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Post by darkpast on Dec 4, 2020 17:46:15 GMT
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Post by spooner5020 on Dec 4, 2020 18:17:42 GMT
NICE!!!!! So they’re finally moving ahead with this? |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Dec 4, 2020 18:21:27 GMT
If he was younger, Hugh Jackman would have been my ideal pic. I'm a huge fan of the games, dunno how I feel about a live action adaptation though, the games are so absurd and over the top, it could be to difficult to pull of "serious" tone without the movie looking riddiculous:  |
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Post by janntosh on Dec 4, 2020 18:29:24 GMT
Pretty cool but rennet they got Michael Fassbender for Assassin's Creed and it ended up a dumpster fire
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Post by lowtacks86 on Dec 4, 2020 18:34:20 GMT
Unfortunately all my ideal casting choices are too old at this point:
Snake: Hugh Jackman
Otocan: Jeff Goldblum
Revolver Ocelot: Sam Elliot
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Post by jonesjxd on Dec 5, 2020 11:17:52 GMT
If he was younger, Hugh Jackman would have been my ideal pic. I'm a huge fan of the games, dunno how I feel about a live action adaptation though, the games are so absurd and over the top, it could be to difficult to pull of "serious" tone without the movie looking riddiculous: This is why I think they made the right choice hiring Jordan Vogt-Roberts to direct. My fear was always that when they made this movie they'd hire someone like Paul WS Anderson or Len Wiseman, you know, a typical action filmmaker for hire who cares so much about reverence to source material, stunt choreography and making the most cold and steely movie possible stripping away all the charm that video games actually do have. Jordan Vogt-Roberts on the other hand has made two movies that are plainly ridiculous but actually work. Kong for instance, should have been terrible, it's basically Apocalypse Now where Kong is Colonel Kurtz. It's stupid, the action is so ridiculous, but its well done. Most importantly Vogt-Roberts understood that the main character of the movie is the giant ape and he brought in an A-list cast of acting talent to make you believe in the Kong character. Like you said, the Metal Gear games are ridiculous, and it would be easy for the filmmakers to strip it of its ridiculousness and make a cold steely spy movie, but I think Vogt-Roberts will lean into it's ridiculousness and he's already on the right track hiring a cast to sell it.
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Post by Ransom on Dec 5, 2020 11:29:01 GMT
If he was younger, Hugh Jackman would have been my ideal pic. I'm a huge fan of the games, dunno how I feel about a live action adaptation though, the games are so absurd and over the top, it could be to difficult to pull of "serious" tone without the movie looking riddiculous: This is why I think they made the right choice hiring Jordan Vogt-Roberts to direct. My fear was always that when they made this movie they'd hire someone like Paul WS Anderson or Len Wiseman, you know, a typical action filmmaker for hire who cares so much about reverence to source material, stunt choreography and making the most cold and steely movie possible stripping away all the charm that video games actually do have. Jordan Vogt-Roberts on the other hand has made two movies that are plainly ridiculous but actually work. Kong for instance, should have been terrible, it's basically Apocalypse Now where Kong is Colonel Kurtz. It's stupid, the action is so ridiculous, but its well done. Most importantly Vogt-Roberts understood that the main character of the movie is the giant ape and he brought in an A-list cast of acting talent to make you believe in the Kong character. Like you said, the Metal Gear games are ridiculous, and it would be easy for the filmmakers to strip it of its ridiculousness and make a cold steely spy movie, but I think Vogt-Roberts will lean into it's ridiculousness and he's already on the right track hiring a cast to sell it. I get what you mean I honestly do but was whoever Kurtz was an almost 100 feet unstoppable mutant ape? I didn't really buy into the idea of puny Samuel L Jackson being a serious threat to Kong without the bombs. I tried to. |
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Post by jonesjxd on Dec 5, 2020 11:37:17 GMT
This is why I think they made the right choice hiring Jordan Vogt-Roberts to direct. My fear was always that when they made this movie they'd hire someone like Paul WS Anderson or Len Wiseman, you know, a typical action filmmaker for hire who cares so much about reverence to source material, stunt choreography and making the most cold and steely movie possible stripping away all the charm that video games actually do have. Jordan Vogt-Roberts on the other hand has made two movies that are plainly ridiculous but actually work. Kong for instance, should have been terrible, it's basically Apocalypse Now where Kong is Colonel Kurtz. It's stupid, the action is so ridiculous, but its well done. Most importantly Vogt-Roberts understood that the main character of the movie is the giant ape and he brought in an A-list cast of acting talent to make you believe in the Kong character. Like you said, the Metal Gear games are ridiculous, and it would be easy for the filmmakers to strip it of its ridiculousness and make a cold steely spy movie, but I think Vogt-Roberts will lean into it's ridiculousness and he's already on the right track hiring a cast to sell it. I get what you mean I honestly do but was whoever Kurtz was an almost 100 feet unstoppable mutant ape? I didn't really buy into the idea of puny Samuel L Jackson being a serious threat to Kong without the bombs. I tried to. Well that's the Apocalypse Now thing, the movie is a very on-the-nose allegory for Vietnam. American forces were never going to defeat the Viet Cong, but they still were willing to lose 58 million of their own to try. Point being, Jackson is a compelling character and you probably cared enough to stay engaged just enough to see how badly he lost to Kong.
