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Improbable Lobster posted:it bombed both critically and commercially and almost killed square right before the square-enix merger Yeah it did, the post I was quoting mentioned that it only got 44% on average which isn't very good, though I wouldn't exactly call it a critical bomb, that's just below average. But for months before and after its release people wouldn't shut up about how cool it looked and how it marked a new step in special effects and computer graphics etc. And for over a year after it came out, I remember electronic shops were still using its DVD to show off the latest TV's. The film was terrible but it did have an impact in the early 2000's. Oh and I just looked at the wiki page for it, and one of the really enthusiastic cheerleaders for the film was Roger Ebert. The guy who hates video games and video game movies really loved this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Within#Critical_reception quote:Roger Ebert was a strong advocate of the film; he gave it 3½ stars out of four, praising it as a "technical milestone" while conceding that its "nuts and bolts" story lacked "the intelligence and daring of, say, Steven Spielberg's A.I." He noted that while he did not once feel convinced Aki Ross was an actual human being, she was "lifelike", stating her creators "dare us to admire their craft. If Aki is not as real as a human actress, she's about as human as a Playmate who has been retouched to glossy perfection."[48] He also expressed a desire for the film to succeed in hopes of seeing more films made in its image, though he was skeptical of its ability to be accepted Yes, let us all admire Aki's craft 
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TheMostFrench posted:I actually really enjoyed the Silent Hill movie, it's one of a few films I've seen more than once in theater. Apparently there were sequels? I don't even remember them being advertised. There was one sequel, Silent Hill: Revelation. It was in 3D and a very bad movie. At the end Pyramid Head fights with a Cenobite knock-off in a ring of fire to save the protagonist.
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Baka-nin posted:Yeah it did, the post I was quoting mentioned that it only got 44% on average which isn't very good, though I wouldn't exactly call it a critical bomb, that's just below average. But for months before and after its release people wouldn't shut up about how cool it looked and how it marked a new step in special effects and computer graphics etc. And for over a year after it came out, I remember electronic shops were still using its DVD to show off the latest TV's. The film was terrible but it did have an impact in the early 2000's. My friend owned the wall scroll. 
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Schrecken posted:Speaking of Silent Hill, whatever issues I may have with the story or deviations from the game I really do think the film did a great job with the atmosphere and replicating or re-imagining scenes and certain camera angles. The scene with the Grey Children is amazing. I like the Silent Hill games a whole lot. I love pretty much everything about the Silent Hill games (there are notable and important exceptions.) I love what they do, I love the symbolism and metaphor, I love their fearless approach on delving into uncomfortable topics, and more. It's all good. It's so drat good. But the only thing you can can really hate about the Silent Hill movie is how it kinda messes around with Silent Hill lore and events and stuff. (Like you, I feel that in many ways they actually improved it.) If you're gonna be a huge purist super fan and hold Silent Hill sacred then yeah, the movie is gonna make you mad. If you are such a person I can't really argue with you because you're right but goddammit the Silent Hill movie is phenomenal! It really captures Silent Hill and it really tries to be as loyal and respectful as it can be. The movie is gorgeous and creepy and it's loving amazing it really is and I am seriously ready to throw down and fight about this. The Silent Hill movie is good. I watch it every year around Halloween and I love it more each time. Mister Macys posted:No. It was poo poo. It's only redeeming feature is the soundtrack. The fighting is slow, the acting bad for direct to video, the effects cheap, and the turnarounds are what a child would write. Paul W.S. Anderson is a bad director and a God awful poo poo writer. America's Uwe Boll. You're wrong about Mortal Kombat but that's okay. I'm still going to try and find a copy of the Dead or Alive movie because I need to see this. (Your opinion is valuable and important and influenced me to check out a thing I haven't experienced based on your experience and recommendation.) vyelkin posted:According to List of films based on video games, the best reviewed video game movie ever, with a whopping 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, was....... Final Fantasy The Spirits Within That's really interesting because the only thing really Final Fantasy about The Spirits Within is that it had the name Final Fantasy and a character named Cid in it. It had nothing to do with any of the video games storywise and didn't even contain common elements from the games. It didn't have any crystals or magic or  steam punk airships. There was no end boss that came out of nowhere. No giant gently caress off anime weapons. Character outfits were not messes of belts and buckles and impractical. There wasn't even a chocobo! I don't consider Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within a video game movie.
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Jenner posted:The Super Mario Brothers movie was amazing goddammit.
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Well, not having cable, I've seen MK dozens of times with my brothers, so I've had time to compare it to general action movies and video game movie specifically. I actually think Name of the King (Dungeon Siege, of all things) with Jason Staham was still better. And the fighting is slow. Soo slow. The only combat I felt was worth a poo poo was the first thirty seconds of the Tsung/Kang fight where they're throwing elbows and jump cutting at light speed. It was awesome... and then the fight is pulled to a screeching halt. gently caress, he's got a bad sense of pacing... I love the soundtrack though. I've always been a rave and house music guy, and it was the first CD I purchased with my own money. My opinion is that Paul Anderson's only decent movies are Event Horizon and Death Race, and that's because he had the acting talent to carry them. He has a bad habit of recycling the outlines of his scripts If you like it, you like it. There's plenty worse out there. I saw MK2 in theaters... 
