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It is interesting, in light of all those 'Wired' articles back in the 90s, that there has never been a good video game movie, at least since the 90s.
I'd say the best one so far has been Resident Evil.
The most missed opportunity was Alone in the Dark which could've been a good Lovecraftian haunted house movie but became one of the crappiest no plot CGI fest ever.
The same for anime. I had the misfortune of being forced to watch the Dragonball live action during my 12 hour transpac flight. It was ****. Speed racer, ****.
In fact, I don't think that the video game and anime genres translate at all to film because of different time scales.
People play cool games and then they're like "wow that would be an awesome movie!!" but unfortunately in order to take something like Fallout or Castlevania or Final Fantasy Tactics and make it a decent movie you would need a HUGE Lord of the Rings budget and probably sequels. Which isn't happening. So instead you get crappy CGI BS.
With anime, the format is 'time-bloated'. Everything happens slowly and detailed in anime in a way that a realistically budgeted live action just can't do. I have never seen live action capture the 'flavour' of an anime. Probably, ironically because they're not anime, 300 and Sin City come closest.
The last random thought I wanted to ejaculate on your collective faces is about the Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
Anyone who has ever read them from our generation went about one page in before saying "OMFG this would make a kick-ass anime!!!11".
I've seen 'The Legend of Prince Ram', an Indian-Japanese collaboration, which was pretty well done, but the problem is, ironically, the Japanese pay too much respect to the Indian tradition of portraying the divinities.
The Indians have a long tradition of pious cartoons and movies about their epics which get bogged down in 'learning' and 'poetry' and other crap.
We need a Japanese director with absolutely no respect for the Indian cinema tradition to make a PURELY 'japanese-style' anime of the Indian epics.
Take out the dancing, the singing, throw in some flashbacks, and FEEL THE POWER OF MY ULTIMATE ATTACK, ATMAaAAaaa WEAPON!!!
In particular, the old epics with the 'Flying Triple City' and king Saubha would be good.
That is all. Carry on.
I'd say the best one so far has been Resident Evil.
The most missed opportunity was Alone in the Dark which could've been a good Lovecraftian haunted house movie but became one of the crappiest no plot CGI fest ever.
The same for anime. I had the misfortune of being forced to watch the Dragonball live action during my 12 hour transpac flight. It was ****. Speed racer, ****.
In fact, I don't think that the video game and anime genres translate at all to film because of different time scales.
People play cool games and then they're like "wow that would be an awesome movie!!" but unfortunately in order to take something like Fallout or Castlevania or Final Fantasy Tactics and make it a decent movie you would need a HUGE Lord of the Rings budget and probably sequels. Which isn't happening. So instead you get crappy CGI BS.
With anime, the format is 'time-bloated'. Everything happens slowly and detailed in anime in a way that a realistically budgeted live action just can't do. I have never seen live action capture the 'flavour' of an anime. Probably, ironically because they're not anime, 300 and Sin City come closest.
The last random thought I wanted to ejaculate on your collective faces is about the Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
Anyone who has ever read them from our generation went about one page in before saying "OMFG this would make a kick-ass anime!!!11".
I've seen 'The Legend of Prince Ram', an Indian-Japanese collaboration, which was pretty well done, but the problem is, ironically, the Japanese pay too much respect to the Indian tradition of portraying the divinities.
The Indians have a long tradition of pious cartoons and movies about their epics which get bogged down in 'learning' and 'poetry' and other crap.
We need a Japanese director with absolutely no respect for the Indian cinema tradition to make a PURELY 'japanese-style' anime of the Indian epics.
Take out the dancing, the singing, throw in some flashbacks, and FEEL THE POWER OF MY ULTIMATE ATTACK, ATMAaAAaaa WEAPON!!!
In particular, the old epics with the 'Flying Triple City' and king Saubha would be good.
That is all. Carry on.
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