‘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.
Every time
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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 5 days ago
aeiou@piefed.social 5 days ago
I, Robot be like:
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 5 days ago
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.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The Halo TV series
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 days ago
I mean the first couple of episodes had the protagonist rape a prisoner so
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 days ago
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 5 days ago
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 5 days ago
Either too much or nowhere near enough.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 days ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_(novel_series)
I assumed it was inspired and funded the same way and for the same reasons Gate was.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
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 5 days ago
It’s the video game series, unfortunately
Killer_Tree@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
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!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Try Monster Hunt.
sunsofold@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
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 4 days ago
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 days ago
And/or you were a minor and were sheltered from a lot of it.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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 4 days ago
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.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 days ago
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.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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 4 days ago
Counterpoint: big blue shlong.
Folstar@lemmus.org 4 days ago
The opening makes fun of blue and people who like blue.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
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…
haywire7@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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 5 days ago
Fallout has been pretty fun.
crater2150@feddit.org 3 days ago
I feel like series adaptions of games and books work better in general, you can fit in more of the original’s world building
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 days ago
Ironically a great Fallout adaptation 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.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I still have no idea what the Vampire Survivors movie is going to be about.
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 days ago
It’s about >!how they blessed the rains down in Africa to kill an infestation of vampires !<
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Did anybody besides me like the old Silent Hill 1 film?
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
This is why I never want Iain M Bank’s books to be made into film
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
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 5 days ago
Ugh foreal
djsiete@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Elden ring movie plz b good
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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 3 days ago
If it’s not incredibly painful and difficult to watch, how can it be a faithful adaptation?
djsiete@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I’m thinking it could be like The Green Knight? There’s so much lore that can make for peak cinema
greenmonster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Eeh. 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 5 days ago
Half of those movies were directed by the same person, Uwe Boll.
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
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 5 days ago
I think he only happened to Bloodrayne?
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
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 5 days ago
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 rhe damn thing. It’s a bad movie, but bad movies can be fun. Plus, “Monkey!” is perhaps the greatest line ever penned.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
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
Sly2@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Let’s not kid ourselves most games have a pretty generic story.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
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 5 days ago
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.
cholesterol@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I remember bursting out laughing when he’s about to bang some lady and instead just jabs that giant syringe in her neck.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Never played resident evil, but I remember the first movie being great
RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 20 hours ago
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 days ago
Seconded that Hitman 2007 was a good movie.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I wouldn’t pehaps go so far as to say it was good but it was certainly enjoyable and they paid enough attention to the source material that they got a ton of the little details right.
toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org 5 days ago
We stan an ace king, indeed.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 days ago
do not even get me started on the Sonic movies
nullspace@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They course-corrected well enough.