This is the guy who made terrible movies of video games and abused loopholes in German(?) tax law to get the money. Our something like that.

Considering how bad his films were, I don’t understand why gaming companies willingly sold him the license for their titles.

I remember Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd was marketed as a straight up film. No mention of it being a musical at all.

In hindsight it was a popular musical stage show but I had no idea at the time.

Your welcome. 🙂

Thanks for linking an old article I wrote. I wanted to keep this information online, so I republished it on my current blog.

I only discovered it myself in the last month or so.

For example, I loved X-Wing CD edition back in the day for the real Star Wars soundtrack but I need to try it with MT32 midi emulation. I bet the iMuse system sounds fantastic.

It’s an emulator for playing the entire back catalogue of Lucasarts games. It’s very well documented and ready to use. As I said, if you had some kind of general midi set up or Roland MT32 back in the day, you’d be laughing. The music is awesome.

The program is called Dreamm.

DREAMM is a backronym for:

DOS
Retro-
Emulation
Arena for
Maniac
Mansion (and other LucasArts Games). 

I played the first, maybe not all the way through, on my Atari ST. Later on, I got quite annoyed that the Amiga got the sequel but Lucasfilm Games days it wasn’t coming to the Atari.

I remember getting the PC CD-ROM edition of the original game and the music was lovely.

The next time I played was game three, Curse of Monkey Island. I loved the art style and completed that one.

I plan on playing the latest installment at some point. I downloaded it onto my Xbox.

There’s also a great program for playing old Lucasfilm faces on PC. You can load soundbanks into it because it can emulated different midi interfaces that I dreamed of owning back in the day. The tunes sound amazing.

Yep. When trying to find the footage for the 2 disc dvd edition, they discovered it was all ruined sadly.

The producer once said at a comic con event that he had a VHS tape of a work print but nothing was ever mentioned again.

I believe Shout Factory had a good rummage when preparing their Blu-ray bit also came up empty.

I found a forum posting years ago where the second unit director described all the gory hell shots and how they used physically disabled people with missing limbs to achieve the effects. Sounded brutal.

Lost in Space was one of the first DVDs I watched from start to finish including all the extras. I borrowed it from a friend as I had only one or two discs myself.

Its very interesting as there was an entire subplot cut out involving time bubbles on the planet. What fascinated me the most was that Jim Henson’s Creature Workshop built a massive animatronic creature about 8 or 9ft tall. Remember that annoying CGI space monkey thing the girl has, it was that fully grown. And sadly, the entire sequence was cut from the film.

Even though it looks like the comic ➡️ live action ➡️ animation, I’ll still give it a shot. At least they’ve spent more time on this than there usual straight to video stuff, which to me, looks cheap.

As much as I’m quite excited to see this film, should we really listen to a studio head promoting his own film? 😄

Back in the early 90s, here in the UK, a company called Cheetah produced licensed joysticks based on Batman, Terminator, Alien³ and The Simpsons. They looked great but they were terrible to use, especially the Alien³ model which I really liked but was incredibly uncomfortable. I never bought one, just tried then on the shops, awful things.

Back in the day, I bought the official Xbox360 steering wheel. It made me laugh because it was called wireless. It was only wireless between itself and the Xbox. It still needed a power brick to drive the motor and another wire to connect it to the pedals.

When I sold it, I almost made my money back because it was in high demand. MS had replaced it with that awful U shaped steering wheel that you held in the air like a Wii controller. It used sensors to tell when it was tilted. I never used one but the reviews weren’t favourable as I remember.

That’s was a game I loved so much, I played through it twice! Shame it never got any “pro” enhancements as the canyon levels hit the FPS levels causing stutters.

I read somewhere the other day that things aren’t going well and they’re thinking of rebooting old IPs like The Incredibles.

Is going back to past hits a good idea?

I’d love to see the original cut, there’s clearly hints that there was more adult humour in there.

Also, if you’re into that kind of thing, I highly recommend the “No Retreat, No Surrender” retrospective documentary.

I don’t mind a turtles film and only saw this one because my youngest son wanted to see it. Totally surprised how much I enjoyed it. Funny, awesome art style and great choice acting. Hoping the next film can match it!

Corrected. 👍

Thank you, I’ll give that a go.

I don’t think they have their open official app but they offer their API free to developers I think.

I’m on Android and I’ve been through several TMDB apps but I don’t really like any of them. I do know that Letterboxd use their API as well but that’s a more social based thing.