Topic: Movies in the Theater (Read 106737 times)

Mothra · « **Reply #540 on:** May 31, 2010, 08:28:35 PM »

Quote from: Detonator on May 31, 2010, 08:15:24 PM

According to Rotten Tomatoes, the best video game adaptation to a movie is still Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. I find that kinda sad, especially considering FF:tSW wasn't really an adaptation of a video game in anything other than the title.

I will say that Spirits was probably the most original VG movie I can think of. I didn't really like it overall but there was definitely a number of things that were really memorable and fairly interesting, which is far more than I can say for any other movie based on a game.

That the dead carried their memories back to the planet's core in a sort of accumulated shared experience was something I'd never heard of before.

Brentai · « **Reply #541 on:** May 31, 2010, 08:30:14 PM »

Pretty sure that meme pops up in a number of world religions. It makes sense if you assume an afterlife in which one becomes a sort of amorphous experiential being.

Detonator · « **Reply #542 on:** May 31, 2010, 08:34:22 PM »

Quote from: Mothra on May 31, 2010, 08:28:35 PM

I will say that Spirits was probably the most original VG movie I can think of. I didn't really like it overall but there was definitely a number of things that were really memorable and fairly interesting, which is far more than I can say for any other movie based on a game.

My point is I don't see why it should be compared against other video game based movies when it's not based on a video game.

Niku · « **Reply #543 on:** May 31, 2010, 08:46:38 PM »

To be fair many video game adaptations have about as much to do with their source material as Spirits Within does. Double Dragon has what, twins and a couple of names? At least FF has a Cid, so that makes them just about square.

Niku · « **Reply #544 on:** May 31, 2010, 08:46:57 PM »

enix.

Mothra · « **Reply #545 on:** May 31, 2010, 09:02:59 PM »

The Mario Brothers Movie thus the alpha and omega here in being (paradoxically) slavishly beholden to its source material while presenting something in no way familiar to the game itself.

Detonator · « **Reply #546 on:** May 31, 2010, 09:07:07 PM »

Quote from: Niku on May 31, 2010, 08:46:38 PM

At least FF has a Cid, so that makes them just about square.

And they even fucked THAT up, spelling it "Sid".

Kayma · « **Reply #547 on:** May 31, 2010, 09:33:32 PM »

The best thing I can say about Prince of Persia is that it didn't want to make me kill myself. So that's good.

Also, very, very pretty.

Ziiro · « **Reply #548 on:** May 31, 2010, 09:36:58 PM »

Seeing as how Prince of Persia is an Ubisoft game, I'm sure there's a DRM pun here that we're missing.

Niku · « **Reply #549 on:** May 31, 2010, 10:54:24 PM »

DON'T RENT MOVIE

Thad · « **Reply #550 on:** June 03, 2010, 09:29:20 PM »

Quote from: Detonator on May 31, 2010, 08:15:24 PM

Also amazed that the worst movie in that list is not directed by Uwe Boll.

Yeah, but he got the 3 after that. And then 2 of the 4 after that. In other words, literally half of the movies in the bottom 10.

Brentai · « **Reply #551 on:** June 03, 2010, 09:36:38 PM »

Isn't he responsible for more than half the list of video game movies from top to bottom?

Büge · « **Reply #552 on:** June 08, 2010, 07:16:15 PM »

Quote from: Kayma on May 31, 2010, 09:33:32 PM

The best thing I can say about Prince of Persia is that it didn't want to make me kill myself. So that's good.

Also, very, very pretty.

My friends and I went to go see it. We each found something different wrong with it.

The romance felt forced. The dialogue violated the "show-don't-tell" maxim. The plotting was episodic. My one friend felt the game had a far better plot to it, without all the politics and convoluted motivations of the film. I can't even remember a lot of the characters' names, they were so forgettable. You could have gone with "Skinny Brother", "Albino Assassin", "Knife-throwing Guy" and lost nothing. The accents were laughable. There was only one moment that felt genuinely real: [spoiler]When the girl's hanging from the Prince's hand and she makes him let go. She reacted perfectly terrified of her choice.[/spoiler] Overuse of jitter-cam in fight sequences. The ending felt rushed.

We all agreed that the stunt-work was competent, though. All in all, it'll be worth a Rifftrax.

Niku · « **Reply #553 on:** June 21, 2010, 07:20:03 AM »

so toy story 3.

[spoiler]holy shit. everything from escape to claw is pretty much movie perfection.[/spoiler]

Easter egg to keep an eye out for: [spoiler]The garbageman's shirt[/spoiler].

Lottel · « **Reply #554 on:** June 21, 2010, 07:26:40 AM »

[spoiler]And the batteries, and the Lightning McQueen toys[/spoiler]

Fredward · « **Reply #555 on:** June 22, 2010, 07:58:40 PM »

A-Team was fun. Fresh writing, though not brilliant. Kind of reminded me of Iron Man 2, even prior to the appearance of [spoiler]a wayward Mad Man[/spoiler].

Mongrel · « **Reply #556 on:** June 23, 2010, 06:22:59 AM »

Apparently Jonah Hex has some mad it's-so-bad-it's-good goin' on.

Can anybody corroborate this? Because I've only heard it called plain old run-of-the-mill awful elsewhere.

Thad · « **Reply #557 on:** June 23, 2010, 04:51:28 PM »

Yeah, what I've heard is it doesn't even succeed as camp. I'm waiting for the Rifftrax.

Thad · « **Reply #558 on:** June 27, 2010, 10:43:49 AM »

Did another double-feature at the drive-in last night. I wasn't looking forward to it because I expected it to be over 90 degrees out, but once we got onto the rez it was actually very pleasant. Memo to white people: when you don't lay down asphalt, SHIT DOESN'T STAY AT 95 DEGREES AFTER THE SUN GOES DOWN.

Anyway. Prince of Persia: perfectly serviceable; one of the better video game movies even though that bar couldn't really be any lower. A predictable and forgettable story buoyed by some neat fight choreography, and a great cast, including Sir Ben Kingsley as Claudius and Alfred Molina as Han Solo.

Toy Story 3: Jesus Christ what a wonderful, layered, complex, bittersweet film. I know when it was announced most of us were wondering why we needed a third Toy Story movie, and now I know: because those of us who were 12 when the first one came out are 27 now.

Just supremely well done. Pixar, as always, has a lock on Best Animated Feature -- which is a shame, really, because it means this'll only get a Best Picture nom as a courtesy.

Joxam · « **Reply #559 on:** June 27, 2010, 09:22:39 PM »

Oh god Toy Story 3 was so great. If a live action movie production company could make that percentage of hit movies...

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