The Witcher is fantastic and the only genuinely great adaptation of a video game series, even if it's technically based on the original books.
and all its madness and monsters and muscles and confusing timelines . And at this point, I am willing to declare that Netflix’sYes, yes, I’ll stop you right there. I understand that at its core, Netflix’s series claims to be adapting the original books by Andrzej Sapkowski.
And past that, it’s clear that the show is influenced by the games right down to its central star, Henry Cavill, who may be talking some direction for his Geralt from the original source material, and yet we know that he’s a big fan of the CDPR games and a huge gamer in general . And if you’ve watched the series and also played the games, particularly, it’s easy to see how Cavill has been influenced by Doug Cockle’s voice performance as Geralt.
series. But after that, it’s all extremely bad movies that are at best, niche hits among certain crowds , or at worst, some of the biggest disasters to ever grace cinema screens . As of late, we have seen an increase in attempts at more “prestige” video game films, whether that’s an Oscar-caliber director taking onAssassin’s Creed . None of it has worked. Not really.
And we may not see a hit there in a very long time. If there’s one thing that Netflix has made clear between, it’s that the best format for video games may in fact be a longer form TV show, rather than trying to jam some 10-100 hour game into a two hour movie.
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