Are There Any Video Game-Based Movies You Enjoyed?

[floatingyeti]

definitely King of Kong

[ubelaffe]

I liked the first House of the dead. The second one was pure shit. I don't think I finished it. and I love bad movies...

Super Mario Bros. has been a favorite since it came out. I kind of liked mortal kombat when it came out. Silent Hill was entertaining enough. I liked the first 2 resident evil movies enough, but the third wasn't worth watching. None of the RE films were like the games.

someone brought this topic up some months ago on dcforums but I'm drawing a blank on other movies based on games.

I heard that DOA was HORRIBLE.

[Gamerforlife]

I think Mortal Kombat was a lot of fun if you didn't take it too seriously. It's pretty much as good a movie representation of the games as you could get. I think the movie was pretty good for its time and came out at a time when the games were still popular, which worked to its favor. The second one though. Somehow it just didn't work. Then there was that Mortal Kombat Conquest tv series, which was a guilty pleasure of mine.

I've seen bits and pieces of the Resident Evil movies. They're not great cinema, not by a long shot. I think they are fun in a tv or B movie kind of way though. There seems to be a lot of fan service in those movies. It's interesting that Capcom themselves paid homage to them with the laser room sequence in Resident Evil 4.

I haven't seen the Tomb Raider movies, but Angelina Jolie just seems born for that role.

Going off topic for a moment, I just recently rewatched Mr. and Mrs. Smith and I just LOVE that movie.

Okay, got that out of the way. I actually didn't mind Final Fantasy Spirits Within when I saw it, but almost everyone hates it. Advent Children was awesome, but only hardcore FF7 fans can appreciate it. It's a really good FAN movie, but to anyone else it pretty much sucks. It feels more like a bunch of awesome video game cut scenes put together than an actual movie.

So I think there has never been a truly great video game movie, but I disagree with those idiots on XPlay who said that ALL video game movies sucked. We've had some decent stuff, but nothing outstanding.

I honestly don't think it'd be hard to make a truly fantastic movie based off of a game. The problem is that they never get any truly A grade directors behind any of them. I mean look at the awesome comic book movies we got once we got some truly talented people behind them like Sam Raimi(Spider-Man 1 and 2), Robert Rodgriguez(Sin City), and Bryan Singer(X-Men 2).

I think it's unimportant how much a director knows about any particular game, just as long as they know what goes into making a quality movie. I mean Bryan Singer didn't even know anything about the X-Men comic books when he got started, but look how awesome his X-Men movies turned out.

[The Apprentice]

Street Fighter II The Animated Movie had some OK fighting in it.

[lordofduct]

I don't know, but I enjoy some video game movies.

When I was a kid I loved "Super Mario Bros.", it's a garbage movie, but seeing leguizamo and Hoskins pretending to be the brothers Mario Mario and Luigi Mario... I just have to giggle. Then Hopper showing up to be Koopa... who'd expect that? How the hell did they get Hoskins and Hopper to agree to this movie? Either way it made me very happy in 5th grade.

I was also surprised by how I liked "Resident Evil" when I caught it on DVD. I don't like the video game series at all and I REALLY don't like Anderson (the director) with his craptastic history in film. But I had fun with this movie... though seeing the movie "Cube" a week later made me upset they didn't show the cubed bastard in "Resident Evil" (if you haven't seen Cube... watch it for all the B-movie classiness!).

Silent Hill I also found to be pretty well made for a video game movie. RE and SMB were trash, but fun. Surprisingly this one was pretty well done and could stand on its own as a movie... not a great movie by far... but certainly a fun night at home with a horror flick. Then again, I am a HUGE Silent Hill fan and it might just be fanboyism... either way I liked this one a lot.



And if I ever watch "The Wizard" again, I think my mother will drive the 1500 miles to my house just to strangle me. She hated that movie and grounded my brother and I for pestering her at the movie store to rent it the 50th time years back. Then again this is the same women that had me read and watch "A Clockwork Orange" in middle school and write a report on it... weird woman... who gives their kids book reports on top of the school issued ones? Luckily she liked Ecco the Dolphin and let me play it when ever I wanted. "Such a pretty soundtrack... why can't your other games be this pretty?"

[Gamerforlife]

Now if someone could just help me get past the T-Rex in Anniversary. Why do some games feel the need to REQUIRE you use some special almost-impossible-to-execute move to clear certain sections? I hate that!

I loved that fight. Not like the one in the original at all, but a nice tribute. Plug him full of bullets until you see him "flash", then jump dodge and shoot just as the two targets converge and flash on him. It's easy with practice. Observe:

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=l3b-a10tt ... re=related

[Scooter]

Now if someone could just help me get past the T-Rex in Anniversary. Why do some games feel the need to REQUIRE you use some special almost-impossible-to-execute move to clear certain sections? I hate that!

I loved that fight. Not like the one in the original at all, but a nice tribute. Plug him full of bullets until you see him "flash", then jump dodge and shoot just as the two targets converge and flash on him. It's easy with practice. Observe:

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=l3b-a10tt ... re=related

Maybe I'm just too old and slow, but I just can't get the jump dodge to work once, let alone the 3 or 4 times required to actually beat the damn thing. In the original you could kill the T-Rex by continuing to shoot it and shoot it and shoot it. There were even a couple of hiding spots where you could shoot it and it couldn't chomp you, not so in the new one. I guess that's why I pretty much avoid twitch games and fighting games in general: because of the ridiculous button combos required to really succeed. I wish I had a cheat device for my PS2, I hate using them but I feel they are justified to combat the masochistic tendencies of game designers.

[Ivo]

Street Fighter II The Animated Movie had some OK fighting in it.

Ah good catch. I actually think that movie is good quality (not just "ok"). That is actually the best game based movie I saw, actually. I sort of was only thinking of live action ones. Maybe there are more animated movies based off games that turn out o.k.

Ivo.

[fastbilly1]

I think Doom might be the best. It is campy and just downright bad sometimes, but some of the quotes make it worthwhile.

"Dr Carmacks Condition is irreversable"
"You dont know that"
Gunshot
"Carmacks Condition is that...he's dead"

[Dave Auto]

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So, um...yeah. Those're my favorite video game movies!