In fact, Hollywood seems to have realized this themselves and they’re now digging deep into many successful videogame series planning to make movies from them. But as we all know, the movie version never surpasses the videogame version of the story.
Hollywood as a whole is dropping the ball in many ways, but you can’t really blame them. Like with todays music, the majority of movies nowadays are being seen mainly by teenagers. So, is it a surprise that the average movie you see advertised for theaters is a Horror, Comic Book, Silly Comedy, or Videogame movie?
Sure you have some serious films that come out, but they mainly get popular after they hit DVD’s nowadays. The Major money is being spent on the genres I’ve mentioned above.
Games like Assassins Creed, Call of Duty 4, and now Metal Gear Solid 4 are really giving powerful storylines that are the emotion thrilling kind Hollywood used to thrive on.
So is Videogames surpassing Hollywood, or is Hollywood still and forever the best place for great deep storylines?
It is nearly impossible for Hollywood to make a good video game based movie by cramming all story and detail in two hours. So they make it a typical action/horror bullshit movie with very little in common with the actual video game story. You definitely know that it’s going to piss off gamers and casual movie goers by doing that.
Anyway, with video games, people can take their time to play the games and enjoy its stories at multiple settings.
Domingo, singling out one particular series of films made by a small group of people as indicative of everything Hollywood produces is retarded. Epic fail.
Also, I’m declaring myself the winner of this discussion and putting an end to it since nothing useful will come of it.