VG movies

[Spade]

I don't know whether this would o in general gaming or not, but what are some video games you would like to see made into movies? I know I ,for one, would love to see a metroid movie, if they haven't made one already. You can also talk about video game movies that have already been made.

[anjilfan]

Dunno any movies , except for SMB and FF, but I kno many shows of them.Fire emblem, Mario, ect. ...

[contention]

It seems that through these later years there have been so many movies that have been scripted from games. It's been a recent event though, not something that has gone on for to long. One of the few made game movies seemed to had been Mortal Kombat in the days of Yore;or at least seven or so years ago. That was one of the rare type of movies that actually hit a good mark. However, when they did try to release a sequel to the original movie, it fell flat on its own personal face. This is one of the causes that makes games to movies have a hard time of catching their feet on some solid ground. Most movie makers are out to gain the money, so they will usually scrounge for a good script that seems to have popularity behind it. Someone out there will write a section of their article and send out to be bought up by a company. This also means that when a game to movie occurs, the person who is creating and producing the film might actually have no certain connections to the title they are working with. Most people are merely in it for the cash from the name alone that they'll recieve. Of course, they'll do their best to make it seem as true to the game as they can, but they always fall short of many fans expectations and dreams. This is one reason that when such an idea pops into Hollywood most gamers feel happy until the trailers of the movie are released.

Some other movies that have been established by games seem to be areas such as, "Doom" and "Silent Hill". Doom itself as a game, was a true masterpiece. The fear it sent into the hearts of its players was a form that many could not produce. It went down in the year of 2004 as one of the best games on the market. Unfortuantly some of the requirments set for the game itself were far to complicated for any PC. The Graphics were a challange and keeping up with them could cause any computer to whine. Luckily, soon a port was made for the Xbox, and as well an Expansion pack was soon delievered. Hollywood caught sight of this craze and soon went into the development of Doom the Movie. At first, many of the players were giddy that such a subject had been picked up by the studios. Soon enough though, a trailer script was released that changed their attitude. It cultivated the whole story, and one reason stated, "The companies did not wish to get involved with lawsuits on religious beliefs". This was merely brought up because the game dealt with monsters from hell. Since so many seem to have high belief in the holy era, this storyline was changed from "demons" into "insane-creatues induced with a type of virus". Sounds sort of Resident Evil(ish) doesn't it?

Not long after, "Silent Hill" was brought to the cinemas. In a long line of wretched released films, this was a gaze for many sore eyes. It was out during the Spring of this year, and took about two or three years for the making. The movie itself did not really change to much of the story, it did however move the sex of the main character to being female. This was odd merely because the movie was based off of the first game, and the player in that was a male whose wife had died. However in the movie, the main character was the wife of the male who would have been dead if it was the game. Yet, even as weird as that sounds, this really didn't alter the mood of the movie. It stuck to it's roots and the erie feeling of the town itself. It also kept it's creatures connected to the source of hell, instead of depriving them of that price. As well, the movie mixed all three games together in some type of pattern. This really added suspense to the plot of the story itself. Of course, there were little things off here and there, but it wasn't enough to really make the viewers mood go down.

In the works right now, it seems that a Halo movie is actually starting to go underway. This is an odd type of flavor, since Halo is such a big name. Hopefully the producers will not alter the main case of the story. They will have a lot of things they need to make correct, otherwise they'll get a huge markert of some distasteful fans. Another movie on the edge is being made by American Mcgee, many have really not heard that name. Yet, he is producing Alice and Oz the Trilogy. Alice is his view of Alice in Wonderland, however this is a morbid take on the story. In which, Alice's parents die in a fire while she is young, causing her to go insane and be placed in a mental instution. It is in this that she must return to Wonderland to save herself from insanity and death. Oz as well is another story based on the old fairy tell. Once again it is a morbid view of the novel, taking place many years before Dorthy arrives. It gives view into the wars of Oz, and the destruction of the community that it causes.

[Spade]

I saw Silent Hill. It was really stupid. I've seen scarier things in my garbage can!

[Graedius]

docyoshi4 said:

I saw Silent Hill. It was really stupid. I've seen scarier things in my garbage can!

Hahah, I surprisingly lol'd.

[Spade]

So, I've heard they will be making a movie for almost every Final fantasy game. Hope they make one 'bout FF8

[Chilaquiles]

First of all, let us just forget that the Super Mario Brothers movie ever happened.

Secondly, a Metroid movie would be all right. Metroid Prime stories were pretty dramatic and would probably make great movies, and hey, if Doom made good money, why couldn't Metroid? I just don't think Nintendo is all into making movies about their games.

