Comment Movie Adaptations (Score 1) 277
As a video gamer I find it disappointing to see some of my favorite games come to the big-screen. I cannot think of a movie derived from a game that I have enjoyed to this day.
I think that many of these movies are so poorly done that they do not hold justice to the entirety of the game which they were based.
I felt that the Resident Evil movies were terribly done. I've played endless hours of the Resident Evil game series and the movie screenplay was totally unsatisfying. It was just scene after scene of watching actors shooting into air with a cut-scene of a 'zombie' being tugged by a line, thrown into barrels. On the contrary I felt that 28 Days later, although not based on resident evil series whatsoever, held so much more authentic value of what the emotions and chaos that you experience in the game series. Resident Evil the movie had so much hype, and I felt it was just overdone with cheap gimmicks of CGI and slap-on action which any director can shoot.
I heard a while back that Doom was going to be a movie, now I've read about Halo becoming a movie. These games are not among my favorites, but I have enjoyed them and it makes me sad that the potential for these movies to be good (in my opinion) is very slim. I watched an interview about Gabe Newell from Valve. He said there were many days that they sat down and constructed ideas and scripts for a Half-life 2 movie but at the end of the day they decided that it just wouldn't live up to the game.
Movies like Sin City and Batman Begins make me realize there are small periods in time when a high-quality adaptation is done. In the end I honestly don't think that a 2-hour non-interactive movie can live up to the hours of interaction in a video game. As a fan of video-games in general I do not want to watch a half-ass'd movie adaptation that doesn't do justice to a game. Of course no one forces me to watch these movies, but as a last hope, I think it's a crime to make a bad movie about a great game.
I felt that the Resident Evil movies were terribly done. I've played endless hours of the Resident Evil game series and the movie screenplay was totally unsatisfying. It was just scene after scene of watching actors shooting into air with a cut-scene of a 'zombie' being tugged by a line, thrown into barrels. On the contrary I felt that 28 Days later, although not based on resident evil series whatsoever, held so much more authentic value of what the emotions and chaos that you experience in the game series. Resident Evil the movie had so much hype, and I felt it was just overdone with cheap gimmicks of CGI and slap-on action which any director can shoot.
I heard a while back that Doom was going to be a movie, now I've read about Halo becoming a movie. These games are not among my favorites, but I have enjoyed them and it makes me sad that the potential for these movies to be good (in my opinion) is very slim. I watched an interview about Gabe Newell from Valve. He said there were many days that they sat down and constructed ideas and scripts for a Half-life 2 movie but at the end of the day they decided that it just wouldn't live up to the game.
Movies like Sin City and Batman Begins make me realize there are small periods in time when a high-quality adaptation is done. In the end I honestly don't think that a 2-hour non-interactive movie can live up to the hours of interaction in a video game. As a fan of video-games in general I do not want to watch a half-ass'd movie adaptation that doesn't do justice to a game. Of course no one forces me to watch these movies, but as a last hope, I think it's a crime to make a bad movie about a great game.
