Video Game That Would Actually Make A Really Good Film?

[Brighton_Game_Trader]

A few days ago, Youtube user Steelehouse Digital (http://www.youtube.com/user/SteelehouseDigital) uploaded this awesome fan film version of what PAC-MAN The Movie could look like. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out here - http://eclectic-review.blogspot.com/2012/04/video-pac-man-movie-060412-daily-dose.html

This got me thinking - what video game would make the best real-life movie?

There's been a few fairly rubbish ones (Doom and latter Resident Evil films spring to mind).
To my mind, there could be a really good full action Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid or maybe a Just Cause film. The games work well, but the same kind of action on the big screen could be really great!

What does everyone else think?

 

[ChupathingyX]

Minesweeper of course...

 

[Andy Shandy]

Minesweeper of course...

Damnit, I was going to say Minesweeper =P

Looks like I'll have to say The Sims instead

 

[RJ 17]

KOS-MOS and Shion would be some of the most iconic movie figures of the current age.

From what I played of Xenosaga Episode 1 (or whatever), it pretty much already is a movie...at least that's the feeling I got after walking around a giant spaceship talking to people for the first 4 hours before any kind of "game" aspect kicked in.

As for my own nomination, I'd say it would do the entire franchise justice if someone could effectively pull off Alien vs Predator 2 from the PC. I really enjoyed the way the 3 campaigns in that game melded together. None of this "enemy of my enemy BS". All 3 protagonists end up indirectly helping the other two just by the actions they, themselves, are taking (i.e. marine is on the run, he needs to get into a hatch beneath the pod the predator is in. So he hits a button that starts up the wake-up sequence for the pred, gets access to his hatch, and gets out of there).

 

[Kahunaburger]

I think a bioshock movie would be well done, a mass effect and dragon age one too.

Bioshock, yes. Although Bioshock would be better if the protagonist was replaced with Dr. Tenenbaum. She's a better cinematic character - the whole storyline with Jack, Fontaine becoming a monster, and so on works much better in a game. It might work well in black and white, deliberately invoking stuff like The Fountainhead and spiraling into something out of Nosferatu.

Mass Effect and Dragon Age, no. The "riffing on other, better fantasy and SF settings" thing Bioware does works okay in a game, but if they tried to do it in a movie they'd wind up with something like Eragon.

Also, I still think Prince of Persia: Competent Writer/Director/Actors Edition might be a good movie. The platforming and combat segments in that game are more or less incidental to the plot - the main thing is the interaction between characters. IMO it could definitely be very good in the right hands.

 

[distortedreality]

I always thought the hotel level of the first Hitman would make a great basis for a fim. Then that abomination of a film was made and my dreams extinguished.

I'd honestly think a Mirrors Edge film would do well (as long as it wasn't over the top and riddled with dub step). Failing that, maybe Deus Ex (HR era), Mass Effect, obviously CoD if you're into crappy modern war movies.

 

[madwarper]

From a gamer's perspective, why should we care about games being made into movies? Of course, from a film studio's executive's perspective, it's easy to see why they'd do it since they're intellectually bankrupt and are willing to try to sell any shit to the masses. But, why should we care?

 

[Aircross]

Deus Ex might be the first "interactive" movie. Audiences can choose what they want the protagonist to do.

 

[Iwata]

I think a bioshock movie would be well done, a mass effect and dragon age one too.

I agree, and one was in pre-production before they decided to can it in exchange for another crappy "Pirates of the Caribean" cash-in. So, yeah, thanks for that.

Anyway, I'd love to see a "Starlancer" movie, and a PROPER "Wing Commander".

For more recent games, I'd love a movie adaptation of either "inFAMOUS" or "Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare".

 

[The_Deleted]

Trouble is all these films try to follow a game plot rather base a story around the characters.
All the talk of an Uncharted film was pointless, because they are the best film influenced games around and if you ignore certain things about a game that the fans feel is the core of the experience, regardless of how big a part it might play in said title, then the fans are going to be pissed.

Now, obviously game fans are the hardest to please and the easiest to upset, but if games are going to be used for films, then they need to follow the rules set by the better performing comic based movies. Batman, Iron Man, Spider-Man all stayed true to what the characters were, we'll ignore Iron Man 2 glossing over the alcohol issues Stark battled so brilliantly in the comics.

For me, a God of War story would be the tits. But it'd need a budget and a bit more heart than the sulking teenager shtick that Kratos epic is becoming.

 

[The_Deleted]

None that I can think of. Most games would lend themselves better to a tv series.

also this.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Now, obviously game fans are the hardest to please and the easiest to upset,

I don't know about that. Look at what games get discussed as if they have "good writing."

 

[Andy Shandy]

Now that I think about it, something like Dead Rising may actually make a decent film. Maybe it's just me thinking that though (more than likely)

To all of those that say Mass Effect and Dragon Age and those sorts of games, the problem with them is the choice that they are known for. People would go to it and end up hating it because "That's not MY Shepard". Making a film about the universe - for example, the First Contact War in Mass Effect - may work, but basing it on the games wouldn't.

 

[Zhukov]

Now, obviously game fans are the hardest to please and the easiest to upset,

I don't know about that. Look at what games get discussed as if they have "good writing."

Agreed.

I can never decide whether to laugh or cry whenever I see someone refer to the The Witcher 2 as having good writing.

 

[Legendsmith]

One of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games could work I think.