Adaptations

[freebiewitz]

Hm, maybe because it feels like the computer adaption of a mix of Die Hard and The Ring?
You have to admit, some of those action sequences combined with bullet time do feel very movie-ish.

Now that is on topic. If Mangus used that reasoning then I would've agreed.
fyi: I never finished watching the ring.... I'm too scared 0.o

 

[mangus]

Hm, maybe because it feels like the computer adaption of a mix of Die Hard and The Ring?
You have to admit, some of those action sequences combined with bullet time do feel very movie-ish.

Now that is on topic. If Mangus used that reasoning then I would've agreed.
fyi: I never finished watching the ring.... I'm too scared 0.o

The point was for you to figure it out on your own you silly silly goose.

 

[Gladion]

Agree that silent hill was a good film but soz not the scariest by a long shot lol. For my fav scary movie I still would say event horizon (but it may have helped that I was drunk and thought it was gonna be a starwars type film coz of the big spaceship on the poster lol).

I fucking love Event Horizon (still waiting for the cut scenes... *sigh*) but I didn't think it was as scary as the Silent Hill film. You said it's not the scariest "by a long shot" so please name me some others I don't know

The 1st resi evil I quite like [...]

BLEH, I say, BLEH!

 

[Sevre]

DBZ is the last straw people, I will never watch another adaptation AGAIN! Maybe Bioshock....

 

[Nutcase]

Adaptations don't work becuase lets face it, movies and games are two completely different forms of art. It would be like trying to make the Mona Lisa a movie, it just doesn't translate.

Oh?
IMBD #1: adapted from short story
IMDB #2,3: adapted from novel
IMDB #6: adapted from comic
IMDB #7: adapted from novel
IMDB #8: adapted from novel

Many successful games, including innovative ones and/or ones considered to be classics, are adaptations of works in other media. X-Wing, Dark Forces, GoldenEye 64, The Witcher, and so on. Discussed many times in previous threads.

Game -> movie remains shit not because it's impossible to make good movies out of games, but because they seem to be picking games that are reasonably popular and easy to make a crappy movie out of, *not* ones that would make the best movies. It has gotten so bad, I would no longer be surprised if someone greenlighted a movie based on "The Sims", despite there being no conceivable point to such a thing other than separating idiots and their money.

No game movie was ever made in the spirit Watchmen, Sin City or some of the better Batman movies were.

 

[damion559]

has anyone heard about the dragonball movie?

and also the street fighter: legend of chun li?

 

[freebiewitz]

Hm, maybe because it feels like the computer adaption of a mix of Die Hard and The Ring?
You have to admit, some of those action sequences combined with bullet time do feel very movie-ish.

Now that is on topic. If Mangus used that reasoning then I would've agreed.
fyi: I never finished watching the ring.... I'm too scared 0.o

The point was for you to figure it out on your own you silly silly goose.

Okay Im sorry o.o Really Really REALLY SORRY..... yeah Im an idiot.

 

[Good morning blues]

There have been plenty of good property-to-game translations; just today, I finished replaying Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, which is a really great game (even if it is pretty short and does dip off a bit in the last act). I can't think of any game-to-property translations that I've really liked.

 

[Gamer137]

I enjoyed the first two Resident Evil movies(I did not play the Racoon City games) and Goldeneye 64. Other then that, all adaptations have been crap. Are we really so low on ideas that the companies have too recycle and replicate? Its the end of entertainment.

 

[freebiewitz]

Is it me or do most if not all zombie adaptations turn out either really good or ok?

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I sometimes think about what it would be like if Pixar made a Team Fortress movie.

It would suck, of course, and I can't imagine a good plot, but hmm.

sounds like you need the generic pixar plot line guide (by yahtzee)

Incidentally, I was dragged to see Wall-E last night. Now, objective quality of that film and possible anti-corporate agenda aside, here's a small plot synopsis:

One or more lovable protagonists have existed for some time in a stable but fundamentally flawed routine, which is shaken up by the introduction of a foreign entity, usually another character, around whom attitudes are initially hostile. Attempts to deal with this character eventually lead to the protagonist(s) discovering a new, unfamiliar world, and in doing so discover the nature of the fundamental flaw in their routine. Villains are usually introduced or only become truly villainous from around the mid-point or quite late into the film. Along the way the heroes enlist the help of various lesser characters with clearly definable quirks and at one point reluctantly enter a high-speed chase. The villain is generally finally defeated with surprising ease, and everything concludes in an emotionally manipulative ending in which routine is restored with the fundamental flaw excised.

Now, consider how many Pixar movies that could be describing. Consider it, me bitches.

Of course that can describe far more than just pixar movies...

 

[Fightgarr]

I'm looking forward to the Where the Wild Things Are adaption. The screen play was adapted by Dave Eggers so I think it'll be quite good actually.

 

[freebiewitz]

What is where the wild things are? I never heard about it. was it originally a game or movie?