Video Game Adaptations Need to Mind Their Manners | Semi-Ramblomatic
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How about an analogy? Broadway likes to make stage musicals based on films all the time. Now imagine if they treated the stage show as the definitive version of the movie, as if it's finally being realized in the proper way. That'd be kinda insulting, wouldn't you think?
Grump Chan
2025-04-17 18:39:25 +0000 UTCI feel that it's not even just treating the source material with contempt that's the problem with video game movies, but letting said contempt apparently get so frothingly intense they completely forget how to make a remotely tolerable movie in the process. Taking liberties with adaptations is one thing, Hollywood's done that with books forever, but at least they sometimes actually make them good and even arguably better than the source material. That has not happened with video game adaptations. Anime is a similar case where a mix of contempt and ignorance of the source material makes the absolute garbage to mediocrity of the adaptations all the more galling. Like the Cowboy Bebop live action show. Figures that apparently western showbiz can't be trusted with adaptations of Japanese IP without a brand commissar in the room presumably holding a producer at gunpoint.
Swift Justice
2025-04-05 11:36:04 +0000 UTCGonna disagree hard with this video. Movies and video games are two different versions of media, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. And yes, adapting one to the other is much harder than it sounds. Most companies just add characters from one into the other and call it a day, with terrible results; see also all the horrible video games shoveled out based on movies. It's not just movies being terrible to games, it works both ways.
Domadet
2025-04-04 02:20:27 +0000 UTC
