Heavenly Sword Movie
Posted: September 21st, 2014, 9:29 pm
Ninja Theory's Heavenly Sword is one of the best games I've played over the past couple of years. It had great action, great graphics, and an awesome story- which as I've said before is a huge plus for me. When I heard they were making a movie based on it, I was thrilled. Even better, it was going to rename CG animated instead of preemptively shooting itself in the foot by making it live action. Today I happened across it at Walmart for $10 and was ecstatic because before today I wasn't even aware it had been released. I just finished watching it, and... wow, I didn't expect to be this disappointed. If any of you have played the game, you might find the comparisons between it and the movie interesting. Warning: THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE.
They made Nariko and Kai sisters instead of just having a strong friendship because it tied in a half - thought - out idea about their father apparently trying to have kids with every able woman in order to have a son.
Oh, and the decided to throw in that Nariko had a brother this time. In the game, she takes the sword right off the bat with the intent to save her clan with it. In the movie, she takes ot with the intent of giving it to her brother, because apparently she has NOTHING to prove anymore. And her brother then gets offed literally right after getting the sword.
In the game, they go into almost gruesome detail about how Flying Fox murdered Kai's family right in front of her, thereby shocking her into her permanently childlike mindset. In the movie, she's just... retarded. They only barely mention her relationship to Fox, and then never call the villain himself by that name, so nobody who hasn't played the game would actually know they were the same person.
In the game, Nariko's voice actor is way over the top.i guess they'd balance it out in the movie by never letting her speak her lines with any emotion whatsoever. In the game, King Bohan is voiced by Andy Serkis, the guy who did Gollum In LotR. This was great for showing the absolute psycho hiding behind a thin curtain of regality. In the movie, he's played by Alfred Malina, the guy who played Doc Oc in Spiderman 2- and does absolutely nothing interesting with the role whatsoever. He's a bad guy, that's it. The soundtrack is practically nonexistent, but it still somehow manages to overpower a lot of the actor's voices. It's like the microphone was too far away to pick up their lines.
They reuse a ton of the same shots. In one, they just flipped the picture around to make Bohan look right instead of left. This was pathetically obvious because Bohan's wounded right eye suddenly became his left eye. Sometimes the characters don't move their lips in time with the words (and no, this isn't a dubbed movie) and sometimes they don't move their mouths at all. The animators just didn't think you'd notice that.
Their is LITERALLY video game violence in the movie. They slash people with their swords, there's a spray of blood, and they just fall over. The wounds don't pierce their clothes, much less their skin![[tongue]](/images/boards/smilies/tongue.gif)
Call me naive in thinking one of my favorite games would get special treatment in being made into a movie, but I am still just so disappointed. If they had done nothing but stick to exactly what the game had already done, taking no artistic liberties whatsoever, it still would have been miles above this tripe.
They made Nariko and Kai sisters instead of just having a strong friendship because it tied in a half - thought - out idea about their father apparently trying to have kids with every able woman in order to have a son.
Oh, and the decided to throw in that Nariko had a brother this time. In the game, she takes the sword right off the bat with the intent to save her clan with it. In the movie, she takes ot with the intent of giving it to her brother, because apparently she has NOTHING to prove anymore. And her brother then gets offed literally right after getting the sword.
In the game, they go into almost gruesome detail about how Flying Fox murdered Kai's family right in front of her, thereby shocking her into her permanently childlike mindset. In the movie, she's just... retarded. They only barely mention her relationship to Fox, and then never call the villain himself by that name, so nobody who hasn't played the game would actually know they were the same person.
In the game, Nariko's voice actor is way over the top.i guess they'd balance it out in the movie by never letting her speak her lines with any emotion whatsoever. In the game, King Bohan is voiced by Andy Serkis, the guy who did Gollum In LotR. This was great for showing the absolute psycho hiding behind a thin curtain of regality. In the movie, he's played by Alfred Malina, the guy who played Doc Oc in Spiderman 2- and does absolutely nothing interesting with the role whatsoever. He's a bad guy, that's it. The soundtrack is practically nonexistent, but it still somehow manages to overpower a lot of the actor's voices. It's like the microphone was too far away to pick up their lines.
They reuse a ton of the same shots. In one, they just flipped the picture around to make Bohan look right instead of left. This was pathetically obvious because Bohan's wounded right eye suddenly became his left eye. Sometimes the characters don't move their lips in time with the words (and no, this isn't a dubbed movie) and sometimes they don't move their mouths at all. The animators just didn't think you'd notice that.
Their is LITERALLY video game violence in the movie. They slash people with their swords, there's a spray of blood, and they just fall over. The wounds don't pierce their clothes, much less their skin
Call me naive in thinking one of my favorite games would get special treatment in being made into a movie, but I am still just so disappointed. If they had done nothing but stick to exactly what the game had already done, taking no artistic liberties whatsoever, it still would have been miles above this tripe.