Forum Overview :: Are Games Art? :: Ebert again, saying no.

[quote name="Jhoh Clbbl O_____O"]<a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071120/REVIEWS/711200303">From his review of the Hitman movie.</a> [quote]The movie, directed by Xavier Gens, was inspired by a best-selling video game <b>and serves as an excellent illustration of my conviction that video games will never become an art form</b> -- never, at least, until they morph into something else or more.[/quote] Maybe that is why the movie exists, to show that video games can't be art. Good thing it helps vindicate Ebert's opinion. [quote]Other scenes, which involve Agent 47 striding down corridors, an automatic weapon in each hand, shooting down opponents who come dressed as Jedi troopers in black. These scenes are no doubt from the video game.[/quote] I'm sure a few hundred people have already written to him trying to carefully overexplain the nature of the game.[/quote]