Chaos2Frozen
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Should have just CG it like the Animated RE movies.
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Paul WS Anderson talks Monster Hunter Movie
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I really should PM a mod about fixing that title lmao
The Spoony Hou
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The premise makes me think of the Mario movie.
Muskieratboi
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What we all wanted out of this movie:
What we're going to get, given the director's description of the plot:
Sigh. Stop giving Anderson Video game movie licenses, Capcom.
What we're going to get, given the director's description of the plot:
Sigh. Stop giving Anderson Video game movie licenses, Capcom.
User123456
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm out. I knew exactly what was going to follow this sentence as soon as I read it.
thetrin
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It's not a hard movie to make. Make it a coming-of-age tale about a young boy growing up in a village hoping to one day become a hunter. The movie charts his life as a young and adult member of his small village community, and how they've survived by the skin of their teeth in a hostile monster world.
Even have a central monster that he wants to seek revenge against because it destroyed much of his village as a child.
Then you have him grow, learn how to use the weapons, train, hunt small game, all to finally form a group of hunters with his childhood friends as adults to hunt the game that eluded his father and every other hunter that ever went after it.
I'll admit it's not the most original story, but it's a solid Monster Hunter story, and it gives the movie time to delve into the village life and show a bit of the world (which imo, is really rich in MH).
Yeah, considering that virtually all monsters can be killed by a cat hitting them with a stick or a bow and arrow, I'm not convinced that laser-guided rockets and AA guns will be 'useless'. The monsters mostly aren't supernatural creatures that need specifically heroic magic weapons or abilities to beat them, artillery pieces do just fine and if hunters could have satellites and helicopters tracking Jhen Moran underground, I'm sure they'd use them!
Putting faith in heroes works for tribal communities with few resources- all of the excess resources goes to supporting a small number of hunters who are then responsible for defending the village. Cities that can call on well-equipped national armies to deal with infestations of monsters that aren't particularly resistant to guns (unlike Godzilla) have other advantages. If it had to have a real-world setting, a much smaller, non-western settlement would work better, preferably a remote island or something, but then we don't get the cinematic conceit that anything of interest happens in major recognisable cities and is solved by a white guy.
Not far off 'How to train your Dragon', really. I've often thought that's the closest to Monster Hunter I've seen in the cinema. Animation seems a better fit than live-action.
Chaos2Frozen
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Demon's Soul the Movie:
Synopsis - An average relatable American man finds himself lost in a demon infested kingdom, and becomes it's unlikely savior.
Synopsis - An average relatable American man finds himself lost in a demon infested kingdom, and becomes it's unlikely savior.
Ah, Reign of Fire. Quite enjoyed that.Posting this again.
Possumowner
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This isn't gonna turn out well is it...unless he shocks us all 🤞
Chaos2Frozen
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The movie has an underrated theme song
man, I remember really liking this movie back when I first got the DVD. I think I got Magnolia at the same time. New Line DVDs had good packaging at the time for some of its movies.
I don't think I ever got the
little piano...
CamHostage
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It is EXACTLY like what Paul WS Anderson also did with Alien vs Predator. Takes an epic franchise way too difficult and unreasonable to do on screen without a colossal budget, and just says, "Fuck it, let's film it as an Earth movie." No interest in the characters or character types who have previously been associated with that saga, no interest in the lore or scope, no interest in anything that made the property so attractive to fans other than the creature designs, and so to make it as cheap to film as possible, they just drop those creatures randomly into some desolate backdrop and roll cameras.
I don't know what's up with this guy. Never a genius director, but Event Horizon and Soldier and even the Resident Evils showed a guy fighting to put something on screen not seen before. (People bag on RE for breaking from the series' protagonists - and Anderson here does no favors by saying the series hasn't any characters - but I'm in favor of the RE movies following an unknown lead and unfamiliar events instead of a familiar hero going through the game path; if what he came up with is good, that's another question.) He has always made garbage, but it's usually faithful and fun garbage; I don't need Death Race or Musketeers (I did need Mortal Kombat, I just did,) but the right effort was put into all of those for people who did care for what exploded in those. But then sometimes he seems to get invested into brands that he is not up to the task of pulling off, and instead of bowing out, he makes them the wrong way.
Plus, he's a Brit, married to a woman with Venusian eyeballs, why's he making MH about "a normal American"?
Opinionatedfish
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I admit it.
I liked the first Resident Evil movie. Then it became weird cheese in the second movie and I stopped caring about the storyline and just signed up for these to see how ridiculous they would become. Completely on board for the next one.
This is NIbelsnarf takes Manhattan.
I'm expecting to be only okay watching this.
I liked the first Resident Evil movie. Then it became weird cheese in the second movie and I stopped caring about the storyline and just signed up for these to see how ridiculous they would become. Completely on board for the next one.
This is NIbelsnarf takes Manhattan.
I'm expecting to be only okay watching this.
wenaldy
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man, I remember really liking this movie back when I first got the DVD. I think I got Magnolia at the same time. New Line DVDs had good packaging at the time for some of its movies.
I don't think I ever got theI guess I should see if I still have it somewhere.little piano...
That little thing called Harmonium. It's central theme (or metaphor) of the movie.
OnimaruXLR
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This is gonna be the latest in an odd string of American produced Kaiju movies that are all pretty terrible except Pacific Rim
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He's the modern day equivalent of Roger Corman, He keeps working because his stuff generally turns a profit .
