Video Game movies

[Red Exodus]

This topic was bound to happen, so I might as well rant about it. I'll rant about
each movie franchise, comparing it to the game. I'd like to ask no one jump
ahead and bring up another game movie before me. Don't worry folks, every
VG movie will get ranted on.

First off, let me thank Hollywood for making an incredibly successful line of
art, writing, and concept, and turning it into PURE UNBRIDLED SHIT.

Video Games are more than just simple electronic playing. They show great
art from many different perspectives, lots of stories on various subjects, and
characters of many different tyes. Obviously, I look toward Japan more, and
so does the rest of the world on VG entertainment. Most big games come
from Japan.

But here in the states, we like to take things and milk them for everything
they're worth. It obviously shows in comic movies. Lots of bad Comic
movies have been made, like Fantastic Four, Captain America, Batman 4,
Superman 4, etc. Comics have made a fairly decent comeback.

Sadly. Video game movies have not been so lucky. So far, this has been the movies
that have come out based off the games.

Super Mario Bros.
Street Fighter
House of The Dead
Double Dragon
Wing Commander
Ecks VS. Sever
Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat : Annihilation
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider 2
Resident Evil
Resident Evil : Apocalypse


Expect these Game movies to appear sometime next year

Doom
Silent Hill
Max Payne

I've heard rumors of these movies being done, but I haven't heard anything from them
yet.

Soul Caliber
Dead or Alive

Tomorrow I'll tackle Super Mario Bros. I'd just like to prepare you all for what's to
come, and to also invite you to join me in the rant.

[chaos unleashed]

I totally agree hollywood movies that are based on games suck, when StreetFighter the movie came out featuring Vann Dam, omg the graphical work was apalling!!! and only one hadoken was executed, and the graphical work sucked... a flash!!!!! wtf!! aqnd Ken's ShroYuken looked like he was ballet dancing!!

but I did like Spiderman and Spiderman 2, I also like Xmen 1,2

[Red Exodus]

Might as well start with RE first.

Okay.....where to begin?

For starters, wtf Capcom. WHY would you let America make a game movie?
Didn't ANY of the employees realize that American movies based off games
sucked? For God's sake, Street Fighter Capcom! You would dare give us
another chance?! Morons! Who the hell made that call?!

Moving on, let's start the comparing game.

First off, movie's monsters VS. game's monsters.

In the movie we got only 3 measily monsters. We got the zombies of course,
cerberus or the zombie dogs, and we get a licker.

Wait. Let's retrace that last thing I said.

Zombies, check. Cerberus, check. Licker?

LICKER?

Okay, right now we can already see a ruined storyline. Lickers were supposed
to be mutated by the G-Virus. Every monster in RE 1 was mutated by the
T-Virus. Good fucking job Capcom, for letting them muck this up.

Moving on, let me at the very least credit the movie for making the Cerberus
look cool, and the zombies themselves. The Licker was Fucking ridiculous.
Whatever it ate it would mutate? Funny, I couldn't tell if it was a licker or if
it was William Birkin. Also note that it only took one bullet to it's massive
head to kill it.

WOW

In the game, there's A LOT of monsters.

We have

1 Zombies
2 Cerberus
3 Crimson Heads (Red Zombies)
4 Big Tarantulas
5 Great White Sharks
6 Killer Bees
7 Vipers
8 Chimeras
9 Hunters
10 Crows
11 Yawn (Giant Snake Boss)
12 Black Tiger (Giant Tarantula Boss)
13 Neptune (Giant Great White Shark Boss)
14 Plant 42 (Boss)
15 Crimson Elder
16 Lisa Trevor
17 Tyrant

Damn, 3 to 17 monsters eh? My god. And please take note that Lisa Trevor was
the ONLY monster infected with the G-Virus, and that's because she was a guinea
pig for their research. If you assholes were gonna put a G-Virus monster, why
not her? *Sigh*.................

Now let's compare characters.

We have the movies small commandos, and the game's special ops.

We have a few members + Millia Jovovich. None of the members are actually
cool enough to be mentioned.

In the game we have Rebecca Chambers, Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield,
Barry Burton, Brad Vickers (Dies) Enrico Marini (Dies), and Albert Wesker.

1st off, The commandos in the movie sucked. They couldn't kill shit, and with
all their badass guns, do nothing.

Now although the game is different, since you are playing the characters, in
the few cutscenes that are shown, no one ever shows bad aim, or gets overrun
by a monster.

Next, is Millia. First off, being a super powered chick is lame. Already the concept
of fighting for survival is gone, and now it's just how many can I kill because I am
super tough. The scene where she jumps off a wall to kick a Cerberus will forever
show the incompetence of this movie. Not to mention that while EVERYONE
was struggling against zombies, she did nothing but martial arts, completely
dominating them. WTF.

In the game, getting near a zombie isn't a good idea. They are fast and strong,
so fighting with a weapon wasn't smart. Not to mention that these were trained
operatives who knew NOTHING of the layout they were being dropped to. If they
knew where everything was, they wouldn't have had such a hard time now would
they? What made the game's atmosphere scary was the fact that these were
people, ORDINARY albeit trained people not armed to the teeth sent to a place
where they were completely unprepared for what lied within. That's damn good
premise right there, not a "We're armed to the teeth, and we know the bases
layout, but we still manage to screw oursleves over" concept like in the movie.

