It can be said that most movies made from games suck royally, due in no small part to the misdirection of Uwe Boll. However, some do well enough. What's your favorite video game based movie and why? Did you like the game the movie was based on?
Mine is the Resident Evil movies. I enjoyed those a lot. Didn't care much for the games though.
[question posted by MrCoolantSpray]
responses and comments:
The only ones I can remember are Mortal combat and Resident evil. The first mortal combat was decent, didn't care for the sequel though. Resident evil was pretty good. Oh wait, there was Mario Brothers, wonder why I couldn't remember that? Oh yea, I didn't wanna remember it. Thanks for reminding me. AAAARG. [uath13]
I liked Super Mario Bros. the movie because I had a huge crush on Bob Hoskins since Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Now that I am in my late 20s, I still find him attractive, but the movie not so much. [TereFaerie]
I really liked the Silent Hill adaptation. While it wasn't near as horrifying as playing the game tends to be, I thought the writer did a great job capturing the creepiness of the game. The acting wasn't bad either, which I think makes all the difference, and like Resident Evil, I think they had a good budget. I used to like the resident evil games, but after the second one, we got bored with them. The movies are great though. [jennybeans]
I never played Silent Hill, but I enjoyed the movie. I didn't really expect to, either, since I was familiar with Res. Evil and disliked the movies. Silent Hill the movie was pretty scary for me; I'd hate to see the game now! ;) [TereFaerie]
i do believe that most movies made from games suck 'royally', mainly because when these movies are made, they stray away from the game completely and don't stay true to it. They change the plot completely when most gameplots are better than many screenplays out there. i did enjoy the first person shooter mode at the end of doom, but my favorite game movie has to be silent hill, it felt like a silent hill game, the environment was perfect, the costumes were perfect, even the actors had that silent hill character characteristic and the story also felt like silent hill. [vega83]
i don't know, havent' heard, ok, now i'm hoping we haven't built silent hill up too much for you, cuz if you expect a lot, you might just get disappointed. [vega83]
After reading the Resident Evil books, I didn't like the movies so much. I did like the Silent Hill Movie. The lamest video game movie is the one about the people that go to the island for a rave or something like that and it's infested with Zombies. The acting is horrible. I wish I could remember the name. [Withoutwings]
Who liked Advent Children? Was it because it was a good movie, or because it has FF7 in the title? [MrCoolantSpray]
They also made Doom and Street Fighter (with Van Damme as Guile), but my favourite is Resident Evil. [andben]
The only game-movie that impressed me was the 2 Final Fantasy movies because it was 3D. Now for the human played movie. DOA, Doom, Resident Evil, X-men. [merkava]
Well I kinda like the Tomb Raider convertion in the movies. Angelina Jolie made a good role as Lara Croft and the movie got the theme of the video game. Although lack of acrobatics that Lara Croft did in the game [marku23]
I'd forgotten about that one. Tomb Raider was aiight. I've never played the games though. [MrCoolantSpray]
mine favourite is transporter [kabeerrocks]
Was that a video game? [MrCoolantSpray]
The only movie derived from a video game I appreciated was that of Silent Hill. They actually did good in giving the audience a fair share of chills and scare they asked for. [xtedaxcvg]
I don't know if I should be responding because I've never played any of the games that were made into movies. I do like the movies that I've seen though that were derived from games, such as "Resident Evil","Alone in the Dark", "Doom", and "Silent Hill". I know there are others but I can't think of them right now. Stephanie [dragonryder]
Games based on the movie is a good concept to atract thecrowd,U tend to do the things whch u have seen in the movie ,my favourtie movie game is The Da vinci code,Cracking Cases and histograms is very exciting [sagarss]