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Originally Posted by Kipi  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...  |
I wouldn't say it's totally impossible, but if that happened, it would be in the same line as making a good movie with Barbie dolls, ie it would be a concept so far from the original so the expression "video game turned into a movie" would not at all be fitting anymore, not even "movie based on..." but rather "movie using this as an instrumental symbol...".
Let's say a really great director like Ozu, Keige or Kubrick made a movie using Barbie dolls. That movie would not be about the actual Barbie doll in the manner she is produced, with the characteristics that she actually has and the values they transfer. In the same manner, no great director would make a brilliant movie out of any existing computer game as it actually is, although it is fully possible to use video games, barbie dolls, Teletubbies or Big Brother in an abstract, symbolic, instrumental way to convey a message about something completely else. Then it's no longer a move "based on a computer game and even less a "game turned into a movie".
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