Please, Film These Games!
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I agree with almost all of these, but what makes GoW so much different from Halo that it can be made into a movie and Halo can't? From my experience, Halo and GoW are very similar, except that Halo has a much more fleshed out storyline.
I fail to see how a Metroid movie would work. Theres only one main character and almost no dialogue. Maybe my opinion will change after we play Metroid Other M
Katamari Damacy as a nuclear age horror flick. It starts off small, items around the house go missing, the family pet has a run in with it a shadow and disappears. Eventually the screaming face with hands held up is taken as well. Finally it starts going around the city a strange amalgam of light posts, man hole covers, mail boxes, and cars. The army arrives sending bullets and bombs but they are all consumed and add to its size. The theme plays and way down at the size of a paper clip is the prince running the show. A number of ways to finish it off but as a parody I think worth a laugh.
I always thought it would be cool to see a Soul Reaver movie. It has a protagonist that actually talks. It would probably work best as an animated/CGI movie. Too bad Tony Jay died 
Oh yeah, I almost fogot about THIS LOL Minesweeper the movie
Oh yeah, I almost fogot about THIS LOL Minesweeper the movie
In my experience, video games are pretty much incompatible with movies (Prince of Persia, according to Bob, is the first passable video game movie). I'm pretty sure most of the movies suggested in this thread are more related to a desire to have more publicity to the series.
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What I think could actually make an amusing movie would be Duke Nukem, played as a shameless parody of action films and video games. It wouldn't be easy, mind you, but I think it has potential for hilarity.
There. You can have me drawn and quartered now.
Gears of War has a speaking main character with a face (Even if it did look like the ugliest side of a fist). That's huge when translating a game into a movie. Silent protagonists don't work very well as main characters. Attempting a Halo movie without Master Chief is pretty much just going to come across as a bad Starship Troopers.yankeefan19 said:
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What I think could actually make an amusing movie would be Duke Nukem, played as a shameless parody of action films and video games. It wouldn't be easy, mind you, but I think it has potential for hilarity.
There. You can have me drawn and quartered now.
Not sure if you guys know about this, but supposedly there's a new Mortal Kombat movie in the works...and its looking much better than the old ones. Seriously...check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy2CGY4c55k
I know I could embed it...but I'm lazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy2CGY4c55k
I know I could embed it...but I'm lazy.
Dude, you had me at the beginning, but by the third page I was going "NO NO NO NONONONONONO."
I hope they never adapt SMBs into a movie again.
I hope they never adapt SMBs into a movie again.
Before I begin, I have not read all of the (as of this writing) 90 comments on this topic, so forgive me if I bring up anything that has already been addressed.
I agree with MovieBob’s choices on video games more or less, though Bayonetta seems like an odd choice to me. I must point out, however, that saying Chrono Trigger is a game that can be adapted into a big-budget movie is unbelievably wishful thinking. Don’t get me wrong; I loved playing Chrono Trigger. I played enough to see every ending (sans any added in the DS remake, which I hope to play someday). However, besides the reams of scenes that would need to be cut in order to make the running time of a Chrono Trigger film reasonable, the biggest problem with adapting this game into a movie can be summed up in one word: marketability.
There is an absolutely astronomical amount of weirdness, including, but not limited to, an anthropomorphic frog knight named Frog and a pudgy yellow robot named Robo, that an average American moviegoer would need to swallow in order to watch this hypothetical film, but in an attempt to make my point succinctly, let us turn our attention to Crono, the game’s protagonist. To start off on a messy note, he has distinctly “anime” hair, and Crayola-red anime hair at that. The two most iconic colors of his signature outfit are baby(-ish) blue and bright yellow. His home is a marginally modernized Medieval Europe, yet he wields a katana. And did MovieBob even consider the dilemma of Crono’s muteness? Putting the game on the big screen would necessitate Crono talking, and no matter how Hollywood would handle that, there would at least be a small number of really pissed fans. The icing on the proverbial cake, however, is that even with all of this stuff that could easily dissuade a casual viewer, all of the other oddities in the Chrono Trigger world make this guy seem normal. In short, trying to take all of the absurd happenings and characters in Chrono Trigger and play them straight in a movie would result in a huge flop that could only aspire to be a classic among fans.
