[Caael]

http://uk.movies.ign.com/dor/articles/8635...d=1mw8a3o8kblnh

Yeah it's an April Fools joke but it looks well good :P

[Laharl]

the ganondof scares me

alot more than the rest of it

congrulations on looking as generic as every other fantasy movie from the last decade

[Caael]

I'm waiting for the fanboys to start fapping only for their hopes to be crushed by April the 1st.

[Eugine]

April fools isn't as big and important as it used to be. Most people don't fall for them again.

And, that Zelda movie is probably the most expensive April Fools ever... They should seriously consider a Zelda movie though x3.

[Judgement]

This is my reaction when I watched it yesterday.

"Zelda Movie?"

*Click*

"This is too elaborate to be a prank!" :(

*Sees Ganondorf's face*

"Oh... Haha... April Fools..." :P

[Zeypher]

Man...if only it were true...
That has to be the most elaborate April Fools prank ever...
I must admit, when I watched it I thought it was real. Mainly because the Master Sword and Triforce looked so awesome. Then at the end it said "Coming April 1st, 2009", and that pretty much gave it away.

[Folcon]

A shame indeed. But I would laugh my ass off it it was real, even though it ain't.

[Moonear]

Lawlz, it was so dramatic.

[Nosferatu]

The last thing the world needs is a Zelda movie.

DID ANYONE HERE ACTUALLY SEE THE MARIO BROS. MOVIE?

[Folcon]

Yes, I rank it among the top five worst video game inspired movies i have ever seen.

[Drizzy Drake]

I rank it in the top 10 worst moveis EVER! Not reall,y but it was bad as hell.

[Nosferatu]

escout, on Apr 2 2008, 06:01 PM, said:

Yes, I rank it among the top five worst video game inspired movies i have ever seen.

I rank it along with makind's greatest 5 mistakes.

1. Rap.
2. Birth of George W. Bush.
3. People voting for George W. Bush.
4. Super Mario Bros movie.
5. Chavs.

[Eugine]

lolz. The Mario movie indeed sucked bad.

[Zeypher]

I liked the SMB Movie, lulz.

[Someone Else]

Someone told me that this is an old joke, it was recycled. Don't have anything to back it up, though, other than her word.

Video games should mostly stay video games. Dammit.

[Judgement]

Games that should be movies:

Gears of War
Halo
Half-Life 2
Bioshock
Assasin's Creed
Alice (Oh... wait)

Games that shouldn't be:

Legend of Zelda (No matter who you cast as Link, he will always look like a doofus.)
Crash Bandicoot
Spyro (Don't do it!)
Mario (again)

And anything Uwe Boll made needs to be remade by someone with talent.

[Golden Legacy]

I think if a Legend of Zelda movie were to be possible, it would have to be CG - i.e. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

[Folcon]

Totay agrees GL...I've been secretly working on one with a few friends of mine. Well, yting to. None of us have the experence yet and are just playing around with the programs right now with a Zelda theme in mind. But nothing worth showing here.

[Caael]

Judgement, on Apr 3 2008, 05:05 AM, said:

Games that should be movies:

Gears of War
Halo
Half-Life 2
Bioshock
Assasin's Creed
Alice (Oh... wait)

Games that shouldn't be:

Legend of Zelda (No matter who you cast as Link, he will always look like a doofus.)
Crash Bandicoot
Spyro (Don't do it!)
Mario (again)

And anything Uwe Boll made needs to be remade by someone with talent.

Oh **** yes, Half Life and Bioshock would make amazing movies! Imagine a big daddy charging on the big scren. Immense.

[Eugine]

A Metal Gear Solid movie will be great =)
So will a Warcraft movie. Requirment: Must be GC. I think they're making one actually...

[Folcon]

A Megaman X feature length anime would be cool.

[Someone Else]

Judgement, on Apr 2 2008, 09:05 PM, said:

Games that should be movies:

Gears of War
Halo
Half-Life 2
Bioshock
Assasin's Creed
Alice (Oh... wait)

Games that shouldn't be:

Legend of Zelda (No matter who you cast as Link, he will always look like a doofus.)
Crash Bandicoot
Spyro (Don't do it!)
Mario (again)

And anything Uwe Boll made needs to be remade by someone with talent.

Gears of War - Could make a decent action movie.
Halo - Might be an okay movie. As much as I say the game is an average shooter and gets more credit than it deserves, it's certainly cinematic.
Half-Life 2 - Too episodic. Lols!
BioShock - Erm, I don't know. The story was awesome, and the game was generally amazing but I think it only really worked in a video game. I'll elaborate on this more later.
Assassin's Creed - Definitely too episodic. Go here, assassinate this person. Now go there, assassinate another person. Hmm.

Legend of Zelda will NOT make a good movie, EVER unless there's some serious changing to the script and plot. This is the story of Legend of Zelda: Zelda gets kidnapped by Ganon. The plot, go to each dungeon, and slay the monster to get an item, usually something that's part of a bigger item that's sort of a key to getting to Ganon. For example, in Twilight Princess it was shards of the Twilight Mirror (or something like that). Like I've said, it'd be too episodic.

