Ian Stevens must be Captain Obvious

All I read is "duurpp we're more relevant than you cuz i said so"

While I agree, I still think Pulp Fiction is the best piece of entertainment, ever created.

Second is The Shining.

Third is a tie between SSX 3, and the trailer for The Shining.

Wow that header speaks volumes. Hollywood in a fucking nutshell.

How could anyone still look at video games as toys in this day and age? Hollywood is so removed from the rest of the world, it's ridiculous.

Come on, where are more actors saying that games are pointless now that Ryan Reynolds said they're a waste of time and that Shia LeBeouf would rather eat glass than play a Wii? A precedent has been set, people!

You wanna know what's funny? $60 million for a three-hour film that's the same every time, or $60 million for a game that you could quite possibly put hundreds of hours into and is generally not the same exact thing each time through.

Yeah, games are more expensive than films (though the tally gets close if you see the movie in the theater and then buy it on DVD on release), but given the disparity in time you can waste doing either one...

I remember looking ahead at some movies coming out this year/next year/2011. Harry Potter 6, Shrek 4, Spidey 4, Ice Age 3, Final Destination...4?, Halloween 15, Twilight 2, Meet the Parents 3, Harry Potter 7, Toy Story 3, Harry Potter 7 part II, Sin City 2, and Lord of the Rings Zero.

And you say gamers are in love with sequels, Jim? =P

The film industry is SO narcissistic. That and they're being eaten alive by every other medium, the movie ticket price is rising while the film quality falls (subject matter, not physical quality), and they still act like egotistical retards.

This is the gaming industry's fate too, if it keeps up what it's doing with the handicap of dividing people into different "cores" (there's ONE core.. people who like playing good games), and thinking your consumers will buy anything you throw out forever.

This comments section is now about posting images of meaningless bullshit movies:

I think that the end result is going to be a good example of a free market at work. Bad movies and games wont make money and good ones will

Hollywood folk? You mean those people whose entire industry is being driven ever closer and closer to utter irrelevancy because of video games? But... but, I would have thought that those guys loved video games.

Nah, the only thing about video games that Hollywood (as a generalized, monolithic entity) cares about is the fact that the subject matter can be shoehorned into their bread and butter, i.e. movies, with varying degrees of success, but most of which are shitty and retarded because Hollywood just doesn't have a clue.

Well put Jim, I laughed pretty hard

@xiaolinstyle

RE: Okami

I bought it. Twice.

Hollywood is full of lulz!

They think it's a waste of time because the only the that associates them with video games is shitting games based off movies.. Give them a game based off a movie that's really great to play, and it might change their perception a bit.

Then again, they could be cunts.

@Daxelman

Oops thanks. I was being too specific :P

Obviously they are correct, that's why I don't ever watch TV and hardly watch any films at all.

EXPOLSIONS.

I like the fact that games are WAY more involving than movies and you that you can't make a video game that lasts 1.5hours, lets see them drag a movie out for 60+ hours.

I like my games thank you very much :)

Suda 51 > Hollywood.

Oh and this: "There's certainly no shortage of guys that look at games and see them as toys..."

That, in general, is a failing not only of Hollywood types but of non-game playing people everywhere.

@BattyAdroit

There's a difference between simply not thinking about your mechanic except for when you need him to fix your car and saying that what mechanics, in general, do is "meaningless bullshit" because you're too busy riding a bicycle or walking everywhere, or because you happened to see your mechanic working on someone's Ford Mustang when you're there waiting to get your Pinto serviced or something. This is not a very good counter-example I'll admit, but your original example of the mechanic wasn't a very good one to begin with.

Also, honestly, these days who would give even the slightest crap about what kind of video games a crazy asshole like Tom Cruise likes or doesn't like? And why should how much money he makes have any bearing on the situation in any way whatsoever?

To follow up on my last post, because I don't think I was as clear as I wanted to be.

RE mechanics: The main difference there is that mechanics, unlike Hollywood, aren't in direct competition with the video games industry. It isn't like you're NOT going to go and get your car fixed because you want to stay home and play GTA4 instead.

RE Tom Cruise. Okay, I can see why, in a sense, the issue of how much money he makes would have a bearing on the situation in the context of the discussion at hand, so I retract that particular statement. However, even so, it still really doesn't matter, because we're talking about industry wide: video game industry vs Hollywood. Not Shigeru Miyamoto vs Tom Cruise, or random key grip A vs random code monkey B. The point is that the video games industry as a whole is stomping the ass of Hollywood as a whole. Until this was the case Hollywood didn't care about games at all, but now they are scrambling to try to grab them a piece of that delicious pie, for fear that they will starve otherwise.

100% win? wow, i know who got hit with the stupid stick.

Well Qraze, $700 million boxoffice and highest grossing movie in 2007 says otherwise. But i guess you are one of those cool ppl who don't like what just about everybody else likes (in other words a secluded misfit.....like jim).