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I thought Welcome to Raccoon City (the most recent one, the reboot) was really fun but critics seemed to hate it. It was dumb, yeah, but it was entertainingly dumb and well shot! It was a classic schlocky zombie movie exactly of the type resident evil was originally cribbed from.
Quality and popularity are not strongly linked.
A key part of the LOTR analogy is that they shot all 3 from the start. They didn't film fellowship, then if that did well they'd film two towers and then RoTK 5 years after the first released.
And in that vein, I think it would be hard to really get the first Mass Effect movie to work. Just giving even a barebones sketch of the Quarians/Turians/Asari/Krogan/Geth/Salarians etc would just be too big of a pill to get into the first movie. HBO/etc 8-10 episode lets you sorta work that stuff in little nuggets across the episodes.
Femshep BFFs with Kasumi would make me put up with a LOT.
For instance, they are bringing the first Michael Bay Transformers movie back to theaters to celebrate its 15th anniversary.
Exactly!
Which is why my opinions are so unpopular!
Ohhh Morbius Such A Funny Joke we all played on Sony Ha Ha Ha.
SEE WHAT YOUVE ALL DONE, THE PRICE OF YOUR HUBRIS!
Only kinda sorta related, but watching a Star Wars thing again has me consistently telling myself “yeah it’s not high art or anything, but I mean it’s Star Wars so how could it be?”
Anyway, I would greatly appreciate more high art in film.
I blame society corporations! Caused by society!
Fun night, rode out to a cool local dive bar on the water, met a dude on the way and we pulled over to bullshit about bikes
Got there and sidled up and there was a young Indian guy riding a Harley soft-tail with a nose ring hanging out with his girlfriend, spent the night drinking and storytelling with them
I don't think it needs to be that complicated. Just like, okay, our framing story hero is kidnapped by bad people and hooked to a machine, where the bad guys force him/her to relive the life of an ancestor in hopes of learning the location of a buried treasure. 85% of the movie follows the ancestor in a completely straightforward Batman/Zorro/Three Musketeers adventure as they swashbuckle their way through a photogenic locale, kiss a pretty lady, and swordfight an evil baron or duke or colonial governor or something - bonus points if this person is played by the same actor as the lead badguy scientist in the present! Connections! Then, with the badguys having learned the location of the lost Da Vinci painting or the Fountain of Youth or whateverthefuck, our framing story hero, their usefulness at an end, is about to be shot - but it turns out they've learned their ancestor's sick ninja moves and escape. They pull up the hood on their sweatshirt and disappear anonymously into a crowd as their voiceover intones "now I am the Assassin's Creed." The end, three stars.
It's not genius but it would be 100% true to the vibe of the games and 100% more cromulent than almost any other game adaptation to date.
Well there was Edge of Tomorrow
Which like, isn't a video game movie, but is also 100% the most video game movie
*swaddles Neco tightly in a blanket*
And I like Sonic games
I heard they're planning on making a Duke Nukem movie but why bother when Last Action Hero already exists?
Because I have to work tomorrow and I don’t wanna
My life knows nothing but endless suffering
General audiences are media literate and don't mind getting dropped in the middle of weird genre soup. Dune was successful!
I haven't seen Monster Hunter, but it should have been a series of increasingly bonkers setpiece monster fights with absurd weapons from the game, interspersed with some simple political conflict at the hunter camp, a cute cat buddy CG palico for comic relief, and a final scene where the corrupt leader either gets eaten for his hubris or joins forces with the hero for a cool tag team fight against, I dunno, Fatalis the dragon covered in corpses?
Let's be honest it should be a big dumb anime
🌈 Pride Fly!
If you remember, the first game is pretty thin on lore itself. It’s almost solely from Shepherd’s and the Alliance’s perspective.
You can accomplish a lot in 2.5 hours if your script is good.
but tl;dr One Piece this week has a bathhouse scene and....
Oda says Trans Rights motherfuckers
You heard the lady, get me Neil Breen stat!
The first game is thin on lore? The second one is almost entirely about your crewmates, and 90% of the lore introduced is basically made irrelevant in the third one.
I think the first one is the only one that can actually stand on its lore.
EDIT: I just realized you were talking about the worldbuilding that IS done by the crew writing. So, yeah, the first one does all the heavy lifting establishing the history of the central conflict, but the second one does all the heavy lifting establishing the wider context of the story being told.
So, you're right and I'm right, haha.
if you're not into the space sim elements, i don't know what's there for you. usually bethesda is pretty good at making a sizzle reel, but this had nothing going on
but here I am.
also I messed myself at the Persona announcements, god bless cloud streaming
they have learned nothing in 10 years
I sorta skimmed the video with the sound off for 30 seconds. The aesthetic seemed kinda neat. The combat looked terribly boring.