I'm writing an essay about movies to computer games, and vice versa. I want to know what you hope to see on the big screen, and who you want to play on your consoles. List your favourite movie interpretations, and your worst, and list the games based on movies you enjoyed or disliked. What I hope to achieve out of this is what you as gamers, would make the perfect video-game movie, who should play who if there is one, and why. Be a big help if you give your opinion. Much obliged.
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I don't want either to croos over. I think that having them switch to the other medias isn't going to work.
Doom sucked, Street fighter II was mwoah and Mortal Kombat was funny in a way. Worst example EVARRR is DOA. Seriously; burk!!
Best one would be FF VII: Advent Children, even tho that could've been much better.
Game movies; no thanks...
Best one would be FF VII: Advent Children, even tho that could've been much better.
Game movies; no thanks...
Wait, wait... Are you tasking us with your homework? That doesn't seem fair, why when I was a kid, I had to walk 20 miles in the snow, up-hill both ways just to get to the library to do my own research. Blargh, all you whipper-snappers got it s easy, what with your music, and intwarebs, or whatever you kids call them tubes now...
Anyways. I think the best translations are ones who don't try to retell what we've already played. Ones that rip out the characters you're used to, and interject new personalities makes me disinterested. Also, I hate monkeys.
Anyways. I think the best translations are ones who don't try to retell what we've already played. Ones that rip out the characters you're used to, and interject new personalities makes me disinterested. Also, I hate monkeys.
I hate the way they ruin game movies by injecting it with the standard movie formula. Like in the Hitman movie they make him get all romantic. In the games he's the coldest son of a ***** you could imagine. But because a movie apparently must have a romantic storyline, they put it in. And that's just one thing that happens often.
I didn't really like Total Overdose for PS2, but I think it could be a crazy over-the-top movie. Could be fun to watch. Off course I'd really like to see a 5 part Baldur's Gate movie, but that would be impossible. It would be measured against LOTR all the time and that's difficult.
I didn't really like Total Overdose for PS2, but I think it could be a crazy over-the-top movie. Could be fun to watch. Off course I'd really like to see a 5 part Baldur's Gate movie, but that would be impossible. It would be measured against LOTR all the time and that's difficult.
Silent Hill was...tolerable, not horrible. Most other game movies suck on the spikey phallus of Satan.
I loved the Super Mario Bros. movie because what they did with it was so damn admirable from a storyteller's viewpoint. Think about it; it's a game about a plumber who walks to the right, jumps on turtles and has an unhealthy obsession with mushrooms. I think the way they managed to adapt it was pretty brilliant, and completely entertaining, although it does tend to drag in places.
That's pretty much my entire viewpoint on video game movies: They only work when the game they're adapting has no plot. Do a Pac-Man movie, do a Dig Dug movie, do a Tetris movie (yes, I've seen the trailer, and I loved it)... But for the love of god, do NOT do a movie about a game that already has a plot.
That's pretty much my entire viewpoint on video game movies: They only work when the game they're adapting has no plot. Do a Pac-Man movie, do a Dig Dug movie, do a Tetris movie (yes, I've seen the trailer, and I loved it)... But for the love of god, do NOT do a movie about a game that already has a plot.
The problem with video game movies is that many popular franchises do not have the necessary story content to carry an actual film: fighting games, FPS games... it's hard to translate this into a medium that has well developed characters and a protagonist you can empathise with. People rip on the DOA movie but it was probably the single most faithful game movie considering the source material - jiggling tits and over the top martial arts action, being fought for an almost arbitrary reason. They even threw in a beach volleyball scene!
It was bad, but kind of awesome at the same time.
Take games that do have a good story like Silent Hill, and the movie is going to need to cram in a lot of recognisable material but somehow build a two hour story out of a lot of stuff that only makes sense in a specific context. Silent Hill was a good movie, but diehard SH fans are going to find stuff to nitpick - stuff that was put in or stuff that wasn't. For instance, it makes no sense for Pyramid Head to be there, but if they left him out you lose an easily recognisable Silent Hill icon. How do you win there? People even complained the nurses were too sexy... in the context of SH2, they're supposed to be! The entire game was about James' sexual frustration and guilt - the movie was not, but I could write an entire essay on why it was still contextually appropriate in terms of the SH movie highlighting the importance of the maternal figure in society.
What do I want to see from game movies? Honestly if we're going to keep making game movies, I don't think we're doing too badly. Just... stop letting Uwe Boll near them. It's fairly clear he's just a game fan with no creative ability. I've watched fan-made zero budget tributes that are more enjoyable to watch than House of the Dead.
If there's ONE thing movie producers need to remember is that just because they're making a video game movie, doesn't mean the normal rules of movie making don't need to be adhered to. Just because the game already has a story and developed characters, doesn't mean you can just throw these things into a big sandbox and film what happens.
It was bad, but kind of awesome at the same time.
Take games that do have a good story like Silent Hill, and the movie is going to need to cram in a lot of recognisable material but somehow build a two hour story out of a lot of stuff that only makes sense in a specific context. Silent Hill was a good movie, but diehard SH fans are going to find stuff to nitpick - stuff that was put in or stuff that wasn't. For instance, it makes no sense for Pyramid Head to be there, but if they left him out you lose an easily recognisable Silent Hill icon. How do you win there? People even complained the nurses were too sexy... in the context of SH2, they're supposed to be! The entire game was about James' sexual frustration and guilt - the movie was not, but I could write an entire essay on why it was still contextually appropriate in terms of the SH movie highlighting the importance of the maternal figure in society.
What do I want to see from game movies? Honestly if we're going to keep making game movies, I don't think we're doing too badly. Just... stop letting Uwe Boll near them. It's fairly clear he's just a game fan with no creative ability. I've watched fan-made zero budget tributes that are more enjoyable to watch than House of the Dead.
If there's ONE thing movie producers need to remember is that just because they're making a video game movie, doesn't mean the normal rules of movie making don't need to be adhered to. Just because the game already has a story and developed characters, doesn't mean you can just throw these things into a big sandbox and film what happens.
I wouldn't mind seeing Mass Effect carried into the movie arena. It's already pretty much designed as though you're playing a role in a movie as it is. Wouldn't be too hard to go that extra step and tell the whole story through that medium, either CGI or live action.
Just... Keep Uwe Boll away.
Just... Keep Uwe Boll away.
I would say Stalker would actually make a pretty decent movie. There's the amnesia that's so loved by film makers, the post apocalyptic setting, the advancing story, the varied characters and the interesting set pieces. Really the story has very few main objectives, and few characters so it would be easy to include all the important parts into a movie. It feels rather cinematic as a videogame, it would probably work well in movie format. The guy gets thrown from the truck, rescued, talks to the merchant and sets off trying to find Strelok. Help the Stalkers in the car park, move towards the bar, X18, Yantar, X16, the Brain Scorcher, into Pripyat and on to the Sarcophagus. There's enough NPC's and enough story and important set pieces to make a decent movie. Especially if they actually filmed it in the exclusion zone. The only problem, which I know would arise, would the filmmakers would want to include copious amounts of dialogue, necessitating a companion, and they would have to throw in a love interest. Honestly, I think people can tolerate watching a movie where there's no dialogue for five or ten minutes, people don't have to constantly be talking. "Oh shit, there's an anomaly up ahead!" "Well, all you have to do is throw a bolt in it to see exactly where it is!" "Oh, I didn't think of that, thanks generic sidekick #112!"
What if they made a sequel to Force unleashed set 20 years in the future? I bet that would rock.
i agree there has only been one good movie to game transition on the history of the world. batman arkham asylum. and thats more comic book to game than anything.Squid94 said: