Ajisuke wrote:Tsharr wrote:No. Totally no. People from this forum should not make the movie. Because all we will see will be Ted, McDohl, Flik, Viktor, Luca and the rest of the fan characters get all screen time. And somehow all in the same movie.
I think a movie would be a bad, bad idea. You couldn't do it justice and really, the conversions from video games to movies suck royally 9 out of 10 times.
If they really wanted to try to do something, take a single game and make it into a one season deal anime with each episode being an hour long. Otherwise, don't touch it at all and leave it be.
Frankly people like this disappoint me, and while Halo may turn out to be a bad movie its always worth a try, but its up to the fans to have faith. Its not like a movie has ever stopped video games from being made or caused a game to be terrible just because the movie was. I still enjoy resident evil, they don't seem to have gone bad with the games even though the last movie sucked and so will the next one, so stop whining and let a bird leave the nest.
Look at it this way, it has a 50/50 chance of either being a horrible movie or something truly epic and amazing that you are so glad that some producer tripped over this forum, played the game, read the book(s) and said, "wow! I have never been so moved by a game before! this story is truly amazing and I can't wait to make this into a movie!" ...so it won't sound quite like that, but you get the point.
People having faith that a movie will be good does not make a good movie. Plain and simple.
But, to a more general point, the reason that video games are made into movies is the same reason behind movie based cereals, official video game street wear and board games based off of television shows: Because Hollywood realizes that fans will buy it, no matter how crappy it is. I do it too, just like everyone else. There's a reason why I have a fairly crappy DVD of Xenosaga made into an anime, and it isn't because I thought it would be good. It is because I liked the game. This being as it is, it isn't a random chance (50-50) that a video game movie, or any movie, will be good or bad. Rather, I prefer to base this on evidence. With only a few exceptions, almost every "franchise" movie based off of a video game has led to just that much more of a removal of my pre-frontal cortex. That alone is enough for me to say "hell no" to any game to movie transition, especially for a series that I really enjoy. The last thing I want is for someone to start taking a crappy movie as canon simply because it had the "Suikoden" name etched onto it, and having to live with that destruction of something pure in my world paradigm would, quite frankly, suck.
A second point: No producer is going to play a game and talk about how moved they were. A producer is going to hear about some game that all the kiddies are buying and will likely say, "I wonder if they will pay 7.50 to see something like this in theatres..."
The only thing a movie can add that the game won't would be nice like montage scenes, voices and real people. Two of those you can get in the game if they would so choose to include them, and real people aren't need to tell an imaginary story.
Regardless, my bottom line remains the same: A transition into a movie, especially a live action one, would be horrible. I am even a bit put off by the idea of making it into an anime, for the same reason why I was so disappointed by the Xenosaga anime: Just enough twisting of the storyline to fit it into nice episodes, but not enough twisting to separate it into its own story. The only thing that would make fans happy would be pouring such an exuberant amount of cash into each episode that no studio in their right mind would pump out that amount of capital, as they would never get a suitable return.
Just leave it be and be thankful that we have a game that has probably given us more amusement than most movies, and with a lot better replay value.
