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[Collider]

I fully expect Hollywood to do it's typical butchering.

[kglaser]

battlechantress wrote...
 Because I have my suspicions that it will play more like freakin' "Transformers" than something more original that has a bit more plot and fewer explosions. (Don't get me wrong, I like explosions. I love fire too. It just tends to get overdone these days.)

Now, I DID hate "Transformers 2".  What a piece of !@#$%^.  If anyone had told me I'd see a movie that had "too many explosions", I'd have laughed in their faces...but, there it was.  It was too big, too loud, and MUCH too long.

Plus,Garrus wasn't even in it.  Now how could it be any good considering that??
Oh, no.  Now he's bitter.

[Collider]

I heard that Megan Fox, who is supposed to be the main character in Transformer's girlfriend, was kicked off the cast and won't be in Transformers 3. What they are going to do to make up for that...give him another girlfriend. That's Hollywood for you.

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Although I may take a look at the movie - not necessarily grabbing a seat at a theatre - to see what Turians would look like.

[silentstephi]

/shrug

As some one who doesn't remember enough of the Transformers cartoon, I actually liked the movies. Though... there's a lot I could have done without, they were eye candy. Plus it was easier to follow the action in 2 than it was in 1. I felt like 1 was full of beeboppin' robots... was... awkward.



I'm all for original plots for sci-fi movies (always a good thing, really) but I know the biggest beef I had with D9 was it's format: the "let's make it like it's a documentary" garbage made it practically impossible to follow. I really didn't like it. It probably has a great premise and all, but again... it's delivery was poor.



Hopefully, ME's movie won't be the same. If Hollywood does it's usual "we need to grab as many people as we can" BS... then well, we're boned. But that's the nature of Hollywood: to make as much money off us poor suckers as plausible.

[kglaser]

stephi, I definitely agree with you on this: if they make an ME movie (and I'm praying like hell they do no such thing), they better not make it a "documentary" like D9 or Cloverfield. That would just not fit. At all.

Although I will truthfully say that the chance to see awesomely-rendered turians of any sort would be worth virtually any kind of torture for me.

(And I loved "Transformers I". I just thought 2 sucked major ass.

[battlechantress]

I highly doubt they'll do a documentary type of movie for ME, honestly. It's probably going to lean more in the "Transformers" direction, and not in a good way.

[kglaser]

Srsly. A Mass Effect movie would be like a train wreck running into a nuclear bomb detonation inside an active volcano.

DO NOT WANT x 1 googol.

[Lemonwizard]

District 9 was an extremely interesting first 2/3s of a film.....but I have no idea why they felt the need to turn the last part into standard sci-fi action fare.





That was what was so refreshing about it in the first place, it showed first contact with extraterrestrial life having difficulties that were not "BLOW EACH OTHER UP WITH LOTS OF SPECIAL EFFECTS", had a completely new take on the genre....then they decided to blow each other up with lots of special effects anyway.





It pissed me off immensely.

[battlechantress]

On the plus side, we'll never see a "District 9 The Mega Sequel". Followed by a godawful part 3, etc..

[Lemonwizard]

Eh, the whole "we'll be back in 3 years" seemed a pretty blatant sequel hook to me. I don't know how it did in the box office, but I would not be surprised to see a district 10.

[Alexine]

I haven't seen District 9, but a lot of people I knew liked it enough. Might go and see it when I clear through the ton of stuff I want to watch.



Am I the only person who thinks that turians will lean more towards animatronics than CGI? I think it would look even more cool if they could do that and pull it off.

[Lemonwizard]

I really think the technology they developed for Avatar, filming with real actors and then using computers to modify their appearance like high-tech make up, has a massive amount of potential for any future endeavors in making science fiction films.





Something like this could be done for things like eyes, with a bit more extensive computer work for things like the mandibles, etc. Then standard motion capture for the rest of the body movements.





Of course, I doubt an ME movie could get a budget that big.

[Alexine]

I don't think that ME would have the budget that Avatar had either. Although ME is outstanding in gameplay and story, it won't get the attention of many other people. I think it's because video game films has a certain stigma towards it, not in critics and viewers, but also the producers and people who make the movie.

If they ever plan to make the movie video game-like (which I have a gut feeling it will), I'm going to be very disappointed. And if they ruin turians for me...

[Lemonwizard]

Well, to be fair, given most of the examples....the stigma is well deserved.

[Bugsie]

I thought that District 9 was fairly well done considering its basis was a short done by a local South African - good but not great Scifi movie. I think District 10 is on the cards.



As for Transformers - biggest snorefest ever -IMHO - the sequel which I was unduly forced to go along and see, even worse.



Considering they have announced an ME movie - I'd like to lay money down on odds they'll definitely *&^ it up Collider.

[Alexine]

Lemonwizard wrote...

Well, to be fair, given most of the examples....the stigma is well deserved.

