calculatedChaos Gaming

Pretty sick eh?

Why is it that Hollywood can screw up so many video games but these guys can make one that was actually cool? People like this need to be hired by Hollywood because if done right, video games could be the next superhero craze.

g_e_oos wrote:Why is it that Hollywood can screw up so many video games but these guys can make one that was actually cool? People like this need to be hired by Hollywood because if done right, video games could be the next superhero craze.

pretty much. how hard is it to stay true to a game hollywood?

Well, most games aren't very realistic and have a completely unbelievable story line. Also, a lot of games start with you either already having some kind of back story or by giving you one via a very short sequence (in game movie, dialog, whatever). This doesn't really transfer to most movies which typically build up the plot for at least the first quarter of the movie.

If I was a film student I could explain everything better but in short, you can't just take a video game and make a script out of it. Things have to be put in to make it make sense or to have it relate to a wider audience so it will make some money.

In the end what it really comes down to is that gamers don't go to enough movies to be able to actually port a video game to a movie. There always has to be some shit added it and then gamers get disappointed.

It was just like nerds and Spider man. In the comic book Peter Parker absolutely cannot shoot webs out of his hands. He makes web cartridges and uses those to do whatever he needs to do. But taking 20 minutes of of the movie to explain that and having future scenes where Spider man has to make more or run out of the cartridges would slow the movie a bit and add a lot of filler. What did they do? Add a scene where they could product place soda (Dr. Pepper I believe) and spend 5 minutes with Peter acting like a kid going threw puberty learning all his strange new things. That ruined the movie for me and to this day I have never seen any of the sequels.

But you know what, those movies made a shit ton of money and no one really cared that they bastardized spiderman at his very core. If people gave that much leeway to video game movies, maybe we wouldn't think they were all terrible.