If Tetris was a (stupid, Battleship-style) movie

Warialasky's trailer for a big-budg apocalyptic science fiction movie based on Tetris is all too plausible in the era of Battleship: the Movie: "Official Tetris Teaser Trailer. The invasion is beginning. It is inevitable. You created them, you can destroy them! I did not create Tetris, I was but the messenger. Tell me how to stop them. This is an extinction level event. No, don't go! Let her go!"

TETRIS - OFFICIAL TRAILER

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CHilke

100 million opening weekend – guaranteed.
snagglepuss

That satire was already smarter than “Battleship”.

But then, so is my dog.
- zarray
  
  Hey man don’t rag on your dog, he helped me find my keys that one time.
http://orbitnet.com JIMWICh

I would TOTALLY go see that.
http://jackfear.blogspot.com Jack Feerick

Three words, people:

ALL

TOO

PLAUSIBLE.

The only thing missing was a soft, melancholy piano plunking out that familiar Russian-inflected theme tune as the last BARRRROOOMMMMM faded away.
bcsizemo

If Tetris hadn’t been so popular when Star Trek Next Generation was out they should had the Borg cubes do this…
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=679549499 Michael Birch

I dunno Corey, I think they might be on to something… Make them Tetris piece shaped monoliths and you may have a blockbuster.
nvlady

Watching bad movies is awesome. For that reason I watched Volcano and ‘loved’ it. And I have a desire to see Battleship if for no reason that to hear a character say, “You sunk my battleship!” HAS TO BE IN THERE!!
- http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
  
  From what I’ve read, not only did they make a bad movie, they didn’t even bother to put that line in it…..
  Oh and yes, this trailer is AWESOME!!
  - marukosu
    
    It would have had to be said by Samuel L. Jackson, anyway, so no loss. I bet he would have done it too, if they had only asked.
    
    And +1 on the Tetris awesome.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

Sorry guys. As the CG Supervisor of ID4 I feel slightly responsible for that.

(Actually I would totally go to that movie)
http://whimsicalacious.tumblr.com/ Patrick McGorrill

Yeah, this is not boding well for those people who have used Tetris to prevent PTSD symptoms http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013706
Warren_Terra

Obligatory Youtube link to the incredibly catchy music video “Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris”
- Gerrit Vogel
  
  There also is this other tetrsi movie trailer. Which is even closer to battleship, in a way:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE_1KlWFJyA
  - mobuco
    
    There is also a real tetris documentary coming out (full disclosure…I am in it)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTK6MnPa8Zo
  - smallteam
    
    Tron meets Hunger Games?
Mantissa128

Reminds me of Pixels.
- CH
  
  That… was… awesome!!! Just absolutely perfect… including the logo for the movie, not to mention the credits. So much of my childhood/youth right there!
http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson

“How do I stop them?”

Dude, if you line them up right they will just disappear. Extinction level even averted.

Duh.
- penguinchris
  
  For fuck’s sake, you couldn’t put a *SPOILER ALERT* at the top of your post?
GIFtheory

Oblig: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/01/24
http://twitter.com/ErnestValdemar Ernest Valdemar

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http://twitter.com/adamcreen Mr Memory

In “TV Go Home” by Charlie Brooker (2001), you have “Tetris: The Miniseries” starring Nick Berry (British doyen of bland soaps and rural dramas) discovering that the tumbling fun is a shadowy government conspiracy and the alarming scientific method by which complete rows of blocks “disappear”. Also starring Dexter Fletcher as “Spatial Awareness Dude” and Charles Dance as “L-Shaped Block”
http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

why is it that you can’t view a you tube video on this site any more without activating ten tracking scripts?
BombBlastLightingWaltz

Where is the repetitive Cossack noise line? Aliens my butt, its the Pinks at it again.
http://northierthanthou.com/ northierthanthou

Okay that’s fricking hilarious!
http://www.facebook.com/joe.finsterwald Joseph Finsterwald

It would be even more retarded if Rhianna was in it.