Which video game would you most like to see adapted in the future?

@qw000pz

7 жыл бұрын

Leisure Suit Larry. Starring You.

@obilesk

7 жыл бұрын

Homeworld. Oh, and you're awesome, George.

@lordinquisitor6233

7 жыл бұрын

Georg Rockall-Schmidt a good assassin creed , that other One is terrible

@MrOldMiguel

7 жыл бұрын

Tetris. It's a no brainer.

@wookieballsmcgillicutty4327

7 жыл бұрын

Castlevania........Zelda.......kee up the great work brotha

Doom should've been made in the 90's with Arnold Schwarzenegger, directed by Paul Verhoeven, with creature effects by Rob Bottin.

@FoxUnitNell

7 жыл бұрын

In commercials, the doom guy looked like Bruce Willis.

@yakuza01

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it should have been The Thing on steroids, kind of what Aliens was to Alien.

@anotherdayisforever

6 жыл бұрын

Doom the movie had almost nothing to do with the game. The game was about hell demon monster armies and the movie was about a pathogen that causes people to turn into zombies. They basically just used the title for name recognition.

@ThreadBomb

6 жыл бұрын

I thought the Doom movie was mostly good - except for the directing, which sank it.

@thehogus

6 жыл бұрын

Doom was a game adaption of Army of Darkness, with some Mars stuff thrown in.

Why do movies made to exploit interest in something to make money usually bomb critically?

@avd7288

7 жыл бұрын

asd asd A lot of movies are actually just capital investment products, rather than pieces of art. It's a win-win situation; the movie wins - the investor gains a share of the revenue. The movie flops - write it off as business expense, spend less tax this year. That's also a reason why a lot of movies bomb, even though they broke even; they simply didn't serve the interests of investors. It's all aimed, tailored and fitted at a 'target audience', rather than faithfully and carefully crafted movies.

@noop9k

7 жыл бұрын

There's more. There are things called Hollywood accounting and money laundering. Basically, you get back a significant part of money written off as expenses.

@avd7288

7 жыл бұрын

noop9k The inner workings of the Hollywood mafia. One funny thing was the "stupid German money", which described a common practise, up until a few years ago; shoot a few scenes in Germany, and be eligible for the German film funds (which is funded by taxes and donations). A lot of producers went in on it, Uwe Boll even called it "Nazi gold". It was a desperate attempt of making Germany attractive as a filming location, (which it is, there's a good infrastructure for film makers) but it only attracted those who made abusing fund systems their business.

@charleslindeman2169

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a little ignorant on the economics of film making, but wouldn't making a good film make them more money than pandering?

@spare7230

7 жыл бұрын

Charles Lindeman Maybe, if the pandering is pointed out, and the film bombs both in the box office and by critics, but just look at the Emoji Movie. Sadly, it's earning Sony a large, or at least decent amount of cash, due to the fact that that movie is basically pandering towards younger kids and teens that have social media, use instagram, and like Emoji's. And then there's also the factor that, sadly, for some companies that do try, when they get multiple flops, because the content in it isn't something enough people are interested in to even break even, then, for financial reasons, they'll usually start pandering, or producing sequels to classic movies that people don't want, that go faaaaar from the previous Movie's standards, and don't even appeal to the fans because there's no, or almost no, mention of the previous cast. (If you don't know what I mean, I'm talking about the Ghostbusters reboot)

3 years later we have Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog, a mystery movie and a buddy roadtrip movie. Both movies have little to no connection to the games, but have writers that have researched the core themes, understood those themes and applied them to unique stories.

@veggietale7207

4 жыл бұрын

Also applies to the Witcher even tho it’s not a film

@TheMysteryDriver

4 жыл бұрын

Woody Morton Witcher is based on a book

@veggietale7207

4 жыл бұрын

TheMysteryDriver a number of books and primarily a more popular game series based on the books

@ECL28E

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad the Sonic movie was..... barely adequate. It was basically Hop 2, minus the hideous stink of illumination Entertainment

@admiralackbar4767

4 жыл бұрын

TBH. Detective Pikachu is actually the film adaption of a manga.

>*Sees title* >*Sees video length* >"How long does it take you to say 'Uwe Boll"??"

@wisemage0

5 жыл бұрын

Give the postal movie a chance. :)

@catnium

4 жыл бұрын

@Dangerz Own plus he got owned when a real boxer showed up while he was beating on child youtubers

I could listen to this dude talk about anything for hours

@ryanminnikin8369

5 жыл бұрын

I do lol

@godfrey4461

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@phant0mdummy

4 жыл бұрын

That's what my nights been.

@Jerome616

3 жыл бұрын

“The reason why water is wet....” Tell me more!

@fredscalliet

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. He's very articulate.

*Mein Kraft* OK that one was pretty good.

@blahblahghost

7 жыл бұрын

Half of that joke is the delivery. I laughed for like 2 straight minutes.

@jeremymason500

7 жыл бұрын

This elevated a stalwart entry into Georg's oeuvre to a true work of art. I hope and imagine this video started with that joke and was written to service it. Masterclass.

@FakeUserNameHere

7 жыл бұрын

ThePreciseClimber Good start, but the punchline is too direct. Try something like: *Mein Fat Kampf: Watch the pounds burn away!*

@PhyreI3ird

7 жыл бұрын

Steve.... O?... Buscemi? -- Actually I would totally watch Steve Buscemi as Mein Kraft Steive

@Thessalin

6 жыл бұрын

I had to slow clap that one.

"I hate video games." -Uwe Boll, playing himself, under his own direction, in the film adaptation of Postal

@Zodroo_Tint

Жыл бұрын

Unironically Postal is the best video game adaptation movie ever.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World used a lot of video game tropes, as did the original source material, and the same goes for the upcoming Ready Player One. I think video game styling will be far more successful than adaptation for some time.

