I don't think I'd consider Detective Pikachu or Sonic to be animated. Just like I wouldn't consider Fallout or Last of Us to be movies.

Take any trending media in the public consciousness and make a movie based on it. Minecraft, mario, whatever blah blah blah. I'm sick of it all. Don't disturb me I'll be napping

Lol it may be an unpopular opinion but I don't think we can call mortal Kombat objectively 'good.' It's a cult classic for sure and a fun watch, but for reference it aired at Quakecon's Master Pancake sat night event one year with the MST3K folks and well.. they don't typically do blockbuster hits

If I were tasked with this project I'd probably make the plot about Vyke. It would mirror the tarnished"s journey enough.

Chris Pratt already announced to play Melina.

Season 1 was good. Season 2 is pretty terrible.

I have no faith that Hollywood will be able to actually capture the soul of the game's world and story. It's gonna be full of exposition.

Haven’t seen season 2 yet
That’s disappointing

Alex Garland is a pretty good director. Ex Machina is one of my favourite films and Annihilation was a demonstration that he isn't so tied down by the source media, but does capture the spiritual essence of a book adaptation, at least.

He's a pretty proven writer and director and has written for video games before (DMC 2013). Elden Ring as a universe has a lot of interesting angles you could approach a story from.
I think as an action souls game adaptation , it will be hard to avoid trying to please the two groups of people: one that wants a compelling narrative and another that just wants to see a big boss fight on screen.

And it isn't that i dont end up liking the media they pull the material from. Its that they just start shoveling these movies out and it feels like there's no actual "love" put into the process, its just trying to make as much money as humanely possible.

This is pretty smart! The "twist" ending of him going chaos darksided (for love!) would be great!