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Post by Ransom on Dec 5, 2020 11:59:17 GMT
I get what you mean I honestly do but was whoever Kurtz was an almost 100 feet unstoppable mutant ape? I didn't really buy into the idea of puny Samuel L Jackson being a serious threat to Kong without the bombs. I tried to. Well that's the Apocalypse Now thing, the movie is a very on-the-nose allegory for Vietnam. American forces were never going to defeat the Viet Cong, but they still were willing to lose 58 million of their own to try. Point being, Jackson is a compelling character and you probably cared enough to stay engaged just enough to see how badly he lost to Kong. That last sentence is absolutely correct. Samuel L Jackson isn't the most likeable actor in Hollywood while I felt his grief and sadness at losing his friends he was still willing to lose more and did to those other ground monsters too. I understand his pain but Samuel is not the best messenger. It became a when will Kong discipline the brat with his bomb toys movie which I hated feeling. |
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Post by politicidal on Dec 5, 2020 14:47:33 GMT
Nice move, Sony.
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Post by ck100 on Dec 5, 2020 15:20:03 GMT
Could have been Michael Biehn back in the day.  |
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Post by politicidal on Dec 5, 2020 17:30:19 GMT
Could have been Michael Biehn back in the day. In a parallel universe maybe it’s already happened. |
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Post by vegalyra on Dec 7, 2020 0:13:16 GMT
It'd be great if they threw in some bad grammar from the original game. haha  |
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Post by Ransom on Dec 7, 2020 0:30:01 GMT
It'd be great if they threw in some bad grammar from the original game. haha Game designers watching too many Arnold Schwarzenegger films is where that gets you. |
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Post by sdrew13163 on Dec 7, 2020 7:13:41 GMT
Never played any of the games so I have no idea if this is a good casting choice or not, but Vogt-Roberts is an intriguing pick to direct.
Kong was a fun action-adventure, but you get the sense it was very much a product of its time (in this case, an MCU wannabe of sorts). Hopefully he stays away from that and makes something that feels like its own thing.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Dec 7, 2020 10:19:21 GMT
I think the only decent video game movie was Mortal Kombat, and that was mediocre at best. There is some unwritten law that video game movies cannot be great or even that good.
You never know, Metal Gear was half movie, half game.
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Post by spooner5020 on Dec 7, 2020 12:54:09 GMT
I think the only decent video game movie was Mortal Kombat, and that was mediocre at best. There is some unwritten law that video game movies cannot be great or even that good. You never know, Metal Gear was half movie, half game. You didn’t like Sonic or Detective Pikachu? |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 7, 2020 13:16:42 GMT
Should be great, all the films based on video games are.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Dec 7, 2020 14:41:46 GMT
I think the only decent video game movie was Mortal Kombat, and that was mediocre at best. There is some unwritten law that video game movies cannot be great or even that good. You never know, Metal Gear was half movie, half game. You didn’t like Sonic or Detective Pikachu? I haven't seen them. I take it they are good? Mind you, I kind of like Street Fighter (1994), only because it is splendidly awful. |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Dec 8, 2020 19:42:04 GMT
I think the best way to make a Metal Gear Solid movie would be something along the lines of Robocop, by that I mean being aware that it's rather silly and coming off as a satire. I mean it's a film with a giant walking tank, there's only so much "seriousness" you can give to something like that. Paul Verhoeven would have been a good choice to direct.
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