ok movies that have been made from the games have fallen into the video rental category Sucktatood.
So what would you have changed to make them better?
Also what game would you make a movie out of, have you had any ideas?

I think it would be interesting to make one out of Lode Runner. Its sumwhat odd and interest to my imagination.
http://entropymine.com/jason/lr/screenshots/lr2-9.jpg

I would love to see a Leisure Suit Larry movie. It would be a perfect comedy mixture of Saturday Night Fever & A Night at the Roxbury.

And of course, It would be great If I could play Larry's part.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(VERTICAL PIG @ Nov 30 2006, 07:18 AM) [snapback]269356[/snapback]</div>
what do you mean? some of the movies i quite liked. like for example Resident evil 1 & 2. doom wasn't bad also. Mortal combat is also quite good.

i wonder what Hitman will look like although it will probably suck cause they didnt' want to choose the actor who gave his face for the real (game) hitman.

Was Tomb Raider in the category sucktatood?

I think a movie of Commander Keen could be interesting. A mix between humor and euh... serious aliens? :blink: 'Aliens ate my babysitter'...

I don't know to me it was pretty pointless making a movie after Tomb Raider and it was quite boring to me, because level of interaction is just too big in a videogame that a movie could substitute it.

However making a Leisure Suit Larry movie, now that would be interesting. :D

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TheChosen @ Nov 30 2006, 08:12 AM) [snapback]269360[/snapback]</div>I've got dibs on being Passionate Patti - she always made me laugh :)

I think that a very good movie could be made out of Flashback: Quest for Identity.
The game is very cinematic by itself, and it would require only minimal work to make into a movie scenario.

I've just said this recently in another topic, but my vote goes for a sweeping cinematic version of Pong.

It couldn't be any worse than any of the other game-to-films made so far.

As a 50's trash movie fan, I have to say Space Invaders would make a great sci-fi/action/thriller. Only, of course, the whole movie would be a distant view of the "Defence" in it's valiant battle for freedom. 2 hours of heart-stopping exitement... or something.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lulu_Jane @ Nov 30 2006, 10:02 AM) [snapback]269385[/snapback]</div>The only movie based on a game that didn`t dissapoint me, is "Silent Hill".

Everything else is made too fast, with greed for money, forcing special effects and giving no story what so ever.
The movie that dissapointed me the most is Resident Evil. I love horror-survival-adventure games, and that movie has nothing to do with the atmosphere that the game is giving to you. You would say: "Yeah man, because there is a difference between a movie and a game" and give me a smiley like this - ;) .

But wach Silent Hill, and you`ll feel the game influence in the game movie. Some simmilar special efects, some similar atmosphere, and everything. The director of the movie (Samuel Hadida) made a good job.

A movie is needed for Half - Life :ok: . Or is it?
But I`m quite sure they will make one.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ Nov 30 2006, 10:49 AM) [snapback]269380[/snapback]</div>Yeah, cyberpunk!

I'm still waiting for the Command & Conquer - Red Alert movie!

And I would make a octology of Fallout movies, of course.

Noone saying Diablo? WoW? CS? X-Com? GTA?

I'd personaly prefere the Halo movie.. the Halo-story will make a resonably good script.

It would be cool to see a movie based on the events in both Star Wars Knights of the Old Republics since the movies 1-6 are finished. This can't be the end of star wars movies, can it?

LOL.
Halo's funding got jacked =D

I'd do...Alice. Cept its already being done =D

Otherwise...Arcanum. I'd love to see the steampunk type machines translated into a movie, if done right that coule be *very* cool.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Titan @ Dec 1 2006, 01:18 AM) [snapback]269555[/snapback]</div>ermm... diablo/wow would probably be made into bog standard medievil-type good vs evil storyline. CS/X-Com would probably be made into a tom clancy-type tactical thriller involving nuclear weapons but GTA might just work (if there wasn't already THE GODFATHER etc. for example) so they have either been already made in some way or another or they would use the crap standard template for a genre movie.
but GTA might just work if done the right way.

and burger, i think the KOTOR storylines should stay in the KOTOR games (i mean look at ep 1, 2 and 3 if you want an example of why)

and about the halo movie, apparently peter jackson is already doing a royal screwjob of it so i wouldn't get my hopes up.

almost all game-movie conversions have been crap so i don't have hope if seeing any decent ones.
but one thing about the postal movie - oh sh**. i don't see how there's a coherent storyline to taken from it because sure, it's fun using cats as shotgun silencers but how would that translate into a movie?? add that to the fact it's an uwe boll job and you'll get a truly sh**y film.

