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Another masterpiece dead before its time.
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Are they still going to make "Excitebike" into a masterpiece movie?
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But where will we go for nipple-suits?
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Originally Posted by Dakar² 
But where will we go for nipple-suits?
Batman Forever.
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Originally Posted by davesimondotcom
Batman Forever.
But I need to keep my nipple-suit content fresh!
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Maybe a good thing as I don't have confidence in that director either especially since he has only done music video's and they were going to give him $200 mil.
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Well the quality of movies that originated as games has been quite low, so I'm my expectations were exceedingly low about this attempt.
For reference take a look at doom and wing commander.
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Wing Commander wasn't that bad.
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I was one of the 11 people in the US that watched Doom the movie...
...needless to say, very few video games make the jump very well.
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The only one (two) I can think of is Resident Evil.
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Anything that keeps Peter Jackson from making another movie is a win.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
Anything that keeps Peter Jackson from making another movie is a win.
Ok, it's a fact now, you're mental. 
Bad Taste was a fine piece of cinema.
oh, and those hobbit movies were ok too... mostly...
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Dead Alive is another one of his classics.
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you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Ooo, forgot about that. It wasn't bad.
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how can we forget dennis hopper as bowser?
and the final fantasy cgi masterpiece.
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I'm disappointed in this turn of events. Unlike most games, Halo (and the whole Halo franchise) is STORY BASED. Sure, the storyline is limited to a few branches, but it's still a story, which would make for a reasonable transition to a film. Silent Hill supposedly has a storyline within the game that's not like most games too, though I can't say from experience. Compare that to GTA-SA, and you see Halo as head, shoulders and torso above GTA in terms of having a story.
Doom NEVER had a storyline, and that was part of the reason the game was so successful so early-it let the player decide almost everything about where he went and what he did within the environment, much as Castle Wolfenstein did, except with real three-dimensionality.
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When I was 14, I went and saw Mortal Kombat in the Theater. It was the greatest movie ever made.
When I was 20, I had my first DVD player (my G4) and was desperately wanting a library with which to utilize it. Browsing through Frys Electronics DVD section I came across it. Eyes wide I took it home excited on the 30 minute drive. I popped it into my computer.
It wasn't long before the truth took hold of me. This movie sucked. It was quite possibly the worst movie I had ever seen. There were only two redeeming qualities about it: The set design was cool, and the fight choreography was... pretty cool.
I tried my hand at a Metroid script once. It goes so far off the edge of the games that I doubt it would fly. I thought it was cool however.
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The game was mediocre, and the movie would most likely have sucked.
At least Doom was a great game.
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Originally Posted by Eug
The game was mediocre, and the movie would most likely have sucked.
At least Doom was a great game.
I haven't played the game myself, but I've watched a lot of it being played. (Let's just say that while I can type, I'm not the sharpest crayon when it comes to training my fingers to do new and different digital skills.) Halo has tons of possibility, including the beautiful settings, the very dynamic world (more so in Halo 2) and the interesting enemies.
And the major problem with turning even a very strong story into a movie is having a good creative vision behind it. Having PJ in the head office (and Weta doing the special effects) would have meant that the film would have at least been true to the original concept and visually spectacular.
Now for a counter example, look at "Starship Troopers," or as I like to call it "Verhoeven's Abortion." He wanted to make a movie about killer bugs and wasn't too interested in how he got to that point. He bought a science fiction classic (that featured intelligent insects as the main adversary) and raped it into his blood-fest of a bad comic book of a "movie." Using one of the most iconic "space combat" stories, he managed to jettison everything that made it a good and interesting story, perverted the politics of the story, EVEN DUMPED THE POWER ARMOR, and wound up with tripe. (Not that I have any strong feelings about this subject.  ) The "creative vision" was shooting bugs, not telling the original story. Note that the prerelease advertising featured the term "Robert A. Heinlein's..." before "Starship Troopers"; Ginny Heinlein yanked that from Verhoeven as soon as her people saw what he'd done.
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this is probably for the best
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The rest of the Halo backstory is kinda interesting (The non-video game portions), but not sure how it would've done on film.
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Originally Posted by SirCastor
When I was 14, I went and saw Mortal Kombat in the Theater. It was the greatest movie ever made.
Were you on any illict substances at the time?
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Were you on any illict substances at the time?
Aside from the normal hormones, he probably wasn't. It doesn't take much to blow a 14 year old's mind with a movie-just show him something neat that he's never seen before.
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