Comic Book vs. Video Game

[PyroChamber]

Between these two genres, which do you think is harder to make; a comic book movie or a video game movie?

 

[Spider-Fan]

Must be video games, since comic book movies at least have good products under the belt, while I have yet to see an above average video game movie, and the majority are horrendous.

 

[blud_knight]

i would say video games are harder to adapt. comics have 50 years of history under some of their characters belts, so you know all about them. you know their favorite food, where they do their laundry, and what they act like.
on that same note though there is more room for interpretation in the video game genre.
however we have seen that interpretation is not always a good thing.

 

[Darth Elektra]

Video games would be much harder to adapt.

 

[rashad]

Video Game movies are the hardest to adapt.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Comic books are way easier. Especially if you go the Sin City route and use it as a guideline.

Videogames are all about interaction. How would you make a GTA movie that keeps the same feeling as the game? It would just be a gangster movie.

 

[Max J Power]

Video games are apparently very hard to adapt, because the movies based on them are rarely good.

 

[CAH]

Video Games.

The only reason they are harder is because they have GAMEPLAY that could go ANY WAY for ANYONE. Adapting GAMEPLAY to FILM could be one of the hardest things ever...but it sure would make some GREAT GREAT GREAT film footage with games like Zelda and Halo.

CAH (sorry for all the caps)