[Caael]

Half Life isn't episodic ( well it is) but it's only because they wanted to expand the story. Once the 3rd episode is out they could easily make it a movie. Or a trilogy, like LOTR.

[TheEnglishman]

How many successful movies have mute main characters? I can only think of two times when Link has had a voice, and both times they sucked.

[Toasty]

I can't think of any game that deserves a movie. XD

MGS looks like it could, but I've never played any of the games. FF has been done, and FF: AC sucked in everything except for the CG and fight scenes. Halo would be poorly done if ever made, basically how the Mario movie ended up (though I don't think it was THAT bad. :(). GoW would end up the same. I've never played HL, BioShock, or Assassin's, so nothing to say there, but from what I know about them, they wouldn't work either.

Out of any genre, JRPG's would be the most likely candidates for movies because of the sole fact that they're designed as stories to begin with. Sometimes the plot sucks balls, yes, but they're more likely to be movies because they're more likely to have a good solid storyline than FPS or Adventure games, or god forbid, platformers. :o

RPG's > Adventure > FPS > Racing (lol) > Puzzlers (epic lol) > Platformers

^order of genre's that would make decent movies.

Though obviously FF: AC didn't turn out, it's a bad example. ;)

[Drizzy Drake]

I liked AC, what you talknig about? :(

BUt ya, Zelda could not be made into a moive, jsut on the sheer fact that fans would hate whoever they got to play his voice.

[Folcon]

Talking about the FF movies, as was pointed out to me, Spirts Within was totaly aimed at being a sort of sequal to FFVII set in a future our world. That stuff about the spirits and bio-etheric energy, so totaly the Life Stream. The problem was, most people didn't see that, even me untill it was pointed out. Regardless, AC and SW as stand alone movies, ignoring them being sequals of some kind, were both very good in my opinon.

[Drizzy Drake]

Spirits Within was good, but not as a Final Fantasy movie.

[Caael]

Just because you like a movie doesn't mean it's good.

[Someone Else]

The MGS series would make great movies, I think.

[TheEnglishman]

It does have a movie like quality to it already.

[Someone Else]

Probably because of the massive amounts of cutscenes. These ARE Japanese games after all.

Japanese games about an American spy Special Forces Operative. :(

[PDM]

.eugine, on Apr 3 2008, 03:59 AM, said:

A Metal Gear Solid movie will be great =)
So will a Warcraft movie. Requirment: Must be GC. I think they're making one actually...

It's gonna be with actors, and focusing on the alliance perspective. ):

[Caael]

:o But the horde...

[Folcon]

Caael, on Apr 6 2008, 11:56 AM, said:

Just because you like a movie doesn't mean it's good.

And conversly, just because you didn't like a movie does not mean it was bad.

I heard somewhere that a live action DBZ was in the works. I don't think I will see it. There's just not enough hair jell in the world to pull it off.

[Toasty]

XD

Nor are there big enough wigs. :o

Now that I think about it, the FE series might not be too bad of a choice for movies. PoR could turn out, but I'm not sure if RD would make a great sequel. Sequels are always hard to pull off.

[Folcon]

I agree, good sequals are very rare. I think the only challenge a FE film would have, is all the fun hair colors. Mia's purple hair for the win. Or Stephan's green. Or Zihark's silver. I could go on for a while. Otherwise, yes, I think a PoR movie might have a chance of sucess, but the might have to break it into two or three films cause the story is so long, although, several chapters could be left out. I would look forward to seeing how the Laguz would come out on film. This is asuming this were live action and not CG. Although if done properly, a blend of the two might look good.

[PDM]

There was an FE anime that didn't last long.

[Toasty]

There's a difference between an anime that was made in the 90's (if that), and a movie.

I was thinking more along the lines of CG. Live action would be too hard to pull of right with FE. It'd seem too much like an old Godzilla film.

[Folcon]

But those were funny. You could tell it was some guy in a big rubber suite.

[TheEnglishman]

Wouldn't it be a bit obscure though for a movie? I don't think FE is popular enough in mainstream culture to be a movie, or at least not a big screen one.

[Folcon]

*scratches head*

Maybe if they started with PoR, then went on to RD, and used CGI equal to what was used in the cut scenes, it might make for a good anime series. They would just have totry to find a way to properly develop all the characters without makeing it get stale, or leave some of the lesser characters out all together.

[Caael]

No games should be made into movies. There's could and should. And no games should.

[Zeypher]

Judgement, on Apr 2 2008, 10:05 PM, said:

Games that should be movies:

Gears of War
Halo
Half-Life 2
Bioshock
Assasin's Creed
Alice (Oh... wait)

Out of all the games you listed there...Half Life would be the only good movie(Half Life 1, actually). GoW, Halo, Bioshock, and AC are all relatively stupid games that lack a story.

