I too can be a raving Internet fanboy

As Claire has been recently demonstrating, Blogger seems to have decided to make it easier for muppets such as myself to do this:

Huzzah.

In other news, some of you (Dan especially) may remember that super stylish game I bought and played called American McGee's Alice which took the concept of Alice in Wonderland and twisted it Gothic style, so that Wonderland was a nasty place of torture and horror, which sort of demonically altered the exisiting characters so they were evil and freaky, etc. As the (mentally disturbed, trapped in a catatonic state and visiting this Wonderland in her own more than just a bit insane head after her house burnt down and killed her family) Alice, you wander through some spectacularly well-designed (in fact some reviews reckoned it had the finest level design ever seen in a first person shooter) and generally cool levels, chasing the White Rabbit and beating snot out of such nasties as the Card Guards, the Duchess, the Mad Hatter and eventually the Jabberwocky (he was a right bastard to defeat) and the Queen of Hearts, with a variety of weapons like jumping jacks, jack in the boxes, croquet mallets and a kitchen knife called the Vorpal Blade (ha, nice one) aided only by the new and improved scary-looking Cheshire Cat. In fact, the style (and it really is stylish) of the entire game can pretty much be summed up just by looking at the box art:

The cat really was cool. Anyway, it was a cool game, I liked it muchly. So what is the point of all this Ben? you may well ask. Well, the point is, they are going to turn it into a movie. Hurray!

The bad news however is that playing Alice in this film is Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Look at that box. Does this look like a perky, jokey, Valley girl Sarah Michelle Gellar type of deal to you? Damn the people who obviously saw 'girl fights stuff' in the concept and immediately thought of Buffy. NOT A SUFFICIENTLY SIMILAR THING. What's worse is that they were going to get Christina Ricci, who would have been pretty much exactly right. This reminds me of when Patrick Stewart was going to play Mr Freeze, and then the part went to Arnie. And we all know how that turned out.

In other other games turned into movies news, The Rock is going to be the hitman from, er, Hitman, the series of games in which you play a, um, hitman. Who kills people. And that's about it. But I guess in a Hollywood where Doom is turned into a film 'but not on Mars, and without creatures from hell', that right there is more than enough plot to base an entire film on.

Right. More in a bit.