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Who cares if your first to leave a comment! If that gives you some sort of excitement, you need to get a hobby or something! Leave a comment about the post!!

But anyways...why do I have a feeling this is gonna end up being like the "Doom" movie? In other words it'll be HORRIBLE!

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With Cliffy B executive producer, I bet we see him in there.

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@Chester have to agree game to film is rarely good. :P

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Has there ever been a good video game movie? Besides the highly successful Super Mario Brothers movie of course.

I can't believe there are enough 14 year old boys with $10 to throw away that constantly making craptastic movies like this is profitable.

That's right. 14 year old boys. Anybody over the age of 14 that goes to see this should be ashamed and soundly beaten.

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@ # 5,

Does waiting for it to hit the XBLVM count?

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Doom would have been a decent flick if they stuck to the story. You know the story that made the game kick ass. Hell, they turned Pinky into a guy who had no legs fused to a wheel chair.

Who knows about a film coming out in 2 years. The market will be saturated with flop movies based on games, toy line figures, and remakes of movies based on games.

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I really want this to be good, it's possible, but it won't be.

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Why so negative?

I know that most (okay, all) video game movies have been far from stellar, but that doesn't mean that this couldn't be the exception! This game has such an amazing mythology behind it that I think it could be a freakin' amazing movie.

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This movie is going to be brutally bad. I just know. Doom was goddawful and it had better source material.

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Cliffy B as Carmine? Woot.

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At least there's no Uwe Boll in sight...

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I'm sure it will be fun for what it is, a brainless summer action flick. Those not going in expecting a deep drama probably won't be disappointed. Personally, I'll give my money to anything with the name Gears on it.

Oh, and @ #5:
You, like the rest of us, are posting on an internet videogame blog, so get the f*** over yourself already.

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I liked Silent Hill... but that story line was kind of twisted up from the original.

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Games crossing over to the big screen have definitely been met with disdain. Rightfully so, not once has there been a successful adaptation. The same can be said of the route going the other way, movies made into games. Sure it’s done and with such reckless lack of conscience that we are thrown crap in hopes that the marketing ploys will pull the mammoth failure to redemption. Point in case, just about every Batman movie ever made was tried to be made into a game. You have exceptions here and there, like LOTR Return of the king, while this was not an excellent game it did bring you into the story line if not in bits and pieces and it held a degree of fun. But for the most part it doesn't work. Why? Basically it’s mostly in the script. Character development and plot all those things that happen in an A-List production have excellent script writers. When a movie is stripped down to become a game unless they intend to make it into one of the most boring RPG you could get your hands on there just isn't enough time (development time, not playing time) to develop character recognition like you would in a movie. Gamers have a short time window of interest before you can bore us again with dialog if you don't give us some action every once in a while we just take the game out and move on. Often we chastise the attempt and send it to the wayside to collect dust in the bargain bin.

Now the idea of GOW and Halo being a movie both have excellent potential if and only if the Fanboys do not get in the way of its success. Games to Movie Adaptations are like those movies that bare the disclaimer “based of a series of actual events” or “based on a true story”. While there is some truth to what is being told it was spiced up by script writers to engage the audience more. The same will be said for trying to make Gears or Halo as movies. The original game scripts and voice talents in either game were well, sorry guys, lack luster at best. It’s hard to get a game character to portray emotion that matches that of the voice over actor. And if either is to succeed writers have to have a lot of leeway to tweak the story line or character development to again engage the audience. Most important, just about all gamers are movie watchers, but not all movie watchers are gamers. This is a definite heavy blow to any Game adaptation. Movie watchers don’t care that we made our own personal connection with these characters because we become the characters in our games. So for the majority of movie watchers the Character development has to be spot on for them to relate. Unfortunately in doing so we the gamers who know and love our characters get pissed off because the movie producers didn’t stay true to the games character or story line. This is why I say “if the Fanboys do not get in the way…” I would love these to be made into movies, then us gamers could share to everyone what we enjoy so much, I don’t know if I could show up to the movie without my controller in hand. Its definitely going to be difficult knowing I’m not controlling Master Chief of Marcus Fenix.

Yes Cliffy will make an appearance, probably the guy that messes with the lights to scare you.

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Master Chief or Marcus Fenix

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@ Cass-D:

I Wish I could read it, But I dont wanna :)

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It's not so bad, people sometimes give game movies too hard of a time. Look at Tomb Raider, perfectly okay action movie(s) in their own right, and it's not like the source material was really known for its great story or anything.

Or the recent Hitman - ok yeah, not Oscar material, nor will it be in the top 100 films of all time, but still a good way to watch things blow up and people kick ass.

Besides the obvious trash coming from Uwe Boll, game movies these days are alright (not great, but definitely watchable, and maybe even worth the $10)

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Well from the picture the guy playing fenix looks like an idiot. The game characters where stupidly butch (like not human butch) but that guy looks like a bit of a weed, the fabric on his arms is a baggy and he looks like he could retract himself into his suit.

Anyway I'll not speculate on how good or bad this will be (didn't even know it was going to be made), but I'm hardly jumping for joy at the news (more cowering in a corner, hoping it's all an april fools)

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