10 games that "should" be movies
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Bioshock is the only acceptable answer to this question. With the right studio, set design and an overall dark direction of the film it could be brilliant. My second vote goes to burger time. 
I agreed with almost all of the Director choices, but almost none of the acting choices. Leo DiCaprio as Link???!!!! Shia Laboef as Cloud????!!! What the Fuck is wrong with these people?
Besides, half of those games are being made into movies.
Besides, half of those games are being made into movies.
Some of these suggestions are ridiculous. TF2? Really? Portal? It was a good game, but I HIGHLY doubt that a decent, full length movie can be made out of it. Games like GTA(gangsters) or RE4 (zombies) have been done to death by Hollywood. Just because it was a good game doesn't mean it'll be a good movie...
fallout could be great, mainly because you see so little of the world in the games that a movie could easily take place and not merely look like a rehashing of the game plot. Also, it would be really cheap to make and would look really cool, think "Mad Max"
some of these sound like good ideas on paper but have you lot acually seen any good game->film(I refuse to call them movies, damm, I just did) exept maybe one of the resdent evil films? I think most would be murdered, expet maybe the DMC film, if they could accually get the director they mentioned that may be OK
I think just about any game that has a good story has the potential to make a good movie. It all depends on the director and the actors that are chosen. If the cast worked hand-in-hand with the developers of the game then I think it could be pulled.
Games that I think could be made into good movies:
-inFamous: It's a super hero movie, and if they managed to replicate that it could be good.
-Devil May Cry: Lot's of action, and if you get the right actor for Dante then it would be great.
-Half-Life: Even if they kept Gordon Freeman it would still be good because of it's story.
-Legend of Zelda: Yeah, I know there is the fan made one that they are working on but I am talking about a full fledged LoZ movie. Once again, another movie with a mute character but if you have some interesting swordplay in there it would be cool.
EDIT: Wow, 3/4 are already on the list. Well, now I definitely agree with those. Although I still think Half-Life would be awesome...
Games that I think could be made into good movies:
-inFamous: It's a super hero movie, and if they managed to replicate that it could be good.
-Devil May Cry: Lot's of action, and if you get the right actor for Dante then it would be great.
-Half-Life: Even if they kept Gordon Freeman it would still be good because of it's story.
-Legend of Zelda: Yeah, I know there is the fan made one that they are working on but I am talking about a full fledged LoZ movie. Once again, another movie with a mute character but if you have some interesting swordplay in there it would be cool.
EDIT: Wow, 3/4 are already on the list. Well, now I definitely agree with those. Although I still think Half-Life would be awesome...
With all of these you could pretty much sum it up as, "If it's done right, it'd be great". Thus far, few hollywood people have figured out what exactly that entails.
Bioshock would make a pretty cool movie, so long as they take their time and play up on the mystery of Rapture. Like in the game, you see some action early on, but the focus is marveling at the city, gaining a sense of dread as you move deeper in, and slowly getting hints of the worse events that are to come (preview of the big daddy fight = awesome). I can see them getting too tempted into the thought that people would get bored quickly and shove a bunch of meaningless action in your face. Also, the first plasmids should be a moment of terrifying drama, and would have to be used sparingly and wisely. Not all of them would likely make it into the movie (though dear god I hope they include the bees! BEEEEESSS!! /zim).
Fallout 3 itself would NOT make a good movie, ever. A huge part of the game is feeling like it is YOU out there in the waste...and obviously they cannot have both the male and female lead and keep to the same story. They could easily work with the same general storyline and evil forces to create a new plot with new main characters. I can readily picture the first scene where the hero (who I think should be female...a contrast to all the gritty male apocalypse survivors out there) comes across feral ghouls for the first time.
Link spoke plenty in all of the manga comics, and it felt perfectly natural and, in fact, gave a unique new insight to the storylines of the games. He felt more real and human (hylian?), and I felt that it broadened his character, rather than the opposite (most folks are terrified of a speaking Link). For a story, however, I think they would need to create a new storyline that kinda sums up all of the best games. I strongly feel they should keep the relationship between Link and Zelda from Twilight Princess (strong, stoic princess, knight protector, NOTHING more) and have a separate love interest (Midna was cool at the end, but I do not think a movie about a werewolf Link would fly). And someone needs to tell Ganon that turning into a giant pig monster NEVER helps anything. Seriously.
I am not as familiar with some of the other games, but I agree with others that a Half-Life movie SHOULD be made someday soon, I'm just not sure how. Like with Link, I don't think a talking Gordon Freeman would be the end of the world...so long as he isn't a chatty dork. It's easily possible to tell the movie from the point of view of someone else, but in order to understand the universe I think they'd have to do the story from the first game...and who else but Gordon could we follow? I always pictured him as a reluctant hero, but as he appears so confident and stoic in the artwork, I'm not all that sure who he really is. Maybe if they add a touch more characterization to him in Episode 3 it will be possible. Otherwise, it's too hard to picture.
