Movies You Think Would Make Good Games, and Vice-Versa

[BubbaJeff]

K, so I actually just signed up to the forum just to respond to this lol

Did anyone who said 'Halflife' (1 or 2, i'm easy) forget the main character's trademark tendencies towards being a mute?

Don't get me wrong, playing HL2 was immersive enough to feel like you were actually *in* a movie, but i'm not convinced it has the depth to move from game to the big screen - for a start, if you take a step back from it, the plot is pretty generic.

...and nothing gets explained.

 

[Flying Dagger]

i've said it before, and i'll say it again, Bioshock won't make a good movie.
there is only one character, so no dialogue to fill the spaces of walking around, and the permenant action will get tiresome if they try to use that to fill those spaces.
The twist

Spoiler:

won't feel as big because it won't have been your actions affected by it, you chose to do what he said, or so you thought, and thats why its such a shock, without that, it will just seem... clever, but not mindblowing.

Zeno Clash on the other hand, which has just been put on a steam sale 66% off, seems to be what could be a fantastic film. i've not played all the way through, but where i've got to so far shows a fantastic universe.

Spoiler: this awesome screenshot will make you want to buy the game, dont look if you cant afford it

i'd like to see a Clockwork Orange game, set before the storyline, where you play alex, wandering around the city with your droogs, robbing people, burgling houses, listening to beethoven, wearing the funky masks and fighting other small gangs. the game could end with it showing you the film to tie up all loose ends! (yes, i reallly like that film lol)

this could make a good game too: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/

edit: people suggesting borderlands or fallout 3 as films...
I've played through arid badlands on borderlands, but the story seems to be incredibly lacking... i can overlook it because its really fun as a game, but as a film i don't think it would work. I also wasn't too impressed with the FO3 storyline... seemed mostly "go here do this." though a film set in the FO3 universe would be good.
both though have the opportunity for dialogue and character development, giving them more of a chance then bioshock has.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Zombieland, if they did something original with it.

Wouldn't that just be L4D set in an amusement park?

Anyway...

I think Dragon Age: Origins would make a great movie... assuming that Bioware can A) keep Uwe Boll FAR AWAY from the project, and B) They don't let Hollywood replace all of the interesting characters with boring, one-dimensional cardboard cut-outs. Hmmm... come to think of it, Mass Effect would also be a good movie under those conditions... Can't really think of a movie that would make a fun game though...

 

[BubbaJeff]

Bioshock won't make a good movie.

/Agree.

Its pretty much got not plot after the twist about an hour into it.

 

[twitchy0922]

Devil May Cry 4. Half the game was cut scenes but if it was a full length movie it'd be awesome! As for movie to game maybe Quarantine if done in a new format reminiscent of Left 4 Dead but with the low supplies of Resident Evil.

 

[twitchy0922]

The Warriors was already a game for the old X-Box and I think PS2, it was like Grand Theft Auto only less chaotic.

 

[aarontg]

I think I am legend could make a good movie to game cross over. Not in the perspective of robert but rather the concept of it, think about it:

Every day you need to find food and supplies by going in the buildings being watchful of the vampires by first laying traps or using solar light sources you find, then at night you hold down the fort ( or house or whatever) protecting it from attacks, and these attacks become greater depending on how well known your location at night is, the fort can also be fortified with supplies you find.

Also you can have different skills and can do different things with supplies depending on your proffesion ( for example your an engineer so your able to make gun turrets for your fort, repair cars,and make variouse guns be compatable with different kinds of ammo.) and you can have a choice to mave on to find more survivors or find your way out of your current location ( it dousent have to be new york)

I think I could come up with some other ideas but thats all I can think of.

 

[Cpt-Dysprosa]

half life

As much as I would love to see a Half Life film also, I don't think the game has the right elements to make a film. There is no love interest (which comes as standard in films if they are to be successful these days, sadly and if you mean the original half life - the closest thing you've got there is Alyx but she's sort of the wrong age for Gordon at the time if you get what I mean =S).

The problem with making games into films as a whole is that the two are constructed so differently - the games focusing on action sequences where only small amounts of actual plot are required to hold them together in most cases, and films where plot is the focus and is made interested by being punctuated with action scenes. This means that a film-to-game adaption could work, but the content of the original film would need to be padded out with new action sequences to play through, and a game-to-film adaption would require the re-writing of the plot in order that it would provide more interest than just action sequences for the length of the movie.

