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Post by Cobra5 on Aug 29, 2006 22:31:14 GMT -5
I take what I can get, not because I am not nitpicky, but because I have very low expectations.
A movie based on something can be pretty good without being exact, but I think that a true-to-story movie is totally possible. Hollywood people say that such a movie wouldn't be understood by the audience... but if a game can be understood, a movie can. If anything, a movie has an advantedge... in a movie, you have totaly control of the "Player's" perspective at all times.
And to those that say a game is much longer then a movie, and thusly must be edited for length, what portion of a (say) six hour game is actually spent moving the story forward? Intersperse these story scenes with action true to the game's style of battle, and you have the start of something workable right there.
And as for comics, their story's are already told in a style that even non-fans can understand. Xmen has been going on for decades, but if you picked up an issue, you would be able to get the gist of it in no time. Do you think many of the comic's fans have been reading every issue since it came to be?
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Post by BugHunter on Aug 29, 2006 22:48:54 GMT -5
Games today have pretty much become interactive movies anyway, at least the ones in story-based, action genres.
I think the best comic-to-movie ever made is Sin City. Even when they made it, the director used the graphic novel as almost a complete storyboard and got the frames just right. Now thats what I call true homage to the creator
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Post by daft alchemist on Aug 30, 2006 9:07:01 GMT -5
I'm an oddball mix of nitpicky and enjoying movies that do have differences. I can rant for ages on all the different things Peter Jackson did to the LotR movies that did not happen in the books (especially the Two Towers, and that still gets me irritated), but if someone was to ask me whether or not I hated the movies because of the things I rant about, I'd say no and then go into raving about all the things that were done awesome in the movies. I'm a protective fangirl, sure, but I'm not so nitpicky that I don't love seeing a great story like that come to life on the silver screen.  |
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Post by BugHunter on Aug 30, 2006 20:57:29 GMT -5
we were just looking into the sound design and music aspects of that the first movie in Sound Design class ;D
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Post by Cobra5 on Aug 30, 2006 22:36:50 GMT -5
I think that movie used music excelently.
Every movie I think has music that fits the mood but there are some out there that really set the mood with their music.
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Post by BugHunter on Aug 30, 2006 23:49:49 GMT -5
music and sound design have a very strong impact on any visual media. Never underestimate their importance.
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Post by daft alchemist on Aug 31, 2006 7:54:47 GMT -5
Music makes a movie what it is. If you don't have tense, nerve-wracking music during a suspense scene, it's not going to make you jump as high when the bad guy finally jumps out or whatever. I think the greatest example of music making the movie what it is would be Psycho. Everytime something scary happens they come in with that shrieking violin or whatever. The noise itself makes you jump five feet because it's so ear-piercing, and then you also see the knife and the blood or whatever else. Also, making sound effects for a movie looks like an awesome job. It's like "I'm going to take this piece of wood and beat on a sack of flour (or whatever), and that'll make the punching sound fx." How cool would that be?  |
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Post by BugHunter on Sept 4, 2006 0:14:04 GMT -5
I just saw The Hills Have Eyes... That movie is really f*cked up. Now I'm pretty jaded when it comes to horror movies, but I can truely say that it has one of the most f*cked up scenes I have ever seen. I actually got offended and outraged... and that like never happens. Damn... Usually horror movies are campy or stupid or u end up rooting for the bad guy because the victims are so stupid, but this one actually made me have some real vengeful rage towards the bad guys.
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Post by daft alchemist on Sept 4, 2006 12:27:04 GMT -5
Well, I'm assuming that people who got caught up in a nuclear explosion experiment and became horribly disfigured would be pretty pissed at every normal person they saw. I mean, it's not their fault they got exposed to radiation, and no one will treat them like equals because of that. It's like Frankenstein's monster, but without the grave robbing and the monster made of body parts.  |
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Post by BugHunter on Sept 4, 2006 13:38:49 GMT -5
yea, but the victims had nothing to do with that whole nuclear testing. And they were actually normal people and not stupid, druggy, alcoholic, redneck teenagers for once. The things the bad guys did was completely unjustified. The movie gives u a feeling that the "freaks" are 2 dimensional and deserved to die, and by the time the fighting back starts, u lust for blood. And thats a really great message too, freaks and ugly people are evil, i mean come on... Who thinks this stuff.
This movie does not let you have any sympathy for the mutated people (except for this one mutated girl who helps them). Its nothing like Frankenstein's monster who was innocent. You really get an impression that these people are evil. Trust me, this movie is really f'ed up.
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Post by daft alchemist on Sept 4, 2006 14:14:15 GMT -5
I dunno. I pittied the monster at first, but then he kills a small boy just to get back at Frankenstein? That's not right. And he was an intelligent and literate monster too, so he understood right and wrong just fine, and killing kids is not ever the right thing to do. |
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Post by BugHunter on Sept 4, 2006 17:26:54 GMT -5
look, all you need to know is that its the complete opposite of the story of Frankenstein's Monster, kay?
keep goin on tangents...
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Post by daft alchemist on Sept 4, 2006 17:33:23 GMT -5
All of the threads here are tangents... |
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Post by BugHunter on Sept 4, 2006 17:35:37 GMT -5
ugh... what is the point in ever talking to you about anything, then?
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Post by daft alchemist on Sept 4, 2006 18:26:43 GMT -5
You aren't obligated to talk to me. Ignore my posts if you like; I don't care. I post whatever comes to my mind first, tangent or no.
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