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Someone needs to slap these people in the face, or at least cold water.  There was NO story behind any of these old games.  While Mario Bros. wasn't a horrible movie, it was based off of some plot, from a game with almost no plot.  Honestly, italian plumbers fighting dinosaurs and, whatever the f$%& goombas were.  Pac-Man, no story, Defender, no story, Asteroids, no story, Joust, no story, Marble Madness, no story, even Zelda, no story.  Either it's some form of interactive puzzle, or it's a watered down version of the old interactive stories with more interaction and less story.  Yet the game companies get to push out sequel after sequel pretending there was a back story.  In some cases it goes well, as it has with Zelda, sometimes it goes bad.  But trying to make movies through this method.....

Hey, I think they could work Zelda into a decent action-fantasy movie.  There's much better source material out there, though.

Altho, mostly it's cited as maybe the worst game movie evar.

I think I can beat it, tho. If I make Halo Killer Klowns Meet Plan 9 in Outer Space (working title), anyone up for acting in it for... um... a share of the profits?

Shooting might last 2-3 days if Levi's back yard holds up.

Guess what.

Biz.Gamedaily is reporting that movie director Uwe Boll has gotten the rights to direct yet another film based on a video game. This time it's Zombie Massacre, an unreleased driving action game for the Wii from developer 1988 Games. The developers will work with Boll on the movie version while they shop the game Zombie Massacre to publishers. Boll will film the movie version in 2009.

Zombie Massacre is a driving/shooting game for up to four players. The goal is to drive a fully-armed nuclear warhead (that's stowed in the trunk of their vintage 1950s convertible) into the center of a city overflowing with zombies. After depositing the weapon, players will then have to make it out of the city just as quickly as they entered it before the warhead detonates.

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=17577

I'll settle for second.

NAG wrote:

You have to be kidding me.

Lets hope the movie doesn't consist of the hero killing a billion rats.

So basically Blizzard said "GTFO" when someone asked them, but Sony said "Sure."

I do remember being in theatres a while ago and seeing previews for Everquest II on the big screen (lawl).  And then immediately forgot all about it.  Does anyone even play anymore?  Everyone I know personally is either on WoW or Guild Wars ot simply quit MMOs all together.

...and this one should be properly Epic!

Former Epic Games Art Director To Direct CGI Thundercats Movie

This Variety story reports that Jerry O'Flaherty, formerly the art director at Epic Games, has now moved into the movie business and has been hired by Warner Brothers to direct a CGI movie based on the classic 1980's animated TV series Thundercats. O'Flaherty worked at Epic as Studio Art Director for Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3 before leaving to pursue his film career. He also worked at the now defunct Ion Storm and Westwood Studios. ..snip:

O'Flaherty had been looking to make the leap into movies and was considering several projects, even live action.

But the "Thundercats" story appealed to him, as well as the fact that vidgames are increasingly incorporating lavish animated sequences that mimic pics, making a toon a much easier transition.

"It feels like a natural thing for me to step into," he said. "Games have come so far now. The last four years of my life have been about bringing the energy of filmmaking into the videogame experience."

The Thundercats movie is said to be true to the spirit of the 1980's TV show. No release date has been announced.

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=17801

[crystal ball]Cliffy will direct the CGI remake of '87's He-Man movie to further his ongoing quest to be a rock star. He will lobby but fail to be cast to voice the title character or arch-villain.

His wife may even have turned 21 by then.[/crystal ball]

Oh no not Thundercats. I used to watch it but man i'm betting a movie will tank bad. Tho on the other hand...its gonna sell real well in the: nerds with a fetish for cat women cleavage and fluffy tails demographic :shudder:.

*Wonders if thats really a bad thing then slaps self*...note to self, get off butt and find a real woman soon.

Hitman movie wussied up for PG-13 rating.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/10/rumor … for-pg-13/

Oh wait, it's a rumor. blah.

[edit]just kidding

I'm told that the studio realizes that to capture the essence of Agent 47 they have to make an R-rated film and that's definitely what the studio expects the film to get when it hits the MPAA "soon." In fact they are "embracing" the R.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/far-from-blood … 309866.php

Last edited by ABigSmall (2007-10-11 7:14 pm)

Someday if not already they are gonna have a combo drive to play all the formats and all this nonsense will end. Till then its just gonna be a feces throwing match or at least something similar to those old N64 commercials where the colors were at war with each other in the person's mind.

we have combo drives for everything but HD now, but correct me if I'm wrong, don't combo drives for BD/HD require more hardware?  Or I guess just seperate lasers on the moving head since one is blue of course and the oher red.  If they could make smaller/cheaper Blueray discs I could see it making more sense for HD to die, since that's the only reason I could see in general for keeping it.  You don't ecessarily want to pay $30 for movies for ever.  And I doubt many HD videos take up the whole BD.

Here we go again: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6181911.ht … op;title;3

If it follows Anderson's fecal matter that he calls movies, think its about time fans of RE actually engineer a real T-Virus then release it in his house.