I think Perfect Dark would make a good movie.
If I may interrupt the Fibber and Drastic show here…
I think Pirates of the Carribean may be the closest thing to a Secret of/Escape from/Curse of Monkey Island movie we may get. When I go, I’m gonna pretend Geoffrey Rush is the Pirate LeChuck, Orlando Bloom is Guybrush Threepwood, and Keira Knightley is Elaine Marley. Johnny Depp I guess can play the talking skull.
Tell you a game I loved, that I’d like to see a movie of…Goldeneye!
Actually, that kinda goes hand in hand with the topic. Games based on movies usually suck even more than movies based on games. But there are exceptions. And I’m looking forward to the next Resident Evil, and I’ll also throw in my hat for an Eternal Darkness movie.
FWIW, I’d assumed Max Payne was at least tongue-in-cheek, if not total parody. There are a great number of puns and jokes in the cut scenes and even the characters’ names. A huge amount of the conversations guards/thugs/mercenaries are having before you shoot them are discussions of action movie cliches, and other self-referential stuff. It’s a piss-take on the cliches of the hard-boiled noir genre that exists within that genre, the way Scream exists within the slasher flick genre.
Personally, I think this is some pretty strong evidence. I’d like to see Fibber’s attempt to reconcile this with the non-intentional parody theory.
That last quote is exactly the same as the Simpsons line where Marge says something to the effect of “That’s ridiculous, no one is watching us right now!”, and then they all pause and look around for a couple seconds.
In either one, the movie would need to add characters in order to make a decent story. With Myst, this could be done easily, while preserving the feel of the game. Essentially, the game is about wandering around weird-ass worlds, custom-made by some eccentric genius, or something. You could write in some new world that, for some reason, has people.
With Metroid, though, the whole allure of the game is that it’s you, one person, against a bunch of alien creatures. The fact that there’s only one character is a vital part of the experience. Throw a team of bounty hunters at the movie, or a group of people to be rescued, or anything of the sort, and you’ve instantly destroyed the essence of Metroid. What you have left may be a good movie, but it wouldn’t be a Metroid movie, in which case why bother with the license at all? Oh, yeah, because it’ll sucker fans of the game to see a (likely) sub-par movie.
Jeff
Oh, and for the record, I too thought that Max Payne was pretty obviously parody (and I also thought it was funny as hell). I mean, c’mon, even the name of the game is parodical (parody-esque? parodoxical? whatever).
Jeff
How about the Tiberian Dawn/Sun Games?
The first time I saw Con Air, I thought John Malkovich’s character reminded me a lot of Kane. He could probably do a good job with it too.
Hell, Jerry Bruckhemier or Micheal Bay could do a good job with it.
I was about to disagree with you, but he’d probably be able to pull it off, considering JC is pretty monotone.
The only problem is, I can easily see them trying to make it into a Matrix Rip-off. I like the Matrix, and the sequel, but AMFV needs a different touch.
Though if say…Lucasarts were to buy the rights to and remake AFMV using some of today’s tech, that would be interesting. As long as they can resist putting in all the stars wars references, it could be really good.
Except that both borrowed a lot from the first two Alien Movies and Predator. I figured Starcraft is the closest we’ll ever get to seeing an RTS set in the Alien universe, with some predators-like creatures thrown in as the third race(If nothing else, the Protoss looked a lot like the Predators).
Same for Contra. The ending stage was very Gigerish, and the two heros looked very much like Sly and Arnie in their prime.
They are both good games, but making a movie out of a game that borrowed from other movies in the first place(sometimes heavily) seems rather ironic and perhaps unnesscary, don’t you think?
Actually, they’ve been trying to get it going ever since the first game came out. They’ve never even gotten around(at One time, they wanted Arnie and Sly, I think) to casting it as far as I know. Apparently they lost the rights and had to start over from scratch because it took so long.
I’ll probably have grandkids before that movie comes out(and considering I don’t plan to have childern, you can see what I’m getting at here).
:rolleyes:
I was playing the same game you were. The fourth-wall breaching sequences you speak of were pretty clever, but they weren’t especially funny. If that was comedy, it was failed comedy.
As for the other lines you mention . . . wow. Mildly clever one-liners. Never heard those in action movies before. Yep, definately parody. :rolleyes:
What cuts of steak would be good with chocolate sauce and whipped cream? What kind of ice cream goes with a baked potato and a nice Burgundy?
That’s pretty much how I feel about mixing games and movies. I like 'em both, but I don’t feel the need to mix 'em. Things that make a game good (e.g. non-linearity) are often totally different than the things that make a movie good (e.g. linearity).
That being said, you could probably make a really fun flick out of Grim Fandango.
As for a movie based on Fallout – what’s wrong with Road Warrior? (Fallout was inspired by Wasteland which was inspired by Road Warrior.)
Wow, I opened a can of worms here. I just thought Max Payne would be a nice movie to check your brain at the door and watch some explosions.
Star Fox, anyone? It would probably have to be all CG. Guys in animal suits seems a bit silly. I think it would make a nice kids’ movie. Just enought plot to work with, lots of explosions, and a happy ending. Yea!
I can see F-Zero the same way. Characterize the four main guys more and throw in a villian.
Pilotwings could make a decent movie. Kinda like Police Academy in the air, but the title is “great movies,” so nevermind.
I think I solved the mystery of why you don’t get it’s a parody, but to explain it I’d have to start a Pit thread, and I’m far too lazy for all that.
I’ll also add a 
just to make sure you know I was at least semi-kidding.
You bastard.
Well, after reading far more about Max Payne than I ever thought I’d have reason to, I’ll third the much earlier nominations of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. It could be adapted for the big screen with very few changes. The hero actually has a distinct personality (a rarity in games), the supporting roles are well characterized, the storyline is both coherent and interesting, and there’s even real tension and suspense. Chop out the more game-like puzzles and you’ve got yourself a pretty strong mystery/thriller script.
Possibly, then, the OP is not asking “What games are so good they should be movies?” but rather “What games would make good movies?” Nobody said that only good games make good movies, if you follow me.
I keep wishing Square would make a full-fledged Vagrant Story movie. It has a pretty good plot, rich medieval scenery and costumes, big ol’ monsters, and some memorable scenes (I’m thinking of “Now begins the slowest dance,” “Get thee gone, Darkness!”, and “Grissom, you have left this coil!”). The Shakespearean touches to the translated dialogue were also quite interesting.
…So I say, but the truth is I’m asking for a Vagrant Story movie just so I can see me some live or fully rendered Ashley butt 