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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."
Spy-Hunter
Status: In Development
Cast: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Director: None
Writer: None
Sweet! The Rock! He's good in anything!!!
Hopefully this will be a bit more entertaining involving than the NES game... although I still hate those fat blue cars... knock me the road will you?
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.
...Lopez and Affleck to remake "Mortal Kombat".
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Mario Bros. - The Movie- Sucked
Street Fighter The Movie - Sucked
Pokemon Movies- Mostly suck, but one of the movies is a Monoke rip-off, which makes it cool...
I will say that The Wizard was cool, but it was not so much a movie based on a video game as it was a movie about kids growing up in an age when video games were starting to be taken seriosly as an entertainment medium. I'd like to see more movies about gamer culture and less bad Van Dam as Guile pieces of crap...
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Let's see...
Final Fantasy
Mortal Kombat
Resident Evil
Final Fantasy...
nope, can remember a single video game based movie that turned out ok, tho I'm sure there must be one somewhere.
What? No Interstate '76 movie??? And come on! Pac-Mac? Will they bring back the "Magic Pill Trees"
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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.
The plot totally sucked, but Angelina Jolie sure was hot.
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Duke Nukem Forever: The Movie (Due out before the game. Besides, infinity plus infinity is still infinity, right?)
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
What about Unreal Tournament? With insta-gib scene ummmm...I'd love it!
It's already out already out and it's free.
:-)
Okay there's no Angelina Jolie and I have no idea if the plot is good, but at least it is faithful to the original game.
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Simply because the Tomb Raider franchise was so successful in theatres doesn't mean that the film and game industries should start making babies.
There are many, many things specific to Tomb Raider that helped build its success as a movie. Primarily, there is a popular need for additional female-driven action movies.
Jinx, played by Halle Berry, from the James Bond series is a good example of things to come. She's also looking at Catwoman. Ashley Judd in upcoming The Blackout Murders and, of course, there's always Charlie's Angels.
Anyway, it isn't affirmative action for the sake of affirmative action... It's a need...
Good luck to these movies, though.
justen
I think metroid would make a decent movie. but I doubt any one but true fan of the game and is a writer/director would do it any justice. I had no desire to see Tomb raider. I caught it on cable and it only confirmed my initial impression that it sucked.
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i liked resident evil, but i must admit, it totally sucked. zombies can make any movie watchable, in my opinion.
"Life is great; without it, you'd be dead." -Harmony Korine
Final Fantasy was pretty cool. The story was pretty dumb, but the movie was visually stunning. If they actually wrote a good story and used that quality of CGI, then I, for one, would love it.
When I say a good story, I mean FF6 quality. It was long, not too confusing, and it was just cool overall.
They still need to get facial expressions, but after seeing Gollum, I think that some studios, at least, have that down.
I knew my list of video games movies (live action, no animation) would be useful one day.
:-)
If you see anything missing please reply so I can add it
"DIRECT CONVERSIONS":
Super Mario Bros.
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Dungeons & Dragons (ok, it's a table RPG, but still...)
Wing Commander
Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
Final Fantasy
Double Dragon
Clue (table game, see D&D)
Last Bronx
(MISTAKENLY THOUGHT AS CONVERSIONS)
Parasite Eve (not really, book and movie released first)
"INSPIRED FROM VIDEOGAMES":
The 13th Floor
Avalon
Cloak and Dagger
eXistenZ
Joysticks
The Last Starfighter
Matrix
Mazes and Monsters
Nightmares - Bishop of Battle sequence
Strange Days
Tron
War Games
The Wizard
(Code Hunter?)
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Two words: Resident Evil.
#define SIMPSONS_COMIC_BOOK_GEEK_VOICE
Coolest. Movie. Ever.
#undef SIMPSONS_COMIC_BOOK_GEEK_VOICE
Arr! The laws of physics be a harsh mistress!
Slightly offtopic, but did anyone else here have a hard time reading black and/or white text on a background that consists of a fairly high bandwidth white-dark-white gradient?
