[Cloverfield]

What do you think... that when movies are made based on video games, are they a good thing, or is the company just cashing in on the success of the game.

Good example: Oddworld. Not just saying this because I am an Oddworld fan. But the Oddworld Quintology was originally written to be a movie before it was going to be a game.

Good example #2: Oddworld and Final Fantasy. Again not just saying this because I am a fan. The Oddworld movies when they come out will be CG as with the FF movie. Because the entire movie is going to be CG, then the work of the programmers, etc is being put into it to keep it computer based.

Cash In: Tomb Raider. C'mon... the only reason they are making a movie for this is because of "Lara Croft" and her *ahem* ... well you get the idea. The use of human actors instead of CG gives the impression that they are not spending the time in programming and creating the characters which made the game popular. Instead are using a human subsitute. Even if the movie is great... I still feel it is a cash in.

Cash In #2: Street Fighter movie, Mario Bros movie... obvious cash in (again w/ human actors) that was a total FLOP! Need I say more.

Basically I just seem to think that if a game is using CG for their movie, the time is being spent to keep in being with what it originally was... that is computer based. Getting a human actor seems to me a way of avoiding programming and rendering and all that kind of thing. Which IMO is a lot more work than just getting an actor to learn a part and create a set.

Heh... I didn't realize I wrote so much!!!

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