cliffyb and wyckyg and martyb get called out

The fanboys are calling out GOW for what it is--a complete, epic lack of art and story.

Wyck Godfrey & Marty Bowen have rotten track record & gears of war has no story:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/wyck_godfrey/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/marty_bowen/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/christopher_morgan/

"gimponaballandchain
I'm curious how they are going to make a story from a game with a complete lack of anything that even looks like a plot, even out of the corner of your eye when you squinting."

--http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/07/25/gears-of-war-film-secures-funding

"JPan
why do they make movies of games with inexistant story line and no character development? First Doom now Gears? Big exchangable space marines with the charisma of a door knob kill hellish creatures to save the world. Surprise.

How about a Half-Life movie. I think there would be potential. Or for all I care a Halo movie. Great soundtrack confirmed and I love to watch the trailers. An Uncharted movie would be fun. The game was almost a movie. Assassin's would be cool. But Gears..."

--http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/07/25/gears-of-war-film-secures-funding



Posted by what0080 - Friday, July 25, 2008 1:44 PM

"While freakin' awesome, Legendary Pictures also has "Superman Returns" under it's belt...

Just thought I'd remind everybody..."

--http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/687502/Gears_of_War_Movie_Becomes_Legendary.html


Posted by dex76 - Friday, July 25, 2008 1:54 PM
"Underworld isnt even a good movie. SOunds like another f up video game movie!!!"



"Posted by zortman66 - Friday, July 25, 2008 3:01 PM
Let's be honest here:

Has there EVER been a good movie based on a videogame?

Super Mario Bros.
Mortal Kombat (both)
Street Fighter
Wing Commander
Double Dragon
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (and it's sequel!)
Final Fantasy (I really wanted to like this movie, but it sucked)
Anything by Uwe Boll
Doom
Dead or Alive
Hitman

I'm sure I could go on, but that would be like beating a dead 360 owner.
" --http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/687502/Gears_of_War_Movie_Becomes_Legendary.html


This game was horrible the worst i hope the movie gets cancel please god. Gears of War sucks...

Posted by: . | Jul 25, 2008 4:06:09 PM
--http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/why-gears-movie.html


"Why!!!!!

Gears of War barely has a story it is a stupid, cliché ridden (but fun) action game. Sure action movies get made but you actually need something approaching a story for it to work, if it does get made it will be a stinker no doubt.

Posted by: Annorax | Jul 26, 2008 3:49:35 AM"
--http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/why-gears-movie.html

MOVIE SUCK ROCKS!!!!

Gears of War Just Might Be The Worst Movie Ever: In Fact, It Just Might Suck with Cliffyb, WyckyG, and LennyW

Well, they've lined up top talent!!

33% rotten tomato rating Len Wiseman is directing!!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/len_wiseman/

Wyck Godfrey is producing!!

Average Rating: 2.8/10
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/wyck_godfrey/
T-meter critics: 0%
Top critics: 0%

“It’s like with our games, you can have it right or have it right now,” said Epic Games head Mark Rein. “We want to get it right. There’s no timetable for us. We just want to make as good a movie as we can, and we think (Wiseman’s) the guy who will do it.”

How many screenplays/novels/films has Mark Rein directed/written?

Wired reports:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/06/die-hard-4-dire.html

"Len Wiseman almost totally destroyed the Die Hard franchise by directing a watered down, castrated version of a series that defined the idea of adolescent "every man" fantasies via the exploits of one John McClane.

I can't quite figure out if this is a brilliant combination or a harbinger of the worst game-to-film adaptation yet, but I feel pretty confident saying it'll have both explosions and women with copious breasts."

The Gate reports:
http://www.thegate.ca/blog/the-gate/01515/good-news-or-bad-len-wiseman-to-direct-gears-of-war/
"First of all, New Line is set to make the film, which is technically an offshoot of Warner Bros. Yes, that’s the same New Line that brought us that gem of film known as Blade: Trinity and Freddy vs. Jason. They’re a big studio, big enough to do this film, but as a production company they’re not known for producing quality action films, and their horror these days tends toward over-produced rather than clever."