Apparently, the director of the in-development Metal Gear Solid movie actually met with Kojima to discuss the movie and made his writing staff play the games to understand the tone and story of the series

@thegoldencaulk2742

7 жыл бұрын

But Metal Gear Solid is already a movie. Kojima is basically a movie director as much as he's a video game director. I dunno if that'd work, but if they're gonna try it, have it focus on Cobra Unit. At least, we haven't seem them kicking ass in WW2 yet, so it'd be a new story.

@AAllen-br8it

7 жыл бұрын

McDenis09 I did not know about This! If they give Kojima any power at all that movie will at least be great.

@ArtyoumPlays

7 жыл бұрын

so THAT'S why Mila is directed as "a Jill Sandwich that runs too fast to make sense of the plot." Now the director commentary makes sense.

@garretmontgomery186

7 жыл бұрын

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@franesustic988

7 жыл бұрын

I smell BS, mgs if owned by konami, not kojima, and you can bet that if there was a movie in the works konami wouldn't let the director near kojima.

I think you really nailed it when you said video game movies are in a transitional period. Comic book movies went through the exact same thing. For ages NO ONE took them very seriously. You had some alright movies in the late 90's and you also had some like Steel where they just weren't trying. But then as you get into the 2000's they started taking them a bit more seriously and before long you have Heath Ledger winning and oscar for playing the Joker. Video game movies will get their due, it's only a matter of time.

@tashante

3 жыл бұрын

Sonic the Hedgehog 😉

@kieranhurst8543

Жыл бұрын

I doubt it, most people still think there isn't any meaningful storytelling to be garnered from video games. The comparison to comic books doesn't really work, because comics were already a respected art form, video games are yet to be considered art by most people.

@CabezasDePescado

Жыл бұрын

Warcraft is the only good one to me but is more for fans

The reason why Uwe Boll's films have a much bigger budget than box office returns is because he exploits German film funds. He basically gets a grant, makes a shit movie and keeps all the money.

@MrCmon113

4 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute... the dude got MY MONEY for making his insulting movies?!

@jakelangley624

4 жыл бұрын

Pfft, glad i pirated postal the movie

@anonUK

4 жыл бұрын

The Producers gambit, but on the public purse.

@MisterBones2910

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrCmon113 A culture that hates its own people yet has a government that uses tax money to subsidize the domestic creation of media ostensibly to maintain the sad remnants of the aforementioned culture rather than let it be subsumed by a foreign nation's despite the result actually being almost parodic of the other nation's culture. What a way to exist.

@acksawblack

3 жыл бұрын

@@MisterBones2910 Drivel

I still think a game is possible to make into a good movie, if you have a director who actually understands the game and respects the source material

@lordinquisitor6233

7 жыл бұрын

But I love your anysis, out of interest are you speaking as an outsider (no offence)

@lordinquisitor6233

7 жыл бұрын

The silent hill and Warcraft film are the closest we've had to a decent game based film but I hope for a new good one with a caring director

@myself2noone

7 жыл бұрын

True warcraf was bad, but at least you could see that the people behind it cared. It's an interesting failure.

@ElOchentero

7 жыл бұрын

It was the same that happened with comic book adaptarion, movies like The Dark Knight Trilogy, Watchmen, V for Vendetta etc were made by comic book fans who love the media. Problem is most Hollywood director are not young enough to be gamers.

@TheRandist

7 жыл бұрын

Warcraft was sadly doomed to fail from the very start, despite the amount of care that went into it. The way the lore works and how everything is connected to another story in a way that the main story can't work without acknowledging those connections and the pieces it's connected with made it very difficult. While it works when the IP spans multiple types of media like games, books, short stories, etc. but when you have to put it all in a movie... especially with the First War... It did its best but it fell a bit short right before the finish line.

Now you need to do an Uwe Boll analysis. You mentioned his name, now it must be done.

@jackalope2302

7 жыл бұрын

MatthewTreadstone Seconded. And don't forget Rampage.

@bleachsanchoblastk

6 жыл бұрын

Better be careful though, Boll has been known to challenging his critics to fight him.

@admiralackbar4767

4 жыл бұрын

@@bleachsanchoblastk Boll is an okay B-movie director. Just don't give him a video game script.

Willem Dafoe seems like he's ALWAYS beating back his own insanity. 😆

You're right, I would easily pay to see The Rock do a let's play of Doom.

One exception to the video game movie rule was Silent Hill. Some critics loved it, and most critics praised it's atmosphere and art direction. The movie was made as a horror film and not necessarily as a video game movie. For that reason it worked.

@zayaannashrid1374

6 жыл бұрын

Let me point out that the director(or producer not sure which one) was a fan of the series itself. That certainly helped a ton

@komradekontroll

6 жыл бұрын

Silent Hill isn't actually all that great. The look of the movie (reshot scenes demanded by the studio excluded) is great. The soundtrack is great, naturally. Not much there after that.

@christopheye

6 жыл бұрын

Sharon is a bad name to film someone shouting through a town. They should have gone the route of silenthill 2 and chosen a stand alone story that was't concerned with the main cult arc. The were trying to shoehorn in too many of the games tropes (Pyramidhead) that were unnecessary and seemed forced.

@Clay3613

6 жыл бұрын

Mortal Kombat too...

@Starlightean

6 жыл бұрын

However Silent Hill had nothing to do with the video games except for their hundred references. That does not a good story make. I agree on the art direction but still, they could've actually adapted a simple Silent Hill story with not all the random references to various things from the different games. The plot (for both films) seem incoherent and patchy because all they want to do is reference things from the games. That just makes the game fans mad because they mismashed ideas and didn't use them how they actually work, could work in their greatest glory. So it doesn't actually count as a good video game movie since it doesn't stay true to the games' rules.