I think it has, but I blame the crew and producers who had started this stigma. When they think of video games, they think "guns/swords, explosion and lots of action", therefore thinking they need to make the film suit its genre. However, they instead made it rather cliche. I think movie producers need to stop thinking these titles to just be 'video games' but as stories needed to be told in motion picture.

I'm having low expectations of this ME film (if it's ever made). I've given up on Hollywood since they decided in the last few months announcing adaptations (Kane & Lynch film and particularly a Bleach manga live action adaptation motion picture ). Even with the lure of realistic Garrus and turians wouldn't make me change my opinion of it.

Modifié par Alexine, 09 juin 2010 - 06:51 .

[Kim Shepard]

Am I the only one who doesn't mind the idea of a Mass Effect movie? xD I've seen enough book/movie adaptations that changed so much from the original, it wouldn't really bother me if the ME movie was the same way. I almost expect it. It's a little annoying when people are acting out-of-character though.

[Lemonwizard]

I expect to be disappointed but don't think there's anything to really judge yet. The Mass Effect universe would be an excellent setting for a movie. Shepard's story would make a horrible movie, because unless they cut out 90% of the details that made me care about the characters in the first place, the movie would have to be 12 hours long.

[Bugsie]

Kim Shepard wrote...

Am I the only one who doesn't mind the idea of a Mass Effect movie? xD I've seen enough book/movie adaptations that changed so much from the original, it wouldn't really bother me if the ME movie was the same way. I almost expect it. It's a little annoying when people are acting out-of-character though.

I don't mind the idea - I'm just worried they'll mess it up completely.  Hollywood SciFi conversions don't have a good track record.

[Alexine]

I would just think ME movie as a popcorn movie, something to enjoy but not take seriously. But popcorn movies are always made since they are the cash cows. I never liked a lot of the films that were adapted from other mediums, but it does have its other uses as well. It helps broaden its audience, but it can alienate new audiences as well.



But anyway, back onto Garrus. If there was a ME movie, who should play Garrus? I think Brandon Keener is talented enough to do it, but I have a gut feeling they'll cast some A-list actor just to make a few extra million.

[Lemonwizard]

If Garrus is CG, keeping the same voice actor is very possible. You can't market a big actor without a face audiences will recognize in the previews.

[Filby08]

Hello, My name is Filby and I have a crippling Garrus Addiction. <3:wub: *waves*

I will now pitch a small tent in this thread and live here happily ever after.

[Nilfalasiel]

kglaser wrote...

Srsly. A Mass Effect movie would be like a train wreck running into a nuclear bomb detonation inside an active volcano.

 It probably would be.

Now for some catching up:

I propose a name for us Garrus fans: how about Garrusians? It's got the same "ian" ending as "Vakarian"~

@ Xsause: You deliver once again. Those "FemShep is a sex goddess" pics are genius

About sexy voices: Thane just doesn't do it for me. It's strange, because he should; he's got the same kind of velvety voice with a touch of raucousness as Garrus...but he just ends up sounding like he gargles cement every morning, to me. I second Liam Neeson's voice though. I'll also throw in a word for Alan Rickman. His voice has a rather strange guttural effect to it, but it actually works (plus he was DAMN sexy as Snape...he's the only reason I ever watched a Harry Potter film...well, him and Gary Oldman as Sirius Black). Another sexy voice, but not an actor this time: Kelly Jones, the singer for Stereophonics. Hotdangit.

As for bad VA, I have one word: Grandia. Terrible game, but the VA just took the cake, ran away with it and punted it over the nearest fence...and off a cliff. Into a pack of angry sharks. There's also Valkyrie Profile...great game...atrocious VA ("BICYCLE DISASTERRRRR!"). It's a testament to how good the rest of it is that I'm still able to play it.

[Alexine]

Nilfalasiel wrote...

Now for some catching up:

I propose a name for us Garrus fans: how about Garrusians? It's got the same "ian" ending as "Vakarian"~

That name reminds me of Gerousia, the old men who served as advisors for the Spartian society. And it sounds the same when pronounced

Nilfalasiel wrote...

...but he just ends up sounding like he gargles cement every morning, to me.

HAHA, when I read I was laughing my lungs out. Never thought of Thane's voice like that. Now I'm going to laugh at Thane whenever he talks now.

And welcome, Filby08! Hope you enjoy your stay here at this thread, if you don't our randomness. :happy:

Modifié par Alexine, 09 juin 2010 - 09:00 .

[Filby08]

Nilfalasiel wrote...


About sexy voices: Thane just doesn't do it for me. It's strange, because he should; he's got the same kind of velvety voice with a touch of raucousness as Garrus...but he just ends up sounding like he gargles cement every morning, to me.

Whenever I talked to Thane I caught myself constantly clearing my throat, maybe out of hope that he might get the hint and do the same =/

I'm pretty sure Brandon Keener could read the text in my old high school maths book and i would still salivate