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In the LA Area? Want to Catch a Screening of Dante’s Inferno: an Animated Epic?
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Column by Scott Green
Ahead of its February 9th DVD and Blu-ray release, Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic will screen at AMC Burbank 16 on Tuesday, Jan. 26th at 8pm.
AICN is fortunate to have five pairs of tickets to the screening to give away. If you're interested in catching the screening, send an e-mail with the subject "Dante" to animecontest@gmail.com Winners will be drawn and notified at 3:00pm pacific on Monday, January 25th.
The anthology, with work from and Production IG (Kill Bill animated sequence), Dongwoo (Batman: Gotham Knight), Manglobe (Ergo Proxy, Samurai Champloo), JM Animation (“Avatar: The Last Airbender”), tie-ins to EA's upcoming Divine Comedy inspired action-adventure game.
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Looks actually very good...
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Dear Lord! Perhaps if I'd never read the ACTUAL Infero, that wouldn't be so hilarious! :-D
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Is it worth checking out at all?
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Still giggling ... although I'm sure that's not the reaction this trailer was intended to evoke. They should do "Milton's Paradise Lost" next. Just imagine ... "Adaaaaam!" "Eeeeeeve!"
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This is supposed to be the companion to some first person shooter right? a first person shooter based on Dante's Inferno. Epic lulz.
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Starring the voice of Vin Diesel as the titular character.
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gorefest version of Lucan's "The Civil War." "Ceeeasar!" "Kaneda!"
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Kaboom! Not to be.
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The animation chosen for the trailer does not look that sharp.
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RUSSIAN ANGST
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"Paveeeeel!" ... OK, I'll stop now. :-)
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isn't that far fetched. Bioshock was heavily influenced by Atlas Shrugged
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Gay Bondage Dante’s Inferno
Dante's Guide: 'We are now at the circle of nipple clips' -
MODERN SHOOTIN'
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For the old nerds: It's a 3rd person action game. Like God of War.
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It's like the steroid version, devoid of all semblance of the classic. The Spartacus trailer was closer!
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Basically, God of War in Hell! Oh wait....
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Yeah, but that's "based on" in a tangential way. This is "based on Dante's Inferno" and is called Dante's Inferno. I'd expect it to, you know, bare somewhat of a resemblance to Dante's Inferno, other than "guy is in hell." Why not call it "Dude Goes to Hell" and be done with it?
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did anybody see the film "Dante's Inferno" that was done with all-paper puppets? That was great.
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Bad.
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...and this game isn't even out yet. I guess they think they have a winner on their hands without even knowing if it will sell. At least with the Halo Anime ... you know you have a winner.
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This is a definite pre-order along with Bioshock 2.
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DANTE'S INFERNO was developed by Visceral Games, which is the same team that did DEAD SPACE. DEAD SPACE also had an animated film tie-in released at the same time as the game. I think it's a pretty decent way of shoring up an unknown IP at launch, but I'm a nerd for game propaganda.There is also a reissue of the Longfellow translation of Inferno coming out... with the video game box art on the cover, full colour pictures ranging from classic paintings to screen shots, and an introduction from the game's producer.Say what you will about the very obvious license they've taken with the source material, but I find the whole thing pretty interesting - adapting a thousands-year-old poem into a video game IP.Also, the demo is sweet and I think the game will kick some ass. Sure, GOD OF WAR clone, but GOD OF WAR is pretty great source stock for cloning so count me in.
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Half assed reporting
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The Divine Comedy is one of the most brutal, badass, and influential works of literature in history. It's probably never going to be truly adapted to film, but this trailer gets EVERYTHING so wrong, it's hilarious!
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Jan 23, 2010 11:04:46 AM CST
Weren't there some demons with huge cocks in the trailer?
by bruce of all trades
That's "cock" as in "penis", btw.
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People are saying what they will because the poem wasn't written a" thousand years ago" for starters. It would have been interesting if they had adapted the actual poem, not this.
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Beatrice as a damsel in distress. Dante kicking everyone's ass. Ridiculous. Of course they couldn't just say it was "inspired by The Inferno" and call it something else. It would be just as effective. It looks cool, I'll admit. The game too. It's just sad that they tear up the poem, repackage it with the video game art on the cover and invite people to expect uncivilized violence in the text. Dante freaks out routinely in the poem which doesn't translate at all to slicing shit up in a game or anime. It looks great but these are the same sort of liberties filmmakers routinely take with any remake or adaptation.
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the most brutal game they could come up with. Talk of being "vomited" into levels has me plunking down my 55 bucks. I love the poem and am super stoked fer the game and really don't give a shit about "source material". Pretty sure a literary lesson was not the intended goal of the gamemakers.
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It is blatantly a God of War clone, but if you like the God of War series, you'll probably like Dante's Inferno as well.At this point though, with Mass Effect 2 and Aliens vs. Predator hitting PS3/360 in the coming weeks, I'll be busy enough with those instead.
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Might be interesting, but if you want to read a definitive, darkly hilarious update, check out Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's INFERNO...their best collaboration, I read it three times.
And if you want to see some sweet-ass Hell imagery, check out Wayne Douglas Barlowe's site:
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I scored a Barlowe portfolio that tells a story along with the Hell portraits. His beasts are so amazing they are almost hypnotic...or that could be whatever demon is trying to posess you for looking at those images, whatever works
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never understood why Hollywood never did a live action version of Dante's Inferno these last few years
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Everyone should buy this game, it's awesomeness took me totally off guard, one of the coolest games I've ever played. I want a Bayonetta movie directed by Sam Raimi with Rhona Mitra or Kate Beckingsale playing the titualar heroine. Make it so!
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I too never expected this game to be so fucking cool for a devil may cry ripoff.(The creator of DMC if anything plaguerized himself.)Freebeer I would go with Kate over Rhona. Rhona hasn't looked sexy since that scene in Hollowman albiet it was a rape scene. *gasps*
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Very cool. I'm a Barlowe fan from way back...I had a copy of his GUIDE TO EXTRATERRESTRIALS when I was a kid and read it and referenced it for my own artwork to the point that it disintegrated. Brilliantly unique artist.
I hope his designs for the Old Ones find their way into MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS whenever his HELLBOY buddy Del Toro gets to it. -
Not a literary lesson, and not even remotely close to the source material in content are not the same things.
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