17th March 2004, 12:14 AM
It's not that I want them to perfectly capture it, I just don't want it to suck. I didn't care that the RE movie wasn't like the game. It was that the movie was terrible with or without the game that I didn't like. There's the fact that survival horror as a genre really should ONLY be done by games, even before games were around this was true :D, that kinda helps this because, well, who can actually get scared by those things when they really have no control over what happens to the characters?
The biggest complaint isn't how it strays, except in Final Fantasy Spirits Within, where absolutely nothing in the movie was anything remotely similar to anything that was ever in any Final Fantasy game. Honestly, aside from the name and a character named Cid, oh wait, Sid, notta. It's how it SUCKS even when they do as you suggest and try it in a different way to fit a movie. Street Fighter only used the character's names for example, but it sucked. Mortal Kombat, all the others, various ones I didn't even bother seeing, all sucked utterly.
Don't take it that I'm a purist or anything. Thinking of a Metroid movie I wasn't imaging something that captured the spirit of the game, but maybe something like that Iria anime only, gooderer... However, thinking of the kind of movie it WOULD end up being, it made me hurt inside. They don't all suck because they try too hard to make it like the game, most of the time, but becaue they don't ever try to do anything.
The biggest complaint isn't how it strays, except in Final Fantasy Spirits Within, where absolutely nothing in the movie was anything remotely similar to anything that was ever in any Final Fantasy game. Honestly, aside from the name and a character named Cid, oh wait, Sid, notta. It's how it SUCKS even when they do as you suggest and try it in a different way to fit a movie. Street Fighter only used the character's names for example, but it sucked. Mortal Kombat, all the others, various ones I didn't even bother seeing, all sucked utterly.
Don't take it that I'm a purist or anything. Thinking of a Metroid movie I wasn't imaging something that captured the spirit of the game, but maybe something like that Iria anime only, gooderer... However, thinking of the kind of movie it WOULD end up being, it made me hurt inside. They don't all suck because they try too hard to make it like the game, most of the time, but becaue they don't ever try to do anything.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)