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    Image of nrXic nrXic
    09/03/09

    In reply to "Book of Eli" Is "Mad Max" For the Twenty-First Century
    The visuals for this movie look heavily influenced from the videogame Fallout 3
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    09/02/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    What about Coneheads?
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    Image of Nasdaf Nasdaf
    09/02/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    where the hell is Mortal Kombat?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    09/02/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    Also, the Star Trek Voyager episode Tsunkatse. It's pretty standard: Tuvok and Seven of Nine get kidnapped and Seven of Nine has to go all galdiator.
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    Edited by RandomFrequentFlierDent at 09/02/09 6:56 AM RandomFrequentFlierDent was starred RandomFrequentFlierDent was unstarred
    Image of Gaucho85 Gaucho85
    09/02/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    I always thought Zathura was the most blatant ripoff this side of Indian Superman.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    09/02/09

    @Gaucho85: Why don't they ever put dance numbers in American super hero movies? I could see Hali Berri bustin' a move as Storm.
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    Image of madara madara
    09/02/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    I hate the Flickr style way of scrolling through the images. I simple list would be much more efficient.
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    dirtybacon promoted this comment madara was starred madara was unstarred
    Image of dirtybacon dirtybacon
    09/02/09

    @madara: Yeah, I'd like both... When I grab this as a quick intellectual nibble during the work day, I don't have time to click through.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    09/02/09

    @madara: I was hoping for list too. Rats, that means I'm listless.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    09/02/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    I just remembered that there was a fun Futurama episode about gaming.
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    Image of YardleySkunk YardleySkunk
    09/02/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    No The Player of Games by Ian M. Banks or Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card? Come on, the Banks novel was incerdible, and Ender's Game may have won an award or two. Yet Hellraiser # 753 is on the list...
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment YardleySkunk was starred YardleySkunk was unstarred
    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    09/02/09

    @YardleySkunk: Both TPOG and Ender's Game were on the list at one point... but we decided neither of them quite fit the criteria of "trapped in a game." ANd the list was already way too long and I was worried about fitting in everything that really did fit that theme.
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    Image of Sharpstyx Sharpstyx
    09/01/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    last starfighter...sorta fits.
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    Bill-Lee promoted this comment Sharpstyx was starred Sharpstyx was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    09/01/09

    @Sharpstyx: But sorta doesn't.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    09/01/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    Hellraiser EIGHT?

    Are you serious?

    Holy moley. A shame, as the first one was one of the better supernatural horror films ever made, I think.
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    Image of doodlehead doodlehead
    09/01/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    What about Flash Gordon and Prince Barin playing the deadly "stick your hand in the hole" game in the 1980 Flash Gordon movie?
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    Hamslicer promoted this comment doodlehead was starred doodlehead was unstarred
    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    09/02/09

    @doodlehead: That just sounds funny.
    "stick your hand in the deadly hole game"
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    09/01/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    To avoid litigation, Frederic Brown was actually given a story credit on the Star Trek episode Arena. I think the difference between the ending of the Star Trek episode and the short story can be attributed to Gene Roddenberry using Star Trek as a tool to teach morality. He needed to show that compassion towards one's enemies was a sign of moral maturity.
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    Image of Orionsaint Orionsaint
    09/01/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    Oh this is a fun list!
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    Edited by Orionsaint at 09/01/09 8:38 PM Orionsaint was starred Orionsaint was unstarred
    Image of franklinshepard franklinshepard
    09/01/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    That Gemini Game sounds an awful lot like Night Room, in which kids have to play through a virtual reality simulation of what their lives will be like in ten years in order to find out how one of them will be murdered and how to stop it.

    It doesn't really follow this trope, but it's an interesting twist. At least, I thought it was when I was in 6th grade. I haven't read it since then.
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    Image of iceykitsune iceykitsune
    09/01/09

    In reply to 32 Heroes Who Must Play A Deadly Game — Or Die!
    No .Hack?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment iceykitsune was starred iceykitsune was unstarred
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