Asteroids Movie

[Melbosa]

Thought this was funny after seeing the Asteroids movie news: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/07/asteroids-movie/

INT. OVAL OFFICE - DUSK

WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF

Mr. President, I?m sorry to interrupt this meeting.

The PRESIDENT puts down his copy of ?Maxim.?

PRESIDENT

This had better be good, Johnson.

WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF

Your eminence, the planet is in grave danger. From? asteroids.

PRESIDENT

Are they hurtling towards the earth? What if they only took out France? Would that really be a big deal?

WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF

Actually, sir, they?re floating around aimlessly. Very, very slowly.

PRESIDENT

Enough is enough! I want these motherf?-g asteroids out of their motherf?-g geosynchronous orbit!

INT. FARMHOUSE IN INDIANA - NIGHT

WIFE
(shrewishly)

I just don?t see why you?ve gotta go off and shoot them there space rocks. Your life is here. In this farmhouse. In Indiana.

JOE BOB

Dammit, Maggie, that?s exactly what it?s about. Making a better life for you and me. And Joe Bob Jr. A life free of? of asteroids.

WIFE

Those asteroids never hurt anybody! All they do is sit there peaceful-like and float around very slowly!

JOE BOB

Dammit, Maggie, if our President says we have to shoot the rocks, that means we have to shoot the rocks. You don?t want our neighbors reporting us as Communists.

WIFE

We?d never work in Hollywood again.


EXT. OUTER SPACE - NIGHT? DAY? NOT SURE

PEW PEW PEW of lasers firing. Loud BANGS as rocks break apart.

JOE BOB

Dammit, Tully, what did I tell you? Don?t shoot them danged big asteroids until I?ve finished shooting all of the smaller ones that came out of the first big asteroid!

TULLY

Hey, if you can?t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen, old man!

PEET

White Squad, we?ve got unidentified bogey in the lower right hand corner of the screen.

JOE BOB

Sweet mother of God. What is that thing?

TULLY

That ain?t no rock.

PEET

Looks like a? flying saucer.

PEW PEW PEW.

TULLY

Incoming fire! Oh my God, it?s right on me! Backup!

PEET

We can?t help you! You?re all the way on the other side of the screen!

JOE BOB turns his ship backwards, and fires a bullet in the opposite direction. PEET and TULLY watch their viewscreens to see the bullet leave one side of the screen, then wrap around and destroy the saucer on the other.

JOE BOB

Looks like this old dog still knows some new tricks.

PEET

Behind you!

A large ASTEROID, played by William H. Macy, bears down on JOE BOB. Eyes widening, he frantically presses the Hyperspace button and disappears.

TULLY

Joe Bob? JOE BOB!

A single tear drips down his cheek.

[Darren Dirt]

Diamond Dave Edition Assteroidz, the browser game
http://@%&#bagz.com/gameZ/assteroidZDDEbeta


via http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/play-asteroids/



edit: according to this DLR fansite the "@%&#bagz.com" website is down a lot... but when it's worth checking out the game because it rocks.