They couldn't make the beginning closer to the game. It's almost exactly the same (with a female protagonist)

Apparently an Angry Birds movie is in the works. I imagine a movie with little to no plot and obnoxious voices for characters that are supposed to be mute. Angry Birds has had some good short films, though.

Is it in the works, or just being considered? Because pretty much every game that makes a buck is considered for adaptation, but nine out of ten times it doesn't pan out.

In fact, the more successful the franchise, the more doomed the adaptations. All those film politics mucking it up... rights are constantly being bought and sold, scripts are always under revision, etc. By the time they finally create a product worth shooting, it's no longer the flavor of the week and nobody cares. This is partly why the Halo movie didn't happen. Thankfully, a much better movie was born from it's ashes; District 9.

If they make an Angry Birds movie...I'm seriously lost in this world now. I need to find some guidance...

If that angry birds movie ever comes to light i can see it making a shit tonne of money, regardless of how shit it'll be

I wouldn't even torrent that shit, let alone pay to see it.

Who can blame them? They'd make a shit tonne of money. Who doesn't want to make a shit tonne of money, even if you do get your name on a terrible film?

I think an Angry Birds TV show performed with muppet-style puppets would make a lot more sense and be a lot more watchable than a CG movie.

I don't. I blame them. Fuck them.

Making money off of something terrible and obnoxious isn't a good thing, Nep. However, since you're a fan of PewdiePie, you're obviously not aware of this.

It's still money.

There are things out there more important than dirty money

I think Nep is too young to understand the importance of integrity. Or maybe he's just a soulless little ball of greed.

Fair enough, but their replacements are complete garbage! Look at the Doom film, all they do is turn it into a generic space zombie thing. Admittedly the original story had elements of this but the main focus of the first few games were devils and hell, yet they instead focused more on Doom 3 and other sci-fi shooters at the time.

In the hands of a competent director, Max Payne and Resident Evil would make perfect films. Most of the characters are human, the plots are regarded as being interesting and compelling and each of the games ends with nice cliffhangers and has room for extra characters. But the directors decided to (for the most part) ignore the established canon and establish their own continuity, which clearly don't work as planned.

Fair enough Doom didn't have much of a story, but it did have the invasion of Earth and it's own comic-book continuity. I dunno, it just feels like a "Generic Space Film". It didn't have 99% of the original monsters, no Cacodemons, Revenants, Barons of Hell, Mancubbus. In my opinion thats pure laziness. They had the most interesting monster designs of that era and what appears most... space zombies. It's like a terrible version of Dead Space.

And Dead Space is a terrible version of Alien.

You can't even compare the Doom movie to Doom 3 (beyond the designs). I regard it as one of the best first person shooters of the early aughts, especially in terms of design and atmosphere. It's one of those high-contrast genre hybrids that gelled so well; space marine with an arsenal of futuristic super weapons taking on primordial magic-wielding demons.

The movie was a sterile and irrelevant shot in the dark by Hollywood retards who thought removing the one element that made the games unique was a good idea.

A proper Doom adaptation would have been more like Event Horizon, but that may also be why they tried (and failed) to take the movie in a different direction.

Are we also discussing cartoon adaptations as well? Speaking of Dead Space, Downfall was pretty interesting in how it interpreted the outbreak of the Ishimura infestation. There was also Aftermath, an animated film that took switches between a 3D-esque style and a cartoon style (in order to designate flashbacks and such), but it wasn't as good as the other one, IMO. It's essentially a bridge between the first two games, you learn a bit more about Nolan Stross (Downfall also features him), and there's a reference to Isaac at the end. That's about it.

I don't usually go looking for movie adaptations of games. I think the only one I saw proper was Bloodrayne, but considering how I didn't play the game, I can't say much on how well it was adapted.

Downfall was great and Aftermath was pretty good too.

I saw the Halo CGI 'film' a while back, I didn't enjoy it as much as The Animatrix. Is it really better to have 6 short stories instead of 1 long one? I can't really remember that working well in modern cinema, besides in Sin City.

I didn't think they ever tried to bring it out in the cinema. Well, maybe in Japan, but I wouldn't know about that.

By "modern cinema" I was referring to the medium of films in general, not in the "cinema" itself. Like say you wanted to watch the Halo or Animatrix on DVD. You stick it in, click play and it would play from the first section to the final section, unless you specifically chose to start it somewhere else. So they're giving you the expectation of a full length movie, but splitting it up into different 'sections' or 'chunks'.

Well, vignette style movies are still movies. Look at Creepshow. Granted, the Animatrix is more like a showcase of different artists and ideas, but it never really advertised itself as a singular, full-length movie either.

A lot of movies about games would really be better suited to television series.

One I always think would make an AMAAAAAAZING series is Mass Effect. Surely, you'd have to do some jiggery-pokery to get to the minimum requirements of at least 5 seasons, but it's possible.

And you could make a side mission into an episode.

It'd kinda be like Firefly, just...with aliens.

They were thinking of doing a 'Condemned' film, but having aliens instead of demons. Stuff like that irritates. I figure either follow the plot, or don't and do a separate franchise altogether.

Meh.

Condemned didn't have demons, just lots of crazy people and cultists who were less than human. I have no idea how they would even retool that plot to involve aliens... then again, they did it for Doom.

They could adapt Gears of War into a period drama.

Good news, they don’t either!

Every time Manco posts now I am immediately filled with contempt, thinking that it is Cammy posting. This is because of his awful Anime/Manga profile pic.

Manco's name makes me think of a fictional company that specializes in creating designer men. Man Co.

I don’t know whether to feel offended or amused.

e: at both of you.

Yeah, it's just like Black Mesa except it specialises in men's clothing.

I mean it actually produces physical men. Like a clone factory. All the men are handsome, fit, and stylish.

Y'all should make a game about Manco's username, then make a film of that game. That way, you'll be on-topic.

Hell Yea! Silent hill for the ps1 was scary as shit. I double face Palmed at the movies.

Interloper said words.

What are you...

Sleepy.

I think you misspelled dim-witted

Oh shit! It's going down! I don't think Git'Im knows what he's getting himself into.

That's enough.

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i like the new cunt.

EDIT: ON TOPIC the Hitman film that was made about the Hitman games i think yeah still haven't seen it though talk about that