I’m sitting here giving Resident Evil a rewatch (Milla Jovavich FTW) and it’s got me thinking about video game based movies that are good, and those that aren’t. RE I consider rather good. Hitman is entertaining. The Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider was only so so, and I haven’t seen the new one. Max Payne was quite disappointing. And from what little I can remember of it, I feel like the Super Mario Bros movie was bad, especially by today’s standards.
Those are a few to get the discussion started. What are the hits and misses in everyone’s opinions? [Reply]
Resident Evil was decent. Not really good as a RE movie but it was ok as just a horror flick. The second RE had the most potential but it wasn't very good. Then the series went downhill quickly.
When the trailers for Silent Hill came out, I was convinced we were finally gonna get a great video game movie. I'm a gigantic Silent Hill fan and I was pretty excited. Unfortunately it was not great. The sequel is pretty awful as well.
Honestly the best video game movie ever is probably the first Mortal Kombat.
I hope they get around to making that Bioshock series. So much damn potential to make a great multi-season show out of that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lcarus: Resident Evil was decent. Not really good as a RE movie but it was ok as just a horror flick. The second RE had the most potential but it wasn't very good. Then the series went downhill quickly.
When the trailers for Silent Hill came out, I was convinced we were finally gonna get a great video game movie. I'm a gigantic Silent Hill fan and I was pretty excited. Unfortunately it was not great. The sequel is pretty awful as well.
Honestly the best video game movie ever is probably the first Mortal Kombat.
I hope they get around to making that Bioshock series. So much damn potential to make a great multi-season show out of that.
This a good point and distinction. By comparison, Max Payne failed as a video game movie and just as a movie in general. So this subject is going to have a lot of qualifiers involved. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
In all seriousness, I haven't seen any movies based on real video games that were any good.
For the most part, I haven't played many games based on real movies that were that great either.
I don't think there's great synergy there.
Yeah, that’s pretty much the conclusion I’ve come to as well. And that means this topic will either see a decent amount of discussion due the differences or was dead the moment I hit submit. But the films are out there so there they can be considered for what they are, if anyone is so inclined. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Raiderhader:
If Jumanji does Tron does. Better throw The Matrix in there as well. :-)
I actually enjoyed playing that light-bike game as a little kid. [at least for the time I spent in the Venture electronics department while mom/pop shopped]. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lcarus:
Resident Evil was decent. Not really good as a RE movie but it was ok as just a horror flick. The second RE had the most potential but it wasn't very good. Then the series went downhill quickly.
When the trailers for Silent Hill came out, I was convinced we were finally gonna get a great video game movie. I'm a gigantic Silent Hill fan and I was pretty excited. Unfortunately it was not great. The sequel is pretty awful as well.
Honestly the best video game movie ever is probably the first Mortal Kombat.
I hope they get around to making that Bioshock series. So much damn potential to make a great multi-season show out of that.
Bio shock would be amazing (done right of course).
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
I actually enjoyed playing that light-bike game as a little kid. [at least for the time I spent in the Venture electronics department while mom/pop shopped].
I was only a year old when the movie came out so I missed out that game. [Reply]