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[PurpleGaga27]

Doom was probably the first movie from a video game to feature a partial first person POV shot in film, but not with a Go Pro camera.

 

Now Hardcore Henry is the first fully featured film to be mostly in first person POV with a Go Pro camera.... guess whose idea to produce this hardcore movie, the Russians!! Probably Doom, Deus Ex or any FPS game might have inspired this but it's like playing another pre-cursor to Deus Ex/COD as a movie.

 

Trailers:

 

I hope that future movies like Half-Life, Portal and Call of Duty should not have this POV, really.

 

Will you watch it, for curiosity?

Edited by zocom7, 30 March 2016 - 05:50 PM.

[Pasidon]

Oh, you mean that 3 minute FPS mode they did in that awful Doom movie that had zero essence of the actual games?  That don't count.

 

This movie looks like fun... for people who are easily pleased by the flashing lights on the back of an Xbox One.  No, sex-violence simulator 2016 will have to do without my time-money.

[OmegaBolt]

You could say it's possibly the first entirely literal POV action movie, maybe. Lot's of movies have used this before though of course as a narrative tool, classically French new wave in the 50s and 60s. Russian Ark and Enter the Void were other movies entirely in first person, as well as all those found footage films basically being that too. And of course the beginning of the trailer might as well be taken from Robocop.

 

Shame they ruined this on what sounds like a shite story that takes the dumbest, most cliche and frankly worst aspects of video games into a film. "There's an army, save your wife" just reinforces the stereotype that games are simplistic, stupid and full of mindless violence for overgrown male children.

 

Something similar but far more classy would've been a Hotline Miami movie in this style, IMO. You would have the psychedelic fucked up aspect really work well (kinda like Enter the Void) as the person you're inhabiting is a complete psychopath on drugs living a transient life in a really grim surreal world that snaps and goes on a killing spree. THAT movie would be badass. It could also nicely give an insight into real mass shootings and such.

Edited by OmegaBolt, 30 March 2016 - 11:30 PM.

[Pasidon]

You first need a director that understands gaming.  As of the current generation of directors, they're knowledge doesn't expand far from Pac-Man and Postal 2.  Don't make me remind you of Adam Sandler's recent... thing.