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if I could pick one video game to go the movie route, it would be Wolfenstein- impossible to fuck up and done right it is the new Indiana Jones.
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Khaldun
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I would actually think Wolfenstein is almost inevitable to fuck up, if by that you mean, "produce an entertaining film that's actually a film rather than 90 minutes of Twitch video of someone playing".
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If you based it on The New Order, you could do some interesting stuff for 90 minutes about crazy Nazis on the moon in 1960. Enough material there to make an interesting action movie.
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It also was a story that only was related to the games in that it had the same "something is killing the planet's soul" theme. So it really isn't a "video game" movie except the title and the fact that it used video game technology to render the animation.
In fairness it's that how pretty much all the FF stories are related? Also I think the stronger point is that for most games that are heavily story driven, they work in part because they use the mechanics and experience of being in the game as part of the storytelling experience. The Last of Us was pretty much all plot but I don't think the story would have worked as well as it did without getting us so identified with the main characters over the whole of the game, which was a lot longer than your average movie. The ability to use that and player choices to create an identity with the protagonist and other characters sometimes gets used as a crutch, and in the case of player choice is a limiting element on the depth of the story, that means relatively shallow plots can work in video games. They're a different medium for telling stories and capturing the essence of why they work can't really be done in film. The really cinematic games without too much player choice which would most obviously transmit to the big screen... really don't need to be. As people have said it would be like watching a Let's Play of that game, unless you think there's a huge market for watching a super slimmed down version of the game itself with slightly more impressive graphics and probably a few more 'mainstream' Hollywood plot elements thrown in. |
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Hmm...yeah. Some might point to the Witcher but that was based on a fairly successful series of books.
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I always thought somebody could actually make a really good Deus Ex movie. I'm sure they'd totally fuck it up, so I don't really want to see them try, but it could certainly be done as a great dystopian Sci-fi movie.
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Khaldun
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It's a fairly cinematic series, but again, that's partly because it's already kind of derivative and familiar--the art direction cribs from a number of films and then the plotting and characterization is a mishmash of a lot of cyberpunk/cybernoir stuff. But at least it might have a chance to be a bit better for adaptation than many other games.
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Goreschach
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Deus Ex is way too smart to be made into a movie. It would basically just get turned into X Files - The Movie. And we're all aware how those turn out. Well, except for Schild.
Something like Wolfenstein is a lot safer. It's just 'Joe Action shoots a bunch of nazis'. Hollywood actually has a chance at pulling that off.
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NowhereMan
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Yeah but again, at least from our perspective, why would you want that and not just watch an LP of Wolfenstein?
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lamaros
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Making a video game story in to a decent movie would be like making a short story into a great novel.
Yeah, you borrow some pointers, but the work is mostly going to need to be done from the ground up.
Ain't no one making a good film based on what is actually in video games of themselves.
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Oh God, that's real.
And it's TERRIBLE.
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Slyfeind
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A lot of those graphics looked 10 years old. It wasn't disappointing, just... weird. Like they could have done better, but chose not to. Except for the closeups of the orcs. That was pretty damn impressive.
I like the direction they're going with the story, but it seems kind of early to start with the human-orc friendship thing. That seems like a sequel story to me. The human bits make me think of the D&D movies on SyFy. Ugh, seriously. WTF....
The baby orc; was that Thrall? I'm kinda assuming it was Thrall, because that pleases me.
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jgsugden
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Not enthusiastic. It kind of reminds me thnat what Marvel has done isn't easy.
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Shannow
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Did I just watch a movie trailer or a cut scene from a new Warcraft game? That wasn't very good.
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This shows - as the SW Prequels and The Hobbit did - why CGI should be an addition and not the main trappings when you're using human actors. The CGI all looked as good as any other full CGI in Hollywood today. However the uncanny valley is in full effect when you put that in the same frame as practical effects. Ignoring that the story was always going to be shitty. The baby orc; was that Thrall? I'm kinda assuming it was Thrall, because that pleases me.
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disKret
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It's veeery average trailer. If trailers show the best of upcoming this will be fucking disaster.
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murdoc
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Needs bigger shoulders.
Also, looked awful.
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The CGI was terrible in a seriously pasted on sort of way. As someone not remotely familiar with the World of Warcraft lore, nothing in it was remotely memorable other than how bad the CGI looked when it was in the same scene with real things and people.
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Did I just watch a movie trailer or a cut scene from a new Warcraft game? That wasn't very good.
Warcraft cutscenes used to actually impress me. This did not. Meh. Wasn't planning on watching this anyway, and the trailer did not change my opinion. |
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jgsugden
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They'd have been better off doing this 100% animated with cut scene level animation...
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No hot elf chicks -- do not want.
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Tannhauser
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They'd have been better off doing this 100% animated with cut scene level animation...
Agreed. I liked how baby Moses Thrall was sent down the river in a basket. Looked pretty cheesy, maybe they'll have a miracle patch.  |
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It looked like sci-fi channel quality.
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Haven't been following this movie at all, so while watching the trailer I was expecting them to get to the part where they mention that it's "From the Director of ______" and starring x, y, and z, and then that never happened. I would have thought they'd have gotten a least a few big names for this as opposed to "the guy that plays Ragnar on Vikings" and "the guy you might know as Howard Stark", and "written and directed by David Bowie's son who made a couple good movies and now is here to collect a paycheck after not having done any movies in the last 5 years".
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jgsugden
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... and Sam Raimi's approach was vetoed by Blizzard because ti did not match the aesthetic they wanted....
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HaemishM
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I can believe that. Sam Raimi doesn't do plastic.
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Khaldun
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The cheese is strong in this one.
Or not. That actually would probably have been the way to go, with a thousand WoW Lore nerds crying out in sorrow--play the cheese up, go full cheese. This is in the cheese valley: cheesy looking and cheesy thematic, but wanting to be not-cheese. A famous valley for movies to die in.
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Wow has 5.5 mil subscribers and millions more ex subs. This trailer has 1.2mil views....outlook not so good
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That was awful. World of the Rings Craft. With shittier CGI and acting.
Edit: Also, there wasn't a single person there with a big yellow exclamation mark above their heads.
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Wow has 5.5 mil subscribers and millions more ex subs. This trailer has 1.2mil views....outlook not so good
4.02 mil views as of of right now   But yes, everything else that can be said about this film has been said already in this thread. Maybe worth watching drunk downloaded as torrent. The baby in the basket has been done before in another show (Exodus season 2 episode 4). Could be coincidence though. |
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Not sure if serious.
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The baby in the basket has been done before in another show (Exodus season 2 episode 4). Could be coincidence though.
Or it could be a major plot point in the best selling book of all time. |
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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