Weekend Open Forum: Best and worst video game to movie adaptation

you can watch these kind of things on youtube - the complete walktrhough movies of system shock and also bioforge are great and you won't need to go to cinema on a highly advertised wreck like Prometheus etc.

You know I never saw it that way,me in the starring role as opposed to someone else...thanks for the insight,makes sense from that angle. You're not a Techspot addict for nothing!

I totally agree with you there,Stiles' performance in the Bourne movies was my fav of hers too, but the the only time Dunst ever got to me was in Interview With The Vampire,I think she was just stunning there,young as she was. Let me add here that Silent Hill was also a good game movie in my opinion.

As to comic book movies,I think any Director that manages to to screw one up didn't have a connection to the source material he's translating because in a comic half of the work is already done, your storyboard and script are already there! So all that needs to be done is a little polish here and there,mostly for the sake of the uninitiated. I don't mean to say some creativity should not be encouraged,but a degree of faithfulness to source material is a fundamental key. And for me that is where Sam Raimi's Spider Man and Snyders 300 stand out; each had either a signature pose,scene or line of dialog almost straight from the comic,and many might disagree,but thats what makes a comic movie great,well...mostly to comic readers anyway, because that's when you make a connection with your audience,and that's what makes them want to see it over and over again,and ultimately,what makes it sell I think. So If the game movie directors figure out how to do that, then we'll begin to see better game movies. That's my own humble opinion anyway.

Well, if it helps you picture it, it was a two-story movie theater. I was in the upper balcony and the balloon landed down there in the crowd. They never knew what hit them. I bet some of them still think it was actually Subzero.

"So what you're saying is, only the very stoned, very naive, very brave, or very desperate, should cross the threshold of a theater you're planning on attending"

Yeah, I think that's what he's saying. In all likelihood it was a college theater..assuming he's not making the whole thing up, which is likely.