light so it wasn't as bright but i watched a clip of PigPen playing baseball again and again...the dirt swirls building frame by frame....ahh..the toys of youth!

I feel sorry for kid's today....for the most part your toys suck balls. video games are much better but the toys are shitty. our Transformers (die-cast metal) were kick ass and yours suck. but, you do get badass video games and we got blocks and sound f/x that sounded suspiciously like one continuous fart or bankruptcy dropping coin after coin into games at 'arcades'

For some reason I remembered the Viewmaster as that cool 3-D space battle thing, the one that was like a cool goggles thing with space invaders type stuff.

Now I remember. Fuck. This is awful.

Actually, talent is irrelevant. If you can hold a crayon you can write a Summer Blockbuster these days.

Yes, Hollywood is out of ideas, but the untold truth is that they are also out of development money. That's all these gigs are--assignments, usually paid for by the original toy company, etc.

You do know that the VFX in Transformers were paid for by Hasbro, in exchange for the rights to the designs?

See what she can do with......

Make it happen.

http://tinyurl.com/ln7jm2

The kid's mom buys him a viewmaster and he puts in "Fantastic Magical Kingdom" in there and sees a harry-potter like 3D world come to life before his eyes. Suddenly some evil wizard casts a spell that makes the people of the magic viewmaster kingdom come to life and appear in the boy's bedroom. Here he meets the beautiful princess from Fantastic Magical Kingdom and gets a big crush on her. But something goes wrong and the evil wizard gets mad and banishes her back to the world of viewmaster, but to a viewmaster diskette that is at Toys R Us. She could be anywhere, in the Sesame Street Elmo set, or the Disney claymation Sorcerer's apprentice set, or even the TMNT the Movie set. He will have to buy them all, to find her and, he'll also have to learn the magic spell that will set her free from the viewmaster world.

But it won't be easy because while the little boy is trying to buy all the viewmaster sets, the evil wizard will be chasing him down with all his henchmen from the Fantastic Magical Kingdom, through the streets of Manhattan or Los Angeles.

Will the kid save the princess in time? Will he meet a wise mentor in Toys R Us who will teach him the spell that frees the princess from viewmaster world, once he finds her? And how will the ordinary citizens of NYC, mostly seen in Times Square, react to seeing all these crazy Harry Potter-like characters make a mess of their city? Will the evil wizard lose his horse and awkwardly learn all about taking cabs and other modern day conveniences you find in the big city?

As for how this will go, it's painfully obvious. You just need to think of the NATIONAL TREASURE franchise. "'You ... are the chosen one. You ... are the ViewMaster!'" It'll feature kids trying to solve a mystery but being incaapble of solving it without using an ancient or super high-tech ViewMaster that talks, gives them hints, connects to a treasure from the past - and hides the clues on the reels/dics/whatever until the kids can sort out the answer - with help from the magical talking ViewMaster, of course, since kids in modern American movies are incapable of solving mysteries or even changing their pants on their own any more thanks to overprotective ethos in the culture.

And, don't forget what the last line of the commercial will be: "And for a limited time, unlock the clues and prove yourself the Ultimate ViewMaster! Collect all 55 Viewmaster cards/discs for a chance to win a 1,000,000 shopping spree! For details, go to www.whoistheviewmaster.com! KIDS GET YOUR PARENTS' PERMISSION!"

Fuck Kurtzman, fuck Orci and doubly fuck anybody connected to Fringe which is probably one of, if not the worst, TV show EVER made.

Shut the fuck up.

I'm tired of reading these generic responses. Try to think of something original if you're gonna post something. It ain't that hard.

or

"Wait, come back, Eddie Murphy's not in this!"

If so, they're both trite, formulaic shit. Start over.

"Another swift kick to the nuts deliverd by Kurtzman and Orci."

"If so, they're both trite, formulaic shit. Start over." Seriously, my outline for a kid's film based on the Fantastic Magical Kingdom is formulaic? Damn, I thought I had something original there :(

DILL-DOUGH

The only dumb thing is you need to hit 88mph to go back in time..in a car which had a top speed of around 85mph or so.

part 2 is the non clapping part.

i feel like im in JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS..pink is the new orange.

i want a big mac!

Post your choice below.

Hard to believe buy true.

The big movie studios are parts of larger corporations that are ONLY looking to make as much money as possible. They pick up these properties because of the BRAND RECOGNITION. Almost everyone grows up playing with these boardgames/toys. The corporation prizes that level of awareness. Then it's up to the producers and writers to figure out how to make a narrative feature out of "Connect Four". But I think it takes a lot MORE creativity (and balls) to try to conjure a story out of some of these intellectual properties.

Redundant, but true!!!

I had one when I was a kid, but that was decades ago. This toy isn't very interesting to anyone now. Only to the overly sentimental, braindead masses, who, upon hearing about the film, will say "Awww! I had one of those!" Following their initial cheesy rush, however, they'll realize, "Um, yeah. Actually I don't REALLY want to see a movie about that. Pretty boring idea, in all honesty."

I hope Bob and Alex realize this is the case.

Patrick FitzHugh

Says Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:"I really did not think Orci/Kurtman had this kind of conceptual brilliance in them, it is like a view directly into their creative souls."

"Rarely has the film go'er been treated to such an in depth look into the mind of a "Blockbuster" writer. I completely understand where Orci and Kurtzman are coming from now...perhaps we need to re-evaluate their output to date, as if this work is an indication of what they have to work with on a daily basis, they might be savants.

"It was 2 hours of sublime nothingness...just a big white screen wrapped in Chocolate Covered Pussy Juice...when the lights went down, and the big white screen lit up...I wept with joy." Harry Knowles.

The hacks that run Hollywood need to read some books.

then again, why show up to a festival of "fuck you's"?

(I guess b/c he has a habit of popping up on TBs related to him.)

Orci/Kur tzman are to screen writers what Dr. Mengele is to the medical profession.

But Transformers 1&2, MI3, Xena? Fucks sake man...enough!

that's bayformers legacy for you. thank yourself for making this happen by watching those shitty films.