Movie --> Videogame Continued

[Amplituden]

I was thinking about how awesome it is when they make pinball machines out of a movie.

Its funny because they have to make pinball things like hitting a target or dropping the ball into a hole and somehow connect that with things from the movie.

The movie that I was thinking about was "Awakenings" pinball.

You have to shoot the ball into a bunch of little beds and awake people from comas. Multiball happens when you awake them all. The multiball is the hospital dance.

Hows about that?

[Joe Don from Astoria]

I like it . . . !

Yeah I used to love playing the movie-based pinball. 

Addams Family, Lethal Weapon 2, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, which comprised all three movies ("Juniah?  It ish you, juniah!")

It was probably Lethal Weapon 3, actually.  Joe Pesci was in the mix doing his stammering "okey okey okey," but I don't remember anyone shouting "DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!"

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I was going to call in with Blue Velvet, but then Tom changed the topic.  A pretty straightforward adventure game where you find the ear on the ground, get mystery clues from Isabella Rossellini, have to run away from a huffing Dennis Hopper, etc.  In the intervening few days, I've thought of:

A Fred Wiseman video game where you have to find disturbing things going on in the virtual world of the game, film then, and secure their release, overcoming various legal hurdles.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, where you have a guild like in World of Warcraft, but you're all these petit bourgeoisie types and you have to find a place to eat dinner.

Did someone already suggest There Will Be Blood as a Sim City-type game where you need to assemble an oil empire?

A Matthew Barney game where you have to con all of these granting organizations and the art world generally into giving you millions of dollars to make boring, unwatchable movies.

An El Topo game would be awesome.

A version of Rock Band but you're a scrappy underdog visionary rock group trying to overcome the evil corporate music structure, like that Wilco movie.

[Sarah]

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, where you have a guild like in World of Warcraft, but you're all these petit bourgeoisie types and you have to find a place to eat dinner.

How would the dreams fit in?  Lots of possibilities there, it seems to me.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, where you have a guild like in World of Warcraft, but you're all these petit bourgeoisie types and you have to find a place to eat dinner.

How would the dreams fit in?  Lots of possibilities there, it seems to me.

True.  Maybe the dinner game is just one level and you also have to murder some hippies or something.

[Sarah]

Not a movie but a television show --> videogame:  Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.  Scary, fun, and tasty!

[Kibblesmith]

My friend told me about the topic before I heard the podcast, and my first thought was a stylus-based DS game based on David Cronenberg's "The Fly."

You could do math or genetics problems, synch the rhythm of flashing teleporter lights, chase a fly with a swatter, or even use the stylus to scrape the mammal flesh off Jeff Goldblum's limbs.

My favorite topic of recent memory.

[BenjaminBirdie]

Man, the Magnolia game in the OP is brilliant.

I would've called in with a No Country For Old Men first person shooter.

You are Anton Chigurh, your arsenal includes Oxygen Tank, silenced shotgun, and automatic pistol.

Your max turn speed?  3.

Multiplayer includes three exciting hotel levels.

[nkrauter]

I want a Tekken or Street Fighter style fighting game based on Barton Fink.  You can choose different characters and have them fight to the finish.  Imagine Buscemi's Chet or John Goodman fist fighting John Mahoney's W.P. Mayhew (I'm assuming he would employ some sort of drunken-boxing style).

[Omar]

I want a Tekken or Street Fighter style fighting game based on Barton Fink.  You can choose different characters and have them fight to the finish.  Imagine Buscemi's Chet or John Goodman fist fighting John Mahoney's W.P. Mayhew (I'm assuming he would employ some sort of drunken-boxing style).

I love it.  Mayhew should also fling flasks of "social lubricant" at his combatants.

[Matt]

I want a Tekken or Street Fighter style fighting game based on Barton Fink.  You can choose different characters and have them fight to the finish.  Imagine Buscemi's Chet or John Goodman fist fighting John Mahoney's W.P. Mayhew (I'm assuming he would employ some sort of drunken-boxing style).

I love it.  Mayhew should also fling flasks of "social lubricant" at his combatants.

And, if Mayhew defeats every other character in the game, he gets his honey.

I think maybe, given the plot of the film, Barton Fink would be better as a wrestling game, with writing exercises between fights. That way, the game's instruction booklet could be called "Wrasslin' Scenarios, And Other Things Lit'rary".

[Steve in North Hollywood]

I'd like to see a Death Proof video game.  Dig it ...

You're Eli Roth, trying to stay awake and talk one of the girls into sneaking away with you during that interminable bar scene.  You've got to properly balance your intake of alcohol, cafeine, and water to make sure you A) stay awake, and B) are alert enough to keep "running game."  If you succeed in staying awake AND getting her to ditch her friends, you win ... Sort of ... You sneak her away to a movie theater where you have to try to stay awake while WATCHING the diner scene in the second half of Death Proof. 

But here's the cheat, if you just let yourself fall asleep in the movie theater, it's like finding a Warp Zone in the old Mario games.  Fall asleep while watching the diner scene, and then you instantly wake up just in time to catch the final car-chase.  And you've earned an extra 1,000,000 points.  Then, on your way out of the theater, you get to meet Kurt Russell!!!  But if you can't lie to him and convince him you loved the movie, he throws a knife into your forehead, Big Trouble in Little China style!  As you fall to the floor, dying, the last words you hear are "It's all in the reflexes."  Game Over.