TIE-Fighter! It has a plot, lots and lots of really cool crafts, ace pilots, lots of rebel scum waiting for their doom, evil renegade admirals, undercover agents... That would have been sweet.

i don't see what depth you'd get out of a movie revolving entirely around TIE fighters unless there was a "forbidden love" or something of that nature as there is no story to tell that hasn't already been told in some other way (i mean, spending a whole film trying to prevent a coup has been done before in other films in a more subtle way. the most subtle way of doing it without messing around with the storyline in a major way would be as subtle as a brick IMO. the only games that could be in any way made into movies with minimal adjustment of the storyline etc would be stuff like metal gear solid/GTA etc

Depth? We are talking about a world that allows Sylvester Stallone and Arnold roam free under no threat of being fired upon, locked up and fired upon again. "We don't need no stinking depth, unless it's Das Boot"

Ok, so it would be a pretty silly movie, but have you seen "Battle of Britain"?

oh i just mean as far sometimes the majority goes

it would be nice if they actuly had actors and people that have played games for a hobby in ther life make the movie insted of somebody just reading the story or learning of the game just before they shoot the film.

Actually, no I wouldn't.

Edit: Now that I think about it, I'd be up for a movie of Grim Fandango - done in stop motion animation, a la Nightmare Before Christmas or The Corpse Bride.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ Dec 1 2006, 02:40 AM) [snapback]269573[/snapback]</div>no, i haven't but from what i have read about it, it's based on actual events, not the game. and by depth i'm not talking about "world that allows Sylvester Stallone and Arnold roam free under no threat of being fired upon, locked up and fired upon again" because i think that's pretty shallow as well. i'm onabout max payne levels of depth (that actually has a pretty engrossing storyline along with a lot of depth IMO) as it's not just a guy walking round with a gun killing everyone (ok, the game is but the storyline still manages to shine through) but it's a bad step basing a movie on a game with virtually no coherent/non-cliche storyline as half the games out today work on no good storyline or a variant on an already used storyline of some kind. for example - fallout would make an interesting film if done right but knowing the hollywood directors/producers, they'd turn it into a mad max style film which would f*** me off. silent hill was ok but they changed the storyline far too much to even say it's based on the same storyline as the games. and look at what they did with resident evil - change the storyline and make it into an action thriller. it's examples like that which make me doubtful that any really great game to movie conversions will ever happen. sorry if that other comment came across the wrong way but a standout storyline is needed to event think about doing justice to a game IMO and there has already been 3 terrible star wars films in recent times and i don't think george lucas would convey the star wars storyline from the games well enough to mix with the series of films (ep 1 2 and 3 were bad tries to tie up the storyline within that time frame in the film timeline's)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Titan @ Dec 1 2006, 02:18 AM) [snapback]269555[/snapback]</div>All those movies would suck. You'd know the whole plot before seeing the first 5 seconds of the movie.

A film version of Conquests Of Camelot would be pretty interesting, especially considering that Christy Marx has many film and television writting credits to her name aside from her game work - her games are always gloriously heavy on plot and character depth.
Even the packaging, manuals and maps included in Conquest Of The Longbow were a work of art that added immeasurably to the storyline and experience.

Actually, I've always wondered why the games that have been turned into movies so far are generally of the FPS and arcade genre... I don't have anything against FPS in particular, it's just that compared to some other styles of games *cough* adventure *cough cough* RPG *cough* they're a little light on storylines that can adequately carry 2 hours of entertainment (that doesn't include audieance/player participation) without creating new elements and/or characters...

Just a thought.

Well rpgs are a bit too heavy on storyline - remeber they need to pack it in 2 hours.

Anyway, the problem of this kind of movies is not in the story, the problem is in the delivery. Most movies have stupid and predictable plots anyway.

Monkey Island.