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DoctorG0nzo posted:Noticed a few different people mention Silent Hill. I hesitate to call it an actually good movie but it's well done atmospherically and actually shows chops visually. If you're in a more visual/visceral movie kinda mood it's mad good If it wasn't attached to the Silent Hill named I'd have probably liked it way better but it is and I don't
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Jenner posted:I like the Silent Hill games a whole lot. I love pretty much everything about the Silent Hill games (there are notable and important exceptions.) I love what they do, I love the symbolism and metaphor, I love their fearless approach on delving into uncomfortable topics, and more. It's all good. It's so drat good. I agree. As I said, I don't need an adaptation to be 100% faithful, and I think that the first Silent Hill film nailed everything that mattered and then some. I would have preferred Dahlia's "trying to birth God" plan and the Order from the games, but the Order and explanation of events in the film worked just fine. I could have maybe done without the "real world" scenes of the husband and a few other things, but taken as a whole the movie did so much right that I can get past the flaws or changes I didn't care for. Schrecken fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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N. Senada posted:I want to read that interview as long as it's exclusively about the motion picture Super Mario Bros. on the flip side, raul julia's last role was M. Bison in Street Fighter and he did it because he wanted to make his grandkids happy 
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Dec 6, 2016 06:49
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I think it might be an unconscious reflex to make the movies bad as payback for movie video games being so awful.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9escFiqUJ0U alyssa milano was hot
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There is only one video game movie adaptation I have seen that did not shy away from its source material, and instead was crafted as the perfect faithful adaptation. This is the Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney film directed by Takashi Miike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIi44sSQCDs
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Nipponophile posted:There is only one video game movie adaptation I have seen that did not shy away from its source material, and instead was crafted as the perfect faithful adaptation. I keep forgetting this exists. Miike really is a Japanese treasure.
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For all its faults, I still think the Prince of Persia film was a fun time.Nipponophile posted:There is only one video game movie adaptation I have seen that did not shy away from its source material, and instead was crafted as the perfect faithful adaptation. FedEx Mercury posted:I think it might be an unconscious reflex to make the movies bad as payback for movie video games being so awful. Like, all three of them.
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I could write a dang dissertation on videogame movies. ten years ago I wrote my dang dissertation on videogame movies. Resident Evil 2 featured too prominently, in retrospect. The main idea concerned the frequent introduction of a new character, some fuckin nerd in a wacky t-shirt who steers the main character through a series of obstacles using their computer, which only displays numbers and maps. It shows up a lot.
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Is it cool to talk about movies based on a fictional video game? Because The Last Starfighter is loving rad. The fictional Last Starfighter game in the movie is such a generic stand-in for other space games that I wonder why they didn't license a real one instead. I mean, they could have replaced the game with Galaga or something and BAM!
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Galaga never had a  DEATH BLOSSOM though.
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Mister Macys posted:Galaga never had a gently caress yeah
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ConfusedUs posted:Is it cool to talk about movies based on a fictional video game? Sure! Why not! Is The Wizard a movie based on video games? I mean, the video game plays a prominent role in the movie.
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I think as long as it's related, it counts. Jim Sterling's been doing weekly movie reviews in his podcast with that criteria, and it's good enough for me. He recently livestreamed himself watching Pixels with his co-host who's name I forget.
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Conrad ZImmerman.
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ConfusedUs posted:Is it cool to talk about movies based on a fictional video game? What's the one with the video game developers who develop this ultra violent AI that ends up possessing a mocap suit and starts murdering them all one-by-one? It's not the "if you die in the game... you die for real" movie, it's a different one.
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The last video game movie I saw was Ratchet and Clank, and that movie should have been much better than it turned out being with all the talent that it had. It just turned out to be dull as poo poo, which I guess puts the Sly Cooper movie in limbo. I also so the Need for Speed movie which pretty much just had the name slapped on it.
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Jenner posted:Sure! Why not! The Wizard was a 6 million dollar advertisement for Super Mario 3, so yeah I'd say so.
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Freakazoid_ posted:The Wizard was a 6 million dollar advertisement for Super Mario 3, so yeah I'd say so. And the Power Glove, can't forget that.
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Does The Wizard count as the first E-Sports™ movie?
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Mister Macys posted:Does The Wizard count as the first E-Sports™ movie? I don't think it counts. The kid wasn't competing while on amphetamines.
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He was autistic though.
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blackguy32 posted:The last video game movie I saw was Ratchet and Clank, and that movie should have been much better than it turned out being with all the talent that it had. It just turned out to be dull as poo poo, which I guess puts the Sly Cooper movie in limbo.
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The best videogame movies are Book of Eli and Blood Diamond.
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As someone who's seen Blood Diamond, you're gonna have to walk me through that one. 
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Its basically Far Cry 2 the movie
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It's a stretch, but I can see it. Wouldn't that make 'Three Kings' Bad Company 1/2?
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youve got the right idea! the best VG movies are ones not advertised as VG movies
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I remember someone comparing Uncharted 4 to National Treasure 2, and apparently they line up so well it's spooky.
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The Raid and The Raid 2 are very good movies that might as well be video games.
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The Raid (and for that matter, Dredd) is basically the 99 floor skyscraper climb in Parasite Eve. 
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My favourite video game movie is ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
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