The Sims...Soon to be a major motion picture?!
 

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6171544...ewstop;title;1

Well it looks like a certain NF staff member has somehow got into the ears of powerful Hollywood executives. ;)

From what the article mentions this movie looks to be yet another movie about "playing God", "controlling other's destines" and all that stuff that's been around since the advent of movies more then a century ago, only with the addition of a popular license to get people talking about it....much like I am doing now.

I disavow any responsibility for this. 8D

What follows is reprinted from a PM I sent out minutes ago on this very subject:

Not that that'll stop me fom seeing it, mind you. ;)

I see what you mean. My first thought was something like The Truman Show with 10% Tron but really they could take this in lots of directions as the whole idea of The Sims does open up new avenues like 2nd life etc. Did anyone used to like Sim-City by the way? Is it related?

If they include some of the Aspiration and Career reward objects it might get interesting. I'm thinking specifically about the Cow Plant here (players know what I mean). Other than that, I don't know. The whole "playing god" routine has been done to death and frankly never interested me very much.

Koosie: I have Sim City 4, but it's only real use for Sims 2 players is to create new neighborhoods from scratch.

Yeah I heard about this too. I honestly can't fathom how a movie like this can possibly function. Sims is like the backyard area of possible movie ideas, I mean that's stretching a bit picking up a game like this for a movie?

I don't really see how you can do this, or even think you could do this in the first place. There's no plot or story to make the movie out of and unless there planning on doing something amazingly brilliant to make sense of all this, this is a disaster waiting to happen.

Can't wait to see how the producers will convince people to watch characters who speak jibberish for 90 minutes.

So many answers, so little time... 8D

Some of the things Sims do are amusing, but a general audience wouldn't get most of it. Watching whoever plays the lead doing the insane routine Sims do when paying a bill would make a lot of players smile and shake their heads knowingly, but non-players just won't get it; they'll sit there and wonder WTF that was all about.

Of all the things Hollywood tries to pull off when it comes to making a movie based on a certain videogame, this has to be a desperate attempt to make more money. Oh brother. ::)

To be honest, I'm not actually looking forward to this at all.

No mention of what the plot will be...My guess is it will be about some people in a town who realise that they're being controlled by outside forces and band together to try and free themselves.

(Seriously, that's all I got.)

I'd like to know who's going to play Mrs. Crumplebottom. 8D

..and then theres the bit at the end where they make you wonder are YOU the one in the computer game really?...ahhhhhh.

I still don't think it's as bad an idea as say, making a movie of Tin Tin.