Games to Movies, Good to Bad

A few months ago I had found out that Universal was making a movie to the insanely popular game Doom. Ofcourse when I heard about it I was so excited that I did the dance of joy, I was freakingly giddy that day. But after a few days I started to recall every game to movie adaptation I had seen, "Resident Evil", "Alone In The Dark", "Final Fantasy" etc. etc. and I found out that this formula just doesnt work. Game to movie adaptations have the worst rep in the movies industry for movies with big hypes and no content. Most game movies are so hollow that you have no idea what's going on, what had happened, why all these people are there etc. I mean the stories dont have a beginning or a middle or an end. Its like when I watched the movie Resident Evil. It started and I watched it for awhile and later I'm asking myself "when does the actual story start? Why is this movie just dragging along?" But alas my questions were never answered so I had to assume this. It seems to me that the only motive behind making a game adapted movie is just to increase the franchise. I mean like if a certain game has sold a great number of copies and is very famous they think that now is the time to make a movie out of it coz the people who have bought the game will surely watch the movie and this is where they are wrong. If a movie is good it doesnt matter how much publicity it got people will eventually find about it and watch it therefore increasing its gross intake. If a movie is really bad it will get real bad reviews and this is really what hurts the movie, most people nowadays rely on reviews to estimate how good a movie or a game is, they take the word of a critic but I would also like to say that most critics are accurate in their suggestion and I also rely on these critics coz lets just face the fact people dont have the time or the money to watch bad movies or play bad games so these game to movie adaptations never get a good gross coz people have already heard that these movies had stunk up the whole box office, thats why people avoid it and only a bunch of hardcore fans show up to watch it.

This is a list of movies based on games that are coming out in the near future and also with them are my thoughts on these movies:-

Doom

Starring: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike

Directed by: Andrzej Bartkowiak

My Views:
I have a feeling that this movie wont be able to live up to the name of the pc game coz... well lets face it this movie is about space and demons, a topic most people stay away from coz they think its nothing but bullshit (but dont worry I dont think like that) so this will be a movie most people will try to miss coz they might think that its just a stupid action movie. But please dont mix me with these heretics coz I am a very big fan of Doom and I will probably watch it but I really cant say anything about it until I see it. Hope this movie turns out great then there just might be some hope for the game industry in movies.

Silent Hill

Starring: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates

Directed by: Christopher Gans

My Views:
I have a very very bad feeling about this movie coz from what I've heard Akira Yamaoka has absolutely no hand in the making of this movie. And moreover what I've read is going on at the set it seems to me that the whole movie is being made by a bunch of amateurs. The movie is based on the Silent Hill series which was released in 1999 on the Playstation. The actual movie is based on Silent Hill 2. The story of the game goes a little like this, James Sunderland has received a letter from his wife calling him to the town of Silent Hill where they had their most memorible moments but the horror is that his wife already died a few years back, so James goes to the demonic town of Silent Hill to figure out the mystery of his wifes letter.

I have nothing but praise for this game coz I have been a devoted fan of the game series for over 6 years and I've played every Silent Hill game released. Its a good thing that the game is based on Silent Hill 2 coz the story of the game was incredible although I had some issues with the controls of the game, its story is also wider allowing to stretch it to a atleast a 2 hour movie. But whats really bothering me is that I dont think they'll be able to bring the whole fear of the unknown aspect of the game into movie and that is what really made the game one of the best survival horror games out there. I hope this movie comes out great coz you can really make a good movie of the game coz of its original concept and great story. I would also like to add that Silent Hill 3 was my favourite yet, just as an FYI.

Halo

Starring: (Not yet known)

Directed by: Peter Jackson

My Views:
This is the only movie which I think will be able to pull it off. Why? Because its being directed by Peter Jackson for crying out loud!! Also because Microsoft went to alot of trouble to sell this movie. Microsoft went selling the rights to the movie with an absolutely absurd catch on the contract, but the good thing is that the movie is based exactly on the game and Bungie has alot of say in the movie thanks to Microsoft. So I guess this movie could well enough come out great (I hope).


Ofcourse I'm in no position to be making such statements about the movies industry but you have to admit that some of the things I've said seem to appear quite true. I hope you guys enjoyed what I had to say about the upcoming movies based on games coz I'm really excited. Anything related to games makes me excited! But these games were really ground-breaking and great and they deserve to get some recognition from the rest of the world. So when Doom comes out just go watch it even if it sucks for my sake ok?