I just can't wait till this channels viewership explodes and I say I was in on the ground floor but that the new game based on it for playstation 5 sucks because it doesn't feature the lava lamp. Georg I hope you don't but I genuinely hope you get the chance to sell out in the future.

@GeorgRockallSchmidt

7 жыл бұрын

Gas money here I come.

@350125GOW

7 жыл бұрын

Mr Jackpots hellooooooooo

@foxybingo1112

7 жыл бұрын

Georg Rockall-Schmidt You might even afford a one room flat in London

@johnsonjohnson3261

7 жыл бұрын

How much do you think you can get for that lamp? I'll give you 20 quid! Wait.... how much is a quid again? USA! USA!

@DendyJungle

7 жыл бұрын

Tony Foley i dont think his content would get worse but the comment sections would become trash. it would be full of inane things like the h3 comment section

Deus Ex: Human Revolution great storyline and could be adapted very well into a movie if someone like Darren Aronofsky was in on the project. The dystopia future in this game fits with the type of movies he has created he has a way of making any bleak future look stylish.

Less than a month after this video posted, Netflix's "Castlevania" premiered and set a new standard for what video-game adaptations should strive to be.

@vksasdgaming9472

4 жыл бұрын

Gory, dramatically interesting and well-written. Technically bit crude and season 1 lead nowhere, but it worked and still works. Season 3 broke away from source and made it independent and even bleaker.

@TheMysteryDriver

4 жыл бұрын

Based off of Dracula and Van Helsing, not that hard to make a cartoon or movie about.

@kind2311

4 жыл бұрын

​@@TheMysteryDriver congrats on completely missing the point.

@brewskimckilgore6796

3 жыл бұрын

correct me if im wrong but isnt castlevanyia an anime? like animes around video games are imo at least pretty decent. but the witcher series is apparently doing alright and its live action havent watched myself and i only have just started to play 3 but i think most people agree live action film adaptations of video games are pretty suck.

@paulandreotti1639

3 жыл бұрын

@@brewskimckilgore6796 Why would the Witcher count? It's a book series that video games was based off of.

That last video game idea (which i will not spoil) was genuinely clever and hilarious.

LOL @ "Mein Kraft" You know, I gotta hand it to you , I was wondering where you were going with that at first, & I did not see it coming,, Hats off to you , excellent turn of phrase :)

I think three good movies to look at for inspiration would be: _John Wick_, _Edge of Tomorrow_ and _District 9_. With _John Wick_, they achieved the highly kinetic, almost balletic art of chain-killing that you can find in many shooters nowadays, with the gorgeous, highly detailed set pieces and choreography resembling the rhythmic progression through video-game stages that many people are familiar with. Add to that, not only is there a decent level of character-building and world-building in _John Wick_ - with history between the many characters simply alluded to - but the movies take place in a "heightened reality", where the rules of our everyday world don't fully apply. These things allow viewers to readily immerse themselves into the world of _John Wick_ very much like how they would in a video game. Next, _Edge of Tomorrow_ was actually based on the "live, die, repeat" structure of video games, and was even subsequently marketed like this for home video. With _Edge of Tomorrow_, they made a meta-reference to the thrill and tedium of video-game progression without having to resort to forced satire to make it work, because the act of repeatedly dying while gaining confidence and experience was actually a part of the plot. Finally, _District 9_ was meant to be Neill Blomkamp's adaptation of _Halo_, but that project eventually fell through. However, Blomkamp was able to tell a compelling story of an aloof, disconnected office drone - who 'just does what he's told' - learn how to empathize with members of another species, while fighting against the sociopathic members of his own species. (The alien weaponry, in particular, is highly reminiscent of all the varied and distinct Covenant weapons you can fight with in _Halo_).

@carybeweary7209

5 жыл бұрын

The raid redemption is also a good movie that feels like a game. More of an old school beat em up side scroller but it has twists in the story not to mention a killer soundtrack.

@redseagaming7832

4 жыл бұрын

Agreement Edge of Tomorrow remind me of Dark Souls every time he died you restart at the bonfire with all the enemies there and you get to learn their movement patterns and where they are so you can counter them the next time if you don't learn you die and go back to the bonfire faster

Great video! Another problem is that story-driven games tend to be modeled after movies. We forgive the clichés because we haven't seen them in this medium before. By the time they get adapted into movies, if they're faithful, the plots feel generic.

A movie based upon The Last of Us would probably remind too much of the movies that The Last of Us borrowed from.

@the_rugged

5 жыл бұрын

i.e. the Road or True Grit

@XombieLejon66

5 жыл бұрын

Children of Men

@tackyman2011

5 жыл бұрын

There's several LoU Fan films out there. Some of them are very good.

@charliefarson1362

5 жыл бұрын

The professional

@charliefarson1362

5 жыл бұрын

@@the_rugged The professional

Wait, they made a Far Cry movie??

@ed_ward6869

7 жыл бұрын

teammunkeyhead Yep, from the director of the house of the dead movie.

@ragephil5609

7 жыл бұрын

Ed ward Well that sucks.

@Eonymia

6 жыл бұрын

Don't bother. Anything that has Uwe Boll's name on it is crap. I have to hand it to the man, he's at least consistently awful at making movies.

@Ghost7065

5 жыл бұрын

yes and it sucks

@DerAykac

4 жыл бұрын

I want to highly recommend the postal movie if you´re old enough. Boll didn´t make only shitty moneygrabbers. Postal truly is a masterpiece and work of art :D

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is a better Doom adaptation than the 2005 Doom.

