I'm sure this is probably old news, it was confirmed months ago, but I just had to get this out.

Sony Pictures is making a movie based on Shadow of the Colossus. This is a VERY BAD IDEA. One, very rarely do movies based on video games work out. Tomb Raider wasn't terrible, but they could've done better. Silent Hill was the only one that was actually pretty good.

Shadow of the Colossus is a very unique game. Some, myself included, would consider it a work of art, visually. It's plenty cinematic -- the only other game I can think of that looks that much like a big-budget film is God of War (and maybe BioShock). Regardless, I can tell you that there's one specific factor that made this game so popular: GAMEPLAY.

It's ridiculously fun. Yeah, it's pretty much a string of sixteen boss battles. But each battle is a puzzle; more often than not you'll have to use your battlefield to your advantage. It's more than "hack at this weak spot with you sword till it dies." You have to find that weak spot, figure out a way to reach it, and exploit it. Not to mention hang on for dear life throughout pretty much the whole thing.

Anyway, point is, when you make a game that's popular for gameplay into a movie, you're basically abandoning the one aspect that made it popular in the first place (which is why I'm thoroughly skeptic about the Prince of Persia movie). Not to mention that Shadow has all of four characters, only one of which speaks, the other is comatose the entire game, and the other is a horse. The only interaction you have with other people is the last thirty seconds of the game. The rest of the time it's you and your horse running across massive landscapes to find and kill a giant.

The game also reached you on a personal level, or was supposed to, anyway. Trying to not give spoilers, the music that plays after you defeat each colossus is very somber sounding, making it seem like you're doing something terribly wrong. Your character also looks more and more unhealthy and corrupted as the game progresses. I feel bad after I kill a colossus, regardless of how fun it is (unless they royally tick me off, like that freaking turtle in the geyser field).

But that's the thing: you feel bad because it's YOU making the actions. YOU'RE the one killing these creatures. When you're just watching someone else do it in a movie, you lose that personal connection -- a connection that, in the end, you realize is very important to the game's plot.

Wow, that was way longer than I intended it to be. Anyway, yeah, this movie's gonna suck. And what's worse? It's like Hollywood's rubbing it in our faces by hiring the guy who wrote the story for that horrible Street Fighter movie that just came out to write the script for Shadow of the Colossus! WHY???