'Video games bore the arse off me'

CVG: Mike Newell is one of the UK's most successful film-makers.

Perhaps best known for his much-loved Harry Potter series, Newell is also renowned for cinematic modern classics Four Weddings & A Funeral, Donnie Brasco and Mona Lisa Smile.

But one thing he admits that he doesn't know too much about is video games. Which is strange, when you consider he also directed the very passable summer blockbuster Prince Of Persia.

[Unbiased1]

ME:"Movies, tv shows bore the arse off me"

Not sure when i last time watched a movie. BORING!

Video games pawn movies.

[darkcharizard]

you really need to watch The Exorcist, no video game can compare to that beautiful, gruesome, satanic piece of art!

[deadreckoning666]

Too each his own. Unbiased..y are you hating? My parents..and most adults for that matter wouldn't shed a tear if videogames suddenly stopped existing. Just because WE are into games doesn't mean the whole world has to agree. Your comment is so damn childish.

Games and movies are 2 different mediums of entertainment and to say one is better than the other just doesn't make any sense. There incomparable.

*WAAAAAH...WAAAHH............ .....WAAAAAHHHH*
"Everybody has ta like videogames because I do!" LOL.

[Unbiased1]

i am not satanist. No thanks

[Aleusia]

or how about actually watching a good movie, like American Psycho.

The Exorcist is old and outdated, nobody finds it scary anymore. American Psycho isn't scary but it's a damn good movie.

[presto717]

You do know this is a video game website we're on right? I dont think you'll get much support there...

Truth be told I dont watch movies nearly as much as I used to when I was younger. Cartoon network sucks now. Yeah. TV's starting to get boring. I spend all my free time either playing a game or on the internetz

[rambi80]

Last time i checked, i believe that the gaming industry was a bigger revenue earner than the movie industry.

Even if this is not true, why is it so important to get approval from these people? i don't understand. they are a competing industry - they will never admit to being inferior.

[Commander_TK]

more entertainting than playing a game. I feel relaxed, excited and get goose bumps. I hardly get that feeling when playing games unfortunately. Probably because playing a game is more intense.

Speaking of movies, go watch Inception NOW!

[Blacktric]

Movies don't bore me but Mike Newell? GTFO. He only directed one Harry Potter movie (the 4th one which is Goblet Of Fire) and that's it. He has no talent. He is old as fuck and I don't have any respect for him just like I don't have for Rogert Ebert. All of these a**holes are the same. Just smoking pot and making statements like this.

[poindat]

I haven't watched a newly released film for months nor do I watch any television save for a couple of quality shows that I have grown attached to. Outside of that, movies bore me to tears.

I think that the big issue is interactivity. Over the last few years I've been playing games more and more and because of that have become quite reliant on my own actions or my own decisions to connect me with the story (of games). You simply don't get that connection with films. When I'm watching a movie, I'm not PART of it, but a mere third person observing the action from afar. I have no role in progressing the story or any sort of interactivity whatsoever, and so I cannot connect to the plot or characters. It makes a majority of films (I won't say all because I can connect with some of my favorites) cold and emotionless, but worst of all: boring.

For me it all stems down to the largest and base difference between games and movies. I guess you could say that games have spoiled me, forcing me to need interactivity to connect; but I honestly wouldn't have it any other way.

[DigitalAnalog]

1. Never touched a controller.
2. Thinks movies can do justice to game stories even if it originally came from games itself.
3. Son plays MW2 <------ THAT OBVIOUS!

"The Prince Of Persia movie is a great big, general entertainment with a romance, a boy and a girl, comedy, action and a very good melodramatic story. It should be enormous, free reign entertainment. That's what a Bruckheimer movie is, and that's what this tries to do."

And it fails... BIG TIME. The original POP: SOT is all that x100 then this movie would ever be. Pick up the controller Mike Newell - finish the game - and then come back to talk crap. Like I said and I will say it again:

"Don't comment on a subject you are NOT familiar with or even attempt willing to test it out"

**Funny how another @sshole has "Newell" as his last name. Does that run in the family clan?

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[nycredude]

That's funny cause the Harry Potter series bore the arse off me!

[Natsu X FairyTail]

YOUR MOVIES SURE BORE ME THO MR.NEWELL!

[gravemaker]

thank you for HP, but shut up :)

[mushroomwig]

Each to their own, the Harry Potter series is something I cannot stand.

[nikkisixx2]

Is he related to Gabe? lulz

[The Meerkat]

LMAO

I couldn't fall asleep with watching Harry Potter because the guy sitting next to me in the cinema was snoring to loudly.

[DJMarty]

Overrated shite like Harry Potter.

[DeathMetal]

are making more money than the movie industry. Why is this? Beacause games are progressing and movies are not. How many more remakes of old movies are these dudes going to do. Now they are making movies from games cause they have no good original ideas. LOL

Oh yeah and I'd rather watch my cat take a dump than a Harry Potter movie

[BeaArthur]

And yet he was the director of the Prince of Persia movie. So he's either an idiot or a hypocrite.

[RedBullGT]

He actually stated that he did not know a Prince of Persia game existed until he signed on to do the movie. After he found out, he sat down with his assistant and watched him play it to get the overall feel of the game. Here is a link to the interview.