--JoeProgram Intellivision!
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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Since we're talking about it, why not run a poll?
IMHO, this award has to go to Wing Commander.
What in the world was Chris Roberts thinking of when he merely took the names of elements from the game and paired them up with visuals and characters that were nothing like the game was?
The only thing he kept consistent was the Wing Commander space physics... which was most painfully aparent when a tractor pushed a crashed fighter off the landing deck and it just fell down away from the edge... in space!
He really should have just taken all the clips from the games, wrote a story around it, filmed more scenes and released it as such.
I see no difference between these games and gangster movies since the silend black-and-white movie. Hell, I could name movies with Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris or Clint Eastwood that would fit any of these games. All the producers have to do is to re-release these old movies, slap a new name on them and they are done.
Did anybody consider that games are influenced by movies, and thus making a movie based on a game that was inspired by a movie is a little redundant?
What about movies told through video games? Like Bloodgulch?
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
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.
ok
Did anyone except me like the Final Fantasy movie that came out a while ago? I think these movies could be something like that. If one goes to rent a game based on a movie, expectations are lowered (except maybe the Bond games), but a movie based on a game! No one expects these to be blockbusters, but come on!
We're only gonna die from our own arrogance, that's why we might as well take our time...
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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That obviously had to be inspired from Starcraft
Nope. Try this instead.
"Teachers leave us kids alone
I, for one, would like to see that great arcade classic made into a movie. Starring Vin Diesel as the little ball, although he'd probably kill that role too.
Duke Nukem: The Movie
Status: Missing-In-Action
Cast: None
Director: None
Writer: None
The Scoop: This long-rumored project is well past its prime.
I heard that Gladiator was based on Pac-Man.
some of these "movies" lack a director, cast or writer. Most have one out of three.
Still being pimped would be a more accurate term...
This is a good game, but they'd probably give it an X rating.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
would make an excellent film. Anyone concur?
Funny, yet utterly retarded.
remember Eamon master for the Apple IIe?
Keep it real like: www.matrix4.net
Yes, it's true. Read here.
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Yeah, and Ms Pac-Man was made into a porno. After all, she does go around gobbling up loads of balls.
The game was awesome. The storyline was intriguing and we know that the "conspiracy theory" movies work very well. I would love to see this project come to fruition.
I would like to know the source of the rumors for Emminem being the "star" of the show. I have a hard time seeing him as an "action" hero type. I would like to see maybe a Choy Yun Phat, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, or Jason Statham type as the character for JC. I think that they already have the required aire about them to be in the lead role.
To know is to have knowledge....to understand is to be enlightened.
Please tell me their gonna make a film of PONG! i can imagine the trailer now. A power struggle between two collosal forces this world has never seen before .........*cue cheesy fade in/out effects* ......... Staring Chuck Norris... Arnold schwartzanegger ..... PONG
I almost choked when I read this quote:
"The Rock is one of the most charismatic actors on Earth and Spy-Hunter will greatly benefit from his very human presence at the core of this mammoth adventure."
The CG scorpion was more human than him in The Mummy 2.
The first Mortal Kombat wasn't bad.
Wasn't great, but a fun flick nonetheless.
I feel I should mention that Heinlein kicks ass, whereas the movie sucked it...
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman
Troll ?!?
I read it in the uk edition of PC Gamer a couple of months back.
Star wars Episode I? I know... not based on a videogame. But so much of it seemed like an extended plug for lucasarts tie-ins.
There's a plot to DOA? (well, yeah, there is - but it's mostly stuff you'd read in the game manual and elsewhere.)
I don't know anyone who plays DOA (or any fighter, for that matter) for its story...
Still, I have to wonder about the DOA movie. The website said they're going for PG-13, while every DOA game released has gotten an M for sexual content.
Are we talking about the same game here? I'd think a DOA movie would be rated R - especially if they got ILM to do the mammary effects with CG. (and they'll have to - no living woman moves like that.)
