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Kotaku being Kotaku (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/games

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At this point I'm going to Ladbrokes and betting against everything Kotaku promotes. They are like Jim Cramer of the gaming industry.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

the terrible movie ensures that a good one will never be made.

Super Mario Bros got another movie.

But generally, video games don't usually work as movies. So it isn't that big of a loss, lol

[–] Rhynoplaz 23 points 2 months ago

Super Mario Bros got another movie.

Not all of us have another 30 years to wait for everyone to forget about the first disaster.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will rewatch a wasted Hoskins and Leguizamo riffing lines in the 90s mario bros forever. That movie is so terrifically bad its awesome.

[–] Rhynoplaz 8 points 2 months ago

"Hey, what should our Goombas, a big head with feet and no body, look like in this movie? "

"Obviously, they should have HUGE bodies and a tiny little head!"

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They generally don't work as movies because no one ever follows the story that's right in front of them. They always add some stupid artistic bullshit preference of their own which causes a huge disconnect from the source material.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Writing for games is usually different than writing for movies.

I believe this is why games tend to do well as TV series -- more overlap there.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 1 points 2 months ago

I don't buy that. It's possible but the producers always want to make it "theirs" and it's not. It'll never be theirs. The best they could do is just follow the source material as much as possible.

No one cares about your "quirky" changes. And this is quite evident in all the video game tv series that fail. Because the source material was basically thrown away completely. Because they think we'll gobble up anything just because of the name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I feel there's this trend where movie directors must and shall make their own story in whatever world is in front of them, instead of trying to make a movie that would fit in the game, or simply take the game's story and make a movie out of that.

It's why Lord of The Ring was so fucking good (Christopher Lee/Saruman read the books every year of his life, and corrected Peter Jackson whenever necessary), whereas Rings of Power is shit (I mean, a loving Orc family? What the FUCK have they been snorting!?). It's also why I'm hopeful to get something good out of Henry Cavill directing any 40k movie (that, or we're getting nothing, at best. At worst someone else takes over and we're getting female custodes for no good reason).

[–] Zahille7 3 points 2 months ago

Idk that first Silent Hill movie is actually pretty good imo.