| burgerstein said: Video Game plots don't translate well to movies. They're either too long with a very linear progression of events, or something like Mario where it's pretty much just A to B with a few boss fights. What's very compelling and fun in a game is boring in a noninteractive medium. On a related note, George A Romero wrote a script for the Resident Evil movie, that was actually faithful to the game, and then they went with the other guy. I lie awake a night imagining how much better that movie could have been. |
This. Trying to condense a 30-60 hour video game into 1 1/2 hours of 'action packed amazing acting and graphics'....is nearly impossible. Heck, hollywood can't even adapt books or even TV series into movies well unless the original writers do the script (and usually directing) themselves. What makes you think a bunch of hollywood film makers who suddenly obtained the rights to a gaming series they probably played 5 hours of could do better?
All I have to say is, look at the Dragon Ball movie to see the type of 'movie' Hollywood thinks gaming and Anime fans want to see 'adapted'. And then realize they're trying to do the same thing for Metroid, Metal Gear Solid, Halo and on the Anime side, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell and Naruto. None of these are going to turn out good....
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