Another Video Game Movie

Could be good.

May 25, 2010 at 6:09PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
The Turtle People Welcome you to Turtle Planet.
The Turtle People Welcome you to Turtle Planet. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Remember when they used to base videogames on movies? Then the movies got stupid and videogames got smart. Now this:

It could be awful, of course; most game-based movies are. Modern video games are so immersive and complex a movie version is like the Golden-Book edition, something dumbed down and prettied up. The rumored Bioshock movie, for example: there's no point. If you've spent a long time playing the game, why would you want to sit in a chair passively absorbing the same story, played out by someone else?

That said, this looks good:

And they don't mean "organic" in the "pesticide-free" sense. I'm sure the good guys win, but if all life in the galaxy was at stake, I'd rather we sent more than a "Team" against a "race." The odds just sound bad.

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