http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:33:34 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/03/080719.php#comment-83365 i remember reading a section in a book written by a highly esteemed typa fella that compared Terminator 2 to computer games, basically saying that it was a non-interactive platform game. Beat the boss at the end of each level and progress to the next part kinda deal. I remember feeling very impressed by that. 83365@blogcritics.org Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:33:34 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/03/080719.php#comment-83342 how can you talk about movie-to-game adaptations without mentioning the excellent Blade Runner ponit-and-clicker on the PC? also a sterling example of how a game of the movie can do so well when it doesn't slavishly follow the move's plot (it actually had a whole new story, with brief intelinks to the movie's plot, that i and many others felt captured the spirit of the Blade Runner world very well) as for some other bad movie-to-game transitions: -most of the star wars ones (ironically, the best star wars games are not based on any of the movies) -the fifth element -bad boys II -many generic par/sub-par platformers from the '80s (like the Lethal Weapon games, Robocop, Total Recall, etc.) 83342@blogcritics.org Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:13:59 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/03/080719.php#comment-83297 What they need to do is start making these movies more like the videogames themselves. I'm talking Mortal Kombat as a 2-D, platform movie. Awesome. 83297@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:12:13 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/03/080719.php#comment-83240 My favourite video game to movie adaptation was Pong. What made it great was that it was made by Russ Meyer (and written by Roger Ebert) and renamed "Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens". So why haven't they made a movie version of "Leather Goddess of Phobos"? 83240@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:44:32 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/03/080719.php#comment-83199 I have four words for you doubters of game-to-movie translations: Atari's Tank: The Movie. Tell me that wouldn't be awesome. 83199@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:26:46 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/03/080719.php#comment-83188 You should also think of those poor games that have been turned into movies. House of the Dead, Street Fighter, Mario Bros., etc. Also, how in the hell are they going to turn Crazy Taxi into a movie (Next summer premiere I believe)? People are idiots. 83188@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Sep 2004 10:26:11 EDT