h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I haven't seen any of the Resident Evil films, but how can a film be made from a game? surly it would be cr*p?

Well it all depends, history teaches us yes, films of games are crap but som games I think could make class films:-

Deus Ex, Doom and Beneath a steel sky.

Some games have great ideas and narratives, if they do have then potentially they could make good films. Still said films could also be shite.

Also games baced on films can be crap also-die hard, need I say more

Wait till you've not played the new Star Wars game.

Back in the day GoldenEye was the dogs proverbials.

The starwars games are good though, I cannot wait to play the new star wars game

I will second the shout for "GoldenEye" surely the best console FPS of all time.

Star Wars is brilliant.

Most films based on games tend to be of games that have next to no plot, example Street Fighter, Tomb Raider or Resident Evil. So you pretty much expect the films to have cr*p plots.

It should be interesting to see what film makers do with stronger plotted games, especially the rumoured Deus Ex and Silent Hill movies.



As for games of films, most i find are rubbish cash-ins, though their are some good ones like Goldeneye, some of the Star Wars games like Knights of the Old Republic, and some of the Indiana Jones games like Fate of Atlantis.

Well the *best* bit about Deus Ex is the edge of your seat plot. It was amazing getting more andf more immersed in the storyline.

Anyone else think that Deus Ex2 was a real disappointment?

I've just read the backlog and can't believe I haven't seen any of the films mentioned except for Starwars, Moonraker, and Swarm (saw them all the first time round)...

I just watched Wit on video - anyone seen that?

What's "Wit"?

I just watched "50 First Dates". It was terrible.

Wit is a film adaptation of a Pulitzer prize winning play about an English professor, who specialises in John Donne, struggling with her loss of control while undergoing chemotherapy.

Sounds grim, but is moving in an unsentimental way, and quite funny in places. It's a remarkable film, mainly because of the screenplay, and lack of Hollywood disease of the week saccharine. An American film I think, but stars Emma Thompson.

I've just seen the Butterfly Effect. And now I can't wait for the story of the father and the grandfather!

Went to the cinema again yesterday (we appear to be living in one at the moment) and saw the wonderful "Bubba Ho-Tep", starring Bruce 'Evil Dead' Cambell as Elvis living in a retiremnet home with a man who thinks he's JFK fighting off an ancient Egyptian mummy.

Tasteless, funny and very poignant on the subjects of fame and old age, it's a zero budget movie that really entertained me.

Thank you ver' much.

I've been wanting to see Bubba Ho-Tep for ages, i'll probably have to wait for it to come out on DVD or something.

Saw Collateral last night.

Fell asleep twice. Some annoying continuity errors.

If you fell asleep I take it that it wasn't all that good, either that or you tired watching at three in the morning, it's oftern quite hard to watch films then, or even play real time stratergy games, after starting at nine, I feel tired, must not sleep.

Saw Collateral last night too!

It's OK-ish. Mr. Cruise acts to the best of his ability. Unfortunately, his ability isn't huge. He plays a bad guy. You can tell he's a bad guy, because he has a beard.

The wolf was good, though.

RF

Watched Secret Window the other day, which was pretty good. The ending had a good twist and was a bit strange, my girlfriend said she reckoned she had it worked out. You can kinda tell it was from a Stephen King short story, ending very suddenly. Makes you feel abit short changed, a bit of an anticlimax almost, but maybe it's good that not all films aren't too predictable. BTW does anyone know exactly how many films Stephen King has lended his work too. Here's a few:

Christine - books ok dunno about the film.

The Tommy Knockers - Strange

The Running Man - I think he wrote that one under a different pseudonym.

Carrie - good horror, his first book.

The Stand - More of a mini series (like the second version of the Shining) - great book i thought, though i did read it when i was 16. Could be e really good film, epic perhaps. Any takers.

The Shining - probably the best adaptation. Nicholson made it his though *All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy* - as my friend Dave would love to quote. One's of Kubricks best also (Though he did't have many bad ones.

Misery -that scene with slegdehammer, just can't look.

There's dozens more, good and bad. Can anyone think of some obscure ones. Oh, I forgot Stand by me. Did anyone think that Dreamcatcher was a mixture of his previous films.

I just realised i now far too much about this guys work, think i better go and lie down.