Could You Be Persuaded to Watch a Call of Duty Movie?

Hollywood would butcher it

So basically Beavis and Butthead in the army.

Looking forward to Beavis and Butt-Head wiping out a squad and then teabagging them. Pure cinema.

That scene from A Clockwork Orange is the first thing that springs to mind

Will just end up just being ‘another’ war film.

If they had any sense, you’d make a high budget HBO style series that tells the original MW storyline.

3 seasons, 3 games, millions made.

Then you could even do the original Black Ops.

You couldn't persuade me to play a COD game, let alone watch a movie!

"honour and expand upon what has made this franchise great in the first place"

I don't even know if the people making CoD know what that is.

"honour and expand upon what has made this franchise lots of money in the first place"

Fixed it.

Nope, next question

@RagnarLothbrok Hollywood would butcher… Call of Duty? The series that’s essentially a Michael Bay movie every campaign? In what possible way could Hollywood butcher a series of games directly inspired by Hollywood war movies?

I really don't have high hopes for a Call of Duty movie.

I thought Activision was already making Call of Duty movies annually.

At one point, Stefano Sollima was linked to this and I would have totally been up for watching that. Depends on the director and who’s attached to it I guess.

Press F to pay Fandango?

No. I don't think I will.

The cinema flick wants to "honour and expand upon what has made this franchise great in the first place"

So teenagers yelling expletives in your ear whilst wearing a headset and being teabagged in the cinema?

Sounds lush for some people... not for me though 🤔

No I coudnt ever lol

Isnt all COD US propaganda anyway? I have seen quite a interesting view on it on YouTube. Changing what happens on important points making the US look better then they were. To be real there are no purely good guys in war making money on death is never really a good thing.

@Nalim That would probably be the only premise i would watch a COD film 😀

@nessisonett So is the question do we even need a COD movie? Or a real movie about war not the romantised version of war with the good guys the US with Trump they are no good guys anymore.

You mean a dime a dozen war movie that has been made a thousand times? No.

Never.

Although the film would have to go some to be worse than the games.

No!
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Depends how much I'm being paid.

If it doesn't feature a machine-gun-wielding Nicki Minaj, it isn't a good adaptation.

@Boxmonkey 🤣🤣🤣

I'd watch it, I have to know.

I don't play the games but I do like big explodey movies.

Oh if the movie is first person mode I'm out.

@Phelaidar not lewis Hamilton? I'd imagine in about 18 months time he'd have a lot of time free, the way his legacy is being dismantled by Ferrari 🤣

Didn't they do this already? It's called 13 Hours.

Despite all the snide comments (including mine), this has the potential to be fun, if not good. I don't think anyone would be expecting an Oscar contender, but CoD campaigns are usually entertaining. No reason a movie couldn't be the same.

Call of Duty seems ripe for the Hollywood Movie treatment - after all it is a more Hollywood action movie take on War than the reality of War. Its that Rambo like style where a single person (or very small squad) can take on massive armies with all the Combat vehicles at their disposal and still 'win'.

Its ALWAYS had Hollywood style scripts with Hollywood style set-pieces and Hollywood style big Stunts/explosions/spectacle so why not make a CoD Hollywood movie.

I doubt I'd pay to watch a CoD movie, but then I wouldn't pay to watch Uncharted, Last of Us, Witcher, Halo, Doom, Tomb Raider or ANY movie, not necessarily a Movie based on a Game (that was inspired by Band of Brothers and Hollywood Action movies).

I don't think its a silly idea, like trying to turn some IPs into TV/Film when the Game is more about Game-play than story, character arcs, etc.

No but I'd play a Apocalypse Now game.

@ApostateMage damn I was literally just about to say we've already had apocalypse now..One of my all time favorite movies.

Modern Warfare 2's story is absolute bonkers and would make for an ideal one to adapt. Even better as a tv show. Good luck convincing the suits to include the "no Russian" segment though.

