Budget $125 million

>Budget $125 million
>Box office $40 million

Jesus christ what the actual FUCK went wrong?

>too nerdy for the dudebro moviegoers
>too shit for the video game nerds to go and see

Did anybody see much press for it? I barely watch any TV because I'm a cable cutter but I only saw a few commercials here and there the times I was. Its biggest problem is probably the AC bubble bursting many years ago.

name 1 (one) successful video game movie adaptation

This is the first time I've heard of it. Must have sucked.

It finished just as the story got started. The plot was very rushed and unless you played the games made no sense and it was written with the intent of having many man sequels despite being an unproven entity on the big screen.

It's a garbage cash grab that nobody in production respected, that's what went wrong

warcraft

The mortal kombat movie did well enough to pay for a sequel. Not that it was a good movie, but it was fun enough for a mindless pg-13 fantasy Kung fu flick.

The sequel was garbage though.

That's less "successful" and more like China bailed us out.

Also it was supposed to start a cinematic universe but clearly that's not happening

>director behind movies no one has heard of, none of them good
>same deal with the writers

Maybe if they hired some talented people it wouldn't suck shit.

Warcraft, although it was only saved by the Chinese market.

Warcraft was also a flop, then it became the highest grossing video game movie ever.

Graphics and story doesn't matter if there's no gameplay.

Silent Hill, the first Resident Evil movie

A lot of them were successful.
Unless by successful you mean good.

>that stump

>game that was known to be a bloody gorefest
>movie has absolutely no blood

Bravo. The sequel was fucking dog shit

Resident Evil. They all suck dick, but the first 2 were both a commercial success. Not sure about the rest.

Making films out of a video game story is like trying to make to food from plastic waste.

At least it gave us the MK theme.

>food analogy

Nice try faggot

Why the fuck does every franchise want to start a cinematic universe right out of the gate instead of building it up at the least?

it could be successful if they just went straight assassin stuff with it, but they decided abstergo was the correct route

the part of the games nobody ever actually liked

Well, there wasn't really much to go on in the first place. Gotta have good source material to make a good movie.

It's probably going to be more successful in international markets just like how Warcraft was profitable from China.

All the normies here in Mexico are hyped for AC.

Play better games you stupid fag. If all you play is triple A trash.

Homeworld would make for a great scifi epic. But yeah there's not an established fanbase for a 90s strategy game.

Forgot pic.

What exactly is wrong with food analogies, anyways?

Seriously? I was just hoping for some stealth/assassin bullshit and fights within the animus.

How much of the movie is in the present and how much is in the past?

Ubisoft

Same as every other movie based on a video game. It just sucked. The main problem is that video games' stories aren't good enough to be in movies. That's why the writers resorted to writing for video games. Then the games get popular and Hollywood forgets why it turned away those shitty writers.

They're very often incorrectly used and they are incessantly used for video games for no apparent reason even though food and video games are not alike at all

Because every movie wants to be a tentpole franchise now.

Video game films need to learn the hard lessons learned by capeshit.

Cinema goers will love it if its made to be more plausible and the bullshit nerd stuff that makes no sense is toned down. Instead the film adaptations should take the essence of the thing, rather than make such a literal adaptation.

Video game films are rarely able to pull this off.

Silent Hill probably did it best, and Resident Evil could have done it (seeing as zombie films are so popular) but it failed because it made Umbrella into ridiculous comic book villains. Considering that Umbrella is pretty much off screen for most of the games, it seemed silly.

I blame Marvel and their shitty cinematic universe

It's not Marvel's fault that people want to follow the trends and even if they do, there's no reason to plan out the cinematic universe before the first movie got off the ground. That's the real problem

it's ASS GREED amirite

Nice meme opinion but you're wrong.

The reason why nobody has made a good vidya movie yet is because no director/screenwriter actually enjoys vidya so they don't respect the material. They sign on to make a piece of shit movie that they don't have to put effort into, and they still get paid millions of dollars. Studios shit these movies out because China loves them and because they think that these movies are what stupid kids enjoy.

Let's be honest with ourselves here. Do we honestly believe that Michael Fassbender plays AssCreed? Or did he participate in the film for a paycheck? Anyone with more than 2 brain cells knows it was the former.

It's a meme that video game movies suck and that meme is very true, but soon enough someone is gonna come along and make a good one. It just hasn't happened yet.

Put yourself in the nerd audience
Would you rather see Star Wars or "Assassin's creed" ?

How is the Marvel movie universe shitty?

Oh right, because its popular.

