Game News Mass Effect: the Motion Picture

[Silellak]

Mass Effect is too corny and derivative (of other movies, even) to be a good movie in its own right.

Agreed. That's the same reason I thought a Max Payne movie was an awful idea. You don't take an over-the-top video game homage to the Action and Film Noir genres into a movie, because then you just end up with another cookie-cutter Action/Film Noir movie.

 

[Rhalle]

I think that Max Payne had a few advantages for being made into a move that ME doesn't; it already was self parody in a genre (film noir) that often tends that way anyhow.

If the filmmakers were clever, they could have simply borrowed that element of film noir self-parody and adopted it a working principle for the Max Payne movie, and then made it something like Sin City.

But that's way too brainy for a movie for ten year olds, I guess, so they went the ultra-serious and XXXTREME route, which was doomed to be garbage. Plus Ludacris was Jim Bravura.

Mass Effect can't really parody itself as a working principle and still have us take the threat to the galaxy mostly seriously.

It seems to me that a ME movie, at best, will try to negotiate its own super-cliche-ness down a middle path and pass itself off as a middle-of-the-road space fantasy; or, at worst, it will go the Max Payne route and unintentionally become parody by taking itself super-seriously.

 

[Elzair]

It could at least be watchable if they keep Uwe Boll AND the Bioware staff COMPLETELY AWAY from the director/scriptwriter's chair. The reason is that video game writers/cinematographers are dogshit compared to any halfway-competent movie director. I would like to note that the creator of the Wing Commander series, Chris Roberts, both directed and wrote the screenplay for the movie Wing Commander.


Yeah.

 

[Brother None]

Turning a faux-wannabe film "game" into a motion picture?

Meh. So?

 

[GarfunkeL]

Female Shep would be great. We haven't had any Ellen Ripley wannabe's lately.

 

[Xor]

The movie might not even revolve around Shepard. It might be a side story or some shit.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Female Shep would be great. We haven't had any Ellen Ripley wannabe's lately.

And blue alien sex could still happen. That's all I'm looking forward to.

 

[Elhoim]

EA has been making a conscious effort to extend its most popular franchises beyond video games. EA is also working on creating films based on the games Army of Two, The Sims, Dante's Inferno, Dead Space and Spore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXME2pm83c

About an actor for Shepard, Dominic Purcell looks quite like him:

 

[racofer]

Just hire Mark Vanderloo anyway, it couldn't get any worse.

 

[Xor]

Vin Diesel would be the best EXTREME choice for Commander Shepard.

 

[A user named cat]

 

[SerratedBiz]

The question is: how will C&C be handled by the doctors? Will there be a separate movie where Shep is female? Will they include buzzers where you'll pick paragon / renegade resolutions to certain events?

Bioware is all about story and C&C, after all, they will surely fistfuck our minds into submission.

 

[Gay-Lussac]

Holy shit, piccard looks like my dad

 

[Volourn]

"Max Payne movie"

Underrated film.



"The reason is that video game writers/cinematographers are dogshit compared to any halfway-competent movie director."

Bullshit.

 

[Silellak]

 

[DaveO]

Name one successful game-to-movie concept that did not massively fail. I can think of one, but obviously it's the exception to the rule.

 

[Elhoim]

Name one successful game-to-movie concept that did not massively fail. I can think of one, but obviously it's the exception to the rule.

The first Mortal Kombat movie. It had a budget of $20 million and a gross revenue of $122,195,920.

 

[Fat Dragon]

^ That movie had a fucking awesome soundtrack.

 

[Volourn]

"Name one successful game-to-movie concept that did not massively fail. I can think of one, but obviously it's the exception to the rule."

There's more than a few that fit that description unless you define 'massively fail' = 'i personally disliked it'.

Fucknutz.

 

[Konjad]

Looks more interesting than ME movie.

 

[kris]

Name one successful game-to-movie concept that did not massively fail. I can think of one, but obviously it's the exception to the rule.

You thinking about Resident evil?

 

[Hobo Elf]

Name one successful game-to-movie concept that did not massively fail. I can think of one, but obviously it's the exception to the rule.

The first Mortal Kombat movie. It had a budget of $20 million and a gross revenue of $122,195,920.

It's also the best video game movie.

 

[Angthoron]

There's also a million Pokemon movies.

 

[Radisshu]

Well. The Silent Hill film kinda sucks.

 

[dr. one]

The question is: how will C&C be handled by the doctors? Will there be a separate movie where Shep is female? Will they include buzzers where you'll pick paragon / renegade resolutions to certain events?

Bioware is all about story and C&C, after all, they will surely fistfuck our minds into submission.

i suggest Kinoautomat route.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinoautomat

"Kinoautomat (1967) was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes; following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.

The film is a black comedy, opening with a flash-forward to a scene in which Petr Novák (Miroslav Horníček)'s apartment is in flames. No matter what choices are made, the end result is the burning building, making the film—as Činčera intended—a satire of democracy."

 

[Angthoron]

So Bioware and Bethesda are actually doing satire. Cool!