Alone in the Dark - media crossovers - your thoughts?

[Shai Hulud]

Ok, well a few friends of mine asked if I would join them to check out this movie. Yes, I have played the Alone in the Dark series so I really was curious how the movie would tie into game if at all. I won't discuss any plot lines since it has only been at the boxoffice one night and people may want to see it.

The Movie does have some pieces to it that do follow the game, but the relation between the two is very vague, like most hollywood renditions. Does anyone believe a video game turned into a movie should follow a definative path through the game environment or should the movie be made loosely related to the game?

I have found so many poor renditions of one form of media being made into another that, IMO, if someone was to take the time to replicate the original material they would have a more indepth presentation, making a more lasting impression on the audience/consumer.

Also, if a game does makes a decent movie do you think it would be possible for a sequel game to follow the movie (please do not refer to Resident Evil since RE4 was in production prior to RE apocalypse and does not follow the same story arc)?

It was hard to say yes, but I think it may be possible to create. It would be difficult and I don't think it could totally be pulled off unless the original development team was working on the project.

[Moonbiter]

The first AITD was one of the shortest but most eerie and frightening games I've ever played. It's a classic. I've seen the trailer to the movie, and to be honest, I wasn't too impressed. Seeing the miniguns, CGI and the soldiers I thought "jeez, another game-to-movie screwup." AITD was based on H.P Lovecraft and his ultimate world of nails-on-nerves horror, and that's why it worked. Mind you, none of Lovecraft's works has ever been put successfully to film, and it doesn't look like anyone is likely to try in the near future. I remember Sam Raimi saying "Lovecraft is to horror what Tolkien is to fantasy, you have to possess an incredible ammount of humility and understanding before you try to take that on."

I will see AITD, but I'm not waiting for a revelation....

[Luis Antonio]

I played the first and third game. I dont like it really, but the game has a reall deep sense of terror and suspense on it, and as far as I know, the movie industry has a real talent to destroy game reputation. Look at the street fighter movie, for example. Hope AITD goes better than that.

[Moonbiter]

Well, this one is coming up as not only the worst possible movie of the (new) year, but as the biggest pile of manure of the DECADE! Check this out:

"If you took the 100 worst ideas ever conceived for a science-fiction film, rattled them around in a Lotto tumbler and spilled them out onto the screen at random, you could not produce a more asinine hodgepodge than Alone in the Dark."
-- Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

"Never trust a movie that opens with a written introduction scrolling by that's longer than the collected works of Tom Clancy."
-- David Hiltbrand, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"Alone in the Dark co-stars perpetual party-girl Tara Reid as an archeologist. That alone should give you some clue as to how bad this movie is."
-- Bob Townsend, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

"There are some stupid films that rock, if you turn your brain off and enjoy them. Alone in the Dark isn't one of these, though it is very stupid."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

""Saying Uwe Boll’s Alone in the Dark is better than his 2003 American debut House of the Dead is akin to praising syphilis for not being HIV."
-- Nicholas Schager, SLANT MAGAZINE

" "There's a point in the movie where it's best to stop trying to make sense out of this unintelligible story... right after the opening credits."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM

" "...asking the viewer to accept Tara Reid as a scientist is pure insanity, requiring a staggering leap of faith that I can't even begin to contemplate."
-- David Nusair, REEL FILM REVIEWS

" "This is jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, 'I-can't- believe-someone- made-this-crap' badness we're dealing with."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM

"This is definitely for people who 1) love the video game, 2) think Slater and Dorff are eminently watchable, no matter what bad flick they're in and 3) are wearing industrial-strength ear plugs."
-- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST

"Director Uwe Boll (is) a latter-day Ed Wood who fancies himself a cross between action-sytlish John Woo and B-movie horror-ific John Carpenter."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE


I rest my case....

[Luis Antonio]

[QUOTE=Moonbiter]
"There are some stupid films that rock, if you turn your brain off and enjoy them. Alone in the Dark isn't one of these, though it is very stupid."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
[/QUOTE]

I can only laugh. It must be like street fighter, the movie.