Zach Braff = Guybrush

http://www.scummbar.com/mi2/temp/guyzach.jpg

The fact is that the possibility of a good movie based in a videogame is tiny. It's like Alan Moore said in an interview: "Why making movies of comics? What makes a comic special is how it is drawn, the narrative, etc". It fits videogames perfectly.

These ideas are lame, we all already know that a Metal Gear Solid movie is already set up to go, all they need to do is hire some actors, make the script less cheesy, and they'd have a totally sick film, but of course, everyone is stupid and has to think otherwise.

Which is why pigs fly.

I'd also wipe DOOM and the rock off the face of the earth.
Before I forgot

The Rock would probably wipe you off first.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(troop18546 @ Dec 1 2006, 02:59 PM) [snapback]269656[/snapback]</div>All those movies would suck. You'd know the whole plot before seeing the first 5 seconds of the movie.
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I didn't say you had to make a movie that is the exact story-line, but more using the ideas, the evoirment and general layout of the story. eg. Xcom; A movie about when the first UFO's was sightet, how they abducted the lead-char.'s sister (probably some random farmer), and how his jurney on rescuing her starts, and in the end how the human race finaly succedes to down a single small UFO and what do you know, his sister was on board, but died.
Movie 2 is when he developed xenofobia and starts huntin alies with the humans newly developed fighters based on the alien tech... and so on... How the story slowly developes.. The alies might be after a sertain thing on the planet, rather then taking the planet.. perhaps a big mothership hidden behind Jupiter, sending battle.ships from its docks... (ripping ideas from StarGate layout).. you get the picture. (Would love the proxy-nades.. perfect for good movie-gore-killing)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Blood-Pigggy @ Dec 4 2006, 12:50 AM) [snapback]270101[/snapback]</div>Yeah.
I really felt bad for the guys in the bed sheets =\

He must have awesome vision, being able to see past that gun oO

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Blood-Pigggy @ Dec 4 2006, 12:50 AM) [snapback]270101[/snapback]</div>I totally agree.

"Dont mock The Rock!"

Why doesn't anyone make a film version of Indiana Jones?!?!!
Why doesn't anyone ever think of the childeren?!?!! ;)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TheChosen @ Dec 4 2006, 07:25 AM) [snapback]270131[/snapback]</div>I totally agree.

"Dont mock The Rock!"
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Oh please.
The Hulk would totally pwn the rock.
And hes a better actor...
"HULK SMASH!!!!" > "Rhgh."

=D

@Lulu, you better be joking oO

The Hulk is lame.

Yea, Spiderman is WAYYYY better.
I gotta say.

Yes Moogle, I am :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(moogle @ Dec 5 2006, 12:40 AM) [snapback]270292[/snapback]</div>I totally agree.

"Dont mock The Rock!"
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Oh please.
The Hulk would totally pwn the rock.
And hes a better actor...
"HULK SMASH!!!!" > "Rhgh."
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Now that you mentioned it, He did defeated The Rock...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(troop18546 @ Dec 1 2006, 01:59 PM) [snapback]269656[/snapback]</div>All those movies would suck. You'd know the whole plot before seeing the first 5 seconds of the movie.
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An X-Com movie might not work out to well, but the one of the few problems with the X-Com TV series was that it came out nearly twenty years before the game. It also had the wrong name, just UFO. It was produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson (the couple that brought the world Supermarionation). The general plot was that aliens were coming to earth and stealing people for organ transplants (they were only alien in outlook and motivation). A secretive organization (SHADO) attempted to interfere with the alien machinations by intercepting UFO's, and investigating the wreckage. It even had something that could be construed as a TFTD tie-in, as there were interceptors that launched from submerged subs.

The series was enough of a success to have a line of now-very-collectable toys that were even cooler than the Captain Scarlet stuff

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Blood-Pigggy @ Dec 5 2006, 03:05 AM) [snapback]270296[/snapback]</div>True. Probably the lamest character in animation history.

I think space hulk movie, if done properly, would satisfy the hunger of all alien movie fans. FOR THE EMPERORAAAAARGH!

also Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines (or redemption) would be nice

But honestly, I wouldn't want to see any of those because some behindhole like Uwe Boll would take the job and take one more step towards to eternal torment of hell.