Comments on: Lost Planet: The Movie

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:16:51 +0000

I have played both of the games and in my own persional expierence i think they were amazing and i think if they make the movie to follow the game storyline it would be good.
And i recommend if you havent played the game you should go buy it.

By: Arrogance

Arrogance — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:09:06 +0000

Lost Planet is an excellent, excellent video game with an awful, awful story. I recently played through it multiple times to capture footage for a video review of it, and I was appalled by many of the choices the designers made with respect to the story.

Three different arch-villains you meet and beat in sequence (thus diluting the central problem facing our hero), an increasingly bloated and unnecessarily complicated plot (the evil this conspiracy is meaning to do is never clear, nor its motivations for doing it), and a woman whose sole purpose was to get in the way (and thus become a liability) in the final confrontation.

Though I’d like to see great games get great movie adaptations, I can’t help but think that Capcom could have made a better choice for source material for their next licensed property. Then again, since they’ve been so successful with this title, they follow the money, and here we are. At least we’ll have a David Hayter script.

By: Hersch

Hersch — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:55:08 +0000

Let me start by saying that I’ve never played the game, so I’ve got nothing invested in this.

It looks like this project hits on the main points of the game (colonists kill aliens for fuel source, amnesia, big conspiracy) so I don’t have to worry about a movie that calls itself Lost Planet but is really about a zombie disease outbreak in a subterranian lab.

Hearing that David Hayter is attached to write does make me want to be at least a little optimistic because of his work on X-men and X2. Hopefully the fact that he’s working with a video game rather than a comic book won’t trip him up.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:47:43 +0000

Capcom has a knack for making games like this extremely cinematic and exciting – except the execution in storytelling is totally butchered. Not much going on in this game made sense at all.

If all the comparisons are going to be made to Starship Troopers, this story doesn’t have the campyness that movie had to prevent it from being totally self-important.

Starship Troopers strayed waaay from its source material, and if this one did the same, could it avoid being just a video game clone of that film?

By: Thos

Thos — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:02:06 +0000

I played a demo of the game in a store. It was cool, but I’m not really into third person games. Would have been better as a shooter, imo. Still, kind of a cool story, could maybe be a decent film.

By: ghandoo

ghandoo — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:27:43 +0000

movie seems interesting.. mainlt because David Hayter (Solid Snake from the MGS series) is writing the script for the movie.. he wrote the screenplay X2..

lets see…

By: AndyS

AndyS — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:51:41 +0000

I finished it, its a fun game and the environments and the setting are amazing. Like someone said above think StarShipTroopers in the snow but with a better storyline and better acting.

By: spence

spence — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:29:33 +0000

I have played a little bit of it, but havent finished the game. The game is okay, i dont know about a movie though.

By: digitaldrew

digitaldrew — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:25:53 +0000

Havent played the game, Only saw the commercials.

I think starship troopers meets snow.

By: bigsampson

bigsampson — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:17:53 +0000

well this game i downloaded on steam and it was very fun…great landscape…like hoth but with wreck’d cities and crap…..it was a 3rd person shooter taht had pretty sweet animations at times…..but the best part about this is not many people played the game IMO so there can be a huge story line set behind this awesome planet…..i really think its better to make video game movies from sources like this……a quick 6 hour shooter with a story is easier to do then a epic MMO or something…..unless your blizzard and can fund it all