Metal Gear Solid: The Movie
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Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
<div class="IPBDescription">may become a reality and it will be GOOD</div>Holy crap, the <a href='http://boards.ign.com/Metal_Gear_Solid/b5200/54256855/?11' target='_blank'>IGN Forums are actually useful for something</a>.
David Hayter is pitching a Metal Gear Solid movie to Universal!!! To those who don't know, he is the voice of Solid Snake in all the US Metal Gear games. More important than that though (for this specific case), he was the screenwriter for X-Men and X-Men 2 (as well as a few other big movies). Meaning, he knows WTH he's doing, personally likes Metal Gear (he has said that he plays it a bit), and knows WTH he's doing!
Not to mention the already existant aspects of Metal Gear making it a prime candidate for a movie, I really think that with David at the helm this could very seriously kick total **** and be the first terrific (not just good, I mean f'in terrific) video game -> movie translation.
w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go audition as "Soldier Who Dies Very Quickly In Snowfield" :D
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For those interested, the original information is just very casually mentioned in <a href='http://gamespy.com/articles/march04/dice/converge/' target='_blank'>this article on Gamespy</a>.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->An interesting character sat on the panel by the name of David Hayter. He was the screenwriter for Scorpion King and both X-men movies, as well as the American voice actor for Solid Snake(!). As a writer who's turned great content from one media (comics) into another (movies), and as someone who worked in the games industry, he knew exactly why movies based on games are usually so bad: "The writing sucks," he declared. When the work doesn't have respect for the media it's on, it fails. (By the way, Hayter is pitching Universal on a Metal Gear Solid movie. Keep your eyes peeled!)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
David Hayter is pitching a Metal Gear Solid movie to Universal!!! To those who don't know, he is the voice of Solid Snake in all the US Metal Gear games. More important than that though (for this specific case), he was the screenwriter for X-Men and X-Men 2 (as well as a few other big movies). Meaning, he knows WTH he's doing, personally likes Metal Gear (he has said that he plays it a bit), and knows WTH he's doing!
Not to mention the already existant aspects of Metal Gear making it a prime candidate for a movie, I really think that with David at the helm this could very seriously kick total **** and be the first terrific (not just good, I mean f'in terrific) video game -> movie translation.
w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go audition as "Soldier Who Dies Very Quickly In Snowfield" :D
[edit]
For those interested, the original information is just very casually mentioned in <a href='http://gamespy.com/articles/march04/dice/converge/' target='_blank'>this article on Gamespy</a>.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->An interesting character sat on the panel by the name of David Hayter. He was the screenwriter for Scorpion King and both X-men movies, as well as the American voice actor for Solid Snake(!). As a writer who's turned great content from one media (comics) into another (movies), and as someone who worked in the games industry, he knew exactly why movies based on games are usually so bad: "The writing sucks," he declared. When the work doesn't have respect for the media it's on, it fails. (By the way, Hayter is pitching Universal on a Metal Gear Solid movie. Keep your eyes peeled!)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I'm with doom on this... this could be somewhere on the level of the second coming of our Lord!
Most of X-2 had me glued to the screen, ESPECIALLY the opening scene.
What was so bad about X-Men? I liked both, and I think the record shows I'm as nitpicky a jerk as can be while retaining a veil of social acceptance.
Either you have never read any Sandman story, or you committed a medium act of heresy by implying that comic books are necessarily inferior to prosaic literature. (Yeah, I'm touchy about that subject lately, so what?)
Believe me when I tell you that comics can be <i>much</i> more than entertainment.
<span style='color:white'>Excuse me while I send Dreams youngest sister after Jedi...</span>
Has there ever been a good film based on a videogame?
Final Fantasy
Mortal Combat
Resident Evil
*shudders* Mario Brothers!
if it's not good, necks will be snapped ... many, many necks
Has there ever been a good film based on a videogame?
Final Fantasy
Mortal Combat
Resident Evil
*shudders* Mario Brothers! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I dare say MGS has a chance at being a damn fine movie considering its narrative leanings, character-driven core <i>and</i> the fact that such a legend as David Hayter, who is both integral to the franchise but also has the screenwriting cojones to make this work, is involved.
