Your Thoughts on Movie Based on Video Games or about Games

[Octopod]

I wish they would have made an RE movies based off the first game. It was a cool setting. As it is the RE movies sucked bad.

[TheyCallMeTheSwede]

King of Kong is THE best video game movie ever made

[vash23n]

RE: 8 (just because it is not based on the game doesn't mean it's not a good sci-fi (MJ is hot), action (MJ is hot), horror (MJ is hot) film.
RE 2: 7 Except for the ending where Alice goes all psylock, this movie was great. Plus the actor who plays Jill Valentine was hot.
RE 3: 2 What the hell happened? I can't wait until the next film with all those damn Alices running around.
RE Degeneration, or the animated one: 8

House of the Dead: 3 This movie drove me freaking nuts. I hate every character. If I want a movie that has this similar premise, but is funny, I will watch Club Dread
House of the Dead 2: 5 Not based on a game really, but I think it was an improvement over the 1st

Doom: 8 I am obsessed with this movie for some reason and like it much more than anyone else. I think this is definitely the so bad it's good film

Street Fighter: 6

Dead Space Downfall: 3 This movie was eh. The overuse of the F word made me feel like they were trying to prove how bad ass they were.

[Octopod]

I have not seen it yet, mostly because it is not out yet, but I am wanting to watch Get Lamp a documentary about text adventures.

[Ack]

First, I hate the Resident Evil movies, mainly because I hate Milla however her name is spelled in just about every film she's done, with the exception of The Fifth Element. I haven't bothered watching the third yet, though I've been told it isn't worth it.

Mortal Kombat I liked. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon...lived up to its tagline: "Destroy all expectations." I did, at least for my expectations that it might be good, and was ok with that high school student film they passed out as a result.

I despise Uwe Boll. The only one of his VG films I've seen that I was ok with was Postal, and that's solely because the point of it was to be as crude and offensive as possible, which it was. Good job, you artless hack.

Doom...was actually a lot of fun. I liked it.

Silent Hill...is my favorite video game movie, and despite what the critics say I feel it did a good job of living up to its source material. Sure, there are some things that bugged me about it, with audio issues taking the cake, but for the most part I was grinning like an idiot in the theater, especially when I kept seeing camera angles taken directly from the games. And as for that ambiguous ending that some people bitch about because they don't understand...*ahem* THEY DON'T MAKE IT. HENCE THE FOG AND THE LACK OF PEOPLE.

As for tabletop films, the two Dungeons & Dragons films are meh. The Gamers films did an infinitely better job at capturing it, at least in my opinion.

Oh, and Double Dragon sucked, but in a fun way.

[vash23n]

First, I hate the Resident Evil movies, mainly because I hate Milla however her name is spelled in just about every film she's done, with the exception of The Fifth Element. I haven't bothered watching the third yet, though I've been told it isn't worth it.

Mortal Kombat I liked. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon...lived up to its tagline: "Destroy all expectations." I did, at least for my expectations that it might be good, and was ok with that high school student film they passed out as a result.

I despise Uwe Boll. The only one of his VG films I've seen that I was ok with was Postal, and that's solely because the point of it was to be as crude and offensive as possible, which it was. Good job, you artless hack.

Doom...was actually a lot of fun. I liked it.

Silent Hill...is my favorite video game movie, and despite what the critics say I feel it did a good job of living up to its source material. Sure, there are some things that bugged me about it, with audio issues taking the cake, but for the most part I was grinning like an idiot in the theater, especially when I kept seeing camera angles taken directly from the games. And as for that ambiguous ending that some people bitch about because they don't understand...*ahem* THEY DON'T MAKE IT. HENCE THE FOG AND THE LACK OF PEOPLE.

As for tabletop films, the two Dungeons & Dragons films are meh. The Gamers films did an infinitely better job at capturing it, at least in my opinion.

Oh, and Double Dragon sucked, but in a fun way.

crap I forgot Silent Hill - 6. Would have been perfect if they skipped the huge montage they put in to describe everything going on. I could see that one film being three. the beginning as highlighted in the montage, the middle that is the actual film, and the conclusion that I feel is not reached in the film. Still. Creepy as hell.

[Gamerforlife]

First, I hate the Resident Evil movies, mainly because I hate Milla however her name is spelled in just about every film she's done, with the exception of The Fifth Element. I haven't bothered watching the third yet, though I've been told it isn't worth it.

Mortal Kombat I liked. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon...lived up to its tagline: "Destroy all expectations." I did, at least for my expectations that it might be good, and was ok with that high school student film they passed out as a result.

I despise Uwe Boll. The only one of his VG films I've seen that I was ok with was Postal, and that's solely because the point of it was to be as crude and offensive as possible, which it was. Good job, you artless hack.

Doom...was actually a lot of fun. I liked it.

Silent Hill...is my favorite video game movie, and despite what the critics say I feel it did a good job of living up to its source material. Sure, there are some things that bugged me about it, with audio issues taking the cake, but for the most part I was grinning like an idiot in the theater, especially when I kept seeing camera angles taken directly from the games. And as for that ambiguous ending that some people bitch about because they don't understand...*ahem* THEY DON'T MAKE IT. HENCE THE FOG AND THE LACK OF PEOPLE.

As for tabletop films, the two Dungeons & Dragons films are meh. The Gamers films did an infinitely better job at capturing it, at least in my opinion.

Oh, and Double Dragon sucked, but in a fun way.

crap I forgot Silent Hill - 6. Would have been perfect if they skipped the huge montage they put in to describe everything going on. I could see that one film being three. the beginning as highlighted in the montage, the middle that is the actual film, and the conclusion that I feel is not reached in the film. Still. Creepy as hell.

Interesting, I see a lot of gamers praise the Silent Hill movie even though movie critics bashed it.

[Hobie-wan]

Silent Hill...is my favorite video game movie, and despite what the critics say I feel it did a good job of living up to its source material. Sure, there are some things that bugged me about it, with audio issues taking the cake, but for the most part I was grinning like an idiot in the theater, especially when I kept seeing camera angles taken directly from the games. And as for that ambiguous ending that some people bitch about because they don't understand...*ahem* THEY DON'T MAKE IT. HENCE THE FOG AND THE LACK OF PEOPLE.

Having not played the games beyond a few minutes in a few of them and not enjoying myself, I enjoyed the movie. It certainly wasn't great, but I was entertained. The roommate I had at the time who had played several of the games liked it too. I'd give it a solid entertaining 6.5.

[Haoie]

They allllll suck! No Exceptions at all. Never saw 1 I even remotely liked.

[Pulsar_t]

The Resident Evil movies are entertaining b-movie material, and Milla Jovovich is perfect for the role. The RE series is hard to compare to traditional zombie movies, therefore making it all that harder to adapt to the big screen. Resident Evil Degeneration was the best one of the lot.. Felt like a really long game cutscene

Adapting videogames is like adapting a wanna-be movie script that was "demoted" to become a game script.. Pointless beside being a fan-servicing cash-in.

What's interesting to note is the emergence of a new medium combining gaming and traditional film-making, where the audience gets to decide the outcome of the production. This of course would mean no more surprise endings