DDR The TV Show (O RLY?)
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DDR The TV Show (O RLY?)
http://www.konami.com/gs/newsarticle.php?id=835
"Dance Revolution" premieres on CBS this September.
Discuss.
"Dance Revolution" premieres on CBS this September.
Discuss.
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Well, the press release says the show is inspired by the game. It doesn't really say that it is about or includes the game...unless I missed that (I admit I really only skimmed the release).
I'm sure the game will get mentioned or even shown occasionally, but I didn't get the impression that it would be the central focus of the show.
I'm sure the game will get mentioned or even shown occasionally, but I didn't get the impression that it would be the central focus of the show.
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ROFL @ Fluffy
It's kinda funny that the topic got brought up...I was just talking to Mike today about how cool it MIGHT be to have a DDR movie...like big screen movie, not TV show. Yeah yeah, the idea might be tacky...but I don't know, I think DDR deserves some onscreen attention. Buuuuut that's just my opinion.
It's kinda funny that the topic got brought up...I was just talking to Mike today about how cool it MIGHT be to have a DDR movie...like big screen movie, not TV show. Yeah yeah, the idea might be tacky...but I don't know, I think DDR deserves some onscreen attention. Buuuuut that's just my opinion.
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Hahaha, yeah, and if there were a DDR movie....there's no way in hell we would hire n00b actors to do it...I think it would be cooler if it were actual players that were the actors/actresses. Then it at least seems more real. If you put actors in it, it just doesn't look right. Get actual players in on it. Teach em how to act and then say, "Here's a few billion dollars. Now go DDR for a motion picture." lol.
It's so funny how I've got this whole thing mapped out. Dude, the soundtrack would like kick ass.
It's so funny how I've got this whole thing mapped out. Dude, the soundtrack would like kick ass.
There actually was a DDR movie being planned several years ago. It was originally named DDR Freak and was later changed to Dance Machine. It had a pretty out-there plot and appeared on the site hollywoodmakemeastar.com. As I recall, the site would let you pay a fee for a chance to audition for various movies in planning or production. Seemed pretty sketchy to me.
It apparently went nowhere, and the site now appears to be dead. However, I took a visit the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hol ... nopsis.htm
It looks like the synopsis showed up sometime prior to the first snapshot in 2002. It last appears in mid-2004 and the site appears to have died between then and the last archive in early 2005.
DDR has appeared in quite a few television shows and music videos over the years. It has probably shown up in some movies as well. I'd be curious about a feature movie centered around it, but I think it might be a difficult concept to actually pull off well. I didn't read through it again just now, but my memory of the Dance Machine plot synopsis doesn't lead me to believe that it would have able to accomplish such a feat. I don't think we're missing much by the fact that it never saw the light of day.
It apparently went nowhere, and the site now appears to be dead. However, I took a visit the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hol ... nopsis.htm
It looks like the synopsis showed up sometime prior to the first snapshot in 2002. It last appears in mid-2004 and the site appears to have died between then and the last archive in early 2005.
DDR has appeared in quite a few television shows and music videos over the years. It has probably shown up in some movies as well. I'd be curious about a feature movie centered around it, but I think it might be a difficult concept to actually pull off well. I didn't read through it again just now, but my memory of the Dance Machine plot synopsis doesn't lead me to believe that it would have able to accomplish such a feat. I don't think we're missing much by the fact that it never saw the light of day.
I mean...obviously the movie would not be an Academy Award winning material....but I think just the concept of it and with the right plot could make a pretty good movie. I think that advertising DDR through a movie could attract more attention, and that more people would get interested in DDR or any other type of beat games. I mean, maybe it wouldn't attract attention, but there's a chance that it could, and I think that it couldn't hurt
Heck...maybe it could make a damn good documentary. That would be more real. It could show an audience what competitions are like, and maybe the training, or just the personal points of views from actual PIU/ITG/DDR players.
Heck...maybe it could make a damn good documentary. That would be more real. It could show an audience what competitions are like, and maybe the training, or just the personal points of views from actual PIU/ITG/DDR players.
Which music videos has it appeared in?Ho wrote:There actually was a DDR movie being planned several years ago...
DDR has appeared in quite a few television shows and music videos over the years. It has probably shown up in some movies as well.
As to a DDR movie: I suspect that if any such thing happens, it will be a documentary of one of the major dance events (though WPF seems more likely at this point). I remember thinking when they made Spellbound that it would never fly, because most "mainstream" audiences would pooh-pooh it as a bunch of nerds. Years later, when it was officially put out and nominated for an Award, I realized that every serious competition in any area whatsoever would now be a legitimate documentary target, nerds or no.
This is actually the only good trend I've seen in American filmmaking in the past decade or so.
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