I had a good laugh when I thought about this movie being nothing but grinding high rank quests for an hour and a half

The movie is never about the adaptation, it is about showing off Mila by her husband Anderson.

How to fail at adaptation: hire Paul W. S. Anderson

Let's just hope that this is Paul Anderson's final video game he has ever directed.

What bothered me the most was that she was the only survivor within the team, she survived through everything and yet her whole team died within seconds, and when the Calvary arrived at the end, died within seconds, like bruh, at least have one survive and put up a good fight before dying or something

"and typical hollywood fashion, they put the military in" there is so much contained in that little sentence lol

It really hurt my feeling watching the trailers and seeing a military team. So much cool lore they could've pulled from. Like a story about how the world got that way, The Ancient Civilization etc

Question: How to fail at ANY adaptation? Answer: Paul Anderson and his wife.

If film makers want a video game movie with a military focus, why not do a Call of Duty or Battlefield film

First Resident Evil, now Monster Hunter. Mila has experienced in average to crappy video game adaptations.

I love how reviewers and fans are still surprised that Paul Anderson isn't a good filmmaker. Sure he did a good job on Mortal Kombat in 95 and did a fantastic job on Event Horizon in 97. Thing is, he decided that making good movies wasn't in style for him. He makes movies for money purposes only. I am still entertained by his movies, but I am not foolish enough to believe they are good.

I remember one of the interviews for this movie where they talked about how they brought in some of the monster hunter crew from Capcom Japan to take a look at the posters to see if they liked and approved it. The US movie crew to kept making fun of the monster hunter crew because the mh crew were arguing that the posters needed to be changed because all of the monsters had inaccuracies like extra claws and stuff when all the movie crew only wanted was for them to see how hot Mila looked on the poster. Goes to show you how much love, thought, care, and respect the people behind the games have for the series compared to Hollywood's smash and grab approach.

This film is what happens when you try to change it too much for the general audience

I have nothing against the military but stop building the movie plot around them. This is a constant issue. It's bad enough that they're establishing characters first and then building the world around them but they have to constantly use our servicemen as a means of telling the story

This was just another way for Paul to get his wife some film work.

The only thing that the movie got right was Diablos. Diablos looked awesome and so true to the monster.

Another issue: the chocolate. Why is chocolate always the choice food when the plot involves being Isekai'd to another or someone from another world coming to ours

Well, at least we have Legends of the Guild on Netflix.

Nerscyla in game: lone hunter not afraid of the light Nerscyla in movie: generic swarm insect

though most monsters in the movie look and act atleast close enough to the games, this can't be said for the nerscylla. not only are they completely redesigned from how they normally look, they also act completely differently. in the games, nerscylla mostly act alone, while in the movie, they're a hivemind that lays eggs in their prey, which isn't something they do in the games. it's also definitely not afraid of the light in the games, you can fight it in daylight. also, it's worth pointing out that legends of the guild succeeds at being an adaptation, as it, unlike the live action movie, actually understands the source material. though, most people don't consider that movie to be that great it seems, the main criticism being the short length. I personally enjoyed legends of the guild though. either way, whether it's a good movie or not, legends of the guild succeeded where the live action movie failed.

It did fail as an adaptation because it left out the part where they keep fighting the same monsters over and over just to get the same rewards so you can't finish off that armor set that gives you max level earplugs

Hollywood just doesn’t listen to the fans of very successful video game franchises. Every time we get these kinds of movies they just fail, and treat the gaming community like dirt.

I think it's sweet Paul and his wife are tanking their careers together.