"I give a lot of credit to Cliff Bleszinski from Epic, who commented in the article and points out that all we really need is for someone to take the material seriously and do it right. He points out in the piece that Disney made a franchise out of theme park ride, and I’ll admit to liking 2 1/2 of the 3 films they made there."
--http://www.thegate.ca/blog/the-gate/01515/good-news-or-bad-len-wiseman-to-direct-gears-of-war/

Yes--take the theme park ride of GOW seriously, and the movie will be great, as all higher art derives from theme park rides.

http://xboxer.tv/2008/06/gears_of_war_movie_gets_worryi.html reports "Gears of War movie gets worryingly low-grade director and writer combo.

Yes, the Len Wiseman! The Len Wiseman of Underworld fame. The Len Wiseman of Underworld II fame. And the Len Wiseman of Die Hard 4.0 fame. Excited yet? Probably not.

The original Gears script - written by Pirates of the Caribbean man Stuart Beattie - is being reworked by a bloke called Chris Morgan, who was responsible (to blame) for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Does that make things better or worse? Probably worse.

Expect very dumb, medium-budget action with an extremely high "HOLY SHIT!" quota to appear by summer 2009 at the earliest." --http://xboxer.tv/2008/06/gears_of_war_movie_gets_worryi.html

We look forward to the resounding moviesuck.

Video Games, As Defined by Cliffyb & Wyck Godfrey, Are The Exact Opposite of Art

Art is truth.

Art exalts the moral soul.

Wyck "28% Rotten Tomato Rating" Godfrey optioned Gears of War because it comes with a built-in fanboy audience who will eat Cliffyb's hype, hype, hype, and reguritate it on thousands of fanboy message boards.

Wyck "28% Rotten Tomato Rating" Godfrey did not option Gears of War for its story, as it has none, despite Cliffyb's fanboy hype. Unfortunately for Wyckyg, fanboy hype only works on fanboys who don't read books and have never touched a real girl. That means that the fanboys won't be taking dates to the GoW movie, which means that New Line's bottom line won't be served; and thus WyckyG's higher god--his muse and inspiration--money--will dump him.

It would be fun to sit down with Wyck and Cliffyb and talk about novels and stories and art and culture, but the snarky Wall Street fanboys detest truth, story, and art. Try talking to Mark Rein about art sometime. He'll look around impatiently instead of listening to the wrods taht would enrich him, and then run off to hype the story in GoW to some fanboy magazine.

Wyck Godfrey and Cliffyb are so arrogant that they think they can give culture and literature and art and film the middle finger, and ignore true writers and poets as they hype soul and story and chase ambulances. Wyck Godfrey & Cliffyb think that all they have to do to make some cashola is hire theme-park-ride adaptation master Stuart Beattie to adapt theme-park-ride Gears of War, and then have Mark Rein drive down Sunset screaming at everyone that GoW is an epic story, while Wyck Godfrey makes sure that anyone who questions or criticizes New Line's Bottom Line BS agenda is exiled from Hollywood forever.

Well, as you might have noticed, Wyckyg and Cliffyb can't seem to find some director to kill their career by directing the artless, storyless, plotless, soulless GoW movie.

It's hilarious to see the spin Cliffyb & Wyckyg put on this.

Rather than walking the hard road of creating lasting, epic, soulful art; they just want to hype crap that makes you and your money part.

Tom Petty Wrote a Song About Wyck Godfrey & Cliffyb & The Gears of War Movie Suck & Hollywood Fanboy Hypesters Who Hate Story/Art/Film/Literature

'Tis a song about the death of the recording industry.

Sir Sean Connery and Sir Anthony Hopkins have also lamented the death of storytellig and art in Hollywood, brought to you by producers like Wyck "28% Rotten Tomato Rating" Godfrey and Cliffyb who is a non-stop "epic storytelling" hypester when it comes to GoW.

Well, if there's a story, where is it? Why won't Cliffyb share it? Where's the screenplay or novel?

Lord of The Rings was well-known before it became an epic movie, along with Hamlet, and The Godfather, and Gone With The Wind.

So why won't Cliffyb share the story?

I'll tell you why--because there is none.

And that's why they can't find a director.

Wyckyg only optioned GoW for the built-in fanboy audience. He dropped a lot of cash on storyless hype--on the very opposite of art and film and literature.

And then, in order to bolster his career, WyckyG must denigrate the Truth and Story, and hire Hollywood hack Stuartyb to pen some paint-by-numbers, soulles story, banking on Cliffyb's shameless ability to lie and hype about the existence of soul and story where there is none; just like corrupt bottom-line backers of New Line.

So it is that Hollywood must kill true and lasting art to finance their dying business, lead by the likes of 28% rotten tomato rating WyckyG.

