I believe this is relevant and may shine a bit more light on the matter.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne.....-evil-director

Dammit all....

Can we just make it a law that any movie Director that makes multiple horrible moves will be put to death?

It's modern setting because it's made by the same folks behind the Resident Evil movies. xD The main character is an average joe American who somehow figures out his ancestors are the "Hunters" of the game, and he needs to travel to a different dimension to learn the arts of hunting to stop the monsters to return to earth.

No joke, it's what I read that the two directors wanted it to be like....

.................. FUCKING HELL, this guy needs to stay away from video game franchises...

I knew not to get my hopes up, but this might have killed any excitement I had.

I know... Reason why the two from Resident Evil is on this project is because Capcom think they did such an awesome job that they give the job to them making a movie out of MH series... xD

They bastardized the series! Hell, I actually got up and walked out on the third movie and demanded a refund. Never watched beyond that because I know they were terrible. Watch him SOMEHOW squeeze Milia into this.

Of course Milla Jovovich is gonna star in the Monster Hunter series somehow... XD She's sleeping with one of the directors. >_>; I've seen all of the RE movies and I'll say you haven't missed anything. XD Luckily they never showed in cinemas in my city so I watched them on TV. :P

So, there is backstory lore to Monster Hunter, which is that the humans were an advanced to modern day or beyond race, but during a massive be-all-end-all war vs the Dragons, it resulted in both sides nearly being wiped out and humans being bombed to the proverbial stone age.

The problem is that this won't involve humans being bombed to the stone age, this will just be random bullshit: the movie, featuring occasional references to Monster Hunter.

How fucking hard is it to fuck up the simple plot of monster hunter? Well, this dumbass found a way.

It kinda sounds like that lore backstory is loosely based on what was described about the Equal Dragon Weapon..... but much worse and super lazy.

I agree with what people on /v/ were saying. Just give us a fake nature documentary on the monsters' ecology and everyone would be SO happy. No one cares really about the human characters. We want the monsters!!

Exactly. The monsters are the stars, even in the games.

This movie could have started a gravy train of films, but it's throwing it all away.

-Take no name green hunter
-ends up in *village*
-does some stuff and gets schooled in hard knocks
-big monster causes trouble
-village wants hero to deal with monster
-showcase hunter, sometimes with friends, fighting monsters
-eventually climactic fight with *trouble monster*
-seems good
-trouble still happening
-reveal true Elder Dragon class trouble monster
-final showdown between hunters and elder dragon
-repell elder dragon, people live happy ever after

Just change the hunter, village, trouble monster, and elder dragon and you have a movie series that spans FOREVER.

But yes, the ONLY way this film could be any hope is if it plays out with humanity being bombed to the stone age and the tech and such being lost to the ages.

I could stretch my disbelief to think Hunters are the lineage of genetically modified super soldiers who have to use monster parts to fight monsters since it's the only thing that can hurt them (hence swords and bowguns instead of assault rifles and such) but honestly, i don't see the writers being smart enough to do something like researching the games.

I find this VERY odd since the Mon Hun team is generally impossible to get them to agree with much anything. In Marvel vs Capcom 3, they wouldn't allow the usage of a "hunter" because "it would be impossible to pick one weapon stance to represent the whole franchise and swapping weapons mid fight is not possible in the Mon Hun games". They allowed a couple costumes for Mii fighters in smash bros, but again, no true hunter was put in the game.

How the HELL this was approved by the Mon Hun team is beyond me.

Well, the Monster Hunter team can't really say no if Capcom puts alot of money on these movies because they think that the directors who's going to make it will do a great job, because that's what Capcom thought about the RE movies, they were "great" in Capcoms eyes. So Capcom probably told the Monster Hunter team that this was to happen or no future fundings from them. (Who knows)

But I totally agree with all of this that you said. Hell, they could even probably make a Monster Hunter series instead of movies considering how many monsters that're excisting over the whole game series (Sony games, Nintendo and PC versions).

Indeed, as i said though, high quality movies with a simple stable wash and re-use style would sell like hotcakes.

All that can possibly happen in this film to give any hope for the inevitable film franchise is if it does like is stated in the Equal Dragon Weapon, lead to an arms race as the elder dragons and lesser monster just ravage the human race so that the second movie can quite literally be "super soldiers with big swords vs monsters to protect the outcroppings of humans".

This seems to go against the main rule of monster hunter though...

"Balance of nature". No matter how horrifyingly large or dangerous a monster is, it's only a kill target if it is endangering a place it doesn't belong in.

Humans are not to kill in excess because MONSTERS do not kill in excess.

The Equal Dragon Weapon is a harsh reminder of how horrifying an actual war and attempt of extermination is for BOTH sides...

... I still think Gogmazios is one such equal dragon weapon that still functions when it was discovered.

http://i.imgur.com/Ov8NB3t.jpg

Oh crap, I almost forgot about that lore altogether, I haven't read up on this since it was first spoken about. xD

Monster Hunter got so much lore to delve into, which would be near impossible to make movies of, I'd rather say as I mentioned above that a series or maybe an anime would be for the better to show non-MH players how the lore of this game is and the beauty of the monsters in it.

Hell, I remember back when I first played the PS2 release of Monster Hunter, I kept digging into and reading every kind of lore possible, on items, weapons and armors. Back then there wasn't many games aside from Monster Hunter that interested me THAT much into reading the background of things that excisted in the world of said game.

Yeah, the Gogmazios is one such dragon weapon, it has a built in mechanism I think that allows it to consume other substances than the blood of dragons to live, and in this ones case it consumed blackpowder and other explosive substanses and turned into this weird beastly tar covered monster that didn't attack humans (as it said in the link you linked at the end).

That aside, knowing the "love" the directors of the RE movies have gotten throughout the years from fans of the RE games and the animated RE movies, they'll probably gonna end up screwing up the MH movies (sad but true). And I'm calling it now that we might be seeing Milla Jovovich in it too.

As I said, best way they can do this is if the monsters wipe out the current civilization of humanity, super soldiers step up to the plate while scientists perform horrible experiments in an arms race to balance the odds, all culminating in the end of the movie basically being the birth of the actual monster hunter world the fans of the games are familiar with.

That said, seeing a Deviljho in a modern day area ravaging everything and being unable to be stopped is a pretty enjoyable prospect.

Hehe, true. That'd be a cool point of view for the movies. x3

PT Anderson is becoming the next Uwe Boll

That's an achievement for all the wrong reasons...

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT PAUL W S ANDERSON, YOU MANAGE TO FUCK UP THE MOST BASIC SETTING OF MONSTER HUNTER!!!