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snikle
01/26/09

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Damn I love i09, regardless if the news is slow, bad, or silly, you guys always bring a hearty laugh. I love you io9ers....or whatever you...we are called.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/26/09

@snikle: That'll be 5 dollars plz.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
01/26/09

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Giant Aliens, Big Budget Live Action Mechs, and Hoth was alway my favorite location in Star Wars. I know little about this game but if anyone in this day and age wants to spend 200 million on a space battle movie... I'll let them.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/26/09

@Garrison Dean: Quick, somebody get this man an Xbox360 and a copy of Lost Planet, stat! We need to dispel any illusions he may have to the validity of this idea!
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
01/26/09

@crashedpc: Hey, I'm just basing this off of the ads they had in theaters a while ago, and on raw materials. They've got guns, big guns, big aliens, snowy alien landscape. I know nothing of the story or gameplay, but if they can take a great games like Street Fighter, Mario Bros, Hitman etc... and cock them up into horrible films, I don't see why they can't take a crap game and make it a good movie.

I will take that XBox and game though.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/26/09

@Garrison Dean: Err... my... xbox is in the... shop. And my dog ate the game. I'm hoping that they spend almost all the budget on making the movie look good. The story is thin enough to be used as sexy lingerie. If they incorporate the gameplay then audiences will get to see the main character trudge along like a tank and suck up neon orange alien blood to power his survival gear. That MAY work. Maybe.
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AngryEddy
01/26/09

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Okay, maybe someone can clear this up for me... I never played the game - I was too busy killin' zombies in Dead Rising - so was it any good? Does it deserve to have this much invested in it's ride to the big screen? How will we shoehorn Keanu Reeves into this movie?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/26/09

@AngryEddy:

1. Meh.

2. No.

3. Shoot me now.
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zenpoet
01/26/09

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Sure, the game was phenomenal, but they could conceivably make a decent movie about it. I think a Dark Sector movie would be decent as well, so long as it is written well. Then again, I though that a Doom movie would be sweet, but we all know how that turned out.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/26/09

@zenpoet: If they can find someone who can inject a little personality into the protagonist of Dark Sector, then maybe it could work. I've never heard anyone so apathetic about being forcibly injected with a body altering mutagen.
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zenpoet
01/26/09

@crashedpc: I thought the same thing. He just seemed so "meh," about the whole deal.

There was never even a "holy hell what have you done to my arm?" moment. He just looked at it, moved on, and started killing things. I would have at least whimpered for a minute.
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I_Like_Rabbits
01/26/09

@zenpoet: The game was "phenomenal"? In what parallel universe?

"Mediocre" might be heaping a little too much praise.
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zenpoet
01/26/09

@I_Like_Rabbits: Actually, good call. I meant to say "less than phenomenal." But, if you are talking parallel universe, wouldn't everything be, well, parallel?

Maybe you meant alternative universe.
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I_Like_Rabbits
01/26/09

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I find it impossible to believe this movie will ever get made. the game was mediocre at best, with a poor (even for games) story. And they wanna spend $200 mil to make it?

The way I hear it is double the price when factoring in advertising. So they wanna drop potentially $400 million on this? There's not a giant fanbase, and outside of gamers, nobody knows this movie.

I just can't believe anybody is willing to piss away that kind of money for a fairly obvious bomb.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/26/09

@I_Like_Rabbits: Are they going to show the actors siphoning up alien bug juice whenever they kill them, in order to fuel their life support heating systems? Cause I mean, that was one of the major gimmicks of the game. If they don't show people suited up in arctic explorer gear with little vacuum cleaners sucking up neon orange Tang gel to keep their Icy Hot pads going, I'm not going to consider seeing this movie.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
01/26/09

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Maybe this is a good thing. There haven't been a whole lot of good movies based on video games.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/26/09

@DrEmilioLizardo: Are you saying that Street Fighter, Super Mario Brothers, and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Story weren't very good? You know, it's plausible that they may very well be the most misunderstood cinematic works of our generation, in which futu- HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHA ahh... nope, I ran out of bullshit.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/26/09

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I'm still trying to figure out what kind of story they're going to stretch the game's original premise into... "Man loses father to giant ice monster. Man gets into mechs and blows up ice monsters. Man gets into rather poorly voice acted cut scenes involving companies and pirates and shit. Boom." BUT then again, they're talking about a Devil May Cry movie, so what the hell do I know.
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