Armass81 wrote...
albodibran wrote...
No Mass Effect Movie mention. i guess its safe to say the project is dead in the water. a year and change and no new news. But Instead the bring us an Anime of the most forgettable character in the series, Vega. ****in a
If it is dead in the water, Good. They just save themselves the embarrasment.
Theres one answer I can give when one thinks about making a movie based on a game: Dont. They never work out. Theres plenty of examples.
The more a movie from a game tries to make stuff up based on the game, or the more holes they have to fill in because the game had a very thin story, the worse they seem to do.
Mario Brothers: The game had a very thin plot. I honestly don't even remember anything beyond "jump across the happy green terrain, shooting bad guys and avoiding the unnecessarily large plants and boulders -- and giant ****ing rockets that we added in the 3rd game."
Mortal Kombat: The games have a plot but it's about as thin as they come. They tried to throw in something deeper in the movie and it didn't work.
Street Fighter: Now, Street Fighter actually has a half-way decent history but they made the first movie before that story had a chance to really develop.
The Legend of Chun Li: This came out
after the Street Fighter story had a chance to develop and they just ignored it and turned it into the generic action flick I've ever seen part of. It looked like Steven Segal should have had a cameo. (He'd probably make a better Guile than Jean-Claude Van Damme.) True, I don't know if you
could weave all the Street Fighter stories together into something coherent.
Doom 3: It could have been good with the change to the premise if they focused on it more, but it would still be a bastardization of the source material. The game's plot was basically: alien technology opens a portal to Hell. Kill everything that stops you from closing it. Most every event in the game just moved you forward in getting to kill Betreuger (sp?) and did little for any amount of story. I chose to ignore Doom 1 and 2 because the plot in those is as thin as Mario Brothers.
Silent Hill: It might have been a nice little Japanese horror movie if it was done by the Japanese. I never played the games but Japanese horror is more atmosphere than gore.
Max Payne: Could have been good. I didn't see it so I don't really know what's wrong with it. The games certainly had a well fleshed-out story.
Any movie directed by Uwe Boll: Well, we just won't go there.
Dead or Alive: I never played the games but the movie was mostly about watching women's boobs and from what I hear, that's mostly what the games were mostly about anyway.
The difference is that movies are about telling a story. Games (traditionally) are about action or adventure. BioWare and CD Projekt Red seem to be slowly changing that convention and movies like Kill Bill (the first one) challenge the notion that movies can't be as much about action as any video game. If Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat were treated like Kill Bill (the first one), it would have been a good movie.
It would take the right game company and movie studio to realize that movies and games are two
incredibly disparate tools to tell a story and are generally (as we've seen) incompatible. They try to take the game story, throw in some peppers and onions, and copypasta it into a feature film. Hell, up until the last couple years, games were
never about telling a story so it should come as no surprise that most game-to-movie conversion fail.
But someone needs to tell me why they're still making Resident Evil movies.
Modifié par Mystiq6, 15 juillet 2012 - 01:48 .