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masterpug53 posted...

*raises hand*

Pierrot le Fou is in my top-five all time favorite movies, yet I enjoy the MCU and genuinely love a small handful of movies out of it.

To clarify though, I'm not currently excited for superhero movies; GotG and Winter Soldier got me into the MCU in a big way, so I was definitely pumped for them up through IW and Endgame. And while I wouldn't say I'm excited for video game adaptations, I think it's great that we've finally got a generation of writers / directors treating the material with the bare-minimum love and attention necessary to finally make VG adaptations competently.

There, I took the bait.

well, the mcu movies are passable at best, and most certainly are not cinema, but i would like to address the video game adaptation thing since that is what this thread is really about.

here's the thing - the main draw of a video game is gameplay. that is inherently not translatable to movies/tv. so what you really need for a good adaptation is an ultra narrative driven game to do something convincing, which i think is why last of us is so popular (personally, i would have dropped tlou already if i didn't love tlou2, which has the only good video game story i've ever experienced). but like what is the appeal of a god of war show, which amazon i think is producing? 75% of those games is maiming mythological creatures. you can't do that for an entire episode of tv if its live action, and if you do, you better have the best action choreographers on the planet (which i doubt will happen since tv shows are typically low rent).

on the other hand, you can also take ultra generic bullshit and make it super popular. like i think mario is going to be an absolute smash hit though despite probably just being a generic family animated movie since it has all of the iconic symbols of the mario games, which are obviously a major cultural touchstone. people will enjoy soyfacing during that movie, for sure. and that will lead to more generic family animated movies based on video games, especially in the nintendo universe, which already has the built-in tie-in opportunity with super smash bros. and then we'll probably get a full fledged live action resident evil reboot more similar to the games and assassins creed reboot, or whatever.

it's all very depressing to think about!