Movies that should never be made into games.

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Exhibit fucking A: Taxi Driver

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

Jesus fuck, that's a stupid idea. Though 'After Hours' would probably make a fun game, kinda.

― disco violence (disco violence), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

My Dinner With Andre

― the pr00de abides (pr00de), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Steel Magnolias

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Andrei Rublev

― adam (adam), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Diner

Grand Canyon

Terms of Endearment

12 Angry Men

I'd play a "Citizen Kane" game, tho, especially if it was a Diablo clone.

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

The level where you have to smash up everything in his bedroom would be rad.

― the pr00de abides (pr00de), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Exhibit fucking A: Taxi Driver

I'd say this wont happen now, didn't Majesco go bankrupt recently? (and oh so kindly blamed it on DoubleFine's low sales of Psychonauts, the bastids)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

Baby's Day Out

― allenalenelnalenelnae (allenriley), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

Stepmom

― the pr00de abides (pr00de), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Forrest Gump

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 24 October 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Begotten

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 24 October 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

9 Songs

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 24 October 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

the piano

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 24 October 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

(and oh so kindly blamed it on DoubleFine's low sales of Psychonauts, the bastids)

Bah!

Also: Irreversible

― adam (adam), Monday, 24 October 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Though I'm sure the insane Japanese child molesting simulator industry would have something to say about that.

― adam (adam), Monday, 24 October 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/rob_brennan/ilx/ThreeColoursBlue.jpg

― robster (robster), Monday, 24 October 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Blue Velvet

Amistad (oh god imagine the boredom!)

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

diner would make an awesome GTA-style free-roamer!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Imagine the minigames!

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 24 October 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Driving Miss Daisy

My Left Foot

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 24 October 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

The Elephant Man

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 24 October 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I like this thread.

Ghost Dad

Ghost

In The Name Of The Father

the lines between should and shouldn't are starting to seem blurry now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 24 October 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

it would be cool if the diner game was like shadow of the colossi--the point was to take down each of the bosses (guttenberg, reiser, rourke, etc) and there were no other enemies

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 October 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

And Rourke's weak point is in a popcorn box on his lap. (xp)

― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Requiem For A Dream

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

zardoz

― josh w (jbweb), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Maons: The Hands Of Fate

― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

once were warriors

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Logan's Run
Soylent Green
Conan The Barbarian
Conan The Destroyer
Red Sonya
Black Hawk Down
James Bond (anything)
anything directed by Wes Craven
Halloween
Starman
Hell, anything directed by John Carpenter
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Hell, anything by Kubrick too

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Planet of the Fuckin' Apes

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

James Bond (anything)

WRONG...

Anyway:

Ghost World (haha I am imagining this as some kind of bizarro sims)

― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

The Last Picture Show

I started typing 'Veronica Guerin' and then I realised that I really want to play a Veronica Guerin videogame!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

While GTA: Vice City was basically making Scarface into a game, the actual upcoming Scarface game based on the premise that T Montana turns round and notices the hitman with the shotgun, kills him and all the other guys in his mansion, recovers from his several hundred bullet wounds and the death of his best friend and sister and then KEEPS GOING, well, that seems like a bit of a bad idea. Also the Godfather one, if that's still going ahead.

Also, y'know, Doom. And Crash. Either of them.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

my point re: James Bond movies, well, what the fuck do the videogames actually have to do with 007? Much less the famed multiplayer mode? Why the hell pay for the license? And if you did pay for the license and actually make a game based on the James Bond franchise, where the gameplay tried to really resemble the action in the films, well, that game would suck. Walking around talking to crazy rich women followed by deus ex machina escape from exploding secret base at the end. Come on.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Walking around talking to crazy rich women followed by deus ex machina escape from exploding secret base at the end.

OMG BEST GAME IDEA EVER

― Dan (Help Me) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

You've forgotten about something.

OLD SCHOOL SIERRA GAMES.

― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Aw, Black Cauldron wasn't that bad.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/screenshots/full/rise_of_the_dragon_04.gif

― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

That looks like some Carmen Sandiego shit.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

It is Sierra's "Rise of the Dragon"

― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I was really afraid that it might have been Blade.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Hang on, Doom's a game that was made into a movie, wasn't it? Uh.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

anything with a progressie heightening in the drama of characters' deaths... so most horrors... was therew a friday 13th game?

