Anim8rFSK wrote:
> In article <1157889901.923750.18230@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "julian814" <julian814@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Ubiquitous wrote:
> > > julian814@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > >
> > > >Does anyone know if MST3K ever did Mazes and Monsters? If not, they
> > > >should have. That movie was pathetic, and the people who believed
it
> > > >was factual even more so.
> > >
> > > They did not to my knowledge.
> > >
> > > It was a pretty sad TV movie, though.
> >
> > What was really sad about it is how inaccurate it was from the true
> > story it was supposedly based on.
> >
> > Maybe I should get a couple of gamers together to do a Misty
treatment.
> > Thing is, where would I put it up for others to enjoy?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ralph Glatt
> >
> > Member, Old Farts Club
>
> Thath the thing with Tom Hanks? I turned it off less than half way in
> 'cause it was unwatchable.
>
> Anybody want to fill me in on how it varied form the true story?
The main story was about a gifted teenager who went to college, then
disappeared for a long while. According to the movie and the media hype
at the time, the kid went crazy after playing an RPG. The real story,
which wasn't revealed until much later, was that the kid who
disappeared was a closet homosexual (at a time when homosexuality
wasn't as well accepted as today), schizophrenic and cooked his own
drugs. He didn't like himself for what he was and what he was doing, so
he went into the steam tunnels underneath the campus to kill himself
with sleeping pills. When that didn't work, he ran away. His problems
had nothing to do with role playing games. The reason the truth didn't
come out sooner is because the family of the kid didn't want such dirty
laundry aired in public. When the kid in question finally committed
suicide, the real story came out. Anyway, most people refer to Mazes
and Monsters as the definitive proof that role playing games are evil,
even though in the movie you'll notice it was the kid's guilt of
helping his brother run away that caused him to go over the edge, not
the game.
Ralph Glatt
Member, Old Farts Club
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