| Smash_Brother said: I've talked to people in the business: it doesn't matter how good the script is. No script ever comes out the same way it went in. This movie will be awful for the same reason every other VG movie is awful: because Hollywood doesn't take this crap with even the slightest hint of seriousness. A Metroid movie would suck, a MGS movie would suck and this movie WILL suck. I'm not trying to troll here. I'm dead serious when I say that getting your hopes up for this will only disappoint you THAT much more in the end. |
Well, there are three problems with game movies ...
Game stories (generally speaking) are not very good and are not presented in a way appropriate to convert to a movie. The plot of a game can generally be described as "A bunch of stuff that happened" and the protaganists'motivation is usually pretty shallow or undeveloped.
Converting a movie to a book, a movie to a game, or a game to a book can work out well because you are taking a story and making it more complicated and adding detail to the plot, setting and motivations of the characters; going the other way always works out poorly because you're taking away detail while trying to preserve the essence of the story.
Game-Movies are a lot like Movie-Games (in particular licenced games from the playstation era), they are simply designed to cash in on a popular licence and are usually produced by the worst teams in the industry.
