Castle Wolfenstein game? Huh?

[Neil]

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Movies-Take-On-Wolfenstein-5983.html

[Danny]

hmmm, There is only so many movies about satanic nazi's you can have before it gets tired.:shifty:

[Neil]

hmmm, There is only so many movies about satanic nazi's you can have before it gets tired.:shifty:

482? :rolleyes: :)

[DVW5150]

"The Bunker" About Nazis being haunted by their own fear.
recommend for you all.Unless you've seen it , then...
"Nightwatch" also...

[MinionZombie]

You liked The Bunker?! :eek:

You mean the film filled with British actors playing German Nazi's ... with British accents?! :eek:

I thought that movie sucked the fat one, the idea was essentially not too bad, but it was just so naff...and the sheer fact they couldn't give a single bollocks about the accents just destroys the entire movie, rips it to shreds.

As for a Wolfenstein movie...yeah why not...but no doubt it'd suck or be rather "meh", basically the Doom movie with Nazis rather than Nasties. :D

I mean, if someone offered me a chance to write a videogame adap movie, I'd totally do it, and put some bloody effort in, play the entire game in question, really make a good go of it...not like Doom where they had to take any reference to Hell out, because obviously an action movie about monsters is recommended Christian viewing. :rolleyes:

[EvilNed]

You mean the film filled with British actors playing German Nazi's ... with British accents?! :eek:

Kinda like the Cross of Iron then? Only that also had american actors and Maximillian Schell.

[MinionZombie]

You know what game would be awesome as a movie - STALKER.

That game is set up for a wicked film right there, but it'd have to be written properly, it'd have to be 2 and a half hours long, it'd have to be intelligent and not written for numpties, nor directed by anybody with a name in the same ball park as "McG".

Basically, if they came to me and said "oi, Nick, write us a STALKER movie script" - I'd be like HELL YES, I'M COMPLETELY GAY FOR STALKER!

Just think of how CGI could render those superbly scary environments, as for real locations, pick any disused and crumbling industrial area - sorted. If done properly, a STALKER movie would be f*cking sh*t hot mate.

As for a Wolfenstein movie, for the simple fact it's about Nazi medical experiments in a creepy castle setting, it's just set up for the MTV treatment and moronic writing as seen on the Doom movie, which I previously said was good...but I take it all back...now Silent Hill, that was probably the best game-to-movie-adap thus far...

*waits for GSC to approach with a bundle of cash to write a screenplay for a STALKER movie* :cool::)

[EvilNed]

I'd rather have a Fallout flick, to be honest. But STALKER works too. In any case, I think a Castle Wolfenstein flick, if they keep the morbid atmosphere and grotesque occult elements of the games, can be a good adventure flick. But they need to give it a PLOT, and a good one, and not just spend all the time on effects and action.

There has to be crazy german scientists, lots of zombies and grotesque incantantions of demonic experiments, Rated R (with unrated on the DVD), some shoot-outs but also some deep down black-as-night scary scenes in catacombs filled with the undead.

[MinionZombie]

So kinda like a mix between Rob Zombie's grindhouse trailer and Castle Wolfenstein, I'm talking sweaty-balls-out sleaze, rather than polished MTV treatment, I want grit, grime and gore and plenty of violence...and yes, a plot would certainly help.

[DVW5150]

Wolfenstien was just one of the many incredible experiences by id Software...
Completely fantastic game developers.
I wonder what it would take to get directors like the Wachowski (dont think I am inferring this be another 1st Matrix film) brothers to produce direct it?
You might think I am trippin' but the art direction in the beggining segnemts of The Matrix have a very original dark science-supernatural feel.
If they did the x creatures with the arcing bottom stump, that would be real cool.

[_liam_]

You know what game would be awesome as a movie - STALKER.


there is a movie of stalker :rolleyes:

well, not exactly like the game, but the game is based on that movie to a large extent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_%28film%29

you aint that gay for stalker :p

[CornishCorpse]

Freaking wow..That looks worth a buy and from the description keeps alot to the game..Was the game built on the movie liam?

[DVW5150]

The Stalker film reads very interestly. The man who escorts people in & out of the zone must be an interesting character.
Thanks for the link Liam.

I am getting STALKER soon ... ish .

[MinionZombie]

*thwaps Liam across the chops for trying to diminish my homo-for-STALKER nature*

I already know of the Tarkovsky film, I've got it and watched it a few months back. Good stuff.

What I mean is, a movie of the GAME of STALKER, because the game is only based partially on the movie (and in turn the book Roadside Picnic ... see, I'm blatantly flaming :D).

What I want is to see Labs X18, 16 and 10 brought to life, I wanna see the Cordon, I wanna see Sidrovich drawling into the camera lens, I wanna see Prof Sakharov weakly greeting me with his "hello-hello". I wanna see zombie STALKERS muttering through the fogs of lake Yantar, I want to see the Wish Granter standing tall amidst the Sarcophagus...that's what I wanna see.

The Tarkovsky movie is awesome, but it's a different thing to the game in most ways. The similarities end at:

1) There is a "zone" caused by a big old f*ck up
2) There is a wish granter
3) There are anomalies

Although in the movie it's "the room", rather than a big Monolith type blue block of ice-looking rock inside a nuclear reactor.

