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Empire

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1964_film)

edit: Link broken since the forum software ate it.

8 hours of nothing but the Empire State Building.

I had been meaning to post it a few days ago but was thinking Woody Allen had done it but it was Andy Warhol.
Post edited February 16, 2018 by drmike
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X-com: Yeah I know, there's a lot of games that take place in one room, Snake for example. Action games work in minimal spaces sometimes but imagine a Telltale game in one room (or a booth for that matter) where you spend hours upon hours just talking like in Man From Earth or My Dinner With Andre that somebody mentioned above.

I haven't played Silent hill 4 but from what you described it sounds like a game version of The Cube which was a fucking awesome movie.
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tinyE: LOVED THE CUBE! That was movie about the people trapped the mass of trapped rooms that kept moving around each other, right?
yes. don't watch Cube 2, it is shit.
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X-com: Yeah I know, there's a lot of games that take place in one room, Snake for example. Action games work in minimal spaces sometimes but imagine a Telltale game in one room (or a booth for that matter) where you spend hours upon hours just talking like in Man From Earth or My Dinner With Andre that somebody mentioned above.

I haven't played Silent hill 4 but from what you described it sounds like a game version of The Cube which was a fucking awesome movie.
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tinyE: LOVED THE CUBE! That was movie about the people trapped the mass of trapped rooms that kept moving around each other, right?
Yeah, pretty okay movie! The big reveal felt a big meh at first, but later it felt pretty awesome. The movie was based on the made-for-tv movie THE CUBE (1969) by Jim Henson (yes, him) which can be downloaded here: (the .ogv version is least crappy. We're talking VHS rip here...)
https://archive.org/download/TheCube-JimHenson-1969_343
(while the movie officially is about the TV medium, due to contractual obligations, there is some clear inspiration from the VR novel World on a Wire: At one point, a character talk about being "projected", which is the novels term for being inside VR, and shooting yourself is suggested as a mean to escape VR, a notion which also is seen in the game Superhot VR)
BTW the Cube is also the inspiration for the VR game Neverout.
Post edited February 17, 2018 by KasperHviid
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KasperHviid: The movie was based on the made-for-tv movie THE CUBE (1969) by Jim Henson
To the best of my knowledge there is no relation between these two films at all (besides the title).
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KasperHviid: The movie was based on the made-for-tv movie THE CUBE (1969) by Jim Henson
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F4LL0UT: To the best of my knowledge there is no relation between these two films at all (besides the title).
To be fair, both are about ordinary persons (in THE CUBE, a single guy) suddenly finding themselves inside an empty cube, perfectly square, with the walls consisting of big rectangular tiles.

But it looks like you're right: The inspiration for CUBE is cited to be the X-files episode "Five Characters in Search for an Exit"

Kinda the same idea is also used in the YA scifi book HOUSE OF STAIRS (1974). I think this is one of those fundamental ideas that will be reinvented in various forms.
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KasperHviid: [...]
But it looks like you're right: The inspiration for CUBE is cited to be the X-files episode "Five Characters in Search for an Exit"
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Twilight Zone not X-files...
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KasperHviid: [...]
But it looks like you're right: The inspiration for CUBE is cited to be the X-files episode "Five Characters in Search for an Exit"
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amok: Twilight Zone not X-files...
Eh? Weird, how could I mix those?
Citizen Kane (1941)

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Post edited March 15, 2019 by TheBigCore
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TheBigCore: Citizen Kane (1941)

>:]
Like a boss!
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TheBigCore: Citizen Kane (1941)

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TheDudeLebowski: Like a boss!
"Rosebud" has to be a playable character...

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TheDudeLebowski: Like a boss!
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TheBigCore: "Rosebud" has to be a playable character...

>:]
The Rosebud that's implied in the film, or the "other" theory? The one that has a cameo in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut?
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TheBigCore: "Rosebud" has to be a playable character...

>:]
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TheDudeLebowski: The Rosebud that's implied in the film, or the "other" theory? The one that has a cameo in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut?
Implied in the film, since this thread's premise is hardest movies to turn into a video game.
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TheDudeLebowski: The Rosebud that's implied in the film, or the "other" theory? The one that has a cameo in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut?
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TheBigCore: Implied in the film, since this thread's premise is hardest movies to turn into a video game.
The "other" theory would make it harder, methinks. It would make it an adult game, though.

And I'll add Nymph()maniac (2013).
Eat, Pray, Love
Pretty Woman
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wild Strawberries
Claire's Knee
Shoah (uh....)
Free CeCe (it's a documentary about a woman who was imprisoned for defending herself)

Birth of a Nation (it's a movie about the relationship between two families, and was highly controversial at its time, and would still be considered highly racist today)

Documentaries in general would be difficult to make into video games, actually.