Inception: The Game

Way back in November 2010 Christopher Nolan expressed a desire to work on a video game set in the Inception universe saying that the medium of video games were "Something I've wanted to explore".
            When it comes to video games and movie directors there are two schools of thought. One is that we should fawn all over them and lick their boots because they're big time movie makers deigning to lower themselves enough make a kids toy. The second view is that we shouldn't give them any attention because they are MOVIE makers. Not game makers.
            In this instance I take a third view. I am very interested partly because Inception was a very good movie, but mostly because video games are just a medium in which to tell a story, and Nolan is an expert storyteller. He has said it will be a long term project and he's going to take his time with it. Once again, this is great. It's not a rushed film adaptation, it's a serious product by a mature story-teller who is giving the medium of video games the respect it deserves. We'll just have to wait and see.

Fallout Fan Film, Fantastic

You see what I did there? All the words in the title start with F. Anyway, Check out this great fan film based on the video game series fallout. For anyone unaware, Fallout is an RPG set in a wasteland after a nuclear war. I'm impressed with how great this looks. All the scenary and costumes are note perfect. Like most fan-films the acting is a littl iffy, and it's a little on the sillier side, but all in all this is a great piece of film-making.



P.S. I also posted this on my film blog, Unironical, http://www.unironical.blogspot.com/. That's my film blog, where I celebrate great films, and movie geekdom.