Listen to the Tom Petty song, and think about WyckyG with his hand on the greenlight switch. Cliffyb gets to be famous, and WyckyG gets to be rich.

Gears of War is the next 300. Gears of War is the next Lord of The Rings. Except it will have no story/suck. They should make it the next Beowulf.

Gears of War is the next 300. Gears of War is the next Lord of The Rings. Except it will have no story & it will suck. They should make it the next Beowulf.

They should make it the next Beowulf.

Beowulf is gonna suck so bad it's gonna be awesome--just read this awesome review:
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/6176/beowulf_review.html

But, see, that's the problem. I'm never quite sure if it is knowing or not. There's enough in BEOWULF! that tries (and fails so miserably) to be serious that the line between intentional humour (of which there is definitely a fair dollop, especially in the slapstick fight sequences) and embarrassing absurdity is frequently too blurry to comprehend. It reminded me a lot of The Wicker Man remake for sheer "what were they thinking!?" value and I forsee a lot of pannings from critics on the horizon. It's a mess, frankly. I am still unable to work out exactly what market they're aiming at. Too silly for the Tolkien mob, too anachronistic and blindingly off-the-mark for the scholastic crowd, way too bloody for kids and yet too mind-numbingly stupid for adults. If you switch your brain off and just take it in as one of the most gloriously misguided, overblown spectacles of Dumb that you're ever likely to see, you'll have a blast. Otherwise, you're in for a very long two hours.

I hope they fire StuartyB and hire the Beowulf screenwriters.

I hope Cliffyb and WyckyG all make cameo appearances, along with the Wall Street bankers financing New Line's crap. In fact, the whole lot of them can play the Locust Horde.

I remember one time I brought up Shakespeare/Story, and they banned me from Hollywood.

Has Cliffyb ever read a book? what book? What about wyckyg? In addition to chasing ambulances, does he read?

Read up on all the Cliffyb 300 Lord of The Rings hype/Lies:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cliffyb+300
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=cliffyb+lord+of+the+rings&spell=1

Hears a Gears of The Ring, where cliffyb gives epic art, story, and JRR Tolkien the middle finger: http://kotaku.com/gaming/heart-breaking/cliffy-b-talks-gears-of-the-rings-299077.php?cpage=2

Anyways, Beowulf is gonna rock!!! Did New Line produce it?

Producers like Wyck Godfrey (Wyckyg with 28% rotten tomato meter ratings) pocketing billions as art dies.

This story reports:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/11/business/strike.php

But a Hanks, Cruise or Carrey whose movie brings $600 million back to the studio from all sources might easily wind up with a $20 million salary, and an additional $50 million on the back end, while an A-list director and producer could take in tens of millions more.

A relatively small part of that goes to the guilds in the form of residuals, the contractual payments that writers get when their work reappears in various media - and which the writers are insisting be increased for media of
the future.

Awesome. Cliffyb & wyckyg hate art. Jsut look at the 28% rotten tomato rating movies wyck has pumped out of the hollywood hype factory, as if they were widgets. They hate art with soul and spirit. That is why they never talk about books. And literature. And poetry. They hate true writers. It's all about money money money mony money more money for Wall Street's New Line. Again, I would like to challenge them to a televised debate, and read them all their hypester soundbites to their faces, and make them eat every word.

Cliffyb will soon start quoting Shakespeare and Homer--just you wait. He won't actually read them--just quote them to soe up the Microsoft/New Line investment.

More Hilarious Hype From Cliffb: Boy, Will The Gears of War Movie Ever Suck < 28% Rotten Tomatoes Rating Predicted

One of the funniest things about Cliffyb is how he leads with spectacle-bangaty-bangs, hype, and complete BS. As well-documented through the internet and this blog, he has been hyping the "story" in GoW for some years now. Several publications have called him on it, as discussed throughout the net, but the lying/hyping fanboy has no shame.

With 28% rotten-tomato-rating/New Line-ambulance-chasing producer Wyck Godfrey attached, the GoW movie is going to suck for sure.

Here is a recent article with more Cliffyb Hype, along with our comments:

http://communities.canada.com/shareit/blogs/gamesnews/archive/2007/11/09/cliffy-b-interview-a-pc-gaming-renaissance.aspx

How’s the Gears movie coming along? What’s happening with it these days? We’ve had numerous drafts of the script, and right now they’re putting out feelers for directors, but we really haven’t announced anything beyond that.

