Name at least one movie based on a videogame that didn't suck in some major way, disregarding whatever Boll did.
Hitman, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider (1 and 2). You can say what you want, my opinion about these movies will stay the same: they were awesome. There's also a Max Payne movie coming out in october of this year which I'm really anticipating. Not sure if it'll be good or not.
They CAN make good movies out of video games.
Hitman, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider (1 and 2). You can say what you want, my opinion about these movies will stay the same: they were awesome.
You proved your point with your own opinion! I still don't believe you signed that petition, though, since disliking Boll's movies is a matter of opinion as well, yet for some reason you are blaming him for yourself not having enjoyed his movies.
Btw, Tomb Raider was awesomely boring if not for Lara's boobs, but the same can be said about the game, anyway. And Silent Hill was plain boring, much like Resident Evil and other horror movie wannabes that rely upon gruesome CGI mutants, and not primal fears that are far stronger. Haven't seen Hitman yet.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
I agree with both of you to an extent.
Video game movies are in general pretty bad...
But popularopinionshowsthatUwe Bollaretheworst.
It's not that any video game movie is particularly good... but Uwe Boll's are just especially bad... Not without good reason.
Essentially, it's a real-life representation of the Producers. German financiers get to write-off 100% of movie-backing on their taxes. Then, when a movie tanks, they also get to write off the losses. Therefore, they actually stand to gain more by his movies flopping, then they do by them being a success. (They'd have to pay taxes on the income earned, as oppose to 100% return on their taxes.
Sage advice from a friend of Jim: So put your tinfoil hat back in the closet, open your eyes to the truth, and realize that the government is in fact causing austismal cancer with it's 9/11 fluoride vaccinations of your water supply.
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DarkKobold wrote:
It's not that any video game movie is particularly good... but Uwe Boll's are just especially bad... Not without good reason.
Essentially, it's a real-life representation of the Producers. German financiers get to write-off 100% of movie-backing on their taxes. Then, when a movie tanks, they also get to write off the losses. Therefore, they actually stand to gain more by his movies flopping, then they do by them being a success. (They'd have to pay taxes on the income earned, as oppose to 100% return on their taxes.
So he's being subsidized by German taxpayers? Lovely.
I think the question lies in what age Link will be if a movie is made. I don't really see it doing well if he's a kid, since a lot of kids these days don't really know much about the Zelda series. That and I can't think of any actors that could adequately fulfill the role if there are spoken lines.
I still don't believe you signed that petition, though.
I did sign that petition. I am signature 192427, which you can see here: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?RRH53888&96501
Anyway... I think our "personal argument" is over now. I've given my point, you gave yours. Both are valid, since it's a matter of opinions only. It was nice arguying though... I just don't want to pollute this thread with personal stuff. I think you will agree with that.
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Its like petitioning KFC because you don't like their chicken.
If you actually want to prove a point, just don't see the movies he makes. That way, for you at least, it will be as if that petition was in full effect!
Btw, Tomb Raider was awesomely boring if not for Lara's boobs, but the same can be said about the game, anyway.
The problems I had with the movies is that they changed some things (for example, they added two sidekicks which were inexistent in the TR games of the time, and they made the butler 40 years younger than in the game), but most importantly, they failed to convey all that is cool in the games.
The TR movies should have been parkour movies (cool parkour movies, not the utter bullshit crap that was Yamakasi), because that's what's so cool about the games: Complicated wall-climbing, jumping, and all kinds of acrobatics. Other features which should have been more prominent are gunfights and puzzle-solving.
In the movies, however, it was 95% people talking and 5% any kind of real action. That's utterly boring. (It *might* have worked if the talking parts would have been awesome, like for example in Jaws, but they just weren't.) I didn't go to the movies to see people talking, I went to the movies to see some Lara Croft acrobatic action and gunfights. I got disappointed.
Not that theres been any great adapations to the big screen but I personally think Resident Evil has made the best jump (not that it excels). The big problem I have with adaptions much like Warp mentioned, is that when I go to watch one of them I'm thinking of nothing but the game. So I'm definitley expecting to see actions and elements that I can directly relate to the game much like in Tomb Raider.
As for Zelda, Thats a game I really wouldn't want to see fucked up on screen, cartoon maybe but not a live action movie.
I agree, with the "right" director and big budget, a Zelda movie has huge potential to be equally good as Lord of the Rings. Another upcoming movie who share the same potential is Masters Of The Universe.
I agree, with the "right" director and big budget, a Zelda movie has huge potential to be equally good as Lord of the Rings. Another upcoming movie who share the same potential is Masters Of The Universe.
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I don't think any movie would be better than Legend of Neil...
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