Poll: Settle a Bet: Which of these games would make the best movie?

[XJ-0461]

I want to say Fallout... but my vote goes to Gears of War.

The reason for this is that Gears has an existing set of characters, so it's easier to make a movie style plot from that. Fallout has the player character, who is different for each player, and I think that's what most people found fun about the game. I think a movie wouldn't be able to handle this angle.

 

[Rakkana]

If done right Fallout would win.

 

[ultimateownage]

Everyone seems to think Portal wouldn't be a great movie, but I actually see some potential for it. It would be artsy, and about isolation, with lots of great camera work and angles and effects to carry the experience, all with a devious A.I. playing on the psyche.

As long as Chell is mute. It'd keep them from effing her up, and it'd give the viewer a simalcrum from which to view the events transpiring.

No, it wouldn't be commercially successful, but I think it'd be a more involved and thought-provoking movie than GoW.

Fallout still has #1 in my heart though. Just needed to show Portal some love. ^_^

In my head, I see portal being a bit like 2001: A space oddesy. "I can't let you do that Chell." or something similar, but less gory than, the cube, so I think it has some potential. I'm still voting for fallout though, it would be easy to turn into a blockbuster and it has good story potential, if made with a good director/s.

 

[Ekonk]

Gears of War is retarded, and Portal completely unsuitable for a movie. (Perhaps if they made a movie about GLaDOS going beserk, that would work though. There would be multiple characters, et cetera)

Anyway, Fallout it is.

 

[blackshogun0]

I vote Fallout. I don't really care much who they cast for the lone wanderer, But I DEMAND Will Smith as Three Dawg!! Imagine it people!!

 

[Lucane]

Fallout no contest. It's so much open ground material wise you'd have to be a hack like Micheal Bay to blow it.(If you think his Directing is good then Uwe Bowl)

The other 2 already have (Gaming circles.) know naratives to follow with characters predefined.

Fallout has a make your own guy who roams the waste aimlessly till he/she (come on it doesn't have to be a guy for the movie) finds something/one to do.

Edit: you should change the Poll option if you ment Fallout 3 instead of Fallout though my opinion stands.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

It's not really a bet since it's based on opinion rather than a definitive answer.

However, if the result of this poll depends on it, then Fallout. Gears of War would be Bruckheimer garbage, and Portal isn't suited to being a movie; I could imagine it turning into a very sterile Saw parody...

Yeah, it's based on the results of the poll. And it looks like I'm getting a steak and some beer tomorrow. ^_^

Everyone seems to think Portal wouldn't be a great movie, but I actually see some potential for it. It would be artsy, and about isolation, with lots of great camera work and angles and effects to carry the experience, all with a devious A.I. playing on the psyche.

As long as Chell is mute. It'd keep them from effing her up, and it'd give the viewer a simalcrum from which to view the events transpiring.

No, it wouldn't be commercially successful, but I think it'd be a more involved and thought-provoking movie than GoW.

Fallout still has #1 in my heart though. Just needed to show Portal some love. ^_^

In my head, I see portal being a bit like 2001: A space oddesy. "I can't let you do that Chell." or something similar, but less gory than, the cube, so I think it has some potential. I'm still voting for fallout though, it would be easy to turn into a blockbuster and it has good story potential, if made with a good director/s.

Yeah, that was what I was thinking too.

Also, LOVE the av.

 

[camuscamel]

heavy rain all the way, oh wait that is a movie. One that just does not work very well

 

[WickedSkin]

Gears of War. Just because the game is simple enough to actually be transfered into a movie and be satisfactory. Fallout just would never reach "Fallout"-proportions. You know as it feels when you play it.

Let's face it here, Gears is not very smart or very complex. But it's packed with action. It would be A LOT simpler to capture the feeling and essence of that as compared to... well Fallout. It's a sense of freedom in Fallout you will miss on screen, things just wouldn't feel right. Where as Gears is very linear which movies usually are.

Sure they could maybe make a great movie out of Fallout. But gamers who played Fallout wouldn't fancy it that much.

 

[Sethzard]

I don't think portal is meaty enough to make a great film, gears would be far to generic so my vote goes to fallout

 

[Pegghead]

I'd honestly say Portal, as much as I love apocalyptic fiction Portal would make for a very interesting film, like a cross between SAW and Cube.

 

[hazabaza1]

Wait, wasn't Portal already a movie? It had the right length to be one.
Hmm, that's tricky. I think I'd follow a movie maybe based on the Carmine's father, if he was a CoG, and showing his life through service. That could maybe work.

 

[Hicerion]

The movie industry would mess up Portal/Fallout

I think out of those three it should be Gears. The plot is very simple; humans are awesome, aliens suck. There's a shoehorned in love interest via Dom's wife, you have the lovable one-liner black friend and stuff blows up all the time. I also see no problem in tossing in a rookie kid who dies 1/2 to 3/4 into the film to let us know 'war is hell man.'

I say get a good casting director so the characters look/sound right, then toss the whole project to Michael Bay, because love him or hate him, this is the kind of project he was born to make.

 

[tjarne]

Fallout definatly, would love a post apocalypse movie. Or portal, could be something like The Cube if done right.

 

[Thy-Art-Is-Awesome]

Portal as the psychological thriller. NOT Portal: The Movie.
Different name and voice...but based on Portal.
Keanu Reeves as the torturer (coz he's a robot)
Jake Gyllenhaal as the subject.

 

[TurboPanda]

Portal just wouldn't work. Valve games are about the players experience. The game was about the scene of isolation and making your mind think in really ways that screwed with your sense of direction(thinking with portals)Watching someone else do it is a bit crap really.

I think Movie Bob got it right. Most game stories are just rip offs of movies so a movie based on a game is a rip off of a rip off, so its almost guaranteed to suck. Gears could work however. It has tons of epic action scenes, cookie cutter action heroes, and almost no story whatsoever. Give it to Michael Bay and you have a movie.

 

[Baldry]

Out of all of those Its Fallout baby, I mean Gears of war would be to macho, and Portal would be a bit short and the character development would be bland and dull. But Fallout, since it has such an open world any of them could make a good film

 

[savandicus]

My vote goes to fallout since its got so much more potential for a massive story, not to mention the fact that fallout almost has the undertones of a movie already with its 'War, war never changes'.

Portal is limited to being in the research facility and i just cant see it being able to last for an entire film without going heavily off the game.

Gears of war would probably turn into your average massive action film with lots of explosions which although wouldnt be bad probably wouldnt be that good either and you certainly wouldnt remember it in a years time.

 

[interspark]

dont you think a poll would have been apropriate here?

id have to say portal, if done right, that would make an epic movie. main characters dying and the villain is dramatically walking over with a pistol when WHAM! a portal opens under his feet and he falls into a bottomless pit! and im just a gaming nerd! imagine what someone who can actually direct could do!

 

[hyperhammy]

Fallout has a way better mythology. But they wouldn't need to invent a new story for Gears of War. But my vote is Portal. The example you gave is just awesome. Reminded me of the end in "The Shining".