I know everyone loves mediocre summer blockbusters. They are all high budget, large explosions, testosterone, and generally a good distraction from the heat outside of the theater. That being said I know not many of us go to these movies for the stirring dialogue and spine chillingly good banter between characters, and boy what better way to hammer this in then the title of this post!
Hugh Jackman recently told Yahoo in an interview that he had been able to slip a few lines of the dialogue from the game into the movies script. For Hugh it must have felt like one of the most natural things in the world to do since they were essentially following the same plot, however, for someone who has thorough experience with videogames influencing movies I have to be somewhat of a skeptic.
I just can’t help it, I mean I love videogames and whenever a movie comes out I think this may just be the one that breaks the cycle, and so far I have been thoroughly disappointed. I may just be overreacting though, I mean the game influencing a movie that the game itself is based off of may actually be the key.
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Wait, what?
-Ichi
P.S
(here’s the link to the actual interview, thanks to GoNintendo for finding this gem)
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May 5, 2009
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I think it is the key. IMO the Crank films (Jason Statham) are great. They are sort of a movie based on a game that doesn’t exist. Seems as though these strange relations between forms of media with similar subjects is actually beneficial from the audience’s standpoint as long as the movie isn’t trying to be the game or vice versa.