*Company of Heroes movie?*

[thefool]

Did anyone like the company of heroes movie? I enjoyed some of it but some of the CGI effects were rather weak.

[LSD]

You mean Saving Private Ryan + Band of Brothers? Yea they were alright. Saving Private Ryan wasn't that good, but still...

Or do you mean that completely unrelated, really awful film? Because that was awful.

[thefool]

no I mean the movie based on this game.

[Renner]

I watched it till half.

[][)) (()) ][V][]

Nope, i have not seen it. I remember seeing the trailer and thinking it was a joke.

[Miiiiiiiiiiiiike]

Saving Private Ryan was pretty good for the late 90's.

[LSD]

引用自 Marshal of RDR™：

no I mean the movie based on this game.

There's a movie and a series that the game itself are based on -- Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan.
There's no movie that's based on this game. There's a movie with the name "Company of Heroes", but it has nothing to do with the game at all.

[thefool]

its based on the game though

[AveatorReborn]

Its not. It has nothing to do with the game. In what way is the movie based on this game? WW2?

[thefool]

The name is, based off the game.

[Lestrad]

Actually the OP is correct, the movie is not based so much as inpired directly from the game itself as stated in the special features documentaries about the movies filming where they actually refer and show clips of the original CoH game.

And yes, the CG effects were rather poor. I think though that the most hilarious part for me was the fact that they called some random tank a Tiger. It wasn't, yet the producer stated that they spent all this time making sure everything was spot on because "people will know when something is wrong". Yeah...and we noticed.

[thefool]

the other guy said it has nothing to do with the game.

[Lestrad]

引用自 Marshal of RDR™：

the other guy said it has nothing to do with the game.

I know. I was correcting them (Aveator and LSD), not you ~_^

So on with the show:

"Its such a different medium...film versus a video game. In the video game your participating. Your an active member and participant." - Don Michael Paul, Director

"We crafted the story and used the game as kind of a back drop", "I tried to be inspired by the game. By the key art of the game and what it tries to do for the participant in terms of going into a story and controlling your destiny. Then taking all that and putting it in a storyline..."
- Jeff Beach, Producer

So yeah, they were wrong. You only need to watch the special feature titled "In the Trenches: The Filming of Company of Heroes" They talk and show clips from the vanilla (2006 release) game starting at around 1min 21 sec.

Hell, the back of the DVD case by all the credits even says: "Based on the video game series 'Company of Heroes' published by THQ inc. It also says the same thing at the end of the movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn_4KlFmkbU.

Look at the very end, third line up from the bottom after the "all rights reserved" line.

(↑ Now that's a Blitz!)

[AveatorReborn]

Lestrad, your right. However I still dont think that other than the name, and ww2, that this movie and the game are based off each other. No elements from the game are in this movie. Nothing specific. You watch any other movie based on a video game, and there are exact things in the movie. Max Payne, DOOM, etc.

[Tarman]

Wow. Such is the nature of argument on the internet. Presented with overwhelming evidence that his stance was indeed erroneous, our plucky ant-hero sticks to his guns and says "nuh uh! It still isn't based on the game and I don't even need to use any credible argument to back this up because the internet is awesome like that."

[thefool]

inspired and based are kind of the same. its based on ww2 and inspired by the game