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Is it very diverse and terrible like Foundation?
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kmanitou: Is it very diverse and terrible like Foundation?
They're still in pre-production, and we can all rest easy if del Toro is signed to direct.
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kmanitou: Is it very diverse and terrible like Foundation?
i cant see why it wouldnt be
In terms of political agenda the Bioshock game is just a tad political itself. Not like they'd have to change the plot to have the bad guys be rich white men, after all. Yeah, there will probably be some commentary on said rich white men ruining the world, but that is kind of the plot of the game anyway.

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Niggles: I generally dont agree with much you say, but in this case --- yes. Prefer Netflix over Amazon. Bigger library. Bigger audience (who subs to Amazon just for the movies??? ), arguably better quality (Amazon's Expanse, Peacemaker and The Boys aside). The whole woke/political agenda thing is probably more Amazon tbh.....
I'd agree with that list but it's kind of telling that 2/3 (Peacemaker*, The Expanse) of those aren't Amazon produced shows.

And the Amazon seasons of The Expanse while mostly still good were worse in pretty much every respect- including looking a lot cheaper, having fewer episodes and more- than the ones made for SyFy. If nothing else they should have looked better given the amount of money Amazon has. Then again, The Boys apart high budget Amazon shows seem to have awful budget control and get no value for cost, obvious example being the extremely expensive Wheel of Time that often looked like an off brand Xena/ Hercules episode cost wise.

*Peacemaker also isn't on Prime in many countries as it's a show produced for HBO. So for the US/ NA and most of Europe it's on HBOMax, and here it's on Sky.
I think its because Amazon and Netflix are still relatively new to the game of producing shows but they definitely seem like they dont know what they are doing.

Disney, HBO, Peacock, etc have been producing shows for years so know how to make a show somewhat. Most of their original shows, even if they arnt stellar, are passable imo and continue to remain passable.

Netflix and Amazon are good consolidators but not good producers. They have a great distribution service but when asked to make their own product, they fail hard.

I will say Netflix has some good reality shows but that is so bottom of the barrel and their attempts at edgyness still fail in comparison to others.

But in terms of overrated games, Ill put the Last of us up there, which is also getting its own live action adaptation. Its the road with zombies but worse.
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Ruvika: Oh shit, this will be bad and even more if it's a live action.
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amok: that's the spirit! first thing to do is to abandon all hope.

but then again: always expect the worst, and you will always be positivly suprised.
Exactly, is a win/win in any case.
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Ruvika: Oh shit, this will be bad and even more if it's a live action.
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LegoDnD: Not to defend Netflix, but Guillermo del Toro is both a perfect fit for Bioshock and has the best track-record in the business. If there's any sure sign of this going wrong, it'll be a lack of his involvement.
Guillermo del Toro wanted to make a Bioshock movie, but required a budget of $500M, I doubt Netflix will spend that amount of money in a movie, plus evry time Netflix money they are more concerned about the "wokness" than from the actual quality of the show.
From 10 Netflix productions 1 is actually good the rest are bad
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Phasmid: In terms of political agenda the Bioshock game is just a tad political itself. Not like they'd have to change the plot to have the bad guys be rich white men, after all. Yeah, there will probably be some commentary on said rich white men ruining the world, but that is kind of the plot of the game anyway.
First BioShock ideas had nothing to do with race or gender. Infinite, yes, that's exactly the white supremacist patriarchy that modern SJW like to scare people, but even there it was more about religious fanatism than any sort of "oppression hierarchy".

There is a common misconception about people that complained about forced politics or forced diversity. They don't complain about politics or diversity. The problem is the "forced" part. Star Trek, for example, had politics and ideas that were considered progressive at the time. However, those politics and ideas are radically different from what is considered "progressive" today. Case in point - Political Correctness and censorship. Original Star Trek and Next Generation were against those. Discovery depicts silencing opposition as a good thing. Thus many ideas of Discovery don't fit the established Star Trek canon.
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I hope it will star Mark Wahlberg, as he is a veteran in other videogame-to-movie movies, like at least Max Payne and Uncharted.
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timppu: I hope it will star Mark Wahlberg, as he is a veteran in other videogame-to-movie movies, like at least Max Payne and Uncharted.
And Uwe Boll to direct, he's a veteran also.
Bishock is far too ideologically deep for a company like Netflix to adapt intelligently.
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timppu: I hope it will star Mark Wahlberg, as he is a veteran in other videogame-to-movie movies, like at least Max Payne and Uncharted.
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Strijkbout: And Uwe Boll to direct, he's a veteran also.
The funniest part is that the Postal movie was actually a very good adaptation and with political commentary at that.