Diablo: The Movie

[bmn]

No, seriously.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=428216

(Sorry if this has already been posted.)

[Cloudw4lker]

Uhh... no.

[bmn]

That was my first response, yes. I like the plot of Diablo but it is basically skeletal (pun intended). Probably it will be another crap game adaptation, but as a 300 clone it wouldn't be bad at all. I hope.

But we'll see. At least Boll is not on board. http://forums.gamers.org/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Kalbrecht]

I can see it working. A romance between the amazon and paladin, in one of those "two different worlds" scenarios. The barbarian as the comedy relief, and can you really trust a guy who raises skeletons to fight for him? It's got DRAMA! It's got ACTION! It's got a demon who spits balls of blue acid and is surrounded by voluptuous succubi! This summer's blockbuster! It's HOT HOT HOT as the fires of hell!

Actually, there are some great elements that can work - the basic idea has a lot of good potential, considering what the hero has to do to save the world at the end of it, and leading into Diablo 2. As long as they keep away from the things that made Diablo addictive - the repetitive gameplay, and the loot collecting.

[Zombie Bob]

It's a long shot, but i think it could work. I would like to see another 300. But will it be Diablo or Diablo II? Diablo would be a good starter. warrior and rouge, wizard there for other reasons. smaller area ,more focus on plot. I'd see it.

[Rob]

The real issue is not whether it could work, because for that matter Super Mario Bros could have worked (seriously), but it is a matter of what are the chances it will work. My bet, slim to none. Which is sad, because we could always use another quality fantasy adventure. Maybe I will be proven wrong, or better yet, maybe it will be a tie in with Diablo 3!

[Tom Servo]

warrior and rouge

It takes a really warrior to wear rouge.

[Rob]

It takes a really warrior to wear rouge.

What is a really warrior?

[Rafal Dudek]

What is a really warrior?

I presume it's one of them uber ones that have map hax and used duped gear
:):

[MasterChief]

It takes a really warrior to wear rouge.

smooth :p:

[Cloudw4lker]

rogue* real*

Admit your mistakes like men!

Godly Plate of the Whale and a Staff of Apocalypse/Nova anyone?
Remembering the cutscenes from Diablo and Diablo 2 I can see how those with stuff in between would make good movies, but you'd have to keep that same feel. I'm just highly doubtful of a good game based movie.

[MasterChief]

I think it could be good. Of course it will have very little to do with the game, they'll probably just take the basic concept and work from there.

[Terry Penrod]

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Didn't this same basic story already get made (rather poorly except for the special effects, music by Tangerine Dream and one outstandingly wicked performance) as Ridley Scott's "Legend" starring a then barely-wet-behind-the-ears Tom Cruise along with Mia Sara in her big screen debut and as a prelude to her Ferris Bueller's-sexy-but-breast-challenged-girlfriend role, and the always reliable Tim Curry (effectively) playing the part of Diablo - probably as well as it can be played?

Unless the writer, director and cast take the more-than-a-little generic source material in a whole new direction and to a much higher intellectual level, it will be just another in a long line of tired, derivative, hackneyed, booring knock-offs of a unbelievably overused, ultra simplistic, cookie-cutter good vs. evil theme serving as an excuse to make waaaaay too many horror flicks with religious overtones.

We get it already - the devil is really, really, really bad and his evil minions are scary monsters that terrorize we poor innocent mortals. Occassionally, a reluctant cardboard cut-out hero emerges to fight them off (usually with swords, sorcery and a whole lotta dumb luck). Along the way... a typical boy meets girl / boys loses girl / boy gets girl back side plot is clumsily combined with one or more variations of the now obligatory buddy movie formula to help flesh-out the altogether predictable main theme. In the end, the protagonist always, always, always somehow manages to prevail. In the end he or she has a showdown with the big red guy and guess what - wins.

The End

Cheers, Terry

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[bmn]

I don't think you're giving the Diablo mythology enough credit, Terry.

Warning: do not read unless you have played both Diablo games!
In the original game, yes, you do hand Big Red his ass, but it is actually a loss. It turns your hero into a sacrificial and deeply tortured soul. I would not consider it a win by any stretch of the imagination.

Nor would I consider the destruction of the Worldstone a victory. So in both games, the hero loses. In the second one, the loss is absolute and catastrophic.

Peripheral characters like Tal Rasha parallel this theme of sacrifice and even the Lord of Terror is made into a believable character in Diablo II by the knowledge that he is the warrior from the first game. And the forces of Heaven are by no means entirely good. In fact, of the three angels you meet in the series, one of them is corrupt and another is the aforementioned Tyrael, who is helping humans contrary to orders from on high.

So it's not exactly black-and-white, though I acknowledge that it could be turned into that by a crap director. Any premise can be done well, even if it sounds ridiculously stupid on paper; frankly I think the backstory in Diablo would make a much better film than the bulk of the revelations in the game proper.

[Terry Penrod]

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Anything's possible bmn and I hope you're right. But I wouldn't bank on Hollywood aiming that high.

More likely it will be rather like the all-too typical scenario I described above... a wafer-thin, over-done movie plot with shallow, predictable characters serving as a flimsy excuse for a series of cool action scenes loaded with special effects.

If they salvage the main musical theme from the original Diablo, at least that much will be inspired.

Cheers, Terry

[Kalbrecht]

Shallow characters, action scenes all about special effects?

Terry, I think you underestimate Hollywood and video game movies. I mean - DoA, Doom, Mortal Kombat... how could you say that about Hollywood?

;-)

[Terry Penrod]

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Shallow characters, action scenes all about special effects?

Terry, I think you underestimate Hollywood and video game movies. I mean - DoA, Doom, Mortal Kombat... how could you say that about Hollywood?

;-)

experience?

Cheers, Terry