You’ve probably seen this techno/virtual reality movie from 1995 in the Netflix instant streaming queue on the Xbox 360, PS3, or Wii. It’s your typical 90′s movie with all the right actors. Denzel Washington, Russelle Crowe, and the gorgeous Kelly Lynch are all featured. So what could go wrong? Well, the movie is campy, retarded, and flat out over the top. It’s still a fun movie for a late Friday night, even 15 years later.
I always love it when I find a gamer out there that finds new ways to integrate movies into video games. I mean, game developers do it now with cut scenes that look like they should be movies anyway? But it takes a loyal gamer following to take it to the next level.
Here is one such video that caught my eye. It does an absolutely epic job of splicing together both the movie Inception and Halo: Reach. Obviously this video has some love thrown into it and you can see the details of the almost frame by frame comparison of the movie trailer to this game trailer. Check it out!
A fan made Left 4 Dead movie has been in the works for a while now, and I have been following the production of it very closely for a few months. It’s being produced by a small, independent film company in Italy without any support from Valve at all. However, this hasn’t stopped them from staying true to the source material, right down to the main character’s wardrobe.
I will be posting an interview I conducted with the directors very soon, but I thought I’d post the trailer for the film here and whet the appetites of the Loot-Ninja community. The trailer is very short, but it gets the point across. Take a look:
There is a rumor circulating the web that Brad Pitt is being offered the lead role in a movie adaptation of Rock Star’s cowboy epic Red Dead: Redemption. This is completely unsubstantiated, which of course means that every other gaming site will be running with the “news” in a matter of hours. I have absolutely no problem with this. B-rad is a phenomenal actor that can definitely handle the action hero role, as he has proven time and again (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Troy, Fight Club). My only concern is that his star power is going to overshadow the material, which itself is top notch. Then again, an actor of his caliber may be just the thing that game to movie adaptations need in order to really garner the respect (not to mention budget) they deserve. Of note, Mr. Jolie is also attached to the adaptation of Dark Void, Capcom’s Rocketeer-esque 2010 title. If anyone can wash out the taste of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, it’s Mr. Fight Club. You my boy, Brad!
I was first apprehensive when I heard that the Prince of Persia series was getting the silver screen treatment. Video games to movies, yeah we have been here before. The first trailer piqued my interest, the latest made me want watch this. Walt Disney is a the parents of the cartoon mouse, but they also have huge pockets and can give the high budget treatment a story like this really needs. If you would have told me 5 years ago that the two gay cowboys were going to be an Oscar winning Joker and the Prince of Persia, I would have kicked you in the balls.
The once great $100 million epic that was supposed to be Gears of War is beginning to look like it may not even happen at all. Sources say the budget is being cut, the director may be looking to do other projects, the writers are doing re-writes, and no word on any actors confirmed. Does this means the movie is completely dead? No, it doesn’t. Is this what I wanted to hear? No way.
In the article linked above, he compares a possibility of it being a District 9 type film. Medium budget, amazing story, great movie. This is where I digress. Nothing about Gears of War is not epic. The story, the characters, the enemy, the scope of the war, it all has to be done on a huge scale. The entire planet is overrun and cities are being sunk into the ground. I would much rather see the project wait until proper funding, writing, direction, etc. can be accomplished instead of a gimped out, cheap version of a great story.
Do you really want to see a Gears of War movie with Starship Troopers 3 type of special effects? It would kill the franchise. It is the same reason no Halo movie has been done yet. Halo CE came out a decade ago. There was plenty of time to make a movie, but it has to be near perfect. The fans are owed at the minimum a great effort and not ploy to make a quick buck. You cannot rush perfection. You do that, you get the often terrible game to movie adaption and a parade of disappointed fans and investors scratching their heads.
The upcoming Tekken Indie movie, set for release sometime in April, is shaping up to be (hopefully) decent. It looks to blend the game characters and story with some cool martial arts action. I love MMA and this could be a good watch for fight fans, but I hope it doesn’t go down the path of Never Back Down. Jake Tyler was a pansy.
I know we all hope for good gaming movies, but every time, the movie sucks donkey balls. The next in the list is Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. The movie is flat out horrible.
At press time, the movie has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is an aggravate of almost all reviews. There’s an average of a 2.1/10 rating based on 20 reviews. Ouch.
If you pay to see this, I point and laugh in your face. This could be one of the absolute worst gaming movies, which isn’t saying much. Maybe we can get a decent game movie at some point? Maybe? No?
Video game —> Movie often equals horrible consequences. Street Fighter, Double Dragon, Super Mario Bros, anything with Uwe Boll’s name on it. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Hit the jump for all the current movies that are slated to be made from gaming. Of course, a good portion of these won’t be made and a good portion that are made will be fucking awful. Which ones are you guys excited about and which ones are you hoping do not get green-lit?
Is it just me or do the majority of movies based on video games, and video games based on movies, suck? Why is this? Honestly I don’t have a good answer other than sheer laziness. The “milking it” factor. The “it doesn’t matter as long as the previews look good to boost sales” motto – disgusting. Max Payne, the movie based on the video game, was horrible (in my opinion), and made a ton of money off of the sheer idea that it’s Max Payne in movie form. Now we’ve seen sci-fi type, action packed, adventure movies actually work in the past – The Dark Knight, 300, The Matrix (only the original; here is another example of laziness, but that’s not my quarrel now) – but I have yet to see a video game conquer the big screen with any dignity. And the biggest issue I have with this is that there are plenty of great video games than can be made into great movies.
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