7 years too late

>food and video games are not alike at all
do you even know what analogy means?
you can't explain something if you use an example in the same category
>hey can you explain apples to me?
>well, you see it's like pears...
fucking retarded

>It just hasn't happened yet.
Well they've had a good 30+ years to get it right

My brother and I went to go see the movie hoping it'd be hilariously bad
It was just lame

There's plenty of directors who play video games.

John Carpenter said he really wanted to make a Dead Space movie.

It's based on comic books and is therefore incredibly boring.

The movie felt rushed as all fuck. They basically ended the movie early into the game. You had absolutely zero time to develop on and understand the Templars and Assassins beyond evil and good. The made up protag had no personality besides being angry and despite the movie running 2h it felt less than one. They tried to make the Animus more interesting than it actually was in the game. They did the complete opposite of the game and nearly all the movie took place outside of the Animus, and you got no scope of the conflict beyond a village and one castle. This isn't even about respect for the medium or the series. A person who isn't a fan of AC will understand and get nothing about what happened.

Same reason movies based on anime (unless it's made in Japan, and with a very good budget and dedicate cast) will always suck.

No one simply respects the genre...yet. Most comic book movies have directors who enjoyed comic books all the way back to the 70's. Both modern vidya and anime are still too young a genre for people who actually respect the material to give it a faithful adaptation and actually put some passion into it.

However there also lies another problem. Unlike comicbooks, video games usually do not stand the test of time. Whereas Batman has managed to endure 50 years of fame, by the time someone makes a movie about Fallout, most people would have moved on to the next big thing. This is also why the Assassin's Creed movie was doomed to fail from the beginning. A lot of folks who loved the series last decade with the Ezio trilogy have been burned out from the franchise now and a movie is probably the last thing they want.

No one care about asscreed anymore.

There is some truth to this. Deadpool came out so well because Ryan Reynolds truly appreciated the comic book and the character.

Did a fucking fantastic job.

Angry birds.

I'm... I'm sadly not kidding.

Ubi overestimated the franchise's popularity among normies

>there's a trilogy of tetris movies in the works

How the actual fuck.

They said the same thing about comic book films, and look how that turned out. If somebody told you 20 years ago that C-List characters like fucking Ant-Man or Black Panther would get blockbuster movies someday, you'd think they were retarded.

It's only a matter of time. Once somebody actually sits down and tries their best to make a good video game film and shows how it can be done, more studios will want to follow in their footsteps.

Did better than Ghostbusters.

the first Lara Croft
Silent Hill
Warcraft (thanks to china)

....you DO realize that Silent Hill was a mostly literal adaptation, and that resident evil follows your mantra of "dumbing down/losing the main "nerd.."

You know I'm not even sure you know what the fuck you're on about.

Why was Deadpool successful?
Captured the essence of the comics.

Why did Wolverine origins fail?
Dumbed it down for casuals

Why did Nolans batman films succeed commercially critically? Because he took all that "nerdy" stuff and fused it with political commentary *terrorism, 9/11, occupy movement* with his directorial "realism"


You're also retarded if you think a successful film is determined by how many fratbois it can pull in a showing.

>not a tetralogy

disappointing desu

Money is money fag

...

What they should have done is made the entire movie take place in the Animus, and then at the last minutes of the movie end with a plot twist that it was all 'fake.' That would have appealed to normies and given more time for the historical plot to develop, and made a better opening for a second movie.

Where did you get this picture of me?

It keeps surprising me how much trouble the Uncharted movie seems to be having. If there was ever a franchise tailor-made to be a successful film, it's Uncharted.

>They said the same thing about comic book films
No they didn't because decent and successful comic book films had actually come out since the late 70s at least

>implying comic books are entertaining in the slightest
Enjoy your 1950s clickbait shit

Warcraft simply came WAY too late. If it was made back in 2006 I bet it would have sold at least 500m USD.

fucking what

Comicbooks != superheroes

I don't read comic books and even I'm aware of this.

This, Angry Birds was surprisingly not entirely shit.

>none of them good
>Snowtown
>not good
yeah good fuck yourself

I disagree.

Quality of video games' stories aside, there's something fundamentally wrong with the idea of turning a game into a movie. The appeal of a game is the gameplay. A truly faithful film adaptation of a game would amount to a non-interactive (and thus inferior) version of it. Filmmakers know this, so they don't do faithful adaptations. They try to make the movie more interesting than simply watching someone play the game, but this automatically offends fans of the game, who are the only ones who would enjoy watching all the cut scenes of their favorite game perfectly recreated in live action. Well, fuck them, right? Basically, yeah. Except general audiences still don't give a shit because the brand recognition doesn't work on them, and if they do know that the movie is based on a video game, they figure it's only for the game's fans, who hate it.

