Games you would like to see as movies.

[Al Shut]

i want to see boll_kg vs kirk first as a game...

then as a movie.

that shit would work

You mean their not the same?

[Fried Gold]

Computer games translation do not work.

Games are designed to be played, not watched. Watching a game-based film is just like watching someone else play a game. Not interesting. Leave them as games, that is where they succeed.

[Al Shut]

But watching somebody play can be interesting.

And for a positve exampel of game adaptions, I would say the Silent Hill movie was pretty good where it captured the atmosphere and fell of the game and the problems of the movie were not source related.

Game adaptions can work if done right.

[Seppuku]

Computer games translation do not work.

Games are designed to be played, not watched. Watching a game-based film is just like watching someone else play a game. Not interesting. Leave them as games, that is where they succeed.

What with all these next-gen consoles, games are becoming more and more like movies, so I'm sure some of them could be made well if they had proper talent involved (and I don't mean being able to box). I bet if Malick were at the helm of a Duke Nukem flick it'd be at least slightly better than that Super Mario Bros film (although....................I'll admit........................I kinda like it. John Legouizamo or whatever the hell his name is ruled in that movie, They did go overboard on the fungi though). Unless you're talking about something like Madden NFL or FIFA, I'm willing to bet that the nucleus of an idea for a game isn't a hell of a lot different from the ideas you'd have before you start writing a screenplay or book. Take that game about humans living in a massive hierarchical skyscraper for example (can't remember what it was called)- that pitch alone would make a wicked movie. You don't have to recreate the whole game down to a T- including the manic 9-hour pile-growing sessions- just take enough to make a movie out of it. Before too long, Hollywood's going to start adapting travel brochures into movies, so they can at least try and get at least one video game movie right.

On the flipside, when a GAME tries to be exactly like a movie, you end up with turdfests like The X Files Movie- still the worst game I've ever played- and Square's The Bouncer.



Anyway, I think these games would make good flicks:

Deus Ex
Monkey Island
Tenchu
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Okage: Shadow King

[papalazeru]

Monkey Island would be awesome. Hopefully the character won't look anything like the guy in the 3d versions.

..and to be honest, the voices in the later versions were weird. I remember playing MI 1 and just loving the text...so funny.

'I'm not going over to that ghost ship!'
'Ok, how about I drop kick you into the lava then'
'Alright, go then, don't say I didn't warn you'

Or my Favourite would be,
"Wow, I bet if you looked up Empty in the dictionary you would see a picture of this hut".

Thats a point! alot of the comedy comes with interaction so how could that be portrayed in the film?

A difficult Ferris Bueller type conundrum.

[SilentBobX]

Leisure Suit Larry. Just cast Richard Jeni and it's money in the bank
Donkey Kong: Directed by Peter Jackson
Dance Dance Revolution: Just film actors and regular people playing the game
Call of Duty: WW2, guns, bleeding nazis.
FarCry: With Hugh Jackman

I'll think of more later, maybe.

Mahalo

[papalazeru]

You realise you are only fanning the flames of hatred here.


This guy could be a pl4nt looking for ideas....Some better copyright everything in here at once.

STAMPED, DOUBLE STAMPED, NO ERASIES!!!

[mushookie]

Agreed, but still Elebits would be a cool movie.

[unikrunk]

i want to see boll_kg vs kirk first as a game...

then as a movie.

that shit would work

I am already getting my tickets.

[Peven]

i would say Dig Dug, but the W brothers already made a trilogy based on that.

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

I think making a film out of the Spiderman video game would be a disastrous idea. No matter how much fucking money it made or how annoying a female 'ooh I'm so cutey cutey sweet and nicey' lead you put into the fucking thing!

[Al Shut]

This guy could be a pl4nt looking for ideas....Some better copyright everything in here at once.

You know that if Uwe Boll makes a Monkey Island movie I will have to kill you, do you?