Thanks for all yours effort . Always top stuff

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Thank God for KZfaqrs who explain the lore of Monster Hunter

Geez, the editing in the movie clips is terrible. But it’s nothing I wouldn’t expect from a Paul W.S. Anderson movie

Being an MH Vet for almost 15years now. Knowing about the culmination and eventual existence of this movie was extremely infuriating. The kind of I-want-Paul-WS-Anderson-to-be-dead infuriating

The moment I heard the movie is gonna be directed and starred by the same duo who did the Resident Evil movies, I knew the movie is lost.The long-time MH fan in me since the PSP days is so disappointed. Also this movie is straight up an isekai lmao

putting the military in it just made it a bootleg kong island

This is a great video! I’ve seen many people try to summarize the existing lore and themes of the Monster Hunter series. I feel like the Monster Hunter world is very misunderstood, but you’ve done a great and in-depth job of explaining it. Your understanding of the source material really highlights the problems with this adaptation. Excellent work!

what if this movie adapted the plot of MH3U, like that had an insane plot for a monster hunter game that could've translated well into a Ceadus final boss battle. Definitely could've used an Elder Dragon in the movie

Damn this is a really good one, this channel is such a treat. I always thought Monster Hunter could work well as a serial anime and treat it like a monster of the week sort of thing spending an episode focusing on the party preparing and hunting a monster for the most part could easily use a storyline similar to the games yknow? Also thought it would be cool to have a documentary style movie focusing all on monsters and the world like a fantasy nature documentary.

It’s been a while. Glad you’re still making great quality videos

Ironically this video starts with a sizzling sound fx, indicating an impending roasting

I swear Paul only makes films to cast his wife and make her ex-producer .

So, I'm guessing the director needed cash and a job for his wife, two problems solved by making a mediocre movie and a decent tax right off to boot.

The Nyscilla scenes absolutely triggered my arachnophobia. Almost reminded me of that scene in the Chamber of Secrets when they're running from Aragog's brood

HERSHEYS: Mmmm, my chocolate! M & Ms: Just wait when they get a load of me, I don't melt in their hands!

This director is built to make lame stuff. It's engrained in him deeply and the maximum of his talent, lameness. I think most saw this coming.

the way nerscylla was adapted was one of the most insulting things ive ever witnessed

Was hyped when they announced a Monster Hunter movie. But when i heard Paul Anderson was the director i lose all interest.

You should do a video on a successful videogame movie adaption, since they're so rare.

Anyone who saw the very first trailer, knew this movie would be bad.

Always a good day when I get to hear Nyat's buttery smooth voice.

Oh, I thought this was about the book series Monster Hunter International. I was about to say "No way anyone could adapt that series without cutting corners and making a mess of it".

I can’t wait when you do a Max Payne adaptation video

Who remembers when people were calling people who didn’t like the movie Sonic the Hedgehog and Detective Pikachu haters?

I think we should develop a law that you could only do a movie adaptation of a game/comic you actually love and have at least hundreds of hours in. We could call it the Deadpool rule. What made those movies so great is you can tell he loves that character. He was highly involved in everything including the suit design.

I laughed so hard during this movie and it def wasn’t supposed to be a comedy I mean they casted TI who does that??

Hey film and comics explained do you think you can do a video about b4b zombies?

Yeah, pretty much exactly what I thought it'd be when I saw the trailer. Anderson was a one hit wonder with his Mortal Kombat movie being one of the better game adaptations. Probably only worked out for him because there were only 3 games at the time he made that movie and the plot hadn't become too complex until MK4 and Subzero Mythologies came out. Because of what he did to Resident Evil and the games following his example, I hold him responsible for killing survival horror games.

10:00 Those are clearly lightning dual blades, not fire. Lightning is the main weakness of the Rathalos, so they're a perfect choice. The Admiral also has a lightning based Charge Blade, and every experienced Monster Hunter player would tell you that the strongest move of that weapon always produces an explosion, regardless of the element. I hate this movie with a passion, but those elements were perfectly fine.

I think you should make videos talking about the monsters and some lore from the games, such as Fatalis and Schrade Kingdom

You know what the best was in the Assassin's Creed Movie? Mr Fassbender. That Man can Play almost anything perfectly👍

I was just going to watch the movie. And this poped up. Weird. Guess I'll watch this after.

I love Tony Jaa's enthusiasm!

Super easy barely an inconvenience. Make it begin with a grind for 1 hero one monster to overcome and that monster not being the big boss but another boss ending with hero facing a big big boss.

