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‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24
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I'm sure they'll fuck it up.
Name one good (serious) videogame movie. One.
It's not a movie, but the Fallout series had a great first season, and I'm looking forward to the second.
The last of us was great too. Not a movie still. But .
Season 1 was good. Season 2 is pretty terrible.
Haven’t seen season 2 yet That’s disappointing
The original Mortal Kombat movie. The newest Sonic movie was also pretty good imo.
But yes, this can probably go very wrong.
Lol it may be an unpopular opinion but I don't think we can call mortal Kombat objectively 'good.' It's a cult classic for sure and a fun watch, but for reference it aired at Quakecon's Master Pancake sat night event one year with the MST3K folks and well.. they don't typically do blockbuster hits
I wonder it is going to be THE Elden Ring story or An Elden Ring story, a small contained story in the Elden Ring world could fly really well, bonus points if Patches kicks the protagonist off a cliff.
my preference would be a film about the shattering, giving us some (but not too much) more insight into just what fucked the world up so godsdamned much.
but that would need to be extremely faithful to the lore and character designs and i just don't see hollywood showing up for that.
First, it's A24 and they put out amazing movies .
Second, Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros Movie, and I'm not sure if it would count, but Wreck It Ralph are all good video game movies.
Wreck It Ralph doesn't count because it wasn't based on an actual video game, but on video games in general. But it was indeed great.
I don't know, just because the video game isn't real doesn't mean that the movie isn't based off of a video game. I think it just shows that the reason most video game movies fail isn't because the movie is bad, but because the fans are too harsh. If Wreck It Ralph replaced the main characters with characters from Mario but still had the same basic plot I don't think it would have been as well received.
Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a cult classic.
The 2023 movie is forgettable garbage.
The Sonic movies are fun though. Knuckles TV as well.
The Hoper Mario is something - it's so off the rails, that it's crusing on anothet track.
You just listed a bunch of animated children's movies?
If you're looking for actual examples there's Silent Hill, Fallout, or The Last of Us.
I don't think I'd consider Detective Pikachu or Sonic to be animated. Just like I wouldn't consider Fallout or Last of Us to be movies.
Normally I'd agree, but it being A24 makes me very hopeful.
Does Last of Us count? Sonic movies and Mario were pretty decent too.
Silent Hill
That one got a lot of hate, but I actually liked it. Not so much the second one, though.
Street Fighter. It's fantastically bad.
Alex Garland has made some pretty good movies, so there's a chance. I thought his instincts with annihilation were pretty much spot on. But yeah, movies based on games do not have a great track record.
Its funny in this case because not "fucking it up" effectively means making a movie that's barely related to the game outside of the basic setting.
WoW, Prince of Persia