I would like to begin with a quote I read on Joblo riiiiiiiight before I was about to call it a night.  It’s an article about the proposed live action Monopoly movie from director Ridley Scott.  Here is the highlight for me:

“They have this big world and this game — it’s the most famous board games in the world — and it just really came out of the whole ‘Alice’ thing. I took the approach of thinking of the main character falling down a rabbit hole and into a real place called Monopoly City … It was the re-engineering of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ that got me thinking and then with this it came around full circle and I was able to utilize that. That’s a big world. They were searching for that.”

What!?  There are so many damn puns running through my head right now my brain is about to explode.  Give me a minute to think of the best possible joke to use in this situation.

In the mean time, I’m torn on this movie.  I can’t decide whether or not this is a complete disaster or something I should be secretly excited about.  My older sister and I still play Monopoly often.  I’m eagerly awaiting  a ‘normal’ version to come out on my iPhone so I can buy it.  (I could care less about the ‘World’ edition or whatever it’s called)

[Update] I have now purchased Monopoly for my iPhone and it’s awesome.  I highly recommend it!

Every single person who reads this article knows that board inside and out.  We’ve all grumbled when someone lands on Boardwalk first.  Every one of us then brags about how ‘profitable’ Baltic and Mediterranean are with hotels.  You’ve been there, admit it.

I think I’m going to file this movie under ‘curious’ for now.  Movies that take you to another world can be pretty fun and entertaining flicks.  Movies that take you to a beloved world you’ve known for a million years are usually phenominal.

Of course, it could also be a train wreck…

I’m back on the fence.

I recommend heading over to Joblo and reading the whole article.  Interesting stuff.

PS: There’s a joke in there somewhere.  Frankly, it’s late and I’m tired.  So I’ll just make an observation…  Is there anyway the Monopoly guy WON’T be creepy in this movie?  Seriously, I can see him appearing out of no where to escort you to jail.  He would look at you with a disappointed expression that makes you feel terrible about yourself.  But you have an ace up your sleeve.  You pull out your get out of jail free card which is really a copy of a restraining order Barbie placed on him.  You threaten to go public, he would cave then climb in his bad ass ride (or horse), blast some ACDC and you won’t here from him again.  Until he shows up asking for a money to pay the legal fees on a paternity suit or something…  Nah.  He wouldn’t be an ACDC fan.  I see him as more of a Yanni guy myself.