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Wednesday, 22 December 2021

Is Adapting video games as a movie hard?





So in today's age we get movies based on video games adapted on screen which result of fans getting annoyed and disappointed with it which resulting of fans getting upset about how much the producers and directors with messing the source material and that they are ignoring the fans and not taking in their criticism. Well there is been Comic book superheroes that were adapted on Tv and Movie like Batman 66 and Superman the movie from Richard Doner and Christopher Reeve and we'll get Tim Burton's Batman film Sam Rami's Spider-man than later Iron man and The MCU you name it that have respect the source material following the disastrous Batman and Robin from 1997 that bomb hard and result of Batman to be under developing for a new film before 2005 hoping if studios can learn about their lessons or that something studios should listen to the fans. 


 
But look no further and we can Sonic The Hedgehog trailer that was out back in 2019 which cause a firestorm of fans roasting the design of how bad it went through but look no further we get the redesign choice that the fans want and later trailer that was out in November 2019 and push for a February 2020 release and fans were being listen to from the studio Paramount picture's which gets me to wonder how should an video game movie be adapted is listening to the fans getting the characters design right and how the video game talk about. Well yes or eventually there was been Sub-plots character thoughts and changing the characters and personality. 


Sure other movies based on video games didn't get the memo right which was Warcraft Assassin's Creed (Oh boy that one hit me hard) Later Hitman who can't forget about Mario Brothers movie Street Fighters and the other movies based on Video Games in the early 2000s that i wish not to speak about cause they didn't even respect the source material and got so mad to boxed them in Vancouver i'm not gonna get into that as for Tomb Raider yeah that one wasn't good while there is other video games going to be adapted but they will cause some problems if they are actually respect not mess up. Don't worry we did got Sonic Angry Birds and the sequel itself and There was the Resident Evil movie out in 2002 that were received positively or mostly mediocre

As for other video game movies that were adapted that. 

Miss the point 
Bizarre changes 
The story either becomes good or bad or worse Terrible 
It doesn't need to be like a cinematic movie 
Don't get why the video game is made and needs to be made in the first place.


I feel like that these studios will make a lot of money when these video game movies are a box office success and launch an universe and more sequels depending on how will they be launch and do well in the box office but won't cause when the first weekend comes around it will be an box office flop and later the second weekend comes and does poorly and flop. While not all do bad we did have Tomb Raider Sonic Angry birds its sequels that work well either they follow the story have it's source material faithful make the story good and how they have updated it. 

So while yes studios have followed the feedback like Sonic and getting the characters right and trying not to launch an video game universe like MCU or DCEU depending on will we see with them going to adapted on screen faithful and listen to the fans and yes perhaps for the fans who knows. 




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