What happens when architects play too much BRINK?

(.FROST.) #1

Answer: UTOPIA (how ingenious is that? :wink:)

http://web.de/magazine/reise/bildergalerie/bilder/13733978-die-schwimmende-insel-utopia.html#/cid13733978/0

(L00fah) #2

That thing is pretty sweet.

(wolfnemesis75) #3

I hope I live long enough to see and visit some real sites like this. I watched a movie last night called Pandorum, and it had this vibe of super exploration. And this image looks very much like the Ark. Brink would make a cool movie.

(.FROST.) #4

Oh, a BRINK movie would devinitely own. But since game adaptions are far worse than many of the comic adaptions, we should rather hope for a BRINK 2 with a traditional SP and some shiny cut-scenes instead.

And I saw that Pandorum movie too. Not nearly as bad as I feared. Though if I remember it right they had a “Saitek” joystick as an actual flightstick on the command bridge :smiley: . They gave it a little overhaul, but it was clearly visible.

(L00fah) #5

I disagree completely.

A Brink movie would downright suck. Brink is a great GAME, this sort of “story” requires interaction.
The movie would be forced to make one side look better than the other (good/bad, no gray) and SOMEONE would have to succeed in the end.
While our games go based on “our” achievements, for the cinematics.

(tokamak) #6

Maybe the games and movies quality is inversely proportionate so a Brink movie might score several oscars.

(cdoty15) #7

That building just wins… and no I do not want a brink movie… or any video game movie for that matter (maybe AC)

(.FROST.) #8

[QUOTE=L00fah;379095]I disagree completely.
The movie would be forced to make one side look better than the other (good/bad, no gray) and SOMEONE would have to succeed in the end.
[/QUOTE]

Why would that be? You could make a dystopic drama out of it. Take the resistance storyline. Those guys actually “did it” and left the ark, at least the few in that plane. You’d see the people at CC cheering whilst Mokoena is all depressed in his bureau in Sec-Tower. The viewer would think till the very end, that the Res where the “good guys”, but in the last take you’d see a huge horde of wild survivors approaching the Ark from afar whilst the camera is slowly moving away in an shallow angle from a depressed Mokoena who has his head on the desk and shows “us” his back . And you’d know by then, that Mokoena was right all the time. Put some dramatic music in the background and you’d have a goosebump guarantee. And that’s just a quick idea. I know it’s quite cheese, but I fell for that simple cheese stuff.

(iezza) #9

Survivors as in off world? you have good descripting writing skills. i got goosbumps reading it ^^

(L00fah) #10

Again, that paints one side or the other a good guy… And that isn’t one of the major draws of the story line.
That actually goes against the point of giving both sides a plot.

It wouldn’t be a “Brink” movie… It’d be some sci-fi/dystopian film about some douche bags who ruin everything.

(wolfnemesis75) #11

Nah. A movie could be done by having characters on each side sorta of like Romeo and Juliet, Security and Resistance and they must find a resolution. It doesn’t have to be the Ark having a definitive conclusion, it can be more about the Ark as a set-piece for a character study. I watched another movie last night called Death Race (I actually really liked it :slight_smile: ) and so that’s one way it could be done as far as battling on the Ark as a side plot about coming to the Ark, or trying to escape. Like escape from New York. Something that doesn’t specifically make either side bad, just fleshes out their motives or an individualized goal. Maybe their is one particular corrupt bad guy within the system of Security, but the rest of Security’s motives are good.

(Crytiqal) #12

Story was pretty far fetched and borrowed from running man, cars were cool and the chick was hot tho

(L00fah) #13

I maintain… It wouldn’t be a strong movie.

If you completely change the plot to them trying to find a resolution with some nonsensical battles in the background, it still isn’t a Brink movie.
And then that’s when fans of the game get pissed off and it falls into that same terrible category of games-to-movie.

(.FROST.) #14

[QUOTE=L00fah;379101]Again, that paints one side or the other a good guy… And that isn’t one of the major draws of the story line.
That actually goes against the point of giving both sides a plot.[/QUOTE]

Nope, it wouldn’t since both sides mean it for the good. No one would be “bad” or “good” in my depiction. I don’t know where you see that in my post since my depiction is basically the original BRINK storyline. The story would convey the fact, that staying on the Ark is as bad as leaving it. Actually both factions are fighting for nothing. And you can easilly show that in a movie so that the audience have an understanding for both sides. You just have to show both sides equally. The people from CC wich are living basically under 3rd world/medieval circumstances and Mokoena as the reasonable guy with his objections. Maybe the scene in wich his men where tortured to death, plus some additional footage to show how incredibly bad the “outside world” is. I don’t think that writing a fitting screenplay would be a problem. Getting it authorised by one of hollywood’s/pine wood’s managing suits would be a whole different story though.

(wolfnemesis75) #15

[QUOTE=Crytiqal;379108]Story was pretty far fetched and borrowed from running man, cars were cool and the chick was hot tho

[/QUOTE]Not borrowed from running man…it was a re-make of the classic Death Race 2000…which came out in 1975 long before Running Man…

(.FROST.) #16

Gamer was quite a rip-off of running man.

(wolfnemesis75) #17

[QUOTE=.FROST.;379118]Gamer was quite a rip-off of running man.[/QUOTE]I didn’t like Gamer enough to finish watching it. Watched a decent movie last week that has the future warrior theme only in the past. It was called Outlander. Cool movie. Running Man is actually based on a Stephen King short story oddly enough. (Written as Richard Bachman) The Jessie is in that one.

(taodemon) #18

You mean what happens when there are fans of architecture on the brink team? These ideas have been around since at least the 1960s.

So where did this all start? As with many present utopian ideals and building strategies a surprising number of philosophical ideas, building strategies and ecological approaches embodied in the aforementioned floating utopian concepts date back to the famous environmentalist, scientist, designer, philosopher and visionary Buckminster Fuller. In the 1960s he developed a design for something known as Triton City which was to be a floating place of residence for up to 5,000 inhabitants and designed to be resistant to tsunamis and other natural forces that floating cities might encounter on the water. Somewhat amazingly, these designs were approved by the Navy as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the United States. In fact, Baltimore even planned at one point to construct one of these and install it in Chesapeake Bay until governments changed and plans fell through.

(L00fah) #19

Where did I get that from??
This: “The viewer would think till the very end, that the Res where the ‘good guys’-”
And this: “And you’d know by then, that Mokoena was right all the time.”

You’re leaving NO room for interpretation like Brink’s plot. We don’t know what happened when/if they left the Ark.
Brink wouldn’t make a good movie unless neither side is portrayed as “winning the war” or is right or wrong. It’d be best as a means to described the trials and issues on soldiers in wartime on BOTH sides. Show the human in both allegiances and their personal goals. The leaders play very little roles in the games outside of barking orders and pointing your gun in the “right” direction. The main interest (at least to me) is between the people on the battle field and what the Ark Heads are actually planning… But mostly the soldiers’ thoughts, feelings and so on.

Making either side “right” just ruins the entirety of the story.

(Stormchild) #20

Give it to guys like Miyazaki, they know how to make non-Manichaeist movies.

Of course if you hand it up to hollywood, don’t expect something other than goodies + baddies + patriotic wire to hold the cr4p together. Add in special effects all over the place, james franco and angelina jolie. bleh.