{"id":500,"date":"2019-06-06T17:12:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainshartstudios.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:12:04","slug":"500-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brainshartstudios.com\/blog\/500-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale as Old as Time. A Song as Old as Rhyme… It’s Beastly on the Wii!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh boy, this one was a real roller coaster of emotions. I remember it vividly. There was a major blizzard headed our way, but the three of us still wanted to get some filming done. If the reports were accurate (which they very much ended up being) we would be looking at about a week of being snowed in with travel for some time afterwards being just as shitty. This would be our only chance to shoot anything for quite a while.<\/p>\n

For some reason, we chose Beastly. It almost destroyed us.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s rewind a bit. Remember Twilight? Yeah, you know that awful YA novel that was turned into a horrible, self-proclaimed movie \u201csaga\u201d but also turned into a weird fan fiction called Fifty Shades of Gray, which then also turned into a crappy \u201csaga\u201d of its very own? I\u2019m super happy to admit I\u2019ve never once watched (or maybe \u201cbeen subjected to\u201d would be more accurate in this case) one of those movies. I remember saying to myself whenever one of those flicks came out \u201cman, I\u2019ve never been MORE happy to be single!\u201d<\/p>\n

Is this Twilight? I could really care less. Amount of fucks given = ZERO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twilight was just the beginning of the \u201cYoung Adult\u201d novel-to-film craze. It\u2019s kinda still going on today (To my infinite disdain and regret), but at its height, or perhaps the beginning of its own downfall, Beastly was birthed into existence.<\/p>\n

At its most basic, as if you can somehow get even MORE basic when talking about YA crap, Beastly was just a shoddy re-telling of Beauty and the Beast, only it takes place in a modern day High School for rich douche bags that we are supposed to feel sorry for because reasons. If you think I\u2019m gonna get any deeper into it than that, then you clearly know nothing about how we do things here.<\/p>\n

This is for BABIES!Needz MOAR teen angst!<\/strong><\/p>\n

All you gotta know is that the movie is trash, and that someone SOMEWHERE thought it would make for a good videogame! I\u2019m happy to report that they couldn\u2019t have been MORE WRONG about this, or else we wouldn\u2019t have played this steaming pile and gotten our first (unfortunately) full LP out of it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna let this trash speak for itself. Here is part one of our unintended full Let\u2019s Play of one of the most woefully misguided games to ever grace the Nintendo Wii, and that\u2019s saying A LOT!<\/p>\n