Movies Based on Games

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

...I quite enjoyed the Mario film...

[Clueyatschool]

Apparently the ROCK will play the marine (woohoo )

The most likely reason they're not setting it with any religious implications is because they're scared of controversy.

[PaulSC]

Obvious observation, but the real problem with videogame movies is that they're not videogame movies at all - they're generally just your average garden-snail genre flicks, only with a scenario and (if you're lucky) characters loosely inspired by a videogame. And they always insist on polluting the purity of the game concept with typical Hollywood conventions like having rounded characters and romantic subplots. No need!

I remember the old teletext daily games/comedy magazine 'Digitizer' once had an "exclusive extract of the Tomb Raider movie script", and the whole thing just read like:

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LARA CROFT misjudges her jump and bumps into a WALL.

Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  LARA CROFT: Uh.

She approaches a KEYHOLE, but realises she doesn't have the appropriate KEY.

Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  LARA CROFT: No.
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...and so on. They were joking, but that's what game movies should be like! Next-to-no dialogue, just literal, live-action recreations of the games.

Just think - A live-action Mario film that flawlessly recreates the level design from '3' or Mario World. A Doom game that's just some faceless guy shooting up monsters for 70 or 80 minutes. It'd be the best film genre ever, I say!

The thing is, as games get more and more sophisticated and realistic, the less and less interesting the idea of a movie conversion gets. Seeing live-action conversions of blocky old 2D games is quite an intriguing idea, but when the games are cinematic and realistic to start with, who really needs a film?

I admit I’d kill for a Schafer-directed stop-motion Grim Fandango spin-off movie, though.

[jetxl]

I quite liked the old mario cartoons, though.

[Nine Toes]

Resident Evil: Apocalypse is good fun, but there are is one gaping plothole:

Spoiler

Why in the hell do the zombies pop out of the ground in the graveyard. I thought it only was spread by air and bite.. And even then, only when you are still alive...

[close]

I was kinda wondering that too.

Spoiler

I could never figure out why in RE3 they had zombies coming out of the ground, because you're right: the t-virus was only transmitted through bodily fluids (I don't know about airborne... in the first movie, it said the virus was "protein; changing from liquid, to airborne, to blood transfusion").Ã,  But it could have been something like what happened in Return of the Living Dead, where the t-virus got washed into the soil, and re-animated the corpses.

[close]

Yeah, it was a cool idea, but they should have shown some kind of reason why it happened.

As for other game-based movies:
Street Fighter - crap
Super Mario Brothers - it was okay
Resident Evil - Not bad, I kinda wish this one and the sequel would be able to tie-in with the game better.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse - I liked it
Tomb Raider 1 and 2: So-so... but Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft... *devilish grin*
Mortal Kombat - Bad
Mortal Kombat: Annhilation - Worse
House Of The Dead - Such a disappointment, but it's got zombies, so you know I like it a little.
Pokemon - I've never had the spleen to watch any of them
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - I don't understand why everyone says it was such a piece of crap... I didn't really think it was that bad.Ã,  I'm hoping that Advent Children will offer something newer, something that will tie-in with the game better.Ã,  Tifa is looking damn sexy though.

[BerserkerTails]

My small reviews of Video-Game based movies...

Super Mario Brothers: Terrible, but I love it so.
Street Fighter: I remember thinking it was bad when it first came out (Probably was... 5 at the time, haha.)
Double Dragon: Pure crap. Not many people even remember it.
Resident Evil: Not half bad. Enjoyed it.
RE Apocalypse: Haven't seen it. Want to, to laugh, but don't want to pay to rent it.
Tomb Raider 1: Bad.
Tomb Raider 2: Not touching it with a 10-Foot pole.
Mortal Kombat: Highly entertaining, despite being a rip-off of Enter the Dragon.
Mortal Kombat 2: Haven't seen it.
FF Spirits Within: Oooooh, looks preeeeetty... Can't remember much else, except I enjoyed it at the time.

[qptain Nemo]

That's it. I'm making a Monkey Island movie.

Except, there won't be monkeys. Instead, I will have space zombies. And instead of a funny male blonde pirate-wannabe, I'm putting in a hot blonde chick in a bikini with a bazooka. And instead of islands, they'll be galaxies that Girlbrush Beaverwood will travel to. Choke on that!!

Wow! When will you finish it? I hardly can wait!
Just kidding. But as I can see, there aren't any adventure-related movies. Even fan-made.

[BerserkerTails]

But as I can see, there aren't any adventure-related movies.

Well, there are a few exceptionally good FMV adventure games that you can ALMOST count as movies... The Tex Murphy series (Pandora Directive in particular), Gabriel Knight 2, Phantasmagoria...

They're all better than Alone in the Dark, hahaha.

(Of course, even Phantasmagoria 2 is better than Alone in the Dark)

[[Cameron]]

There was Tekken anime film. That was pretty good. I've not heard anyone mention it yet so i thought i would.


Alec

[Moox]

Double dragon was awesome, one of my fave movies ever!!! lol

[DGMacphee]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is all you need to know:

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0795/

That makes two video game-based movies that Christian Slater has been in now.

[LGM]

I liked that movie.

[DragonRose]

The best movie-from-an-adventure EVAR.

PEASANT'S QUEST- the trailer

Warning, it's a rather large download.

Also, Mirrors

[Phemar]

They should make a half life 2 movie... That whole game was like one big movie anyway.

Ali G as Gordon, (Who?) as Alex, Will Smith to play Eli Vance, Sean Connery as the Administrator and Ben Affleck for Gman!

[Ghormak]

Why, Jennifer Lopez as Alyx of course! It's time for Ben and J Lo to recreate the magic we saw in Gigli once more.

[Radiant]

Actually there were two Street Fighter movies... one is a live action movie which is total crap (bad and cliche storyline, very stupid acting, and lame fight scenes, plus it breaks away from the canon of the video games, and there really aren't any special moves because of the lack of budget). The other is an anime, which is pretty good (better than the Tekken movie, although that one comes close, imho). It has extensive special effects and does follow the plot from the games. It allegedly had some sequels.

[DGMacphee]

I remember so many guys at my high school were all ga-ga about the Street Fighter anime, not because it was the most popular game when I was a teenagers, but because word had gotten around that Chun Li appeared naked in the shower.

Teenage boys will do anything to see some tit. Even if it's animated tit.

[MrColossal]

Teenage boys will do anything to see some tit. Even if it's animated tit.

Why do you think I got so fat in highschool? Tit is tit!

[[lgm unplugz0red]]

Amen, Eric.

Oh, and.. The Streetfighter games actually had a plot to them??

[Al_Ninio]

http://www.mixnmojo.com/php/news/catnews.php?category=lucasfilmnews

This probably would've bastardized my childhood.
I'd still like to see it made, though.