Uncharted (2022)

[The Deadman]

[sdp]

The rumors are saying that the movie has more gameplay than the game.

[IMJ]

I like Tom Holland, but I don't really see him as Nathan Drake at all. And I loved those original games too, although I stopped playing them after part 2.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Mark Wahlberg looks the part of Nathan Drake more. Sony really is that oblivious!

[Leo656]

Yeah but he's like 90 and hasn't made a movie anybody paid to see in forever.

[IMJ]

I don't think this is going to do well.... the casting was terrible.

[Sumac]

Holland as a Nathan Drake? Well, only if Drake is young.
Maybe they are aiming at something similar to the "Young Indiana Jones"?

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I don't think this is going to do well.... the casting was terrible.

More than that I feel like they waited too long to make this. The games were a lot more popular a few years ago, I feel like back then there'd be a lot more interest, just in general.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Leo656

More than that I feel like they waited too long to make this. The games were a lot more popular a few years ago, I feel like back then there'd be a lot more interest, just in general.

Truth. Like my ex woulda been all over this **** back in the day. When I told her about it now, she was like 'eh'. And most everyone I know that even played the games agree that Holland just looks too damn young for the role.

Is Zendaya gonna be Chloe Frazer or Elena Fisher?

[Leo656]

I have the first three games but honestly never played them (Jesus, this is getting to be a f*cking cliche, with me... )

BUT, it's kinda partly not my fault! See, one day I was gonna start a marathon, and I put the first one in, and my disc was defective. Just wouldn't play. So I played something else instead and got into a totally different headspace. By the time I eventually got a replacement copy of the first game, I'd mentally moved on to other things.

But I was GONNA play it. And I will. But I totally missed the whole Uncharted "craze".

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Leo656

More than that I feel like they waited too long to make this. The games were a lot more popular a few years ago, I feel like back then there'd be a lot more interest, just in general.

Yeah that too, absolutely. This movie should've been prepped and ready to go basically right after Uncharted 3 came out on the PS3.

And I totally agree that Nathan Fillion would've been dream perfect fan-casting here, but even that would've been over a decade ago now.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I have the first three games but honestly never played them (Jesus, this is getting to be a f*cking cliche, with me... )

BUT, it's kinda partly not my fault! See, one day I was gonna start a marathon, and I put the first one in, and my disc was defective. Just wouldn't play. So I played something else instead and got into a totally different headspace. By the time I eventually got a replacement copy of the first game, I'd mentally moved on to other things.

But I was GONNA play it. And I will. But I totally missed the whole Uncharted "craze".

I bought myself the Nathan Drake Collection on PS4 a few years ago since I never owned the PS3 versions. I still have yet to play them.

Unless they make a new game (it's been four years since the last one), I don't think many will care about this film.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by LeotheLateBloomer

I bought myself the Nathan Drake Collection on PS4 a few years ago since I never owned the PS3 versions. I still have yet to play them.

Unless they make a new game (it's been four years since the last one), I don't think many will care about this film.

The Platinum Trophy on the first game was an honest exercise in frustration because beating that game on the hardest difficulty made the gunfight parts.... OMG..... as bad as that God of War trophy for riding the elevator and beating all of the enemies on your way up.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by LeotheLateBloomer

I bought myself the Nathan Drake Collection on PS4 a few years ago since I never owned the PS3 versions. I still have yet to play them.

Unless they make a new game (it's been four years since the last one), I don't think many will care about this film.

Not unless they backtrack on part 4. Part was meant to be the final game in the series.

[Andrew NDB]

This just looks ghastly. I can't imagine anything short of a hugely disastrous first weekend. I understand Tom fandangled his way into the role via pressuring Sony but... his casting is easily the worst thing about it. It'd be like if Indiana Jones was a game series and not a movie series, starring a guy that looks like Harrison Ford... but then in the movie version, they cast a young Michael J. Fox. It just doesn't work.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

This just looks ghastly. I can't imagine anything short of a hugely disastrous first weekend. I understand Tom fandangled his way into the role via pressuring Sony but... his casting is easily the worst thing about it. It'd be like if Indiana Jones was a game series and not a movie series, starring a guy that looks like Harrison Ford... but then in the movie version, they cast a young Michael J. Fox. It just doesn't work.

Remember when they did this with Shia LaBoufe? Tried to push him as a leading man outside of his Transformers genre hits? It never worked. And then in Eagle Eye he did his best Harrison Ford impression with the physical acting and whatnot. He does well in art films of course and quite frankly so does Tom Holland.

When is Hollywood going to learn that you can't cast man-children in masculine roles and expect any buy in. As far as I can recall, honestly the only actor I remember basically ever outgrowing their permanent "kid"-thing is DiCaprio.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Remember when they did this with Shia LaBoufe? Tried to push him as a leading man outside of his Transformers genre hits? It never worked. And then in Eagle Eye he did his best Harrison Ford impression with the physical acting and whatnot. He does well in art films of course and quite frankly so does Tom Holland.

When is Hollywood going to learn that you can't cast man-children in masculine roles and expect any buy in. As far as I can recall, honestly the only actor I remember basically ever outgrowing their permanent "kid"-thing is DiCaprio.

And he needed to do stuff like fatten up and grow a beard. He'd still hella young if he shaved the beard and lost the weight, or at least young for his actual age.

[Prowler]

Uncharted? As in, the video game franchise?

Wait a second... how old is the first entry in the series at this point? 13? Pretty sure it was one of the earliest PS3 titles. I know there was a sequel, but that one came out several years ago already as well. So how come they're just making a movie adaptation of the series now? And was it ever that big of a series for there to be big demand for a live action adaptation of it?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Remember when they did this with Shia LaBoufe? Tried to push him as a leading man outside of his Transformers genre hits? It never worked. And then in Eagle Eye he did his best Harrison Ford impression with the physical acting and whatnot. He does well in art films of course and quite frankly so does Tom Holland.

I think better results were achieved with Laboufe in "Fury." That was convincing.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Remember when they did this with Shia LaBoufe? Tried to push him as a leading man outside of his Transformers genre hits? It never worked. And then in Eagle Eye he did his best Harrison Ford impression with the physical acting and whatnot. He does well in art films of course and quite frankly so does Tom Holland.

When is Hollywood going to learn that you can't cast man-children in masculine roles and expect any buy in. As far as I can recall, honestly the only actor I remember basically ever outgrowing their permanent "kid"-thing is DiCaprio.

He's also very difficult to work with.
https://theblast.com/144907/shia-lab...method-acting/