What is the definitive Vic Version of.......?

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:57 pm

DanSolo wrote:I thought this might be of interest to any Asteroids fans out there. By which I mean it'll make you

So the studio paid millions of dollars to be able to use the word "Asteroids" as the title for a movie? You'd think that's a generic enough name that if you wanted to make a space movie where the hero blows up asteroids you'd be able to call it Asteroids without paying a game company first. It's not as if they paid for the right to use the storyline or anything, because there isn't any.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:10 am

Perhaps the combination of the word Asteroids and the context of a space ship shooting asteroids apart is under some trademark or whatever legal mumbo-jumbo could be applied here.

I think someone should do a movie about the scientific theory that life on Earth is only a computer simulation. Some researchers has put forward a long line of arguments that we may not exist for real, we may all only be part of a giant super computer simulation outside the Universe. One of the arguments is that if you divide time into the smallest possible unit, it still moves one whole step at a time, not continuously floating as time would in a perfect real world.

It may sound insane, but a movie about humans trying to save the planet by destroying asteroids.. then in the end it zooms out and turns out the whole movie was inside a computer game. Game Over. Insert coin to play again.

DanSolo · Post by **DanSolo** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:05 am

carlsson wrote:It may sound insane, but a movie about humans trying to save the planet by destroying asteroids.. then in the end it zooms out and turns out the whole movie was inside a computer game. Game Over. Insert coin to play again.

That all sounds a bit Tron/Matrix to me. I'll call my lawyer.

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:16 am

... a perfect real world.

Pleasantville? Stepford Wives?

Yeah, it cannot be just for rights to have a specific word in a published title, ala Word and Windows might be a bigger problem (than it is).

One of their reply posters did suggest they use the game as a test to find a uniquely skilled pilot to take on a real threat -- along the same vein as The Last Starfighter -- other than that, it's all so ho-hum.