Comments on: Top 5 Game to Film Should’ve Beens

By: Fabio

Fabio — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:25:57 +0000

I have to agree with Lillo, Doom has enough for a good plot. Yeah, you could finish the game without noticing it, but there was one. It also does not have to be convoluted with extra script gunk like military experiments. What’s wrong with just dealing with Hell? Proof: Event Horizon, while more horror than action, scared the crap out of me. Ship gets transported to Hell and back: pretty simple plot, yet it worked.

I agree with the writer that even though the director has a lot to answer for, I think that the script writer (or whomever tweeks the scripts and hires hundreds of retarded rewriters) is also responsible for a lot. They have to answer for all the odd out-of-game explanations, love stories, cliche’s and whatnot to make the plot fit a standard Hollywood template.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:10:48 +0000

Great article, Thor! I agree almost 100%. I’d have to say about Mortal Kombat though, while it had its flaws, there wasn’t a whole lot that went wrong. That movie made a $102,000,000 profit (roughly) after worldwide ticket sales. I actually never knew it spawned a TV show and yes, that second movie was complete and utter trash.

While Max Payne wasn’t a great film, it was a lot better than I expected it to be. The representation of evil in the film through the hallucinagenic, demonic images was genious.

As for Resident Evil, I thought the movie sucked. Yes, this franchise has done much better than the Mortal Kombat movie franchise but I guess I just don’t get it. It was unexciting and I found it really lame. Good game. Bad movie.

By: Lillo

Lillo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:40:56 +0000

@Shawn : Doom the VG has enough elements to build a good plot around: the atmosphere, the setting, the monsters. Then you can have an action and/or horror story. Of course you don’t expect some guy going around shooting slow paced freaks for 90 minutes non-stop. Because that is another movie, Dawn of the Dead and as you can see, it’s not that bad.
I think Neil Marshal is an interesting pick and The Descent comparison perfectly tailored.

By: McNulty

McNulty — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:13:07 +0000

Good article! Well written. There’s nothing more fun than film speculation. Video games not my thing but you made it fun.

By: Edzy

Edzy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:33:12 +0000

i have to agree with you on the majority of this article, pritty much all of it however, i dont think Jolie had a problem with charisma, she might not be the best actress of all times but she is almost a splitting image image of croft and g’dam you cannot deny those tits

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:23:35 +0000

You can’t expect that Doom would have ever been a good movie, no matter who was at the helm. There was zero story for them to work with, you can’t just expect them to whip something up out of thin air!