Can games be made into good movies?

[Swordwind]

I\'d forgotten about Silent Hill...

And that website is so ****ed up lol

 

[No Such Agency]

Originally posted by DrEvilmonki
Well with the risk of being the odd one out I did not like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Loved the first one thought the second was average and the third was just painful!

A valid opinion, though I disagree. I thought it was about the best cinematic version they could do, working within the time constraints of a viewable movie (still, over 9 hours total, not counting the extended versions). It had flaws and simplifications, but I do think it stayed \"true\" overall. And that was what was most important.

Bad Taste is still Peter Jacksons best movie - god damn it is funny.

Funny... but technically appalling even for a student film. I actually found a copy second-hand, and bought it. Not the best movie for my $12 but I\'ve never seen it for rent anywhere so it was my only chance to see it for less than the price of a new DVD...

 

[DrEvilmonki]

Originally posted by No Such Agency

Originally posted by DrEvilmonki
Well with the risk of being the odd one out I did not like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Loved the first one thought the second was average and the third was just painful!

A valid opinion, though I disagree. I thought it was about the best cinematic version they could do, working within the time constraints of a viewable movie (still, over 9 hours total, not counting the extended versions). It had flaws and simplifications, but I do think it stayed \"true\" overall. And that was what was most important.

Well I would disagree. Visually yes fantastic with only a couple of very minor flaws. However I found the acting of the Hobbits went WAY to far into melodrama. Ther were also additions that actually added nothing to the story. Sam never got sent away by Frodo, Aragon did not get seperated after a battle, Gimli was not just comic relief and while Legoas is an elf they simply went over the top in trying to make him special (not sinking into the snowdrift in the first movie was cool - surfing an oliphant in the third was naff).

I could go on and on but the simple reality is that like so much in life it is simply opinion. Oh and as for Bad taste; it was mad as a low budget comedy and as such I think it stays truer to what his intentions were. While it is not a technical masterpiece I have always found it entertaining and that at the end of the day is why I watch movies.

Oh and I walked out of Star Wars - phantom menace; saw the second one on DVD and will probably never bother to waste teo hours of my life for the benefit of George lucus

 

[Tony Manero]

personally i hated all the films of lotr... the book is way better... nothing to compare with jackson\'s crap....

D&D 1 was a painful film
D&D 2 was nice
Doom was a real... real... REAL bulls4it


hoping this will be better

 

[DrEvilmonki]

And just some clarification. I think Bad Taste is Peter Jacksons most enjoyable movie. Certainly not his his best technically.

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by DrEvilmonki
(not sinking into the snowdrift in the first movie was cool - surfing an oliphant in the third was naff).

This makes you sound like a purist. You liked what they kept true to the books, but not what they added.
That or maybe Tolkein is just a better writer....

 

[Legacy Account]

Or maybe it\'s because the scene with Legoland on an elephant just looked shite

 

[DrEvilmonki]

Originally posted by vincegamer

Originally posted by DrEvilmonki
(not sinking into the snowdrift in the first movie was cool - surfing an oliphant in the third was naff).

This makes you sound like a purist. You liked what they kept true to the books, but not what they added.
That or maybe Tolkein is just a better writer....

Funnily enough I didn\'t actually like the books to much; thought they had a brilliant concept but were unweildy with the writing.

Spacemunkie has it correct the scene with the opliphant simply look stupid (same with surfing down the stairs shooting hus bow.

 

[LavronYor]

They have made a really great film based not only off of a game, but a miniatures game, and it is even made by the Evil Empire and I don\'t mean the US.

It is called Dawn of War and it shouldn\'t be overlooked because it is only 3 minutes long. If any of the big movie makers added another 117 minutes of this, it would be a SciFi classic. It has great cinematography with the bullets punching through the flag and the Dread just looks kickass until he gets the stikbomb. Why can\'t anyone look at that and go \" Now that\'s a start\"

 

[Hieronymus]

Originally posted by DrEvilmonki

Originally posted by vincegamer

Originally posted by DrEvilmonki
(not sinking into the snowdrift in the first movie was cool - surfing an oliphant in the third was naff).

This makes you sound like a purist. You liked what they kept true to the books, but not what they added.
That or maybe Tolkein is just a better writer....

Funnily enough I didn\'t actually like the books to much; thought they had a brilliant concept but were unweildy with the writing.

Spacemunkie has it correct the scene with the opliphant simply look stupid (same with surfing down the stairs shooting hus bow.

I saw on a documentary that Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Ring Trilogy to give England a mythology that it might have had if the Saxons hadn\'t lost at Hastings. (That and to justify all the years he spent inventing his own languages and alphabets). It\'s much more stylized than the Hobbit, because it\'s sort of like the King James Bible in some ways. Being chock full of the High Speech and all.

Having read the books many times, I kindly overlooked the silliness of dwarf tossing, surfing and running up the arrows on the oliphaunt. it reminded me an awful lot of Luke Skywalker and the AT-AT.

I\'d also like to point out the glaring omission of Meet the Feebles and Dead Alive, (my favorite!)