[havocSchultz]

TETRIS muthafuckas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




We'd be waiting the entire fucking film for the long straight one to arrive so as to finally finish off the huge "mountain" of other interlocking blocks because we were too cool to just try and make one line at a time....



Then!!!!!!!



We get SQUARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Fuck!

I just runied the ending...



sorry...


Spoilers Above...

[papalazeru]

I can almost guarantee someone is picking up F.E.A.R....so Uwe, LAYOFF!

How Robocod?

[Seppuku]

Wow...it just occurred to me that Tetris was invented by a Russian. And it's about little blocks meshing together as one big hole.

Far out man.

[papalazeru]

Isn't that Russian life?

[havocSchultz]

[guerillakarma]

Max Payne, it would be dark, but it would probably be too close to the Punisher. Still, I'd like to see it happen.

[thatsfunny]

galaga
F.E.A.R.
half-life
no one lives forever

[King Psyz]

Missile Command!

Oh wait... they already made Armegedon

[MonkeyM666]

Boogie Nights?

[magicmonkey]

BwahHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA1!!1

Most suubversive picture I've seen in years. Bravo.

[silentbobafett]

pong

[rethar]

Fallout the Movie directed by George Miller
Half-Life the Movie directed by James Cameron
__________

[silentbobafett]

Seriously?

A serious take on Prince of Persia with full on action and emotion... think of a Peter Jackson version of it and you have a film I'd love to fucking see!

[MonkeyM666]

Prince of Persia would be a good one.

[havocSchultz]

BwahHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA1!!1

Most suubversive picture I've seen in years. Bravo.

It sums up the internal struggles and feelings that I have to deal with every single day...












































Fucking Chuzzle.

[silentbobafett]

How about Lamatron

light aup a fatboy and watch that? what you think?

It could be the maddest picture ever made!

[havocSchultz]

I'd like to see a movie based on the game TRON...



I think that'd be cool...

[silentbobafett]

I'd like to see a movie based on the game TRON...

BOOM BOOM!

I come up with serious ideas liek the above and you have to lower the thread by mentioning such stuff as... TRON!


Dude.... they'd never be able to make that into a film

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

pong

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424823/

[silentbobafett]

Thank you


tears in my eyes

but I thank you Dino

[havocSchultz]

I'd like to see a movie based on the game TRON...

BOOM BOOM!

I come up with serious ideas liek the above and you have to lower the thread by mentioning such stuff as... TRON!


Dude.... they'd never be able to make that into a film

I bet the Dino could do it...



He can turn anything into a film...


I never said it had to be good...

[beastie]

These are the games I would pay to see as movies:
Grim Fandango
Half-Life
Prince of Persia
Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic

I think a Monkey Island movie, would be too similar to Pirates of the Carribean. Granted, it would be sillier, but pretty much the same.

[ONeillSG1]

i want to see boll_kg vs kirk first as a game...

then as a movie.

that shit would work

True.

[Vegeta]

aYou know what would be totally cool, to make a movie out the Resident Evil games.
It would totally be slick, the story line is alread...

...what?

...they already did?

...terrible, you say?

[Chairman Kaga]

Half-Life and Prince of Persia could both work....MGS probably could work as well of course these games have more cinematic stories and structures to begin with thus the easier translation.

[Hollywood_Bob]

Not sure if anyone posted this yet but GOD OF WAR from the PS2 would make a pretty kick ass flick.

[Seppuku]

This thread makes me a sad sexual harrassment panda. Why? Because it was practically MADE for ZombieZoneSolutions. Seriously, the guy may have been a knee-jerkoff, but if he could do one thing well, it was make a game-to-movie pitch.

Examples, you say?

Well, try these:



The Passion of the Q*Bert
by ZombieSolutions Sep 19th, 2005
12:29:09 PM
i actually heard there was a huge bidding war over who is going to film the Q*bert saga. the Gary Shandling production you spoke of is one possibility. however, last i heard, Mel "Goebbels" Gibson also wanted to direct and produce the film entirely in Q*bert speak ("@#$%!" and so on), and wanted to link the pain of Q*bert with some kind of violently distrburbing anti-semetic message. casting is still in development, but so far Q*bert is supposed to be played by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts (with dyed blonde hair), and Coilee will be played by Judd Hirsch.