I suppose if no other movies were ever made from this point onwards and all the movies I have access to now somehow vanished, then I might consider watching this, maybe

Whatever will they think of next,

In a word, no. Hope It wouldn't have family guy characters etc for those who would want to watch it

If it's good, why not. 5 years ago, I wouldn't have thought I'd watch a Barbie movie. Yet I did, and it was pretty good.

Certainly can't be worse than that Skibidi thing Hollywood is cooking up.

But won't it just be lots of soldiers camping around corners quick scoping anyone who runs past with their sniper rifle?

Not no, but hell no.

Will American Dad's Stan star in it?

Maybe if based on the original MW trilogy.

If it was MW2019 and rated 18 with a great director then I’d be all in. However, I suspect that won’t happen at all.
Seems like Hollywood are a bit late to the party as surely COD peaked over a decade ago and audiences might of been more receptive to a gun ho pro American film.

@Northern_munkey Another favorite of mine is Black Hawk Down. I had hoped for a quality campaign in Delta Force, but after installing and sitting through the intro cutscene, I had to delete it immediately. Such a bummer.

Urm...will the movie have multiplayer and can we skip the story??

@wildcat_kickz I was enjoying the delta force game but the lag is pretty bad. Shame as it is a pretty nice game.

@Northern_munkey Is it? Maybe I didn't give it a fair enough shot. Is the lag present in the campaign too? I was craving a Battlefield-like game, but I ended up going back to BF1 and Battlefront 2.

Wouldn't this just be any war movie with big budget CGI released in the last few years? Maybe the protagonist will change the skin on his weapons? I have no idea.

Hell no. No. No. No. nope

@wildcat_kickz I didn't try the campaign but the multiplayer gave me some serious M.A.G. vibes which was a real pleasant surprise. The lag was a big issue for me. Maybe it was the servers I was connected to but it was off putting.

The answer is no.

I rather rewatch Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, Black Hawk Down, Inglorious Basterds, 300, etc etc.

No. Next question.

The genre is overloaded, as it is

Like anything, it all depends on who makes it and how good of a job they do with it. COD is pretty ripe material for Hollywood as it is and considering it always has some big set pieces in every campaign, who knows? It could turn out far better than expected. I never thought Baywatch or Barbie would be any good but they were better than they had any right to be and I like a good military actioner as much as the next person so…. 🤷🏽🤷🏽🤷🏽

I mean what exactly makes call of duty good?

The gunplay is brilliant and fun. Thats why people play it.

So how is that going to be put into a movie.

The single player parts are OK but nothing really special.

Its the multiplayer aspect which is why it sells millions every single year

Lol.No. No I could not be persuaded to watch a Call of Duty movie. The last CoD I played was BLOPS 2, and that was practically a movie already. Walk forward, shoot the bad guys standing mid screen, cutscene, walk forward, cutscene, shoot the bad guys standing in the middle of the screen, cutscene.
Trash. And that was supposed to be a good one, lol.

Lost interest in mission impossible movies and fast and furious movies. The James bond movies seem like a lost cause. Even the marvel movies been weak. So if they made a COD movie that will have a vague enemy, because they don’t want to offend any countries 🙄
I would definitely not watch it, but probably would watch penguinz0 talk about how bad it is 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Jacko11 Now this would be a genius idea!

If they had sense they would actually do the Modern Warfare plotline.

As they don't, it will join the list of middling videogame adapations that were "just an X movie" which did middling well. I guess it's fun to have another war movie.

I can almost smell the american propaganda. Just more Hollywood slop

Only if Uwe Boll is directing,just remember his magnificent work on House of the dead.

I mean sure, I already watch all the terrible non-video-game war movies, what's another one on the pile?

I'm not sure why, but even though I'm a huge gamer I really don't have any interest in video game movies. I've watched a few of them, and they were mediocre at best. I have zero interest in this, especially knowing they will probably cast Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill as Beavis and Butthead.

To keep it short: No way on Earth.