Why Video Game Movies Suck: Part II

A certain contingent of Hollywood/Wall Street hacks operate as fanboy ambulance-chasers.

Paris Hilton says "that's hot," and they rampage on over, drive on down La Brea, whip out their check books, and produce it.

Wyck Godfrey's rotten tomato meter is filled with clues as to why the Gears of War Movie will suck, if it is ever made:

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

Wyck's only movie which comes close to a positive tomato meter reading is I, Robot. This is because it was actually based on a story penned by real writer--a lone writer--a writer with story in his soul, instead of Microsoft-fueled fanboy hype.

But Wall Street and Hollywood hate real writers, as they hate the Truth--for Truth is the hard, long road, and they just want the quick buck. So they think they're taking less risk when they produce the Gears of War movie, complete with its built-in fanboy base, but in reality, they are taking a far greater risk. For at this table, and upon the silver screen, Truth and Story trump fanboy hype and ambulance chasing.

Make no mistake--video games will become epic, immortal art someday; but the renaissance will not happen with Godfrey/Cliffyb/Beattie/Fanboy Hype at the helm.

No, real men will someday take the helm, as soon as the snarky, perfidious fangirl hypesters fail to string the bow a few more times in a few more sucky, storyless, plotless, characterless fanboy films, and finally retire to that lower table of soulless sellouts, where they can no longer corrupt art and culture.

I guess you could say that I'm calling them out, and they're got to show their hand--there's the card of fanboy hype, and the card of ambulance-chasing movie production, and the card of hired-gun screenwriter with no special, sacred story in his soul, and the card of Wall Street muscle, but there is no card of epic, enduring art; which must come not from the beast nor matrix nor machine, but from the lone, moral individual.

You can call me a liar and condemn me to fire, but time offer proof, as time bolsters the truth.

One of two things will happen:
1) There will be no Gears of War movie, as the Wall Street bankers realize taht without story, all teh fanboy hype in the world don't buy epic art.
2) There will be a Gears of War Movie, Cliffyb will drive his lambrogini up and down sunset with Lindsay Lohan, yelling "come see our higher, immortal art!" as culture dies and taxes and divorce rise; and the movie will suck.