Comments on: PS3 Game ‘Heavy Rain’ To Receive Film Adaptation https://staging2.theplaylist.net/ps3-game-heavy-rain-to-receive-fi-20100520/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 02:00:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Alex https://staging2.theplaylist.net/ps3-game-heavy-rain-to-receive-fi-20100520/#comment-19058 Fri, 21 May 2010 02:07:44 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=3051#comment-19058 Despite the ego of the creator David Cage (indisputably the gaming world's Tommy Wiseau), Heavy Rain is the worst kind of cliche faux-cinema: a bungling foreigner desperate to achieve acceptance in America clumsily rips-off it's more popular media (in this case, CSI, Saw and Cinemax). This is even more derivative of film than most of these wannabe blockbusters.

Don't be intrigued, the "game" already a direct-to-video level thriller; it's so consciously attempting to be a film that an adaption is wholly redundant. Only those who are culturally illiterate–which unfortunately is a good chunk of gaming critics and gamers–praised the "writing." It's one of those old Sega CD interactive movieswith higher production values and better technology.

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