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**suilusargaino** · 04-17-2010, 12:55 AM

Same with the Wing Commander movie. Why not keep the amazing cast you had in the video games and use that in a feature film. (Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, Malcolm McDowell, Tom Wilson. Though I have to admit David Warner made an excellent Admiral Tolwyn as well) Don't change the way your bad guys look: from cats to gorillas. Don't change the way the ships and fighters look. Don't give us a movie that looks like it could be part of a trilogy but never make the other two movies.

Basically don't have such a massive difference between the games and the movies, why can't the movie just be like the cheesy cutscenes from the games just not cheesy through the refining and directing process?

That movie was supposed to revive the games and bring out new ones instead the Wing Commander universe is nearly completely dead today.

Another example that comes to mind is the upcoming Warcraft movie. Instead of the beautiful well crafted CGI cutscenes we have known to come and love from Blizzard Entertainment, we'll probably get special effects worse than the games, bad acting, and a movie more about World of Warcraft instead of the excellent Warcraft 1-3.

04-17-2010, 12:55 AM	#5
suilusargaino Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 593 Senior Member	Same with the Wing Commander movie. Why not keep the amazing cast you had in the video games and use that in a feature film. (Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, Malcolm McDowell, Tom Wilson. Though I have to admit David Warner made an excellent Admiral Tolwyn as well) Don't change the way your bad guys look: from cats to gorillas. Don't change the way the ships and fighters look. Don't give us a movie that looks like it could be part of a trilogy but never make the other two movies. Basically don't have such a massive difference between the games and the movies, why can't the movie just be like the cheesy cutscenes from the games just not cheesy through the refining and directing process? That movie was supposed to revive the games and bring out new ones instead the Wing Commander universe is nearly completely dead today. Another example that comes to mind is the upcoming Warcraft movie. Instead of the beautiful well crafted CGI cutscenes we have known to come and love from Blizzard Entertainment, we'll probably get special effects worse than the games, bad acting, and a movie more about World of Warcraft instead of the excellent Warcraft 1-3.
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