Friday, June 10, 2011 at 6:42PM 'Risk' Added To The Unfortunate List Of Board Game Adaptations
What the world needs now is a quandary that has been quantified in many different ways, Jackie DeShannon claims that the answer would be 'love, sweet love'; I believe the answer could be a slightly less complicated Radiohead album. The exact solution is unknown but i'm pretty sure the world doesn't need another board game adaptation in the works.
It's been a while since I played Risk, a very long while. The thing I find about board games is that it isn't so much the game you are playing but who you are playing with, with this in mind about two years ago I sat down with my very best friends, hunkered down and played what might have been the longest game of anything I have ever played.
In most cases the comradery between myself and my friends would usually be enough to guide me through even the most harrowing of experiences, it might be telling therefore that by hour six I sat sat weeping silently in the corner as the others tried their very best to not tear each other limb from limb.
Risk is not a game for the casual and not a game for the easily bored. This brings me somewhat cynically towards the newest board game adaptation joining the likes of Battleship and Monopoly. How lazy does Hollywood have to be to start digging out a movie based on a game that tests the patience even of those over forty?
I've been lucky enough to play a game of Risk with my parents, when they weren't chiding me for my constant inability to sit still and enjoy the game I could see the perspiration on their foreheads increase with the stress of having to spend 4 hours in an RV doing what could only be described as winning small areas of cardboard from each other with tiny plastic cannons, worst of all they couldn't admit that it was killing them (that would vindicate my short attention span).
I may be far too cynical for my age but I think watching a two hour version of that unfold in front of me may cause horrific flashbacks.
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The version I have in mind is some sort of a global secret organization "moving" pieces around the globe, enacting revolutionary events and therefore taking over the world. Like, let's say, a board meeting of McDonald's.
Or to greater lengths - a movie version of the bad guys' meetings from Rubicon.
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