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Warner Bros. and Capcom Send David Hayter to a LOST PLANET
Beaks here...
E3 is underway here in Los Angeles, and it looks like the big news for Tuesday - as far as the film industry is concerned - is that Capcom and Warner Brothers are partnering on a big screen transfer of LOST PLANET. I've never played the game myself, but it's probably a good thing that they've signed David Hayter on to write the screenplay, seein' as how he's got mad street cred from being the voice of Solid Snake in METAL GEAR SOLID.
The game apparently deals with the quest for a life-sustaining energy source emanating from an icy planet. I imagine this energy source is protected by lots of nasty creatures that need shooted.
Chances LOST PLANET winds up being better than the Steven E. de Souza-directed STREET FIGHTER: not good.
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And so will this...
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As long as they take a more "Alien" approach with the monsters, and really focus on the desolation and isolation of a frozen winter planet.
Actually, fuck Hollywood, they'd never do it right. I'll just write the script myself. -
Game did suck.
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"The Earth Dies Screaming" come out?
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I'm gonna keep coming back until someone REMEMBERS seeing Richie!
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Tetris come out?
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of all the games, lost planet?
Check out the E3 demo of Gears 2 today. It had more mindblowing production, than most movies! http://tinyurl.com/59uscu
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and then mention the most obscure or unlikely old video game you can think of, then repeat."..."Yar's Revenge" come out?"
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Had a segment that emulated Street Fighter right down to the sound effects! It was hilarious. Just that segment pisses on Van Damm's version. Go check out City Hunter as its a really fun Jackie film.
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Is The Onion Movie a remake of the 1970's film The Kentucky Fried Movie?
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WHO'S WITH ME?!!!!
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Hayter did good things for the X-Men script, so I think he's got the chops. I just hope they do it live-action and not CGI.
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I liked the game. The grappling hook reminded me a bit of Bionic Commando. Granted, I just rented it once and never finished it, so maybe it gets crappy later. The story for the game didnt' make much sense either, so he's got plenty of room to work with in the script.
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The man.
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I thought the point of the xbox 360 was to deliver superior graphics, but that thing looked uglier than stuff the original xbox used to run.
also, it was dull, dull, dull. yes, it had plenty of action in it, but it was action concerning characters and a storyline people had no interest in. -
READ IT AND WEEP YOU COCKSUCKERS...HRRRRRMMM...http://tinyurl.com/54pes6
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But its story was a fucking confused mess. It's like they made a bunch of cut-scenes that had sod-all to do with the game and just interspersed them between the levels. Hopefully Hayter will be able to turn out a script like MGS1 or MGS3 rather than the mess that was MGS2 and MGS4...
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Stick to doing impressions of Kurt Russell doing impressions of Clint Eastwood Dave.
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You know he'll be the director.
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...you overlook the stuff after the voice actor credits.
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...and the forced backstory of the Beauties.
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After all, the game character was based on his likeness so why not? By now he should be finished shooting his scenes as storm shadow for the upcoming GIJoe movie.As for the game itself, it wasn't too bad as long as you overlook the lame story.It had good graphics, planet hothesque scenery, a Bionic commando grappling device and the fact that you can pilot mechs is worth owning this game. just my opinion.
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Actually Shermdog the part you are refering about (post voice actors' credits) was a unexpected surprise that had me saying "how could this be?" but afterwards, it provided closure to the series' plotlines.As for the BB Corps' well I guess Kojimasan wanted to paint a Human side to the "Bosses"(kinda like tagc comicbook villians I.E. Joker.) while detailing the horrors that occur within War-torn countries.The game itself was as good if not better than an epic movie.Best game of the Year thus far.
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Just had to say that.
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The game was overhyped and didn't 'wow' critics or fans. Basically, it's going to be "Starship Troopers On Ice!".
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It was a fun blast. I enjoyed it a lot. The film will depend on the story, because the one in the Game is terrible Sub-Anime bollocks and should be avoided at all costs.
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And some of it was rediculous and so juvenile if it was a movie you'd probably leave the theatre. at one point there's a soldier who gets caught literally with his pants down hiding in a barrel taking a shit! then later I think it's the same character joins a group of elite soldiers and still has embarrassing flatulence! Opps! he shat himself again! Tee Hee What's that all about! I played the first and best Metal Gear Solid on the playstation where you had to infiltrate a snowy mountain top base and if they ever do a Metal Gear Game then they should base it on that because I don't remember it containing cheesy shit like the admittedly visually superior recent ones!Oh, and I thought Forbidden Planet was excellent and reminded me of a next gen Bionic Comandos with knobs on. Not sure it'll make a good movie but the game was kind of oldskool fun.
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Is utterly fucking embarrassing to both the game and the series. I still haven't forgiven them for writing such utter cliche'd japanese stupidity into a western set game.
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Jul 15, 2008 6:12:56 AM CDT
"got mad street cred from being the voice of Solid Snake in META
by troutmaskreplicant
Isn't that a backhanded compliment? He did do a little scriptwriting and all...I still think it's funny that he was in the American adaptation of Guyver though.
