he is, resident evil and monster hunter directed by paul ws anderson. there's tendency some directors bought game film right in bulk to cash in from the fans
I honestly enjoyed Super Mario Bros. Sure it only had like 10% in common with the games but seeing Toad being turned into a Goomba was hilarious. Street Fighter was also pretty great just for Raul Julia's bombastic acting alone. Seeing these creative liberties being taken can be infuriating at first but after the dust settles they can still be fun to watch if only to see how much of a trainwreck they can be.
Fuck anything by Uwe Boll though. He was an asshole and his movies were always painful to watch.
Super Mario Bros is a high budget B-movie and it's pretty charming for that. I enjoyed much of it, but I also kept reflexively punching the friend who made me watch the damn thing so idk if that's a positive review or not. It's a bad movie, but bad movies can be fun. Plus, "Monkey!" is perhaps the greatest line ever penned.
I agree there's plenty of aspects in just about any movie to enjoy, especially for the meme value - I enjoy the hell out of James Marsters as King Piccolo in DragonBall: Evolution, he fucking nailed that role (I'm so funny). The movie is almost objectively trash though.
It might have been that the Mario movie was made by Illumination so I had almost no expectations going in but I did really enjoy it way more than I was expecting.
It's kinda weird how that company is definitely capable of producing a good movie and they've demonstrated that a few times but they kinda just choose not to
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.
Street Fighter wasn't just a generic script, it was a GI Joe script for a live action adaptation that hadn't gone through. I wanna say they only got the Street Fighter license in order to salvage the project.
Apparently the Mario Bros Movie actually had a good script that was much closer to source material, only for the directors to throw it out because they don't do fantasy, only cyberpunk.
Prince of Persia was at least partially written by Jordan Mechner, the creator of the series. Three other writers also got writing credits as well, but my understanding is that Mechner was involved throughout the process. Which is crazy because of just how bad it is compared to the Sands of Time.
Similarly, Wing Commander was written and directed by Chris Roberts, which makes me wonder how he could get so much wrong. Though in retrospect, I'm kind of surprised it came out at all.
Yeah in also confused why they think it was a generic script - the story as a whole wasn't lifted from any of the games AFAIK, but it followed along definitly-RE plot points.
Plus it was cool to see those things in real instead of not PS1/PS2 graphics, but ok that's not about the story.
I wouldn't pehaps go so far as to say it was good, but it was certainly very enjoyable and they paid enough attention to the source material that they got a ton of the little details right.
'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.'
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.
It took several aspects from the short stories in 'the complete robot' and kind of mashed them together in a way that didn't really match the tone of any of them.
I mean the first couple of episodes had the protagonist rape a prisoner and not as any kind of character or social commentary so I can safely say it just sucked.
Wow, I completely missed that this movie exists and thought you were fucking with us. But no, they seriously did a soldier isekai into Monster Hunter world. How much coke was involved in making such a travesty?
Wait monster hunter the game series or monster hunter international the book series? the books focus on private contracting companies hunting vampires and what not for the government while trying to keep the public from knowing monsters are real, one of my favourite book series so I hope it's the latter
Sorry to break it to you, but it looks like the game series and not the book series (Which makes sense based on OP). That being said, it sounds like at least I have a new book series to check out, so thanks!
Check out the author too, he started a voting bloc called Sad Puppies to influence the Hugo Awards for a few years (which meant voting for his books, of course) because he was upset that thanks to political correctness it was impossible for straight white men to win awards legitimately.
I mean you can't really expect modern audiences to understand the color blue, so of course it's just a reasonable reinterpretation into a different medium to make blue red like audiences are more accustomed to.
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 notion does feel a little cynical. It's not like this is necessarily always the case and, even if such projects will fundamentally always be an attempt at making money in the hands of large studios, they can be well executed regardless.
It's an example of the other way around, but as someone who frankly was immune to the notion of nostalgia from it, I recently watched the first Alien movie for the first time and played Alien Isolation afterwards. That was an amazing example of a game that really represented the ambience, notion and feel of the originals without being a carbon copy of it (even if they did rely overmuch on parallels in some parts and the general structure is surely more than inspired).
Though I suppose I must also give the point that I can't think of an example of the game to movie pipeline that ended well. I'm sure someone will be able to share some positive experience there.
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.
made by Neil Druckmann, who was also the writer for the game.
That's an important key. He didn't buy the rights to someone else's work. He basically did a revision of his own work, with all the intimate knowledge of character, narrative, etc. that implies.
