More Details on The Warcraft Movie 77
Gamespot had a talk with Paul Sams, Blizzard COO, and dug up some additional details on the Warcraft film. From the article: "We're not trying to take what we've done and...try to make a literal translation to the big screen. What we want to do is to make a great movie that happens to be set in a video game universe. That's a differentiator, and a key differentiator. A lot of it comes down to picking the right people. A lot of the other video game movies that have come out before this haven't had the budgets, the right people, and haven't had the right mindset. We and Legendary want to make a great film, an event picture, big-budget picture, that is a great stand-alone, fantasy-based movie that is good for you regardless of whether you're familiar with the Warcraft universe."
That is awesome... (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm wondering though how they are going to be able to tell a story in a universe that has such a well-established time-line, story and characters. Will it be like "Signs", in which the main story is off playing elsewhere, while our characters are involved with their own struggles?
For that matter, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING WITH THE METROID MOVIE? I mean, I'm glad Woo is off of it...I don't think I'd like to see white doves flying off while Samus fires in slow-motion.
However, seeing metroid attacking white doves would kick ass....hmm....what a quandry...
Re:Lost In Translation (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Step One (Score:3, Interesting)
We don't expect our games to be realistic. Sure, we whine about them lacking realism both in appearance and mechanics, but in reality we all understand that we can't do everything in a game that we can do in real life. Like fire around a corner without exposing half our body in most FPS. But when we watch a movie, we expect to see as close to realism as we can get--without the tedium of real life. What is perfectly acceptable in a game is intolerable in a movie.
Doom? Seemed ok to me. (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually I liked the Doom movie quite a lot. I took my sons to see it because "yeah it'll probably be bad but I juast have to see it". We were all very pleasantly surprised, thought it was great I recently hired the movie out as an over-nighter and it was still pretty good. Don't know why people complain about it.
As for "Resident Evil". Puke. I couldn't watch it for more than 5 minutes. Super Mario I liked, but mostly because it was just so pleasantly bizarre ... hilarious weirdness.