@blatherskite3009

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. And Ghosts of Mars pre-dates Doom 3 (the game) by 3 years, and the film version by 4 years. Sure, Doom 1+2 were supposedly set in Mars moonbases, but Doom 3 was the game that first depicted a fully realized Mars environment ... which, now I think about it, was suspiciously similar to that seen in Ghosts of Mars, even down to the train connecting the sites. If anything, I'd say Doom 3 "borrowed" imagery from Ghosts of Mars. Mind you, Ghosts of Mars borrowed one of its core concepts - the body-hijacking spirits thing - from that Denzel film (looks it up) "Fallen" that came out 3 years before Ghosts of Mars, so nothing's ever truly 100% totally original :) Ghosts of Mars might be one of Carpenter's lesser films, but I'll take a past-his-prime Carpenter film any day over most other director's A-game :)

@AriaMohtadiHaghighi

4 жыл бұрын

@@blatherskite3009 I hadn't watched Ghost of Mars till only a couple of years ago. But sure enough, now that you mention it, Doom 3 was really similar to it. The horror atmosphere, the sites, etc. . I'll definitely check "Fallen" out. Thanks! Sure, even my least favorite movies by great directors like Carpenter, De Sica, etc. are far better than some of today's A-listers.

@AriaMohtadiHaghighi

3 жыл бұрын

@Chill Toad But an entertaining one.

@eddjordan2399

2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the worst films ever made.

Never heard of "John Carpenter's in the mouth of madness" but it just jumped to the top of my watchlist, for some reason

@katamarankatamaranovich9986

3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed it.

Yessssss the lava lamp is back!

@MushroomSmuggler

7 жыл бұрын

ZeroHBR the lava lamp never left, it only appears in movie related videos

@ZeroHBRPro

7 жыл бұрын

Mushroom Smuggler Oh, I didn't know, thank you for the clarification!

@noop9k

7 жыл бұрын

To me it is very distracting though.

@ThaBeatConductor

7 жыл бұрын

To me peoples faces are distracting. Suck on it.

Coming soon: Martin Scorsese's Super Smash Bros

@shogunblade

7 жыл бұрын

I would put money down, TODAY, if Daniel Day Lewis played Captain Falcon in this adaptation. also, Reunite Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell to play Mario and Luigi, respectively.

@thatonehumanoid7756

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Wieder Nicholas Cage as Yoshi and Keanu Reeves as Kirby

@NotoriousTorashiro

7 жыл бұрын

Get ready for a ton of F-bombs.

@weston407

7 жыл бұрын

i can dig the gleeson/farrell duo (even though they're both irish, not italian) - i LOVED In Bruges

@herschaft

5 жыл бұрын

I could see a younger Joe Pesci as Mario and younger Robert De Niro as Luigi.

i wanna see "lava lamp: the game" its a dynamic simulation of a lava lamp... you can turn on tessellation ... change colors ... and change resolution .. then sit back and watch it do its lava lamp thing

@sandyman6054

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps just a little lamp in the taskbar going on while you work

@JamesMC04

3 жыл бұрын

Better still - Lava Lamp: The App.

"Mein Kraft" Well done sir. High-class one-liners for the more discerning pun connoisseur.

What about Golden Eye? oh yeah I forgot that was a movie before the n64 game came out.

@bleachsanchoblastk

6 жыл бұрын

Make a film adaptation of what happens when the cartridge isn't in all the way. Just have characters spazz out in the air at random. Cinema gold.

@TheTexan83

5 жыл бұрын

And if you remove the nostalgia goggles the game is as bad and broken in adaptation as any uwe boll movie.

@norgepalm7315

5 жыл бұрын

@@bleachsanchoblastk games dont play if theyre half in so

@bleachsanchoblastk

5 жыл бұрын

@@norgepalm7315 when goldeneye is not quite in right characters flip around wildly. Its a pretty well known thing.

0:34 what are you talking about the super mario bros movie is one of the best animes of the 90s.

I like to think of you as Stuart Ashen's long lost evil brother :D Keep up the good work, I love your videos very well thought out, and very interesting.

Super Mario Bros movie was oddly shocking for me and my younger bro. Possibly the first movie we watched where we experienced uncontrollable facial twitching thru out. 14:17 wonderfully hilarious! I really love the way you pitched those. :D

GTA: San Andreas wold make a great film. It's sort of like an urban film noir. It could be done in a City of God/Boyz N the Hood/La Haine type style.

If Doom games didn't have much story in them, which is arguable, there were Doom novels and comic books, they could have easily adapted one of those...

I was excited to go see Lara Croft. I binge-watched Red Dwarf for the first time, and as soon as I saw Chris Barrie in the trailer, I knew I had to see it. Sadly, he didn't get as much screen time as I wanted.

"A ninety minute album with a narrative would be difficult to adapt into a movie." Was this a reference to Pink Floyd's The Wall?

@brokenwave6125

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't seem to be.

@brokenwave6125

4 жыл бұрын

The Wall isn't even a movie anyways, its just a long music video

@maximeteppe7627

4 жыл бұрын

@@brokenwave6125 It's very similar in structure to jhonny go his gun, which is a movie. It has very little dialogue but many movies are devoid of dialogue as well; I won't deny it's essentially a music video, but it can also be a movie at the same time.

@maximeteppe7627

4 жыл бұрын

@Flux Incapacitator so tell me how I am wrong. that is of course, if you have arguments.

You do amazing bio videos and I hope you will be doing one for Adam West, in the near future.