HA HA! NO DIRECTOR WANTS TO DIRECT A STORYLESS/HYPED/FANBOY PIECE OF CRAP. MARK REIN DRIVING HIS FERRARI AROOUND HOLLYWOOD, SCREAMING "WE HAVE AN EPIC PIECE OF ART/FILM!!!!" IS NOT GOING TO WORK ON ANYONE BUT FOR THE FANBOYS, WHO ARE TOO BUSY LEVELING UP IN WOW.

It’s just been a very interesting and cool collaboration between the producers and myself and the writer Stu Beattie.

HAHAH!!! THAT WOULD BE AMBULANCE-CHASING PRODUCER WYCK GODFREY & HIS 28% ROTTEN-TOMATO RATING:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/wyck_godfrey/

Stu knows the universe inside and out, he was surprising with the amount of detail that he knew. He’s asking me what kind of money is used in the Gears universe, and Rod (Fergusson, GOW producer) and I were looking at each other like, ‘Did we ever name that?’ and he’s like, ‘Well yeah, you guys actually mentioned “bucks” at one point,’ and I’m like ‘Yeah, I guess we did!’ Things like that.
Any time you get a Hollywood writer who wants to do an adaptation, the best guy you can always get is a guy who’s a fan of whatever he’s working on (HE'S A FAN OF GEARS/AND GEARS HAS NO STORY!!!!!), ’cause he’s not doing it for the money (WTF??? WYCKYG ONLY LOOKS AT MOVIES AS MONEY MACHINES. HE HATES ART. LOOK AT HIS 28% TOMATO RATING. WHY WOULD BEATTIE WORK WITH HIM?? BEATTIE ONLY WRITES FOR THE MONEY!!!!! )-- he’s doing it because he loves the property.

CLIFFYB HAS A PROBLEM TELLING THE TRUTH, AND STORY REQUIRES TRUTH.

YEAH--JUST LIKE STUARTYB LOVED THE PROPERTY CONSISTING OF THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ROLLER COASTER RIDE. HA HA AHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAH! MORE THAN HAMLET AND MOBY DICK!!!

He wants to see it as a cool film. But money’s nice too. Of course. We all like to eat.

MAKE NO MISTAKE--WYCKYG IS CONCERNED ONLY IN MONEY MONEY MONEY. WYCKYG'S HOLLYWOOD CANNOT AFFORD STORY, AS STORY IMPLIES TRUTH, AND WYCKYG PROFITS FROM FANBOY HYPE. THAT IS WHY THEY ARE EXILING ALL THE REAL WRITERS AND ARTISTS.

You probably always imagined you were going to be in the video game business, but did you ever imagine they’d be making movies based on your creations? It’s kind of secretly always been my plan. I love movies, I love graphic novels, I love all forms of media, but at the same time I’ve always felt that some of the most creative minds are in the gaming business, and I felt that with the right people attached to the right projects you can make an incredibly compelling film based on games. It’s just a matter of ironing out the kinks and getting a generation of producers and writers who really ‘get’ games, and know what works well with a game, and what will work well with a film, and knowing what the right compromises are.

HA AHAAHAHA!!! IT'S JUST A MATTER OF HIRING SOME WRITERS.

CLIFFYB TIPS HIS HAND HERE.

HE THINKS ART IS CREATED BY CORPORATIONS, NOT ARTISTS.

HE THINKS SHAKESPEARE WAS CREATED BY A CORPORATION.

HE THINKS LORD OF THE RINGS WAS CREATED BY A CORPORATION, THAT JUST MANAGED TO HIRE WRITERS.

BOY, IS GEARS OF WAR EVER GOING TO SUCK.

AND THE WORST THING IS THAT WYCKYG & CLIFFYB HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN UNDERHANDED LIES/HYPE/BS, TO DIVERT FUNDS FROM TRUE WRITERS AND ART, ALL FOR THEIR BOTTOM LINE.

What it all comes down to is that CliffyB, WyckyG, and StuartB are not man enough to write a novel nor pen an epic story.

They will never know King Leonidas's rugged soul, nor the higher art of 300 and Lord of The Rings.

They are Golem who has grabbed teh ring of hype to serve Wall Street Hedge Funds & New Line--they are the hunchback in 300, who incapable of the glory of battle of true art--relegate themselves to kneeling before Xerxes--Wall Street's bottom line, to have a few pennies tossed their way.

May they live forever.