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Why do Video Game-to-Movie Adaptions Suck? - Page 4

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D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
February 11 2009 17:45 GMT
#61
What about the Halo movie or Gear of Wars movie ?

I know a Gow movie could be a blockbuster if well done.
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Ghost151
Profile Joined May 2008
United States290 Posts
February 11 2009 17:51 GMT
#62
Halo is gonna suck hard, no matter which direction they go with it. It's too generic of a sci-fi to really even warrant a movie.

I don't even know the GoW storyline so no comment there.

I think what will be interesting is MGS. each game is pretty much a movie in itself, and the first and fourth games are stellar in terms of story. Hope that one won't crash and burn.
fuck art its a competition if you dont get pissed off when you lose you dont care enough - Idra, on the "art" of RTS games.
D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
February 11 2009 17:57 GMT
#63
The enviroment in witch GoW passes is not really new, humans vs underground humanoid aliens of somekind.

The cool thing about GoW is the lore of the war, and the characters on it, also, the whole game is made to be movie-like, so everytime I was playing it I thought "damn this scene would be awesome in a movie"

In general, it would be a mix of special ops/sci-fi/post apocaliptical world with a tech level much similar to our own.

But all in all, what will make a movie great is a good script, and an excelent director (actors too but, script and director are more important)
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Phantom
Profile Joined September 2004
Canada2151 Posts
February 11 2009 18:21 GMT
#64
http://www.imdb.com/keyword/based-on-video-game/
http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft2/members/Phantom
Fishball
Profile Joined December 2005
Canada4788 Posts
February 11 2009 18:56 GMT
#65
On February 12 2009 03:21 Phantom wrote:
http://www.imdb.com/keyword/based-on-video-game/


Gun Grave, not really a movie and is an animation, but god I loved that series.
So well done.

You do might have to ignore the generic pwn-all fighting scenes in the first episode though.
The story really has a lot of depth to it.
靈魂交響曲
stenole
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Norway869 Posts
February 11 2009 19:56 GMT
#66
I thought Final Fantasy wasn't terrible. And I don't really consider myself a fan of the series. All the other movie adaptations seem to only be based on trying to cash in on brand recognition. Funny story: My dad bought a Sin City shirt for himself thinking that it said Sim City. I wonder what a movie based on that game would be like...
Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
February 11 2009 20:08 GMT
#67
My personal opinion is that video game movies fail, beacuse they cannot stand on their own and rely on the popularity of the video game to succeed rather then attempt to be good by themselves. That is the reason why the Mortal Kombat movie was not bad. It was cheesy, yes, but it still was good enough on it`s own.

The Mortal Kombat: Conquest TV series was also not bad, but for the simple reason that the ending was tragic (which is unusual for a corny TV series). However, the way they carried it out was still lame, since they essentially wrote a cheat code which gave the bad guy a squad of unbeatable grim reapers which proceeded to kill all the good guys as well as any opossing bad guys. A corny tragic ending, if something like that ever existed.

Anyway, I have high hopes for the World of WarCraft movie since it is planned to be a war movie, although I think it would have been better had they stuck with their original plan to potray the events of the First War (since the events there were epic and not a lot of people know the lore of it). I also think a Metal Gear movie has great promise since the games themselves are quite cinematic.
You and your "5 years of competitive RTS experience" can take a hike. - FrozenArbiter
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17831 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-11 20:33:24
February 11 2009 20:30 GMT
#68
1. Uwe Boll is a genious, he's just way ahead of his era (like Frank Zappa). House of the Dead was brilliant. Laughed my ass off with friends on several ocasions when watching it.

2. Mortal Kombat was teh shiznit when it came out, I was just a kid and won free ticket in some computer magazine for exclusive pre-premiere with live martial arts show before the movie. One of the happiest moments of my life.

3. Doom was watchable.

4. Silent Hill was pretty good.

5. Street Fighter was awesome when I was young (every movie featuring JC VanDamme was awesome back then).

The rest of the vg-movies I've seen aren't really worth mentioning.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14912 Posts
February 11 2009 20:38 GMT
#69
rofl doom was awesome what are you guys talking about
karl urban is such a badass
[DUF]MethodMan
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany1716 Posts
February 11 2009 21:08 GMT
#70
Don't know if it was mentioned before:
Watch Blood Rayne 2: Deliverance. Fucking greatest movie ever!
It's from Uwe Boll, watch his other ones too if you are somewhat masochistic.
D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
February 11 2009 21:10 GMT
#71
I have no respect for Uwe Boll whatsoever, if anything, he painted a bad pictures on vg movies with his mediocrity
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
KissBlade
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States5718 Posts
February 11 2009 21:11 GMT
#72
Mortal Kombat and Silent Hilll was decent IMO. However, I still agree that we hold a different standard for Game-to-Movie simply because most movies aren't based around awesome storyline games. (FFVII has an awful SL =P sorry if you like it) Something like Xenogears, Shin Megumi Tensai or FFVI would've been full of own as a movie.
ZoW
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3983 Posts
February 11 2009 21:12 GMT
#73
The only reason I would watch Doom again is to hear The Rock say "Big... Fucking... Gun...". And that first person scene, that thing was awesome
the courage to be a lazy bum
D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
February 11 2009 21:17 GMT
#74
On February 12 2009 06:12 ZoW wrote:
The only reason I would watch Doom again is to hear The Rock say "Big... Fucking... Gun...". And that first person scene, that thing was awesome




there you go
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8174 Posts
February 11 2009 22:09 GMT
#75
LIke others have said, the main reason is that almost all videogame stories in the 1st place are totally fucking stupid, and for some reason hollywood people decide that the ones with the especially crappy stories deserve to be made into games (street fighter/mortal kombat, doom).
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D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
February 11 2009 22:11 GMT
#76
Theres tons of games with compelling stories and characters(BW movie anyone ? Could be made good, specially a trilogy), but most of them are neglected by the movie industries or the companies are not interested in selling the rights and potentially ruining the franchise.
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[DUF]MethodMan
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany1716 Posts
February 11 2009 22:39 GMT
#77
On February 12 2009 06:17 D10 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2009 06:12 ZoW wrote:
The only reason I would watch Doom again is to hear The Rock say "Big... Fucking... Gun...". And that first person scene, that thing was awesome


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84qPafzJaig&feature=related

there you go


god, thats probably the worst thing ive ever seen in my life.
TryThis
Profile Joined February 2007
Canada1522 Posts
February 12 2009 00:05 GMT
#78
video games are trying to be movies, and movies are trying to be video games.
neither side is doing it properly.
Dwell
Quanticfograw
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States2053 Posts
February 12 2009 00:17 GMT
#79
bioshock movie would be great lol.... i dunno reallyy why all the video games to movie adaptions suck I gues its just we are way more critical of things we love but like the original superhero movies sucked, I think with developing better graphics each day soon Videogames will be great movies too
https://twitter.com/quanticfograw
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17831 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-12 00:47:03
February 12 2009 00:25 GMT
#80
On February 12 2009 06:10 D10 wrote:
I have no respect for Uwe Boll whatsoever, if anything, he painted a bad pictures on vg movies with his mediocrity


Go watch Postal then

Almost forgot about important link
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