"Mein Kraft" NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN

@lewisb1584

6 жыл бұрын

*MEIN MEIN MEIN MEIN

@tackyman2011

5 жыл бұрын

Deren you genius bastard LOL

I never subscribed to a yt chanel before, but the quality and insightfulness of your thoughts, as well as the calming delivery, finally made me do so. very much appreciated what you do, thank you.

The other problem is that so many video games are already heavily based on movies or movie genres and made unique solely by their gameplay, and if you take away the gameplay they'd just be generic rip offs. Like, what would a general audience get from a Last of Us movie that they can't get from other zombie movies? And likewise what would fans of the game get that they can't just get from the game? There are a few games that are creative enough with their settings to avoid this problem, but those are made even harder because they tend to be too weird to make a conventional movie.

@HindiRapGuru

6 жыл бұрын

You make a really good point. Agreed!

@du0lol

6 жыл бұрын

That sounds like something right out of the 90's. Duke Nukem 3D was like a huge action movies medley, just like Blood with horror movies and Shadow Warriors with kung fu movies. Games have much more of an identity nowadays. I agree about The Last of Us, which is a rather predictable game (you'd be surprised about how far presentation and hype can take you in the games industry), but there are tons of other games that are not derivative and could become great movies. I once told my mom the whole story behind Silent Hill and she was all like "this should be turned into a movie or a novel or something". Then the movies came and, while the first was OK, the second was just... meh. The issue is that a less-known game would hardly get the money needed to fund it, I guess.

@durnel2001

6 жыл бұрын

Nyk Carnsew Well, most of those are just generic games, or at least games with generic plots. Making a gameplay heavy game with a generic storyline into a movie is like making an action movie into a book, it would make for a pretty boring and dull reading experience. Also condensing a 20 hour game into a 3 hour movie at best, and a 1.5 hour movie at worst would probably skip at least some chunk of the movie (even if a decent part of those 20 hours was grinding).

@Zen-rw2fz

6 жыл бұрын

The last of us reallt has an unoriginal story but games like max payne which is very obviously inspired by some specific movies could turn into it's own movie without feeling like rip off in my opinion. I really like atmosphere in that game and don't think I have seen it in any movie before.

I hope we get a Sharknado style action comedy adaptation of Command and Conquer.

I really like your channel. your are doing a great job. I have to say that I kind of like the "doom" movie for it's "campiness". I think they should have gotten further over the top and include a portal to hell into the plot as the main plot device and I think that was a missed opportunity.

4:39 You nailed it there. Hollywood in general just has a vanishingly small regard for videogames. Just look at any movie that shows people playing a console game: holding controllers all wrong, mashing buttons, clearly not actually playing a game and just as clearly uninterested in hiding that fact from people who know what playing a videogame looks like. 🙄

@pierreo33

3 жыл бұрын

They still view video games as childrens toys instead of being a hobby anyone can enjoy.

I think that Hollywood has been trying to adapt the wrong games - Mario, for example, is absolutely insane, even for a video game. I also think we need people making the movies that respect the games, and that grew up playing them. Comic books have been around for 80+ years, and we're just now getting good movies because it's only been a few decades that people gave them the respect they deserve. Hopefully video games won't have to wait as long, but I think we have another decade or two before we see top-of-the-line game adaptations.

I would really like to see an adaptation of Katamari Damacy. It could be simultaneously hilarious and terrifying if done correctly.

@nunyabaznus7851

5 жыл бұрын

Inception.

There was always a story floating around the Pittsburgh film community. By community I mean in the broadest sense like regular extras as yours truly used to pursue with vigor. George Romero was a local boy & brought the first Creepshow to da 'burg so the following story is probably more apocryphal than anything. I guess you have to be old to remember just what a breakthrough the original one was on the PlayStation. He had someone playthrough and he wrote the script. I mean, the spooky mansion populated by Zombies and a possible traitor in your ranks. Bonus points that the traitor works for greedy corporation. So there you go. Thanks for a great vid.

I'm so mesmerized by your lava lamp. And the way you narrate your videos is really pleasing to the ear. You don't yell or have annoying music. Thank you for your good content!

Silent hill was quite good and well received.

@deusexrockina

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I mean doesn't follow the game story line to a t but I'm a big fan of the games and I enjoyed it. It was it's own Silent Hill and I still liked it

@maximeteppe7627

4 жыл бұрын

@@deusexrockina I think it should be the goal though, being faithful to aspects of the game, but being able to make the changes necessary for the movie to stand on its own. Certain games have a narrative worth sticking to, but in the case of silent hill I think it's better to create new stories, because fear relies on the unknown. Keeping things too familiar is self defeating in that regard.

Members of a studio board room meeting: "Gamers are dumb, so let's not put in any effort into making a dumb movie that those dummies will see anyway because they're dumb." Audience and critics alike, consisting both of gamers and non-gamers, universally pan the movie. Board room members: *Shrug.* "Maybe they'll like the next dumb video game adaptation we don't put any effort into making."

@bigwangjohnson

5 жыл бұрын

Olde nailed it. It’s a cash-in done as cheaply and as quickly as possible, with lots of elements of the game shoehorned in so viewers will go, “I recognize (thing)!!”

@mikerodgers7620

4 жыл бұрын

I poop on Thursday. 😁

@jakerockznoodles

4 жыл бұрын

With the last bit, it's more like they just blame the medium for being inherently rubbish, and that's why it's hated. 🙄

@bryna7

2 жыл бұрын

Gamergate proved there are plenty of dumb gamers. Presently, groups like geeks + gamers prove there are still a lot of dumb gamers.

I rarely comment anywhere but this time I had to. The final punchline of this video had me in stitches. Well done sir. That was great.