Basically he's an exploitation auteur who's managed to find himself a comfortable niche making faux-blockbusters at B-movie budgets. Roger got kinda squeezed out of the business when Hollywood started horning in on traditional exploitation territory for its big summer releases -Jaws being the classic example- and ended up being forced back into the dead-end of DTV product.
Consider Battle Beyond The Stars if you don't believe me, that movie is basically a Paul Anderson movie, a decade plus before he started in the business!
I was actually kinda hyped until "monsters come into our world and an American saves us woo"
Like, keep it contained in itself. The universe is there, build your world inside it. You could make several movies in there and they don't even have to be connected save for the creatures that show up. Ships sailing on sand, dragons that live deep beneath the ice. Even the storyline from MH4, if it were condensed and focused would make for a pretty good cinematic story
Like, keep it contained in itself. The universe is there, build your world inside it. You could make several movies in there and they don't even have to be connected save for the creatures that show up. Ships sailing on sand, dragons that live deep beneath the ice. Even the storyline from MH4, if it were condensed and focused would make for a pretty good cinematic story
Sad thing is, I'd think there actually would be potential for the whole "Monsters Crossing Over!" plot point, if they were allowed to make a bunch of *wink wink* jokes about how the series and its world has been making crossovers for years "into other worlds". Hell, even "faux realistic world scenarios", like with Peace Walker.
In the end, full on embracing the inherent silliness of the MonHun games is what I would think would best sell this flick, even if it used the most generic American lead Mary Sue one could think of.
I just don't think Anderson and his production company will see it like that.
In the end, full on embracing the inherent silliness of the MonHun games is what I would think would best sell this flick, even if it used the most generic American lead Mary Sue one could think of.
I just don't think Anderson and his production company will see it like that.
McGruber21
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So, it's gonna flop horribly. I will say he can film action pretty well, but that's about it. I always love producers talking about their next projects before their current one comes out. It's just wishful thinking because if the last Resident Evil film tanks, he isn't going to be given any other franchises. Same thing happened to the Stargate remake when Independence Day Regurgitate came out.
Candescence
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This is going to be terrible like the RE live action movies, I just know it. Damn it, Capcom, stop letting Anderson handle movie adaptations of your franchises.
CamHostage
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To the point where Anderson remade a Roger Corman movie even, yeah.
But he does still try, sometimes, that's what I find weird. His Pompeii movie was him putting effort in and trying to be high-brow (though I think Corman tried a drama or two as well, no?) His Resident Evil movies are made for the bucks, but he seemed really proud to be the movie after Avatar that actually shot on the high-scale 3D rigs. It makes sense to me that he creates vanity vehicles for his wife (any time that the camera looks lovingly on Jovovich, I forgive him.) And it even makes sense to try and be the successful-Uwe Boll in the game-movie market. I just fine AvP and now MH to be such weird anomalies where he has pick of the brands to churn out and instead he chooses titles he clearly has no hope of getting right.
SuperStiltzkin
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This sounds fucking awful. Why does it need a real world connection? Why can't it just be it's own universe? Worked for Warcraft overseas. Makes me think they're too worried about the domestic performance so they have to emphasize "relatable American characters in a dead end job in the real world!"
SuperStiltzkin
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Budget reasons I'm guessing? Easier to put monsters in modern world than to create a whole other imaginative universe.
Monster Hunter has no story and has no characters. They could do anything they want to the series and they chose the least imaginative and worst possible way to approach the material. Paul WS Anderson could have cast Milla Jovovich as a prehistoric female hunter in this new MH world for all I care. They could flesh out and create new towns and biomes and shit. But no. They decided to go with the worse Hollywood parody approach possible.
If this movie becomes another RE success, you can bet your ass the modern day connection means that some evil corporation will capture the monsters to weaponize them. And then it'll be prehistoric hunters vs umbrella's mechanized monsters and it'll basically be Avatar.
I finally got around to reading the interview.
I'm very conflicted about this. Paul WS Anderson's stuff is the embodiment of middling SFX films designed for international audiences. That said it was never likely that Monster Hunter was going to get the full Weta treatment like Warcraft.
I love Monster Hunter enough that I will probably watch even PWSA's take on it. Here's hoping the armor and monsters look cool at least.
I'm very conflicted about this. Paul WS Anderson's stuff is the embodiment of middling SFX films designed for international audiences. That said it was never likely that Monster Hunter was going to get the full Weta treatment like Warcraft.
I love Monster Hunter enough that I will probably watch even PWSA's take on it. Here's hoping the armor and monsters look cool at least.
CaviarMeths
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I actually dig Paul WS Anderson's work, but that pitch sounds megadumb.
KratosEnergyDrink
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I think MH3 on WiiU was 1080p.
The_Endgamer
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no capcapom. ur selling youre soul.
Mr. Pointy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70b9H12sGcY
A SFX studio sizzle reel.
~2:40 and ~3:30 is, seemingly, Monster Hunter movie footage.
This is from September 2016.
A SFX studio sizzle reel.
~2:40 and ~3:30 is, seemingly, Monster Hunter movie footage.
This is from September 2016.
Can anyone ID these monsters?
Rathalos and Gore Magala fighting in a... shopping mall...
Well there goes any hope of the direction and scenario of this movie being drastically altered. When the official trailer for this movie does eventually get released, Monster Hunter fans around the world are going to weep in despair.
At least the CG representations of the designs for the monsters are faithful. However, it might be the only thing that is faithful to the series...
Mr. Pointy
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Rathalos and Gore Magala
It'll make 3 times its budget back in Japan alone.