i’m not very excited for the prospect of video game movies replacing superhero movies in our current culturally zeitgeist, not just because the possible discourse surrounding it would/will be extremely obnoxious, but because with how much work is put into modern video game’s visual and cinematography, a live action adaption of kindgom hearts for instance seems extremely redundant when we already have “KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 REMIX All Cutscenes (Game Movie) 1080p HD” right there.
it’s part of the larger trend where people don’t see adaptions of comic books, or video games or animation as new takes on the same stories, just using the different techniques of live action movies, but rather “fixing stories that were held back by their "inferior medium” as if video games by themselves aren’t a perfectly fine and sometimes better way of telling a story compared to a 1 and a half hour movie.
like genuinely i don’t think there’d be so much disdain against live action adaptions of animated disney movies, if they were more like different takes on the same story rather than ‘we took the story you loved but IMPROVED IT by not making it a cartoon anymore! cause that’s clearly what was holding it back from being real art, i guess"