Basically every videogame movie is produced the same way: take an unrelated generic script, slap the game branding on it, ship it out.
See: Doom, Borderlands, Resident Evil, Street Fighter (Rip. Raul Julia), the super mario bros, Monster Hunter, Tekken, Prince of Persia, BloodRayne…
The first hitman movie was at least… like, kinda fun? Bad movie but we stan an ace king.
Half of those movies were directed by the same person, Uwe Boll.
Let’s not kid ourselves most games have a pretty generic story.
Definitely true, it highly depends on the genre though. You can’t expect a good story from an FPS game but they do exist. With RPGs it’s part of the experience.
ANY project that involves buying a license for an IP to make it is a lie. It is not the same thing as the original. It is, at best, as much like the original as a clone. It might look like it’s related but it’s purely a marketing gimmick to milk your nostalgia for every dollar they can slurp out.
Fuck nostalgia. The past was shit. You just forgot how shit it was.
The first season of The Last of Us was spectacular. I haven’t played the second game or watched the second season, so I can’t comment on that, but the first season was very true to the game in most ways, and where it wasn’t was still really, really good.
It was also made by Neil Druckmann, who was also the writer for the game.
Cries in Max Payne.
Borderlands I haven’t watched, the trailer was enough to put me off.
The first Resident Evil I really liked though. The Street Fighter movie with Vandamme and Kylie was camp fun.
Fallout has been pretty fun.
Ironically a great Fallout adaptation that might even tell a better Fallout story than 3 and 4 whose only sin is Bethesda gleefully shitting over all the West Coast canon out of jealousy.
Meanwhile the protagonist is a plucky Midwesterner and literally no one would have cared if they did the same thing to the Midwest canon.
‘Its only problem is that they called it “blue”, had they chosen a different name that had nothing to do with “blue the game” it would have been an awesome movie.’
Every single time.
I, Robot be like:
I, Robot at least had substantial aspects taken from (mostly) the last short story. IIRC the bulk of the overarching plot was based off of it.
It was totally off in tone and characters, but as Hollywood adaptations go it was pretty OK. On the other hand it was a fun action comedy with a SciFi veneer.
Dang. This meme is 20 years old. I remember citing it to one of my friends to explain why was not excited for the Watchmen movie.
Counterpoint: big blue shlong.
Elden ring movie plz b good
How can it possibly be good? I dont see what a cinematic adaptation could possibly offer. It’ll be a lot of sword fights and cgi magic and chaos and that’s it.
If it’s not incredibly painful and difficult to watch, how can it be a faithful adaptation?
