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Mystique is probably the sexiest due to her shape changing abilities. However, her mysterious personality makes the Diva Plavalaguna my favorite character on the list.
Does anyone know if that was definitely Enver Gjokai playing himself in The Attic scene where he fights himself? It's unlikely, but I know he has a twin brother and it would be awesome if they brought him in for that cameo.
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.
As for why Halo fell through, the answer is simple: Movie execs see video game-based projects as low-budget affairs, designed to pack in the 18-34 male demo on weekends during the slow months between summer and Xmas blockbusters. Halo is exceptional in that it actually has an involving narrative (as opposed to a flimsy pretense to shoot up things), but the over-40s running the studios failed to understand what captivated Jackson and Blomkamp. The same is true for the BioShock movie. I'm not sure if the idea that video games can actually have real stories in them worth expending $100-$200M (as opposed to, say, fifty year old theme park rides or twenty year old toy lines) has sunk in at the executive level. Not many gamers there, I'd wager.
The verdict is probably Toy Movies for 2 years. Bigger and dumber. But in the videogame versus movie argument, it could be that games need to evolve while movie-making becomes more democratic before we have a revolutionary industry-changing product. The Epic Videogame Debates seemed to conclude that games are still too simplistic and the movie industry is "too big to fail".
IOW, good game + good movie = new genre?
I thought Silent Hill was the best game adaptation yet. Even though they shifted the story a bit, the first half of the movie is almost identical to the first game...sans the main character's gender.
@0kami: Silent Hill really nailed the tone of the game, but the story kind of fell apart as they went along. Which is too bad, since the game has a pretty strong and screenplay-friendly story line compared with a shooter like Doom.
"Uwe Boll would have to work overtime and weekends to make a film half as bad as Catwoman"
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.
Why no mention of Blade? I'd say it was the start of the new comic movie wave. Definitely the first Marvel one and showed what was to come in the 2000s.
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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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