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Started saying he was a great film director because he'd spoken to David Fincher once.
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While Hayter is known for his voice acting work he has lot more than just "street cred." He penned the scripts for X-Men, X-Men II, and Watchmen! So show some respect.
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lol i was about to say that, ok he also wrote quite a bit of The Scorpion King...but besides that hell yea he wrote Xmen and X2 as well as Watchmen im surprised that isn't the first thing that was mentioned...
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I agree with theycallmemrglass.What a movie....
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As someone else said, it was Starship troopers on Hoth..... The story was crap, but I'm guessing they'll streamline it into a long battle with ice-pirates and aliens...
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Jul 15, 2008 7:58:31 AM CDT
Game was at best mediocre....at worst, terrible.
by just another useless chump with a microp
There's an old joke that's appeared in television and movies where someone (usually a child) is claiming some art skills, so they hand a character a blank piece of paper, saying it's their masterpiece. The character says "But this is blank!" And the would-be artist says "No, it's a portrait of a polar bear hiding in the snow during a blizzard!"
That's what Lost Planet was like to me. Combine it with slow and sluggish control, atrocious (even for a video game!) voice acting, ridiculously repetetive enemy design, and a ridiculously uneven difficulty level, and you've got yourself one crappy gameplay experience.
Seriously, during the levels themselves, it is almost impossible to die. Your suit constantly heals you so long as you have energy, and energy drops in copious amounts from every individual alien you kill. And this is a game that likes to throw swarms at you. To offset this, they decided the bosses should be able to kill you in one or two hits, and be 50x faster than you.
There was one boss that is in a large mech. When the cutscene ends, you're standing about five feet away from the mech you need to use to fight her. More often than not, she would use her mech's Super Ultra Death Ray to kill me either A) before I could get into my mech, or B) during my mech's agonizingly slow 7-second start up phase. It drove me nuts.
Plus the plot of the game really isn't that interesting. It's kind of what I call a "Human arrogance story". We come to a planet, an are attacked by its denizens. Oh woe is humanity, we must fight back. Really? Giant vicious bugs though they may be, it's THEIR PLANET!!! Why should we sympathize with the humans for invading these bugs' planet? They were there first!
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Jul 15, 2008 8:00:59 AM CDT
Let me repost that, easier to read
by just another useless chump with a microp
MOTHERFUCKING TALKBACK FORMS!!!! God I forgot how much I fucking hate that. It's been a while since I've posted; I forgot this is the only forum I've ever posted in that DOESN'T hold your formatting as you type it.
Repeat of my earlier post...
There's an old joke that's appeared in television and movies where someone (usually a child) is claiming some art skills, so they hand a character a blank piece of paper, saying it's their masterpiece. The character says "But this is blank!" And the would-be artist says "No, it's a portrait of a polar bear hiding in the snow during a blizzard!" That's what Lost Planet was like to me.
Combine it with slow and sluggish control, atrocious (even for a video game!) voice acting, ridiculously repetetive enemy design, and a ridiculously uneven difficulty level, and you've got yourself one crappy gameplay experience. Seriously, during the levels themselves, it is almost impossible to die. Your suit constantly heals you so long as you have energy, and energy drops in copious amounts from every individual alien you kill. And this is a game that likes to throw swarms at you. To offset this, they decided the bosses should be able to kill you in one or two hits, and be 50x faster than you. There was one boss that is in a large mech. When the cutscene ends, you're standing about five feet away from the mech you need to use to fight her. More often than not, she would use her mech's Super Ultra Death Ray to kill me either A) before I could get into my mech, or B) during my mech's agonizingly slow 7-second start up phase. It drove me nuts.
Plus the plot of the game really isn't that interesting. It's kind of what I call a "Human arrogance story". We come to a planet, an are attacked by its denizens. Oh woe is humanity, we must fight back. Really? Giant vicious bugs though they may be, it's THEIR PLANET!!! Why should we sympathize with the humans for invading these bugs' planet? They were there first! -
... I will cry like a little girl. Oh, who cares? It's a game movie. Of course it's gonna suck.
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or get over it and give all the rights to my fellow german Uwe Boll! Than we can at least laugh our asses off on how bad it is.
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Jul 15, 2008 8:19:04 AM CDT
Can I be a studio executive and suggest a new trend?
by jack the riddler
"Hey, guys, we already have movies based on comic books. We're also basing movies on any game that sould more than 1000 copies, no matter how much it stinks. Let's start basing our movies on... wait for it... ON WEB SITES! Yeah! Imagine that, MYSPACE: THE MOVIE! All the twatnagers who have an account there will FLY to see it! Is that worth a promotion and a bonus or what!"
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Kind of boring but it had it's moments. Promising that Hayter is on for it....I do believe he's been uncredited for writing some of Watchman right? Anybody?
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It is notable IMHO that AVATAR supposedly deals with the same subject matter where you have a planet with coveted resources, leading to a battle between the indigenous inhabitants and those who seek to lay claim to the planet's "treasures."
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oh wait, no I'm not.
