You are the first person to comment on your own blog. That is sadness.

Also, I didn't read anything but the title.

It boils down to what I believe sterling said in the past. When you make a book into a movie you are adding imagery and visuals, when you make a game into a movie you are adding nothing, but taking away interactivity.

I think it's because they treat it as easy money. Just look at the quality of most sequels. When you have a fan base already in existence you can slack off because you already get X money just for showing up. Also I don't think anyone in Hollywood takes videogame stories seriously.

With books there is always a don't fuck it up aspect. If you are already dealing with people that aren't taking you seriously the don't fuck it up part won't be in their mind while making it. Cue Uwe Boll.

Maybe it's just me, but in the last decade especially, I've noticed Hollywood's ability to fuck up their own non-game films at a higher rate than normal as well.

I just saw the new Beowulf last night, and aside from it constantly jumping back and forth between looking almost cool and looking just weird, they altered and warped the story to fit a more typically "Hollywood" structured film and made it an utter waste of time.

Uwe Boll aside (who's his own level of waste), perhaps part of the blame falls on the reliance of a 3-act structure and a lack of originality that's geared only to producing films that are original idea from 5 years ago + 1, or old idea in different shade.

It's repeating the same cliches over and over again, "He is the one!", "This is the end of the world as we know it!", "Crime doesn't pay!", "How do we stop this(ese) monsters!" etc., etc.

Games don't seem as bad when they repeat these experiences because we're usually doing something else in the process that we don't mind it as much.

Gears of War story sucked, but the characters, maybe a bit cliched, at least had personality and the bloodletting was quite entertaining. Metal Gear Solid 2 had an asinine story, complete with some retarded Hollywood spectacles, like Fortune's moment at the end, but it was really about the gameplay. Unfortunately, there may be nothing to save Kane and Lynch, unless they seriously overhall the story which was a wretched mess.

I think we'll only finally see a top-shelf game movie, when we get a real screenwriter and real director who's interested in making a copy of a film that hasn't been made already, with just a videogame skin on top.

Silent Hill almost did this, except the writing kinda sucked. Resident Evil was a complete waste because the writer/director wanted to make the Matrix with zombies, and couldn't do either.

So where's the problem with David Hayer (MGS screen writer and Solid Snake's voice) to write for the MGS movie with Michael Bay directing? He took fan nostalgia and made it half way decent with Transformers and always does a good job with the Bad Boys movies

James Cameron is the director I'm looking for. Thanks for the Hayter correction. This is just something I'm passionate about and feel that with the proper steps taken, something really good could be put out and maybe open the eyes of others to the realm of video game's stories, not just the single minded aspects in some games like having sex with hookers then killing them for a money back guarantee in GTA or the half second of bare ass in Mass Effect.