Friday, November 20, 2009

Steroid-enhanced worst movie idea ever

Variety is reporting that the American Gladiator movie I thought for sure would be dead by now is not dead. In fact, it's moving forward...as in it has a script. Words. On a page. About American Gladiators. Presumably with some kind of "plot" and "characters." There's no way to win in this scenario. You can't really do a tongue-in-cheek spoofy satire, on account of the TV show already being some kind of bizarre meta-commentary on our eventual decline as a society to Running Man like status. You can't do it bad ass and serious, because you have characters named things like Wolf, Thunder, and Horny Taco (guess which one of those I made up). The movie will supposedly be set "in the world created within the show," which makes no sense at all. I didn't know that there was a "world created within the show." In that world, is everybody the offspring of an attractive human and a horse? Has that world run out of cotton and thus everyone is forced to wear spandex? Is everybody named by a 6-year old? I think that the film is going to have the same effect on America as it did to this young lady auditioning for a spot on the show.



Sorry, that's my reaction to having to talk about Twilight for the next few weeks. "Robert Pattenson is gonna...I'm gonna run around and..." Thud.

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