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[SandTrout]

sedrikhcain wrote...

If your argument against the movie is "It won't be MY Shepard," then honestly, you need to get over yourself and realize that it's a great story that can be told in slightly different ways by many different people.

Step out from behind your king-sized ego for a moment and notice what else is going on in the galaxy besides you.

Well, then we're good then, because my arguement from the begining is that it will simply be a terrible movie and a missed oppotunity to expand the mythos.

[Chaos-fusion]

Upset about it? No. I just think it's a waste of an opportunity if they use the game story.

The fans already have played it, so it's not going to appeal to alot of those, and to anyone else, why would they care about that more than anything else? Why try and force a lengthy, variable storyline into a 90 minute film, when creating one from scratch would give you alot more freedom?

[Iakus]

GnusmasTHX wrote...

Thank God. Someone reasonable.

I mean honestly, have any of you described in Mohak's post ever spoken to anyone in person ever about Mass Effect? Does the conversation turn out like this, like I imagine it would:

Somebody else: "So in my playthrough I did this..."
You: "NO. YOU CAN'T HAVE. i'M THE ONLY ONE WHO'S EVER PLAYED MASS EFFECT AND NO OTHERS HAVE EVER."

Honestly and reasonably speaking: BioWare could make a canon storyline of all three games tomorrow and I wouldn't give a poop. Why? Because I know my game is my game. I don't need others to, nor do I need to insist that it is.

If I'm going to pay someone ten bucks or more (plus popcorn) to play Mass Effect in front of me, they're going to play it the way I want it played 

Edit:  Plus, yes video games in general have an abysmal record in being adapted into movies.  Even a film about the First Contact War or some other aspect of the universe would have me uneasy about seeing.

Modifié par iakus, 30 juillet 2011 - 06:10 .

[Ryzaki]

ME1 is pretty much a movie to start with. It has the benefit of being interactive.

If the ME movie is gonna be about ME1 there's really no reason for me to bother with it.

[Ashathor]

What exactly is the big deal with teh FCW? IMO it doesn't even sound that interesting. Humans fight turians and then are pulled apart by (I guess) the council THE END. If they make a movie not of Shep's story then I hope that it will be of a totally different story line and not just the FCW everyone seems to be obsessing over. Either way I will wait to hear what the reviews say and filter through the rage on the forums to get a good reading on how the movie was.

[DoNotIngest]

No, I'm not upset, because I have a life, and am not the controlling type. Actually, I'm happy that Mass Effect will be receiving more money for more Mass Effect. And if it's at least okay, I'll definitely see it. Multiple times if it's really great.

[Travie]

I'm sure they will make every decision my Shep made, right?



....right?

[Aimi]

Chaos-fusion wrote...

Upset about it? No. I just think it's a waste of an opportunity if they use the game story.

The fans already have played it, so it's not going to appeal to alot of those, and to anyone else, why would they care about that more than anything else? Why try and force a lengthy, variable storyline into a 90 minute film, when creating one from scratch would give you alot more freedom?

Kinda like how it's a waste of an opportunity to use the story from a popular, bestselling book, because the fans have already read it so it's not going to appeal to a lot of those; why try and force a lengthy storyline into a 90 minute film, when creating one from scratch would give you a lot more freedom?

[Sundance31us]

Personally I'd like to see something about Captain Anderson.

[Iakus]

I believe it was lengthy VARIABLE storyline that's the problem here.

When's the last time a Choose Your Own Adventure story been adapted onto a successful movie?

[SandTrout]

daqs wrote...

Kinda like how it's a waste of an opportunity to use the story from a popular, bestselling book, because the fans have already read it so it's not going to appeal to a lot of those; why try and force a lengthy storyline into a 90 minute film, when creating one from scratch would give you a lot more freedom?

I've gone into the inherent difficulty in video-game to movie adatations before, and I don't really have the energy to go into detail, so I'll just give the short of it.

A book to movie adaptation trades away writen content from the book in exchange for visual and audio stimulus. A video game to move adaptation trades writen content and interactiveness for.... nothing. The movie format does not inherently offer any type of stimulus that a game (especially one of ME's quality) cannot offer.

The result is a hacked down cinimatic that doesn't have the interactive nature of the game to engage the audience.

[Pax of Doom]

iakus wrote...

I believe it was lengthy VARIABLE storyline that's the problem here.

When's the last time a Choose Your Own Adventure story been adapted onto a successful movie?

Clue?  

www.youtube.com/watch

[Sundance31us]

iakus wrote...
When's the last time a Choose Your Own Adventure story been adapted onto a successful movie?

For reference:

http://en.wikipedia...._on_video_games

[Sgt Stryker]

SandTrout wrote...

Who said the movie Shepard had to be Canon Shepard? Just treat it as a separate continuity, like the new Star Trek. Problem solved.

Lack of continuity is a major qualm that a lot of people (myself included) have with Star Trek. The writers just make stuff up with no concern for almost anything else in the mythos.

