Why Call of Duty the Movie is a Terrible Idea

Call Of Duty is a popular first person shooter video game series that gives the player all kinds of war scenarios from the past and the future to run and gun through online. Aside from the multi-player aspects of the game, some players enjoy the cinematic qualities of the single player campaign and it is assumed the rights to the franchise will get movies created. However, should a big Hollywood studio actually make a Call Of Duty movie?

No. End of article.

Okay, I will blabber on some more. There would be many challenges in creating a Call Of Duty based movie, but the main one is this: they've already been made. The stories from the campaign modes of the Call Of Duty video games I have played are mostly terribly written rip offs from war movies Hollywood has already churned out. I find the single player moments of all Call Of Duty games to be very, very boring and the dialog as cliché and as uninteresting as it can possibly get. If a Call Of Duty movie is made it might as well be one of those spoof comedy movies in the vein of "Scary Movie" or "Not Another Teen Movie." Perhaps: "Call Of Doody: More War Crap."

Another problem with making a Call Of Duty movie is what time period to base it in. The Call Of Duty games cover wars from eras since gone like WW2 and Vietnam and also military actions from the future. So, do they make a big epic bang that spans time periods or settle on one piece of the franchise? There is no doubt that the name brand of Call Of Duty is a strong one, but beyond the product that it is and the trinkets gamers may want to collect I do not see it as a viable movie option. At least not one that makes sense, but then it's about making money, not making sense.

I personally quit buying into the Call Of Duty franchise for several reasons. The online gameplay is the same old kill, kill, kill formula it has been stuck on for quite a while. There is no sense of accomplishment and it gets dull more quickly than say playing a strategy based session of the FPS Battlefield 3 or Battlefield: Bad Company 2. On top of that the Call Of Duty games began charging way more for the downloadable new materials than other games and gave Xbox 360 owners a full month of play time before PS3 users on the downloadable materials. I use a PS3.

The Call Of Duty franchise is doing its best to spread out into other realms of entertainment and strives for global FPS domination. If judging by the sales of the game one would think they are well on their way to being successful, however, if you judge it on the voices of the gamers who seem to finally be coming around to the over marketed name brand: Call Of Duty is spreading itself a bit thin and losing its appeal. A movie would be terrible and I hope it is not coming to a theater near me, you, or at all.