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Film Director John Woo Licenses 'Metroid' Game
2004-04-07, 11:07 AM #1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=598&ncid=790&e=3&u=/nm/20040407/film_nm/leisure_metroid_dc

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2004-04-07, 11:09 AM #2
<Blood_Asp> hey genki
<Blood_Asp> guyess what
<Blood_Asp> i KNOW SOMETHING YOU DO NOT KNOW
<Genki> your a girl?
<Genki> knew that
<Genki> http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2004/4/6-33 metroid movie?
<Genki> knew that
<Genki> i'm getting paid tommorrow?
<Genki> knew that

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2004-04-07, 11:12 AM #3
I actually thought once what this would be like, and decided it would suck. I mean, to really make a good movie it would have to be like 3-4 hours long at least, plus there's like no dialogue whatsoever... and it's too much of an adventure/exploration game to fill up the entire time with action-packed-explosions. :\

I'm definately wishing him good luck, because I'd love to see something really cool come out of this... but I'd really be surprised if it isn't a flop.

AND THEY'D BETTER GET SOMEBODY GOOD TO PLAY SAMUS!! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

[edit] - okay, after reading it, I see he said it's going to be mostly an "origin story about samus" ... so most of what I just said up there is void. X_x
*shuts up*

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2004-04-07, 11:14 AM #4
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Correction:
I actually thought once what this would be like, and decided it would suck. ...</font>


Name one video-game-turned-into-a-movie that didnt suck...

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2004-04-07, 11:15 AM #5
Yeah, another movie based on a video game. Hollywood is running out of ideas.

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2004-04-07, 11:16 AM #6
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
Name one video-game-turned-into-a-movie that didnt suck...

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I heard some people liked resident evil... but I've never seen it or even played the game :x

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2004-04-07, 11:16 AM #7
the one metroid sprite comic i read had this up so far on what they think it will be :P
Might have language at some point

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2004-04-07, 11:17 AM #8
I hope it doesn't suck like a Metroid...

...However, I do see a few ways it could be reasonably adapted to a decent film... Metroid's been adapted to comics multiple times, and they were able to add enough story and dialogue to make it good.

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2004-04-07, 11:19 AM #9
Having never played any of the Metroid games, all I can say is... oh dear. FF:TSW was just wrong, but looked nice, while Resident Evil was just Another Horror Movie.

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2004-04-07, 11:23 AM #10
I've heard Tomb Raider was good, though I never saw either. I always thought Mortal Kombat was pretty decent.

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2004-04-07, 11:26 AM #11
Super Mario Brothers.


Hopefully, though, it doesn't suck.

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2004-04-07, 11:30 AM #12
The first MK wasn't too bad. I liked it. The first Tomb Raider wasn't too bad either. Haven't seen the second one.

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2004-04-07, 12:37 PM #13
The first MK and Resident Evil were OK. Didn't somebody license rights to DooM the movie? THAT would rock. It has a movie plot anyways.

Nevermind. It's going to suck. It's going to be rated PG-13 or so most of Google says. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif] Why couldn't they just make it rated R and show us zombies getting disembowled and Imps exploding into gory gibs of doom?

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2004-04-07, 12:55 PM #14
PG-13 movies have a much larger target base, and so more profits.

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2004-04-07, 12:58 PM #15
screw that... by making it rated R they're only excluding kids who can't either a) get in illegally, or b) convince their parents it's OK

not enough to justify ruining the movie

just look at all 3 Matrix movies...

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2004-04-07, 1:11 PM #16
But... they were all R rated. What's your point?

(P.S. don't get me wrong, i understand what you're saying, i'm just not sure what you ment by bringing up the Matrix)

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2004-04-07, 1:24 PM #17
Tomb Raider SUCKED, in my opinion at least.

Of course, I actually enjoyed the Super Mario Bros. movie, though I was young at the time I saw it.
2004-04-07, 1:36 PM #18
The Metroid game hardly have any dialoge. Is there even dialog? I'm playing Metroid Prime so far and I have yet to hear Samus say something.
2004-04-07, 1:38 PM #19
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Yecti:
screw that... by making it rated R they're only excluding kids who can't either a) get in illegally, or b) convince their parents it's OK

not enough to justify ruining the movie

just look at all 3 Matrix movies...

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They dont care about the movie they care about the profits...
2004-04-07, 1:41 PM #20
and what I was saying was that all 3 matrix movies were rated R and they were EXTREMELY profitable.

