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Originally Posted by dragon wench  You know Sib, (and Kipi too  ) I think we are just going to have to agree to disagree, because I don't think either of us are going to be persuaded the other is right |
True, though my intentions actually weren't to persuade any of you to change you opinion. Just pointing out that I disagree with you, and wanted to give some explanations why so that no-one can come to me and state that "You disagree with us, but you don't give any reasons why you do"
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The other thing is, but why even worry about games being turned into movies?
There are so many potentially interesting themes or concepts upon which to base a move... So why find inspiration in something as generic as a video game?
You'd be better off watching a bunch of campy old spaghetti westerns, which had the same kind of sharply delineated black/white, good/evil, right/wrong dichotomy.
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Actually, I'm not worried about games being turned to movies as long as there is possibility that the movie could be good. And... as this thread is, after all, about games turned to movies, I wasn't touching the side of other concepts being inspirating movies...
Oh, and to get closer to the actual topic of this thread, I agree that Boll shouldn't made any more movies, dependless where it's basing, as so far I don't know any good movie from him. And unless Boll is going to prove me otherwise, I'm sticking on that opinion.
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Originally Posted by CE To continue you example, let's say that all wrestlers have a genetically determined brain disease that makes their cognitive abilities lower than healthy people. Then it is not stereotyping but just a fact to say that wrestlers are more stupid (or in a nicer way, have lower cognitive abilities) than healthy people.
My reasoning is that movies based on computer games, so far, must be bad because of the innate errors in computer games. But as I said, I do not exclude that in the future, we may get computer games with qualities that makes it possible to make good movies out of them. That would be analogous to say that in the future, we may have smart wrestlers thanks to genotherapy that can alter their faulty code. |
You have a good point there. But also, how can we be sure that games even sold today doesn't have potential to be turned to good movie unless someone with good abilities try to do so? And I'm not counting Boll among those who have those abilities...