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Originally Posted by Church
Wing Commander - Freddie Prinze Jr., 'nuff said.
House of Dead - Ewe Boll. Ugh, he's responsible for 90% of the shit video game movies
Resident Evil - I thought it was pretty well done. Granted, the 2nd one did suck.
Alien vs Predator - Again, I liked, and this wasn't really based on a video game at all. Its just coincidence that there was an AVP game as well.
Tomb Raider - I also enjoyed this one, but like RE, the 2nd one did suck as well.
Mario Bros - Some games should remain games, and this was one.
The point still remains, Peter Jackson, the head of one of the most popular trilogies of all time, is heading up this movie. They haven't even released the cast yet, and if you were following how tightly Bungie is being with who does this movie, you would know why I am defending it so much.
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Peter Jackson is the Exe Producer for the movie, that doesn't necessary mean that he's gonna make alot of decisions for the movie. Everybody has different opinion, I guess in my case, the 2 main reason why games should never make the screen is this:
Its always use some lame storyline (Look at Resident Evil movie) as a excuse to start killing everything in sight. Those kind of thing are great for games, but for movies, the concept kinda wore itself out, especially in zombie based movies.
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The storyline is too long and complex, examples of this would be Metal Gear Solid, which would never made it to the big pictures unless a studio is desperately looking for new idea and figures that they should make another 3 movies, 3 hours each series like LOTR.
Most of the game that made it to the screen are games I love, and I'm kinda disappointed that Microsoft/Bungie decided to allow Universal/Fox to make the movie for Halo.
I'm kinda curious as to who they're gonna cast for Master Chief and Sgt Johnson among other characters. Some people on Fark mentioned that Samuel Jackson should play Johnson which is a pretty good idea. As for Master Chief, they should go with someone that isn't well known, I'd hate to associate Master Chief's character with other movies.