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2004-04-07, 1:53 PM #21
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cloud:
The Metroid game hardly have any dialoge. Is there even dialog? I'm playing Metroid Prime so far and I have yet to hear Samus say something. </font>


No, Metroid Prime doesn't have any at all. Samus is the only human in the entire game... Super Metroid had some at the beginning (actually, it was samus telling a story, but if they made a movie out of it they'd probably do a flashback or something and show her interacting with the scientists) ...

But like I said before, the website said it's going to be about her origins... so if they do something like the old Nintendo Power comics, she'll start out as a little kid living in some strange-planet colony with her family when they're attacked by the pirates, then taken in by the Chozo and raised as a warrior. Or something like that...

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2004-04-07, 2:16 PM #22
the only times of Samus speaking are her telling a story, and her yelling at the computer in fusion near the end of the game, in fusion you also 'hear' her thoughts on whats happening at the time

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2004-04-07, 5:13 PM #23
someone is actually making a doom movie?

no... no... no... if i'm not involved i can't let it happen... if i'm not involved there is a possibility of it sucking... I MUST STOP THE MOVIE OR TAKE CONTROL OF IT

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2004-04-07, 5:17 PM #24
John Woo USED to be the man. Now all of his movies are just HUGE explosions followed by crappy gun fights. Hardboiled and Faceoff > *

Gah. Metroid. w00?!?! Eww.

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2004-04-07, 6:17 PM #25
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
Name one video-game-turned-into-a-movie that didnt suck...

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pokemon, the first movie.

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2004-04-07, 6:20 PM #26
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Yecti:
screw that... by making it rated R they're only excluding kids who can't either a) get in illegally, or b) convince their parents it's OK

not enough to justify ruining the movie

just look at all 3 Matrix movies...

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/me hugs the australian m and ma ratings.


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2004-04-07, 6:31 PM #27
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by alpha1:
pokemon, the first movie.

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NOTE: The game also must not suck. Obviously the movie does not suck as much as the game, since the game sucks also. Thus, equal suckage.

Anyway, I'm all for a Metroid movie, if it is done well. I'd rather have a sequel to Metroid Prime, though [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-04-07, 7:20 PM #28
They should make a Zelda movie. If I wrote, directed, and produced it, it would not suck.

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2004-04-07, 8:16 PM #29
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jedi Josh:
They should make a Zelda movie. If I wrote, directed, and produced it, it would not suck.</font>


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2004-04-07, 8:16 PM #30
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jedi Josh:
They should make a Zelda movie. If I wrote, directed, and produced it, it would not suck.
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A Zelda movie would kick *** , if directed/prodcued rightly.


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2004-04-08, 1:43 AM #31
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
Name one video-game-turned-into-a-movie that didnt suck...

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Street Fighter (Alpha and the Animated Movie)?

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2004-04-08, 1:57 AM #32
Supposedly the first Mortal Kombat movie was pretty good. I've never seen it though, so I wouldnt know.

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2004-04-08, 2:40 AM #33
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cool Matty:
NOTE: The game also must not suck. Obviously the movie does not suck as much as the game, since the game sucks also. Thus, equal suckage.

Anyway, I'm all for a Metroid movie, if it is done well. I'd rather have a sequel to Metroid Prime, though [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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hey, i'm playing through that remark again
and Matty, November [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]


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2004-04-08, 10:14 AM #34
It could be about how she finds the baby metroid and brings it to the scientists :P and then go on from there. Or make it so there is more than one person so they could talk with eachother and such.

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2004-04-08, 10:17 AM #35
bleh, no they don't need to add a new character. they tried that in the nintendo power comic and he was dumb. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

I like the idea of having it about the discovery of the baby metroid, though... in fact, they could center alot of the movie around the labs and researching metroids, and have some samus-shoot-things action sequences here and there. That would be neat. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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2004-04-08, 10:26 AM #36
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cool Matty:
NOTE: The game also must not suck. Obviously the movie does not suck as much as the game, since the game sucks also. Thus, equal suckage.</font>


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2004-04-08, 10:28 AM #37
Well there was a decent comic made in the last few months, slowly being translated through...

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2004-04-08, 10:33 AM #38
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Genki:
Well there was a decent comic made in the last few months, slowly being translated through...

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Heehee...
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2004-04-08, 11:21 AM #39
OH man, I'd love to see what Peter Jackson could do with Zelda. *drools*
2004-04-08, 11:30 AM #40
Wow. That would just rock!

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