np NP: Wednesday, May 18, 2016

[Howitzer 32]

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=461

Centuries?

[Scotty 1,061]

Actually, if you want to get technical Man has been fitting blocks together for millennia.

[TamarTree 203]

If there must be a Tetris film trilogy, it should be these guys who get to make it. Otherwise what's the point.

[partner555 170]

What kind of movie can you even get out of Tetris? The mechanics as far as I understand them have not much to offer in terms of world setting for a movie, and there is no plot whatsoever in the games to adapt to the big screen.

[WR...S 41]

Tri... tri... trilogy?!

...how?  Why?  Just, on every level, what?!

If you're going to make a series, at least make it a tetralogy, sheesh.  Plus, the canonical film adaptation has already been made.

(Hmm...combined with the trilogy, maybe two wrongs make a right.)

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

A potential Tetris movie was available as a laughable concept for more than ten percent of both the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

And this should not be a trilogy.  Tetris would seem to demand a Tetralogy.  What in the name of the Tetragrammaton were they thinking?

Ouch. WR...S beat me to the tetralogy goke. Edited May 18, 2016 by Pharaoh RutinTutin
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[InfiniteRemnant 141]

eh, it would probably make about as much sense as Minesweeper did.
 

 

[Don Edwards 548]

In all fairness I must point out that Tetris bears more than a passing resemblance to the construction techniques on display in SimLife.

[Howitzer 32]

1 hour ago, Scotty said:

Actually, if you want to get technical Man has been fitting blocks together for millennia.

True, but that's not what Tensaided was referring to. He was talking about making a Tetris movie as being a joke. Movies as an art form still have 80 or 90 years to go before you can apply the term "centuries" to them. Not to mention that Tetris itself is younger than I am.

[Sweveham 65]

I think Dan and Tensaided are being a bit premature here. The Tetris movie is still a ridiculous joke, albeit it is now sadly a reality instead of a hypothetical.

And seriously, a trilogy? You're probably better off spending several hours playing the game Tetris instead of watching the films.

[Scotty 1,061]

There is the documentary "Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters" that was released in 2011. If people want to seriously make a proper tetris movie, it should probably revolve around the e-sports scene, maybe follow a person (or people) trying to become a world champion, and either it'd be a documentary like the one I linked, or something goofy.

[Aura Guardian 57]

I remember seeing a joke trailer of Tetris... in which it was a team sport where people piloted the blocks...

 

If that's what the movie is actually like, there's at least a slim chance it'll be ONLY so bad it's good...

[Howitzer 32]

2 hours ago, Aura Guardian said:

I remember seeing a joke trailer of Tetris... in which it was a team sport where people piloted the blocks...

 

If that's what the movie is actually like, there's at least a slim chance it'll be ONLY so bad it's good...

There might have been a small chance of that if it was only one film. The fact that they announced a TRILOGY almost certainly sinks that hope.

[hkmaly 490]

11 hours ago, Sweveham said:

And seriously, a trilogy? You're probably better off spending several hours playing the game Tetris instead of watching the films.

As a test, you can play the game and watch the movie simultaneously. If the movie will be interesting, you will lose the game due to dividing attention.

[Vorlonagent 442]

Thankfully this is Hollywood.   They can announce a film, even a trilogy but it isn't assured that even one film will get made.

[Stature 96]

Nah, Angry Birds may end up much lackluster.

[Drasvin 123]

Well according to an article on the Escapist, the Tetris movie (and by extension the trilogy) is going to be an "epic sci-fi thriller." Doesn't say much though, as Sci-fi covers a wide range of things, from space opera to cyberpunk and more. Could be interesting, and potentially coherent, if they make it a VR/cyberspace movie with the character's getting trapped in a game of Tetris or something.

[Vorlonagent 442]

It sounds like they'll be following the Battleship model to me...

[hkmaly 490]

10 hours ago, Drasvin said:

Well according to an article on the Escapist, the Tetris movie (and by extension the trilogy) is going to be an "epic sci-fi thriller." Doesn't say much though, as Sci-fi covers a wide range of things, from space opera to cyberpunk and more. Could be interesting, and potentially coherent, if they make it a VR/cyberspace movie with the character's getting trapped in a game of Tetris or something.

With the amount of information available it's hard to say: is the whole trilogy supposed to be about Tetris, or is that supposed to be trilogy and first movie will be about Tetris?

[The Old Hack 2,448]

7 hours ago, Vorlonagent said:

It sounds like they'll be following the Battleship model to me...

Great. The US Army gets bombarded with bricks falling from outer space. I guess Michael Bay will be providing the plot.

[InfiniteRemnant 141]

3 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

Great. The US Army gets bombarded with bricks falling from outer space. I guess Michael Bay will be providing the plot.

Nah, Bay's work might be monumentally stupid, but it atleast tends to be mostly origional stupid. thinly veiled carbon copies of other movies made with no understanding of what made the other one work or not work is more J.J. Abrams style.

[Vorlonagent 442]

13 hours ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

Nah, Bay's work might be monumentally stupid, but it atleast tends to be mostly origional stupid. thinly veiled carbon copies of other movies made with no understanding of what made the other one work or not work is more J.J. Abrams style.

Burn!....

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Tetris, the movie, part one

I thought Robot Chicken was presenting a parody.
I was wrong.

This was a warning

 

Edited May 21, 2016 by Pharaoh RutinTutin
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