User blog comment:TheDeadDragon/MONSTER HUNTER THE MOVIE!/@comment-4775842-20121116213920

Well, as an example, I'll use Silent Hill: Revelations

While the gmae series has been immensely popular, despite it's declining reviews, the movie was, most probably,a bust. The story was much too predictable. Perhaps the most startling part of it was when that Poptart popped up out of nowhere.

HOWEVER, you did need to give them credit for the visual effects, as most of it was done by actors, and it was very disturbing (especially with the nurse scene).

My point is that while a Monster Hunter movie may be a complete bust with a story, I'm expecting the graphics to at least be able to keep my attention throughout the enitre movie. Because the budget probably won't allow it to be any longer than 2 hours (Silent Hill was only an hour and a half), they most definitely won't be able to fit in every monster, so obviously, with the knowledge that there are (what, almost 300 monsters by now? Or is it just over 100?), they're going to need to do some serious research in order to choose the most epic monsters out there, else the movie will most definitely be a bust. Now, what they could do is make a movie like the series, just with a little story involved, and take things slowly. Say, the first movie could be up through the low rank quests, the second through the high rnaks, and the third (and most likely last) through G rank and some final epic monster (most likely to be Raviente).

But, since the proposition of making a monster hunter movie in the first place is risky enough, they probably will make something seemingly epic but which draws in little cash. I really think they should try to make it an immersive story over the course of several movies. But of course, no one really ever listens to us, now do they?