Due to the lack of time last week i didnt add anything new to the blog, but here it comes now the 2nd part of the "Movies Inspired by the Gaming World" article! Im sure that whoever read the 1st one wonders if im gonna refer to some "classic" movies of that "genre" such as Street Fighter or Tomb Raider! Well ur gonna find out just by scrolling down!
When u hear about Street Fighter several very specific things come to mind! Ryu, Chun-Li, buttons getting smashed to perform combos, spinning kicks and of courses hadukens!!! Those things are so classic as Super Mario himself!
But lets see if the movie was a worthy adaptation. Street Fighter was directed back in 1994 by Steven E. de Souza and in general terms is about Colonel Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) fighting against the tyranny of M. Bison (Raul Julia) with a team of martial artists by his side. When it was first released i was so excited about watching it and so young, that i couldnt relate it with the game or realise how badly it was made! Oh, and just for the record .. U DONT PUT KYLIE MINOGUE IN AN ACTION FIGHTING MOVIE unless u have mazochistic tendencies! Every single fan of the game wants to see a Street Fighter movie with Ryu as the main character, Blanca as a green, orange-haired, electrifying beast, or M. Bison as a ripped, huge, badass, mothafocka!!!. But instead of those things we got such a laughable ,almost b-movie, attempt (with terrible cast) distorted in so many ways that when u actually watch it u forget that its a Street Fighter movie. The very things that distinguish a game title among the years and make it a "must" and a classic, have to exist in the movie version as well, if its desired to have the same impact on the audience. So in other words the movie kinda sucked and i could watch it only as a b-movie or a cult one!
But lets see if the movie was a worthy adaptation. Street Fighter was directed back in 1994 by Steven E. de Souza and in general terms is about Colonel Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) fighting against the tyranny of M. Bison (Raul Julia) with a team of martial artists by his side. When it was first released i was so excited about watching it and so young, that i couldnt relate it with the game or realise how badly it was made! Oh, and just for the record .. U DONT PUT KYLIE MINOGUE IN AN ACTION FIGHTING MOVIE unless u have mazochistic tendencies! Every single fan of the game wants to see a Street Fighter movie with Ryu as the main character, Blanca as a green, orange-haired, electrifying beast, or M. Bison as a ripped, huge, badass, mothafocka!!!. But instead of those things we got such a laughable ,almost b-movie, attempt (with terrible cast) distorted in so many ways that when u actually watch it u forget that its a Street Fighter movie. The very things that distinguish a game title among the years and make it a "must" and a classic, have to exist in the movie version as well, if its desired to have the same impact on the audience. So in other words the movie kinda sucked and i could watch it only as a b-movie or a cult one!
Although i personally never liked Lara Croft as a video game heroine ( just a bunch of enormous, pixelated, out of proportion, badly made boobs n lips for me) i will admit that Tomb Raider game series was and still is one of the most well known, ever. And all that thnx to the sexy Lara Croft of course. The lightly dressed Lara came to a gaming world, exclusively ruled by male examples as main characters, and yet managed to change the facts. In a men's gaming world, Ms. Croft's simple n sexy innovations set new standards in how a game's got to be. After Tomb Raider, many games appear having women as main characters such as BloodRayne, Lula, Syberia, Resident Evil (some of them) etc... That trend still exists till nowadays and its going really good (Bayonetta, Grey Matter etc.). And now having wasted ur time babbling about the nerdy past, lets talk about the movie which was my main goal after all!!!
Well being directed in 2001 and with Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, Simon West surely draws the attention of every Tomb Raider fan. It was finally the time for those boobs that i already mentioned to be incarnated as Angelina Jolie's. In this case, the movie is just about everything the game is. Showing Anjelina Jolie with tight outfits in every angle possible and making sure to highlight her swollen lips n boobs! And come on im not mean here thats the games are all about as well! Have u ever considered if there is any real action in those games at all? Killing tigers and dodo birds every 25 fucking minutes!?! HELL YEAH!! Well back to the movie again, Angelina Jolie is really the applausable person here. She has all the physical characteristics Lara Croft has, plus all the mental ones. She seems quite brave n smart, n full of emotional expressions. The plot, which is not anything new or impressive, is about a planetary allinment that happens every 5000 years amd a secret cult, Illuminati (have u heard that anywhere else before..? Hmmm...) that searches for an ancient talisman which gives to the bearer the ability to control time!!! So guess what, they have to find it really soon or they have to wait 5000 more years for the next planetary alignment! And who of all the people might possess that artifact without even knowing it? Lara Croft? NO WAY!!! :O !! Anyway the artifact is stolen from her eventually and she has to get it back. Ok, i think I said too much here, so if u want more plot analysis, just watch the movie. The thing is that none of those characteristics are authentic and have we seen it before numerous times before but we cant have everything right? Although Lara Croft seems almost invulnerable, which kinda cancels the plot's menacing atmosphere, its really well directed and with pretty good sound quality really impressive and vivid. Overall the digital, billionaire, british archaeologist couldnt have a better movie adaptation attempt, and that thnx to the many successful resemblances to the main title!
To Be Continued...
Well being directed in 2001 and with Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, Simon West surely draws the attention of every Tomb Raider fan. It was finally the time for those boobs that i already mentioned to be incarnated as Angelina Jolie's. In this case, the movie is just about everything the game is. Showing Anjelina Jolie with tight outfits in every angle possible and making sure to highlight her swollen lips n boobs! And come on im not mean here thats the games are all about as well! Have u ever considered if there is any real action in those games at all? Killing tigers and dodo birds every 25 fucking minutes!?! HELL YEAH!! Well back to the movie again, Angelina Jolie is really the applausable person here. She has all the physical characteristics Lara Croft has, plus all the mental ones. She seems quite brave n smart, n full of emotional expressions. The plot, which is not anything new or impressive, is about a planetary allinment that happens every 5000 years amd a secret cult, Illuminati (have u heard that anywhere else before..? Hmmm...) that searches for an ancient talisman which gives to the bearer the ability to control time!!! So guess what, they have to find it really soon or they have to wait 5000 more years for the next planetary alignment! And who of all the people might possess that artifact without even knowing it? Lara Croft? NO WAY!!! :O !! Anyway the artifact is stolen from her eventually and she has to get it back. Ok, i think I said too much here, so if u want more plot analysis, just watch the movie. The thing is that none of those characteristics are authentic and have we seen it before numerous times before but we cant have everything right? Although Lara Croft seems almost invulnerable, which kinda cancels the plot's menacing atmosphere, its really well directed and with pretty good sound quality really impressive and vivid. Overall the digital, billionaire, british archaeologist couldnt have a better movie adaptation attempt, and that thnx to the many successful resemblances to the main title!
To Be Continued...
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