tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post8484541018641335342..comments2024-03-27T00:27:04.726-04:00Comments on Net-flixation: You Shoulda Been a Movie: FalloutThaddeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17414047155226211676noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-86501654994936312582014-02-02T15:52:38.708-05:002014-02-02T15:52:38.708-05:00It's worth noting as a post-script that, in fa...It's worth noting as a post-script that, in fact, there already has been some work on a Fallout movie. <br /><br />This link is on general Fallout-related film efforts<br />http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_movie<br /><br />whereas the following link actually takes you through one whole prospective script for a Fallout movie<br /><br />http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_film_treatment<br /><br />And yet I still cannot understand how a serious effort hasn't progressed to the casting or principal photography stages...Thaddeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17414047155226211676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-2054977908983618882014-01-31T20:44:39.182-05:002014-01-31T20:44:39.182-05:00I'm so happy you liked the post, DJ! Yes, abov...I'm so happy you liked the post, DJ! Yes, above all, the game immerses you in the importance of your main mission and the dire consequence of failure. I didn't experience the set-back you did, but I know that the failure cut-scenes bothered the hell out of me, too.<br /><br />I agree that something as thorough and engaging as the first Fallout would not be easy to bring to the big screen - I suspect TV might be a better medium - but I think it's possible, at least. And I would love for someone to get a good creative team behind a film version of this exceptional story...Thaddeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17414047155226211676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-22965563125927032052014-01-30T15:08:17.655-05:002014-01-30T15:08:17.655-05:00Wow. Nice write up. That intro, with the Ink Spots...Wow. Nice write up. That intro, with the Ink Spots song, still gets me every time. The intro to the sequel, set to A Kiss to Build a Dream On, is almost as good.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3PXiV95kwA<br /><br />Fallout featured one of the most memorable moments I ever experienced in a video game. As you note, the game featured open exploration--you could just wander around the map. About halfway through the game, I wander into an abandoned town.<br /><br />Now, it wasn't unusual to get killed in Fallout, and every time you did, the game would end with a picture of your skeleton, half-buried in the desert, and Perelman mournfully intoning a phrase like "Not even the carrion-eaters will touch your irradiated corpse" while you waited for the game to reload from your last save.<br /><br />But what happened in this town was different. I ran into an unbeatable opponent. Every time he hit me, my character got knocked down and stunned, so I couldn't even get a shot off against him after the first hit. And at the end of the fight--the beating, really--instead of the skeleton and Perelman, there was a cutscene. Not to spoil a 16-year-old video game, I'll just say that in the cutscene you see something horrible happen to your character, and then you watch helplessly as something extremely awful happens to your Vault. The guilt that moment brought on was amazing: every time your character died, there was the implication that the Vault was depending on you and they'd be doomed if you failed. This time, there was a sense that you hadn't simply failed, you'd brought doom upon them. <br /><br />That's a pure video game moment, and I wonder how or if something like that could survive in a film or TV adaptation. My finding that town before my character was ready to fight that opponent was unplanned and essentially random (later in the game, as part of the main storyline, you come to that town, but by that time your character is a higher level and much better armed). My emotional response to the scene was much greater than it would have been if Fallout was just a story I was passively watching unfold--when something bad happens in a movie, you seldom feel like it's your fault.<br /><br />Regardless, I'd love to see someone try this adaptation. If millions of people tune in each week to watch the Walking Dead, you'd have to think there is an audience for this.DJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901649394069002585noreply@blogger.com