The game is all about different factions fighting over the same zone, rights to artifacts that are looted throughout the zone. It's about the mystery of who Strelok is and who you are ... *tries really hard to not give away any spoilers in this description* ... there's a "brain scorcher", there's mind control, there's scientific experimentation, there's factions ... oh wait I already said factions...

There is also a difference between the Stalkers in the original movie and the game. In the movie they are everyday people in need of money, they act as guides to bring people from the outside world into the zone safely to get to "the room" so they can make their wishes, then guide them back.

In the game they are individual people (sometimes ganging up into factions), who are there for monetary and selfish gains (hence some of the possible endings of the game, if you choose not to follow the 'true path' of the game at Chernobyl)...what's more is, once you're in the Zone, you're essentially trapped. It's cordoned off by the military so you can't get out.

Anyway, the game springs from the original movie/book from a very early stage and leaves it behind rather quickly too. So basically, a STALKER game - in the way I mean - is fully justified, NYAH-HA! :sneaky::smug bastard smiley::D

How dare you question my gayness for STALKER, Sir! :eek::p

*spies Hellsing running around amongst everybody else in the thread whispering "sh*t's on!!!" in people's ears* :lol:

Basically, if GSC saw this post and said "hey, let's pay this dude who's clearly three-STALKERS-in-the-mouth flaming for our game to write a screenplay version", then I'd be busting nuts all up in your faces...or at least a proper movie adaption that's faithful would be freaking awesome. :D

[_liam_]

:lol: yeah yeah, i'll just leave you to grow a beard and tell a crowd of disbelieving kids in a park somewhere about how you used to be the supreme stalker man fag ;)

seriously though, it would rule if there was a full on return to pripyat movie, the footage of the interior of the reactor is some terrifying stuff, plus the abandoned town is gorgeous and full of potential. i'm sure it wouldnt take much to get permission to film there. apparently these days its relatively safe to hang around there too

[MinionZombie]

*clicks fingers* Well...I already have the beard, so...

Mind you, I wouldn't be caught dead in a park full of kids...they're freaking psychos for all I know, they'll probably happy slap me or something! :lol:

I must look up some documentaries or whatever online about the whole Chernobyl thing, like a definitive go-over in visual form, rather than bits here and there all over the place.

There was a website someone linked to with a load of videos on it (which I downloaded and watched) made by these people who visit the area frequently. They flee about on their motorbike. Their tour of the Red Forrest area is quite creepy stuff, as is their tour of Pripyat.

But hell yeah, it'd make a good movie on it's own too, like a dramatic re-telling in movie form. It's such a strong story, it's the stuff of movies...but it happened in real life. Plus there's the human fascination with areas that should be densely populated, but which have been abandoned for years and years (except for, in this case, the few people who have returned).

And yes, it's *relatively* safe to go there now, there's tours and such, but also it seems you can just rock up yourself and go on...you wouldn't wanna get lost out there on your tod, I'd be freaking out that bloodsuckers or snorks would be coming for me or something! Apparently the catfish in the water systems around the area are freaking HUGE...otherwise, the wildlife remains the same apparently...despite the roving packs of wild dogs.

Then there are people who actually are employed to tour the area and take readings and look after things and so on, they apparently really do call themselves "Stalkers" after the movie.

Have you played the game, Liam? If not, with your interest in the whole thing (by the looks of things anyway), it's worth a bashing through...if you've got a PC that can handle it of course, it's a system intensive game alright.

But I am the ultimate Stalker "man fag" (as you put it) ... at least on HPOTD anyway. :p

...

Finally, apparently part of Return of the Living Dead 4 was filmed in that area, at the plant itself perhaps, I forget now...but the film was f*cking sh*t, terrible script, acting and so on...makes ROTLD3 look like ... "f*cking Shaft". ;)

[_liam_]

"but kids LIKE return of the living dead 4" ;)

aye the red forest is creepy stuff, if you type in "chernobyl reactor" on youtube you get some crazy interior footage shot a few years back.

ive always loved this picture

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Pictureofchernobyllavaflow.jpg

it's LAVA (cooled) that has flooded through a steam vent under the reactor :eek: the picture was taken by a robot or something. i love the way the ceiling above it appears warped. that place has an eeriness to it like the wreck of the titanic or nazi death camps or whatever. oddness

[MinionZombie]

Can't see the picture, I'll check out stuff on YouTube tomorrow, found a BBC documentary online I'll try and nab tomorrow, and another one too...hopefully enough people are sharing and such to let me nab it. It's a fascinating disaster...it's strange how such tragedies like this (and the ones you listed) can be so interesting and, indeed, lead to a tourist trade.

I remember Kevin Smith saying something about how, when first in Germany for a film festival, wanted to immediately go on a Death Camp tour with some people...it's just that morbid, human curiosity.

[_liam_]

oh absolutely, i feel no guilt over my morbid curiosities, after all - what's more interesting, a bread roll or a diamond? - and why's a diamond more interesting - because it's not something you see that often.

and what rarer sight is there than a place of imaginable horror or disaster?

[EvilNed]

I've been to Auschwitz and Birkenau and while the things that happened there were terrible, the emotional impact of vising the places are not as great as you imagine. It's "overrated", if you will.

But even so, I was at Birkenau in the middle of February, fully dressed in winter clothes and yet I froze my ass off. The jews were wearing nothing but very thin clothes.