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[Pockydon]

yay news...about stuff no one cares about Also I've lost all respect for Casey recently...

[BogdanUKR1984]

I wish that people who visit this event just ask only one question: why ending of ME3 so bad?

[HopelessAverage]

Pockydon wrote...

yay news...about stuff no one cares about Also I've lost all respect for Casey recently...

Please speak for yourself and not everyone in general....If you don't care why do you feel the need to comment??

[Knight3000]

The history of movies made based on games is incredibly sad, and Bioware's recent history with the ME3 ****up does not inspire confidence.

If a Mass Effect movie does get made (id prefer a series to a movie) it should not be live action but CGI completely.

In addition Casey Hudsen and his artistic integrity should be locked in a box until its finished.

[mireisen]

Knight3000 wrote...

The history of movies made based on games is incredibly sad, and Bioware's recent history with the ME3 ****up does not inspire confidence.

If a Mass Effect movie does get made (id prefer a series to a movie) it should not be live action but CGI completely.

In addition Casey Hudsen and his artistic integrity should be locked in a box until its finished.

Agreed 100%. I don't want a rehash of the games' plot. If I wanted that, I'd play the games first. I'm all up for a movie about the First Contact War though!

[3DFr34K]

Considering Casey's latest disappointment with Mass Effect 3 ending and also his erratic behavior toward the fans. The movie will be just a 3 hours with Elcors performing Hamlet, of course on 3D...... . Then to all we need to keep the artistic integrity.

[WhiteKnyght]

Knight3000 wrote...

The history of movies made based on games is incredibly sad, and Bioware's recent history with the ME3 ****up does not inspire confidence.

If a Mass Effect movie does get made (id prefer a series to a movie) it should not be live action but CGI completely.

In addition Casey Hudsen and his artistic integrity should be locked in a box until its finished.

Resident Evil and Prince of Persia did pretty well.

I think the problem with most movie adaptations is the fans who watch them. Anybody who has never played the game would have no reason to criticize anything.

[Sero303]

The Grey Nayr wrote...

Knight3000 wrote...

The history of movies made based on games is incredibly sad, and Bioware's recent history with the ME3 ****up does not inspire confidence.

If a Mass Effect movie does get made (id prefer a series to a movie) it should not be live action but CGI completely.

In addition Casey Hudsen and his artistic integrity should be locked in a box until its finished.

Resident Evil and Prince of Persia did pretty well.

I think the problem with most movie adaptations is the fans who watch them. Anybody who has never played the game would have no reason to criticize anything.

I would imagine a movie based off a video game would be marketed towards those fans who already know the basics/story/characters and not so much noobs to the franchise. But just because one is NOT a gamer doesn't mean they can't watch/enjoy the movie and story. If the problem is fans, than they really should not make any movies from video games.

And resident evil is so off the rails at this point to be laughable if it weren't so obivous of their greed and Prince of Persia, ... wasn't bad except for that jake gynnehall punk. I just don't like him.

But I agree IF they do make a movie or series from Mass Effect, it really needs to be CGI and no live action

[Deepo78]

 
Mass Effect 3 is pretty much damaged goods right now.

[Oxtail Soup]

Let us not forget Mortal Kombat the sequel:




I'd be happy if there was a scene with Mark Vanderloo passing through, doing his shopping in N7 armour, as an extra, without the film being Shepard centric. As identified, we all have our own vision of his decision making.

Perhaps a futuristic detective show with C-SEC officer Vakarian. The crimes of Dr Saleon.

Modifié par Oxtail Soup, 24 avril 2012 - 06:35 .

[Hellbound107]

The Grey Nayr wrote...

Resident Evil and Prince of Persia did pretty well.

Resident Evil the movie was a crime to any true Resident Evil fan. They should have handed it to Romero.

Personally I dont think a Mass Effect movie could work because the aliens are too cartoonish. Imagine what they would be like on the big screen. Mass Effect has had adult themes and humor that would not work for the kids movie this would undoubtedly become. If it was all computer generated, it would bore the audiance to death. If it was live action then half the characters would be Jar Jar Binking across the screen.
I also imagine Geroge Lucus is waiting somewhere in the shadows with a copyright lawsuit.

[Wolfenrot]

No one noticed on IMDB that Shepard is a FEMALE and she is gonna played by Camryn Grimes?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482455/

[Captain_Obvious_au]

lol, I think not. Bioware would know full well that the majority of fans accept a male Shepard, plus consider that male Shepard is portrayed on every ME game box.

[cindercatz]

Disagreed with the poster a bit up: the Resident Evil movies are the best video game related movies so far (unless you count Lawnmower Man, which is about a fictional VR and not an actual game..), and they're mostly just good movies period. The third one in particular. The other three do have their weak points, but they're still creatively successful films.

