Game -> Movie = bad

[shelke]

Anyone else agrees on the fact that most movies that are remade out of games are bad?

 

[poohcarrot]

I enjoyed Tomb Raider! 8)

 

[Bickaxe]

99% are awful.

Tomb Raider was okay, Hitman wasn't too bad.

Still waiting for a movie based on Tetris

 

[michelanCello]

Still waiting for a movie based on Tetris

 

[chris.ph]

i enjoyed silent hill i didnt even know it was a video game

i know y pooh enjoyed tombraider and it wasnt the crappy plot

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

And they didn't even have any day-glo paint either!

 

[mspanners]

50/50... Tomb Raider films ok, Hit Man ok...

but Super Mario Bros tie in HA HA!!

Silent Hill Spooky and Resident Evil films were good the first being the best!

 

[poohcarrot]

I hope certain people, who will remain unmentioned, are not implying that just because Angelina Jolie was a hot sexy babe with attitude, who carried a gun, rode a motorbike and bounced provocitively in slow motion had anything to do with my enjoyment of Tomb Raider.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

If the cap fits

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

If the cap fits

Ram it on your noggin pooh san.

 

[Bickaxe]

I hope certain people, who will remain unmentioned, are not implying that just because Angelina Jolie was a hot sexy babe with attitude, who carried a gun, rode a motorbike and bounced provocitively in slow motion had anything to do with my enjoyment of Tomb Raider.

It didn't? Those are the only reasons I liked it. Best scene was the diving suit at the start of the 2nd one. :twisted:

 

[mystmoon]

Prince of Persia was good for a laugh

 

[chris.ph]

would i call you an old perv pooh(yes)

 

[poohcarrot]

I would hardly call my appreciation of the perfection of the female form a perversion (even if it were covered in day-glo paint 8) ), whereas anyone who buys the Sun every day to get a cheap titilation from some page 3 tits......well!.

 

[chris.ph]

yip thats me 8)

 

[mspanners]

Some good points there !!

Tomb Raider would not have been the same Movie if they had cast Dawn French as Lara!!

Casting can make or break a Movie..... Mr & Mrs Smith for example.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Tomb Raider would not have been the same Movie if they had cast Dawn French as Lara!!

It would have been a lot funnier though - and not for the wrong reasons :twisted:

 

[Quark]

The problem, I think, is best summarised by Yahtzee, the gaming journalist.

While a movie just has to keep an audience entertained for an hour or two, a videogsme has to stand up to at least twelve hours of people like me overturning every stone in search of faults.

Any reasonable game that attracts attention enough to be made into a movie will have one fault: It will have sacrificed storytelling for gameplay, and struggles to stand up when there is suddenly no gameplay to lean on. If they aren't already fan-oriented or totally stupid, their apparent shallowness will not make a good movie.

This is probably why the Tomb Raider and Resident Evil films are even fractionally successful: They filled in gaps in the story with jaw-dropping action.

Having said that, it may just be a transition problem. After all, games made from movies tend to be truly awful. However, this is usually because the way development has to be rushed to meet the release of the movie.


Wow, am I a bore or what?

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Don't fret Quark - at least you listen to yourself and don't let the zombies get too close unless you are one yourself

 

[Quark]

Brains! :twisted: