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Wait around, I'll smile again ([info]iwanttobeasleep) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2008-05-09 01:13:00
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Gore Verbinski is making a BioShock movie. John Logan is adapting it. I'm not entirely sure how to feel, but I'm curious to see how they deal with the little sisters on the silver screen.

He's also got his eyes on Portal, which worries me.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2008-05-09 06:41 am UTC (link)
I'm... what the heck is a 'little sister'? All I know is that one Penny Arcade strip I didn't quite get and some rant somewhere where they didn't teach morality at all.

It looks distressing.

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[info]mmanurere
2008-05-09 06:51 am UTC (link)
The "little sisters" are little girls who have been turned into weird creepy-looking (and creepy-sounding OMFG) quasi-vampiric glowy-eyed mutants for the sake of harvesting the game's designated magic fluid-stuff. After taking out their guardians, you can choose to "harvest" them for their magic fluid (...that sounds even more wrong than it should) or "save" them, recovering a bit less of the stuff which lets you gain new powers. Of course, this "moral decision" is the only thing that determines which "ending" you're given at the end of the game.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-09 11:27 am UTC (link)
And in case that wasn't explicit enough, 'harvest' generally involves bludgeoning them to death and imbibing the slug in their stomach.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2008-05-09 08:28 pm UTC (link)
D:

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-09 08:43 pm UTC (link)
Well, the other option is caressing their heads with one hand so they glow and then the weird blank yellow shine goes out of their eyes and they run away happily.

I always made my friend pick the 'save' option.

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[info]iwanttobeasleep
2008-05-10 12:11 am UTC (link)
That scared the crap out of me the first time it happened.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-10 12:15 am UTC (link)
I figured if that's the good option, I don't want to see the bad one. Haven't even gone to YouTube to see it yet.

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[info]iwanttobeasleep
2008-05-10 12:28 am UTC (link)
Nobody's mentioned that they stab corpses, which they call angels, with a huge needle and then drink the fluid from the needle yet, either.

I forgot how creepy that game is.

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[info]brennalarose
2008-05-09 09:16 pm UTC (link)
Zombie schoolgirls in the non-porno way, near as I can tell.

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[info]mmanurere
2008-05-09 06:57 am UTC (link)
It sounds like he at least likes the right things about the game, and doesn't have any plans to dumb it down. I'm not yet cringing at the idea, at least.

OTOH, I really don't think a Portal movie would be such a good idea.

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[info]mary_mac
2008-05-09 09:12 am UTC (link)
I'm trying to figure out how the hell you would do Portal.
I mean, I only played it halfway through but its not very...cinematic?

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[info]fantine
2008-05-09 02:30 pm UTC (link)
I think GlaDOS is quite fascinating. I just assume that a Portal film wouldn't have to be about the testing procedure, it could be about Aperture Science as a whole or something.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-09 02:40 pm UTC (link)
That'd be cool. Flesh out the main character and figure out how to escape/bring down Aperture Science, perhaps.

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[info]fantine
2008-05-09 02:43 pm UTC (link)
But would GlaDOS ever get laid?

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-09 02:53 pm UTC (link)
SHODAN is working on it.

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[info]fantine
2008-05-09 02:55 pm UTC (link)
I'd ship that.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-09 02:55 pm UTC (link)
It would be cute.

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[info]fantine
2008-05-09 03:02 pm UTC (link)
Lesbian robot sex? Totally.

How 'bout Cameron Philips/GlaDOS?

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-09 03:26 pm UTC (link)
It would require a bit of preparation, but it could work.

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[info]littlest_lurker
2008-05-10 12:25 am UTC (link)
That is a wonderful bit of illustration.

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[info]lostmahmarbles
2008-05-09 07:33 am UTC (link)
I'm going to have to go with "Let's wait and see" on this one. I mean, he did great with Pirates, but that doesn't mean he won't completely screw this one up somehow.

I'm curious how they'll handle certain things (The main character, the Little Sisters and Sander Cohen come to mind.)

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-09 02:41 pm UTC (link)
If they're making it R rated, I think they can go nuts with Sander Cohen. He's a pretty creepy bastard for all of the twenty minutes you interact with him.

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[info]radiotrash
2008-05-09 09:28 am UTC (link)
Excuse me while I go fling myself across Portal. Do not toooooouch. It's a short enough game in the first place and half the fun is in solving the puzzles so not really sure how that would translate into a movie at all.

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[info]panther3751
2008-05-09 10:26 am UTC (link)
I'll be counting on Valve to take good care of Portal. That is to say, they're not a large and faceless company. They're rather small, so I'd like to pretend that they care a bit more. I don't think just give the Portal rights to anyone if they thought it would make a poor movie. It might make them money, but poor movies about video games make for bad advertising for those games. Kind of bad then for publicity, IMO.

Though I admit I'm talking out of my ass here. The author for The Golden Compass said his idea was to 'take the money and run', so what do I know? At least this isn't Uwe Boll - and they aren't going to try to make a movie out of TF2.

As with Bioshock, I'm also very curious to see how this director handles it. If done well, the effects alone might be worth seeing the movie in theatres for. :)

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[info]reeve
2008-05-09 12:18 pm UTC (link)
I have great faith in Valve that they will take care of Portal. They do seem to be one of those developers that cares a lot about overall quality, much like Blizzard.

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[info]nekoama
2008-05-09 04:03 pm UTC (link)
I would LOVE a TF2 movie. Actually, a series would work better. But still, that would be awesomesauce.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2008-05-09 06:10 pm UTC (link)
It would have to be animated, of course.

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[info]nekoama
2008-05-09 09:33 pm UTC (link)
Of course, a live-action adaptation didn't even cross my mind. It would have to be animated.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-09 11:31 am UTC (link)
Oooh, Bioshock movie. Nice.

If nothing else it'll be good for the shiny. Bioshock has some nice shiny.

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[info]brennalarose
2008-05-09 09:18 pm UTC (link)
Seconded. I would fight for an excuse to be a dork and show up at the theater in full Dieselpunk regalia.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-09 09:25 pm UTC (link)
That would ROCK.

I wonder how many people will be saying 'would you kindly give me one ticket' that evening.

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[info]reeve
2008-05-09 12:19 pm UTC (link)
Speaking of Portal, has anyone tried the new (non-Valve) map pack based on the Flash version? Is it any good?

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