Prince of Persia was fun, but that's all the game ever was to me anyway. Nothing profound.
Street Fighter II (the animated film, uncensored) is the only good SF movie. The most recent animated one is alright. Legend of Chun-Li was passable, but it wasn't true to the source material.
The first Mortal Kombat movie was good fun, if a little light on the action and a little conservative on the rating. (shoulda gone full R)
DOA was light fun, not great, but a fun B-movie.

Every other game movie I can think of was adapted from poor source material. Mario? Not a bad steampunk oddity if you forget the game like you should there. Doom? Halo? Good thing somebody thought better and cancelled that.. Then there's Uwe Boll's usual stuff, all genre schlock where he didn't really have much to mess up. House of The Dead? The original FarCry?

Well, there is Yakuza. I haven't seen that one yet, can't comment. That could turn out to be an excellent film, dunno until I rent it if I can find it when I've got the points.. (XBL or PSN, only place I've seen it)

And people used to say they'd never make a good comicbook movie, either. There's a few out there now (Watchmen, 300, Sin City, the new Batman films, Dark Knight Returns in particular, the Spider-Man trilogy, the X-Men films in part, Daredevil, The Incredible Hulk, The Iron Man films, some excellent indy adaptations I can't think of the name of just now, and the old Superman and 90's first two Batman films before that). Sweeping generalizations make for bad assumptions. If the source material is strong, it just comes down to respect for that source material and competent execution.

Wolfenrot wrote...

No one noticed on IMDB that Shepard is a FEMALE and she is gonna played by Camryn Grimes?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482455/

It actually lists her as femShep (She looks great for the part, btw, but male Shepard is still the better choice, because of the better supporting female characters, or female co-star leads really, and the better, much more unique Liara romance across the trilogy.), but it also lists Vanderloo as male Shep. Maybe these are the face models for ME3 and they just listed them wrong? Dunno.

Sooo... Maybe they are making two versions? Or maybe they haven't really committed one way or the other yet, but they're lining up actors if they go either way. It's very odd if they're still in pre-production and maintain that 2012 release date..

Modifié par cindercatz, 25 avril 2012 - 11:28 .

[Hellbound107]

cindercatz wrote...

Disagreed with the poster a bit up: the Resident Evil movies are the best video game related movies so far (unless you count Lawnmower Man, which is about a fictional VR and not an actual game..), and they're mostly just good movies period. The third one in particular. The other three do have their weak points, but they're still creatively successful films.

Really bad example for a video game movie. The man behind them didn't care at all for the actual video games, he was trying to get laid by the lead actress. Resident Evil was good to anyone who didn't play the video games, atleast the original video games. Any real fan hates those movies with a passion. Now translate that to Mass Effect. Imagine a movie with a non-Shepard main character who does everything shepard was suppose to do, only better. Does everything shepard couldn't do, and add a motorcycle wall ride just for the heck of it.

Now imagine saying the Mass Effect movie sucked and everyone else (who never played the game) saying that you'r an idiot and the movie was great.

[Wolfenrot]

Resident Evil movie is pure trash compared to the videogame saga. Silent Hill have done a way better job.

[clipped_wolf]

Agree with Wolfenrot. Silent Hill movie captured some of the creepiness and dread from the original source.
Resident Evil was a Hollywood shoot-em-up. First one was okay, IMHO, but they went downhill from there.

[Hellbound107]

Thank You! Thats why Im worried about Mass Effect. Odds are it will translate badly or someone will make it into a cheap scifi, random explosions, wreck. The best to hope for is a Star Wars level big budget movie and thats just not going to happen.

[cindercatz]

Silent Hill was terrible. Or rather, it was pretentiously passable. Not the greatest flick, not particularly satisfying, but yeah, it kept the pace of the game.

And I dread Mass Effect being modeled in any way after Star Wars. This is gritty, bloody, sexy space opera, deserving of a full R rating, not dumbed down or kid focussed mass market junk. Not that Star Wars is junk, far from it, but it's a family franchise with simple, broad themes and a general educational oppurtunity vibe. Mass Effect is thankfully another beast. Don't be Star Wars. Be the gritty, pull no punches, challenge your preconceptions, R rated, adult alternative. ... and if it gets that far, fix the ending. ;-)

Hellbound107 wrote...

cindercatz wrote...

Disagreed with the poster a bit up: the Resident Evil movies are the best video game related movies so far (unless you count Lawnmower Man, which is about a fictional VR and not an actual game..), and they're mostly just good movies period. The third one in particular. The other three do have their weak points, but they're still creatively successful films.