That game had an excellent plot, and would make a great movie IMO. It could star Claire Danes or Anna Paquin.
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Double Dragon - sucked (except for Alyssa Milano's cute tukkus).
And you must be a youngin' if you think "The Wizard" was good. *SHUDDER*
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Sam and Max Hit the Road? That would be pretty funny.
Security is inversely proportional to the commitment of one desiring to circumvent it.
I liked it enough to buy the DVD, but it ain't the Coolest. Movie. Ever.
Maybe the best movie based on a video game (though Final Fantasy was as good too).
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
The Tim Schaeffer LucasArts games could be made into very interesting movies. Day Of The Tentacle, Monkey Island, and a few others might be way too oddball for mass appeal, but Full Throttle and Grim Fandango might not be.
What they have going for them is that the game worlds are superbly realized and the adventure game form is cinematic. There are RTS and turn-based strategy games with superbly realized game worlds, but the art form isn't as amenable to cinema.
Can somebody make Grim Fandango into a movie? Can they use the Pixar CG team?
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What video game inspired "Strange Days"?
It's not about a single videogame, but rather the idea behind it. Living somebody else's share of life in a first person perspective is very much like a videogame.
It's a little borderline, yes.
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Starring John Cusack as budding pirate Guybrush Threepwood,
With Cameron Diaz as Elaine,
Jack Nicholson as Le Chuck The Evil Pirate,
Chevy Chase as Stan,
Vincent Gallo as Herman Toothroot,
and Leonardo DiCaprio as the monkey.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
I think that movie was way under rated. People have too high of expectations. It wasn't the best movie in the world, but it was still pretty sweet.
Maybe if it wasn't called Final Fantasy and wasn't based on the game more people would have liked it (lower expectations).
The only thing I didn't care about it was that the acting was a bit dull.
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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I wondered how long it was going to take for that to happen. I wonder if they'll base it off the FASA world.
Actually whether a video game movie is good or not would depend on different criterias. Most people judge the movie on whether it stands on its own as a good movie (i.e. somebody who never heard about the game understands/likes it).
:-)
:-)
However, to be fair we should rather see if the movie is faithful to the original game, because let's be honest, there are not many games with a solid storyline.
Under the second criteria, which is what I ask in a videogame movie, more of the list become "good".
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Wait a second... isn't that the storyline behind all action type movies? Oh wait... Max Payne had the designer drug that made it "all good" */sarcasm*
Dirty Dance Dance Revolution
A rich girl on vacation with her family finds herself in an arcade subjected to a new form of "dancing" that regular people don't understand. She falls in love with a guy that got good by playing the game on pads in his parents basement. She gets in a big fight with her family when they realize she is a geek.
"4 stars." - Kenton Times
"A coming of age film that is fun for the whole family" - Findlay Courier
"This is the best movie based on the video game Dance Dance Revolution we have seen this year" - Columbus Dispatch
sucked it dry? Exposed that childish militaristic wet dream for the joke that it is?
I can't watch Fox News without hearing "Would you like to know more?" between every pause. That movie is brilliant.
Ummm. No. Starcraft was obviously inspired by the descriptions of the aliens in Starship Troopers. Come to think of it, quite a few of the Terrans and the Zerg come from that book.
The Overlords are the rough equivilants of Brain Bugs, Marines are the guys in power suits, etc.
However, for the most part, the Protos were new.
It seems like it's just as hard to make a good movie out of a video game story, as it is to make a good video game out of a movie's story.
Super mario Brothers, Resident Evil, House of the Dead; these are all good reasons.
Movies based on video games and video games based on movies almost always fail to live up to expectations. The notable exception is of course Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but that's probably because both game and movie are ultimately based on a comic book.
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make: *** No rule to make target `work'. Stop.
One game no director could screw up is Halo...O how sweet a halo movie would be.
Also a metriod movie is in the works...here
However, for the most part, the Protos were new.
