Movies based on games
I am so sick of movies based on games already I could puke. Now that they have made a movie about nearly every comic book character , no matter how obscure (captain marvel?!?!) they are now moving on to rape gamers. Some of the decisions are just crazy. Max Payne anyone? 99.9% of people who saw that movie have no idea it was even a game. I suppose I originally looked at the entire idea incorrectly. I thought they were trying to capitalize on the popularity of a game by making a movie about it when what’s really happening is a lack of new ideas. If they base a movie on a game the characters , story , locations , etc is already done for them. Its pathetic how out of ideas these people really are. Here is my evidence.
Far Cry – 2009
Tekken – 2009
Bioshock – 2010
Halo – who knows or cares when
and the list goes on and on. My favorite is when they call it “gametitle – the movie” or “the motion picture” you uncreative sacks of elephant shit , please kill yourselves and save me the drug induced rampage. I often wish everyone in Hollywood would die. For example if a crazed fat man from North Dakota who has ranted about their demise in blogs hijacks a plane and flies it directly into the academy awards. Just an example , I wouldn’t actually do it would I? Maybe , just maybe. So now you enter the unique position of a game based on a movie that’s based on a game. Wow what a piece of shit. I am too tired and pissed right now to even dance over to the subject of movie based games. Lets just say they are about as appealing to me as a hot sauce enema. Wrap your head around this before I go. This stupid new GI Joe movie (and movie game) so lets trace back the history of this in relevance to the topic of conversation at hand.
The new GI Joe game this summer is the following:
A Game based on a movie based on a cartoon based on a comic based on a line of action figures. Wow! Throw in the fact that there were nes GI Joe games (the one simply called GI Joe is one of nes’ best actually) and we have a 40 year spiral of nearly every single possible marketing idea and its all based on a doll. Or action figure as you nerds like to call them. You know what? I just looked online and http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-ralston.htmlyep thats a GI Joe cereal in the 80′s. I am done.
September 3, 2009 at 4:26 am
This is all a product of GW’s 3rd term. John Leguizamo as Luigi….Bob Hoskins as Mario… Resident Evil anyone? Let’s not forget the fact that even though those directors have an entire blueprint to carbon-copy a story when more than likely the fans of the games would like the director to follow the “original storyline” as closely as possible to be even remotely relevant and a good film, they have writers to “improve” the original, which translates into blasphemy, neurotic characters, and a feeling of never quite getting to your destination.
September 3, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Like Street Fighter the Movie for example? Where they cast a European to play Guile the American soldier? What hogwash.