The Legend of Chun Li

[Red Mask]

The video-games movies are only pointless when they are made badly, like any other genre. Just like comic movies all it will take are talented people in Hollywood to treat the adaptions seriously and we won't have so many bad video-game adaptions.

Except many VG movies are from games that don't really have solid stories. They have to realize that a video game experience is based on interactive play. We develop our own experiences. Ryu and Ken are supposed to be the lead characters but any character can be used to win the game. Those two don't even have any relationship with Bison/Vega. You could just throw Chuck Norris or Rambo at another Southeast Asian warlord.

It's the same problem with RPG based games like Dungeons and Dragons. Having the usual archtypes is just the start. A ranger could act like anybody and not be the leader. With LOTR the characters there's already an established personality to each one. That was a planned epic. Sony got the point with Advent Children, but it happens after the FF7 game. Most people don't understand what happened before so it's really fan-based. Great fights but WTF is going on, right? What's with the funky powers?

Horror games are easier. People respond well to horror. You can throw dozens of zombies and victims based on anybody. We'll enjoy the suspense. But the heroes will be harder to define. Some of us prefer heavy artillery for a weapon. Or maybe you just use a pistol. In Doom they don't really need to give us the Martian history. The setting is the character. Just give us an visuals similar to the gameplay. Who the characters are didn't really matter. The super gun was more impressive than the Rock.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm starting to wonder if the ppl who made this movie even bothered to play a Street Fighter game..........hmmmmm.......

I'm thinking no.

Also the movie currently has 20 bad reviews and 0 good ones on rotten tomatoes. Which ridiculous person will be the first to give it a good review?

 

[X Knight]

I'm thinking no.

Also the movie currently has 20 bad reviews and 0 good ones on rotten tomatoes. Which ridiculous person will be the first to give it a good review?

someone who is either extremely drunk.......really stoned.....temporarily insane......or some lethal combination of the three......

or.....someone who really loves pain and torture.......

 

[American_Hobo]

It's kinda sad that after so many attempts, Mortal Kombat is still the best and the only good video game movie.

 

[Deaths Head II]

It may be the best (which doesn't mean much), but I don't really think Mortal Kombat is a good movie. It's definitely got a terrible reception from critics. I saw it with my brother too, and he, a non-video game player, found it even lamer then I did. I mean, the CGI aged absolutely horribly, Outworld is colored purple, most of the characters have as much depth as wooden blocks, and most of the actors can't really act. Not to mention the plot is nearly non-existent. The entire Reptile fight only existed so fans could yell "Cool beans!" So yeah, I don't think we have ever had a good video game movie.

To be fair this film looks way worse then Mortal Kombat. At least that film had some nice techno music.

 

[kakashi]

It's kinda sad that after so many attempts, Mortal Kombat is still the best and the only good video game movie.

Silent hill was a fairly good adaptation IMO

 

[BlackLantern]

I love the question at the top of the poll....."You SAW this move??'

 

[The Major]

Except many VG movies are from games that don't really have solid stories.

Many do. Especially the RPG's.

They have to realize that a video game experience is based on interactive play. We develop our own experiences. Ryu and Ken are supposed to be the lead characters but any character can be used to win the game. Those two don't even have any relationship with Bison/Vega. You could just throw Chuck Norris or Rambo at another Southeast Asian warlord.

They have the foundations to build a story around it, though. Like the players the film makers would create their own adventure.

It's the same problem with RPG based games like Dungeons and Dragons. Having the usual archtypes is just the start. A ranger could act like anybody and not be the leader.

I see that as a opportunity to make new stories. They could go anywhere with those settings.

They can also adapt or research the novels or comic adaptions. These are established characters and worlds. Drizzt would be a great film franchise IMO.

With LOTR the characters there's already an established personality to each one. That was a planned epic. Sony got the point with Advent Children, but it happens after the FF7 game. Most people don't understand what happened before so it's really fan-based. Great fights but WTF is going on, right? What's with the funky powers?

