Ghostbusters III...

I came upon an article at firstshowing.net talking about GB3. They are saying that it's rumored that Seth Rogen may be cast in it as he is one of those flavor of the moment actors. Well he said that it'd be a bad idea to make that movie unless they have an amazing script.

Someone at the comments was wondering how many Ghostbusters movies they have made and someone else mentioned fan made movies so I made a comment about the whole thing:

All those movies like Freddy vs Ghostbusters are fan made and thus don't count. It's like saying all those fan made star wars videos count as official Star Wars alongside the six movies. They don't even count as spinoffs. There are only two official Ghostbusters movies both starring the original cast.

Anyway I'm not sure about the prospects of a new movie right now. I don't think it takes a genius to figure out that it'll need an amazing script. So Seth Rogen didn't make some kind of big revelation or anything. Looking back I don't even think Ghostbusters II was all that it could have been. Sure it had its moments but it wasn't as good as part one in my opinion.

I think the game has more potential at this moment. I just hope it's true what I heard Dan Akroyd said that Atari has picked it up and it'll get published.

Actually Ghostbusters II was pretty derivative. I mean they start off not as ghostbusters for one reason or another.. then they get their big break and become ghostbusters. So they have a montage\exposition with them busting ghosts. Meanwhile something ominous is also going on with Venkman's love interest (sigourney weaver in both movies). So they investigate and find out that big bad demon from a foreign country is a threat to our reality. They then have to deal with some bureaucrats who want to lock them up because they think they are frauds.... but they prevail when all hell breaks loose and they have no choice but to believe them. They end up conjuring up a 100 foot novelty creature... make some destruction.. blow up the demon some how and save the day.

That's basically the plot for both movies.

Some movies just don't need to be made. Like a certain movie that is a Payne to watch…. but that's a subject for another time and place.

Ghostbusters III...

I came upon an article at firstshowing.net talking about GB3. They are saying that it's rumored that Seth Rogen may be cast in it as he is one of those flavor of the moment actors. Well he said that it'd be a bad idea to make that movie unless they have an amazing script.

Someone at the comments was wondering how many Ghostbusters movies they have made and someone else mentioned fan made movies so I made a comment about the whole thing:

All those movies like Freddy vs Ghostbusters are fan made and thus don't count. It's like saying all those fan made star wars videos count as official Star Wars alongside the six movies. They don't even count as spinoffs. There are only two official Ghostbusters movies both starring the original cast.

Anyway I'm not sure about the prospects of a new movie right now. I don't think it takes a genius to figure out that it'll need an amazing script. So Seth Rogen didn't make some kind of big revelation or anything. Looking back I don't even think Ghostbusters II was all that it could have been. Sure it had its moments but it wasn't as good as part one in my opinion.

I think the game has more potential at this moment. I just hope it's true what I heard Dan Akroyd said that Atari has picked it up and it'll get published.

Actually Ghostbusters II was pretty derivative. I mean they start off not as ghostbusters for one reason or another.. then they get their big break and become ghostbusters. So they have a montage\exposition with them busting ghosts. Meanwhile something ominous is also going on with Venkman's love interest (sigourney weaver in both movies). So they investigate and find out that big bad demon from a foreign country is a threat to our reality. They then have to deal with some bureaucrats who want to lock them up because they think they are frauds.... but they prevail when all hell breaks loose and they have no choice but to believe them. They end up conjuring up a 100 foot novelty creature... make some destruction.. blow up the demon some how and save the day.

That's basically the plot for both movies.

Some movies just don't need to be made. Like a certain movie that is a Payne to watch…. but that's a subject for another time and place.

Ghostbusters III...

I came upon an article at firstshowing.net talking about GB3. They are saying that it's rumored that Seth Rogen may be cast in it as he is one of those flavor of the moment actors. Well he said that it'd be a bad idea to make that movie unless they have an amazing script.

Someone at the comments was wondering how many Ghostbusters movies they have made and someone else mentioned fan made movies so I made a comment about the whole thing:

All those movies like Freddy vs Ghostbusters are fan made and thus don't count. It's like saying all those fan made star wars videos count as official Star Wars alongside the six movies. They don't even count as spinoffs. There are only two official Ghostbusters movies both starring the original cast.

Anyway I'm not sure about the prospects of a new movie right now. I don't think it takes a genius to figure out that it'll need an amazing script. So Seth Rogen didn't make some kind of big revelation or anything. Looking back I don't even think Ghostbusters II was all that it could have been. Sure it had its moments but it wasn't as good as part one in my opinion.

I think the game has more potential at this moment. I just hope it's true what I heard Dan Akroyd said that Atari has picked it up and it'll get published.