Notice that the game's setting was in an old dark house, while the movies was in
a BRIGHT sci-fi lab/complex. What's more scary too you?

Now the story.

The red queen was a fucking joke. The story was such a messed up piece of crap.
A little computerized british girl. A you friggin' kidding me?! That's about as scary
as one of those old as hell haunted house rides from the eighties. (If anyone here
has ever been to a carnival, you'll know what I'm talking about.) The computer
goes nuts and starts to kill people by releasing the zombies and such. Wow, way
to overuse the same plot I've seen a million other sci-fi movies before Paul.
Millia's memory loss is so horribly overused as well, and it was pretty boring how
it was lost and then regained. The biggest slap in the face is the end. A human
is gonna be turned into Nemesis? Oh boy.......

The game's is very mysterious. First it's all about where did they come from,
what is Umbrella and what do they have to do with this, Wesker being very
elusive, the houses many traps, etc. As you can see, there is lots of mystery,
keeping you pumped and wanting to find out what happens. There aren't many
hints that lean toward a 2nd part, but you know that where will be one.

Overall, I hate you Capcom for allowing this shit to happen, and most importantly,
I hate you Paul W.S. Anderson, for being the bastard that you are, killing a story
that was already perfect.

[chaos unleashed]

Exodus said:

Might as well start with RE first.

Okay.....where to begin?

For starters, wtf Capcom. WHY would you let America make a game movie?
Didn't ANY of the employees realize that American movies based off games
sucked? For God's sake, Street Fighter Capcom! You would dare give us
another chance?! Morons! Who the hell made that call?!

Moving on, let's start the comparing game.

First off, movie's monsters VS. game's monsters.

In the movie we got only 3 measily monsters. We got the zombies of course,
cerberus or the zombie dogs, and we get a licker.

Wait. Let's retrace that last thing I said.

Zombies, check. Cerberus, check. Licker?

LICKER?

Okay, right now we can already see a ruined storyline. Lickers were supposed
to be mutated by the G-Virus. Every monster in RE 1 was mutated by the
T-Virus. Good fucking job Capcom, for letting them muck this up.

Moving on, let me at the very least credit the movie for making the Cerberus
look cool, and the zombies themselves. The Licker was Fucking ridiculous.
Whatever it ate it would mutate? Funny, I couldn't tell if it was a licker or if
it was William Birkin. Also note that it only took one bullet to it's massive
head to kill it.

WOW

In the game, there's A LOT of monsters.

We have

1 Zombies
2 Cerberus
3 Crimson Heads (Red Zombies)
4 Big Tarantulas
5 Great White Sharks
6 Killer Bees
7 Vipers
8 Chimeras
9 Hunters
10 Crows
11 Yawn (Giant Snake Boss)
12 Black Tiger (Giant Tarantula Boss)
13 Neptune (Giant Great White Shark Boss)
14 Plant 42 (Boss)
15 Crimson Elder
16 Lisa Trevor
17 Tyrant

Damn, 3 to 17 monsters eh? My god. And please take note that Lisa Trevor was
the ONLY monster infected with the G-Virus, and that's because she was a guinea
pig for their research. If you assholes were gonna put a G-Virus monster, why
not her? *Sigh*.................

Now let's compare characters.

We have the movies small commandos, and the game's special ops.

We have a few members + Millia Jovovich. None of the members are actually
cool enough to be mentioned.

In the game we have Rebecca Chambers, Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield,
Barry Burton, Brad Vickers (Dies) Enrico Marini (Dies), and Albert Wesker.

1st off, The commandos in the movie sucked. They couldn't kill shit, and with
all their badass guns, do nothing.

Now although the game is different, since you are playing the characters, in
the few cutscenes that are shown, no one ever shows bad aim, or gets overrun
by a monster.

Next, is Millia. First off, being a super powered chick is lame. Already the concept
of fighting for survival is gone, and now it's just how many can I kill because I am
super tough. The scene where she jumps off a wall to kick a Cerberus will forever
show the incompetence of this movie. Not to mention that while EVERYONE
was struggling against zombies, she did nothing but martial arts, completely
dominating them. WTF.

In the game, getting near a zombie isn't a good idea. They are fast and strong,
so fighting with a weapon wasn't smart. Not to mention that these were trained
operatives who knew NOTHING of the layout they were being dropped to. If they
knew where everything was, they wouldn't have had such a hard time now would
they? What made the game's atmosphere scary was the fact that these were
people, ORDINARY albeit trained people not armed to the teeth sent to a place
where they were completely unprepared for what lied within. That's damn good
premise right there, not a "We're armed to the teeth, and we know the bases
layout, but we still manage to screw oursleves over" concept like in the movie.

Notice that the game's setting was in an old dark house, while the movies was in
a BRIGHT sci-fi lab/complex. What's more scary too you?

Now the story.

