What about your non gamer friends?
I'm getting a little concerned about the near constant failure rate by the movie studios to produce even something above average related to a video game, in my estimation a couple of the better ones would be the first Mortal Kombat, and Dead or Alive, as at least they had the courage to stick to their roots and source material and be entertaining to gamers, but surely, it's got to be POSSIBLE to make a good video game movie.
However, my fear is, by the time that this happens, perhaps around the release of 'Warcraft' in 2010, every non gamer will have been stung so hard and so often they just flatly won't place down the bucks to go see ANY game movie at all, and I truly believe video gaming has the chance to transfer to the big screen really well if given the right people and the right budget.
SO I guess, the big question, if your favourite game was made into a movie, would you go see it in the cinema? or wait for a dvd release so you didn't have to be seen at the cinema going into it? Would you take non gamer friends, or go alone?
I can just see gamers in the future buying a ticket for Sex in the City 3 and then sneaking into the Tekken movie, because it'd be slightly less embarrasing than buying a ticket for the game movie.
I remember when MK hit UK Cinemas, we'd made a day of it, in London, hit the Trocadero for an arcade binge, then headed to the big cinema, early to get a good seat, then discovered me and my two friends outnumbered the rest of the audience, and this was days after its release!
I'm getting a little concerned about the near constant failure rate by the movie studios to produce even something above average related to a video game, in my estimation a couple of the better ones would be the first Mortal Kombat, and Dead or Alive, as at least they had the courage to stick to their roots and source material and be entertaining to gamers, but surely, it's got to be POSSIBLE to make a good video game movie.
However, my fear is, by the time that this happens, perhaps around the release of 'Warcraft' in 2010, every non gamer will have been stung so hard and so often they just flatly won't place down the bucks to go see ANY game movie at all, and I truly believe video gaming has the chance to transfer to the big screen really well if given the right people and the right budget.
SO I guess, the big question, if your favourite game was made into a movie, would you go see it in the cinema? or wait for a dvd release so you didn't have to be seen at the cinema going into it? Would you take non gamer friends, or go alone?
I can just see gamers in the future buying a ticket for Sex in the City 3 and then sneaking into the Tekken movie, because it'd be slightly less embarrasing than buying a ticket for the game movie.
I remember when MK hit UK Cinemas, we'd made a day of it, in London, hit the Trocadero for an arcade binge, then headed to the big cinema, early to get a good seat, then discovered me and my two friends outnumbered the rest of the audience, and this was days after its release!
