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Video Games => Video Game Chat => Topic started by: Glorb on December 07, 2007, 06:34:25 PM
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Has anyone been wondering what the fudge ever happened to the Metroid movie? Y'know, the one that was supposed to be directed by John Woo and supposedly star Angelina Jolie...I've heard that it was canceled, slipped into development hell, or never even existed, so what's the deal? I mean, a Metroid movie, done right, would rock hard (although we all know that).
I mean, just imagine the teaser trailer, with the spooky "doo...doooo...dooooooo" theme song, and a few brief flashes of the Metroids and/or Samus' suit. It could even pull a Cloverfield and not even reveal the name of the movie (although fans would know immediately).
But back on track. I'd really like to know what happened, if anything happened at all (kind of like with Metroid Dread).
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They were going to have a Legend of Zelda movie to but that seemed to disappear into thin air to, Link would have been played by that one archer guy in the Lord of the Rings movie. Ive never heard of that movie though.
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Both of these statements sound like complete bupkis. This is why press releases are so important!
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The Metroid movie WAS announced, but it appears plans for it just didn't go anywhere.
As for the Zelda movie, I've never heard of that, sounds fake.
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Drat, I jumped a little too quick on that. If I ever heard of the "Metroid movie" before now, I probably disregarded that discussion as well...
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LoZ movie afaik is complete hearsay.
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They were "gonna" do all these Nintendo movies, but frankly, I'm glad it's all bluffing.
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Im sure Nintendo said no to them all (if they were real) because they were afraid that they all would turn out the same way as the Super Mario Bros Movie.
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Nintendo did not say no to Metroid.
How is it bluffing?
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I'm 100% sure it was in the works at some point, but budget constraints or what have you forced it to be put on hold forever. It could also be that it sucked so much that they never released it (that's what happened with the Spy Hunter movie starring The Rock, after all).
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The only recent movie based on a Nintendo game is Animal Crossing. I've been having trouble finding it. It's either in .mkv (which allows for the video to be in the h.264 codec which runs VERY slowly on my 8 year old computer) or a raw .avi (no subtitles).
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At least the AC movie was animated and a pretty straight adaptation. Then again, it was made by Nintendo's new in-house animation studio. I want them to give us a Mario movie or a movie based on an obscure title or something.
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Vid can 1. get a computer capable of viewing MKV (pretty important for anime files these days) 2. look for a subtitle file?
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Vid can 1. get a computer capable of viewing MKV (pretty important for anime files these days) 2. look for a subtitle file?
1. I CAN view MKV files. It's the H.264 video codec that hates my computer. Did I ever mention that my computer only has 384 MB of RAM and only has a 500 MHz processor? I don't have the money to upgrade to a MacBook.
I learned I can view MKV files when I converted the H264 to something my computer CAN handle, but the video was not in sync with the audio or subtitles of the file.
2. I probably could do that, but right now the MKV files are broken up into 4 parts. I can easily go into my command line and integrate subtitles into files, but I fear that the four subtitle files will run at the same time and it'd just look messy and unreadable.
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Well yeah, but MKV usually contains either XviD/DivX or (more frequently) h.264. I was simpifying my statement. Anyway, your media player can't just run the subtitle file when playing the video? Can you use VLC?
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There's an Animal Crossing movie?
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Crazy, but true. (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/23/animal-crossing-the-movie/) I don't know what it's about, exactly.
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It looks...interesting. I'm not that excited about it, though, since Nintendo is always making anime based on their games.
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Except Nintendo has never made anything animated based on anything. There have been animated things based on Nintendo properties (with varying levels of quality) but Nintendo has never made any of it themselves until now.
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Well, you know what I mean. There's tons of official Nintendo anime out there, even if it wasn't made by Nintendo directly.
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The list of shows that's based on Nintendo characters.
Pokemon (I think everyone knows that one)
Kirby Right Back at ya (weird name for a show)
The Super Mario Super Show
The legend of Zelda (I forgot the rest of the name)
Animal Crossing the movie
F Zero (forgot the name on this one to)
Donkey Kong Contry (forgot the name on this one to)
Wow that's actually alot of Nintendo shows! I think I got all of them maybe not.
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Well yeah, but MKV usually contains either XviD/DivX or (more frequently) h.264. I was simpifying my statement. Anyway, your media player can't just run the subtitle file when playing the video? Can you use VLC?
VLC is what I use to watch pretty much any fansubbed anime. That's not the problem, though. I've not found any sort of option that allows VLC to run subtitle files separately from the video/audio.
*shrug* Dunno. I'm a very lazy dude, I didn't enjoy compiling a Matroska file with converted video, and I'd rather just have things done for me. If someone released an .avi version of the Animal Crossing movie with subtitles, or an .mkv version of the movie with the video codec being DivX/XviD instead of h.264, I'd rather just simply download that instead.
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Huh. I guess my mind was meshing Media Player Classic (which has the ability to use external sub files) with it.
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Well, you know what I mean. There's tons of official Nintendo anime out there, even if it wasn't made by Nintendo directly.
Well endorsed, yeah. Pokemon and Kirby are the prime examples. F-Zero to a lesser extent. Shows like Zelda and Mario were used for America, since they aren't anime. The CGI DKC show [was awful] in America but was pretty popular in Japan, thus prompting them to tie with DK64 merchandise. The only thing left is the old Fire Emblem OVA and I don't know much about that one's success.
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It's a shame those shows never last too long on the air...
Anyone else see the Donkey Kong movie? It was good when I was a kid, but today...?
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What about the Mario anime OVAs?
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Well endorsed, yeah. Pokemon and Kirby are the prime examples. F-Zero to a lesser extent. Shows like Zelda and Mario were used for America, since they aren't anime. The CGI DKC show [was awful] in America but was pretty popular in Japan, thus prompting them to tie with DK64 merchandise. The only thing left is the old Fire Emblem OVA and I don't know much about that one's success.
Donkey Kong Country(Television) is french made.
Strange but true.
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If someone could provide a link to this .mkv video, I'm pretty sure I could convert it.
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I want them to give us a Mario movie or a movie based on an obscure title or something.
Balloon Fight: the movie!!
The legend of Zelda (I forgot the rest of the name)
Donkey Kong Contry (forgot the name on this one to)
The shows were named the same as the game they were based from.
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Donkey Kong Country(Television) is french made.
Strange but true.
Yeah, I know. I'm surprised it wasn't made in Canada, though.
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I actually sort of liked that show when I was a kid. Either I or my parents taped a bunch of episodes, which I watched a couple of days ago. Sure, it sucked doodoo and held my interest for roughly ten minutes, but at least it also brought back memories of contemporary-ish shows like Action Man and Cubix, which both rocked hardcore. Except maybe for Action Man. Really the only thing that had going for it was the awesome villian, who was basically Duke Nukem with a robot arm and glowing eye. But I digress.
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That was a pretty awesome digression.