06.30.09 *YOU* CAN BE IN YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES!
A company called YooStar (subtle, right?) is set to release a game that allows movie fans to “act” “alongside” stars in classic movie scenes, an idea the company calls “like Guitar Hero for movies.” Above is an artist’s conception of what the game might look like, created using a space-age technology known as “Photoshop.”
The YooStar retail package, which hits stores in mid-August, includes a greenscreen, a high-resolution webcam (which includes dual microphones and remote control), stand and software.
Once fans have inserted themselves into a scene, they can share the clip on their own computer or upload free to a YouTubelike site hosted by YooStar, where anyone can view it. The package will ship with 14 clips (11 from films, one from “Sesame Street” and two “moving backgrounds,” which allow users to improvise a scene).
Included are single scenes from pics as old as “Double Indemnity” (1944) and “Sunset Boulevard” (1950) and as recent as 2006’s “Rocky Balboa” and “Employee of the Month.” [imagine YOU, onscreen with DANE COOK!] The original “Terminator” and “Beverly Hills Cop 2″ are also in the starter pack. [Variety]
They already have this technology down at my local karaoke bar. It’s amazing, I’ll be rockin’ out to “Radar Love” up on stage, but on the big screen it looks like I’m cruisin down the highway in a convertible. I’m pretty sure this whole thing was dreamed up by my dad’s friends who constantly forward me pictures like this. Old people are mystified by Photoshop.
[and I swear I hadn't heard of this when I used the phrase cinematic karaoke this morning...]
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*YOU* CAN BE IN YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES!
I’ve already recreated the ‘Goodbye Horses’ scene from Silence of the Lambs without needing their stupid technology.
The inclusion of the Seasame Street clip is what got me. How much does this cost and where may I send payment, sir?
If they photoshop me in ANY kind of classic movie scene, I’m gonna an air humping motherfucker!
So if it’s technically a game, that means there’s a way to fail the scene, right? I’m guessing there’s also varying levels of difficulty. Like in ‘easy mode’, you act alongside Keanu Reeves and in ‘hard mode’ you have to pretend that you can take Mark Wahlberg seriously.
The good news is that if I ever kill myself I can read a suicide note in a scene from Meet the Spartans.
Where the hell has Stoney been?
How long before there’s an entire porno channel for this?
If I ever meet anybody who paid money for this, I’m going to recommend that they start off by doing the bathroom scene from ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
The next starter pack will have One Night in Paris. SYPHILIS FREE!!!
Or the rape scene from irreversible.
I didn’t know Chunk from Goonies was a Steelers fan…or is that Big Ben after they won?
I just wanna be in the corner* of that living room when Halle Berry yells “MAKE ME FEEL GOOOOD!” in Monster’s BAll
*’bating
” A YouTubelike site” is just another description of hell, right ? I’m shaky on biblical passages.
I don’t think it’s fair to call this cinematic karaoke, because it’s impossible to butcher a Dane Cook movie.
Now Black people can be closer to their favorite stars to yell at them.
Didn’t SNL already do this with that “DVD’s My Wife My Made” skit?
And why anyone would want to share a screen with Dane Cook is beyond me. Unless you’re going to punch him, in which case you’re a national hero.
in the director’s version you can be uwe boll and after you’re done filming you can challenge critics to a boxing match
I’m sorry for not being funny and stating the obvious but this is fucking stupid.
yay you can stand in the background of your favourite scene(from a preselected bunch, some of which you’ve never heard of)and be ignored.
That’s not going to do any ones self esteem any good.
*The Mighty Feklahr gets on all fours and waits for Jennifer Connelly/Requiem for a Dream to get on screen*
I give it two weeks after release before somebody on Instructibles figures out how to hack this machine and load it up with porn scenes.
Also, since I wasn’t here earlier, I just wanted to say that I’ve seen American Werewolf in London. His hair was perfect.
I hope this technology is half as mind-blowing as “Who needs a movie?“
I thought people had been doing this for years already at Rocky Horror.
I might add that I”m waiting for the Matrix technology so I can trick my brain into thinking I’m mounting Johnny Depp nightly.
What the hell is this shit? You can link here now?!
I just want to be in Employee of the Month do my “dismissive wanking motion into invisble jizz-lasso throw”.
all i want to know is: will i be able to touch Jessica rabbits boobs now?
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