Movies that feel like they are text adventures (interactive fiction if u prefer lame-o)

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MY DINNER WITH ANDRE!!!

Your dinner companion is speaking.
"Thirsting for a way to name the unnameable, to express the inexpressible?"

How do you respond?
LEFT: Trenchant Insight
UP: "Tell me more"
RIGHT: Bon Mot

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Anything by David Lynch.
THE PUZZLE YOU SOLVE MAY BE YOUR LIFE.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Amelie

(watched it today, was full of puzzle setting and solving - Follow The Blue Arrows...)

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

i have Amelie down in the list of movies that should never have been made into movies

;-)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Amelie is very much a love it / hate it movie. it's very much a Campaign For Blue Skies type of movie so i am in that first group.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link

This is not a film, and hopefully never will be, but, umm, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle! Without spoiling (is it possible to really "spoil" for this?), there's at least one specific spot where someone offers the narrator something (the first time he doesn't need it, but when he does, he just returns to that spot), and there's at least one "item" that he carries, inventory-style, for sudden use at the end of the book. (Also whenever he is stuck and doesn't know how to progress he just goes back to the same key locations and checks to see if anything feels different.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 November 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

hitchcock to thread! along with the key from notorious. and the glass of milk from suspicion.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 21 November 2005 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Paycheck with it's inventory of important seemingly pointless objects.

FUCKING SO OTM

god I wish more games I mean movies I mean philip K dick adventures I mean games would let you just get a package with your entire inventory in it right at the beginning

I mean imagine how boring the film would've been if we had to follow Ben Affleck around while he COLLECTS the watch, the fortune, the paper clip, the bullet, the stamps and the lens and the ball bearings and the half dollar coin and the infragoggles and the cigarettes and the matches and the etc. Oh wait, that's why I don't enjoy text adventures/interactive fiction/Sierra bullshit!!!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 24 November 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't imagine it could have been more boring that way...

― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 24 November 2005 06:23 (eighteen years ago) link

hitchcock to thread

YES. "The Man Who Knew Too Much"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link

or even "Family Plot"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link

is there any IF written movie script style "INT DAY: Dave's Room - David is here playing with a train set" sort of thing, poss with the parser fiddled to work like actions and speech eg "Dave picks up the fat controller" or "Dave: give me the fat controller, dad"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Saw:

The phone is ringing. The screams of your family emanate faintly from it as you reach feebly for it.

>TAKE OFF SHIRT

You take it off.

>USE SHIRT AS A TOURNIQUET; SAW OFF LEG; SCREAM UNINTELLIGABLY;GET GUN;LOAD GUN;SHOOT VOYEUR

Man, that would be great.

― ethanol demagogue (ethdem), Friday, 25 November 2005 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I watched Phantoms last night and had this thread in mind for most of the first half of the movie.

There was a moment when Ben Afleck opened up a car bonnet to look at the engine, the engine was trashed and he looked at it and said "The engine looks like it's been flattened with an industrial presser" (or something similar), which just sounded like the result of an 'examine' command.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 25 November 2005 10:13 (eighteen years ago) link

The Game

That movie is so Text Adventure it hurts.

― ethanol demagogue (ethdem), Saturday, 26 November 2005 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

i love these guys but this is nutso
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beehivebooks/dracula-the-evidence

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link

$350 for the entry level edition!
$2000 for the entry level in a granite vault with transylvanian soil!

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link

If I were rich, I would love to spend my days creating obsessive artifacts like that. Trying to think of other works that could be recreated in a similar fashion...

― blatherskite, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link

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