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Fan-made Mega Man Movie Trailer Debuts

Posted by simoniker on from the actually-rather-excellent dept.

FortissimoWily writes "Following last week's rumors regarding Warner Bros. wanting to produce a Mega Man feature film, an amusing and very entertaining live-action fan-made movie trailer (which was created for a college project) has been making the rounds today, and is now being hosted on fansite Planet Mega Man in several resolutions [there's a BitTorrent link for the hi-res version, via GameTab]. Now, if only such a full-length movie were real..." That Dr.Wily can be so cantankerous, eh?

26 comments

  1. /.'d ALREADY?!? by reiggin · · Score: 1

    Not even one post and I can't get the site to load..... jeeeeeez. Someone help these poor guys out and BitTorrent this thing!

    1. Re:/.'d ALREADY?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Perhaps /. should NOT post links to sites hosting large files (such as movies) without first contacting the webmaster to see if their server(s) can handle the load?

      Posting link's to Apple's Quicktime site can sometimes cause connection problems, so if this guy is hosting from his DSL...I think we just toasted his machine. =P

    2. Re:/.'d ALREADY?!? by simoniker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The site isn't Slashdotted as of right now, because this is only a Games subpage post, but it was starting to slow down a bit (to under 50k/sec), so we got GameTab to throw up a BitTorrent of it, much kudos to them, yay.

    3. Re:/.'d ALREADY?!? by geggibus · · Score: 2

      Hardly, i could stream the hi-res with no problems... but i feel quite evil. ;)

    4. Re:/.'d ALREADY?!? by Kyouryuu · · Score: 1

      Speaking on behalf of Planet Mega Man, yesterday was our grand unveiling of the new site layout. We brought all of the major content back on-line yesterday and, as a result, we experienced "server shock" as it raced to keep up and reallocate its resources. It's fine as of this morning though. We went from having a couple weeks of 100 hits to having just under 4,000 yesterday, so coupled with the Slashdot news matters were complicated for a bit.

  2. Good job. by Shwag · · Score: 3, Informative

    Totally check it out. The movie is cool !

  3. Japanese cartoon thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdotted? It's a Japanese cartoon thing. Hardly anyone is interested in Japanese cartoons, so they expected 3 hits per day on the web site. Now they have all these Slashdotters hitting the site thinking it is "Amiga Man".

  4. Games that become movies... by reiggin · · Score: 2

    rarely match up to the hype/expectations. Rather than name all the ones that have disappointed (Super Mario, Tekken, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, etc.), which ones have really succeeded? Is there any hope for a good movie from a video game? This Mega Man pseudo-trailer was interesting but what are the chances that the real thing would even be worth watching? Slashdotters, what makes a good Game-to-Big-Screen translation?

    1. Re:Games that become movies... by Hettch · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I, personally, thought that Resident Evil was a good movie. Albeit, it really didn't follow much of the game's story line, the ending was a perfect setup for Resident Evil 2, though.

    2. Re:Games that become movies... by Washizu · · Score: 1

      "Rather than name all the ones that have disappointed (Super Mario, Tekken, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, etc.), which ones have really succeeded?"

      You were excited about the Super Mario movie?

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    3. Re:Games that become movies... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > which ones have really succeeded?

      POKEMON! Not just one, but 4EVER! Digimon almost made it to the list too, if it weren't for Saban's butcher job...

    4. Re:Games that become movies... by Squirrel+Killer · · Score: 1

      I know someone who wants to make a movie of Dan Gable's life story (a college/Olympic wrestler). After hearing the rough outline (wins every collegiate match except his last match, then wins Olympic gold medal), I knew that it would make a horrible movie, and the reasoning applies to games as well. Basically, the premise for the movie is your run-of-the-mill zombie movie. (Maybe that's why it worked for Resident Evil.) Instead of one protagonist and one antagonist, you've got one protagonist and hundreds of antagonists. Even if you have a "boss" antagonist at the end, it still gets boring after the hundredth meaningless enemy. To make a conversion work, use a game with a clear antagonist, concise plot, and obvious goal. Donkey Kong would make a better movie than Final Fantasy.

  5. Not bad! by antdude · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not bad for a fanmade trailer. Check it everyone! I am not a Mega Man fan either.

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  6. thats my school! by paradesign · · Score: 1
    what a small world. i check /. for worldly information, and come to find out whats been going on no less than 100ft from me.

    w00t! go peacocks!

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  7. Maybe by August_zero · · Score: 1

    B-Movie? yes very

    But.... With the possible exception of Resident Evil (I hated it but a lot of people thought it was at least watchable) there aren't really any good game to movie adaptations, i suppose that this has no less a chance than any other attempt that has been made thus far to be good.

    Besides, when your watching a cheaply done movie, your not expecting perfect special effects or flawless cinematography. The bar is held a little bit lower, and so if the rest of the content is solid, it may actaully come off as pretty good. I mean why not? Could it suck worse than Super Mario Brothers or Mortal Kombat?

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    1. Re:Maybe by FortissimoWily · · Score: 1

      "Could it suck worse than Super Mario Brothers or Mortal Kombat?"
      I don't think it's possible for game-to-movie adaptations to suck worse than those two. ^_^;;

    2. Re:Maybe by happykitsune · · Score: 1

      [Cough] Street Fighter ^^

    3. Re:Maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fist of the North Star. anime/manga/game to movie.

  8. Meh. by ajservo · · Score: 1

    I can give credit to the "rock" character, playing a nice homage to Rockman, but the compositing was terrible. The shot of Wily flying away was HORRIBLE, as was the shot of Rock on the table. Why was there SO much moving in the composite shots? The 3d looked decent...

  9. Music by david_420 · · Score: 0

    They should use this song on the soundtrack: http://www.ocremix.org/detailmix.php?mixid=OCR0046 4

  10. MK 1 didn't suck either by yerricde · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The conventional wisdom is that unlike the horrible Super Mario Bros. movie, Mortal Kombat didn't suck, although the sequel (Annihilation) did.

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  11. much better than by ciupman · · Score: 1

    Fanimatrix ... I think this one rocked .. only 85 $ .. cool .. Maybe some polish and it would be perfect for a fan made movie .. much better than some hollywood crap .. And the music rocked by the way

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