Movies adapted from video games
MOD EDIT: This thread was split off from I Have Just Seen... VI after this specific post.
Silent Hill was vaguely interesting but I wouldn't watch it again. My favourite game-movie adaptations are Prince of Persia, Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Degeneration. All the others just don't compare in the least. |
Silent Hill is decent at best, but it's still much better than those other movies you listed.
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RE: Degeneration was quite good, yeah.
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Please. Everyone knows the Doom movie was the best video game adaptation ever made ever.
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No. Mortal Kombat!
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The first Mortal Kombat was pretty faithful for the most part, it even had a giant four armed guy (who was my fav MK character)! When I think of really bad adaptations, Super Mario Bros and Max Payne come to mind (Usually I watch films to the end but Max Payne was just so terrible that I had to change channels after about a third of the way in, that's rare for me!). Those films just completely disregarded the videogame world they were 'inspired by'. You could honestly change the films title and it wouldn't change a single thing. That's the mark of a bad movie.
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I loved the Mario Bros movie. Probably because I don't like the games.
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The games are overrated.
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Everything is overrated. As long as there are multiple people rating something, there will be people who rate it more highly than average.
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that is true, and you are a genius.
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That being said, I liked the Mario Bros movie for the same reason; the art. I think a proper adaptation of Mario would look less like Bladerunner and more like Alice in Wonderland, but I like Bladerunner more. :monster: |
SMB is clunky and hard to play. SMB3 and SMW are the real genre-shaping classics if you ask me.
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But Nintendo are really milking Mario now, and the tit's empty, so all they're getting out of it is gunk and pus.
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If anything the tit is still busting with milk and the baby is rancorous for it's fill. The series looks as alive and fun as ever. Just watch the latest Nintendo Direct.
And everything past the 3rd Resident Evil movie is garbage. |
All the Resident Evil movies were garbage. Except the ones I was talking about.
I was talking about the CGI ones, they have nothing to do with the terrible live action ones and are actually canon. Degeneration and Damnation. You know, with Leon? Also I only liked the early Super Mario Bros. and Mario Kart, when I was 5. |
say another bad thing about a milla jovovich film punk i dare you
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I'm not saying she's bad, I'm just saying she had no place being there in the first place, the films had nothing to do with Resident Evil whatsoever and they were all terrible, that's all.
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Actually Milla Jovovich is bad and any good movie she happened to be in was not good because of her.
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I've not seen any of her other movies. I wasn't saying she was bad nor good, I was simply saying that all the live action Resident Evil filmsare fucking terrible.
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Did anyone see Ultraviolet? That was a steaming pile of a turd. |
Was it a game?
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She showed a bit of range earlier in her career, like in Chaplin, but ever since The Fifth Element she's been typecast as the ass-kicking female, with a few mostly ignored exceptions.
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Silent Hill is the only good film adaption I can think of. haven't seen the new one though. |
Tomb Raider was really good (both movies) and I also liked Hitman. That's about most of what I can think of that are good video game adaptions though.
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It still blows my mind that Tomb Raider was out over 10 years ago. I remember going to watch it at the cinema with my dad.
i miss angelina jolie being in movies |
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As we were filing out after the movie, he told me that he was surprised that they didn't show her breasts, given the film's rating. It's a very strange world, in which I live. |
What is the age rating for M movies? Logic would dictate that a mature movie is 17+. How did he even get in?
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@Nate - How weird. Seems your friend had some very odd expectations.
I've not seen any movies based on games that were really fantastic, only some that were average (like Silent Hill). Most of them seem to be based on an IP with some recognisable elements or references but actually don't have much else to do with the games they're based on and aren't that well written (like Doom). Others seem to be entirely different from the games they're based on and just share a title (like Final Fantasy). The annoying thing for me is that there are plenty of games out there with a decent enough plot to base a movie directly on with a few abbreviations or minor changes, keeping the setting and characters, but no director seems to want to do that. Instead, they want writing freedom, and would rather have their own damned "alternate reality" storyline set in the same universes as the games with their own characters. Either that, or they chose to make a movie based on a game which has a very simple plot, to get the most writing freedom. And something else I notice is that it's almost as if the directors haven't played and enjoyed the games that they're directing a movie about. And have game creators ever taken an active role in making movies based on their IPs? Maybe these are some of the reasons why games don't translate to movies well. But I digress. Valve are apparently teaming up with Bad Robot and are considering making Half-Life and Portal movies. Considering what I said above, and how Lost (TV series) turned out in the end, that doesn't quite fill me with confidence even if J. J. Abrams and Gaben seem to know what they're doing, but there we are. Maybe if Valve has an active role in their production, then they may turn out to be okay, so good luck to them. Article about it here. Video here with Gaben talking to J. J. Abrams making a presentation about it. |