Shadow of the Colossus is to be made into a movie...

So once again, Hollywood comes along, takes one of my favourite games/series and attempts to turn it into a movie...at the expense of the fans which will suffer once more. This time around it's Shadow of the Colossus- a game so mind blowing in it's premise that honestly there's no proper way of bringing it onto the screen, but of course the corporate fatcats will deem to try anyway. There's no hope for it whatsoever, as usual, and especially since it is written by Justin Marks, who just recently did the diabolical Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. It's also being produced by Kevin Kisher, who has been credited to The Scorpion King, another terrible film. Hollywood just don't know dick about adapting video games into movies, and they certainly won't know sh!t about this one either, especially considering how radical the game is. They should just leave it the hell alone.

SotC won't work unless it's a CGI movie. But I swear they'll try and make it like 300. Every fantasy movie wants to be like that nowadays, or like The Lord of the Rings- they never turn out like it, and it definitely won't for this. Cases in point: Eragon and In The Name of the King. Epic Fails. They will probably make it IMAX 3D now too, like everything else. It's the new gimmick, and they won't dismiss the fact that some of the scenes would look awesome on a massive screen with the new 3D technology. They'll probably wait for James Cameron's Avatar to come out to see how it effectively works there and then go in that direction. After all, they don't know sh!t about adding depth to the movie via writing, they'll just be spending money to wow audiences with special effects.

I wonder what Team Ico have to say about this- why did they sell the rights in the first place, anyway? They are supposed to be non-mainstream.

All my favourite games have had crappy movies made out of them bar a few, so there's not much hope.

Resident Evil has been messed up completly already- 3 crappy flicks and another 2 on the way.
Street Fighter- one unintentionally hilarious movie, another that is actually even worse. The animated movie however is king.
Mortal Kombat- Okay I loved the first one as a kid, twas was epic. And it was the first movie I can remember which had techno music with the fighting/action scenes...waaaay before The Matrix ever made it cool. And the soundtrack is killer. Underrated!
Mortal Kombat Annihilation- Pathetic. A new reboot dubbed "Devastation" is on the way (one can only hope it's good but again I doubt it).
Double Dragon- just plain silly.
Super Mario Bros. was terrible, but has somewhat grown on me after all these years.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within A decent sci-fi movie, nothing to do with the games though.
Final Fantasy: Advent Children- ridiculously crap film, 2 hours of Tekken style FMVs counting as "fan service"; no plot, no direction, no nothing.
Doom was bad.
D.O.A: Dead or Alive- dumb fun, but still shyte.
Bloodrayne- Awful.
Bloodrayne 2: Deliverance- Even worse.
The House of the Dead- Worse still.
House of the Dead 2- Worser than worse.
Alone in the Dark- Am I dead yet?
Max Payne- weak.
Silent Hill FINALLY! IMO, perfect. I loved it- but that's what you get from a director who is also a big fan in real life.

Next up, more of my favourite franchises being laid to waste:

Tekken Could go either way at this point but will most likely fail.
Castlevania Another epic fail, specially since it's Paul Anderson.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein- promising especially with the decent director pushing for the hard R rating.
and now Shadow of the Colossus

And even worse, rumours abound that Uwe Boll wants to make a Legacy of Kain movie next. Someone kill him, now.

Saying that, my favourite survival horror game Haunting Ground would work as a fantastic film only if Guillermo Del Toro directed it. He's got the visual style and ideas to bring it to life, and when I was watching Pan's Labyrinth it's amazing how some of the colours and tone match the game. Either him or Dario Argento (who's films the game was heavily inspired by) would be perfect. But i'm rooting for Del Toro. But that's wishful thinking of course and would never turn out like that, I really wouldn't want anyone to touch the game, it's a perfect little masterpiece which again should be left alone.

Either way, time to say goodbye once again to one of my most beloved games.