I don't know what arbitrary variation in the YT search algorithm made you start popping up on my page, but I'm only mad I didn't find out about your stuff earlier. So awesome

When is the Tetris trilogy coming out?

Awwww, no mention of Prince of Persia? Seems like it should have a place somewhere.

@migkillerphantom

4 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it kinda okay?

@TheMysteryDriver

4 жыл бұрын

migkillerphantom yes. It had that "The Mummy" feel and wasn't great but wasn't awful.

@simplegarak

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It was... meh. Not awful enough to hate, but wasn't exceptional in execution. It at least showed VG movies had potential.

9:55 I had no idea the King from the Super Mario Bros movie was in the Tomb Raider movie!

@Georg Rockall-Schmidt: Loved the discussion, very provocative (in a good sense). One thing you did not explicitly say, but could be logically extended, is that Hollywood treats the movie of a video game as if it were a sequel. In this case, though, the original movie is the game. Therefore, the movie has a pre-defined or pre-known audience, plot (or at least origin and conclusion), characters and easter-eggs/cameo appearances from the first movie (in this case the game). It does not feel original because, just like most sequels, it's the same characters doing the same thing in a new situation. Just a thought.

Actually thought Halo: Forward Unto Dawn was a decent and sincere attempt at the sort of adaptation being aspired to in this video. (I say this as someone who’s never once played the game - depending on POV, this either adds or subtracts merit from my comment)

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I feel like the best version of a game adaption would be a movie setting up the starting conditions of the game. I think about an epic space opera kicking off the Metroid games.

Hi Georg, I came across your channel today and I'm now five videos in and a big fan. Good stuff, love everything you're doing.

Wish we'd seen a Halo movie back in it's heyday... Microsoft screwed that one up... I think Neil Blomkamp is the right man for any of the macho weapon tech heavy game adaptations. Gears of War, for example.

@Tigershark_3082

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, there was Forward Unto Dawn. However, it sadly never gets the attention it deserves...

@niallreid7664

4 жыл бұрын

@Brian Boulter Yes, thank you. He is massively overrated.

@pierreo33

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tigershark_3082 that's because that show was very forgettable

I would love to see an adaptation of either Ico, SOTC or The last Guardian. They're practically movies to begin with.

@Tacticslion

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been thinking about this, and it’s surprisingly hard to envision what they’d do with these. All three, of course, have a major theme of relative isolation and companionship of some sort, but lack any real dialogue. None of these things are unfilmable, of course, but creating that sense of vast space, history, along with the theme of isolation-yet-companionship while lacking dialogue the audience can understand for the majority of the film is a hard sell at best, and the niche genre makes it a harder sell. In addition, one of the key elements about ICO and SotC (I haven’t played or had the opportunity to play TLG, sadly) is the length of the journey itself is part of the experience: cutting out a few of ICO’s puzzles might not matter, but cutting out even a single colossus would be a huge culling if both content and the subtle storytelling those games are built around. And as for ICO’s puzzles, how would you adapt those in a compelling way? It’s an incredibly hard thing to sell to a passive audience: the basis for much of the tension in the game is the interactive nature-the puzzles are up to *you* to solve, and quickly, so Yora isn’t kidnapped by those shadows. But as a passive audience, we’re just left to vaguely hope that the kid can climb a five story chain and swing it back around before shadows steal his non-talking weird waifu (we’ve all seen this sort of plot a million times) and who built this castle, anyway, and how much is OSHA going to sue them for? Again, none of this is to say it can’t be done: merely that there are going to have to be adaptation changes. Hopefully leaving it as true to the source material as possible, of course, but it’s not as simple as a direct “take game, place on screen” that I used to presume with ICO and SotC, despite the genuinely cinematic nature of those two (three with TLG) properties. … but, man, I’d love to see a movie of those. I’ve actually considered ICO to be a great contender for animated adaptation-you can get away with a lot of weird artistic choices in an anime that might be harder to convey through live action-and it might suit itself better to longforn adaptation anyway (though ICO in specific would potentially struggle from potentially overly repetitious experiences from a passive audience perspective: I’m not sure). Either way, it could be amazing, you’re right.

I'm new to your channel and not too into movies overall, but all your relatable videos have been top-notch. Keep it up.

I just love the editing and small jokes they crack me up so much.

Also, the silent hill movie is pretty good with a really dire atmosphere and seriously faithful and gruesome creatures and practical effects

@manticore6963

7 жыл бұрын

MrOldMiguel Right? Everyone seems to forget the first Silent Hill Movie! I could watch it with Friends and Family and they liked it.

@ThetaReactor

7 жыл бұрын

Silent Hill is unique in that it's both a faithful adaptation of the game and a very competent horror film on its own. Most adaptations don't get either of those right.

@ArtyoumPlays

7 жыл бұрын

Posted this here because I think it needs attention but: There's a fanedit called Restless Dreams. It's the same film but with the videogame's soundtrack over the film's score and all the scenes taking place away from our protagonist taken right out. The final exposition dump is also muted (besides the most necessary dialogue), given the game's score, and given a creepy new tone. The entire movie is slightly touched up to look a little more colourful too, which ironically goes well with the red and grimy look of the rusted world

@manticore6963

7 жыл бұрын

Arty the Great uhm...I remember, that the original Movie actually had the Soundtrack from Silent Hill 1-3, with the Exception of "Ring of Fire" from Johnny Cash. Or do you mean, only the OST from SH 1?

@MrOldMiguel

7 жыл бұрын

I agree that restless dreams is the better edit. George should do an episode on fan edits by the way! I for one love 'em!

Today I've just learned that there was a Far Cry movie no one heard of. Oh god.

I see you did not include Street Fighter, your approval of it means the world to me.

The Mein Kraft joke at the end was great!