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blo...

[BeaArthur]

Well that would classify him in the idiot status. Maybe he should do some research before he takes on a project.

[yog-sothot]

why do we even have an article about some dude who doesn't like videogames ? Seriously, who cares ?

[rambi80]

Agreed - the gaming industry needs to have more confidence and stop looking to others define or approve of it.

[Qui-Gon Jim]

"Yeah, well, I'm rubber and you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!"

[Qui-Gon Jim]

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[wages of sin]

Or perhaps he just has an opinion. Most people don't care about gaming, we do yes. However, we aren't the world. Part of the reason gaming has a hard time being respected is the attitude of many gamers. Just look at n4g. It's a pit of ignorance and stupidity. If you read just a quarter of the comments on this site as an outsider, you wouldn't want to be one.

[Zinc]

Now that is worth a bubble and worth reflecting on. It's too bad the vast majority of people here or anywhere else will never see this comment; and even if they do, it probably won't stick with them much past the reading of it. This comment could apply to so many people, in so many different ways and in so many different arenas.

[SpaceFox]

Well said wages. The second I read the title for this, I knew the comment section would be spewing with hate.

But, it's stupid to hate on someone for having a different opinion. Not everybody likes videogames, and it's pretty common for older people to get bored by them. Who cares what they like or dont?

[snesfangirl]

where was you lastnight on psn? i got that level beat on uncharted 2 co-op with the g/f. you didn't respond to my message on xbox.com. but hell i was up late, i played heavenly sword some, and dled the kane and lynch 2 demo on the ps3, i dled the 360 verion mon, i wanted to see if their we're any differences in the two.

too bad ole heavenly sword isn't online co-op huh? im sure i could talk you into playing that one lol! anyways ill be on tonight in something, got school this evening and a final tomorrow, damn glad this semester is almost over.

if you still got littlebigplanet, throw it in and ill invite you in that, unless you want to play uncharted 2. i got most the levels on LBP over 90% now, which was my personal goal anyways. can't wait for lbp 2!

see ya wages, been trying to give you some bubbles, but looks like "some" on here don't want you to have any, hell they don't want me having any either.

oh and btw do you have mag? would have sent this pm, but hell with it lol

[BuIIetproofish_]

Of course he would say that, he's a film-maker with almost no knowledge of video games. Movies can't compete with video games. Generally games have better, more complex stories and are interactive.

[MrAwesome]

Maube cause you suk at them mate ;)

[BabyTownFrolics]

the level of maturity in here is pretty low.

[Poggins]

the headline to this one is rubbish, as the actual quote is

"But when the discussion turns to the minutiae of the games, it begins now to bore the arse of me, frankly."

[Alos88]

You could use the arse bored out of you (um, no homo), since your recent films have been pretty arse themselves.

[Saryk]

Usually people with a negative opinion of video games are either older or have read too many bad press stories of video games.

However people in my generation (40s) started the video game era, most do not like video games. I was one of the few, whose parents bought them an Atari/Intellivision system, who usually have a positive opinion. The younger the generation the more likelihood that they will have a positive attitude about gaming. In Mike’s defense he has the age to not like gaming and the job, which is in direct competition to video games. Remember guys that Mario (forgot which one) beat the highest grossing movie by 4 times the amount.

[Christopher]

He's ignorant, plain and simple. Just because he's never played a game that makes you feel for the story being told or the character's involved doesn't mean one doesn't exist.

He talked about 24 and seeing the 'big reveal' of who's the bad guy. Look at inFamous and who the bad guy turned out to be. If that's not a big reveal, then I don't know what is.

The point is he's never experienced a video game like this, not that they don't exist.

[Garnett]

Most video games bore me too, people think "cool" is fun, its not.

[Tzuno]

You old geezer put it this way: You don't know how to play a game and you suck more than a noob.

[FunAndGun]

Hate what you don't understand; a typical point of view.

[Akagi]

His movies bore the arse off me. Literally.

[stuntman_mike]

Its the belittling comments like this that need to be stopped Video Games are a big industry now and ignorant Arsewipes like this need to be slapped in the face with a wet fish.

[ebgeer]

He ruined Harry Potter and he ruined PoP...maybe we should get more directors that enjoy games before we put them in their hands...

Also he is only seeing the view of video games from the point of the FPS...I personally dislike unless it offers something substantial to the mix.

[Acquiescence]

It would've been beneficial for the film if it's director had some enthusiasm for the source material.

[Alcohog]

Harry Potter. Lol.

[XactGamer]

Harry Pothead

[WLPowell]

his opinion is valuble...

[animalia85]

His opinion means nothing to me. He is no one of importance in the videogame industry.
**** roger ebert he made beyond the valley of the dolls, that movie was complete horse shit.
Am I the only one who could give two shits about art it's boring to look at, boring to do, and boring to talk about.
Videogames have gone way beyond art.

[FalconR289]

His Harry Potter films I find exterimly boring.

[gcolley]

how are video games any more boring than reboot after reboot, cliche after cliche scripts in movies?

[hazelamy]

a film director doesn't like playing games, and this affects me, or pretty much any other gamer, how exactly? :)

[Spenok]

Good for you, no one cares.