Aren't most FF video-games stories any way? The recent ones are pretty much animated movie snippits in between levels. Just use the animated movies as a base to build around. They have half the story told already. Just fill in the blanks. Resident Evil is the same, the movies just decided to ignore the main stories though. Many popular video-games use this format.

Horror games are easier. People respond well to horror. You can throw dozens of zombies and victims based on anybody. We'll enjoy the suspense. But the heroes will be harder to define. Some of us prefer heavy artillery for a weapon. Or maybe you just use a pistol. In Doom they don't really need to give us the Martian history. The setting is the character. Just give us an visuals similar to the gameplay. Who the characters are didn't really matter. The super gun was more impressive than the Rock.

Agreed.

 

[Lobo]

I predict the DVD for this movie will show up in 3 months, to recoup some of the money they spent on this bomb. I also predict that this will probably sweep the Razzies.

3 months? I say give it 6/7 weeks.

I love the question at the top of the poll....."You SAW this move??'

I couldn't help myself

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Silent hill was a fairly good adaptation IMO

I disagree. Although the town and monsters looked great, the bad acting and terrible dialogue ruin it. I still like watching it for the cool monsters though.

 

[Deaths Head II]

I disagree. Although the town and monsters looked great, the bad acting and terrible dialogue ruin it. I still like watching it for the cool monsters though.

Those are my thoughts on it as well. The look was great but the plot was terrible.

For all his love of Silent Hill, the director seemed to miss the point of the games. The monsters were supposed to be psychologically telling, but the only one out of the ones used the only monster that was related to the characters was the Janitor. The nurses and Pyramid Head were only there for fan service. Sean Bean's scenes were incredibly pointless and they hampered the isolated feel. The worst part though was when they completely stopped the film halfway through to tell us the entire plot.

It also irked me how they changed the main character. The reason they gave for it irked me even worse.

 

[BlackLantern]

3 months? I say give it 6/7 weeks.

'Australia' was released on Christmas Day and it hits DVD this Tuesday

I couldn't help myself

Its great I think...you should put 'Really...??' at the end

 

[American_Hobo]

The thing about Silen Hill was that it was so confusing and so boring
.

 

[deathshead2]

It's kinda sad that after so many attempts, Mortal Kombat is still the best and the only good video game movie.

That movie was good when every one was 5 now that it's no longer the 90s and everyone is older it's pretty bad. Terrble direction, boring fights, bad effects(expect for Goro he was cool, and a script that makes me want to pick up and throw out my televison.
Now me I love Super Mario Bros. That movie just has fun with itself as everyone knew theres no way you can make it live action. Felt like buckaroo Banzai or Big trouble in China sillyness to me. Mortal Kombat took it's self to seriously.

 

[xwolverine2]

It's kinda sad that after so many attempts, Mortal Kombat is still the best and the only good video game movie.

silent hill was good

 

[Bishop2]

It may be the best (which doesn't mean much), but I don't really think Mortal Kombat is a good movie. It's definitely got a terrible reception from critics.

Gene Siskel liked it. I remember being excited by him giving it a thumbs-up on Siskel & Ebert and saying "I enjoyed this movie enough that it made me want to seek out the video game." Which, shockingly, he knew nothing about - I was amazed that someone in the newspaper business hadn't heard the controversary around that game in the '90s.

I think there are a few good video game adaptions. Resident Evil (the first one, not the sequels) being a personal favorite - it totally nailed the right feel, the right uneasy techno-horror/action tone, the right kind of environments. The sequels pretty much blew that, but the first one scores it exactly.

Silent Hill is almost a great adaption, though the second half is clearly worse than the first. Despite that and despite a terrible final scene, it's largely a quite successful movie. Mostly.

Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life pretty much nailed Lara Croft for me - not a character I particularly love much, but I still thought the first Tomb Raider was a vapid piece of ****. The follow-up, however? I really enjoyed that adventure.

