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Comment by Yeti 13 on May 18, 2011 at 6:04pm

for the post by Luminous, I don't disagree but I do think if they put good people behind it they can do something amazing

Comment by Happy Birthday Roboto on May 18, 2011 at 5:56pm

@Luminous Prophet

Dude, how do format your posts like that?

Comment by Yeti 13 on May 18, 2011 at 5:22pm

I dont think this always applies but in the case of Assassins Creed the movie needs to be rated R. It show focus on the story/stealth instead of making it a dumb action film. Preferably Ezio to Altair with the Desmond portions very small. Establish the story and get to the assassinations. Yes their should be action but they need keep it based on what happens in the game with counters and the visceral impact of the weapons. Especially the double hidden blade, and the free running/ parkur. Plus they need more than one film, their is to much to AC to put into a two hour tale. ALSO SHOOT IN ITALY!!!!!! ONLY USE CG WHEN IT IS ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED!!!!1

Comment by Luminous Prophet on May 18, 2011 at 5:21pm

. I am so tired of adaptations, where they simply don't give a fuck about keeping the spirit of the Book/Game/Comic .

. So goddam tired .

. They never hire a good director for that, they aLways just dump it out Like that, because they think their target audience will see it anyways .

. The studios can go to Hell with their Dead Space movie, their Bioshock, Last Airbender, Assassin's Creed, SpLinter CeLL, Farcry movies and all the other Movies they made / wanna make .

. Fuck thoose movies and fuck the greedy don't-give-a-dam Cocksuckers who were invoLved in the process of making those .

. I stiLL hope the assassins creed movie will be good . But I dont believe it will be .

. At all .

 

. So, Hollywood .

. STOP Raping all of our favourite Series, STOP raping our favourite games, and STOP raping our favourite books .

. Just stop it .

Comment by J. Moriarty on May 18, 2011 at 9:13am

I don't like this. It was really good when they did it as a web series, but a full length feature film?

Comment by h8rofcrapmovies on May 18, 2011 at 8:45am

as good as this sounds and me being a HUGE assassin's creed fan. as it being a movie i'll look forward to it but take it that grain of salt i usually do with movies that are in the middle of good and bad. but as a fan i probably will see and ugh i can't believe i'm saying this but hey this is the guy that liked dragon wars i'll probably love the assassin's creed movie IF the keep to the games and not bullshit around like that 90's video game movie that shall not be named. the others i don't care about.

Comment by The Brewster on May 18, 2011 at 8:10am

The premises of Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon sound, at their core, simple enough to be converted into movies. Asassin's Creed though? Definitely not. The setup (not even to mention the multi-layered storyline) is, in my opinion, too complex to cram into a two-hour movie.

Comment by Happy Birthday Roboto on May 18, 2011 at 6:53am

@Gift of the Magi

Yeah I totally agree with you.

A video game really only has enough story to explain why the character is where they are and why they’re doing whatever it is they need to do. There’s not much more and to be fair why should there be, why complicate a game with unnecessary character development or force a player to read through pages of exposition.

Games translate poorly to film for the same reasons many books do. A book sometimes describes the innermost thoughts of a character and a filmmaker has to come up with a way to show the character exposing those thoughts.

Many video game movies are a series of poor excuses to get the character to the next fight or next challenge, but whereas the player is the hero in the game the audience is bored by what the movie hero is doing, because valuable screen time has been used for fight sequences or useless back story when it should have been used for character development.

I suppose if an intelligent formula for making a video game does exist it relies on taking the premise of the game and some of the concept artwork and giving it to a talented storyteller known for interesting characters and getting them to develop the project for the screen.

In the end I suppose the filmmakers skill is just as important as the source material being worthwhile.

Comment by corey vire on May 17, 2011 at 11:22pm

Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon are to late. They had a window and it is soooooo closed. Why would I watch spilnter cell when I can watch the Bourne movies. What is the story for Ghost Recon any way? Rainbow 6 is better movie material. Studios are over reaching. They are spending money on a niche market. Why not do a Madden NFL movie? Its popular. Spend the money on MECHWARRIOR, or HAWX. At least the machines would be fun to watch.

Comment by Gift of the Magi on May 17, 2011 at 10:57pm

You hit the problem across the cheek, Sir Roboto. Video games often (not always, see Pac-Man) have a background story as to why you're doing whatever the blue fuck you are doing, but the meat of the story is always up to the player. That's the FUN of video games (and why I so dearly love true RPGs).

 

When creating a video game movie, you actually have to create the story and character without the player. VGs are notorious for having very poor character development and bare-bones emotional attachment because...well, it's just a game, why WOULD you get attached? You can just reboot. VGs can skimp on this because the average player doesn't care about that, they just want to get to the part where things blow up or they do something.

 

The formula SHOULD be the same for any great film: Strong writing+strong acting+strong direction+clear and interesting story to invest the watcher=Good Movie. The problem is the source material: no video game has a strong enough story BY ITSELF to sustain and develop a good film. Worse, some are so bizarre and strange that a film would have a hard time selling it to an audience (Super Mario Bros and Assassin's Creed fit this bill easily.) Again, I have to say that of the three above, only Splinter Cell has a decent chance of being good based on it's story. It has a good amount of material there if they use ALL the games and this kind of film has been done before, so it will be easier to get an audience to understand it...

 

...of course, if it's done poorly, that won't matter one bit.

 

On the other hand, Assassin's Creed has a story so convulted and different that it makes Dark City look simple. Of the three, that one will be the hardest to produce and sell. Nothing shy of DAMNED GOOD will get that film off the ground. Otherwise, I predict it will last about as long as Prince of Persia...maybe less.

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