Was the Skinnies part of the original book?
"It takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it."
I would love to see a blizzard game made into a movie, be it Starcraft, warcraft, or Diablo... theyd all work really well... just as long as blizzard had complete control over it
I first thought this was a story about movies made with video games- as seen on Machinima. Not only are there the independant efforts there, but reportedly the Unreal engine was used for 'animatic' storyboarding of Minority Report and maybe a couple of other movies. I can't find a link for that one, so I might have just made it up.
A screenwriting team has been hired and Milla Jovovich has been talking herself up for the lead.
Milla Jovovich as a hot Alice? In the stockings and the little black shoes? Maybe a tight little Bettie Page haircut?
I pretty much see that as being as the best f'n idea I have heard all year. Whoever is behind that idea deserves an Oscar almost as much as the guy that was responsible for putting the pool scene in Wild Things.
Haven't you ever seen Robot Jox. Yeah, yeah, it's not the Mech Warrior universe, but it's a bunch of big robots fighting each other. It also has my vote for one of the worst movies ever made. When I thought about it, I started laughing to myself imagining my brother constantly repeating one of the worst delivered lines of all time:
Please, see this movie if you haven't already. It's so bad, it's fun.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
...starring Ben Affleck as that long thin piece that never shows up when you need it! Studio insiders report that this is a particularly challenging role for Affleck and he is preparing by taking falling and rotating lessons.
I heard Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks are working on a version of MineSweeper. Although they're having trouble signing Drew Barrymore. She thinks the mines are too violent and refuses to be part of the project unless Spielberg replaces them with Walkie-Talkies.
Coming soon... John Travolta in Space Invaders! Pixar is using a rendering farm to realistically display the motions of each of the sixty alien ships as they approach the Earth and ravage its barricades with a murderous barrage of short vertical lines.
Re: Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Um, isn't that a bit of an anachronism? Watson and Crick (and Franklin) didn't really figure out DNA until 1953.
Yes, but they weren't much like the Protos. IIRC, they were more like people born in space in every other Sci-Fi book. Tall, thin, agile, but not too physicaly strong.
Perhaps I should read the book again.
No movie based on tetris?!?!?!?
Phah, any movie about current gamer culture would for sure be dealing with the negative aspects.
Bet you there's gonna be a movie about kids shooting up the white house under influence of subliminal messages slipped into the latest counterstrike patch by the islamic fundamentalist terrorist group. Or a Julia Roberts flick where a single mother seeks justice after her overweight, socially outcast teenage son has a strong seizure following 35 straight hours of UT2003. Or, horror of horrors, Sean Penn as an everquest addict, trying to regain custody of his kid that was taken by his wife when she left in disgus with his habit, using other everquesters he knows online.
And all that can't be worse than PG Doom or PacMan. What the fuck is live-action PacMan?!?!
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.
Think about it: multiple lives, a rule-based universe, minigames in the movie (soccer, roulette, bike games). If you haven't seen Run Lola Run, do yourself a favor and grab it, and don't give any of these sad opportunistic clowns making franchise-flicks a penny of your money.
the cartoon series got the skinnies more or less right, but neither the cartoon or the film got the powered suits right. think more space marines outta warhammer 40k and your going along the right lines. oddly enough, guess what enspired them too :D
i think ill go read the book again as well. i need my daily dose of communism
Really, the power suits from Starship Troopers were more like the Terminators from Warhammer 40k.
I love that character Chief Librarian Mephiston, Lord Of Death. "Your book is a day late! The late fee: YOUR SOUL!!!" I mean, seriously, what kind of childhood did the makers of that game have?
LOL
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
"Life is great; without it, you'd be dead." -Harmony Korine
Mortal Kombat (the first one) has been the only one that has entertained me.
Everything else has sucked. Street Fighter? Sucked. Double Dragon? Sucked. Mario Bros.? Sucked. Final Fantasy? Sucked.
There are only two reasons that Tomb Raider did well at the box office. I think you know what they are.