The Last of Us as a game was also basically a playable movie as it was. Someone actually made it into a kind of movie by capturing game recordings long before it ever was made as a live action series. That means he didn't have to revise it very far.
And then invariably you’ll have the people who come out of the woodwork to say “but it’s such a good movie and why were you expecting it to be just like the source material?” like that’s a good point…
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.
The one video game movie that springs to my mind that is like the video game is Mortal Kombat. Right around then in the early 90's, the movie industry didn't even try to understand the games they were movieing, but they did. Compare that to, say, Super Mario Bros.
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.
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Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 29d
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.
Dookieman12@piefed.social · 45 pts · 29d
Half of those movies were directed by the same person, Uwe Boll.
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 28d
Careful now, don't talk shit about him or he'll challenge you to a fight (unless he thinks he might lose)
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 29d
I think he only happened to Bloodrayne?
wopalopa@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 29d
he is, resident evil and monster hunter directed by paul ws anderson. there's tendency some directors bought game film right in bulk to cash in from the fans
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 28d
Wes Anderson should direct a video game movie
wopalopa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d
now thats a game movie i def watch
anzo@programming.dev · 2 pts · 28d
Coming soon: Silksong the movie
nyctre@piefed.social · 2 pts · 28d
It's gonna be 2d side scroller movie, for sure.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 29d
I honestly enjoyed Super Mario Bros. Sure it only had like 10% in common with the games but seeing Toad being turned into a Goomba was hilarious. Street Fighter was also pretty great just for Raul Julia's bombastic acting alone. Seeing these creative liberties being taken can be infuriating at first but after the dust settles they can still be fun to watch if only to see how much of a trainwreck they can be.
Fuck anything by Uwe Boll though. He was an asshole and his movies were always painful to watch.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 29d
Super Mario Bros is a high budget B-movie and it's pretty charming for that. I enjoyed much of it, but I also kept reflexively punching the friend who made me watch the damn thing so idk if that's a positive review or not. It's a bad movie, but bad movies can be fun. Plus, "Monkey!" is perhaps the greatest line ever penned.
I agree there's plenty of aspects in just about any movie to enjoy, especially for the meme value - I enjoy the hell out of James Marsters as King Piccolo in DragonBall: Evolution, he fucking nailed that role (I'm so funny). The movie is almost objectively trash though.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 29d
It might have been that the Mario movie was made by Illumination so I had almost no expectations going in but I did really enjoy it way more than I was expecting.
It's kinda weird how that company is definitely capable of producing a good movie and they've demonstrated that a few times but they kinda just choose not to
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 10 pts · 29d
They're talking about the Super Mario Bros movie from 1993 with Bob Hoskins. It was a dark dystopian cyberpunk movie.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 29d
Oh whoops.
I love that move too tbh
Sly2@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 29d
Let's not kid ourselves most games have a pretty generic story.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 27d
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.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 29d
Street Fighter wasn't just a generic script, it was a GI Joe script for a live action adaptation that hadn't gone through. I wanna say they only got the Street Fighter license in order to salvage the project.
Apparently the Mario Bros Movie actually had a good script that was much closer to source material, only for the directors to throw it out because they don't do fantasy, only cyberpunk.
Prince of Persia was at least partially written by Jordan Mechner, the creator of the series. Three other writers also got writing credits as well, but my understanding is that Mechner was involved throughout the process. Which is crazy because of just how bad it is compared to the Sands of Time.
Similarly, Wing Commander was written and directed by Chris Roberts, which makes me wonder how he could get so much wrong. Though in retrospect, I'm kind of surprised it came out at all.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 29d
Never played resident evil, but I remember the first movie being great
RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org · 1 pts · 24d
Yeah in also confused why they think it was a generic script - the story as a whole wasn't lifted from any of the games AFAIK, but it followed along definitly-RE plot points.
Plus it was cool to see those things in real instead of not PS1/PS2 graphics, but ok that's not about the story.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 5 pts · 29d
Seconded that Hitman 2007 was a good movie.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
I wouldn't pehaps go so far as to say it was good, but it was certainly very enjoyable and they paid enough attention to the source material that they got a ton of the little details right.
toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org · 4 pts · 28d
We stan an ace king, indeed.
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 27d
I remember bursting out laughing when he's about to bang some lady and instead just jabs that giant syringe in her neck.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 2 pts · 29d
do not even get me started on the Sonic movies
nullspace@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 29d
They course-corrected well enough.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 74 pts · 29d
'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.
aeiou@piefed.social · 13 pts · 29d
I, Robot be like:
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 17 pts · 29d
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.
eodur@piefed.social · 15 pts · 28d
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.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
Isn’t that basically every Asimov adaption?