One of the great things about ME is that so far, it has unbroken continuity (in spite of the plot hole whiners). Until the Star Wars prequel trilogy came out, that IP had pretty much unbroken continuity among the movies and numerous book series that came out of it.

Dismissing the desire for internal continuity is a dangerous path for a fresh IP like ME to take.

Hmm, on second thought, a separate continuity is probably a bad idea. The last thing I want is for the MEverse to get a reboot. Damn, the more I think about this, the more I get the idea that this movie is a horrible abomination that should not see the light of day.

Damn.

[littlezack]

Video game movies usually suck because they're usually made by people who suck at making movies. That's really all there is to it. I watched Bloodrayne: Third Reich last weekend, and it sucked - not because of some inherent flaw in the process of making movies, not because of its similarities and differences with the game, but because it was a crappy movie. If the game never existed, it would still be a crappy movie.

Modifié par littlezack, 30 juillet 2011 - 06:30 .

[Sundance31us]

Pax of Doom wrote...
Clue?  

www.youtube.com/watch

Clue was based on a boardgame and didn't do well at the box office.

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Clue_(film)

"Clue was released on December 13, 1985 and ultimately grossed $14,643,997 domestically, just short of its $15,000,000 budget."

[Pax of Doom]

Sundance31us wrote...

iakus wrote...
When's the last time a Choose Your Own Adventure story been adapted onto a successful movie?

For reference:

http://en.wikipedia...._on_video_games

The Rotten Tomatoes scores for the international films are...educational.  :lol:

[Sundance31us]

On the other hand...
Films based on comic books tend to do well.

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia....language_comics

[Pax of Doom]

Sundance31us wrote...

On the other hand...
Films based on comic books tend to do well.

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia....language_comics

The big name ones do well.  Ghost World didn't tear up box office charts.

[LorDC]

Mdoggy1214 wrote...

I didn't expect much from the start given the history of Video Game Movies but first piece of news is already making me roll my eyes. They said at the Comic Con panel that the movie will be about the events of the first game. I have a problem with this for two reasons:

1. Why would we want to see a movie about a story we've played through god knows how many times? I assume most of us have made multiple playthroughs of ME1. Do we really need to see it again? Plus have no control of the choices and what Shepard is like? And that's my second problem.

2. A movie that features Shepard and the events of the games, completely contradicts the whole theme of the Mass Effect Series. The series is about choice and how you the player make the story progress. There is no official canon and there never can be because everyone's playthrough is different. You could say the movie is just another take on the story but it's not that simple. The majority of people are gonna take it as canon. A movie about Shepard and the events of the first game will actually do harm to the game.

imo the movie should take place years after Mass Effect 3. They should wait till ME3 is out, expand on the universe a little, and then have the movie take place many years after.
http://news.yahoo.co...-150204146.html

You are completely wrong. Reason is simple. It looks like "we" you are referring too are hardcore fans(who else will finish multiple playthroughs). Problem is that movies is not targeted at this sort of people. Bioware targets much wider audience who doesn't know much about ME universe and who does not care about "choice".
As for canon, Bioware will have to make one despite all freedom of choice. ME is already popular franchise and is only going to be more popular. Problem is that with all that freedom of choice it is hard to have coherent universe. It is already happening. Look at books and comics. Most probably it will be like KOTOR. Yes you could have done different things in game but only one ending was canonical. It is inevitable.

[Chuvvy]

I'm already out, as soon as I heard it was about the first game. It should be a standalone story.

[littlezack]

And while I'm nuetral on it being based on the first game or not, I don't get why some think the First Contact War would work. I gotta say, I never read the codex and thought 'hey, there's potential for a really great movie here'. It was a small conflict based on a simple misunderstanding that ended completely peacefully. You're not going to get some sort of Saving Private Ryan in Space vibe or anything that would make a decent movie without drastically changing the event, which would probably ****** you off even more.

[Gandalf-the-Fabulous]

Did you really think that they would make a Mass Effect movie and not have it based around Shepard? I hate to break it to you guys but the whole Mass Effect universe revolves around Shepard, and no not your Shepard but this guy



You know the guy on the cover and every single piece of advertising for the game? I mean seriously guys use a bit of common sense, it makes me laugh every time somebody starts crying about the fact that the movie will be based on the on the events of the first game or the fact that the Commander Shepard in the movie wont be a woman, as if such things even had a chance of happening.

[littlezack]

Badpie wrote...

I'm fully against a movie. I know it's happening and I'm not happy about it. They're going to please exactly four Mass Effect fans with whatever they choose for cast/story/decisions/love interest etc. And they're going to butcher and Hollywood up and cliff note everything else for all the people they want to draw in who have no idea what Mass Effect is.

It's a bad idea.

A bad idea that will make lots of money - hence the movie happening.

A bad idea that makes lots of money is a good idea.