Topic: Upcoming Castlevania Movie!

[AlucardIsGOD]

ya really how does he go form Stomp the yard and I'll always know what you did last summer to this.  Ya MK is probably the best video game to movie and you know how truly sad that statement is.

I don't care if they get it 100% right But do it justice that's all we ask. Why writers/directors don't just follow the story thast in the game is beyond me. They always want to add characters or change it around. 

they already F-ed up Resident evil and Doom(shudders) looks like my favorite one will go.

[justin312]

Movies based on video games are the bottom rung of the "geek movie" ladder.  I don't think there is a video game movie adaption in existence that isn't formulaic junk.  So even if this thing gets made, I wouldn't be too excited about it.  Most likely, it will be a poor man's Van Helsing meets Underworld, with wooden acting, generic script and typical action movie set pieces.

[shelverton.]

My friends hardly know what Castlevania is, but they know I enjoy it. I'd like things to stay that way. If this movie comes out I feel like I'll have some serious explaining to do.  I once said I like some of the Tomb Raider games, and they were like "What!!? So you actually like the movies too then!?". As if it's the same thing. But they're not gamers so I don't blame them. Hopefully Castlevania won't be in theatres here, so there's a chance no one will ever find out about it. Cause I am 110% sure it's gonna blow.

[AlucardIsGOD]

Movies based on video games are the bottom rung of the "geek movie" ladder.

[Battler Ushiromiya]

In Reply To #31

I actually liked the Doom movie... *Shrugs*

[The Last Belmont]

As I heard last, there isn't even plans to have the protagonist use a damn whip at all, let alone the storied Vampire Killer. That's like Ghostbusters without proton packs or King Arthur without Excalibur, it's not some summary detail of the story, it's part of the story and scheme itself. I don't care if they tweak timelines, omit certain characters or make up their own, or add a different take, within reason, on the central thematic elements of the story. But if this movie has full black leather one piece costumes, techno music, or firearms used as weapons as I suspect it probably will, count me way out.

see this is my problem right now with videogame movies, just using the title to get people to come to your movie and make some quick money is WRONG. Changing certain elements for the better and adding a few new twists and turns as long as they aren't anything too crazy I am all for, but the movie needs to still feel like castlevania. Throwing whatever they want up on the screen and calling it castlevania is just low life theivery really.

[paletteswapmonster]

It's amazing how you people are having nothing but RAAAAGING negative reactions based on the silliest things.

[The Last Belmont]

It's amazing how you people are having nothing but RAAAAGING negative reactions based on the silliest things.

what do you mean? from everything we heard this movie doesn't look to be good (or anything like castlevania) at all.

[justin312]

In Reply To #37

I don't think I would call the majority of these comments "RAAAGING negative" reactions.  I think "low expectations" is more appropriate.  Based on the past quality of pretty much every video game movie ever, I don't think there is much reason to believe that this movie will be anything other than a cheesy, generic action flick.

[Bad Wolf]

On my forum, we're expecting that this movie will never be made, considering it was shelved for the Writer's Strike last year, and was never pulled out again.

I honestly believe Silvain White wants to do an awesome movie (as he considers himself a big fan of the series and has said numerous times he wanted to do the series justice), but Ed Wood wanted to do awesome too, and look at his movies. Fact is, Silvain White, like Ed Wood, has an unattainable dream because his dream outshines his novice talent.

Fortunately, we don't have to worry about "PLAN NINE FROM CASTLEVANIA" coming out, because at this point it's just going to languish in Development Hell until the whole project becomes Dead on Arrival.

[jimmay17]

In Reply To #40

Things could be worse, I suppose. If the studio gets cold feet on the production and shelves it indefinitely, one Uwe Boll could always swoop in and do the whole thing on a micro-budget. Big or little budget, Uew Boll's movies are always asstastic.

[paletteswapmonster]

what do you mean? from everything we heard this movie doesn't look to be good (or anything like castlevania) at all.

Really? It's about CV3, and has Leon cameos. That seems to be all aside from Trevor having a brother named Christopher which people tend to think that it's the same Christopher from CVA and BR(I doubt it's the same one).

By the way, what do you mean "doesn't look to be good"? Has anything actually been shown?

[justin312]

In Reply To #42

Because its a movie based on a video game.  Unless this becomes the first ever good movie thats based on a video game, we can assume it will be lousy if it ever does get made.

[Battler Ushiromiya]

In Reply To #43

Actually, it would be the second. Silent Hill kicked ass.

[Mobius]

For the record, Uwe Boll has directed at least one good film thus far: Postal. The movie is every bit as irreverent, shocking, offensive, and nut-bustingly hilarious as the games that inspired it. And the man himself has a jaw-dropping cameo dying from a gunshot wound to the groin. Postal is undoubtedly the Uwe Boll film that I would happily purchase with my hard earned cash to add to my DVD collection.

Still, I would have felt alot better if Konami had gotten Christophe Gans to helm Castlevania. Brotherhood of the Wolf was quite a unique hybrid, and Crying Freeman was light-years ahead of the manga and anime that it was based off of. Not to mention that for better or worse, his Silent Hill movie was a spot-on film adaptation of the games in both tone and mood.