[Caael]

Zeypher, on Apr 7 2008, 10:51 PM, said:

Out of all the games you listed there...Half Life would be the only good movie(Half Life 1, actually). GoW, Halo, Bioshock, and AC are all relatively stupid games that lack a story.

WTF!?! Half Life 2 has a much, much better story than the first.

That is why I am, from now on, disregarding everything you say.

[Zeypher]

Caael, on Apr 7 2008, 04:02 PM, said:

WTF!?! Half Life 2 has a much, much better story than the first.

That is why I am, from now on, disregarding everything you say.

lol...I mean make Half Life 1 before Half Life 2. It wouldn't make much sense if people go to see the movie and all of a sudden

Spoiler

the G-Man teleports Gordon back and he has to fight the Combine

...

Btw...When is Episode 3 coming out?

[Someone Else]

Zeypher, on Apr 7 2008, 02:51 PM, said:

Out of all the games you listed there...Half Life would be the only good movie(Half Life 1, actually). GoW, Halo, Bioshock, and AC are all relatively stupid games that lack a story.

Please tell me you're kidding. The best thing about BioShock WAS the story. Assassin's Creed also has a good story though not amazing. You must be some sort of RPG nut or something, or haven't actually played the games.

[Caael]

What WD said, you cant have played Bioshock if you said the story is crap.

And I hadn't played the first Half Life and the Half Life 2 story made perfect sense. We're not talking about the episodes, about the actual HL2. Gordon comes in on a train, goes in the canals, goes the ravenholm, goes to nova prospekt, comes back to city 17, blows citadel up and THEN G man teleports him back. The episodes could be sequels.

[Laharl]

Caael, on Apr 7 2008, 10:38 PM, said:

No games should be made into movies. There's could and should. And no games should.

he speaks the truth.

when was the last time you enjoyed a game inspired movie for anything other the deliberately cast lead actress?

[Someone Else]

Like I said, I could see GoW making a decent summer action movie if the effects were good, action was frantic, and the comedy was also good.

The key word there is if.

[Caael]

Resident Evil. And even then she wasnt that hot :)

I think either Half Life 2 or Bioshock could make good films. But that still means they shouldn't. They just have the potential.

[Someone Else]

BioShock was a marvel of a game, and it told a story in a way that no book or movie could. spoiler alert The thing with BioShock is that you genuinely felt involved in the story and world. You crashed into the ocean, you swam to the nearby lighthouse, entered the Bathysphere (sort of and underwater elevator) that took you down and treated you to a little movie describing Rapture, which seems like the perfect society.

But when you arrive in Rapture, you saw that that was far from the truth. You only have one friend, Atlas. You fight splicers, who are all paranoid against a "Fontaine" but Atlas says he is dead. Atlas's family is killed by Andrew Ryan, the leader of Rapture. Atlas has you kill Ryan... but then he turns on you, and it turns out he IS Fontaine. That has to be the best plot twist that I've ever seen. In anything. Books, video games, film, ANYTHING.

But I don't know if it would translate well into film. Like I said, the best thing about BioShock was that feeling that you really were involved and that YOU really were betrayed.

[Drizzy Drake]

Laharl, on Apr 8 2008, 07:00 PM, said:

he speaks the truth.

when was the last time you enjoyed a game inspired movie for anything other the deliberately cast lead actress?

Resident Evil 1, and FF 7:AC.

[Someone Else]

This a good review of BioShock that says it better than me, albeit less spoilers.

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=31620...amp;sec=REVIEWS

[Caael]

Dipset, on Apr 9 2008, 12:11 AM, said:

Resident Evil 1, and FF 7:AC.

And when was the last time it was actually good?

Liking a movie=/=good

[Drizzy Drake]

FF7:AC was good, and I stand by that. The fight scenes were incredible, and the JAPANESE acting was outstanding, can't really say so about the Englisgh. Plus, the story was really well thought out.

[Laharl]

the AC original casting is mediocre, trust me i know what good voice acting sounds like
the AC dub is atrocious.
the story was bile and just an excuse to fight things
DO NOT WANT character redesigns nor wooden additional cast
Fight scenes were (mostly) awesome though
Soundtrack ****ing owns

*restrains self from making comments about the Res Evil films*

[Toasty]

It was too short, first of all, and second, it had no body to it other than the fight scenes. I've never played FF:7, so amybe it'd be better if I had played FF:7, but for a movie to even be considered good, it has to be interesting on its own. Not with help from other media. Like games.

The action scenes were great. I'm not denying that. But it just lacks body. There's not a whole lot to it.

By the way, DOOM was made into a movie aswell. Not sure if it was 1, 2, or 3, or even if it was good or not, but they made a movie out of it.

[Drizzy Drake]

RE movies weren't good, but I enjoyed them.

Doom failed MISERABLY. Not good, not enjoyable for an action flick, jsut plain BAD.

ANd I guess me and Laharal will just have to agree to disagree. I thourghly enjoyed the storyline that was put in place in AC.