god of war, f.e.a.r.(even though if done right it could be really scary...maybe or just another silent hill), i would say doom..but they did that and it was atrocious, halo..but they're doing that. basically any fps is grounds for a crap movie.

AspenSubie:
i would say doom..but they did that and it was atrocious

Am i the only one in the world who didn't think it was THAT bad, i'm serious, it gave me a few hours of mild enjoyment.

sirdanrhodes:

AspenSubie:
i would say doom..but they did that and it was atrocious

Am i the only one in the world who didn't think it was THAT bad, i'm serious, it gave me a few hours of mild enjoyment.

I don't know, I just couldn't get past the rock as the main character...there were so many better options.

Peggle - The Movie.

(on second thoughts, might be fairly entertaining together with a healthy dose of hallucinogenics)

Oh and I would say Street Fighter is a perfect example on how NOT to do it (I mean, Hawaiian E. Honda? Seriously??), but I've just found out that they're making ANOTHER one that will be centered around Chun-Li. What? No Raul Julia? No effin' deal!

SteampunkWench:
Oh and I would say Street Fighter is a perfect example on how NOT to do it (I mean, Hawaiian E. Honda? Seriously??), but I've just found out that they're making ANOTHER one that will be centered around Chun-Li. What? No Raul Julia? No effin' deal!

Oh no, not another street fighter. Why is hollywood so determined to ruin one of my favorite child hood games!?

StatikShock:
A Zelda movie would probably be bad

maybe - however, Peter Jackson did LOTR and that was ok, I'm sure he could do something with Zelda. depends on the person behind it. if the 'Halo' film ever gets released we'll see his talent at converting games to the screen.

'Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children' was awesome! One of the rare cases where the film was better than the game.

Dead or alive extreme 2 shouldn't be a movie, it'd just be 90 minutes of bikinis, wait, why am I moaning about this...

Let us pray that we will never see a film of Half-Life. It would ruin everything, and quite possibly needlessly include Morgan Freeman in a film about Gordon Freeman! Besides... how do you script a protagonist with zero dialogue?

As for the "Zelda Movie"... April Fool's, in case you're living under a rock. Although I would beg no actual studio to attempt it, either, at risk of ruining my childhood.

AspenSubie:

Oh no, not another street fighter. Why is hollywood so determined to ruin one of my favorite child hood games!?

http://www.empireonline.com/News/story.asp?nid=22232

It's true! Hollywood wants to destroy us all!

Michael Clark Duncan as Balrog? WTF? He doesn't fit the role at all!

calsipher:
Zelda please dont touch it please im begging xxx

Thats odd and a little sad for you because I just saw the preview for that today... Feel free to cry.

Edit* April Fools? O haha very funny you cheeky B@$t@rd$

Final Fantasy would, and did, make a really terrible movie and Advent Children wasn't a real movie, it was just Fan Wank for FFVII fans (I am one, and I loved the fan wank, but the truth is the truth)

I actually think Halo would make a decent movie, if they kept up the cinematic timing, excellent music and the super hero like antics of Master Chief and contained it within the original game (a ring weapon in space guarded by Infecty Zombies is cool).

Assassin's creed could make a reasonable film though it would have to be changed aa bit from what you do in the game. A Zelda film is going to make orphans cry. Half life is like playing in a film and your the main character. There is no way to make half life in to a film. Halo could of made a film but it would have to span all 3 games.

Essentially game storylines are to slow for films to follow so film makers throw in a lot of extra's to fill the time. Imagine Crysis for example which is a planned film by the way. You are compressing 10-12 hours of game into a 90- 120 minute film. Also you get the worst possible actors and directors for game to film adaptations (tomb raider being the exception)

If anything, the IGN trailer reinforced my belief that Zelda (along with any other videogame) should never be turned into a film. Ever. Even if making such a film were to end world poverty.

FF VII: Advent Children = win.

Though on the flipside of that FF: Spirits Within = worst movie I have ever seen.

...EVER.

Any game have the potential of being a good film however most will not be because studios see games as merely cash cows and give little consideration to the fundamentals that make a given game enjoyable and popular.

Adapting a game for a movie is not easy and therefore require someone that appreciate the subtleties and ethos of the game. The script writer might not have played the game previous to being asked to write a script but this is unimportant in my opinion. The most important factors are; there is appreciation for the game, a willingness to be true to the game while being creative and not to think of the movie as just another popcorn flick just because the story derives from a game.

Often film makers put too much emphasis on action and stunning visuals whilst neglecting the story line. If you have a game with good action and stunning visuals but lacking a good story line; you can enjoy it because you are in control of a significant amount of the game play. If you have a film that lacks a good story line but tries to compensate with action and visuals; you will easily get bored because you will no doubt at some point say to yourself 'I could be playing the game right now and it would be a lot more entertaining'

a zelda movie is ainteresting concept if itsdone well but knowing holywood...

also afterof watch that aprils fool trailer i think it wuld be better if its cgi, anime or something like that

Am I the only one who actually enjoyed Final Fantasy: Spirits Within?

And personally, Halo would make the worst movie ever. Considering the plot basically consists of "Aliens + Guns = Win", it would be the most pappy, cheesy action flick ever concocted.

laikenf:
None. The whole idea of games to movies is just dispicable. I've not seen the first game- movie that's even worth talking about. Why not make cartoons or cgi films?, live action movies made from video games have never been any good.

Super Mario Brothers was AWSOMENESS SQUARED. You take your lies and slander elsewhere, you... you... something something!

