440 réponses à ce sujet

[Eshaye]

didymos1120 wrote...

Bluko wrote...

Also I haven't actually seen a statement yet saying the movie is going to be ME1's story.

That'd be because no such statement was made at Comic-con. Makes the existence of this thread a bit mystifying.

It was posted as such on IGN, so you know it must be true.... 
*cough*

Fredvdp wrote...

I saw the Mass Effect movie panel on YouTube and they literally said they're focusing on the first game for the first movie.

At 06:40

Awwww nuts! 

Modifié par Eshaye, 26 juillet 2011 - 01:16 .

[Fiery Phoenix]

Hellbound555 wrote...

GodWood wrote...

Movie is going to fail

videogames dont translate into movies well.

True; it's a rule of life. Not that I have any interest in this movie to begin with. Not if it's based on something we've all already seen rather than a fresh stand-alone story as in the novels, which is what it should have been.

Modifié par Fiery Phoenix, 26 juillet 2011 - 01:17 .

[evmiller]

VegasVance wrote...

It will be awkward if it follows Shep, because they would have to pick one, and since default Shep is the most common they would choose him. My problem with that? Sheploo looks nothing like Mark Meer, and sounds nothing like Mark Vanderloo, so unless they lip-sync him like a washed-out teen popstar it will be too bizarre for my tastes.

You might have answered your own question. Mark Vanderloo is a model, not an actor. They won't use him. I doubt they'd use Meer either. They'll pick someone else.

[evmiller]

Metopholus wrote...

littlezack wrote...

Sierra Crysis wrote...

littlezack wrote...
Except that, after ME3, that'll be the end of Shepard's story. So.

And besides, most media - hell, just about all of it - depicts Sheploo as THE Shepard, anyway. You see him on promotional art, screens, box covers, et cetera. It's only recently that they've even entertained the idea of female Shepard trailer, and we've yet to see it. And it's ridiculous to think that '90%' of the fanbase are going to know Shepard from the movie - since most of the fanbase has kind of, you know, played the damn game. As for people who haven't, who cares what they think or percieve? If it doesn't change your playthrough, why is it such a big deal?

Correct on this. Revan is male and the Jedi Exile is female from KOTOR II.

Because the credible media does not. The writers have purposely avoided a canon, and because of this movie and the picture/setting/popularity that it can have, it'll change that ideal to avoid a canon. The fans will want to see more and where there's an opportunity to make money, they won't turn it down.

But alas, I guess my fragile ego is just overreacting. I suppose it wouldn't mean so much except the fact that they've told and reassured us from day one there was no canon.

Regardless of what the movie does, there still won't be a canon within the game.

This isn't related to ME. but didn't Bioware eventually decide that Revan from KOTOR was male by canon despite the option to play female as well? so anyone who played female Revan played a character that was invalidated and doesn't exist. correct?

what's to stop the same thing happening with Shepard?<_<

[Doveberry]

Oh, this is horrible news! I'm all sad now.

Modifié par Doveberry, 26 juillet 2011 - 01:29 .

[masseffectfan00]

Doveberry wrote...

Oh, this is horrible news! I'm all sad now.

What are you talking about...this is the greatest thing that has ever happened since make up was invented

[LOLandStuff]

This is like the new Spiderman movie where we have to be reminded how Peter Parker was transformed into Spiderman. Because in 10 years, everyone must have forgotten how it happened.
I might as well record ME as I play it and edit it. At least I know it's a lot better and way longer than 2 hours.
Originality is soooo overrated.

[Bluko]

Fredvdp wrote...

I saw the Mass Effect movie panel on YouTube and they literally said they're focusing on the first game for the first movie.

At 06:40

Veetor:"No-no-no-no-no."

*Sigh* Why couldn't they just make one good Mass Effect movie and leave it at that?

Obviously if they are making ME1 into a movie they are planning for trilogy. Yeah... ME1 might work into such a format, but how the heck can you make ME2 into movie? Although I suppose they could just create something entirely different for ME2 seeing as well there really isn't much of a main story. LOL be funny though cause if they made the movie exactly like ME2 movie critics would have a field day. On the plus side however if they rewrite events it could possibly actually be more coherent. Though if there's a big Terminator at the end I can imagine that going over real well with audiences. It'll probably become the new Dath Vader "Nooooooo!" of cheesy.

