make a good video game movie someone and i will love you forever.

Robert Patrick will always be known to me as the T-1000, and the T-1000 only. That is all.

bisoooonnn!!!!!


This is going to be a good one; looking forward to listening .

A few months ago I bought Street Fighter on DVD for $10.

It was a flawless choice. No flaws.

The thing that always baffles me is the decision to make video games movies (and remakes of '80s cartoons, such as Transformers or G.I. Joe) into live action movies.

I honestly think that this is one of the main reasons video game movies suck so bad. You get to know these characters, and then all of the sudden you're watching a Belgian play a soldier U.S. Air Force. WTF?

Side Scroller the Movie?

Whoa . . .

I still like the 1st resident evil and silent hill movies alot.

Then that reminds me of Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man . . .

I still enjoyed Mortal Kombat as well, and the Resident Evil movies were at least entertaining. It's the same problem with them messing up comic book movies as well. Took a long time before certain directors 'got it right' and even then there's still a lot of bad ones out there. And even the ones who get it right can still mess up.

I think once a director is out there who really enjoys the world of the video game they are making, and who understands the characters a bit, a good video game movie can be made and be successful. Making a movie based on a game just because it's successful, it's tough to do right. Making a movie based on a game because the people writing and directing it ENJOY it and want it do do great, well, when that happens we'll get some great movies.

Sidenote: I have no clue what the hidden Burping Contest Clip refers to. :( Can anyone clue me in?

i approve the intro music;

I wholeheartedly agree with Sterling on Resident Evil movies. Those are an abortion on the good name of Resident Evil.

Oh man, great podcast guys. I specifically enjoyed Aaron's rants on both Super Mario Bros and Street Fighter. Keet it up guys.

pt3143@gmail.com is my email.

Robert Patrick... I remember when I cried because the X Files had gotten so bad.

Good times, good times.

I think that most video game movies have gone to one of two extremes: Attempt to tranlsate the video game to film literally.
Been a movie that shares it's name, and nothing else, with a video game.

I think a truly successful video game movie will happen when a talented group of filmmakers makes a movie that takes place within the strict confines of a particular game universe but has nothing to do with the story the source material was telling.

I don't think you can or should translate a video game's story directly to film with any success.

It happened in the opposite direction, but I think one of the best and most engaging Star Wars video games was Republic Commando, which had nearly fuck-all to do(directly) with any of the stories in the films.

I think a successful video game movie, and a direction I would love to see the industry take, would be a companion to a video game, and not a re-telling or translation or adaptation. Imagine if before Gears of War was released there had been a Triple-A movie chronicling the time period leading up to the desperate decision to use Fenix?

A side-note regarding the bit of discussion about the long shot in Children of Men: I think the live-action Halo shorts felt very visceral and pulled off the first-person perspective very well(certainly better than Doom did). And the Halo shorts also harken back to my previous point about video game films being a companion to the game rather than an adaptation of the game.

And last but not least, I unashamedly enjoyed the Resident Evil movies. I can't say with any certainty that this wasn't because Milla Jovavich is incredibly attractive.

I disagree that the RE movie is unwatchable...thats just bs. Its not gonna get any major kudos from me but at least it was watchable.

I'm kinda disappointed that when FF:AC was brought up nobody mentioned the FF movie that was before it and how if that hadn't bombed Square might be making more and more of these movies

Not bad, aside from the whole Skype beeping thing in the background...I felt like I was listening to one of those old VH1 Pop-Up Video shows (remember back when VH-1 used to play music videos?)

Anyway, what the heck is the name of the song played at the beginning and end of the podcast? I know I've heard it before.