On a more serious note, have you watched the Resident Evil movies? Sure, they arent epic oscar worthy filmmaking, but they do stand on their own as action movies (I was never one for the games myself), and they use the video game quite well.

i've seen some good gaming films, but then again, i'm not much of a film critic.
Resident evil: fun
Resident evil 2: better
hitman: sweet!

although i'm really happy that i've never seen any film by Uwe Boll (whoever/whatever gave him the idea to make gaming movies should be hung, drawn and quartered), although i have a feeling it'll change in the future, seeing as he's making Far Cry, and from what i've seen, the storyline is nothing like the game. nevertheless, i'm still interested and i'm going to watch it.

though i've got a feeling people won't agree with me, i'm not very keen on the GoW film idea, simply because:
1. its storyline wasn't really top-notch
2. you can't really expect a movie about it to be a lot better.

calsipher:
Zelda please dont touch it please im begging xxx

This would indeed be a horrible movie series... but it might not be abad mini series. You know, like 20 2 hour episodes or something.

Ninja Gaiden. Again, make a decent mini-series, but not a good movie.

nightfish:

StatikShock:
A Zelda movie would probably be bad

maybe - however, Peter Jackson did LOTR and that was ok, I'm sure he could do something with Zelda. depends on the person behind it. if the 'Halo' film ever gets released we'll see his talent at converting games to the screen.

If you are going to chop up a quote down to one sentence, please attribute it to the proper person.

I think a CGI zelda COULD be done well (Live action, not so much), considering theyve made LOZ cartoons.

I did forget to mention: Silent Hill wasnt fantastic, but it definently wasnt in the trash bin with 99% of the other video game movies (Uwe Boll anyone?)

I can never help but be optimistic whenever I hear about a movie adaptation of a game I like, so a Half-Life, God of War, or Mass Effect movie all sound like awesome ideas to me, even though I should expect shit. Hopefully they would at least be like the Silent Hill movie, pretty decent.

And btw, that Zelda trailer had me going before I noticed it was posted April 1st. That had pretty damn good production value for a prank.

Apparently, Uwe Boll tried to buy the rights to make a bioshock movie a few months ago. Fortunatly, the Bioshock people have heard of him and said no.

Frankly, I wonder why anyone would sell him the rights to anything, let alone a game like bioshock.

J-Val:
Am I the only one who actually enjoyed Final Fantasy: Spirits Within?

And personally, Halo would make the worst movie ever. Considering the plot basically consists of "Aliens + Guns = Win", it would be the most pappy, cheesy action flick ever concocted.

I liked Final Fantasy: Spirits Within. It wasn't great, I liked it.

And the problem with Halo is that it's already been made. Twice.

The first time it was called "Aliens". The second time "Starship Troopers".

Game movies aren't doomed to be crappy from the offset, it's just that one of two things happen:

Either they have some weird idea that the movie has to stay as close to the game as possible, which automatically makes it crap because no matter what type of game it is, a game needs lots of padding between story elements, most of which is tedious, silly or both (from a story perspective).
Or, the director (see Alien vs Predator for example) decides that the original game script isn't action-y enough (yes, action-y, because it's stupid) with all the gameplay cut out, or too long, so they write their own script based on... well, nothing really. AvP is such a mound of steaming, oozing excrement that it's hard to understand how even a monkey punching random keys on a keyboard could write something so incomprehensible.

There's a general concensus in Hollywood (or at least there seems to be one) that gamers is a demographic of stupid lil' kids who are too stupid to understand anything more complicated than a Bond villain who want 80% of the screen time to be gory action. Then again, there ARE people who argue that the plot in... Resident Evil say, is brilliant, so maybe they're right.

My point is that if a serious writer made a serious attempt to write a movie script, using the source material as more of a backdrop than Da Law, and a serious director was brought in then I do think it would be possible to film... I dunno, BioShock say, and make it at least a 3-star movie.

That said, with the present concencus, BioShock shouldn't be made a movie : P

"Am I the only one who actually enjoyed Final Fantasy: Spirits Within?"

It was an incredibly cheesy movie, with annoying stereotype characters, a ridiculous dialog and a plot so bad it could bruise fruit. It had one saving grace in James Woods' General Hein, the only person who felt like actually acting a little.

spirits within and advent children owned despite the fact spirits within almost bankrupted them the movies where great oh yeah please dont make a movie about solitare please i would kill myself halfway through

my problem with spirits within is it has the name final fantasy next to it to milk the fans, i dare anyone to name any real similarities between the movie and the games

"In a world of high stakes gambling, of fast woman and even faster cars, a new craze has hit the dangerous world of Las Vegas. Whats it called? Solitaire."

The Spirits Within would have been okay Sci-Fi had they not tacked the FF logo onto it, that alienated regular movie-goers and pissed off gamers because we expected something different. I still say Advent Children is nothing more than FFVII fan wank though.

In fact, studios should avoid RPG's in general.

I'm in favor of Zelda being made into a movie, why? Because baring all of the Temple Hopping, Ocarina of Time and/or Twilight Princess both have pretty amusing plots that could easily be condensed into a 120/150 Minute movie.

Overall though there is no real reason to make a Legend of Zelda movie, I mean, Zelda's shining points are its puzzles, not its story.

I actually wouldn't mind a Half-Life movie, so long as it didn't reuse stuff covered in any of the games. The Seven Hour War springs to mind as a fertile place to make the film. Gordon is in stasis, so we don't have to deal with a crowbar-swinging mute, and the actual events of the war could be depicted at something like a 2-1 time ratio (no, I don't mean the movie should be shown at double speed. :P) Still, the Seven Hour war would make a better game than movie no matter what. In fact, seven hours is just about the right length for one of those episodes Valve is so into these days...

Chilango2:
Minesweeper.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138

Thank-you, that was damn funny.

I don't think movie cross overs ever work.
And they're not doing Halo anymore. Peter Jackson is working on a series of interactive half game half movie things with Bungie set in the Halo "universe". No idea what thats gunna be like... cept over hyped.