Games or Books to Movie and Vice Versa

[zeldusfanaticus]

do you think that things like these are well done?

what are some of your opinions on movies that are based on books or video games?



some that are being produced now

Halo
Prince of Persia
The Hobbit

im sure there are gonna be more in the near future

[Josh]

I don't think I've ever really seen a a movie that's ever been as good as the game or the book. Most suck. And that's the reputation they have.

=D

[Hylian Hobbit]

Like Josh said, most game based movies suck. Terribly. Apparently Tomb Raider was a good movie, but I haven't seen it, so I can't give my opinion on it.

Anywho, there are plenty of good movie based books. Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many more. I can't wait to see The Hobbit when it comes out. I'll probably go with a bunch of my LotR geek friends to see it. :p

Movie based games are usually okay, but I have yet to play a really good one. Some of the Lord of the Rings games are good, but still, nothing amazing.

[kpllk]

I don't think I've ever really seen a a movie that's ever been as good as the game or the book. Most suck. And that's the reputation they have.

=D

That is pretty much what I was going to say. Movies that are based on books or games never turn out well. There are a few that turn out good, but not many.

[Kitsu]

I don't think I've ever heard of or seen a good game-based-movie. I'm sure it's possible, I just haven't seen any.

Book-based movies can be quite good, though. Such as Hylian Hobbit mentioned, The Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, etc.

Books are usually always better, therefore they hold more detail, especially when there is internal monologue involved. The author can add a very unique style to this, as well as other descriptions and aspects.

[Ver-go-a-go-go]

Games based on movies?

They usually always suck. I bought Quantum of Solace for a Wii a while back, and it was really bad. The Hulk game for DS was the same way.

[Linkmaster]

Books are usually always better, therefore they hold more detail, especially when there is internal monologue involved. The author can add a very unique style to this, as well as other descriptions and aspects.

That is why I prefer the books. I will watch a movie, think "wait, WHAT?" go back read the book, and think the movie makers were on crack. nuff' said.

[blackice_cc]

Yeah, most movie adaptations of games or books generally fail pretty badly. LotR was the best I've seen, but the books are better. There's just so much that can be described/expressed with written words that you can't bring into movies.

As for turning a video-game into a movie, well, most video games wouldn't work out too well like that. I mean, video games are mostly made for gameplay, and their stories wouldn't fit for a film.

[El Bagu]

Some books can actually turn up really good as movies, an example would be the shining (the one with J N of course). But in general I prefer books (although I like movies too)!

[zeldusfanaticus]

there is one book to movie that i believe were the closest to failure as possible was Eragon. the movie left out over half the story, most of which was essential to the sequel. they screwed up locations, and just destroyed the story in general


El Bagu, anything with jack nicholson is great, like "one flew over the cuckoo's nest"

[El Bagu]

El Bagu, anything with jack nicholson is great, like "one flew over the cuckoo's nest"

Yes compadre! Jack is the best! He and also Sean Penn. Sean Penn in Carlitos way (it does not almost look like him!) and in U-Turn, love that movie :cool:

[Smitie]

Most movies which are based on books are ok. Like the lord of the rings and harry potter movies. But movies based on games are horrible. I guess the lack of story in the games itself is enough for a 30 minute movie, but directors somehow manage to lenghten up the story with boringness until the movie is 90 minutes or longer.

And I'll never buy games based of movies. they are horrible and a waist of money. Game designers only get 2 months or less to create a movie-based game. Since most of the people who buy these games are little kids, game designers don't even try to make something good. In the end 98% of all the movie based games have horrible controllers, bad level design and are mostly mini game collections or boring platform games.

[Master Link]

Like Josh said, most game based movies suck. Terribly. Apparently Tomb Raider was a good movie, but I haven't seen it, so I can't give my opinion on it.

Anywho, there are plenty of good movie based books. Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many more. I can't wait to see The Hobbit when it comes out. I'll probably go with a bunch of my LotR geek friends to see it. :p

Movie based games are usually okay, but I have yet to play a really good one. Some of the Lord of the Rings games are good, but still, nothing amazing.

I'll go!