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 28d
It took several aspects from the short stories in 'the complete robot' and kind of mashed them together in a way that didn't really match the tone of any of them.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 28d
The Halo TV series
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 5 pts · 28d
I mean the first couple of episodes had the protagonist rape a prisoner and not as any kind of character or social commentary so I can safely say it just sucked.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 30 pts · 29d
They missed me with that Monster Hunter movie, you could plainly see in the trailers it was just a US Military advertisement.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 24 pts · 29d
Wow, I completely missed that this movie exists and thought you were fucking with us. But no, they seriously did a soldier isekai into Monster Hunter world. How much coke was involved in making such a travesty?
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 7 pts · 29d
Either too much or nowhere near enough.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 29d
Wait monster hunter the game series or monster hunter international the book series? the books focus on private contracting companies hunting vampires and what not for the government while trying to keep the public from knowing monsters are real, one of my favourite book series so I hope it's the latter
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 29d
It's the video game series, unfortunately
Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 29d
Ok that doesn't make sense, it sucks because I bet will hurt the chances of the book series getting a movie if that one does poorly
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 4 pts · 29d
it did do poorly
Killer_Tree@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 28d
Sorry to break it to you, but it looks like the game series and not the book series (Which makes sense based on OP). That being said, it sounds like at least I have a new book series to check out, so thanks!
PDFuego@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 28d
Check out the author too, he started a voting bloc called Sad Puppies to influence the Hugo Awards for a few years (which meant voting for his books, of course) because he was upset that thanks to political correctness it was impossible for straight white men to win awards legitimately.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 28d
Try Monster Hunt.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 29d
I mean you can't really expect modern audiences to understand the color blue, so of course it's just a reasonable reinterpretation into a different medium to make blue red like audiences are more accustomed to.
sunsofold@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 28d
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.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 28d
The notion does feel a little cynical. It's not like this is necessarily always the case and, even if such projects will fundamentally always be an attempt at making money in the hands of large studios, they can be well executed regardless.
It's an example of the other way around, but as someone who frankly was immune to the notion of nostalgia from it, I recently watched the first Alien movie for the first time and played Alien Isolation afterwards. That was an amazing example of a game that really represented the ambience, notion and feel of the originals without being a carbon copy of it (even if they did rely overmuch on parallels in some parts and the general structure is surely more than inspired).
Though I suppose I must also give the point that I can't think of an example of the game to movie pipeline that ended well. I'm sure someone will be able to share some positive experience there.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 28d
And/or you were a minor and were sheltered from a lot of it.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d
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.
sunsofold@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 27d
That's an important key. He didn't buy the rights to someone else's work. He basically did a revision of his own work, with all the intimate knowledge of character, narrative, etc. that implies.
The Last of Us as a game was also basically a playable movie as it was. Someone actually made it into a kind of movie by capturing game recordings long before it ever was made as a live action series. That means he didn't have to revise it very far.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 29d
And then invariably you’ll have the people who come out of the woodwork to say “but it’s such a good movie and why were you expecting it to be just like the source material?” like that’s a good point…
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 28d
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.
Nalivai@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 28d
Counterpoint: big blue shlong.
Folstar@lemmus.org · 10 pts · 28d
The opening makes fun of blue and people who like blue.
haywire7@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 28d
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.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 28d
Fallout has been pretty fun.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 3 pts · 28d
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.
crater2150@feddit.org · 2 pts · 27d
I feel like series adaptions of games and books work better in general, you can fit in more of the original's world building
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 28d
Very true to the game, rate it
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 28d
I still have no idea what the Vampire Survivors movie is going to be about.
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 2 pts · 28d
Vamps that survived, obviously.
Nalivai@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d
What we do in the shadows
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 27d
Creepy paper!
Rooster326@programming.dev · 1 pts · 28d
It's about >!how they blessed the rains down in Africa to kill an infestation of vampires !<
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 29d
Did anybody besides me like the old Silent Hill 1 film?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 28d
The one video game movie that springs to my mind that is like the video game is Mortal Kombat. Right around then in the early 90's, the movie industry didn't even try to understand the games they were movieing, but they did. Compare that to, say, Super Mario Bros.
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
Ugh foreal
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 27d
This is why I never want Iain M Bank's books to be made into film
djsiete@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 27d
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
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.
draco_aeneus@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 27d
If it's not incredibly painful and difficult to watch, how can it be a faithful adaptation?
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d
lmao point taken
djsiete@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 27d
greenmonster@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 29d
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