Producer #1: Ok, we need a movie to fill our release schedule out in March 2004.

Producer #2: Hmm, we should target teens… how about a horror movie!?

Producer #1: Sounds good. We should be able to throw one of those together in six months. But we need a hook… how about a demonic web site that kills you if you go to it?! That’s edgy, and kids like edgy. Plus they use the web!

Producer #2: Hmm, yeah, but we’re already remaking Pulse during that time, and it’s got web sites in it. And we sort of lost money with Feardotcom.

Producer #1: Oh, yeah, I don’t know what happened there. What else to kids like these days?

Producer #2: VIDEO GAMES!! All the kids play ’em. They are addicted, it’s the new heroin for kids.

Producer #1: Video games? You mean like Space Invaders?

Producer #2: Yeah, but now they are more advanced and very violent. Some even have nudity!!

Producer #1: Ok, that sounds perfect. It’ll be a double whammy: a horror film with teens about teens playing video games, which teens love. They won’t be able to resist! We’ll make money hand over fist!

Producer #2: Ok, so just so we’re clear, they play a video game and then get killed, right?

Producer #1: Right. Get a writer on that. Also, we need at least one shower scene.

Producer #2: I’m on it.

If you don’t know what I am talking about, try watching the Stay Alive trailer, or, if you can stomach it, check out the first scene. I guess I am glad that games are becoming more visible to general society, but it’s fairly painful to watch Hollywood make such blatant asses of themselves while trying to make movies for gamers.