Podcast: The State of Video Game Movies
The Picture Show podcast returns to Cinematical.com to take an in depth look at the state of video game movies. With a next generation of systems on the horizon, Halo, Dead or Alive, Far Cry, Bloodrayne and Doom in various states of development, we're in the middle of the second video game movie boom. Did the movie industry learn from their mistakes? Why do most video game movies suck? And what does the future of game movies look like? We tackle all these questions and more, including the upcoming Family Guy movie and a Box Office report run down in this week's Picture Show.
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Here's a link to the podcast
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2:30 - Box Office Breakdown
4:45 - Familt Guy: The Movie
9:00 - The State of Video Game Movies
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-20-2005 @ 8:05AM
mick du russel said...
With all of these video game movies coming out or in the works, when I am going to see my two all-time favorites on the screen; PACMAN and SPACE INVADERS?
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6-20-2005 @ 9:17AM
karina said...
I was going to say something snarky along the lines of, "Um, what would even happen in a Pacman movie?" but then the obvious jumped out at me: you pit Pacman up against Miss Pacman, and you make it just as much about their relationship as about their mission to eat themselves through space and time. Call it "Mr. and Mrs. Pac."
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6-20-2005 @ 9:19AM
karina said...
Sorry - MS. Pacman. I always forget she was a feminist...
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6-20-2005 @ 9:28AM
mick du russel said...
Sounds like the plot is in the works!!! Bravo!!
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6-20-2005 @ 11:10AM
Brian said...
Hi, guys... did you know that your RSS feed doesn't properly contain the podcast, such that podcatching applications, like iPodderX, can't directly download the mp3 file to iTunes?
tag in your rss.xml that points to the mp3 file's URL. Without that, it's a totally manual process of downloading the mp3 and then drag-and-dropping it to iTunes.
You need to enclude an
I think it's really cool that you guys are doing podcasts, but please include the proper links in your rss feed so that we can easily catch and download them. Thanks.
-B
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6-20-2005 @ 4:55PM
lauren said...
the audio was much better than last week...and good call making the intro music shorter...i like the casual feel of the show...the whole "bunch of friends talking" works
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