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It’s almost a dead horse, but the whip is still strong and the corpse just doesn’t stop giving off its foul odor. Of course I’m talking about cinematic conversions of video games and the stigma that comes with it. There’s no simple “good, bad or decent” when it comes to these conversions. Many have been simply “bad” and at times “cinematic poison”, but the best that anyone has really been able to say about these films is they’re “ok”. Expectations aside, I’ve always been worried by these conversions because box-office audiences don’t expect a pandering to the core community that made this a worthy conversion concept, they want a story in its own right. These films don’t move with the narrative of the game, nor do they expand or build upon the world that they’re pilfered from – they make the obligatory nods, then move on to be barely recognisable to those that have already experienced them before.

And there’s the nub of it: Interactivity and the nature of video game narrative makes all but a few of these games capable of a true cinematic conversion. Read the rest of this entry »