"It's literally alice from resident evil all over again" 100% True

They had so many places to fix this movie to make it break the game movie curse with: 1: Mila's character being a private and trained by the hunters 2: The shipwrecks being a village in the new world made up by a group a Pioneers from the old world. 3: Better weapons to be used by the hunters to match what they're fighting. 4: The Handler comes back to help the Hero's party back to the ship 5: while heading to the ship, they have to battle a Rathalos and scare it off 6: The ship being much more welcoming than what they were. 7: The Admiral not wanting to take the Mila along, but being vouched for by the Hunters and Handler who saw them fight the Diablos 8: The storm is caused by some ruins and an Elder Dragon 9: the Mila is sent back, but is followed by the elder dragon 10: Military forces get beaten bad, but manage to down the Elder dragon with a Grenade tearing a wing to shreds and aggravating it even more 11: Both hunters and the Admiral coming to help fight the Dragon as a Blackhawk arrives at stumbles the beast with a well placed rocket 12: The hunters and Admiral returns to their world, and Mila walks to the Blackhawk that has now landed and need some answers about what happened to her and why there is a dragon here.

Haven’t watched the movie nor played the game but I have a feeling had they just done a movie about the group and then see Jovovich at the end it would have been a much better movie!

Honestly, I had no idea that any of the characters in this movie were supposed to resemble anyone in the games. Just shows you how poor of a job they did with the introductions and development. They just chucked some dude in Cosplay gear in there and went "Yeah, fans will know". No, apparently they wont lol.

Holy cow! I didn’t even know it was based on a game!

"Let's cash in on our Monster Hunter franchise and make a movie!" "Cool! Now who do we get to make the movie?" "How about the same guy we got for the Resident Evil movies?" "Paul W.S. Anderson?! Didn't he just make high budget OC fanfiction starring his wife set in our franchise!" "Oh come on! He says he loves the games! What's he gonna do? Do the same thing with Resident Evil?"

As someone who’s been a fan of the franchise since Tri, I was highly upset when I heard Paul was directing a movie about the games. He has NO idea how to do games justice. He doesn’t need to touch Monster Hunter, Capcom! Stop letting him mess up your games! But as always, great seeing your videos.

So they took MH and made it into a bad version of GATE with a bad main character

Didn't know this was a game. I saw the name of the producer and lead actor and said, "oh, more Resident Evil" and I wasn't disappointed.

The moment I saw Paul W. S. Anderson's name & the entire trailer.... I knew what kind of Videogame Adaptation this would be.

Hey you should do the movie Species or the whole saga

I’ve heard about the Monster Hunter movie a few years ago, I got excited, but…the first thing I heard how it’s gonna go is with a interdenominational teleportation, that actually made my hopes for this movie drop drastically, at least the Legends of the Guild made me feel happy to have a MH movie that I can enjoy and love, just like the game series

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😉

A friend pointed out that this was just a sequel to the Resident Evil Alice Movieverse, that when humanity and zombies ceased to exist, the monsters came, and Soldier Alice is just was just a clone with different embedded memories than the rest of Alices

I didnt even watch the trailer... It turned out exactly as i imagined it would...

I really hope there's a Devils Breath Virus analysis.

Could you do a video about my favorite movie of all time O Brother where art thou?? Please 🙏

Monster Hunter also has alot of humor in it aswell and light and happy sides

They could've just made the story on how the fatalis came to be or maybe how dalamadurs shaped the lands amd did what it did in its lore. But nope, paul's wife has to be in it and be perfect as usual

Paul S. Anderson is the British response to Uwe Boll, who is also the German response to Ed Wood...

You'd think without a story to ruin they might have a chance

I get that they couldn't have scenes with all the weapons , and that GS was locked in by branding. But really the best options on the list they could come up with were the bow, DB, and i guess l/hbg? SA, CB, GL, and possibly IG would have been so much more cinematic and enticing to see, comparatively. Like all but the last would have been really cool to see even before use, and would have dropped non-player viewers' jaws when they see them get all fancy/tansformy/kaboomy.