/Rambly
Bioshock would make a pretty cool movie, so long as they take their time and play up on the mystery of Rapture. Like in the game, you see some action early on, but the focus is marveling at the city, gaining a sense of dread as you move deeper in, and slowly getting hints of the worse events that are to come (preview of the big daddy fight = awesome). I can see them getting too tempted into the thought that people would get bored quickly and shove a bunch of meaningless action in your face. Also, the first plasmids should be a moment of terrifying drama, and would have to be used sparingly and wisely. Not all of them would likely make it into the movie (though dear god I hope they include the bees! BEEEEESSS!! /zim).
Fallout 3 itself would NOT make a good movie, ever. A huge part of the game is feeling like it is YOU out there in the waste...and obviously they cannot have both the male and female lead and keep to the same story. They could easily work with the same general storyline and evil forces to create a new plot with new main characters. I can readily picture the first scene where the hero (who I think should be female...a contrast to all the gritty male apocalypse survivors out there) comes across feral ghouls for the first time.
Link spoke plenty in all of the manga comics, and it felt perfectly natural and, in fact, gave a unique new insight to the storylines of the games. He felt more real and human (hylian?), and I felt that it broadened his character, rather than the opposite (most folks are terrified of a speaking Link). For a story, however, I think they would need to create a new storyline that kinda sums up all of the best games. I strongly feel they should keep the relationship between Link and Zelda from Twilight Princess (strong, stoic princess, knight protector, NOTHING more) and have a separate love interest (Midna was cool at the end, but I do not think a movie about a werewolf Link would fly). And someone needs to tell Ganon that turning into a giant pig monster NEVER helps anything. Seriously.
I am not as familiar with some of the other games, but I agree with others that a Half-Life movie SHOULD be made someday soon, I'm just not sure how. Like with Link, I don't think a talking Gordon Freeman would be the end of the world...so long as he isn't a chatty dork.
It's easily possible to tell the movie from the point of view of someone else, but in order to understand the universe I think they'd have to do the story from the first game...and who else but Gordon could we follow? I always pictured him as a reluctant hero, but as he appears so confident and stoic in the artwork, I'm not all that sure who he really is. Maybe if they add a touch more characterization to him in Episode 3 it will be possible. Otherwise, it's too hard to picture./Rambly
I'm gonna be the wet blanket this time. Games do not need to made into movies, we already get a enough poor media reputation with un-educated peoples, but with a movie to give them the run down of the story, in a horribly cut and hodgepodged version, would only allow them to blow it up into an even bigger fiasco.
Truthfully, what I would love to see is a Final Fantasy 8 movie, it could start on the boat trip to Dollet with the fight between Squall and Siefer could be shown during the opening credits along with the same opening as in the game (in live action of course)breadlord said:
Although games that are made into movies sound cool in theory. They just dont seem to work most of the time. There have been games that have been made into movies, But most of them are just the fighting movies. E.G Dead or Alive, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat. These movies arent that great and dont really live up to the expectations of the gamers that play those games.
All im saying is that they shouldnt stop making game-based movies, i just think that they should understand a game more before they do it and pick a game that you can take a story from and make it into a movie.
All im saying is that they shouldnt stop making game-based movies, i just think that they should understand a game more before they do it and pick a game that you can take a story from and make it into a movie.
MORTAL KOMBAT Deadly alliance because we could watch liu kang get his neck snapped
that would make me happy only problem is the lack of defined story
and assasins creed
that would make me happy only problem is the lack of defined story
and assasins creed
Honestly, I think it would be pretty hard to mess up a Metroid movie if you didn't resort to random romance. All you really have to do is have Samus blow up a bunch of space pirates and at some point, show Samus in her Zero Suit to please the fans. You wouldn't really want to show the collection of too many upgrades, so a lot of the exploration gets cut, and without that you are left with a bunch of boss battles.that1guy said:
The plot of the movie would probably be something like this:
-Samus gets attacked by space pirates, fights them while ship crashes
-Crash results in damage/loosing of ONE important thing, as opposed to everyting
-Samus explores and fights some more
-BIG ACTION SEQUENCETO RECOVER MCGUFFIN
-revelation that space pirate plan will destroy galaxy
-Stealth sequence, followed by action sequence, followed by entry into important location
-RIDLEY FIGHT!!
-Attempt to stop plan foiled by Mother Brain
-MOTHER BRAIN FIGHT!!!
-?????
-MORE CAPS!!!!!!!!!!
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That's the movie. It doesn't really even need a script, just some action choreography.