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Assorted Video Game Movies in Development
Obiwan Kenobi writes "Filmforce has a solid round-up of video game movies currently in development. From Alone In The Dark to Doom to Dead or Alive (yes, it includes an Extreme Beach Volleyball scene), some interesting reading on the current progress, or lack thereof, of current video game flicks."
But put that idea to rest and just make a movie straight from Max Payne. That storyline was just incredible. Sure it would make the movie about 4 hours long, but man would it be great the first time you watched it.
Does anyone else remember the crtically acclaimed "Mortal Kombat" and "Street Fighter" movies? Seriously, I could pull a better film out of my ass. I was hoping such movies based on fighting video games were an extinct breed.
What we could use is more films based on games with actual stories, better known as RPG's. Perhaps another "Final Fantasy" film, only this time with a story at least somewhat based on that of the actual game itself.
Personally, I think the Rock is a bit iffy for playing the Spy Hunter. The spy hunter should be Clive Owens (BMWFilms.com) - he is the **PERFECT*** actor for the role. And I played Spy Hunter on the C-64. :P
Sweet! The Rock! He's good in anything!!!
Hmm...
The Mummy Returns
The Scorpion King
How you said that without bursting out laughing is beyond me.
I know I did...
there's already a movie called 'dead or alive' in japan, and while it's not related to the game franchise [which i am honestly unfamiliar with other than having seen a screenshot or two], it's a wonderful film. it features the best hooker-in-a-kiddie-pool murder i've ever seen. it's spawned a couple sequels already, and it's only 2 years old. given the crappiness of videogame-based movies [save for a some anime], it's a safer bet. did i mention the kiddie pool is full of fecal matter?
"Life is great; without it, you'd be dead." -Harmony Korine
This is Disney's second crack at adapting Lewis Carroll's Alice books to the big screen. The film adaptation of American McGee's Alice (in turn a video game adaption of Carroll's books) will be produced by Dimension Films, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
If you're boycotting Disney, such as if you're a Southern Baptist or you just disapprove of Disney-sponsored copyright legislation, don't see Alice.
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last not crummy video game movie... not exactly based ON a video game, but around it.
... maybe not so good... but look what they had to compete with D.A.R.Y.L.
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After I posted the parent comment, I discovered two more games to which Disney owns the film rights: Alone in the Dark (Dimension) and Backwater (Dimension).
And is this a coincidence or not? "A screenwriting team has been hired and Milla Jovovich has been talking herself up for the lead [in Alice]." ... "Whether you loved or hated the first one, a Resident Evil sequel is on the way. Milla Jovovich will be reprising her role as Alice." Are there other screen actors or actresses who have portrayed several different characters with the same given name?
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would make an excellent film. Anyone concur?
The 13th Floor was actually inspired by Simulacron-3 by Daniel Galouye. Published 1964. Probably predates whatever game/games you were thinking of.
The first time I saw the Final Fantasy movie, I agree, it sucked. But I was trying to fit it into a Sci-Fi type theme.
The second time I watched it, I realized that it's actually a Horror movie. Once I was able to approach it from the proper frame of referance, it's actually quite a good movie.
And the voice talent is not for nothing either.
Yes, it bombed. Yes it practically destroyed square. But as far as horror flicks go, it was actually quite good.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
Almost as much as that article did. Wow, someone took like 10 minutes to compile stuff from Coming Attractions or Imdb. Yay Journalism!
As far as the Tekken movie goes, they already made it...only, much like Soul Calibur, Sammo's never going to get the rights, make the movie anyway, and just rename it to something else...because in Hong Kong, "kinda legal" doesn't mean that you definitely get sued, unlike the fabulous US of A.
(For the record, the Tekken movie was extremely bad. The only characters in it are Jack, Kazuya, Jun, Lei, and some other people that don't make sense. And the plot's totally different.)
Half the stuff in that article is like, "Oh, someone said this would be a good game to make a movie about."
Must be a slow week for IGN. Grasping at straws to have something to justify their jobs in the deathly silence that leads up to E3.
