r/videogames • u/AlmightyLoaf54 • Aug 12 '26

Image / Video This is so damn true

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u/MongolianDonutKhan Aug 12 '26

Hollywood does not respect video games. They barely respects books enough that if the author forces the issue they'll let them in otherwise they'll throw them aside too.

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u/WhutTheFookDude Aug 12 '26

I think we're in the same place with video game adaptations that we were with comic book movies before like Spiderman 2 and honestly until the mcu blew up. They dont respect the material and dont take it seriously its just cashing in. Dont get me wrong as someone who did not play tlou I thought the show was pretty good but I get why fans of the game wouldnt like it.

They dont respect these actors as actors or writers as writers or games as art

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u/GlancingArc Aug 12 '26

Shit man, Hollywood execs don't respect the Hollywood writers much less writers from other industries.

Somehow they have all been convinced that good writing is the absolute last thing you need to make a good movie.

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u/Embarrassed_Cod8120 Aug 12 '26

I think the most interesting thing about Spiderman specifically.

The Spider-Man movies (both Tom Holland and Spider-Verse)

DO like the games and make a lot of references to the games and I wonder how much of that has to do with them both being under Sony.

It's maybe Mario, Sonic, Spiderman are the only places where the movies actually do care about the video games

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u/J5892 Aug 12 '26

Mario movies have famously always stuck to the spirit of the games.

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u/dating_derp Aug 12 '26

as someone who did not play tlou I thought the show was pretty good but I get why fans of the game wouldnt like it.

Did game fans dislike the show? They brought the games creator on as a showrunner. I'm a fan of the games and I thought s1 was great. S2 was good, not as good as s1. But by no means a bad show.

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u/WhutTheFookDude Aug 12 '26

I watched the show with a fan of the game and she said they changed some stuff but she did say some was for the better.

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u/Enough_Efficiency178 Aug 12 '26

Been in that place for just as long to be fair, though less exposure. They were messing up superhero films in 2000s despite the literal generations of people who had grown up with these heroes in comic or cartoon.

Nowadays gaming is vastly bigger than Hollywood it’s not even a fair comparison and they’re still getting it wrong