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Movies Based On Board Games


About a year before this was released, when I saw it was on its way I was talking with some friends about and we began discussing ideas for movies based on board games.

On here someone suggested Jenga. The idea being that a company builds a large high-rise office building right on an earthquake fault line and so they have to take it apart piece by piece without causing it to fall.

A few ones I thought of:

Operation: In which a doctor performs a transplant on a patient. But in the process he accidentally put in a bunch of things that could kill the patient. So now he has to get that stuff out before he does so. But he can't touch certain parts of the patient or it will cause the patient's nose to light up.

Bed Bugs: Kind of an Alienesque horror movie with comedy. A couple is getting ready to sell off their house and move into a new one. But they discover that somehow their old place is infested with bed bugs. So they call in an exterminating team to deal with them.

Hungry Hungry Hippos: A small town is invaded by ravenous hippopotamuses.

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In the Jenga movie they should have a character named Jenga. So that when the building starts to fall in the films climax someone can yell out "JENGAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

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Snakes and Ladders on a Plane.

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Just to point out, Battleship did turn up as a video game in 1993 for Nintendo Entertainment System and
Sega Game Gear.
So the movie can be put on the list of movies based on video games as well.

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