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I hope that they use a reasonable inflation ratio to bring the board game prices up to a realistic current value. Wait...recession?...nevermind.

Oo, oo! Will the Bradbury series be based on his scary stuff? I pretty much adore everything he writes, but his horror stories are inspired. I'm not sure how well they'd translate to TV, though, since so much of the horror is conveyed through the words and descriptions.

My personal favorites (SPOILERS) include a Mars story where the astronauts land and find a typical Earth town with all of their dead relatives restored. Until one guy gets to thinking late at night about how all this came to be, and theorizes that maybe the Martians saw the astronauts coming and this is all a ruse, maintained via telepathy and designed to keep them off guard until the Martians kill them. He freaks out and tries to quietly leave the room he's sharing with his brother, but the brother is awake and asks where he's going, and when he says "to get a drink of water," the brother replies ominously, "But you're not thirsty." Gave me goosebumps. And that's hard to do through the written word.

Another favorite; an angry husband wants to get revenge on his wife through their daughter at their Halloween party. Everyone's sitting in the dark while they pass around bowls of stuff like spaghetti and olives and the husband says things like, "And these were her guts, and these were her eyes", and everyone is giggling and a little spooked except the wife, who is wigging out and says into the darkness to her daughter, "Don't be afraid, honey, it's just a game," to which the husband responds, "She's not afraid." At which point you realize just what the guy did. I'm creeped out just remembering it.

I thought that Community Chest was the prostitute.

This movie sure will have a lot of gagging all right...

Ah, yes. Community Chest is always luring you in with her safety from rents. Then BAM! You gotta pay income tax or give money to everyone in the neighborhood for some dumbass reason. Sometimes she breaks your heart by telling you that you won second place in a beauty contest you didn't know you entered.

Tagline: "SOMEbody's takin' a long ride on the Short Line."

I also have a feeling McDonald's will have LOTS and LOTS of product placements.

On the plus side, there's some good opportunity for a classic rock soundtrack:

"Under the Boardwalk"

"Electric Co."

"(Go directly to jail)House Rock"

And, of course, "Atlantic City"

Will this movie be three and a half hours long, and just kind of taper off at the end as everyone gets bores? I don't think I've ever finished a game of Monopoly in my life. SQUIRREL!!

Thimble is the whore because she loves the bowling ball grip.

Posted by: admin at November 12, 2009 10:08 AM

Hey!
It only makes you a whore if you get paid for it!

I AGREE. So far, the only board game-based movie is Clue, and we all know what a pile of dog shit THAT turned out to be.

I hated it sooOOO much, ... it, it flames - flames - flames, on the side of my face, breathing - breath - heaving breaths, heaving...

I'm actually excited to see how it turns out. I think rich Uncle Pennybags should be the antagonist, and in the first act, there should definitely be a scene in which he almost dies laughing at the protagonist's decision to buy the budget properties. Then he has to painfully eat his words at the end when he lands on one of them and has to pay for a thousand-dollar-a-night hotel, forcing him into debt...

Has Ridley Scott been replaced by a chimpanzee in a t-shirt that reads 'RIDLIY'?

"I had epic battles with grammar class, which was twice as fun as a game of Monopoly, and no one has contracted me yet about a film deal." -- I'll keep my fingers crossed.