Does A Good Game Make A Good Movie Idea?

Brakz0rz writes "Here's a BBCi article by Daniel Etherington with an overview on how videogames translate onto the big screen. I can't say I've been impressed by any such effort so far. The article touches on John Woo's upcoming Metroid adaptation. Etherington writes, "One of these days, someone has just got to make a decent video game movie. How about Peter Jackson doing Zelda? Now that would be promising." I would enjoy that more than the games franchised from the LOTR trilogy."

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Jackson doing fucking zelda?

[Anonymous Coward]

enough with fucking the lotr fanboyisms. fucking unimaginative fucks. just shut the fuck up, fucking fuckfaces.

Re:Jackson doing fucking zelda?

[Anonymous Coward]

Couldn't agree with you more. They'll fuck it up for sure. Jack-ass-son was a moron who spoilt LoTR. And this motherfucker is going to fuck up Zelda too.

Unimaginative sons of bitches.

boong ga boong ga

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a japanese arcade where your task is to poke a finger up a somebody's ass. It would make a great movie, especielly for the slashdot crowd.

Yes

[Anonymous Coward]

When they make a movie based on a game that has lots of hot anal sex in it, then that will be a good movie based on a videogame. Because the Lord Jesus Christ knows, I love movies with anal sex in it!

The real progress, then, would be for someone in the videogame industry to make a videogame with anal sex in it. I think this has yet to be done, in the mainstream videogame world. And I don't think the pigs with the exposed anuses in the NES game "Startropics" counts, because nothing ever actually went inside the pig anuses.