Like many others I'm part of the Bioware/Mass Effect groups on Facebook, and they have recently updated that there will be a Mass Effect movie. Now as a Bioware fanboy my first thought was "SWEEEEEEEEET!!! :D" etc. But then I stopped and said to myself wait a minuet, they're turning a video game that, like many Bioware games, let the user determine where the story went and how your character acted with various decisions and consequences. So now, they're going to create a "Shepard" of their design, with their "choices." Which unless Bioware writers actually write the scrip will probably be dumbed down, and soaked with American social commentary. And thinking about it there is only 1 video game movie I consider "good" and that's the first Mortal Kombat movie. Mind you I consider it "good" in the same way I consider Logan's Run "good," pure bloody cheese! The rest I want to burn in a giant bonfire as the atrocities to both the film and gaming genres!
I may be wrong, hell I HOPE I'm wrong, but the reality is game to movie or movie to game transitions don't work, at all. The 2 should never meet, the amount of cinematic abortions and gaming horrors that have come before are proof that this shit really needs to stop! Will I go see the movie in theaters though?... Yes, yes I will. Why? Because I like Bioware, I like Mass Effect and if the Gods are kind I will be proven wrong in my assessment and be pleasantly surprised... but probably not.