films based on games, and other such nonsense

hi, it’s been a while.

Life’s been good recently, i’ve been to every lesson for three weeks and i get paid on friday. i’m pretty sure i know what to get laur for christmas now (which is a secret because she reads this and i don’t trust any of you bastards), and she’ll love it, i think. we saw 30 days of night in the end, by the way, and it wasn’t very good.

recently i’ve been appreciating my friends a lot, as well as documentaries, and how good animal crossing for DS is. i really must get one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_based_on_video_games

^^^^ i found this cool wikipedia page with a list of movies based on games. there’s a few there that i didn’t know were in production and i must say i’m quite excited for. i saw the trailer for the Hitman movie at the cinema and i imagine it’s really good (or really average, either way i think i’ll enjoy it).

american mcgee’s alice seems like a cool idea for a film, i’ve never played the game but it looks good, and lauren likes it too. i’m looking forward to it. City of heroes will be incredible if the casting’s good, and it doesn’t take itself seriously. i’m hoping for something like The Mystery Men, because i love that movie. the devil may cry movie will be fucking sweet as long as someone awesome plays Dante, or it’s completely CGI (which i think i would prefer).

Everquest, i’m not too excited about. i love epic medieval fantasy but the everquest universe has always seemed kind of lame. something about it screams low-budget to me, but it’ll probably be funny to watch, at least. gears of war and god of war would both be amazing, if they get the budget and cast they deserve.

metal gear solid, of course i’m especially excited about- i’m a rabid mgs fanboy, i love the series, and i can’t see them messing it up. hideo kojima wouldn’t allow anything to be released that wasn’t top-quality.

onimusha would be badass, as would prince of persia. although there’s a lot of chance of them being messed up. i’m trying to think who’ll play the prince of persia, and the only thing popping into my head is viggo mortensen for some reason. he looks the part, at least.

Silent Hill 2 i’m looking forward to, i love the games and the film was good too. i enjoyed it, at least. it’s a different director though but that doesn’t bother me too much.

i used to live and breathe soul calibur, so naturally i’m very very excited about the movie. as long as it’s not too actiony and has a lot of story (though the chances of that being true are slim).

Warcraft is probably what I’m most excited about. i absolutely love the setting and story, and the fact that it’s live action is a good thing, in my opinion. yes, we did all love the fmv sequences in warcraft III, especially when grom hellscream and thrall fought mannoroth, but i think live action would be perfect. the tauren should look sweet. i hope it focuses on the grunt troops (though i doubt it will) and is as epic as lord of the rings.

one thing though- the sims movie. wtf! that’s just weird, and i hope it never gets made.

i’ll update again soonish because i’ve got work in a bit.

chet x