Actually Ghostbusters II was pretty derivative. I mean they start off not as ghostbusters for one reason or another.. then they get their big break and become ghostbusters. So they have a montage\exposition with them busting ghosts. Meanwhile something ominous is also going on with Venkman's love interest (sigourney weaver in both movies). So they investigate and find out that big bad demon from a foreign country is a threat to our reality. They then have to deal with some bureaucrats who want to lock them up because they think they are frauds.... but they prevail when all hell breaks loose and they have no choice but to believe them. They end up conjuring up a 100 foot novelty creature... make some destruction.. blow up the demon some how and save the day.

That's basically the plot for both movies.

Some movies just don't need to be made. Like a certain movie that is a Payne to watch…. but that's a subject for another time and place.

Another movie comment... This one about Max Payne...

Firstshowing asked what people thought of the Max Payne movie. This is my comment:

I'm a big fan of both games. I never had a good feeling about this movie especially when I found out who they cast as Max Payne. I'm sorry but he doesn't look like Max Payne for starters and his personality doesn't fit either. When I saw the first photos from the movie I thought.. sure they have the visual style down but that's NOT Max Payne doing that shoot dodge. The girl who plays Mona is even worse.. she's not even remotely like the character in the game.. especially in the second game.

There wasn't anything supernatural in the games so if they put that into the movie that's another strike. The closest they got to anything like that was drug induced hallucinations... but those didn't have any demons in them. It's kind of funny too.. they remove the demons from Doom and add them to Max Payne. I guess it may be because if they stuck too close to the plot of the games it'd be even more of a standard generic action flick.

To be honest I have always thought that it wasn't such a good idea to make a movie from this game to begin with. The stories worked well in the games but I've always seen them as adapting and interpreting certain action movies like John Woo's movies into a game. So converting that into a movie is like a reverse conversion or doing a copy of a copy. It becomes a pale imitation of the original especially if they try to condense hours of story from two games into one movie. I've always felt that a movie based off the game is unnecessary. We already had Max Payne the movie in the form of the movies that the games where based on in my opinion.

By the way those complaining about Mona's part being small. It was very small in the first game as well. She only appeared in two plot points tops and it wasn't until the second game that she was a major character and a good one at that. Not that I'm defending it or anything.

Another movie comment... This one about Max Payne...

Firstshowing asked what people thought of the Max Payne movie. This is my comment:

I'm a big fan of both games. I never had a good feeling about this movie especially when I found out who they cast as Max Payne. I'm sorry but he doesn't look like Max Payne for starters and his personality doesn't fit either. When I saw the first photos from the movie I thought.. sure they have the visual style down but that's NOT Max Payne doing that shoot dodge. The girl who plays Mona is even worse.. she's not even remotely like the character in the game.. especially in the second game.

There wasn't anything supernatural in the games so if they put that into the movie that's another strike. The closest they got to anything like that was drug induced hallucinations... but those didn't have any demons in them. It's kind of funny too.. they remove the demons from Doom and add them to Max Payne. I guess it may be because if they stuck too close to the plot of the games it'd be even more of a standard generic action flick.

To be honest I have always thought that it wasn't such a good idea to make a movie from this game to begin with. The stories worked well in the games but I've always seen them as adapting and interpreting certain action movies like John Woo's movies into a game. So converting that into a movie is like a reverse conversion or doing a copy of a copy. It becomes a pale imitation of the original especially if they try to condense hours of story from two games into one movie. I've always felt that a movie based off the game is unnecessary. We already had Max Payne the movie in the form of the movies that the games where based on in my opinion.

By the way those complaining about Mona's part being small. It was very small in the first game as well. She only appeared in two plot points tops and it wasn't until the second game that she was a major character and a good one at that. Not that I'm defending it or anything.

Another movie comment... This one about Max Payne...

Firstshowing asked what people thought of the Max Payne movie. This is my comment:

I'm a big fan of both games. I never had a good feeling about this movie especially when I found out who they cast as Max Payne. I'm sorry but he doesn't look like Max Payne for starters and his personality doesn't fit either. When I saw the first photos from the movie I thought.. sure they have the visual style down but that's NOT Max Payne doing that shoot dodge. The girl who plays Mona is even worse.. she's not even remotely like the character in the game.. especially in the second game.

There wasn't anything supernatural in the games so if they put that into the movie that's another strike. The closest they got to anything like that was drug induced hallucinations... but those didn't have any demons in them. It's kind of funny too.. they remove the demons from Doom and add them to Max Payne. I guess it may be because if they stuck too close to the plot of the games it'd be even more of a standard generic action flick.

To be honest I have always thought that it wasn't such a good idea to make a movie from this game to begin with. The stories worked well in the games but I've always seen them as adapting and interpreting certain action movies like John Woo's movies into a game. So converting that into a movie is like a reverse conversion or doing a copy of a copy. It becomes a pale imitation of the original especially if they try to condense hours of story from two games into one movie. I've always felt that a movie based off the game is unnecessary. We already had Max Payne the movie in the form of the movies that the games where based on in my opinion.

By the way those complaining about Mona's part being small. It was very small in the first game as well. She only appeared in two plot points tops and it wasn't until the second game that she was a major character and a good one at that. Not that I'm defending it or anything.