The red queen was a fucking joke. The story was such a messed up piece of crap.
A little computerized british girl. A you friggin' kidding me?! That's about as scary
as one of those old as hell haunted house rides from the eighties. (If anyone here
has ever been to a carnival, you'll know what I'm talking about.) The computer
goes nuts and starts to kill people by releasing the zombies and such. Wow, way
to overuse the same plot I've seen a million other sci-fi movies before Paul.
Millia's memory loss is so horribly overused as well, and it was pretty boring how
it was lost and then regained. The biggest slap in the face is the end. A human
is gonna be turned into Nemesis? Oh boy.......

The game's is very mysterious. First it's all about where did they come from,
what is Umbrella and what do they have to do with this, Wesker being very
elusive, the houses many traps, etc. As you can see, there is lots of mystery,
keeping you pumped and wanting to find out what happens. There aren't many
hints that lean toward a 2nd part, but you know that where will be one.

Overall, I hate you Capcom for allowing this shit to happen, and most importantly,
I hate you Paul W.S. Anderson, for being the bastard that you are, killing a story
that was already perfect.

Dude, you just went all out there didn't you, well, I do agree with the capcom thing!! I MEAN!!!

RESIDENT EVIL APOCALYPSE!!! C'MON CAPCOM!!!! when you make your movies try not to make them so it looks like Hollywood did the job!!! I'll rate you people for your streetfighter Alpha, and Streetgihter 2, but NOTE** GET THE DUBBING A LITTLE MORE ACCURATE GUYS, WE WANT CHARACTERS OPENING THEIR MOUTHS WHEN THEY SCREAM FOR A CHANGE!!!

Well, I hear the Dbz Live action movie is coming out despite the denies Fox made about it being cancelled

ok so I check it out on an anime site [the former dragonball-gt.com], and it gives you the crew of characters

you'll never guess who was goku..............

Jack Hughman that Aussi who played wolverine, omg omg omg he cannot be Goku if his life depended on it!!!!!!

The guy who played Legolas is playing Tien

Bill Goldberg will play nappa!!! ok credits for Bill becuase he looks like nappa, but he's probably got as little brains as the big oath!!!

And maybe this isn't all true becasue im starting to think that these characters are so dismantled that the anime site was just talking bullshit!!! im not sure becasue when i went on dragonballz.com it still said Fox denied any progress of the movie. so there you go......... They might as well not have planned on making a real live action movie if it was gunna turn out like this, FOX YOU SLOPPY SOB'S!!!!! if anyone watched Farhenheit 9/11 it tells you that bush lost the votes but his cousin on Fox decided to say he one any way, and hey!!! just becasue Fox did it every other bloody channel decides to say it omg omg omg!!!!

well, that's my rant, no doubt i'll go and watch the real live dbz movie whether it is shit or good to see if it was even worth making it, and theres so much commotion on the dbz movie, and you hear jackshit about akira toriyama- the daddy of dragonball/Z and his approval of making it!!!



Or

[Red Exodus]

To my knowledge, At that time, Fox wasn't making one, therefore the cast you mentioned is fake.

Although NOW I've heard of them making an attempt to do a live movie.

Again, only something I've heard. Don't qoute me on it being true.

[chaos unleashed]

yeh, but it does make you mad though, and Resident Evil Apocalypse just sucks.... if and when capcom are willing to do a viewtiful joe movie lets all join hands and pray to God it'll be a good one

[Red Exodus]

Just give up hoping there will be a good video game movie.

Hollywood will NEVER do it right.

[chaos unleashed]

it's just the name....

capcom guy: AHH IM A LEGEND MY GAME WAS MADE INTO A MOVIE IN HOLLYWOOD!!

[booo]

Exodus said:

Just give up hoping there will be a good video game movie.

Hollywood will NEVER do it right.

Actually, SilentHill is looking like it might be halfassed decent, given some of the people working on it. If what the writer said on his blog was true, both the director and himself are both fans of the videogame (though he claims not to be as big of a SH nut as the director), and have been pouring over the games, soundtracks, and related material for large quantities of time.
Also, I think I read something about Konami staying heavilly involved in the movie's production, and that Akira Ya-something will be returning to do the musical stuffnicks.

[Red Exodus]

I'm sorry, but after all the crap I've seen thus far, I still remain skeptical.

I'm not calling you a liar mind you, but rather, I am going to wait and see it
for myself.

Show me a trailer, and then we'll talk.

[chaos unleashed]

wasn't always a silent hill fan... I dont like it at all!!!! had a demo of it on the ps1 when I bought FF7, all you do s chase a girl arround... wow yeh thats fun... and oh yeh, it's also foggy..

[Red Exodus]

Apparently, you gave up on it too soon.

It's one of the scariest games ever made. Play the 2nd and third one. You WILL
be scared.

[chaos unleashed]

I heard in the 3rd one you have to kill God!!! omg isn't that too far being a catholic and all

[booo]

No, you don't fight God, you fight the demon that the cult worships. The only time it is refered to as being 'God' is when they talk about it, which would make sense since they worship it and all.

[Red Exodus]

In the first Shadow Hearts you fight God.

AND WIN.

Hence why Yuri is called the "Godslayer" in Shadow Hearts : Covenant.