Castlevania movie drops whip for sword

great, it's like metal gear solid movie without the stealth action... or halo without master chief wearing a helmet

OR like dracula with no fangs...just rip the soul out and there's your movie... no wonder these movies are all flops

Minus the whip, and with an addition of a sword, Belmont's just Conan. If they wanted Conan, they should have just made a fuckin' Conan movie. Ugh.

can you hear the excitement? [pin drops]

great is right. another asshole ruins a perfect opportunity with talentless and ignorant slop. I was hoping the castlevania franchise would be the one to actually get a decent film. i guess i was wrong. fuck the sword. bring back the vampire killer!

Whips=Indiana Jones.
Indiana Jones already does the whole whip thing and probably the most recognizable character that uses whips.

Did anyone really expect this to be good? Hollywood fucks up every game-to-movie adaptation. I'd thought we'd all learned that by now.

FYI: This "script review" is based on the first draft of the script and has since been through major rewrites.

Now this movie sounds like a miserable, little pile of lies.


(Yes, I know that's not the exact quote from SotN.)

God I hate paul ws anderson. He makes terrible movies and he knocked up the woman of my dreams. People give Uwe Boll a hard rap, but at least he doesn't pretend to be more than what he is. Mr anderson claims to be a fan boy but he perverts video game movies just as badly. i would not be surprised to discover he really was behind the Super Mario Bros. movie.

The only Castlevanias I like are the ones without whips. SotN, AoS, DoS.

ok, this movie has failed even before it has come out.

Are they going to replace Dracula with King King?

I stopped caring at "Paul W.S. Anderson."

It could be like Doom. That movie didn't have demos or a portal to hell and for a while wasn't even going to take place on Mars. And doom was still...um...it was...a movie.

to all the people who seem to put us castlevania fans down for hating this whole non-whip thing.... lets think for a second here... castlevania is an awesome game franchise that has been revived by Mr. "Iga", who started with symphony of the night and has in some way shape or form created every castlevania game since then... if u know anything about the game then you know the whip is the focal point of the series of games... play Lament of Innocence and see it. I admit LoI sucked when compared to other castlevania games, but it makes up for it with its storyline and some of its memorable boss battles... anyways... the whip is infused with the first belmont's girlfriend... a woman that sacrificed her own soul to the power of the whip (which started off as just an alchemy whip) creating a whip infused with the divine power of love...
and to anybody thinking there's no plot to the castlevania games... FAIL there's a ton of great storyline in castlevania, look up an official timeline of castlevania history and you'll notice not every game is just a belmont killing dracula, the motivations for killing him and dracula's intentions are not always the same... there is also a huge lineage to learn about and follow in regards to not only the belmonts who have been fated to slay dracula, and btw the belmonts haven't always been famous... many belmonts had been outcasts in different points in history due to different reasons... Simon was loved by the villagers of the Transylvanian countryside, while Leon was ousted from Romania and fell from grace, losing his status as lord and his family's honor when the church told him not to abandon his army to save his kidnapped love..)

in portrait of ruin you play as Jonathan Morris,(a boy in the Morris lineage, a family related to the Belmonts, who somehow gained the task -nay- honor, of guarding the Vampire Killer until the Belmonts could return...)
jonathan wasnt happy about having to defeat this new vampire named Brauner... he wasn't even able to unlock the Vampire killer's true powers and felt inadequate... he didnt want to own up to his fate, that the only way a Morris could unlock the vampire killer's power was by sacrificing his own life... anyways play the game and see what happens with him.

im kinda just shooting randomly in the dark here but i felt compelled to defend my viewpoint in keeping the vampire killer (the "whip" to the ignorant) central to the movie adaptation of the game.

Please mr. Iga-san, fly over here and save this movie! don't let these producers butcher my fav game series ever! (second is metal gear... hmm also a konami game...) (third is silent hill... great movie adaptation btw... another konami game you say? whaaat? lol)
hopefully, the mantra "Konami games make great movies" can hold true after the castlevania and metal gear game movies. Sorry for the long post but i had to help set things str8.

Its just like the people from American Pie making the Metroid movie. Japanese games don't convert to movies unless made by the original company. Look at Resident Evil, Capcom helped with it. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children was made by Square Pictures, a subsidiary of Square Enix. I think that if they want to make a movie of Castlevania, they should stay with the whip, because of how it has become an icon of the real Castlevania games.

It is just a habit of Hollywood to take away the game stuff and move on to the big-groups-with-tons-of-guns American expectancy. It seems to either be extremely violent or horribly stupid comedy. It is just plain ridiculous. I say, have Konami help with the movie, or make it CGI. A live action Castlevania movie would fail becuase, yes, it would basically be Indiana Jones.

An animated movie would bring back favorite characters and make it better. It would be like making the Duke Nukem movie without Duke, and making a Metroid movie without Samus. It just can't work.