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Aron Schatz

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No Halo movie after all

Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:59:06 AM #26286 Perm Link

Studios dropped support...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30560

Ouch

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:48:00 PM #26288 Perm Link

Heard great things about Halo, but I don't need the studio to screw up another video game to movie translation, Silent Hill and Mortal Kombat the general exceptions, though MK forgot about the blood.

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:09:41 PM #26290 Perm Link

thank god, i hate video game movies.

Except Street Fighter

no street fighter was particularly bad

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:26:01 PM #26294 Perm Link

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Just like your post Smile

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I win.

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:28:48 PM #26295 Perm Link

your just jealous and you know it

loser =P

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:51:34 PM #26297 Perm Link

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Said By Nigel Tufnel
no street fighter was particularly bad

Street Fighter II, however, was awesome.

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:53:58 PM #26298 Perm Link

Pity, video game movies have the potential to be good but everyone keeps dropping the ball on it =\ Silent Hill was one of the best translations but it still wasn't as good as it could've been.

I think a lot of movie studio people forget that video games have their own fanbase and their own stories. Every movie seems to want to take the name, but alter the premise enough to get 'national' appeal, which is stupid. Focus on making a good video game movie it's good enough, it will attract non-video game fans, otherwise all you end up doing is pissing off the fans and ruining the potential for other video game movies (I'm looking at you, Uwe). I mean, genre movies only target their specific genre (a horror movie shouldn't try seriously to attract romantic-comedy fans, for example), so why do they try so hard to butcher video game movies? Speaking from what I know (which is Silent Hill XD), the original plot of the Silent Hill movie was going to be the story from Silent Hill 2 but it was changed to mimic the plot of Silent Hill 1 and then again heavily altered, all due to trying to make it 'relateable to non-fans but only ended up looking contrived and confusing (the cult in the games makes much more sense than the one in the movie). Frankly, if they had stuck to the plot of SH2, they would've definitely pleased the fans and would've most likely attracted new people too. But I digress.

I'm not surprised they dropped it, but it's a little disappointing. I guess so many bad video game movies have come out that nobody is willing to try and make a good one.

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:01:18 PM #26299 Perm Link

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Excellent post.

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:12:28 PM #26304 Perm Link

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(I'm looking at you, Uwe)

I respect lotax sooo much for fighting this cock

If ya dont know lotax, read something aweful

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:24:39 PM #26306 Perm Link

I would have been interested in seeing this one. It may actually have a story!

Shocking that the studios don't want to produce something with a story.

-SHCase

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Wed Nov 1, 2006 5:17:06 AM #26327 Perm Link

I can't say I blame the financial supporters. This movie was supposed to be really expensive to make. I read somewhere that they were asking for $250m! Because of how the movie industry looks right now, it seems to me like it was a good idea to pull out.

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Wed Nov 1, 2006 5:28:31 AM #26331 Perm Link

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Oh, I know of Lowtax :3

http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3334

And that was indeed awesome. The nut needs to be locked up, who the hell challenges to fight negative critics? eesh

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Wed Nov 1, 2006 8:51:44 AM #26339 Perm Link

Yeah, they take a good story and mess it up in most cases for the sake of making a movie. Maybe there's a problem with the rights or something, why they don't take the game's storyline and go with that doesn't make much sense, since it does upset the fans.

Spy Hunter with the Rock was supposed to be out already...
I read there's going to be a Bloodrayne 2 and 3...
MGS is being turned into a film too.

I remember when Street Fighter came out, I was expecting the whole movie to be mostly all fighting, like the game, but they needed to create a story since it's a movie. It would've been cool to see all the characters fight each other one on one to battle Sagat and Bison at the end. Ryu or Ken would likely win. The anime was interesting.

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Wed Nov 1, 2006 12:01:27 PM #26349 Perm Link

I don't think it's the rights as if they got permission to use the game ('permission' usually meaning they're paying them), they usually have permission to all aspects and the game-makers usually don't get any rights to the movie at that point, unless they worked it out beforehand. Kind of like a book. Like how Anne Rice hated the fact that Tom Cruise was going to be...whatever character he was in 'Interview with a Vampire' and publically objected to it but she didn't have any legal right to keep him from being in it.

I wish it was a rights problem but, as it is it's pretty much just all-powerful Hollywood pressuring studios into changing the stories so it will have 'general' appeal.

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Wed Nov 1, 2006 7:49:22 PM #26396 Perm Link

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