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Agreed. MK Annihilation is amazingly bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA5nDyJ8sA0
Oh, wow, thank you for sharing this. I have some kind of kink for shitty movies, and this truly, really fulfills that for me. Holy crap, this is bad. 3% on Rotten Tomatoes...
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Exposing the deus ex machina as a mundane studio recording effort is an interesting idea, but detracts from the immersiveness and suspension-of-disbelief. Great humor potential, though it'd get stale and instead become the story.
I suppose it depends on what you're looking for in a film. For example, I can't stand musicals, because I think characters breaking out into song and dance every 5 minutes destroys any attempt at immersiveness or believability. But lots of people love them, and don't find this incongruity problematic. So I don't think breaking from the flow of the main story necessarily breaks the story. Did the structure of "Adaptat…
I know a bunch of folks who walked out feeling cheated or confused.
I think most of the issue is that people want a) a story b) to be entertained and c) to forget about the outside world for a bit.
Anything that fills these boxes is good for mass consumption (from Hollywood producer/ purely dollars point of view). Enlightening the subject or shocking them with with new points of view are entirely stretch goals.
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I disagree. You have games like The Last of Us, The Uncharted Series, Yakuza 0, and even the latest Wolfenstein game having very well made and engaging stories which I think can translate well on film.
I'd go back to GP's "why" question. I thought that The Last of Us was an absolutely fantastic game. Honestly, its one of the few games I've managed to stay engaged with all the way to the end. It works as a game. It's wonderful within its medium. A movie can't give you moral choices (did you guys kill the doctors at the end??), nor the time required to really get aquainted with the characters. The narrative works bes…
I think a good example of this is the Warcraft movie. Pretty terrible reception overall. But as a Warcraft fan I really enjoyed it and would love another.
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All of Paul W.S. Anderson video-game movies are entertaining AF. Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Alien vs Predator. ALL well crafted & inspired movies. They're not going to win Cannes Palm d'Or, but they will hit the spot.
> well crafted & inspired movies. Applying those words to the Resident Evil sequels surely is some form of crime against humanity
I was about to bring this movie up as a counter-example, but I guess the opinions on this are very much split.
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I think that, like Mars Attacks and Starship Troopers, it's a movie that one benefitted a lot from expecting a B- or C, and being pleasantly surprised by a B (or B+)-ish experience.
Starship Troopers was an A+ movie masquerading as a B movie.
I recently spent a lazy Sunday morning watching the Doom movie. It was a lot better than it had any right to be, in my book - I haven't played Doom 3, but by the standards of action-sci/fi-horror movies starring The Rock, it was excellent. I also thought the WarCraft movie was very good, but there I did grow up playing the hell out of WarCraft: Orcs and Humans, and reading and re-reading the manual with the backstory…
Doom could have better. They gratuitously changed the plot, which is funny because Doom has practically zero plot at all. And they managed to change it without improving it in the slightest—for the purposes of the movie, they could have easily gone with the "opened a portal to hell" and the rest of the movie would have been the same. Their changes were really dumb and completely pointless which was really frustrating…
1. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (2010)
2. Resident Evil (2002)
3. Doom (2005)
4. Mortal Kombat (1995)
5. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2003)
Good movies push people. They bring intense experience to the table. Insight. Important things. Videogames literally avoid all of those like the plague. Out of an infantile fear of government-led censorship that has been proven wrong over and over and over since the 1980s, gamers defend a system of far-more-perniscious censorship by private companies. And so they get what they have worked so hard for. Milquetoast garbage in terms of emotional content in games.