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Clue was a phenomenal comedy with great dialogue and flawless timing. Such a great cast: Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Leslie Ann Warren, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Colleen Camp, and Howard Hessman. Jane Wiedlin even makes an appearance as a singing telegram, one of a couple cameos in the movie.
Entropy just isn't what it used to be.
Have you seen Gollum lately?
I am a CG modeler. It's unbelievably simple to convince people that they're watching a human if they don't see the face. Our brains have portions dedicated to identifying faces. We can recognize that something is wrong with one in a split-second.
Gollum was the single best CG character that I have ever seen. They did motion capture for his face, so even it moved correctly. The oly real problem that I saw was during one scene, the cloth he was grabbing didn't behave correctly. That's probably because Andy Serkis' fingers aren't as long as Gollum's.
Stills from Final Fantasy were very good, but the video was less than perfect. Gollum's motion was wonderfuly fluid. He moved like a real creature instead of as some construct. I was mostly amazed by how good his facial expressions were. Those are very hard to do manually.
What, did Hollywood run out of books to rape? You would think they would have learned from spiraling fireballs like Super Mario Brothers, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Wing Commander, Resident Evil, etc.
Now I see DOA the movie (I don't know about you guys, but if I want a movie full of hot chicks with no plot, well, that's what porn is for) and, god forbid, Pac Man. Jesus, even at the pinnacle of Pac Man fever they weren't insane enough to make a movie out of it. That whole list sends chills down my spine. I don't know whether to gape in horror or fall off my chair laughing.
-R
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:), Serious Sam couldn't hurt either, but I agree that the Los Angeles Pig Department must have its 15 minutes of fame :)
Oh man I grew UP with Metroid 1... they better NOT fuck this up. Same goes for doom. I am tired of horror flicks. And DIABLO?! If they DO make a movie, Condor/Blizzard North had best go back to diablo 1... Diablo II lacked soul. It felt empty, except perhaps in Kurast. It just felt weak compared to its older sibling Diablo. The boss was good but moviewise, Tristram may be better... unless of course they make the demons convincing out in the deserts and the jungle... Hell could use some Diablo 1 help since it just "felt" more sinister.
Just some ideas, but my pleas go out as follows:
-Diablo- PLEASE get the atmosphere right...
-DiabloII- PLEASE get the demons big bad and scary.
-Doom- scrap PG13, this is an R rated flick. Everyone who EVER played doom is over 17 now and can watch R rated stuff.
-Duke3d- PLEASE scrap this and make Shadow Warrior instead
-Metroid- well... just please don't cast some dumb blonde for Samus... I dunno about everyone else, but she was a badass not someone's love interest... Also if the motherbrain or the space pirates are human actors, then all is lost. Period.
Those are just my opinions but if we get jiggly plastic make up on cheesy looking masks and we call those people "space pirates" (ala the bad guys in Neverending story)... then half our fave games will look lower tech on the big screen than they did on our 12 inch viewable PS/2 monitors. (Those who played Doom in the old days should be familiar with that breed of hardware, Packard Bell used to attach them to their 386's).
And we all know just how bleeding edge doom actually was... god only knows, high speed SVGA graphics weren't something you could do anyday of the week (duke3d, shadow warrior) and before that, doom was as on the edge of tech as can be had, elevators, stairs, huge levels (huge not like the ones in some of today's games)... if the movies aren't at least as amazing as playing Hexen for the first time... then perhaps they need to hold onto the ideas for a few more years... or millenia.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - I dunno about you, but would anyone think that perhaps Cybermage, Hexen, Heretic and Hexen II/Heretic II would make damn awesome games to convert to movies? Lets hear something from Raven, since those games were far deeper than a simple blast fest. (Plus, the characters could provide a bit of further depth to it, much like those of Diablo could if the movie folks translate them into personallities onscreen... of course they could just turn it into an excuse to put lots of sex and tons more blood and pixelized guts on the screen and we can call it a day with each movie, knowing that they will sell... as all excessive violence always does, and if not he sex will save it, since content rarely works these days.)
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