Bring it on!
hehe, Sandman dosn't count as a 'comic', even though it was released in singles before being bound into graphic novels.
Basicaly its one of his books, just with cool pictures and no descriptive text <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
As for an MG moovie....
I dono...
I mean, I will ove it (but then again, I am very UNpicky for action movies, I liked all the movies listed here (well, not the FF movie, but that wasn't an action flick <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->))
And yes, I enjoyed the X-men movies so I'm looking forward to this. If there are auditions I'll be one of the guards that is sleeping <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
In fact, I don't know how some people can even survive being so critical of everything they see. /rant
The games movies are based on tend to be really good. If the movie is really crap then you are going to get a lot of **** off players. Hence why they are critical of the movies ^^
Or if you were talking about movies in general then just ignore this post.
In fact, I don't know how some people can even survive being so critical of everything they see. /rant <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You can capitalise words all you want, if doesn't change the fact that Mortal Kombat was, and always will be, an atrocious motion picture directed by a man who should burn in hell for crimes against directing: Thomas W.S. Anderson.
I'm happy with a lot of things. Rubbish films aren't one of them.
I wasn't pointing that rant at anyone in particular, so don't take it personal! It's all good, my friend!
Seems when its to movies, we all hate eachother.
Not if I get the part first!
Has there ever been a good film based on a videogame?
Final Fantasy
Mortal Combat
Resident Evil
*shudders* Mario Brothers! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Or maybe:
The House of the Dead[I think it'd based off the games]
Tomb Raider
Wing Commander
Or the movies coming up:
Turok
Fatal Frame
Face it, it's not going to be good.
sometimes i would get distracted in the game just radioing him over and over #^_^#
if it's not good, necks will be snapped ... many, many necks <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That actually brings up a problem. It wouldnt be Metal Gear without the '!'s and cardboard boxes. At least it wont be for me. Sure they were useful and funny in game, but I dont see how they can work these things in the movie without looking silly.
Besides that, I dont see why they cant beef up their workstations and make a CG movie, FF:Spirits Within style..
Anyway, it is possible that MGS could be the video game move that finally manages to not suck, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Tips for videogame movie writer/directors: In my opinion the best way to do a video game move now would be to not take it so seriously. I mean, the statistical likelyhood of any video game move not sucking (based on past data) is about 0%, so chances are your movie is going to suck, so why not just make the most of it? Fill it with in-jokes only gamers would get, don't sweat the dialog (lets face it, shakespere you aint), don't try to be profound or make some philisophical point, don't screw with elements the fans like (FF didn't have chocobos, moogles, fantasy, ect), and whatever you do don't let them market your movie as the best thing since tetris.
Personally I've always wanted to make either a Metroid or EWJ movie... maybe a crossover... Samus vs EWJ!
<Cut to scene of EWJ and Samus pointing their respecive wepons at eatchother, gratuitous cuts between their nervous faces, who's going to shoot first? Suddenly a loud "Moooooooooo!" is heard overhead, followed shortly buy a cow landing all to close to the soon-to-be battlefield, both characters turn to find the source of the attack and suddenly notice a castle full of Frenchmen, shouting taunts in a rediculous accent.>
yeah... too bad it would suck so bad...
I wasn't pointing that rant at anyone in particular, so don't take it personal! It's all good, my friend! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, sorry, I just have nothing but bad memories of Mortal Kombat after my friends pretty much forced me to watch it 4 times in one day. Scarred. For life.
When I saw FF and I didn't see any big swords, or chocobos, I was like "Wait a sec... this ain't FF!!" The only film based on a game which had <i>some</i> reference to the game which fans could connect would be Resident Evil, with the zombies (which if there weren't any, it wouldn't be RE) and the dogs. But it was spoiled with the last dog being killed with one lousy kick.
Now, for MGS to work, there should be things which fans, or people who at least know a bit about the game, could identify, and not in a silly way. Like, Snake hidding in a cardboard box, or him breaking a soldier's neck. Not too much shooting, but definatly some. And of course... METAL GEAR!!
Dude... imagine seeing Metal Gear on the big screen. The huge robot, destroying everything and trying to get Snake, as he fires a Stinger missile...