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Old 09-21-2017, 10:31 AM   #2601
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Will there ever be a video game movie that doesn't suck?
Unlikely.
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Old 09-21-2017, 11:53 AM   #2602
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Wreck It Ralph is the closest we will ever get to a good video game movie.
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Old 09-21-2017, 01:34 PM   #2603
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I wonder why it is that video game movies always fall so flat. Is it just the way the studios approach them? Too much meddling from the video game companies? Maybe just the pacing of the baseline stories isn't going to fit into a movie?

Recently tried to get through Assassin's Creed. The first 30 minutes or so was good, until it just dragged. As a huge fan of some of the games, I found the plot to be too simplified. I'm sure people who hadn't played the games found the plot under-explained.
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Old 09-21-2017, 01:44 PM   #2604
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I always figured Resident Evil had potential if adapted properly.

Simple zombie movie about survival in a big scary mansion with some mystery involved like the first RE game.

The series they made is successful enough but haven't been very good and tend to be too overthetop outlandish.
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Old 09-21-2017, 03:16 PM   #2605
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Isle Of Dogs - New stop-motion film from Wes Anderson, out March 23rd.

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Old 09-21-2017, 03:22 PM   #2606
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I always figured Resident Evil had potential if adapted properly.

Simple zombie movie about survival in a big scary mansion with some mystery involved like the first RE game.

The series they made is successful enough but haven't been very good and tend to be too overthetop outlandish.
If they stuck to the horror/zombie elements of the game, instead of the over the top action, it could have been a good movie. The issue with that is that you'd have a pretty limited audience. You'd be looking at something with a hard R rating that only hardcore horror fans would want to see. Those kinds of movies never gross more than 20 million or so.

The Resident evil movies were actually insanely successful. The last one grossed $312 million on a 40 million budget. The franchise also picked up steam as it went along, with the first one grossing $103 million.

The movies are basically just vehicles for an attractive woman to kick stuff. Word on the street is the next film will be a reboot though. You can only go so far with the post-apocalyptic storyline. My guess is the new series will go back to present day.
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Old 09-21-2017, 03:29 PM   #2607
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If they stuck to the horror/zombie elements of the game, instead of the over the top action, it could have been a good movie. The issue with that is that you'd have a pretty limited audience. You'd be looking at something with a hard R rating that only hardcore horror fans would want to see. Those kinds of movies never gross more than 20 million or so.

The Resident evil movies were actually insanely successful. The last one grossed $312 million on a 40 million budget. The franchise also picked up steam as it went along, with the first one grossing $103 million.

The movies are basically just vehicles for an attractive woman to kick stuff. Word on the street is the next film will be a reboot though. You can only go so far with the post-apocalyptic storyline. My guess is the new series will go back to present day.
I wonder with the success of RE franchise, and the recent success of R rated movies, if they could actually pull off a darker reboot and make some good coin off of it?
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I wonder with the success of RE franchise, and the recent success of R rated movies, if they could actually pull off a darker reboot and make some good coin off of it?
The trick might be to find that sweet spot that It found, where it's toned down enough that you still have mass appeal. You'd have to focus more on tension/suspense and less on gore. The initial games were more suspense focused as well though. The kind of games where you didn't see that many bad guys and spent most of the time wandering through hallways finding stuff. The trap with RE is that you'll always want some giant mutated guy as the end boss, which makes for a pretty derivative movie.
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Old 09-22-2017, 12:37 PM   #2609
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This seems fun and interesting. Refreshing lack of fake Russian accents too.

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Ex Machina was one of my favourites from the last couple years so this one has me excited.

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I haven't even seen it posted yet on YouTube, but I've read that the final trailer for Blade Runner 2049 breaks the spoiler free nature of the other trailers so far. So be warned.
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Old 10-03-2017, 06:39 PM   #2614
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Chinook is doing a double feature of Blade Runner and 2049 on Thursday at 6:30pm.
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Looks pretty bad in my opinion...like some kind of Transformers mock up.
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Old 10-06-2017, 12:37 PM   #2616
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I didn't like the first one all that much, I came out of it wondering how a movie about giant monsters vs giant robots could be so meh.

Plus the acting was so off the chart terrible.
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I'm surprised they made a second one because the first was awful. I guess it did very well internationally, which is good enough to get a sequel nowadays.

I guess that's why they keep cranking out awful Transformers movies too.
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I actually liked the first one. I went in with some very low expectations and was expecting to see a B movie type film. I found if you shut your brain off for 2 hours, it was actually quite well paced and entertaining.

I'm a big fan of Guillermo del Toros stuff in general though, and although he's still producing the sequel, he's not directing it. The new guy worked on that Showtime Spartacus series, which I never watched. So who knows about this sequel.
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I'm surprised they made a second one because the first was awful. I guess it did very well internationally, which is good enough to get a sequel nowadays.

I guess that's why they keep cranking out awful Transformers movies too.
I disagree, strongly.

I love Pacific Rim.
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It's a monster mech movie. Expectations should be as such.
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