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Hollywood hits a new low
Posted: 2004-01-05 02:41am
by DPDarkPrimus
According to an article on CHUD.com, there is a plan for a... brace yourselves... SLINKY MOVIE.
Yes, you heard right. A feature-length movie based around the Slinky. As in, the main character is a Slinky.
I weep. I weep.
Posted: 2004-01-05 02:43am
by Shinova
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Old news. They had some survivor movie out, and it tanked. Maybe this new slinky movie will tank too if it goes the way I think it will go.
Posted: 2004-01-05 03:30am
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Posted: 2004-01-05 03:56am
by Gandalf
I'm sure people said the same thing about a film with a farmboy and an old man going up against a guy in a black costume with breathing problems.
Posted: 2004-01-05 04:28am
by Crayz9000
So now what, it's the Enchanted Slinky? Goes down stairs faster than ever before, and can go up stairs too? Slices, dices, and chops faster than Emeril Lagasse on tumeric? Makes your coffee and fetches the morning paper? Saves the universe in a single day?
Posted: 2004-01-05 04:36am
by neoolong
Obviously large amounts of crack was involved in this decision.
Re: Hollywood hits a new low
Posted: 2004-01-05 06:07am
by The Morrigan
DPDarkPrimus wrote:A feature-length movie based around the Slinky. As in, the main character is a Slinky.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: A film based around a character who uses a Slinky as a weapon would be pretty cool though. Or have I just been watching too much
Sukeban Deka?
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Posted: 2004-01-05 07:30am
by Col. Crackpot
sounds a lot better than the new Fox show "My big fat obnoxious Fiance" where a hot rich woman has to convince her family through an engagement, and wedding ceremony that some fat obnoxious rude asshole is really her fiance so she can win $1,000,000
Posted: 2004-01-05 08:14am
by Chardok
what's wrong with that? Toy Story, anyone? I bet people also thought JAy-Jay the Jet plane was stupid, too (It is) and would tank (I wish it would) but it's very popular (Stupid Kids) and comes on every day here in J'ville on my beloved PBS (I sleep with PBS on). and wakes me up...
the sun is rising high up over Terry Town
Friends taking off and friends touching down
so buckle up tight it's a magical Fa-light
with Jay-Jay
Ja-jaaaaaaay
Jay-Jay the jet plane "THAT'S ME!"
KILL ME!! PLEASE! I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD!!! I HAVE A FEAR OF FLYING NOW! I WANT TO BREAK MY TV!!! JAY JAY THE JET PLANE IS THE REASON I DON'T DONATE TO PBS!!! AAAAAUGH!!!!!!
*Runs away screaming*
Posted: 2004-01-05 09:31am
by Montcalm
![What the fuck? :wtf:](./images/smilies/wtf.gif)
Must be a joke they can`t actualy make a movie around something as silly as a slinky.....and if its no joke
![Banging my head :banghead:](./images/smilies/banghead.gif)
Posted: 2004-01-05 09:34am
by Dahak
WHat on earth is a slinky???
Posted: 2004-01-05 09:39am
by Montcalm
Dahak wrote:WHat on earth is a slinky???
Just google for it.
Posted: 2004-01-05 11:46am
by Peregrin Toker
How big a budget is this thing going to have?
Re: Hollywood hits a new low
Posted: 2004-01-05 02:22pm
by Stormbringer
DPDarkPrimus wrote:According to an article on CHUD.com, there is a plan for a... brace yourselves... SLINKY MOVIE.
Yes, you heard right. A feature-length movie based around the Slinky. As in, the main character is a Slinky.
I weep. I weep.
That's hardly a new low. Dumb, but hardly a new low for Hollywood. A new low would be making a snuff-film reality movie or something. Like who doesn't want to get fed to the cannibal or something.
Posted: 2004-01-05 02:42pm
by neoolong
This is what it's about:
"We are creating a completely imaginary, full world all based on the Slinky," says the film's director Henrique Vera-Villanueva. "The main character is a big Indiana Jones-type Slinky."
Posted: 2004-01-05 03:02pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Channel 4 has gone one better.
Tonight and for the next week, there will be an hour long show showing the last 24 hours of what several contestants have done in a special studio in a, wait for it, staying awake contest.
The show: Shattered. The prize: £100k. The goal: To stay awake for 7 days straight whilst enduring such obstacles as driving around in a limo with the heating on full and general comprehension tests.
A doctor from my uni wrote into the national paper I get to complain about how fucking sad this is and enquire as to when trying to stay awake for a week was reality TV.
Posted: 2004-01-05 03:06pm
by Lord Pounder
Ver should enter that show. He'd walk it.
Posted: 2004-01-05 03:09pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Lord Pounder wrote:Ver should enter that show. He'd walk it.
Agreed, but I'd have to take some heavy sleeping pills to stop myself from beating the stupid out of the company execs who thought this show up and somehow sold it to C4.
Posted: 2004-01-05 03:15pm
by Lord Pounder
Those companies have execs? Shit i though they just got a couple of Snue Gliffers to rattle off ideas. This my friends is why i only watch Scuzz TV and Kerrang!
Posted: 2004-01-05 03:19pm
by Admiral Valdemar
TV died a long time ago, I only watch it if I feel the need to lose faith in humanity again.
The Net is the new TV. Sky Digital? Pah. 500 channels of pure shit pretty much 24/7.
And as for this slinky movie, was this not going to be about the slinky dog in Toy Story? Though given the VA for Slinky died some time ago, it could be hard to do.
Posted: 2004-01-05 04:02pm
by neoolong
No, they're creating a world based on the slinky.
Posted: 2004-01-05 04:11pm
by Lt. Dan
Chardok wrote:what's wrong with that? Toy Story, anyone? I bet people also thought JAy-Jay the Jet plane was stupid, too (It is) and would tank (I wish it would) but it's very popular (Stupid Kids) and comes on every day here in J'ville on my beloved PBS (I sleep with PBS on). and wakes me up...
the sun is rising high up over Terry Town
Friends taking off and friends touching down
so buckle up tight it's a magical Fa-light
with Jay-Jay
Ja-jaaaaaaay
Jay-Jay the jet plane "THAT'S ME!"
KILL ME!! PLEASE! I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD!!! I HAVE A FEAR OF FLYING NOW! I WANT TO BREAK MY TV!!! JAY JAY THE JET PLANE IS THE REASON I DON'T DONATE TO PBS!!! AAAAAUGH!!!!!!
*Runs away screaming*
(I think I should get 'em a Jay-Jay the jet plane toy for their birthday.)
I don't get the movie...
Posted: 2004-01-05 04:33pm
by Vertigo1
No doubt they'll hype it up like they did with the Matrix sequels....
Posted: 2004-01-05 04:34pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
I'm sure a movie like that would have a great moral: Don't smoke crack and then think up of movies.
Posted: 2004-01-05 05:59pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Jay-Jay the jetplane bows before Budgie the little helicopter and Jimbo.