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
The term pac-man originally meant a cannibal. It was derived from Alfred E. Packer. Will Pac-man: The movie be more like Alive or more like Let Them Die Slowly?
How ya like dat?
Or the more sensible reason, which is that they were going to call it Puck Man but realised how readily the machines could be vandalized to turn P into F.
I was looking for a list of movies i shouldn't watch under any circumstance.
The 13th Floor was also the worst movie I've ever seen. And I've seen a LOT of movies. From the USA Late Night flicks to Kurosawa.
And nothing, other than that one-two punch of feces from Chris O'Donnel (Batman Forever and The Bachelor), could top that.
The difference is that I never saw those movies in the theater. I never paid my hard earned cash for the privilege of seeing those films on the bigscreen.
And when I couldn't take it anymore, when I just couldn't stand the terribleness of it, I had to go.
That was the only movie I ever walked out of. It was that bad.
And if anyone's ever seen it (God help you), I'm sure you too would relate to the sickening feeling of throwing down full price evening tickets, popcorn and a drink on a turd such as The 13th Floor.
I shudder to think of its awfulness.
Custer's Revenge [atariage.com]. I can't imagine seeing this one on the big screen.
the evil 2x2 block
Better yet, a Tetris movie with Tetris representing drug abuse.
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Genetic experiments are not necessarily DNA-based. Even though we didn't understand DNA until much later than 1953 (heck, probably don't understand it today) - genetic experiments can include simple breeding, like Mendel's work. (Even if Mendel's work was faked, as it seems to have been...)
Besides, if you're going to complain about this, the obvious answer: they used their occult experiments to improve their genetic experiments!
They should make a movie out of all those Star Wars games I keep seeing. It seems like a strong franchise; there must be something to it.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
Now there's one I'd like to see!
And who said that Super Mario Brothers was a bad movie? That movie is hilarious! I can't stop laughing everytime I see it.
the japan machines still say Puck man
Critique of certain things:
:), 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.)
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
They need to make Tux Racer into a movie.
Now that's something I'd pay to see.
Disney, I'm looking at _you_.
I enjoyed Mortal Kombat but that may have been partially due to a "contact high" of enthusiasm from the 13yr. old boys sitting two rows in front of me.
Hell, we've already got an Xmen movie and a Street Fighter movie. Just throw clips together and call it a sequel.
Or cast an entirely new movie. I see Renee Zellweger as Akuma, William H Macy as Zangief, and Luis Guzman as Cammy. Brilliant!
"This is Disney's second crack at adapting Lewis Carroll's Alice"
Ammerican Mc Geees Alice is not based off the
books os there for this is not disneys second
crack at adapting lewis Carrolls Alice, its
there first crack at adapting a secqual writen
for a videogame formate into a sequal in the movie formate.
just to clear up any poor souls mind whos
reading your post and diceds not to goto
said moive for that misconception rather
then the Disney boycot.
Its goign to be hard enough geting ppl
who didnt play the game to go see it,
even hard if they think its jsut a redo of the books.
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Ammerican Mc Geees Alice is not based off the books
Oh thanks.
While we're on the topic of Disney and what's based on the books and what isn't, I'd claim that Disney's Pinocchio (1940) wasn't based too closely on the book either; it omitted most of the growing up the puppet had to do and felt more like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein than anything else. Disney tried to fix this by securing the USA rights to Pinocchio (2002), which followed the book nearly to the letter, but the actor cast in the leading role (Roberto Benigni) was much too old for the part. Several film critics have claimed that the boy from Life Is Beautiful would have been better as the puppet.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Resident Evil wasnt too bad. I dragged a bit, but it was kind of good in a bad horror film sort of way. Definitely on par with something like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, HellRaiser, or Halloween.
Final Fantasy. Hiring Ben Afleck was their first mistake...
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
then just tape the ends of the film together. The movie is over when the projector overheats, much like my old NES. ouch, my sides!