At best the movies will be watchable, but will have a number of face-palm moments like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Episode III did. I enjoyed those movies, but they aren't exactly great films. Not that I expect any Mass Effect would become highly acclaimed, but if it had been set during the First Contact War we could have gotten a fairly interesting Sci-Fi flick about on par with something like District 9.

Instead here they are trying to create a new Star Wars.

[Luigitornado]

Looking forward to both an ME1, ME2, and ME3 movie

[Boiny Bunny]

Meh - not excited in the least by this. IMO they SHOULD have picked a story that doesn't involve Shepard - I don't want to see a renegade Sheploo beating reporters up, that's nothing like my canon Shepard.

[Meatlocker]

Does anyone remember the WoW movie?  Yeah that's what I thought.

[mnmseven]

Every past game-based movies focused on heavily adapted main story. They all failed.

That why focusing on a backstory like "First Contact War" is better for ME movie.

[Meatlocker]

mnmseven wrote...

Every past game-based movies focused on heavily adapted main story. They all failed.

That why focusing on a backstory like "First Contact War" is better for ME movie.

That always seemed like a good tv series to me.  But yeah a movie would be good too.

[moneycashgeorge]

I'm not at all happy that the movie is based on ME1, but this argument that its bad because there is a different Shepard is so mind-numbingly stupid that I may lose all faith in humanity and join the Reapers.

This is a MOVIE. Its not a GAME. There are no CHOICES. GET OVER IT.

This idea that seeing a "Shepard" whose choices differ from the ones you made somehow ruins Mass Effect forever is like going to a restaurant and being given a hamburger and then saying "Oh No! This Hamburger doesn't have bacon on it! MY hamburgers have bacon! NOW I CAN NEVER EAT A HAMBURGER AGAIN!"

The story of Mass Effect can still exist without your custom Shepard. If anything, you should be happy to see the different repercussions of other choices, thus giving more meaning to the choices that you are apparently so incredibly attached to, and letting you appreciate the uniqueness of your own personal story that the interactive medium of games has granted you.

Seriously, this argument makes no sense what so ever and people who believe it may be clinically insane, and suffer from delusions that the "Commander Shepard" they created is the only possible one ever.

[moneycashgeorge]

Still, an adaption of ME1 will be horrible. The story of the game is long and meandering. It involves undertaking largely unrelated missions to gain separate pieces of information. There is no logical flow from one mission to the other. It would require heavy re-writing to even be possible as a film. Most likely the movie will go:

Eden Prime > Citadel > Virmire > Ilos. Thats not that great.

The budget will not be able to support the epic scale of ME1. In order to finance the movie, they will have to dumb down the plot and pander to different demographics. There will not be enough time to explain the huge backstory (tech, races, history, politics) and develop the characters, and advance the plot. I really doubt that they can pull a quality film out. My prediction is that it will suck.

It would have made SO much more sense to start the film franchise with a low-budget prequel film. Not only would that give the fans something they haven't already seen, but it would introduce the non fans into the setting, therefore giving the next film less to deal with and more time to advance the plot and characters. It would have been a low risk way to gain film awareness. Now everything rides on this one movie, and any hope of a long term adaption of the franchise will die with this one big budget bust.

[Kane Corr]

First Contact War would have been a horribly cliche'd and limited movie. Bad aliens come, invade, and fight the good humans who try to defend themselves.



Uhh......wouldn't you want ME1 all over again?


Disgruntled fan: "But, it's not the same! 20 hours v 2.5 hours is gonna be bad!"


Answer: Same= boring, and Mass Effect 1 the game had alottttt of fat that could have been trimmed. And, not to mention, the whole thing could be twisted around to be an amazing story.

The hate is also just...not needed. If you don't like it, don't see it. It's another medium in which we can all dive into Mass Effect all over again. We'll still have the games, books, etc.


Never understood the hate, really. Kind of mindblowing if you ask me.

[Neow]

Yeah, I still want it to be about the First Contact War.