A video game without the game is just a video

You should definitely do a video over the hunters because the hits they've taken and damage they absorbed even with armor no way they can be human

if they really wanted to include the whole alternate dimension, they should have had a character who is a lot more naive and clumsy as the MC. Dropping Ms. Perfect Army Soldier into a hostile terrain is boring. we know she'll duck at the right time, punch at the right time, and shoot at the right time. What we love to see is a character that struggles t predict the enemy and learns different methods to overcome their own weaknesses. having a less soldier-y character would have also let them include the village and more world-building. such a person wouldn't be able to survive out in the desert on their own and the Warrior probably wouldn't want to continuously babysit them. a village would be the perfect place to get resources, learn about the environment and get introduced to interesting characters. it took me 5 minutes into this video to come up with this idea. these hollywood producers and directors couldn't come up with better on a $60M+ budget and a lot more time

Gore magala is categorizing unknown despite the fact that it turns into an elder dragon you might as well categorize it infancy form as an elder dragon too. That's what they did with xeno'jiiva and Safi'jiiva

If you haven't done it, could you please explain the monster/alien from The Dreamcatcher (2003), in the future?

Can you please do an explanation of Atlanta on FX?? I think you'd really like it

Just another money siphon for Paul and Mila. Yumyum good money. Maybe quite a bit less than most of the resident evil movies though.

I would be very happy if tony ja still appear in the reboot of this film.

See I love monster hunter world this movie just brought down my morale I hope you like the games and play them to

From the start I knew that the MH movie wouldnt be that good. 1st sign was Paul WS Anderson helming the project then he had to hire his wife Milla. In the last decade they dont have a good track record, resident evil franchise, three musketeers etc

If they're gonna make any video game film. they should go on and do a metal gear movie. Plenty of storyline for sequels and source material to go off

I enjoyed the movie as a start. Something introductory. There's almost no way they could implement all or even close to half of the intricacies of the game. There's just so much. What they did was pretty damn great. And the CG stuff was incredible. Although... It was hard not to see Alice. Milla's character also seemed to have no real flaws. To the point of boring. Give me some character development at least. Some back story as to why she's a badass. I didn't really get any of that. Was just thrown in. But again... Overall a great movie when you realize how advanced and intricate the game is. Edit: This gives them (both game devs and movie makers) a chance to work off each other to develop Cannon. Look at how many other franchises do similar. Then they ultimately get into some of the fan art and fan-fic stuff to add into the cannon. Shits wild, yo.

Fire movie finally watched it

Yo can you do a video about dark skies

"It's unlike we'll be seeing a followup anytime soon" Good. I don't think a live action of Monster Hunter should be a movie. There's way too much to cram that unless you're already a fan of the series, you won't know what's going on or inner story and workings. A movie outside of what we got which was "look at how hot my wife is" would be challenging to convey Monster Hunter's story and premise. Instead, a live action series tv show would be better suited. You'd be able to pace out the story more. Allow for world building along with the idea of someone newly thrown into the world growing and becoming a skilled hunter. Plus, with a live action series, it would open the gates to being able to have multiple seasons when it comes down to confronting any of the black dragons. But never-the-less, the inner working message of the importance of hunting could be conveyed. And with a series, you could have multiple hunting parties, friends, cameos of different people showing up as hunters, and so-on. Along with just the group that the main character would make to take out on hunts, I wouldn't be opposed if they decided to use one of those rare/uncommon Wyverian hunters. Hell, it'd probably be an opportunity to show off something like the insect glaive, the kinsect, and all of that.

I liked it

It would be a neat idea, core concept in a better movie. Artemis the FPS gamer learning the ropes of the off the walls Monster Hunter

I'm glad this movie received so much negative press, especially from the community. Directors need to follow the lore and rules of the game or fail.

I'm just happy to see Tony Jaa again. I see any movie of his and hope that he can still walk after it.

"Carve a name for himself/herself." Let that sink in.