Changing Chrono Trigger for the sake of the uninitiated is also not an option. The absurdity, oddball humor juxtaposed by dramatic confrontations, and iconic characters are at least part of what made Chrono Trigger so memorable in the first place. To change the world of this game so that it is more “realistic” or generally acceptable by movie standards would alienate fans and damage, if not destroy, the charm of the original license. In fact, I am of the opinion that it would require more effort to alter Chrono Trigger into something resembling a marketable movie than it would to create an entirely original concept. If the screenwriters try to keep elements of the original while adapting it for an average audience, the result will be a repeat of the abominable Dragon Ball: Evolution.
In conclusion, despite what MovieBob might think, a film adaptation of Chrono Trigger can only end in disaster.
I agree with MovieBob’s choices on video games more or less, though Bayonetta seems like an odd choice to me. I must point out, however, that saying Chrono Trigger is a game that can be adapted into a big-budget movie is unbelievably wishful thinking. Don’t get me wrong; I loved playing Chrono Trigger. I played enough to see every ending (sans any added in the DS remake, which I hope to play someday). However, besides the reams of scenes that would need to be cut in order to make the running time of a Chrono Trigger film reasonable, the biggest problem with adapting this game into a movie can be summed up in one word: marketability.
There is an absolutely astronomical amount of weirdness, including, but not limited to, an anthropomorphic frog knight named Frog and a pudgy yellow robot named Robo, that an average American moviegoer would need to swallow in order to watch this hypothetical film, but in an attempt to make my point succinctly, let us turn our attention to Crono, the game’s protagonist. To start off on a messy note, he has distinctly “anime” hair, and Crayola-red anime hair at that. The two most iconic colors of his signature outfit are baby(-ish) blue and bright yellow. His home is a marginally modernized Medieval Europe, yet he wields a katana. And did MovieBob even consider the dilemma of Crono’s muteness? Putting the game on the big screen would necessitate Crono talking, and no matter how Hollywood would handle that, there would at least be a small number of really pissed fans. The icing on the proverbial cake, however, is that even with all of this stuff that could easily dissuade a casual viewer, all of the other oddities in the Chrono Trigger world make this guy seem normal. In short, trying to take all of the absurd happenings and characters in Chrono Trigger and play them straight in a movie would result in a huge flop that could only aspire to be a classic among fans.
Changing Chrono Trigger for the sake of the uninitiated is also not an option. The absurdity, oddball humor juxtaposed by dramatic confrontations, and iconic characters are at least part of what made Chrono Trigger so memorable in the first place. To change the world of this game so that it is more “realistic” or generally acceptable by movie standards would alienate fans and damage, if not destroy, the charm of the original license. In fact, I am of the opinion that it would require more effort to alter Chrono Trigger into something resembling a marketable movie than it would to create an entirely original concept. If the screenwriters try to keep elements of the original while adapting it for an average audience, the result will be a repeat of the abominable Dragon Ball: Evolution.
In conclusion, despite what MovieBob might think, a film adaptation of Chrono Trigger can only end in disaster.