And I've sorta been thinking about a Legend of Zelda movie, but that kinda just makes me draw blanks. I mean, it could be done, but it would basically just be knight, princess and tyrant with a video game theme.

[Fluory]

I feel like I was the only one to like the Super Mario Brothers movie.

But anywho, another Mario or more exclusively Yoshi themed movie would be nice. So would a Resident Evil movie...that didn't get totally killed plotwise by the second movie... An Ecco the Dolphin movie would be pretty awesome, too. And, uh... A Spyro the Dragon movie? Never thought too much about this sort of thing, really.

[Wildfire the Dragon]

pawy said:

And, uh... A Spyro the Dragon movie? Never thought too much about this sort of thing, really.

I've been thinking that for months...but the main problem is who's the bad guy? Gnasty? Ripto? Red? The Sorceress? I have no clue...hopefully if "Spyro: A New Beginning" is good, maybe it could happen, as long as VU keep doing a good job...

Anyway, I agree with Pawy on Spyro, he sort of deserves it, I think...and there should also be a Crash Bandicoot Movie as well, I don't know hardly anything on Crash, but I know his games are good, so he deserves it as well.

This is going to sound crazy, but Sonic the Hedgehog needs another chance. the 1996 was okay, but not too good. If the Next Generation Sonic Games are good, then he should have a movie, and hopefully have Hyper Sonic, I've never seen Hyper Sonic in the game S&K, but hey a Dragon can dream...

Another crazy thing, but I would love to see Final Fantasy X as a movie, sort of like FF7:AC kind of graphics.

Oh, and one more! Kingdom Hearts! That would be sooo awesome! Especially KH2 as a movie.

[boomiester]

I've heard that Nintendo is actually in the process of making a Metroid movie, however I'm sure that the idea has been around for a while now. Also, an Animal Crossing anime film is being released in Japan sometime around December, though I cant really see how a game like that could be made into any film that's worth watching.

Personally I'd like to see a better Super Mario Bros. movie (the 1993 film was entertaining, but it wasn't true enough to the game in my opinion).

Now, what I thought would be really neat is if they made a Starfox movie and did it in "Supermarionation" (like that old TV series, The Thunderbirds). It wouldn't be one of those movies that appeal to a wide audience, but I'm sure there would be a good turnout of Nintendo fans.

[Chilaquiles]

boomiester said:

Now, what I thought would be really neat is if they made a Starfox movie and did it in "Supermarionation" (like that old TV series, The Thunderbirds). It wouldn't be one of those movies that appeal to a wide audience, but I'm sure there would be a good turnout of Nintendo fans.

That's kind of what I'm worried about, see, if the movie isn't going to appeal to a wide audience, then it probably won't make much money. To a big company, common sense is that the whole point of making a movie is to make profit. If they don't make profit, then they probably aren't going to make another one. I just hope that there are enough Nintendo fans out there to make enough money. Either that, or Nintendo will have to make their movies appeal to a wider audience.

Also, an Animal Crossing anime film is being released in Japan sometime around December, though I cant really see how a game like that could be made into any film that's worth watching.

Well sure, you get to watch a kid roll into a town. Get a cheap house, give money to a raccoon, get a bigger house, and the process repeats itself until the guy has like a billion HRA points, all the golden items and nothing else to do except fish and catch bugs for money.

Personally I'd like to see a better Super Mario Bros. movie (the 1993 film was entertaining, but it wasn't true enough to the game in my opinion).

Shyeah, no kidding. I only vaguely remember that movie and I still think it was pretty unauthentic. I mean, come on, Bowser was this ugly...just, ugly undescribable something that looked nothing like the Bowser we know, and wasn't Luigi clean shaven? I also remember the bob-ombs being like, pocket sized...

[Gene L.D. Ryoko]

jayshi said:

pawy said:

And, uh... A Spyro the Dragon movie? Never thought too much about this sort of thing, really.

This is going to sound crazy, but Sonic the Hedgehog needs another chance. the 1996 was okay, but not too good. If the Next Generation Sonic Games are good, then he should have a movie, and hopefully have Hyper Sonic, I've never seen Hyper Sonic in the game S&K, but hey a Dragon can dream..

Oh, and one more! Kingdom Hearts! That would be sooo awesome! Especially KH2 as a movie.

there was a sonic the hedgehog movie? If they make another one i'd like to be based of adventure 1 and 2.

maybe both kingdom hearts in one.

I'd like to see a drawn paper mario movie(one and TTYD).

[Spade]

Yeah, there was a Sonic movie. they called Knuckles a mole,though.
I think Pikmin has some movie promise too.