@MacStoker

3 жыл бұрын

i think he eased back in the chair and done a sinister laugh after delivering that line ;-)

Any thoughts about the Assassin's Creed film? Or Final Fantasy Advent Children?

@tobiasl830

7 жыл бұрын

they could have been better. much better. FF was passable.

@pixelcount350

6 жыл бұрын

square block To be fair Assassins Creed movie was a lot better than any other VG movie but than again that's not stating much.

The problem with video game adaptations, in my eyes, is that novels are essentially completed outlines for films while video games are a strange combination of an initial storyboard and a concept. The narrative of a novel is generally conducive to a three-act structure, and those that aren't are quite simple to mold into such. Video games are generally going after another structure entirely. The fail-win cycle is completely different. Video games are usually about succeeding in order to progress. Good movies are usually about overcoming failures. Hell, video games have a wide variety of different structures. Each screenwriter essentially has to do something completely different depending on which video game IP they would be adapting. Sometimes they would have a single concept or visual element they could turn into whatever they want, sometimes they have a bunch of recognizable characters but no real narrative, other times they have a narrative and interesting characters to work with but you've been forced by the studio not to directly adapt that because a visual representation of that story has already been told. Adapting a video game is so much more complicated than a novel. Adapting a novel is like writing a second draft. Adapting a video game is like making a reboot... when the source material isn't outdated or unwanted yet. People are mad you didn't make the original, even though if you were to make the original, it would have to literally be the actual original (i.e. the video game they played). Nobody who's been hired to 'reboot' a franchise for film has been able to change the original into something even better in a way that won't annoy fans for being too different. That's the miracle you have to pull off. That's not an adaptation, that's essentially writing a whole story from scratch while having to hit certain preset beats and use certain props. Not to say it can't be done, but there's a serious underestimation of the task at hand.

Love your format, you're not overflowing the video with footage.

William Dafoe is....The Doom Marine. I would pay a good chunk of money to see that.

In the 80s ... u would have games that are adapted from movies ... now you have movies that are adapted from games

@caseypierre-louis6725

6 жыл бұрын

86macca86. Metal gear solid for sure

Elevator Action:The Movie

@carybeweary7209

5 жыл бұрын

That games hard,yo.

I absolutely love thw rock in Doom as he begins to lose his mind. Very enjoyable scenery chewing indeed. ECU of Dwain "now you shoulder your fucking weapon, soldier." Only he could bring that performance. And the last half our was especially entertaining in my opinion.

I did miss your comments about the Mortal Kombat movies and Street FIghter. Also the way Game of Thrones is handled makes me believe that after a few decades of trial and error the movie/serie makers now finally understand our most basic needs in a adaptation. For me personally the Mario Bros movie is a childhood memory, the movie isnt all that good but i like it anyway.. same goes for Howard the Duck. For a nice fight movie i'd like an adaptation of "Killer Instict" and maybe some epic fantasy movie about and RPG that also includes dwarves and elves in it, kinda like the new LOTR.. On another note, after the matrix some video games came out and bombed too, so the dogma works vice versa too ;)

Honestly, some games have better stories than some movies do.

@kabeltelevizio

7 жыл бұрын

This is about storytelling. Games tell their stories through gameplay (if they are really good), that's something a movie will never be able to do. For example, the Last of Us is not the best story in a game, but it's probably the best example for amazing storytelling in games. Naughty Dog is great at this. A contender for the best story in any game is Bioshock, but the storytelling there is not as good as in the Last of Us.

@leej70

7 жыл бұрын

kabeltelevizio Naughty Dog is not good at this. They do not tell the story through the game play, they tell it by taking control away from the player and forcing you to watch cut-scenes.

@kabeltelevizio

7 жыл бұрын

They do that sometimes, but firstly those cutscenes are integrated into gameplay. Some players barely notice them. Secondly. it's not just cutscenes. I mean look at the first part of the Last of Us, that takes place before the apocalypse. You are controlling a girl, experiencing this.

@leej70

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah but her actual death is played out in a cut-scene. You're just watching it, and not playing it.

@kabeltelevizio

7 жыл бұрын

What exactly do you want to control, while she is dying????

it doesn't matter if it was based on a game or not, *Anything* from Uwe Boll is f'n trash.

@spydrebyte

7 жыл бұрын

I liked Rampage

@ArtyoumPlays

7 жыл бұрын

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Rampage 2 and 3 are TRASH but the first one isnt bad

@TheAxeWorld1

7 жыл бұрын

>Postal >trash c'mon now

@ArtyoumPlays

7 жыл бұрын

It honestly perfectly captured the feeling of Postal 2. I genuinely love that movie but it's about 10 times better intoxicated and it's def not for everyone

@Anttimation

7 жыл бұрын

Would love to see Retarted Wizard in the Forest!!!

Dude - really like your videos. Your sense of humour is on point - Mein-craft FFS! XD Keep it up.

Some great points. I distinctly remember how disappointed I was with the Prince of Persia film. The costume work, design of props and so on was obviously spot on, but where was the atmosphere..? There's a thick vibe of solitude and otherworldliness in Sands of Time (the game). The way the scene devolves into a slightly unsettling dreamscape, when you encounter a magical fountain, in an almost David Lynch-like way.. where was that in the Jake Gyllenhal flick?

I think that a movie based on the Hotline Miami games would be pretty cool. You could focus more on the story but still have a lot of fast and violent action scenes with amazing music. If you look deep in to Hotline Miami 2, you can find a shit ton of deep story stuff.

@grandsome1

7 жыл бұрын

Nydeh There's already a Hotline Miami movie, its called "Drive".

