Hmmmm I just really don't like movies made of games....They ruin the game for me when I go back and try to play them.

...I guess that was kind of passively insulting, wasn't it? Whoops! Obviously, not the intent. heh

Fans love what they love and they'll roll with it, even if it ends up being terrible. Hopefully it's good though.

Hopefully.

the movie could be interesting, but it won't follow the line of the game well enough for any fans of the game to want to see it.

How do you equate adapting Spiderman with SoTC? Spiderman is a comic book series which is virtually a pre-made story board for a movie. The fact the movie changed things doesn't alter the fact that they started with almost the ideal source material. It has important stuff like...you know... dialogue already written. Not to mention a plot with sufficient substance to carry a 90min - 2hr movie. SoTC is almost the opposite of ideal source material for adaptation, as such it would have to be subject to considerable alteration as to not resemble the game in the slightest. 

Better to take the idea of SoTC and make a movie called something other than SoTC.

My prediction would be that this movie will not be the one to break VG adaptations out of the realms of mediocrity.

My pick for a mediocrity busting adaptation would be if you took God of War Chains of Olympus, GoW I and Ghost of Sparta and mashed them all into one movie. With GoW II and III as the potential sequel. I'm assuming Ascension is somewhere before GoW I in chronology so that could be folded into the first movie. There you have plenty of source material (plot, dialogue, theme, setting) to work with.

Hanna was a solid film with some great action bits and acting, so that's a plus for this.

I just think SotC is so distinctly video game that they will either make a poor film or have to adjust so much that much of the game will be lost.

If they follow three act structure be three Colossi. First one to introduce, second to be test and third one to bring closure. This could be done in about two hours, but pacing will be key in setting the mood and giving weight to the characters actions.

I would say I expect the worst and hope for the best.

Exactly the point. The necessitiy of making up an entire movie's worth of dialogue for the main character ends up requiring a massive change and departure from the game. For one thing he's got to have people to talk to, which means introducing a new characters who do not exist, and / or having him chat with the Colossi before killing them. Tweaking a bit of Spiderman dialogue and plot is very minor and virtually inconsequential, and is actually a choice on the part of the screenwriter, not a necessity.

I think movies like John Carter and Clash of the Titans (albeit they were not very good movies) show that CGI+live action works very well. A GoW adaptation suffers from the sort of problem Dredd 3D suffered: make it with the right level of violence and it will be R rated and hence get a very low audience even if it is well received by the critics. Or make it with M level violence for a wider potential audience but suffer qualitatively and hence not get many people going to the movie anyway. So then it comes down to making the movie with the R rated violence on a tight budget which then will give it a cheap look and again poor audience. With a cheap CGI look you might as well simply watch all the game cutscenes (plus Linda Hunt narration) off the discs as a movie experience. So while I think there is the potential for a critically well received live action GoW adaptation I don't think there's any adaptation that can be made that would make a profit, so I don't see any adaptation of GoW actually happening even though there's one aparently in the works.

I wonder how there going to film the 16 big fights, it's quite a bit for a movie, I can see them bringing that number down. There really isn't much to the story either, or dialog it would just be Wander and Agro (his horse) most of the movie. To pull this off as a good movie will take a lot of effort, I cross my fingers for this movie because the game was so amazing.

It would be cool if they made it in the style of The dark crystal.
Hopefully it won't be another mediocre cgi fest like Clash of the titans.