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http://tinyurl.com/6jvn9q
I reviewed Lost Planet when it came out. -
lol @ E3 for being underway while the whole world no longer even cares.
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I don't know....yesterday was pretty exciting. It's at the very least more relevant then I thought it might be. After expecting nothing, expectations have been exceeded! ;)
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Jul 15, 2008 9:51:07 AM CDT
When does E.T. - The Game: The Motion Picture come out?
by ye not guilty
Just wondering when Hollywood will adapt E.T. - The Game.
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Leisure Suit Larry?
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the old PC classic, Strip Poker?
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that focuses on a character from Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures?
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He was a golden god, ahead of his time. Misunderstood by nearly everyone. What he did was pure genius. He irritated you to no end by posting the same vulgarly upbeat message about any thread on AICN, no matter how lame or shitty. Even if it was a snippet from Harry about an Aquaman movie, he would say it was cool news. What a great guy.
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You are like the stages of seperation....Who is this pigfuck guy?...Oh, there he is again...Oh fuck its pigfuck again...Where is pigfuck?...I really miss pigfuck...
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any news out there on the BioShock adaptation?
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street fighter movie again now
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I didn't understand how we were suppose to care for the humans when they invaded the bugs planet. It would be a cool twist if the bugs were the good guys. But Hollywood doesn't have the balls.
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I played through it once, and yeah, the story was weak as hell! Graphics I thought were pretty good though... especially textures in the game. The gameplay itself was nothing to write home about though. This definitely didn't need a movie...
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And that pant shitting character was technically 'there' in all the Solid games. Yeah MGS is better than a lot of movies, and about the odd shit in it, honestly, remember it's a fucking game. Games can be longer than movies without having to worry about screentime pacing and shit like a film does and they can include anything they want just for fun. Kojima is creating a cinematic game, he himself says he puts things into it just for fun and ridiculousness. If you want to make a movie, of course you'd have to cut the unnecessary shit out. But for a game, it's all good. You save and come back to it later so games can be as long as they want. Anyway, I didn't like the way the B&B stories were presented. They should've worked them into the story in a more presentable fashion like MGS2. But then you'd get people bitching that they don't care and blah blah blah. Well you can't please everyone... For me MGS2 was the best one. But I liked the after credits ending. I was initially against the idea if you'd asked me before the game was out but after watching it, it was awesome and touching closure that truly ties up everything.
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It'll 95 mins of Lindsay Lohan getting tea-bagged!
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"It'll be" is what it SHOULD say!
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The game was alot of fun and had some fantastic graphics. The boss battles were outrageous (in a good way). If Hayter can craft a decent story, this could be epic.
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like most Capcom games, I was impressed by the demo but like people say, the full game apparently sucks. However, as a movie, could be alright, but not much about it that makes it particularly unique or memorable..
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Jul 15, 2008 5:31:27 PM CDT
While Capcom is at it, please remake the Residnt Evil movies
by stalkeye
apparantly PWSA's adaptations were somewhat lame, especially the last one (Exstinktion).How could you have Re's badass villian Wesker show up only during 5 minutes througout the movie? Paul's a hack although he's far more talented than Uwe Bollocks.I would love to see a film based on RE4, if done correctly. you could cast that guy from Silly Games as Leon S. Kennedy(Shit, not only does he looks like him, but even has the same haircut.)hire a REAL director with script in tow and i'm there at the opening.
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The shitting guy has been in every game so far (even his father in 3 - could be wrong on this one) but he's definitely in mgs 1 and 2. Although the first is the best game...liquid was a brilliant villain
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too poor for a PS2 right now. However, I am a huge fan of the rest of the series. While 2 had some great moments, and was very innovative, the protagonist was pretty annoying and not very interesting. Although from what I have seen from the trailers for 4, he is now a certified badass. I loved 3's style a lot, with all the 60s tech and outfits. Those boss fights were incredible too. The ending fight with the boss in the field is just breathtaking. 1 is still the best though. If they made a movie and they didn't want to start with the earlier Metal Gear games, I would hope that they would get most of the story from that. Oh Lost Planet? I don't really give a shit. Hayter is a good writer though. It's a movie game. It will have a soundtrack consisting of unoriginal heavy metal and will star several no-name actors with little to no charisma. There will be lots of one liners, cliches, and maybe some cool effects.
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can anyone tell me? apparently just hitting enter to skip a line does not do jack shit
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what is wrong with me today?
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> for breaks, as for affording a PS3, well after E3 they might likely drop the price..well atleast M$ did with xbox 360. try to buy a used one from amazon.com for $300.00 t's worth it just to play MGS4.
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All I can say is the DEMO for Lost Planet on both the PS3 and XBox360 is awesome! I have no idea the plot or any other details...I just know you can play online for free and the game constantly is busy on the PS3. Sounds cool though..the music from the game is pretty good!
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GoldenEye for N64 come out. That was a good game.
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If you missed it you might want to check it out. Also, for what it's worth, I'm pretty sure the 360 version was the superior version of the game. And, the PS3 is indeed having a price drop to $399. Not what I'd call cheap, but nothing is anymore.
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