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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 5195375" data-attributes="member: 115">I completely disagree, for a number of reasons.1) Rote reiteration of back-story in a movie is, by-and-large, boring.  To make it any sort of interesting would require putting significant time into it; time that the plot does not allow.2) There's a lot of interesting stuff in the ME back-story, but really a lot of it doesn't inform the story too much.  For example, the whole story of the Genophage is interesting from an ethical standpoint, but not necessary to understand Wrex's character.3) For a Mass Effect movie to work, it will need to distill the essence of the game, make one or two points, and be done.  Things like the Genophage, the Human-Turian War, the finding of the relay, they're distractions to the core of the story - Saren and the Reapers want to destroy galactic civilization, and Shepherd needs to stop them.In the end, I think any Mass Effect movie is by far and away better staying away from the games at all.  Personally, I think a movie about finding the relay and the First Contact War would be cool.  If they want to do the story from the game, I would hope they take the Serenity route and sum up the back-story in five minutes.  If the movie is good, the audience will accept that "things are the way they are, just because."</blockquote>