WEll I loved the LOTR movies. Harry potter was ok, they left out a lot. Narnis was good. But I absolutly hated Eragon movie. they butchered it.

[blackice_cc]

Don't get me started on the Eragon movie -.-. It was the worst book to movie adaptation in the history of movies. Terrible terrible terrible. The Harry Potter movies aren't very good either. Not as bad, but not a whole lot better. Lord of the Rings is the only one that I know of that was actually good.

[Master Link]

I am praying that Inkheart will be good. I have a sense that it will be because it is made by New Line (made LOTR) and Brendan Frasier looks exactly how I imagined Mo to look like.

[blackice_cc]

I am praying that Inkheart will be good. I have a sense that it will be because it is made by New Line (made LOTR) and Brendan Frasier looks exactly how I imagined Mo to look like.

Yeah, I hope so too. Inkheart was a good book, and they'd better not ruin it with the movie. But just because it's made by New Line doesn't mean it'll be great; that depends on the director.

[shadowlink626]

i think that the twilight series is having a good thing on the movies. but thats it. harry potter isnt doing that good. well thats what i think

[MalonMaverick11]

Well, first of all the books are always better. I like movies and games that come from books. It's a good way for people who are too busy to read to share awesome literature thru movies.

[KrazyKyuubi]

Movies ruin books. Movies usually ruin games. And they also ruin tv show series. Like the Star Trek movie ruined the first season of star trek for me. I hate movies.

[Yoshi_FTW]

Well I've read the Halo series of books and they weren't bad. I've never played/read the Hobbit but...I've liked almost every 007 game that has been released.

[Shadsie]

Adapting almost anything from its original medium results in alteration and loss of quality. There is something very special I've noticed in reading (also in writing) and that is the ability of the text to "paint a picture" for you - or a feeling... things that generally do not translate well into non-text mediums.

Reading a book is a fairly personal experience, whereby you are imagining the sights, sounds, smells and sensations you are reading about and it is, more or less, a one-on-one dialogue between yourself and the author. Movies, on the other hand, are a mass-medium that present a blur of music and images meant to be shared by all who are watching. In short, some of the "personal" nature is lost, and perhaps that is why "a movie is never as good as the book."

Conversely, a game based on a movie is trying to create a personal experience from something that is a mass experience. Also, what was said earlier about mass-market franchise, a limited time to create the game and the programmers not really caring because the company knows it's going to make money already would also be factors.


That said, I've been VERY pleasantly surprised by the Narnia movies. I love those books immensely - they've been an influence in my own writing, so, naturally, when "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" came out, I was crossing my fingers and was so happy that it, and the later "Prince Caspian" turned out quite well. If they do go ahead and make "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" it had BETTER be fantastic because that was my favorite of the Narnia stories. I am a bit dissapointed that the movie makers used the "Bloodless Carnage" trope. I'm pretty sure I'd imagined more blood when I'd read the books. I was also baffled by the first castle siege in the "Prince Caspian" movie because I didn't remember that happening in the book, but it's been a while since I've read it, so my memory could be fuzzy. I was a little nitpicky on how the movie "aged up" Caspian, too... I'd always imagined him as a young boy, 12-13 or so, not as an Estrogen Brigade Bait young man.

Shortcomings aside, I was impressed by the addition of gryphons to the movies (I didn't remember them being in the books), and that... that is PURE LOVE for me, since I adore gryphons. That would be one thing that the movies added that I not only do not mind but am actually very pleased over.

[Immortal_One]

I don't think I have played a movie based game that I actually liked. I got through a few of them, but they weren't anything special. They just kinda glorified the movie. Take X-Men: Origins for example. It was hailed for it's great graphics and for what movie it represented, but the gameplay was sub par. Nothing more than beating up the bad guys on one frame, go to the next. Rinse and repeat until a boss batle. That was my experience with a lot of movie based games. I never really liked them.

Game based movies are much, much worse. I don't think I ever want to talk about the Resident Evil movies and Angelina Jolie as Laura Croft was an insult. Game based books are a bit more acceptable, as you can imagine the characters as you wish to do so. Although I never really played a lot of the games that were made into books, which means I haven't read any game based books, but the idea of a game based book seems alright :P