I could see Half Life 2 working though ... but then how would you get the back story from Half Life (1) and such in?

I know, but to make a half life 2 movie but you would probaly have to cut out Gordon

Cut out Gordon? Why so? I could see him as not being the main character in it I guess, but not cutting him entirely...

 

[Hikikomori Ookami]

No.

No, no, no no nonononononoooooooooooooononono.

Bad idea. Return to start, lose two levels and collect no treasure this round.

The only movie that could be called decent or good and was based on a game is Advent Children. And the only games that are based on a movie and didn't instantly suck within the first five minutes belong to the Star Wars genre. And even there it's 50/50 if the game will be any good. And most of those games that are good aren't strictly based on any individual movie: games like TIE-fighter, X-Wing Alliance and Jedi Knight.

Those are pretty much the exceptions that concur the rule. "Games make poor movies, movies make poor games."

The Battleground games were pretty good, and loosely based around the movies.

 

[Seriin]

I haven't seen anything that I wished I could play that wasn't already a game. For example, after watching watchmen I felt like playing something along those lines, so I popped in Crackdown and got just about the same feel as I would have wanted. Not a perfect match, of course, but it triggered that same part of the brain. A lot of games are takes on various movies. As said before by many, Tomb Raider is like Indiana Jones, so a movie would feel like a Indy rip off.

Vice versa, I have no faith in game based movies. Sure some are campy even if really bad but it seems as if they started taking themselves seriously around the turn of the millennium so they lost a lot of camp value. New recent Street Fighter movie was just bland and boring to watch. The old one, even if it was a bad movie, is still fun to watch.

All that being said however, while I was playing Hotel Dusk I was thinking it might make an interesting mini-series or a book (given that is plays as if you were playing a book). But even then it is brought down by the main problem with movies based on games; Games are fun to play, not so much fun to watch. Sure this has evolved a bit over the years, but even in the most cutscene heavy games you are still playing parts of it.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

snip!

Not to nit pick (apart from the fact I am nit picking), but that just looks like a list of every film or tv show you know and I count nineteen of those as being done, some multiple times: see star trek, and most of them done badly.

I personally don't think movies make good game and games don't make good movies.

The only movie that could be called decent or good and was based on a game is Advent Children.

If this is the only good game movie around, and I sure can't think of another one, then the situation is dire. I was pretty happy when they canned the Halo movie. I just couldn't see it being very good.

I think if anything, prehaps Uncharted 2 would make a fun movie,
and on the game front, a game of the original Die Hard for this generation of console could be good. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ultimately however;

Bad idea. Return to start, lose two levels and collect no treasure this round.

 

[mr.aravaro]

half life

As much as I would love to see a Half Life film also, I don't think the game has the right elements to make a film. There is no love interest (which comes as standard in films if they are to be successful these days, sadly and if you mean the original half life - the closest thing you've got there is Alyx but she's sort of the wrong age for Gordon at the time if you get what I mean =S).

The problem with making games into films as a whole is that the two are constructed so differently - the games focusing on action sequences where only small amounts of actual plot are required to hold them together in most cases, and films where plot is the focus and is made interested by being punctuated with action scenes. This means that a film-to-game adaption could work, but the content of the original film would need to be padded out with new action sequences to play through, and a game-to-film adaption would require the re-writing of the plot in order that it would provide more interest than just action sequences for the length of the movie.

I could see Half Life 2 working though ... but then how would you get the back story from Half Life (1) and such in?

I know, but to make a half life 2 movie but you would probably have to cut out Gordon

Cut out Gordon? Why so? I could see him as not being the main character in it I guess, but not cutting him entirely...

I know, but he wouldn't fit into a movie without characterization.

 

[shogunblade]

Cool Movies to Games:

Demolition Man - Yes, Stallone and Snipes in an expanding of the movie. Who wouldn't want to fight Phoenix (Snipes) in more lenghy battle sequences? Make the Swearing Machine in the movie a Quick Time Event.

There was a demolition man game

I forgot, and I own it, the SNES video game. Not a bad game, but honestly, hearing Wesley Snipes laugh recycled 15 - 16 times during a fight scene isn't going to make me want to play it too often.