Really bad example for a video game movie. The man behind them didn't care at all for the actual video games, he was trying to get laid by the lead actress. Resident Evil was good to anyone who didn't play the video games, atleast the original video games. Any real fan hates those movies with a passion. Now translate that to Mass Effect. Imagine a movie with a non-Shepard main character who does everything shepard was suppose to do, only better. Does everything shepard couldn't do, and add a motorcycle wall ride just for the heck of it.

Now imagine saying the Mass Effect movie sucked and everyone else (who never played the game) saying that you'r an idiot and the movie was great.

Personally, I think that's hilarious, considering I did play the original Resident Evil games, at the time they originally came out, and am a fan of the games as well. I think people's problems come with not thinking about where they fit in, honestly. Resident Evil is about Umbrella Corp. testing their new bioweapon (but also attempting to use the T-Virus in various forms to transcend humanity themselves). Resident Evil the movie takes place right after (or was it before?, I forget, point being they left no trace) the first game, at the same residence, and reveals a little extra secret about 'why that house?' etc. Resident Evil 2 is the outbreak of Raccoon City, from two concurrent perspectives. The second Resident Evil film takes place in the same city, in the same outbreak, in another part of town, at Umbrella HQ, basically. She even walks out onto the same street that you start out RE2, the game, on. She's been cloned in the meantime, etc. (Is she a clone herself? Quite likely.. seems yes.) But she's a product of the ongoing research into the T-Virus, the superhuman side of what they're trying to achieve. She runs into a few characters from the series (the first game's protagonist, for instance) that aren't in the second game, and runs into more of the superfreak T-Virus mutants from the end of RE2 and RE3. The third movie takes place years later, and we start to run into more of the video game protagonists. Code: Veronica is the last game I've played. (I've got 4 and 5 in my stack to play, and I will), so I don't know exactly how this falls, but I do know that the mind control machines from a later game show up on our original game protagonists in the fourth movie (and in Marvel vs. Capcom dlc, for instance), so it must be after that part in the games, and that must be from the games. I also like the Resident Evil CG movie, shouldn't leave that out, but it's even more outlandish than anything that happens in the live action films, though earlier on in chronology.

Basically, the only game fans that hate the movies are game fans that haven't actually watched the movies for what they are, concurrent side stories with their own central storylines, or parrellel stories, I should say, and pretty good ones, every bit as good as the games.

And your aspersions thrown at the director and the actress are a mite insulting, I think. Why would she keep going back to work with the guy if he were such a lout? She hasn't exactly hurt for employment oppurtunities over the last ten or fifteen years.

Edit: You know what you'd actually get if they made Mass Effect movies the way they make RE movies? You'd get exactly what most people (not me, but I'd support this if it were the case) have been asking for in this thread, a side story not centered on Shepard or alternate versions of events depicted in the game, but rather original stories in the same universe with some canonical crossover. lol If they were as good as the RE movies, they wouldn't exactly be what Mass Effect could be, but they'd still be pretty good.

Modifié par cindercatz, 29 avril 2012 - 12:21 .

[Hellbound107]

Side story? They destroyed the whole world in the movies, they made Wesker look like a punk. They made the original characters look useless. Then they had "Ultraviolet" rush in and kill everything with her super powers. Her character was the worst Mary Sue in movie history Im surprised she didnt fly around and cure cancer with her golden turds.

Sure they took somethings from the games but the movies are a whole different universe populated by Wonder Alice and her magic wall driving abilities. The video games are survival horror. The movies are just crap.
Im getting off topic though....

Back to Mass Effect.....

[clipped_wolf]

I think a comparison of the Resident Evil games to the movies is relevant for the Mass Effect movie discussion. It is a fantastic example of what we fear the ME movie could be...a special effects shoot-em-up with no understanding or respect for what made the original story work.

[jinxter69]

Friends of mine who will be there have already stated that they want to go and ask Casey if the movie will have an RGB style of ending that won't thematically fit the movie but will cause massive amounts of speculation. ...as in WTF was the writer smoking?

[Chrome tater tot]

You put Jeff Bridges in your ME movie and I'll buy my ticket right now.

Modifié par Chrome tater tot, 02 mai 2012 - 08:42 .

[jpoppawusc]

1) I must be the only one who actually liked the ending of Mass Effect 3.

2) I still have faith that the Mass Effect movie will be good, and yes, I'm putting my money on the First Contact War. I would be furious if BioWare broke its non-canon Shep rule by basing it on the game trilogy.

3) I hope the next non-game project we see is an Animatrix / Halo Legends style anime compilation. Seeing Japanese studios animate a variety of short stories from the Mass Effect universe... that would truly be an epic addition to the franchise.

[Prosarian]

Why is it that there are two Shepards listed on the IMDB page?