In my last blog article, I said that when I watch Uncharted 2: Among The Thieves, it was like watching a movie instead of game trailers.  Seems like the hollywood guys also like this game title, and from the rumors that I read, they will start to shoot a movie based on this game.  You can read the complete news here. (Alas, it’s not the Among The Thieves movie).

And then, I try to remember, how many game that has been successful (critically and commercially) when they’re being adapted to movie.  Hmm, compare to comic and novel to movie, game has lost for several rounds.  Why?

Everybody can have their opinion about why.  But here’s mine:

Director

 Never hire Uwe Boll for game to film adaptation!  What a great great decission for Blizzard to turn down Uwe Boll’s wish to bring their franchise to movie.  And the same praise should be awarded to Hideo Kojima to refuse his MGS title to be directed by mr. Boll.  Yet, mr. Boll was saying that Michael Bay is f**king retarded?  I’m sorry sir, but if you compare your Alone In The Dark series or Blood Rayne series revenue, to Transformers series and Armageddon, what you said just show who’s f**king retarded in this case.

If somebody like Peter Jackson or JJ Abrams show their interest to adapt a game to a movie, I believe the result will show a huge difference compare to Uwe Boll’s movies.

Adaptation

Many movies claim they do movies adaptation but they don’t really adapt!  Please remember, that WE, gamers, are going to watch your movie.  So please adapt!  When we are fascinated by the way a spell is being cast, put effort to bring that to life!    Try to search actor or actress that resemble the character as close as possible.  And when we play game, at some points, we were already “watching a movie”, so if you want to make a REAL movie, be sure to surpass all experience that we already feel in the game!

Story

Upon watching several movies that supposed to describe a game, I was confused that the story was never even related to the game!  And what make it worse is that this new story, is crappy, full of bullsh*t, and a kind of script that will invite gamers to say “even my grandma or elementary school children can do better than that” type.  If scripwriter of the movie think that following the trend of reboot-ing stories from whatever media adaptation movie is a good strategy, please bear in mind, that this strategy was successful because it wasn’t the first time adaptation!  Even if it’s the first time adaptation, they build them neatly!  So if you want to build your own story, give a reason to us to finally agree that yours is better, or for at least do something like the latest Star Trek movie, “an alternate reality because of the time travel” strategy.  Good move by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.