Most of the movie was cgi Deadpool. He loved the character when he played him in the Wolverine movie too...

And yknow what?
For a dumb kids movie, it was pretty fucking funny because of how cynical everyone was.

Just FYI, most of the scenes in the asscreed movie were in the modern time, there's lierally less than 15 minutes in the historic period

t. dude who watched it out of curiosity

>It's a garbage cash grab that nobody in production respected, that's what went wrong
Actually the girl doing costumes is my friend's sister, and she's a normie massive fangirl for assassin's creed games.

The animus in the game is like a seat pod that you sit in and relive memories in. Why the fuck is it some weird jumpy bounce castle in the movie?

>Jesus christ what the actual FUCK went wrong?
The decision to greenlight the film.

But that's what it generally means nowadays. Aside from Archie, when was the last time a comic book got nationwide appeal that isn't about some super hero/or something of that sort fighting crime?

The only one that comes into mind is some of Frank Miller's comics, but the movie adaptations of said comics was been way more popular.

Mortal kombat was really fucking good in terms of being true to the game, it was hurt by being pg-13 but was probably as good as a mortal kombat movie could ever be besides that.

>successful
They're not that but I actually like the low-budget Dead Rising movies. They feel like dead rising. You can tell someone involved actually played the game.

Postal 2. No joke. Accurate to the source material, while standing on its own as a movie for someone who never played the game.

Because normies wanna see him doing wacky robot shit I dunno. Honestly I am not sure why they even had to show him moving around in the Animus in the movie. It was implied that his actions would be based on thought input, but the damn movie makes it look like you have to act it all out.

Pretty much the only "successful" superhero film of the 70s was the first Superman with Christopher Reeves. All the sequels were utter garbage and nobody ever took any other kind of superhero film seriously until the first Tobey Macguire Spider-Man. Now we're living in the golden age of superhero movies.

The same thing will happen with video games. All it takes is one movie to be good.

All the fights are lame as fuck generic kung fu and not faithful to the game at all. It's whole rise to fame was how bloody it was and the movie doesn't even have a drop of blood or any cool fatalities and shit. It was a lame cash grab that had an amazing theme song

It was a pretty bad movie and they also, for inexplicable reasons, put it up against Rogue One. Whatever studio did Warcraft was smart to steer the release AWAY from Star Wars and into a Summer month where it had basically no competition.

max payne
doom
tomb raider, all of them
every re movie
bloodrayne all of them
prince of persia, all of them
postal

need i go on user

too much time spent in the present in a boring lab

Yeah why people go to see STAR WARS and "a movie starring jlaw and chris the meme lord pratt" instead of a video game movie

yeah, I fucking wonder. TOTAL MYSTERY!

>Most of the movie was cgi Deadpool
They just enhanced his face and recolored him. The thing with superhero movies nowadays, they still need to film the actor not only as reference for motion capture but also as base line for lighting. It's easier for post-production but also makes the cgi more organic.

do you think 89 Batman wasn't a success?

>prince of persia, all of them
There was more than one? I thought there was just the one with Jake Gyllenhaal and that was it?

Financially it was, yeah. But it's a shit movie that most Batman fans hate, and the only reason it's popular is because Meme Burton made it.

Nah mortal kombat had lame fighting in the game too. They all used their moves from thr game it was fine. Like I said if it had fatalities and gore it would have been better but everything else was spot on.

what the fuck am I looking at

I don't know if I agree.

People always talk about how movie-like Uncharted is, but it's really not. I don't remember 10 minute long scenes in Indiana Jones where he's hiding behind a wall shooting waves of enemies, or slowly climbing towards the other side of the room. The scripted action sequences are setpieces that exist for no other purpose then to be a setpiece. The actual story of Uncharted is nothing to write home about. It would be a National Treasure clone with more overblown action.

>Batman fans hate Burton's Batman movies

This is literally the first time I'm ever hearing this, and if true, Batfags have even more of a reason to kys themselves.

:)

>Golden age of superhero movies
>Implying 2 hour long commercials for 2 hour long commercials is good in any way shape or form
Ill admit it was a neat idea at first having this overarching plot thing but after ironman 2 it totally went to shit.

>It would be a National Treasure clone with more overblown action.
I weirdly love that movie, so sign me up.
I agree that a straight up retread of the game wouldn't work, but I do think doing it as a modern day Indiana Jones film would work really well. Just get a charismatic lead and you're set.

It's a shit movie.