Hitman Agent 47 - Movie trailer [2015]

[Seya]

[$$$]

is bringing a sniper rifle into an interrogation room common practice amongst law enforcement entities

[Professor Cena]

hollywood hitman

[hian]

This looks like complete shit.

Why can't Hollywood either learn to make movies true to their source-material or just leave it the fvck alone?
Seems to me that the movies that actually stay somewhat true to the source-material do better than those who don't, so it should be a rather obvious sentiment.
It's like Hollywood writers think they know better than everyone else, including the already existing, large fan-bases of the original material.

Hitman was never some sort of Matrix-esque shit. 47 being a genetically enhanced test-tube human did not imply that he could do half of the shit he does in this trailer.
The redesigned bar-code looks like shit.
The little we see of 47's character shows someone akin to Terminator and seems to remove any shred of humanity he had, which in the games, he actually had in spades deep down, and the list keeps on going.

Fvck you Hollywood. Seriously. Oh, and fvck content creators who sell movie rights without giving two shits about what the end result might end up being.

[$$$]

This looks like complete shit.

Why can't Hollywood either learn to make movies true to their source-material or just leave it the fvck alone?
Seems to me that the movies that actually stay somewhat true to the source-material do better than those who don't, so it should be a rather obvious sentiment.
It's like Hollywood writers think they know better than everyone else, including the already existing, large fan-bases of the original material.

Hitman was never some sort of Matrix-esque shit. 47 being a genetically enhanced test-tube human did not imply that he could do half of the shit he does in this trailer.
The redesigned bar-code looks like shit.
The little we see of 47's character shows someone akin to Terminator and seems to remove any shred of humanity he had, which in the games, he actually had in spades deep down, and the list keeps on going.

Fvck you Hollywood. Seriously. Oh, and fvck content creators who sell movie rights without giving two shits about what the end result might end up being.

yeah but the whole point of making movies out of things is that the movie is a new different experience. if u want to watch a movie that's exactly the same as this game just go play the game right.

i'm not saying this movie will be good cause it obviously won't lol, but movies should be different than the book or whatever they were made from. it would be pretty boring otherwise doncha think

like when this movie sucks, don't think it sucked because it was different from the game. it's a completely separate thing that happens to suck on its own for all its own reasons

[Ronin]

The whole deal goes as follows:
- There are people who can't follow any kind of complexity
- They feel super left out, when their peers get something out of anything good, really
- They don't really like all that extremely flat, bland movie length adaptions for the big screen, but it's as good a spot to hang out while texting and checking the web as any
- They don't get what it's all about, but they paid money and the trailer said it's a "don't miss, never seen before, awesome ultra-badass experience' so it must be good
- They can now go home and brag how they went to the movies and now are all cultural and shit
- Profit
- The end.

[hian]

Anyone here seen the Street Fighter Assassin's Fist?

That is probably the best movie-game adaptation ever made IMO. Why is that? Because it was made with respect for the actual source-material (by fans), and it turned out great, despite being made on a budget that isn't even close to that of the shitty Hollywood adaptations.

It's high-time the rest of the world started to realize that the game medium is an actual god damn art-form that contains loads narrative diamonds and aesthetically pleasing gems.
Either you respect games for what they are, and treat them with respect in adapting them, or you leave them be, and just realize that the medium isn't for you.

Imagine the outcry if somebody started to make shitty adaptations of Shakespeare's works in the contemporary setting of U.S handicap, unisex basketball, set to a soundtrack made up of butchered Trance/Techno renditions of classical music like Bach and Vivaldi, all the while pitching it in the media like the best thing since sliced bread under the pretext that the original wasn't accessible enough to the general population, and finally ignoring the fact that the adaptation has non of the original literary quality, and has been pulled completely out of the context that gave the narrative any kind of meaning to begin with.

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Imagine the outcry if somebody started to make shitty adaptations of Shakespeare's works in the contemporary setting of U.S handicap, unisex basketball, set to a soundtrack made up of butchered Trance/Techno renditions of classical music like Bach and Vivaldi, all the while pitching it in the media like the best thing since sliced bread under the pretext that the original wasn't accessible enough to the general population, and finally ignoring the fact that the adaptation has non of the original literary quality, and has been pulled completely out of the context that gave the narrative any kind of meaning to begin with.

idk sounds pretty good to me

[Aktillum]

Anyone here seen the Street Fighter Assassin's Fist?

That is probably the best movie-game adaptation ever made IMO. Why is that? Because it was made with respect for the actual source-material (by fans), and it turned out great, despite being made on a budget that isn't even close to that of the shitty Hollywood adaptations.

Ah yeah, I completely forgot about that one when I said Silent Hill was the only good movie adaption. SF: Assassin's Fist was pretty good, yeah, though it felt a little "kiddy" in some parts. At least it didn't have Jean Claude Van Guile.

[Z0MBiE]

I'll give it a go. I thought John Wick was going to be trash until I watched it. Never judge a film by its trailer.

[Ronin]

Shakespeare?

Mark Twain would be more shocking. Shakespear has been done to great sucess already.

All in all, it's just bait and switch. The simplest con there is. Promisa a, take the $, deliver b.

[hian]

Ah yeah, I completely forgot about that one when I said Silent Hill was the only good movie adaption. SF: Assassin's Fist was pretty good, yeah, though it felt a little "kiddy" in some parts. At least it didn't have Jean Claude Van Guile.

You didn't think that playing the games?

You brought up an interesting point though.
I think that's some of the reason why so many video-game adaptations turn out shit. The oh-so-serious Hollywood writers decide the original plot is too "silly" or too "childish", and decide to attempt to make it more "realistic", whilst failing to realize that essentially the entire premise and setting of most video-games is "silly" and "childish", which then creates this glaring inconsistency in the totality of the product.

I mean, games work because most games don't give a flying fvck about conventional sensibilities (Bayonetta, DMC, MGS etc FTW), and then just sort of roll with it without an ounce of shame or self-consciousness.
Hollywood on the other hand is the most self-conscious, narcissistic and pretentious entity on the face of the planet.
They just don't mesh and they're probably never going to.

Arguably the same thing is happening to games though, with the AAA industry trying to make games "accessible" to everyone and their grandmother.