Hot take:
This is a pro us military story about intervention to help a native population against the monsters who are going to wipe them out without our help.
IE: we are officially living in Starship troopers.
Are you doing your part?
I’m genuinely curious what their argument is regarding why they had to do it this way.
Like obviously the real answer is: “Can’t afford all those cgi monsters without that sweet us military propoganda money.”
But I assume that’s still gauche to say out loud…
isekai
Some day we’ll get a major Hollywood film where the first scene is the main character getting hit by a truck and dying, but not today.
That trailer looks exceptionally horrible. The characters are in this huge desert setting but they barely move at all, I would bet cash money that they parked the HMMV in a big garage, set up green screens around it, and filmed half of the movie in one fucking room.
Honestly I was bothered by it being a Monster Hunter fan.
But then when you think about it, its pretty damn rare that a video game movie is ever really meant for fans of w/e game its based on.
On the other hand I don’t really see how this is going to catch the interests of people who’ve never even heard of the game. Might as well pander to the game fans as much as possible.
Might as well pander to the game fans as much as possible
Hollywood will never learn this lesson, but they really should. The only fondly remembered video game films are The Wizard and Mortal Kombat, and while MK is extremely cheesy frankly that was the correct choice because the game is too.
“Hey kids, if you join the military, you can be heroes too, just like your favourite videogame!”
Thanks for ruining Monster Hunter for me Hollywood.
