Sam and Max: The Movie
Not an actual movie, but I just got an idea that (at least I thought) was really cool, What if after a few seasons, you guys put together a full leangth game, like about twenty hours of gameplay, sort every once in a while with TV shows you see a few seasons, then a movie, like the X-Files, maybe spend a season building up a story line, and then give the climax in a full length game, called Sam and Max: The Movie, though considering it's a video game, I'm not sure how good a title like "The Movie" would be. but please excuse me, it's 2:00 in the morning and I'm rambling.
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As for a REAL movie, I think it would be awesome. But the thing with movies (especially animated ones) is that it seems the only studios willing to put them out are ones that want alot of control. Everyone will have there hand in the cookie jar and it might turn out horrible.
Straight to Video might be better, or even limited release because I can't see a Sam & Max movie being something that'll be huge with the mainstream movie crowd. Studios want the movie to be big so they'll mess around with the material until it's ready for mass consumption.
I can dream though. We can always pretend the Freelance Police trailer is really a trailer for a movie though! lol
You should watch Howl's Moving Castle, it is amazingly animated with a great plot.
i have also watched spirited away and it was ok but i prefer akira as it was amazing for its time and i prefer the animation style
Yeah, but it messed up the plot and characters of the book so horribly (should have just called it something else) that I refuse to rewatch it.
I'd never read the book anyway, so I found it fine.
What the heck would the big movie executives have to do to make Sam and Max appeal to a mainstream crowd? Make Sam the suave hitman with a mysterious past and Max his nerdy but endearing partner?
Actually, I'd love to watch a movie like that.
they would have to screw it up completely, and frankly I'd never like to see Sam and Max apeal to a mainstream audience, I feel special being one of the few who actually know Sam and Max, I mean apart from those people who are like "wasn't that a children's show awhile back?"
I completely see where you're coming from, though.
Dumb it down for kids.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love it if it happened, but I like the feeling of being in on something that noone else knows about, of course telltale bringing max out to the world. My problem with the animated series was that it didn't capture the look of the comics, if I get a new Sam and Max, I mean in the animated variety, I want it to look gritty, like an old detective film, have the color schemes and the style to look just alittle overly dramatic as compared to what's going on in the story.
I would also love a full have hour show done with Telltales animation, I think that would be cool, even if it was like an episode once a month to corrispond with the games, I love the Machinema, but a full half hour would be even cooler.
then i suggest u check out the movie "MindGame" by Studio 4 C
it's got everything... i'll just say that now.
ummm or go the route jhonen vasquez did with invader zim
and push it to the limits.. without going full on ren & stimpy crude.
or maybe screw it all together and go ren & stimpy crude. har ahr har
I can't be the only one who doesn't think they did that already? Since the episodes themselves were so short, if you blinked you would miss half the plot but there were some memorable lines. I'm sure that in the Aiiiee Robot (or something like that) episode Sam makes a comment about a giant nipple and there's a real, real subtle joke about dreams...the kind of dreams that I'd really rather not explain.
Also, was the "Do Not Open Until X-Mas" joke in Christmas, Bloody Christmas really going for what I thought it was?
Can't really interact with comics can you? PAGE TURNING ACTION!
in a way it wouldn't be a video game conversion as it is actually a comic book translation
but then again they are superhero transitions and were live action (sam and max wouldn't work in that environment)
Unless...
Do you think we could borrow the Comic-Con suit?
one scene could be (like ep 4)
max vs george lucas
Lol yeah, good point.
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Perhaps it would be better to have a bunch of seemingly-random stories that, in fact, all connect at the end in a surprise twist? I'm thinking along the lines of Big Fish but more ambiguous and more Sam and Max.
Maybe. I can't help but think of the third Harry Potter film in which lots of disjoint events are all going on at once and it's horribly messy, but that doesn't mean it can't be done well by a competent director. Big Fish is a good counter-example, although slightly different from mine because the stories mostly happen one at a time rather than all at once.
As for a "The Movie" game, well it's been done. I really like the episodic format, gives me something to look forward to each month of my dreary - oh sorry I missed my medication. Anyway if the episodes ever get to a point where they are to large and complex to release once a month, or to large of a physical download to handle reasonably, then yeah it might be a better option to wait a while and get one big game a year, but I think it's probably a little unreasonable to expect one between seasons.