Videogum » Monopoly http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Monopoly: The Wire Edition http://videogum.com/233342/monopoly-the-wire-edition/fan-art/ http://videogum.com/233342/monopoly-the-wire-edition/fan-art/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:45:46 +0000 Gabe http://videogum.com/?p=233342 My thimble is my motherfucking thimble!

]]> 35 Wait, Is The Monopoly Movie Actually Going To Be Amazing? http://videogum.com/100831/wait_is_the_monopoly_movie_act/what-america-wants/ http://videogum.com/100831/wait_is_the_monopoly_movie_act/what-america-wants/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:26:52 +0000 Gabe Hollywood, as you may know, is moving ahead with a movie based on the board game Monopoly, because the world is out of ideas and we’re all just trying to find a way to fill the hours between now and 2012 of course they are. But this week, the LA Times has an interview with the screenwriter behind the movie, Frank Beddor, who discusses what the movie will actually be about, and let’s just say you should put in your prescription for crazy pills now, because I have a feeling we’re headed for a NATIONAL SHORTAGE.

“I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good at his job but he’s great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they’re playing the game and there’s this big fight. And he’s holding a Chance card and after they’ve left he says, ‘Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card,’ and he throws it down. He falls asleep and then he wakes up in the morning and he’s holding the Chance card, and he thinks, ‘That’s odd.’”

Wait, the movie actually starts with a guy who really likes to play Monopoly? Haha. First of all, no one really likes to play Monopoly. (And also, no one is “great” at playing Monopoly? It is a game of the most tedious chance.) Second of all, isn’t that kind of like if the Pirates of the Caribbean movie had been set in Disneyworld? ANYWAY, it gets better (worse):

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]]> 76 Oh Yes, There Will Be Movies Based On Board Games http://videogum.com/8922/oh_yes_there_will_be_movies_ba/wait-for-it/ http://videogum.com/8922/oh_yes_there_will_be_movies_ba/wait-for-it/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:18:00 +0000 Gabe AICN reports that Universal has struck a deal with Hasbro that would result in four movie adaptations of popular board games. With the fabulous job that was done on Clue, it’s no wonder they want to make more of them. They just waited 23 years to make sure everything was perfect.

But they can’t just take a board game and make a movie (can they?), they need to base their storylines on something more substantial. After the jump, some ideas for inspiration.

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