Whoopi Goldberg as the Voodoo lady Bicente Del Toro as Otis Peter "Columbo" Falk as Largo LaGrande
Run Lola Run is an excellent film. I also liked the bits where it went into animation - when Lola runs down the stairs from her flat.
Great movie. I would imagine many people here have only seen the Simpsons parody (hint: Homer's thumb), and I recommend them to check out the source.
"Information wants to be paid"
Why not just take twenty million dollars and use it for a bonfire? Same effect for the investors, and much quicker.
I'll bet that they could've gotten the rights for Pong much cheaper - and both games have about the same story potential.
Let's not forget Tron here people, although that was based on a true story rather than a game ;-)
I root for those little guys inside my PC everyday :-D
Is that the reason that video games turned to movies suck ? or is it because it is the most superficial video games (arcade games mostly) that had been turned to movies ?
Maybe a pirate comedy based on Monkey Island with some adventure elements would make a good movie. I think that adventure games are the most promising for turning to movies, as they have good plot.
Not only is this a fantastic film but it had a great soundtrack as well. Well worth a watch.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
How could the Space Quest series not be made into a movie!
,da , dadadahhhh da, da, daaah dadadah daaaah dadadadadaaaaaah.*hums theme*
Then again are there any directors around who could do this without making a complete pigs ear of it?... Oh well I'll just let my imagination wander off with the idea
*hums theme*Da, da
200+ speculative comments about video games being made into movies and not one AYB mention!
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lound Lizards.
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Actor Possibilities:
Matt Dillon (like in Something about Mary)
Nicolas Cage (like in Raising Arizona ) or
Problem with Doom Movie:
:)
We all know the ending already.
Hero emerges from portal and returns to earth, all seems calm and peaceful until he notices the bunny shishkebab and the city burning off in the distance...
Ah well, makes the sequel easy
Watashi wa chikyubutsurigakusha desu.
Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as 'Cats'.
I'd pay $8.00 just to see him utter those famous words:
All your base are belong to us.
C'mon, pick any of the Belmonts, use the sets from Bram Stoker's Dracula or Brotherhood of the Wolf. It'd make a great action film.
Both of these quotes are from the article:
Doom:
The first-person shooter that started it all
Pac-Man:
to the videogame that started it all
I wonder what else started it all? And what is "it"?
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You forgot to mention that Oscar-winning performance he gave in an Episode of Star Trek Voyager, where he played (get this,) A WRESTLER. Wowzers, what an acting tour-de-force. Such range. Certainly, he makes Brando look like he's standing still.
I want to see "The Rock" cast in the role of a nerd. If he can pull that off, then we can talk.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
"The Scoop: The film's Oscar-winning star Angelina Jolie demanded a better script for the Tomb Raider sequel, and hopefully, she got it."
bwahahaha
Oh, it might not be a movie, but I thought the episode was hillarious.
:)
Brings back atleast some retro memories, like space invaders, donkey kong and pac man. all pixelated
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Aye, very few people went to see the movie of SST with the right frame of reference, and therefore hated it. It was a wonderful satire of propeganda, as well as a wonderful satire of the entire concept of 'pro military rah rah rah' media.
The book was wonderful, but mainly for it's understated narrative style, and for how well it portrays the subtle brainwashing of poor Johnny.
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Video Game?
Well, being tha the science of genetics was being pursued since the mid to late 1800s.
Gregor Mendel wrote up about the founding principles of heredity starting about 1843. He created the basic principle for 'genes' though primitive.
By 1900 we already figured out chromosomes and how some traits were linked to certain chromosomes thanks to Morgan.
Though, in all fairness we did not figure out that DNA was the vehicle for cell data untilt he debate started in 1928 when Griffith was studying why some pnumonia bateria was disease causing and the others were not.
Granted DNA was not affirmed to be the code until 1944, but the point here is that gene science is not based solely in DNA but also in a bunch of other things. Like dousihng everyone in radiation and hoping for a beneficial mutation, experiements would have been crude and mostly ineffective, yet they happened.