[Drone223]

The Mass Effect universe is not about Shepard it has a timeline of events that occur before Shepard even existed and events that Shepard had nothing to do with which can be easily explored, You can say the samething about the Star Wars, Halo and Starcraft universes there are planety of events that have occured that fans know nothing about which can be explored by another game or other forms of media without the main characters

People say how the FCW was short while this is true a war dosen't have to last years or have millions of people dead, we had wars that lasted only months such as the Falkland wars (in the 1980's I think) and the six day war in the middle east a few years after world war two, These wars had lots of politics behind them, so A movie about the FCW is interesting idea it can be seen form many perspectives the turins, Humans and Council becasue they all have their reasons for their involvment fo the war, We can learn more about why they are fighting each other through drama rather than action so it dosen't seem like a Alien vs Human movie  

[mnmseven]

Kane Corr wrote...

First Contact War would have been a horribly cliche'd and limited movie. Bad aliens come, invade, and fight the good humans who try to defend themselves.



Uhh......wouldn't you want ME1 all over again?


Disgruntled fan: "But, it's not the same! 20 hours v 2.5 hours is gonna be bad!"


Answer: Same= boring, and Mass Effect 1 the game had alottttt of fat that could have been trimmed. And, not to mention, the whole thing could be twisted around to be an amazing story.

The hate is also just...not needed. If you don't like it, don't see it. It's another medium in which we can all dive into Mass Effect all over again. We'll still have the games, books, etc.


Never understood the hate, really. Kind of mindblowing if you ask me.

First Contact War lasts only three months. its length could fit very well for one movie.
The film needs to show just few locations such as Shanxi, Arcturus station, and Earth.
If made propetly, the First Contact War movie can have much more details than the galaxy-wide quest of ME1.

[The Edge]

You could play Shepard multiple ways; you could pick your gender, your look, and which teammates you played with while making choices that will affect the future sequels.

I could see making a movie based in the Mass Effect universe (wouldn't recommend it, though), but making a movie based on the game's plot, which is affected by player-choice, is something I don't understand...

[chester013]

SandTrout wrote...

masseffectfan00 wrote...

Instead of a made up story from scratch.  I would never watch a ME movie if it weren't based on the series and its good to have it based on the series because we already know the story is amazing minus ME2.  I got a feeling that the movies will be just as good as the video games cause the story is just too good and they can't possibly screw up the movie unless they try to on purpose. 

You're insane. Media ports that cover the same material as the original source almost invariably do not live up to the quality of the original. Hollywood's history with video games shows us that video game to movie ports are the worst kind, as well.

If you think that the movie will be good because it is based dirrectly on the game, then you are willfully blinding yourself to history.

You seem to have overlooked a historical fact about video game to movie adaptations. The vast majority that have been made were based off of games which had little or no plot and were doomed (no pun intended, though worringly thats probably the best movie of it's type to far) to fail from the outset.

[littlezack]

It also doesn't help that videogame movies are usually given to people who either don't have much respect for the franchise, have a little too much obsession with it, or just aren't good directors to begin with. It's not like all videogames just inherently make bad movies.

[Omega-202]

mnmseven wrote...

First Contact War lasts only three months. its length could fit very well for one movie.
The film needs to show just few locations such as Shanxi, Arcturus station, and Earth.
If made propetly, the First Contact War movie can have much more details than the galaxy-wide quest of ME1.

Exactly.  According to the Codex it ONLY lasted a few months.  Less than 1000 sentients died in the total conflict.  There were only 3 major engagements in the entire war with the majority of fighting happening in space.  

Most importantly: NOTHING HAPPENED.  There was no resolution.  Nobody won.  The Turians were forced to back down and everybody came out looking bad.  

And then, after making such a movie, what do you tell the audience?  

***"Hey want to know what happens next?  Go buy 3 games and play through 80 hours of gameplay. "

--- "But I don't want to play a game to find out what happens next.  If I wanted to play the game, I'd have bought it in the first place instead of seeing a movie."  

***"Well, too bad.  Our 'fans' don't want us to make a movie about the events that follow the FCW because that would ruin their version of Shepard."  

[littlezack]

 On top of that, it was just a misunderstanding; it s not like the Turians were a real antagonist or there were any noteworthy humans to serve as protagonists. It barely even qualifies as a war.

[Esbatty]

A Mass Effect movie could recruit more players to the player base and thus allow Bioware to keep exploring the ME universe.