by Joseph Heinzelman

Created on: October 22, 2009

It seems that every hollywood mogul these days has turned there greedy dollar bill shaped eyes to what they view as the part of culture with the most money to waste, gamers. They see how we are willing to pay sixty dollars for a brand new game that we get maybe fifteen hours of enjoyment out of and they think that we will be equally, if not more, interested in paying ten dollars to go see a movie adaptation of the games we love.

You would think that by this point they would have realized they are meeting with dismal failure yet still they are pushing a surplus of video game based movies on us. Though I suppose we can be thankful that the dreaded Uwe Boll isn't in charge of any more....for now. Maybe it's because of the incredible gap between the way video games are made and how movies are made. When a game is being made the developers are huddled together in an office building, the scattered cartons of their take-out chinese strewn across the floor and two day old unshaven beards on every man. For the movie industry it's a little work followed by everyone going home to a nice dinner and a sleep in their expensive homes. There just isn't the same sense of family and cohesion. Game developers have generally worked together on many other titles and gotten to know each others quirks and habits, while Hollywood stars and directors barely know the people they are working with.

Maybe also the hollywood producers could try to appeal to their target audience. Though I will admit that only Uwe Boll ever specifically insulted his target audience. It seems that they make these movies to try to appeal to the mass media instead of the gamers themselves. Don't they see that this hurts them more then anything? If they made the movie as accurate as possible then gamers would love to see it. But no matter how innacurate and "entertaining" they make it, people who have never played the games won't be interested and gamers will boycott it due to the bastardization that it was put through.

Is it so hard to ask that we put the script writers of the game in charge of writing the movie script? Something needs to be done however because Hollywood has taken ahold of our beloved gaming and looks to want to wring all the money from it that they can before leaving it, and us, to dry in the desert....

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