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The mistakes game movies make is they try to make the movie look too much like the game as if it will please gamers. The movie has to be in the spirit of the game but not too literally. Example is that showing Mario jumping and hitting bricks in real life is just stupid. Or street fighter movie emulating a side view fight is just gonna make it tacky. Doom the movie has these dumb ass fps screens.

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Hasbro avoided this mistake by basing their movie on Dungeons and Dragons, where anything can happen. I think they actually had the best movie of 2023. Mission Impossible 7 had better stunts, but DnD had a better story, better acting, and superbly-executed comedic timing. I was not a Hugh Grant fan before this movie, but now I am.

Yeah exactly, I was looking for a movie but D and D people got the formula right, it takes creativity to have it be like the game but no look like you are playing one. Imagine if that movie had these dice and little card rules, what’s what a B movie studio would have done

The last John Wick movie had a scene that wonderfully leveraged the cinematography of Hotline Miami (of all things!).

It can be done, it just has to be tasteful. In writing anything, never give the audience what they expect. It's lame and boring.

Yeah and that was stupid I thought, and hotline miami was a good game. I hope they have a hotline miami movie but they need to make it like pulp fiction

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