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Tue Dec 22
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03:50 AM
12/21/09
I'll say this: it better be about a guy in a top hat with a huge mustache riding around in a giant thimble and buying entire streets, whereupon he mugs people who happen to loiter and forces them to stay in his hotel.
I'd watch that.
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IOW, good game + good movie = new genre?
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The data does not support your assertion. "Catwoman" got a 27 on metacritic and 10 on Rotten Tomatoes. Of all of Uwe Boll's movies, only one (Blackwoods) outscored it on either - and only narrowly. The rest got substantially worse scores. I think it's clear that Mr. Boll is the single most important reason why video game movies suck.
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Hmmm, now you're on to something. That would be an interesting approach, casting the main character as someone new to the series. Maybe something like a few hundred years into the future, you follow the trials of another human spectre hunting some other type of galactic emergency.
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You must understand, I hold an ungodly passion for that game. I've read the books, I've put more hours into the game than any other title in years, and I have personally explored every option available in the campaign.
A sucky movie wouldn't take away from the greatness of the game, but as an amateur filmmaker it would kill me to see such potential go to waste. It pains me to see crappy movies based of off video games.
12/21/09
My dream team for the Mass Effect movie:
Director: Guillermo Del Toro - he could perfect all the different creatures and races in the game, as well as bring a darker, and more epic feel to the story than other directors.
Producer: Peter Jackson - Weta Workshop would give Del Toro all the resources necessary, and seeing as how Jackson is producing Del Toro's upcoming Hobbit films, it seems like a natural fit.
Studio: Either Miramax or New Line. Miramax I think takes the most risks in the films it releases, but New Line has worked closely with Jackson (and will work with Del Toro for the Hobbits), so it seems like there is enough trust from New Line to let Jackson and Co. do what they want.
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Dude, I'll get a boner for Commander Shepard in Mass Effect 2, so you can be a girl, I'll be gay and we can all go shopping together.
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A game like Wasteland/Fallout would be a better project to do. At least it has a workable plot and interesting characters.
12/21/09
There is no point in making an X-Men origins movie without the original 5 X-Men, and Singer himself has made that an impossibility by casting Iceman and Angel as children to Cyclops and Jean Grey's adults, with Hank McCoy being a generation older than them, but that part can be ignored (truly, Kelsey Grammar as Beast is the most inspired casting ever in a comic book movie, and the only great part of X3. You may argue Stewart as Xavier, but while undeniably awesome, it isn't really inspired, but obvious and necessary)
The First Class name could mean the first class of young mutants specifically trained as warriors(Which is how I interpreted it after learning it didn't mean the actual first first class), and could focus on the younger students from the movie- Iceman, Angel, Colossus, Shadowcat, Jubilee, Siren, whoever else was in there.
Save the "Origins" titles for the older characters from the movies like Magneto and Storm(after you recast her) and a good Wolverine origins movie, like the Japan story Hugh Jackman was pitching a while back. If he gets that made I'll forgive him for being over 6' tall. (nah, I let that go after how good he was in the first one and how brutally awesome he was in the second one)
12/21/09
WTF has she been reading?
12/20/09
I liked avatar, it's not original, and it is preachy, but it's also kinda fun.
I too, however think you touch very valid points about the recurrence of white people becoming the most awesome native. Would I like it more if they used more original ways of dealing with "issues"? yup.
I just don't think this is one of those movies you should go to see expecting anything more than a pretty flick with fun action scenes.
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