Dave Farquhar\’s rules, Part 1

Unlike Colin Powell, I haven’t canonized my rules for living, but there is one of my rules that I think is worth wasting electrons to publish.

Don’t go to movies based on video games.What prompted this? I saw a link referring to a movie based on the game Doom. How you make a movie based on a game where you run around shooting monsters, I don’t know.

Probably the way you make a movie based on a game where a scantily clad woman with impossible proportions runs around in tombs gathering treasures and shooting baddies.

As I recall, Tomb Raider got about as much critical acclaim as Rambo. People went and saw it anyway, but I know it wasn’t for the plot. It was for the chance to see Angelina Jolie in tight clothes. But Doom won’t have that benefit.

But is either of them worse than making a movie based on two Italian plumbers who run around knocking down killer turtles and eating mushrooms? Discuss.

One thought on “Dave Farquhar\’s rules, Part 1

  • October 8, 2004 at 9:04 am

    Sorry. Seeing as how I completely gave up on video games in, oh, about 1989, I can’t possibly discuss this topic. Well, that, and I haven’t been to a movie since "Calendar Girls".

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