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[LGTX]

So past games adaptations' quality is a hefty argument to support movies dictated BY fans? What?

I think we should let them do their thing... at least we know they're taking things much more seriously then any game-to-movie adaptation before, arguing into deeper details is just personal preference. I'll start having positive or negative reactions when a trailer is out or something...

Modifié par LGTX, 30 juillet 2011 - 10:23 .

[Lotion Soronarr]

Mesina2 wrote...

Lotion Soronnar wrote...

SandTrout wrote...

@Lotion Soronnar,

All of these things would be severely curtailed by time constraints and the necessary amount of action sequences necessary to make the movie appealing to ME initiates who's first experience with the IP is the movie.

Beh. The ME1's plot is actually pretty short when you think about it.

90% of the game is running down corridors/paths as shooting.
You can fit everything necessary in a 2 - 2.5 hour movie.

Wrong.
Without skipping dialogues it takes you 12-15 hours to beat ME1 with no side quests.

And there were many attempts from fans to make Mass Effect movieusing  and best one out there took over 4 hours.

Wha's talking about side-quests?
I'm taking about all the runnuing and gunning and unnecessary stuff you do during the main quest.

ME series - if you want to adapt it into a movie - has a LOT of fat.
i belive some peoeple already  made calcualation befrore and fit the entire ME1 plot into 2.5 hours.

[LGTX]

Making running and gunning interesting is what Hollywood is all about, Lotion Soronnar. They'll be fine.

[CroGamer002]

^And cutting stuff for the movie has writing "FAILURE" all over the place.

[SandTrout]

So past games adaptations' quality is a hefty argument to support movies dictated BY fans? What?

Read the thread. Like most people, I don't appreciate the need to repeat myself. The argument is that most video game based movies are horrible flops because they either A) Attempt to convert an existing game's plot into a movie, and cut those things that made fans love the games or Have no relevance whatsoever to the original IP other than the title.

Modifié par SandTrout, 30 juillet 2011 - 10:29 .

[CroGamer002]

People who wrote the game and did FMV cutscenes made this junk.

Considering the quality of that franchise, Bioware can easily f*ck up Mass Effect movie.

[Funkcase]

I'm not pleased about it, so I'm just not going to watch it. They're not going to change there mind, so there's no point moaning about it.

[LGTX]

SandTrout wrote...

So past games adaptations' quality is a hefty argument to support movies dictated BY fans? What?

Read the thread. Like most people, I don't appreciate the need to repeat myself. The argument is that most video game based movies are horrible flops because they either A) Attempt to convert an existing game's plot into a movie, and cut those things that made fans love the games or Have no relevance whatsoever to the original IP other than the title.

I don't like repeating myself either, read my whole post. That's exactly what I said I don't agree with.

[TheCrakFox]

I still think humanity's emergence on to the galactic stage would be the best topic for the film. It's certainately better than a retelling of ME1 with half the characters and plot points ripped out.

[SandTrout]

@LGTX,

My apologies, it's getting late for me.

Modifié par SandTrout, 30 juillet 2011 - 10:33 .

[Tommy6860]

Terror_K wrote...

Bshep2 wrote...

The movie is not intended for you. You are not the target crowd.
Therefore, your complaints are irrelevant.

The majority of the people who will watch this movie have not played either ME game, some may not have even heard of it prior to seeing the movie.

I'm having a horribly difficult time understanding why people complain about the movie. No one is forcing you to watch it and it's not going to have any effect on the game series.

And I honestly have just as difficult a time understanding why people here actually support the notion that the movie is being made more for non Mass Effect fans than it is for the existing ones. Yes... getting in a bunch of new fans is all well and good, but shouldn't something based on a particular IP be made for the existing fans first and foremost? Shouldn't it be something that doesn't alienate the existing audience at the same time? This is the same mentality that results in most modern Hollywood dreck and things like Dragon Age 2 after all: when there's too much emphasis on appealing to the masses and not enough on making something for the fans who loved the thing already.

I can agree with this aspect of thinking, but as I said in an earlier post, you also have to consider the game is different in sales compared to movies. You, as I would as well, be basing the movie on our experiences with the game. Most movie-goers won't know anything about the game, let alone having played it, so they won't draw parallel comparisons, unlike what you did with DA2 since it is a follow-up to its predecessor. There will be far more people who know nothing of the game than those who would when seeing the movie. I would also add that (as a few forumite friends pointed out), that the Shep role will probably be played by a male actor. There aren't many movies with fem-actors playing hard core roles that can be bad asses as well, I jsut wish. *sigh*
But I remember, Ripley kicked butt in Aliens

[littlezack]

Mesina2 wrote...




