I really dig Black Rain. It's just the sort of grimey 80s shoot-em-up that I'm weak for.

I don't think so, but that gag might have been unoriginal to what I saw it in.

At least it fits within an established universe and isn't attempting to ape a story we as game players already know poorly.

I could see a good Max Payne movie existing, as it steals from cinematic tropes. The problem is whoever wrote and directed the movie had no idea what the game was about except "angry man shoots guns."

Super Mario Bros is fascinating in a way you can't dismiss as readily as one of the cash-in Mortal Kombat sequels or an Uwe Boll movie. It's so perfectly strange.

Yeah, that was perfectly wasted Sean Bean. They didn't even kill him in Act 3, did they?

Ratchet has the best chance, as it has original animators, writersr, voice talent, etc. on the case.

The frame was only interesting in that you were playing a videogame, which added a meta-lite effect to the proceedings. A game playing a guy playing a game. They should have dropped it after game 1 once they realized that was all it had going for it.

But they make up new characters every game to expand the universe of assassins, so I'd kind of prefer they make up their own story (with nothing to really compare it to in terms of plot or character) and expand the universe in that way. I think it's kind of clever.

Sounds like an alternate title to Frankenhooker.

It's wonderful.

Haven't read it, no. On the list it goes.

Exactly. Send up a freak flag. Hell, send up a freak flare.

It's everything that happens after superman kills zod that's the problem, not so much the act itself.

Ugh, pervs with shame are embarrassing. Own your gross!

Who isn't?

Ugh, he probably throws his socially anxious energy from growing up weird into something like being really vocal about sports. Maybe something like rugby that you know he can't play.

Exactly. I really don't care how much respect he has for the source medium as long as what comes out is great.

As someone who knows a few Rennies (from a distance, mind you), I can safely say it's a playground for the sexually clumsy.

Compromise is terrible!