Video Game Movies: Past, Present, and Future.

After permission from Darth_Kevin, search for a thread, and PM from JP, I will create a thread on Video Game Movies. After the PM from JP I found out about many other threads about this. But after not seeing one ever since I joined I think its time to start a new one. Here we can talk about past movies (Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Mario Bros. EWWWW). Present (Tomb Raider, House of the Dead) And future (DOA, Metroid, Spy Hunter, and more).

 

Well, as much as I hate to say it, every video game movie that I have seen has sucked, royally.

Mortal Kombat - cheesy, very cheesy, and the sequel was even worse.

Mario Bros - not much to say about this one. I was disappointed mainly because they branched so far off of what it should have been.

Tomb Raider - well, I wasn't expecting much from this one to begin with since I'm not a big fan of the Tomb Raider Series.

Hopefully, in the future video game movies will have better directing and acting. I really hope they don't mess up the Max Payne movie.

 

Final Fantasy was just plain creepy if you ask me.

Mortal Kombat was amusing, but still not good.
Tomb Raider was bad.
Mortal Kombat 2 was terrible.
Street Fighter was more terrible.
Super Mario Bros. was god-awful.

I think there was a Double Dragon movie.

With the success of LotR, maybe Zelda is a possibility for a movie.

 

I'm wondering how they could pull off 'Metroid'. She works alone killing stuff. That's it. What direction would they take a movie in? 007?, Indiana Jones?

 

A Zelda movie would be really interesting to see. I'm curious how they would pull that off.

 

Orlando Bloom as Link

 

Orlando's kinda big to play that particular elf dontcha think?

HALO: With Bruce Willis as the Master Chief.

OK, ok, so there's very little originality in Halo for a good flick unless you add a bit more to the story: perhaps bit from the prequel novel The Fall of Reach.

 

Halo would be an awesome movie and I wouldn't mind Bruce Willis as Master Chief, hehe.

 

Don't forget Wing Commander. *shiver* They should have just taken the cutscenes from either WC3 or WC4 and made that into their movie. The games had better stories and acting by far.

There is also Resident Evil. I didn't particularly enjoy that one, but some people did. *shrugs*

Double Dragon was also aweful. I rank it right down there with Mario Brothers.

Yeah, I think that movies based off games are cursed. There has yet to be a good one made. Mortal Kombat was the best attempt IMO and it wasn't very good.

I'm still waiting for Doom though. Maybe the release of Doom 3 will finally get the movie out of development hell. But on the other hand I don't feel like watching them screw that project up like they do with all other video game based movies. I guess we will have to wait and see if it ever happens.

 

I agree with pretty much everyone here. All of these movies have been sloppily thrown together money making schemes, without any intention of actually creating a quality film. I really hope that won't be the case if they do make a Zelda film.

 

Resident Evil wasn't too bad...

 

Thus far, I think the only "okay" movies are Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat. Wing Commander had potential, but did not quite reach the bar.

I think Metroid would end up as a disaster as a film, even though I secretly hope it could be done well.

Link with a fairy sidekick might work.

I think in general, we may never see a good video game to movie translation.

 

They should make Bad Dudes for NES into a movie.

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LOL!!!

Or maybe Rampage.

Seriously though, would anyone else like to see a Castlevania movie? I think that would be pretty cool. Especially if it was adapted after the original three games from the NES. The ones on SNES and after have been pretty lame.

 

I wish for a Fallout movie.

And Resident Evil was best of all 'movies from games', imo. And still that doesn't make it good movie.

 

Although the games came after the movies, I liked the videogame elements of Tron and The Last Starfighter when I was a kid.

 

Nice description. Maybe you should submit that to Fox or something.

 

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i think everyones favorite buzzcut psyco needs his own movie or TV show on HBO.

 

I'm just wondering who they'll get to play JC in the planned Deus Ex movie.

I can't help but think that the character who we all know and love as a hardened cybernetic counter-terrorist stealth stealth operative, is going to be turned into a kung-fu fighting cybernetic counter-terrorist killing machine when he gets a Hollywood makeover.

 

..ya know, there really has not been a good videogame movie made, has there?

I'd have to rank "Tomb Raider" as the best, and i actually disliked that Videogame series.. The movie-proper had some cool moments..Nothing spectacular, but it did have a sweet-soundtrack and some neat action sequences....and Rimmer from "Red Dwarf"


"Wing Commander" was awful, but for some reason (possibly because it's my favourite videogame franchise of all-time), i find myself compelled to watch it over and over again..

"Final Fantasy" was impressive from an animation pov, but the story was absolutely terrible..(it was like you came in during the final cd of the worst Final Fantasy game ever)

"Mortal Kombat" was super-cheesy-bad..

"Street Fighter" was just...yikes!

"Resident Evil" was just mean-spirited.. It had the makings to be kinda cool, but for some reason spun it's wheels..

"Super Mario Bros.": What the heck were they thinking?

You know, probably the most successful videogame franchise is...*Gasp* POKEMON!

 

"Wing Commander" was awful, but for some reason (possibly because it's my favourite videogame franchise of all-time), i find myself compelled to watch it over and over again..

i cant help but agree with you. i have no idea why they made the movie so ugly. They could have at least resembled the game in some way or form

 

I would have to rank both Wing Commander and Resident Evil above Tomb Raider. I thought the plot to Tomb Raider was actually insulting.