PATREON EXCLUSIVE - Whatever This Is Episode 8 Extra Segment
Added 2023-03-23 15:02:30 +0000 UTCIn this extra segment of Whatever This Is... we talk about some of the best and worst adaptations of video games into movies/TV & vice versa!
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Dominic
2023-03-23 17:52:24 +0000 UTCAlso, the most successful movie-to-game adaptation would have to be... o o o o o O GOLDENEYE. It set the standard for everything that came after it. Was made by a team that had never made a game before, went through three iterations in development, AND the multiplayer was made by one guy in a week without anyone else knowing he was doing it. Which, if not for that, the multiplayer first person shooter may not have caught on like it did, for quite awhile.
Steven Johnson
2023-03-23 15:59:09 +0000 UTCSilent Hill is a frustrating one, because the lead actress has gone on record saying she didn't give a shit. Which to me is acting malpractice. Who takes a role and says "Who gives a shit?" But she thought it was dumb. They also changed the main character for no reason just because they didn't think that people would believe a man would care about his daughter as much as a woman would.... Okay. They did a great job emulating the look of the first two games, the overall tone, the transitions to the dark world, etc... Frustrating. Very frustrating, because it could have very easily been the very best adaptation of a game ever. The one sequence in that movie that cements that for me is when they first get to the town, and the lead is looking for her daughter, and she starts down this alley.. and the movie replicates the cinematic camera moves of the game almost exactly, right up to the bloody fence with the corpse... and the childrne demons come out... It is such a perfect recreation of those events from the game, and in that moment the actress does seem to be giving some genuine performance, as she screams and runs for her life. It's perfect. They even used music from the game. Like... So close. So close to being great. The 2005 Doom movie is a terrible adaptation of Doom, but it is a lot of fun to watch The Rock chew the scenery, and it has a pretty good soundtrack by Clint Mansell. I want to like that one more, and just a few tweaks could have made it a great Doom movie. The new one they made, Doom Annihilation... Fuck no. Bad. Bad. bad. BAAAD. The Resident Evil movies are not Resident Evil. Just, simple. Paul Anderson made a vanity project out of those movies for his wife, and good on him because Milla Jovovich is a great actress and she's got the looks for a leading woman. But her character is such a goddamn Mary Sue in those movies, with perfect abilities, no flaws. I honestly find them incredibly boring. I found RedLetterMedia's reaction to the series more entertaining than the series itself. You guys should watch the original Super Mario Bros movie. SERIOUSLY. It is so bad. I used to watch it as a kid all the time and just be mesmerized by it. It's bad, but it's bad in a 90s action-movie kind of way. Like they put all this effort into building a Blade Runnery-type of world, and you've got sloshed leads (I'm not making that up, Bob Hoskins literally said he and John leguizomo would drink in between takes because the movie was "so goddamn awful to make." The movie has precisely fuck all to do with the games, other than some names, and a very literal prop... Seriously, I'd love to see you guys react to that one. I bought the DVD. It's shit, but it's fun shit. The first Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie isn't too bad. There were some things they changed, but they got Lara Croft right. Her personality from the original games is absolutely on screen. She's an adventurer and she loves what she does. The only place it really lacked was in the adventure element. Tomb Raider, as a movie, should feel like a modern-era Indiana Jones movies, or The Mummy, or something like that. Felt a little too... "The Matrix" I guess. Game adaptations, on the whole, have not done well. Street Fighter is painful, Double Dragon is awful... Uh... I'm sure there are more, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.
Steven Johnson
2023-03-23 15:51:38 +0000 UTCWhatever this is I like it.
Chuck Rice
2023-03-23 15:04:06 +0000 UTC