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

yeah for nes - it's meant to be pretty good, actually

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Except that it is the worst game ever. Except for that.

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

friday the 13th was also on the spectrum. it was shite.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

meanwhile...

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/tristar_pictures/silent_hill/silenthill_sign.jpg

more here

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

It is directed by Christophe Ganz = It will be fantastic (maybe)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

we'll see

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Coffee and Cigarettes

― matty matt matt, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Ikiru

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

friday the 13th the game scared me when the knife goes into jasons head

― allen riley (allenriley), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Any Michael Moore Documentary
DVD footage of a burning fireplace.
Eraserhead
The Wizard
Fight Club (oops)
You Got Served
Lost in Translation, which I imagine to play like an import title but even the english version is in japanese except for the amiable but subdued bill murray npc.
Saw or Sequel.
Primer
Dungeons and Dragons The Movie The Game

― ethanol demagogue (ethdem), Friday, 25 November 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

has anyone seen this Doom movie yet?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 25 November 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

ack wrong thread

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 25 November 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

full metal jacket
billy jack

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 25 November 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

didn't they do jacket on the 8 bits? sounds familiar, but maybe i'm thinking of platoon

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 25 November 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

RJM got Godfather for himself when he was at Bestbuy getting my presents. Replaying the basic scenes of a movie + unlocking clips of said movie + FPS = not at all interesting to me. But he says it's okay, violent, lots of cussing, lacking in sex (even though there is apparently a romance angle).

I don't know though, I'd really like to see Kung Fu Hustle as a game, or maybe Shaolin Soccer.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Munich
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
My Mother, The Whore
Thumbsucker
8 Mile

On the other hand, I'd love to see:
Being John Malkovitch
V for Vendetta
Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

In The Company of Men

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

People picking the really obvious "boring movie" choices are missing the point! But Forksclovetofu is basically OTM!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Smartest Guys In The Room would be a great game. "SimScam"

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

The Godfather game is actually pretty fun. It's a bit like GTA3 in that there's an impressively big city but not that much to do in it beyond the (few) missions and the three or four set ways to make money. But the actual fighting is better than any of the GTA games.

The whole "you've got to take over everything until you're the DON" thing and saying "get out of the car motherfucker" do seem a bit anvil-fisted though.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

He did say it seemed to be using an actual map of NYC, so getting to Jersey or someplace took FOREVER. But, that all the butcher shops were exactly the same. EA people not be working hard enough on diversity in those 85 hour weeks!

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I'd play a game based on The Decline of Western Civilization but not one based on Jandek On Corwood.

― adam (adam), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

you have to drive for WAY too much time in godfather.

also it makes no sense that if you're like, almost don, you're still robbing banks and storming compounds BY YOURSELF.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Cube. I suppose in theory it could be fun if you used different puzzles to the prime number thing or whatever it was, but I'm already visualising throwing the controller at the screen out of frustration.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

TOMBOT:
Hell, anything directed by John Carpenter

I have The Thing for PS2 which plays as the sequel.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I suppose in theory it could be fun if you used different puzzles to the prime number thing or whatever it was, but I'm already visualising throwing the controller at the screen out of frustration.

there was one of these already, right? Came out in '95/'96. I remember a demo for it being on teh disc my bro got with his psx.

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Different cube.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

was it "Gleaming The Cube"?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Kingfish, are you talking about a sort of sci-fi Smash Bros fighting game, where you were able to run up and down the walls of a cube, and every now and then the cube would rotate? Possibly called something like Blast Chamber? If so, I've wanted this game since it came out. Played it twice and it was soooo good.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 6 May 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

People need to go back to comedy video game movie tie ins.

I'm still laughing at the idea of AMISTAD PS3, take control of a young lawyer as he seeks to win a legal battle over the ownership rights for a group of slaves.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 6 May 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

to run up and down the walls of a cube, and every now and then the cube would rotate?

yeah. some sorta puzzle room by puzzle room thing.