To be honest i think Mass Effect would work better as a Farscape type series than as a movie since they could take more time to actually show us the universe and build up the threat of the reapers unlike a movie which at best could be a 2 hour adaptation of one of the books and at worst a complete train wreck that messes the whole franchise up...you were right that it needs to be done before babylon 5 gets rebooted but since warners are sitting on that franchise i dont see that being a problem(they're to busy fucking the DC Universe up at the moment).
you know tim burton could do pretty good with a mario movie, as long as a gamer stood behind him the whole time and yelled at him anytime he started messing something up.
i could imagine awesome action scenes with the brothers jumping from mushroom to floating brick to mushroom with lakidu and flying (red) koopas in close pursuit.
i do however take offence with one remark. i think Simon Belmont should be the main character of any castlevania movie, but alucard should be in it. villain or hero, he's such an interesting character. i think hero would be cooler though, cuz he could struggling internally with fighting against his father, and maybe even more by helping a disgusting human.
simon should definitely be main tho.
i could imagine awesome action scenes with the brothers jumping from mushroom to floating brick to mushroom with lakidu and flying (red) koopas in close pursuit.
i do however take offence with one remark. i think Simon Belmont should be the main character of any castlevania movie, but alucard should be in it. villain or hero, he's such an interesting character. i think hero would be cooler though, cuz he could struggling internally with fighting against his father, and maybe even more by helping a disgusting human.
simon should definitely be main tho.
I didn't even read the rest of the comments, I just had to quote and agree with this. I loved Homeworld to death and as soon as I get a PC, I'm going to go back and play it all over again. I only got through a bit of Cataclysm and never had a chance to try Homeworld 2, but yeah I wholeheartedly agree. Oh man, a wall of ion cannons, some tactical strikes with one of those cloaking-field ships... could be some really tense moments. And always that sense of desperation, like the next encounter could be the last.Namewithheld said:
Anyway, good to see someone else who remembers it.
I know it's weird, but I've always had a "logic problem" with the idea that Mario and Luigi AREN'T from some sort of "other place" than the Mushroom Kingdom proper. I mean, just off the top of my head it brings up the kind of logic-problems that I can sort of "it's just a game" sidestep now as an adult but would bug the HELL out of me when I was a kid. For example(s):Cuddly Knife said:
Why are they human while every other non-Peach citizen of this Kingdom is half-man/half-fungus?
Why do they have Italian-American accents when they are apparently not from either Italy or America?
Why are they wearing 20th Century American/European clothing when everyone else is dressed vaugely medieval?
Why are two PLUMBERS posessed of speed and physical strength apparently surpassing every enlisted soldier of both the good AND evil armies?
For that matter, why are the two most powerful, capable warriors - in a Kingdom that seems to be at near-constant war with a determined and superior-armed enemy - employed as PLUMBERS in the first place?
If the Mario Bros. have always "existed," how did Bowser's military strength grow so large unchecked for so long? Did the whole kingdom just sit there and WAIT while their mortal enemy assembled a mechanized battle fleet and an army of millions, rather than saying: "Wait... Hey, you two Superman-level strong hero guys? Yeah, our mortal enemy is acting all conquest-ish. Go take care of that BEFORE he makes a tank or something."
Like I said, I know it's not "official" canon, but I think the reason the whole "two regular guys from Brooklyn wind up in a magical world where they're looked to as superheroes" has stuck for so long is because it makes a certain amount of thematic sense. Plus, it places them in a respectable pedigree of "ordinary-men-but-not-on-THIS-world" heroes like John Carter of Mars, or Flash Gordon. And yeah, if y'wanna get REALLY geeky about it, "different universe, different physics" is a good soft-scifi explanation for why they're so ridiculous strong/fast/high-jumpy.
John Woo, of "Hard Boiled" and "The Killer", fame actually snatched up the rights to the Metroid movie while fellow Hong Konger Sammo Hung, of "Martial Law" and "Magnificent Butcher" fame, own the rights to the Soul Calibur movie. As far as I can tell neither is doing anything with it though.
The problem as I see is the attempts tend to go Sturgeons Law to the nth power most of the time. Even if you get the genre right (as in the case with the 2000 Dungeons & Dragons) there are still a lot of things that make your movie do a major Hoover at the box office including ironically following a particular genre too closely. And make no mistake about it many movies are still aimed at the box office so you have this got to make money NOW mentality which per Gargoyles bleeds over into the DVD markets.
