Nope. Nearly all of that has been you. Nearly all of your points are just plain cynicism and self-defeatism. Whenever someone brings up a good, sound, or reasonable point, you double down on the cynicism, full of "what if, buts, or maybes", or go through mental gymnastics on why it "can't" work. These adaptions can work with proper compromise and care (and they have regardless of what you believe or think). You will lose something and gain something no matter what medium is being adapted from a different medium. Hence why they are called adaptions. They have to adapt in some way or it does not work. I won't go any further, because all you do is go around in circles refusing to listen and too stuck in your cynicism. I'll be ignoring you in this particular topic (but I won't actually put you on ignore). So say anything to me on this topic unless you know it's important (to me).
For those interested, care, or need a reminder:
- Double Impact is the best Double Dragon movie ever made.
- Ninja Assassin is the best Ninja Gaiden movie ever made.
- The Crank films are the best GTA movies ever made.
- The Purge films are the best Manhunt movies ever made.
- Event Horizon is the best Doom movie ever made.
- Dog Soldiers is the best Resident Evil movie ever made. At least until the new live-action adaption does it properly.
All of this and more if you're interested:
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Speaking of Resident Evil:
- RE1 is Night of the Living Dead with elements of Jurassic Park (The Hunters are basically Raptors), Jaws, The Fly, and Little Shop of Horrors.
- RE2 & 3 is Dawn of the Dead; especially 3. 3 is that combined with Terminator.
- Code Veronica is RE1 near the end, but not as interesting combined Parasite Eve. Alexia Ashford is a copy of Eve.
- RE4 is The Thing combined with The Wickerman.
- RE5 is Black Hawk Down combined with the Constant Gardner added with parasitic zombies.
- RE6 is Resident Evil: Michael Bay Edition! Featuring Explosions From Michael Bay!
- RE7 is Texas Chainsaw combined with Condemned: Criminal Origins combined Clock Tower combined with F.E.A.R.
- Not A Hero DLC is just RE5/6 Chris, but you're in first person instead of third person.
- End of Zoe DLC is Punch Out meets Final Fight.
- RE8 is Dracula/Carmilla combined with Resident Evil 4 and Bloodborne.
- Revelations 1 and Dead Aim are Capcom's answer to Cold Fear. Ironic, because Cold Fear did not come until after RE4 and was a clone of the latter. Dead Aim came out in 2002. Dead Aim was also another proto-RE4 when you think about it. Rev 1 fits the Capcom take on Cold Fear. The only difference being you're on a cruise ship instead of Russian whaler.
- Revelations 2 is Saw and Evil Within.
I bring these up, because nearly any of these can work in proper live-action film adaption or TV/Streaming series. Just be put in to the hands of people that care.
So lemme get this straight. Your argument that video games can be adapted into movies is...a list of movies that are not adaptations of video games and just claiming they are?
At this point you're just taking the piss right? Like you don't honestly think Dog Soldiers is a Resident Evil movie do you? Or have you never played any of these games and don't really know what they're about?
Like I don't know why the fuck you bring up spiritual adaptations when the topic has been literal adaptations.
No one in this thread, at least that I saw, said you can't do a good fighting movie. What has been said is that a video game is a different medium to experience a story than a movie, and that the two may not be compatible. How you tell a story in video games, the pacing, dialogue beats, player interaction, 20+ hour narrative is different than how you tell a story, even the same story, in a movie.
Somehow, some people interpreted this to mean you can't do a martial arts movie, full stop. And its nonsense. Its gaslighting. Its trying to change the debate from why can't Hollywood adapt a video game to the big screen to punch movie is good!
My argument is that mortal kombat, and tournament fighters in general, probably can't be translated into a movie successfully while also being faithful to the source material and without changing major elements. The counter to that has been the mortal kombat movies that were not successes, the Street Fighter movies that basically have nothing to do with the Street Fighter games save the character names and glaring don't have tournaments, and Enter the Dragon and Bloodsport, both of which are not video game adaptations.
And now we're at Event Horizon is a Doom movie somehow. I mean ignoring the plot, setting, characters, tone, pacing, IP, and narrative sure. And Sister Act 2 is a Binding of Isaac movie if you change a few things around. And for shame, not even getting it right, Event Horizon is a Warhammer movie. And even then its not a Warhammer movie, its a totally different IP that has no connection to Warhammer.
Jeez forget adapting video games into movies, you should just play a video game to know what they're like.
