'Dino Crisis' hits development limbo...

Kinzdone · 05-29-2008

It seems, unbenknownst to most, that the cult games 'Dino Crisis' that Capcom introduced to the survivial horror genre during Resident Evil's height has been on Studio desks since Paul Anderson's 'Resident Evil'.
Capcom was hopeful after the hit 'Resident Evil' that 'Dino Crisis' might have seen the light of day between 'RE Apocalypse' and 'Extinction', but it didn't happen.

I would have really liked to see a movie of 'Dino Crisis'. It has a lot of potential and its probably more a budgetary reason that its not being made - as in 'budget versus a niche audience = not much'.
There's a lot to put into it creature wise (T-Rex, Raptor, Dilophosaurus, Triceratops, etc...) and I doubt Stan Winston or ILM would be in the price range of the film at all.
A real pity, but perhaps it will get off the ground someday when studios realise that you can make a great film when you adapt a game, like a book. 'Silent Hill' is proof of that and has raised the bar pretty high. Perhaps, like SH, DC should be a mainly foreign production and only distributed and partly financed by a Hollywood studio? Who knows?

Escape · 05-30-2008

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I would have really liked to see a movie of 'Dino Crisis'.

Yeah me too. I've played the game a tad since my bro owned it and watched him play as well but as far as I'm concerned, as long as any film comes out with top of the line Cgi's and involves Dinosaurs, I'm in.

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A real pity, but perhaps it will get off the ground someday when studios realise that you can make a great film when you adapt a game, like a book. 'Silent Hill' is proof of that and has raised the bar pretty high. Perhaps, like SH, DC should be a mainly foreign production and only distributed and partly financed by a Hollywood studio? Who knows?

Wait a minute. Did I read this right. Are you saying you enjoyed Silent Hill? I hated the ending to that film. I'm getting tired of hearing myself say that with films nowadays.

seaneth · 06-02-2008

Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. I highly doubt that Dino Crisis would be the movie that changed the face of Game-to-film adaptations, and it would just be labeled as a Jurrasic Park rip off.

Shame really, the game was quite good..

Kinzdone · 06-02-2008

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Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. I highly doubt that Dino Crisis would be the movie that changed the face of Game-to-film adaptations, and it would just be labeled as a Jurrasic Park rip off.

Shame really, the game was quite good..

True, it would attract that label and it wouldn't change the face of Game-to-film adaptations, but like the 'Resident Evil' trilogy all it has to do is have decent & balanced action, horror and adequate story based on foundations in the game.
Dare I say the appeal that dinosaurs have these days may elevate it above RE as well.
Still, if 'Siskel and Ebert' and the other critics write it off as soon as they hear it was adapted from a game there will be people that will listen to them unquestionably anyway.

I really beleive that if they were NOT game adaptations, but original films or based on novels, that they would automatically get a higher rating. From what I've observed in the papers I get, anything VG related is trashed in vague, one sentence reviews.

Its hilarious. That goes way beneath 'opinion', thats just blatant ignorance. lol!

Kinzdone · 06-02-2008

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Wait a minute. Did I read this right. Are you saying you enjoyed Silent Hill? I hated the ending to that film. I'm getting tired of hearing myself say that with films nowadays.

Of course I did. Even as a stand alone movie its a great, creepy horror film that is unconventional. I was pleased with the ending as it made sense now that dark Alessa was a part of Sharon that Rose would always be in the foggy other-world.
Also, from the perspective of a SH gamer (SPOILER WARNING), it links well with the idea in the game series. Harry, the male lead in the first game, obviously never really completely left the foggy world either as is revealed in 'Silent Hill 3' when his daughter, the lead character in that game, finds him mutilated by a monster in his home.
Still, each to their own. I know some people that liked it up to that point, but expected a happy ending where all is well. This simply couldn't have happened with the events that transpired, though.

Escape · 06-02-2008

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I was pleased with the ending as it made sense now that dark Alessa was a part of Sharon that Rose would always be in the foggy other-world.

See, I never got exactly what happened there. I even looked up on imdb. to see what other viewers had to say and there were many mixed understandings of exactly what went on.

Spoilers for 'Silent Hill'

I took it as they both were dead at the end. Is this what you're saying since the names of the characters are fuzzy so I'm not making perfect sense of your post. Some say they always were dead. Some say they went into some other kind of dimension.

Kinzdone · 06-05-2008

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See, I never got exactly what happened there. I even looked up on imdb. to see what other viewers had to say and there were many mixed understandings of exactly what went on.

Spoilers for 'Silent Hill'

I took it as they both were dead at the end. Is this what you're saying since the names of the characters are fuzzy so I'm not making perfect sense of your post. Some say they always were dead. Some say they went into some other kind of dimension.

Sharon (plus Dark Alessa) and her 'mother' Rose are permanently trapped in the 'foggy' world. They are not dead in the real sense.
The evil, in this case as Dark Alessa, drew Rose into this world intentionally to set it free as she had adopted Sharon (Light Alessa) and only the love of a mother could help the evil's cause by unleashing Alessa's revenge. As a result she is also stuck there.
Cybill was drawn in as support for Rose I would imagine, as she had a traumatic link to Silent Hill as well, as she explains, when she found and stayed with a small boy in a mine shaft for days, after he was dropped down there by his deranged father from the city, hence her line that goes something like, "all you people from the city bring all your sick problems out here...."

Escape · 06-06-2008

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The evil, in this case as Dark Alessa, drew Rose into this world intentionally to set it free as she had adopted Sharon (Light Alessa) and only the love of a mother could help the evil's cause by unleashing Alessa's revenge. As a result she is also stuck there.

Man I have no clue what you just said there. Love of a mother can help unleash Dark Allessa's revenge? Doesn't seem logical.

Kinzdone · 06-08-2008

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Man I have no clue what you just said there. Love of a mother can help unleash Dark Allessa's revenge? Doesn't seem logical.

Perhaps I said that in somewhat shorthand, but its not that hard to figure out from what the films gives you:

Her (Rose's) love for her child, Sharon, drove her on and she survived Silent Hill to free her daughter, Sharon.

Its the love of a mother that ensured Rose would survive and ultimately 'smuggle' dark Alessa into the church - no one else would have willingly done that except for a mother that was pure and desperate to find and free her daughter at the risk of Dark Alessa's bloody retribution.
She was used by the evil as a tool or 'vessel' to get into the consecrated church.

Escape · 06-08-2008

Ok now I get it.

It was the smuggling' word I needed to hear to make the pieces fit.