DNA is a red herring my friend, farmers have been performing genetic experiments for eons. Nazis sure as heck could pervert it to their own ends, like they did boots and mass production, and zombies.
THat and arguably if the occult is fictional, then the suspension of disbelief is already there to make someone go; 'Oh heck, the nazis could do that.'
I will say that The Wizard was cool, but it was not so much a movie based on a video game as it was ...a commercial for Mattel's Power Glove and Nintendo's Super Mario 3?
There are many, many things specific to Tomb Raider that helped build its success as a movie.
Really? I can only think of TWO...
The movie was not so great but the opening credits and much of the soundtrack were amazing.
Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
Inspired by PacMan (people listening to electronic music gobbling strange pills in dark places).
Adventure games.
Really, The Longest Journey would make a pretty good movie. And I'm sure that The Grim Fandango made by Pixar would be an orgasmic experience.
And who could resist Tim Burton's Sam and Max Hit the Road?
Monkey Island would make a fine live action comedy too.
Your wish is my command...
Pong, the Action Thriller:
http://www.madblast.com/oska/humor_pong.swf
Seriously... the amount of effort put into the Metal Gear Solid storylines, plus just the intense coolness of whoever plays Snake... it'd be pretty well liked, I think.
Plus espionage movies are doing pretty well these days.
No question about it. This MUST be made:
Gitaroo Man: The Movie
Are you listening, Pixar?
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The real Tetsujin 28 is a giant robot.
Tony Danza!
Alfred E. Packer, eh? That's just crazy enough to be true, by which I mean that it's almost certainly false. How about a source?
The movie was horribly executed. It had wonderful material to work with, and it didn't seem to know what to do with it. The movie didn't seem to know where to take itself seriously, and where to not. Nearly all of the social, economic, and political philosophy that is expounded upon so well in the book was conspicuously missing. It concentrated too much on special effects...
/ arts.asp : I happen to agree with it...
"Four years ago, Starship Troopers, directed by the wildly uneven Paul Verhoeven, was released. The futuristic film was based loosely on Robert Heinlein's 1959 science-fiction novel. Heinlein fans hated the movie, because Verhoeven took considerable liberties--turning the novelist's meditation on personal responsibility and survival into what looked like a teen drama adapted by Aaron Spelling for the Fox network, working from old Archie comics and Ayn Rand. " [stress is mine]
here's a quote from http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2001-09-27
The movie was an utter piece of trash. Almost as bad as the semi-recent adaptations of _Eugene Onegin_ or _Count of Monte Cristo_.
I know this seems trite... isn't it common that a movie version is always worse than the book? Well, yes... but usually the movie captures at least something of what the book was trying to say... (for example, look at Kubrick's Lolita). _Starship Troopers_ OTOH was complete trash. It was caught somewhere in between a genuine sci-fi jingoistic action flick with awful acting--and a movie which occassionally made fun of itself, hinting that this was all a joke. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see any of the director's (or Heinlein's for that matter) actual ideas on the matter. It's easy enough to say that unabashed jingoism isn't a good thing (tm). I don't need some fucking movie to point that out. Hell, it accomplished that in the first five minutes. Why then, would anyone keep watching?
I guess what I'm saying is, even with a "good message", it had zero depth.
There is not a single thing brilliant about that movie.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman
But do avoid the english dub. It pays to listen to the great performance of the actors in German and put up with some subtitles (if you cant understand German).
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
too true, I can't speak German except for vaguely remembered school level stuff and I could follow the film without the subtitles most of the time.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
Heheh, your mistake is believing that what you put in bold wasn't completely intentional. It is exactly the movie Verhoeven wanted it to be.
Die, Bugs, I mean, Dixie Chicks, die!
even if it was deliberate, it doesn't mean it was *deliberated*.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman
"April 19, 2002 Payneful Movie
The Shield's creator signs deal to adapt Max Payne into a major motion picture."
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23