julian814 wrote:
> 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.
I never quite understood this. Who in their right minds would get their
views on life from a *movie*?
> Ralph Glatt
>
> Member, Old Farts Club
Bill
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