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Movie on indentity and anti consumerism...now game

posted 20 years ago by hypnosrises
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This is a tricky thing. I am not one to shy from having a game made from a movie. But there is no possible way you will get the same thing out of it as the movie. David Fincher successfully showed us a world where a young man loses his mind to find himself. It is laced with anti consumerism, containing such themes as identity, addictions and mans place in the world. I think Fincher was excellent in adaption the movie from Chuck Palahniuk's book.

The reason why the VG will never live up to the movie or the book. Because Fincher and Palahniuk, successfully told a story of one mans mental collapse, destruction and achieving enlightenment. Videogames cannot do that. And if they ever can in the future...then the f--cking matrix is real!

Keep your friends close, but keep your animes closer.

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[–] MrTambourineMan 20 years ago

i know but this pales in comparision to the fact that it was made into a musical. gag me with a brick. but the game trailer looks like its a bad game, just a standard wrestler/tekken style fighter. it should be a slow, boxer thats more realistic and have a hell of alot of blood and gore.

Its only once we have lost everything are we free to do anything

[–] Nick_Goldman 20 years ago

look- would you all shut the *beep* up? ..well.. let me clarify this, because some of you are actually intelligent. for the "die hard" fan boys out there- if you assholes were such die hard fans of the movie/book fight club, you wouldn't be bitching about a video game. if you truly believed in the morals of the movie, would you even own a computer? would you be sitting in your underwear, at 1 am in the morning, writting about a *beep* video game? i really *beep* doubt it. as a matter a fact, if you did do that, i'd call you a hypocrite.

the movie is called "fight club", ok? *beep* FIGHT CLUB, which was about a group of people.. in a club.. who fought.. why? to let frustration out. to let out all the *beep* you deal with in life and just smash some fuckers face in.

fight club is an exaggeration. it just points out how corperate driven out country is, but you know what? we're americans (well, atleast i am). we buy things from ikea, and we buy *beep* we don't need, and we buy video games about movies that tell us "don't buy video games about movies".

lighten the *beep* up. it looks like a good brawler/fighting game. and maybe, in some strange way, it'll help us just like it helped everyone from the movi.. umm.. well.. i wouldn't really say helped.. most of the people in the movie died.. or were really *beep* up near the end.

this is so well put, not to toot my own horn, that i'm going to put it in a new post called- if you are online reading this, don't complain.

[–] Nick_Goldman 20 years ago

ok so maybe i was being a little harsh.. i just got finished reading some really ignorant *beep* on some website, but the basic message still stands.

[–] kessneister 20 years ago

At the end of the day Fight Club is about escapism, be it fighting, blowing things up or playing computer games.computer games are essentiallly aimed at kids anyway, and since they are not old enough to make their own decisions about wether they want to beat up and be beaten up by their friends as a means of escapism; maybe doing it through their imaginations on a computer game would be beneficial?
the intellectual nature of fight club is deliberately the way it is to please all levels of intelligence. some people will (unforunately) see it as a just a good yarn, and others will let the subtle messages sink in. either way, in true tyler durden style, who gives a **** about wether there's a video game out about it? it's not like somone burned all the copies of the book. each to their own. **** what everyone else is doing. worry about yourself. k

[–] mistahell 19 years ago

Dude, it's going to be a video game aimed at fifteen year olds. There isn't going to be any deeper meanings or morals to it. You're going to have to belt people up to get points or some crap. The people who made the game have just looked at the title and said, "Ooh, Fight Club! Let's make a fighting game." You can waste your cash on this so we can have video game adaptions to all the classics, hell maybe they will do a game about Se7en? (sarcasm)

[–] a_qv_ 20 years ago

"Fincher and Palahniuk, successfully told a story of one mans mental collapse, destruction and achieving enlightenment. Videogames cannot do that."

They sure can. All I say is: Max Payne

[–] hypnosrises 19 years ago

You stand corrected! I have played that game so many times and I'm still so into it. Max Payne, so rich with destruction and decay of this mans world...it has the substance of a dangerous novella and the style of a NIN video.

Keep your friends close, but keep your animes closer.