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 6 May 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

ah christ.

Reservoir Dogs

Based on the Quentin Tarantino flick, game remains faithful to the original movie, with gamers able to play all the key characters, including the infamous Mr Blonde. Staying true to the original plot, this intense, third person shooter follows the progress and planning of the famed diamond heist while filling in some of the cliffhanger questions from the film: What happened to Mr. Blue and Mr. Brown? Where did Mr. Pink hide the diamonds? What actually happened at the heist? These questions and more will be answered as the game unfolds and according to the player’s tactics. The game also features the full and original soundtrack from the movie – those super sounds of the seventies

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 6 May 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

The Woodsman

― Darramouss ftw! (Darramouss ftw), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Birth of a Nation.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Flight 93

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Shindlers List

― Darramouss ftw! (Darramouss ftw), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

The Karen Carpenter Story

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Slaughterhouse 5

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

The Deer Hunter

― a.b. (alanbanana), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

deliverance

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.igrograd.com.ua/images/87-148/redneck/q2.jpg

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

pigs?

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

http://members.tripod.com/~bob2x/Pig.gif

― adam (adam), Thursday, 11 May 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Uwe Boll is making a movie of "Postal"

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 11 May 2006 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe

― Darramouss ftw! (Darramouss ftw), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060510/film_nm/media_heat_dc;_ylt=AmMEBtd7G2XUu.791DnIyA1xFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 13 May 2006 06:57 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

man I was king of challops up in here

― El Tomboto, Monday, 17 November 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

the crow

― fuzzy dunlop (cozwn), Monday, 17 November 2008 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

phone booth

― fuzzy dunlop (cozwn), Monday, 17 November 2008 22:29 (seventeen years ago)

gibson's christ movie

― fuzzy dunlop (cozwn), Monday, 17 November 2008 22:29 (seventeen years ago)

Bad Lieutenant

― snoball, Monday, 17 November 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

this is more like a thread for movies that should be games

― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 04:38 (seventeen years ago)

tokyo drifter

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 08:20 (seventeen years ago)

who's nailin' paylin?

― Everyone is a Jedi (Will M.), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

Marguerite Duras's Le Camion

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

Passion of Joan of Arc
('Pained close-ups: the game')

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

Dude, Tokyo Drifter game would be AWESOME

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

Ikiru
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:23

This would be ace. Deal with the mindnumbing bureacracy to get your children's playground built - it's a race against time!

― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, but the forty-five minute funeral cutscene at the end would be hella boring.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:29 (seventeen years ago)

It'd be hella Square Enix is what it'd be

― Everyone is a Jedi (Will M.), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

in fact a game where you must deal with bureaucracy, in the format of an rpg... would make a lot of sense, in a way

― Everyone is a Jedi (Will M.), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/segagaga/segagaga.htm

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

I'd pay for an English translation of Segagaga.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

I wonder how Sega is marketed in Italy?

― Uncle Muncle (Michael White), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

Under the console name? When Arsenal were sponsored by Sega they had to have special Champions League shirts that replaced "Sega" with "Dreamcast", to avoid the inevitable hilarity when they visited Italy.

― Oreo SB'd Wagon (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

I did not know sega was Italian slang for whackin' it!

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

Anyway, answer to thread question:

'Last year in Marienbad'

― Uncle Muncle (Michael White), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:34 (seventeen years ago)

Jacobs Ladder

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

actually...

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:36 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ Pretty sure I played a game version of Last Year in Marienbad in the early 80s. It only featured one scene from the movie, but still.

― Oreo SB'd Wagon (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

Sounds thrilling, Noodle!

― Uncle Muncle (Michael White), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.archimedes-lab.org/game_nim/nim.html#

Jokes, right?

― Oreo SB'd Wagon (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:47 (seventeen years ago)

did you guys know they actually made a videogame of Frankenheimer's The Train?

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

Just googled that. Mind-boggling testament to the freedom video games had in the 80s when they were programmed by 3 people, I guess.

― Oreo SB'd Wagon (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

would smash
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Letempsduloup.jpg

― czn (cozwn), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 13:51 (seventeen years ago)

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