Jacob Saylor of This Is My Joystick Writes: "The film industry has seen many movies trying to facade as epic video game translations. I could make a sprawling list for you, but for 80% of the gaming-to-movie films that absolutely fail, please just visit Uwe Boll’s resume. When I first heard about Prince of Persia from Mike Newell, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton, I didn’t expect much.
I mean we have one really established actor, an actress whose biggest role yet is as James Bond’s sex partner for a night in Quantum of Solace, and a director whose biggest hit yet was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. When push came to shove though, and Hollywood decided to actually put some effort into a ‘video game movie’, it kicked some major box office ass… as well as mine for thinking it was going to be lame."
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
If the guy who directed the movie doesn't care about the game it's based on, why should we care about the movie? It might as well have been a original summer blockbuster for all he cared.
Yeah, not agreeing with this article at all.
1. The director actually hates movies and did his best to make a movie that was fun but not a reference to the games at all.
2. The actors involved don't care about games.
3. It's a silly movie.
it didnt matter because they tried to do pirate of the carribean on the sand , with lesser actors (yes even compared to orlando bloom) .
Hell even the promo were more about pirates of the Carribean , than the franchise itself .
This movie was as insulting as the Last airbender , insulting the original stuff , to basically do a lesser version of existing summer movies
Yeah...this movie sucked. The dialogue was forgettable, the music was practically non-existent, and the director obviously didn't care.
Silent Hill remains the only great video game movie.
Then again, at least Super Mario Bros. is entertaining.