People who wrote the game and did FMV cutscenes made this junk.

Considering the quality of that franchise, Bioware can easily f*ck up Mass Effect movie.

It has Matthew Lillard. It never stood a chance of being good.

[SandTrout]

It has Matthew Lillard. It never stood a chance of being good.

Really? I happen to love Lillard as an actor, and he was one of the few redeeming aspects of that movie for me. That is just a difference of opinion, though.

[didymos1120]

SandTrout wrote...

 I happen to love Lillard as an actor...

I feel like I've just seen a unicorn in the flesh or something.

[Lumikki]

People allways judge others work, because it's so easy to do so, even when they self can't do any better. Also people judge sertain type of movies or directors, because if they don't like something, it has to be bad. I have seen people say how some movies are good, while I have my self thinked they are just pure crap. But I respect and understand people having different taste. Way too many times it's all about me, me and me. I want this, they should do this for me and so on. Very self centered attitude.

The movie will have bigger affect to people who haven't played the game, than us. So, while the movie is entertaiment, it's also marketing the IP.

Modifié par Lumikki, 30 juillet 2011 - 11:19 .

[Hyper_gateway]

I wouldn't say upset but sort of disappointed to the decision, what a waste on NOT telling other epic story of ME universe.

But as in Marketing concern, it gives very good enough reason to make the movie about ME1. So, marketing 1 - storytelling 0 on this round =.=

Modifié par Hyper_gateway, 30 juillet 2011 - 11:09 .

[LilyasAvalon]

I'm more upset Mass Effect gets an actual movie while Dragon Age gets an anime.

[artsangel]

You know, making the movie about the First Contact War isn't going to magically make it a better movie than a retelling of ME1. If the people writing / directing / acting in the movie suck and don't put a respectable amount of effort into creating a quality piece of entertainment (and considering the fate of most video game movies...) then it's going to be a crappy movie, whether it's about Humans vs Turians or Blasto's Summer Vacation.

If the reviews are good, I will watch it. If the reviews are bad, I won't.

And if it reviews well and people love it? Maybe you'll all get your FCW movie.

[CroGamer002]

LilyasAvalon wrote...

I'm more upset Mass Effect gets an actual movie while Dragon Age gets an anime.

There's still gonna be Mass Effect Anime.
And I actually have hopes for that Anime to be good.

[LilyasAvalon]

Mesina2 wrote...

LilyasAvalon wrote...

I'm more upset Mass Effect gets an actual movie while Dragon Age gets an anime.

There's still gonna be Mass Effect Anime.
And I actually have hopes for that Anime to be good.

That's still unfair.

[CroGamer002]

artsangel wrote...

You know, making the movie about the First Contact War isn't going to magically make it a better movie than a retelling of ME1. If the people writing / directing / acting in the movie suck and don't put a respectable amount of effort into creating a quality piece of entertainment (and considering the fate of most video game movies...) then it's going to be a crappy movie, whether it's about Humans vs Turians or Blasto's Summer Vacation.

If the reviews are good, I will watch it. If the reviews are bad, I won't.

And if it reviews well and people love it? Maybe you'll all get your FCW movie.

True, but with FCW they have much more freedom and you can have ussual summer action movie with good story and characters.

With that you're not alienating fanbase by cutting stuff from ME1 movie, you're still getting new people getting interested in Mass Effect and if it's done right Bioware would brake myth that all movies based on games suck.

[Clonedzero]

either it'll be really good and thats cool

or it'll be really bad, and well i have a hobby of watching bad movies with friends and just having a good time enjoying the awfulness of it, so that'll be fun too.


the worst thing that can happen is if its just "ok". cus then its not super good, and its not bad enough to mock with friends. it's just there...

[Lotion Soronarr]

Mesina2 wrote...

^And cutting stuff for the movie has writing "FAILURE" all over the place.

That depends what you cut. As I said, ME has a lot ot fat- things you could remove/rewrite without chanign the story in any significnat way.

For example, you can put the recruitment of Liara in another place, and it really won't change much.

[BatmanPWNS]

Why couldn't they just make the movies about the books >.>

[Lotion Soronarr]

Mesina2 wrote...

True, but with FCW they have much more freedom and you can have ussual summer action movie with good story and characters.

With that you're not alienating fanbase by cutting stuff from ME1 movie, you're still getting new people getting interested in Mass Effect and if it's done right Bioware would brake myth that all movies based on games suck.

Sez who?
Just because you don't like the idea of ME1 movie, don't suddnely assume all "true" fans do.

Really, the opposition to the moive is redicolous. where's the Zero Punctuation video on fanboys when you need one?