[Riffoshi]

Pikmin?!?!....
Well I geuss it wouldn't be that bad XD
But i'd seriously like to see a LOZ unanimted(Non anime Comp Animation) And have it so it follows the storylines of each game or at least a movie devoted to each game and a lead off from OoT to MM...

[Spade]

this was just another RPG, but does anyone remember Legend Of Dragoon?I think that's what it was called, and I'm not going upstairs(my computer is in the basement ) just to find one case. Anyhoo, I could see that as a movie. How 'bout you guys people?

[Graedius]

Yeah, where 'halt' was replaced by 'bastard', and the use of grammar at all was entirely ignored in it's awful translation.

[Spade]

I didn't find it so bad. The dragoons were cool, though. Anyhoo, have they made either Earthworm Jim movie?

[Cayoshi]

After the injustice Kirby: Right Back At Ya! and 4Kids did to Kirby, I never want to see a video game animated show or movie again. They totally ruined Kirby and made him negative one million years old and completely stupid and/or brain dead. Dissappointment.[/size]

[Lord of the Dance]

Yeah, I didn't think Kirby acted like that, although I've only seen the show twice, and I've only played one Kirby game.
They used to have a Super Mario World show, but it cancelled... I hope they make a new one, because the old one was cute.
Super Mario Brothers the movie is one of my favorite movies. A movie doesn't really have to have accuracy to the games, because then you'd know exactly what would happen. It was good that it had its own storyline.
The Sonic Adventure games were already in the TV show Sonic X (Not the regular Sonic one, which doesn't seem to be around any more, either. If there was one.) I don't think they'd make it yet again. Although, I would like to see a good Sonic movie.
A Pikmin movie would be cool, but what would they do? Copy off the actual game?

[contention]

There was actually one video game movie released long ago that seemed to raise a lot of questions in the minds of many. This name might be familiar, and the title itself was something along the lines of "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". Now, at the first mention of it's name it seemed that many fans in the world had a feeling that this film was going to focus on the game with the same issue. However, as things would start to summarize, the ideas of the story for this new release had really nothing to possibly do with the other Final Fantasy mentions at all. It was something foreign to the classics before it, the only true similarity was the use of valuable graphics to make the scenes. Other than that, any connections were false and actually stood on any familiar ground. It never made sense for many why this production went into construction, the roots were faulty and any mirror-images to anything before it fell flat on their faces. Sure, from time to time if one looked closely you might have been able to make out a little picture of a Chocobo; yet, any other pieces were left out and the world of Final Fantasy was changed into something that it had never really ridden into before. Now, the movie as itself could have possibly not have been a disaster if it didn't have it's stitch connected to the popular game for the Sony Playstation. The story itself had it's own figment of originality with a bit of cliches here and there, its true downfall was really left in the fact that it brought in the wrong type of fans only to dissapoint them.

Now it also seems that some have given mention to the Super Mario Brothers movie that was made awhile back. In honesty the film itself was not a bad make of the game, it had its shots here and there. The only real hassle many felt was the fact that it took things into reality to much. It displaced things from the Kingdom and implanted them into a whole diffrent scenario. While the characters might have had the same names as well, majority wise characteristics were a bit frazed. Yet, there were pros to this as well; while some facets might have been displaced during creation a few managed to survive into the final hand-out. The story had enough of a plot to move forward, and the fact that people were able to see their favorite characters in realistic form really added a jump to things. This idea did not really fall apart, it just seems that when anybody tries to build a game to movie format they can never reach the players expectations. In fact, it could likely be that we set our own thoughts to high on what the movie should be. Then again, it's hard for anyone to feel the same way about anything, especially those that have to work to bring the thing to life. They have to keep in mind money, employees, and due dates. While they might wish to bring the best possible transformation, at times it might just happen to be something that they might have to rearrange.

As well, it can't be left out that by strains there are certain magnitudes that are put in diffrent areas with the storyline itself. Plots for video games are usually sweet and to the point, finding an open theme is something that has become more rare with the times. Since everything has been used before, so many seem to fall upon the mention of being nothing more but cliche. This is another challange that Producers have to wave through when they try this action. They have to figure out a way to expand the story to the game they are going to remake into a movie. At times, this may also call for them to put something new into the fabric. When in most cases, this causes the title to launch in the wrong direction, giving that of a insecure sense to the rest of the film. Movies like Doom and Silent Hill had to be anaylized in new patterns, due to the fact that some material they held remained contoversial. Now you might wonder why games can have the "Devil" plots but movies rarely can, that's a question that seems odd at any angle. It may be because most movies are usually open for all families, while game select a group to take on.