@shogunblade

7 жыл бұрын

If you took the camera work and choreography from John Wick and put it into a Hotline Miami movie, that would be interesting to see at least once.

I haven't played the game Silent Hill but consider the movie (the original) to be very powerful.

So anyway, as far as the critics go if I listen to them at all it's to see what movies they don't like/can't stand etc. Those are the movies I tend to watch. I am very rarely disappointed by this approach. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard people say "So and so on T.V. or on the Internet says that movie is horrible, I'm not going to watch it." It's absurd in my opinion, although some would argue that my going to see movies critics hate based on the fact that they hate it is equally absurd. Also Georg, you are awesome, I love your commentary, and I am very happy I found your channel.

The first idea you pitched at the end was essentially the Silent Hill movie, which I thought was pretty good.

🗣Mortal Kombat!

@jackalope2302

7 жыл бұрын

LiftedMonster The best video game movie. Guilty of flat characters and some poor effects but the design, fight choreography and soundtrack were great.

@san_fran6511

6 жыл бұрын

Ya

@ninjasquidkamer7440

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackalope2302 I loved the characters. The movie gave them the personality's they have today.

@Georg Rockall-Schmidt I think you missed something dude. There were some videos from a while back that depicted how there were some scams surrounding the movie adaptations on games - that they were simply taking advantage of government spending or something in Germany, so they'd take huge budgets from the goverment in order to boost culture that Germany wanted and they simply used as little as possible to make a basic film and took the rest of the money for themselves. Maybe it wasn't Germany, this was a year or two back I saw - was it Film Theory who covered it? Go check their video out George!

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

7 жыл бұрын

Moufisto the case of Uwe Boll, yes.

@Moufisto

7 жыл бұрын

Ah, thank you!

@GeorgRockallSchmidt

7 жыл бұрын

Yes there was a tax credit system in Germany (as well as other countries, but particularly exploited in Germany it seems), where films were good investments because they offered a number of benefits. Things like that still exist - there are different taxes for films with 50% ANGEL investment and things like that, and they're not necessarily a scam (I'm sure some of that goes on, but these incentives exist across industries). But this is not a cause of adaptations being panned - it's a symptom of a lack of respect for the source material. The films didn't need to be video game adaptations to qualify for the tax credits, but German, and even then (and even if money was squandered), they could have still have been better handled.

@Moufisto

7 жыл бұрын

Oohhh you're well aware of what's going on! And you make a good point, I suppose it wasn't a coincidence that they used games since they wouldn't respect the source material. Thanks for the reply, and thanks for the video!

I know that you don't do anime, but on the topic of movie adaptations I've noticed that game-to-anime generally does pretty well, with a few acceptions. Perhaps that could make for an interesting part two to this vid? I always feel a little more knowledgeable after one of these vids, thanks for the good work! ^_^

Unauthorized animated version of Street Fighter based on 1990 video game came out in Sept. 1992 although only on video in South Korea. Also main characters have different names although dress as characters from video game according to information on Wikipedia. Although Charles Bronson had a unrelated movie with same title in 1975. Live action version of Street Fighter based on 1990 video game came out in 1994.

10:30 "I don't think video game adaptations are aimed at general audiences. I think they are aimed at gamers." You are not correct. Hollywood doesn't think that a movie appealing to a specific audience is profitable. Therefore, they try to market their movies to a general audience. THIS is why video game movies fail. Hollywood doesn't understand its audience. A video game movie can work if the directors, producers, scrip writers, and actors, all have a love for the game they are portraying. Wing Commander could have been EPIC, but no they instead went for the cast from "She's all that" and made the movie insult the core, dedicated fan base, despite the game having an a-list actor crew and a practical encyclopedia of established lore and fiction.

To add to your point about people not appreciating the replacement of actors, I think nowadays with heavy narrative games such as the Last of Us, which has actors who do not just voice the characters, but also embody them through mo-cap, it would be incredibly hard to buy into a different cast of actors who can potentially portray them in a movie. Because, and this is just my opinion, I cannot see anyone other then Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker embodying these characters. A better course of action would be to just analyse the core theme or idea behind the game and try to adapt it with a different story and characters. Again, taking The Last of Us as an example, the core of the story is the journey of two people, the gradual development of their relationship and the extreme decisions that they have to make because of those relationships. Ultimately presenting the study of human nature in an extreme setting. Thus, if we take this concept and say create a narrative about Ish (whose story we discover through notes and settings in the sewers) and his journey, it would make for a compelling story. Perhaps even paralleling Joel's journey with seeing what sort of person Ish was before the outbreak and how that enforced his decision to do what he has done, and ultimately exploring the consequences of his choice. Doing this as opposed to making a movie about Joel and Ellie, whom we already know and have a pretty good frame of reference with their portrayal would be so much better, especially considering how well the story has already been presented in a game.

Very profound commentary! Please, keep making videos.

4:16 Check out that sweet mushroom cloud in the lava lamp

I want to know about this guy s life

Doom would have been awesome if it was entirely first person like the 1 scene that everyone actually liked from the movie. They could have had some good jump scares too.

@c0m4g1bb

2 жыл бұрын

Naaaaa

@cheevosmith892

2 жыл бұрын

@@c0m4g1bb your mahhhhh

The "Mein Kraft" joke, alone, is worth a "thumbs up". hehe

The Lava lamp orbs are nice and big this episode.

"Film does not see video games are credible art" IRONY! Considering when film came about literature gave it the same treatment.

@BadWebDiver

6 жыл бұрын

Heck, theatre gave it the same treatment! And films felt the same way about television.

@arlosteiner8382

5 жыл бұрын

And the novel was treated with scorn by poetry. New artforms usually show their worth pretty quickly but it can take a little while for it to be wholly respected