EA Montreal VP unconvinced by movies that 'really respect' games
by David Hinkle 
{ Sep 14th 2009 at 12:00PM }
While this shows confidence in Burns, Tascan seems worried about the effects of an overbearing game bible. "So far, when movies try to really respect the games they're not always the best quality," Tascan remarked.
Well, that explains it: game adaptations have just been too slavishly devoted to the source material. Oh, if only DOA: Dead or Alive hadn't been so intent on including the franchise's trademark nanobots and assassin sunglasses.
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Storm Eagle [Resident Capcom Megafan] @ Sep 14th 2009 12:03PM
It's just been revoked..
Judd @ Sep 14th 2009 1:00PM
"I'll have what she's having."
Plastic Rat @ Sep 14th 2009 10:58PM
Step 1) Say really dumb shit in public.
Step 2) Yell that you were holding nix.
Step 3) ?????
Step 4) Profit!!!!
nriveraexpress @ Sep 14th 2009 12:10PM
woa, woa...Army of 2 movie? when did that happen? and why? the game is ok
Damian @ Sep 14th 2009 12:11PM
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!
uncle jesse @ Sep 14th 2009 12:29PM
My dear officer, you could not even give me a parking ticket.
HedonisticKai @ Sep 14th 2009 12:15PM
this is totally offtopic... but does any1 remember a game (for either SNES or Genesis.. i dont remember)
where you play as an ant (i think) and you climb up and down floors having to knock down domino type walls...?
lol, ive been thinking about it all morning and how awesome it was...
HedonisticKai @ Sep 14th 2009 12:16PM
i forgot to add:: do you know/remember what it was called?
RobLink (Alex Kidd incarnate) @ Sep 14th 2009 1:14PM
Ask JC.
Mr Khan @ Sep 14th 2009 12:48PM
The fact that it's constantly these B-list (or lower) games getting movies, and almost never the A-listers that says something about the state of this cross-medium venture in the first place.
Kokomadeta @ Sep 14th 2009 12:53PM
Hey, DOA was a fun movie. Maybe I don't take movies as seriously as other people do, but I loved the action and fun of it all.
The only thing I didn't like was some of the cartoony sequences with that loser who was in to Helena. You know, where the hearts appeared and the music played. That was lame.
Batzarro @ Sep 14th 2009 1:33PM
I enjoyed it for what it was as well, but it pissed me off that they had foley sounds like planes and shotguns during fights. I mean, the faights where okay, why put in goofy noises?
Stevetrop @ Sep 14th 2009 12:54PM
My gosh while that is a picture of army of 2. It kinda makes me think of a gears of war game mixed with lethal weapon. Gears of Lethal Weapon War.
Two thirds of the game you'd hear the yelling between Murtaugh and Riggs. Then Riggs doing something crazy still making it out with getting hurt.
Batzarro @ Sep 14th 2009 1:31PM
No, on the DoA film they definitively should have gone with the Ninja Clone girls, Funny Looking Tengus trying to destroy the world, girls fighting over vegetables, guys trying to showoff to their dead girlfriends, ridiculous shots of moles getting named "Tina", and of course, any of the alternate suits Zack wears.
Either that, or they could have made the assassin an assassin and included Raido in there instead of Eric Roberts.
rells009 @ Sep 14th 2009 2:23PM
I'm sorry, but with the exception of Tomb Raider, how many game-based movies actually stick close to the source material?
RE? Nope.
Doom? Nope.
Mario? Nope.
MK? You can make an argument there but the acting, special fx and script was horrible.
The Dark Wayne @ Sep 14th 2009 2:57PM
TOO BAD YOU
The Dark Wayne @ Sep 14th 2009 2:58PM
WILL DIE
Ballistic H @ Sep 14th 2009 3:02PM
Silent Hill?
Storm Eagle [Resident Capcom Megafan] @ Sep 14th 2009 3:08PM
Dark Wayne, you have turned replying into an art form.
Rather than using "...." to show pause, you instead chose an entirely different post and it worked to your advantage sir.
The Dark Wayne @ Sep 14th 2009 4:31PM
i thought long and hard on it storm
Gamer4Life @ Sep 14th 2009 2:44PM
Going to movies from games is like going from a floating point number to an integer number, you loose data in the latter and depth/quality/story/etc in the former.
cylet @ Sep 14th 2009 3:10PM
no more video game movies... please....
Mike Santos @ Sep 14th 2009 3:37PM
Nice use of the Australian Facist and ham actor Mel Gibson
The Dark Wayne @ Sep 14th 2009 4:31PM
Mad Max overshadows all your life's achievements
(01) @ Sep 14th 2009 6:07PM
@ the Dark Wayne: Some guys write letters to movie stars. This guy writes letters to movies.
(01) @ Sep 14th 2009 6:06PM
I'm getting to old for this shit....
Mike Santos @ Sep 15th 2009 9:43PM
Yes Mad Max is likely 5x my life achievements, but that doesn't change the facts