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Upcoming Game Movies And Their Likelihood to Suck
Via Kotaku, a story on the Destructoid site about upcoming game movies and their likelihood to suck. Mr. McVengeance runs down the upcoming pixels-to-big-screen adaptations, and amazingly it appears the situation isn't completely hopeless. Just mostly. From the article: "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Probability of Suck: Moderately Low. This gives me mixed feelings on the fact that there are two writers. First is the guy who actually wrote the script for the game, which is a good thing. Second, we have the writer for 'The Day After Tomorrow'. Then, we have Jerry Bruckheimer working as Executive Producer. Y'know, the guy who's name is attached to Pirates of the Carribean and a whole host of other films? I think this film will end up doing OK. I'll be interested in seeing who gets the job as director."
That guy is hit and miss.
Hit and miss?
Bruckheimer's name on a movie is a good indication that the movie is going to be *shit*.
Doesn't mean it won't make money. It might make a lot of money. But the movie is going to be *shit*.
POC2? Christ, that was like they took 5 random scripts, fired them from a cannon, picked up whatever scattered confetti they could find, decided to film it, and then lost *that*. What a rambling, insensate pile of crud. I can take that sort of "brainless fun" for an hour and a half, two hours tops, but that movie went on for *almost three hours*. Horrific.
Beverly Hills Cop 2. Bad Boys 2. Flashdance. The Rock. Con Air. Coyote Ugly. National Treasure. Armageddon. Enemy of the State.
Every single one of those sucked rancid goat anus. If that's the kind of thing that's "hit or miss," I can't imagine what you'd consider to be his hits.
Okay, Blackhawk Down. But I think that's because there'd have been a bunch of people willing and able to actually chop his balls off and feed them to him had he departed significantly from the record.