The Endless Saga of PAC-MAN Has Often Moved Me To Tears
by ZombieSolutions Sep 19th, 2005
03:15:51 PM
his life seems so tragically pointless -- eat, eat, eat, kill ghost, eat more -- forever and ever and ever. in some ways, Pac-Man can be understood as the ultimate allegory for the human race -- we are born, we run, and we consume; all the while death (the ghosts) await us around each corner. sometimes we are lucky and are able to cheat death by either runing back and forth really fast, or going into a tunnel, or taking a power pellet with which we can defeat death... but death, death always comes back... and ultimately, eventually, no matter how many patterns you have mastered, you are either going to run out of coins or lives... in the immortal words of the late poet-philosopher Carl Crack (of Atarit Teenage Riot fame) once opined, "life is like a video game with no chance to win!!!!!' how true, Carl, how very, very true... lets all take a moment of silence for Pac Man. long may he feast upon the golden keys of life... we love you... goodbye...




OK, the first one is just him doing his rant thing, but I swear I saw about twenty game-to-movie pitches by him in various places, and some were amazing. LODE-RUNNER the movie, anyone?

[tapehead]

the glass bead game

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

aYou know what would be totally cool, to make a movie out the Resident Evil games.
It would totally be slick, the story line is alread...

...what?

...they already did?

...terrible, you say?

I liked it better when a the Havoc told it, eh?

[havocSchultz]

aYou know what would be totally cool, to make a movie out the Resident Evil games.
It would totally be slick, the story line is alread...

...what?

...they already did?

...terrible, you say?

I liked it better when a the Havoc told it, eh?

Hahahahaha...thnx...

I'm still not giving your grand daughter back...

[dimnix]

If they ever made a shitty Half-Life movie...

I swear to god, I'd track down the director and crowbar him in the face.


Unless it's somebody like Ridley Scott, leave Half-Life alone.

[MonkeyM666]

Poor PJ. He doesn't want a crowbar to the face. He's too pretty.

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

If you can dig more of those ZZS pitches up Seppu, i'd give you some arcade quarters as your reward when you sail into London for the Rocky Balboa Meet Up.

Those 2 were fantastic. Please find some more of his if you can.

[sleepflower]

VIDEO GAME MOVIES SUCK ASS AND SO DOES UWE "TOILET" BOLL AND THATS THE TRUTH RUTH!!

Final Fantasy: Advent Children was all right. Fantastic looking graphics and camera moves. I admit the story is a little weak, but I did really buy it for that.

A shame because FFVII had such a good story and the way it revealed. They were probably only going to make that as a movie though if the first film did well. I would rather see it as live action though, or slightly more stylized than the other two, make it far more manga style, like the game.

I just remember the shot in the game where you see the city, such a gorgeous landscape.

Now the first two films that come to my mind are castlevania and Duke Nukem.

Castlevania would be quite easy, just keep is quite dark and not cartoony.

Splatterhouse?

[sleepflower]

Those dizzy games or even james pond: fishtank royale, would make great kids movies.

I really hope one day they remake a resident evil move and learn from silent hill. THE GAME WAS GREAT BECAUSE OF THE STORYLINE. KEEP IT.

[papalazeru]

Along similar lines....how about Zool

The little ethnic minority critter. Lets get some affirmative action hey?

Went round collecting candy and sweet and stuff.

[sleepflower]

Zool would just be too nuts nowadays! That thing nearly made me have a fit. I swear it wasn't meant to be physicallly possible to have all those colours onscreen flashing... AH MY EYES!

You could make a really creepy film or make it more monsters inc with him either stealing or collecting candy.

[papalazeru]

Like Splatterhouse