As you all know, I'm a pretty avid gamer. Most people who don't play video games don't realize that some of them--many of them, actually--have a pretty deep plot and backstory. For me, playing some games is akin to reading a good book, except that I get to participate in the story. In the Halo franchise, you play a super-soldier fighting an alien species bent on erasing humanity from the universe. In Crackdown, you play a cop in a futuristic city that is overrun by multiple criminal organizations, and you have to fight to take the city back. In The Need for Speed franchise, you race cars.
Guess which one Hollywood opted to make into a movie?
Yep. The Need for Speed.
*sigh*
In which a protagonist has to clear his name from a death incurred during a road race. And the only way he can do it involves racing (and destroying) lots of very expensive cars.
Hasn't this been done before? Haven't there been SIX OTHER MOVIES recently that deal with racing fast cars for some reason or another? Did the people behind this movie never hear of the Fast and the Furious franchise???
Way to go, Hollywood. Because, ya know, no one would want to see a movie based on a game where you fight the influence of the Templar Knights on the course of Western civilization (the Assassin's Creed franchise), battle a subterranean menace that is trying to wipe out your species (Gears of War), or lead an uprising of miners against an oppressive mining conglomeration on Mars (Red Faction).
Until next time, dear readers, here's hoping you don't feel the need…the need for speed.
So true. I've been dying to see a movie about an uprising of miners against an oppressive mining conglomeration on Mars. Okay, not really. But I also have no need to watch cars race. As long as there are no chainsaws, we're good.
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