28th June 2003, 10:04 PM
Having just finished ED, I have a few observations:
First, it would make a terrible movie. ED is a long game with a lot of story, and worse yet, there are many different stories. I think ED would much better be served justice as a miniseries, which would allow for much less being cut out. Cramming all of that into a two-hour movie would result in unquestionable disaster, as either most of the game would simply not even appear, or they would change and cut so much that you wouldn't recognize the end result as even remotely resembing the game you love.
Second, I just don't think it would adapt well to being a movie. As was stated earlier, much of the game involves fighting and spell-casting. All in all there really isn't much story given. Now, there is definitely enough story there to expand upon, when you get right down to it, in all twelve chapters of ED, twelve people in twelve different settings do pretty much exactly the same thing, which I believe gives even more credence to the belief that ED would fare much better as a miniseries. And even to that end, there would have to be quite a liberal creative license given to the writers, as while ED has many stories, none of them are really told in-depth.
Third, many of the best sanity effects really can't apply to a movie, such as my favorites, when all your items disappear, or when a room has a billion pieces of nonexistent ammo :D
First, it would make a terrible movie. ED is a long game with a lot of story, and worse yet, there are many different stories. I think ED would much better be served justice as a miniseries, which would allow for much less being cut out. Cramming all of that into a two-hour movie would result in unquestionable disaster, as either most of the game would simply not even appear, or they would change and cut so much that you wouldn't recognize the end result as even remotely resembing the game you love.
Second, I just don't think it would adapt well to being a movie. As was stated earlier, much of the game involves fighting and spell-casting. All in all there really isn't much story given. Now, there is definitely enough story there to expand upon, when you get right down to it, in all twelve chapters of ED, twelve people in twelve different settings do pretty much exactly the same thing, which I believe gives even more credence to the belief that ED would fare much better as a miniseries. And even to that end, there would have to be quite a liberal creative license given to the writers, as while ED has many stories, none of them are really told in-depth.
Third, many of the best sanity effects really can't apply to a movie, such as my favorites, when all your items disappear, or when a room has a billion pieces of nonexistent ammo :D
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