Finally - and most controversially - I loved Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Every Final Fantasy story purports to tell the story of the time when a specific planet came the closest to its destruction. Spirits Within did that for Earth, and did a nice job capturing the sci-fi/fantasy mixture that was featured in games like FFVII and FFVIII at the time. However, I understand the complaints that not much else about the FF world was very centered. I like it as a movie, but I see why it's not entirely great as an adaption.

Beyond that, yes, I like Mortal Kombat, and then you get into guilty pleasures - like laughing at the immense stupidity of House of the Dead. So I don't think the genre is a lost cause, it's just an uphill fight.

 

[Cmill216]

Silent Hill was pretty freaking awful, but I don't think it insulted my intelligence as much as some of these other films.

I would actually take the first Resident Evil film as the best video game adaptation to date, but just acknowledging that makes me want to punch a baby koala.

 

[StylishHokie21]

I think Silent Hill and Resident Evil were tolerable, but I consider Mortal Kombat to be the best adaptation. I still get some enjoyment out of Street Fighter. As for the rest, they're all garbage to me.

 

[Episode29]

I concur that MK is really the only half-decent adaptation. The original SF is a lot of campy fun though, while the rest are all pretty awful.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Those are my thoughts on it as well. The look was great but the plot was terrible.

For all his love of Silent Hill, the director seemed to miss the point of the games. The monsters were supposed to be psychologically telling, but the only one out of the ones used the only monster that was related to the characters was the Janitor. The nurses and Pyramid Head were only there for fan service. Sean Bean's scenes were incredibly pointless and they hampered the isolated feel. The worst part though was when they completely stopped the film halfway through to tell us the entire plot.

It also irked me how they changed the main character. The reason they gave for it irked me even worse.

QFT

I too hated the change in lead character. For once I would have loved to see a loving father search for his daughter. Movies and T.V would have you believe that men don't love thier children.

I loved MK when I saw it in 1995 and I'm still fond of it, eventhough I admit that it's not a good film. The Reptile fight is still pretty awesome though.

I still kinda like the first Resident Evil movie but I hate the fact that it didn't star Jill and Chris and didn't feature Wesker.

 

[Red Mask]

Many do. Especially the RPG's.

They have the foundations to build a story around it, though. Like the players the film makers would create their own adventure.

I see that as a opportunity to make new stories. They could go anywhere with those settings.

Sony messed up the first Final Fantasy movie. The Advent Children was exciting but still focused on the gamers as the main audience. Street Fighter will be difficult because it's really just a tournament fighting game. As I wrote before, the main characters don't have any real ties to Bison/Vega. The only way to bring them all together is just to have another tournament storyline. How many more do we need of that? We've already got Tekken and King of Fighters being made. And two karate champs fighting a Southeast Asian warlord doesn't sound convincing. Bring in Chuck Norris or Rambo for that ****.

They can also adapt or research the novels or comic adaptions. These are established characters and worlds. Drizzt would be a great film franchise IMO.

Hollywood is still having a problem adapting successful fantasy and comic books. Dungeons and Dragons, the original RPG, is about as watchable as the Ewok films.

Aren't most FF video-games stories any way? The recent ones are pretty much animated movie snippits in between levels. Just use the animated movies as a base to build around. They have half the story told already. Just fill in the blanks. Resident Evil is the same, the movies just decided to ignore the main stories though. Many popular video-games use this format.

But the stories can't be fit into a single movie. Metal Gear Solid could end up being another Under Siege film. All that much information is to help keep the player moving to the next level. In a film, all you need to tell them are two things: the immediate threat and a brief history behind it. You can't tell all the stories of each character and villain. Does it really matter if Balrog was a heavyweight champion or that Vega is a Spanish assassin? They hurt people for Bison, they're just another henchman. In a tournament story they could work for themselves and still get the same amount of screen time. And it would justify them wearing their perspective costumes. Street fights don't require you to wear those things outside.

 

[Heretic]

0% at Rotten Tomatoes.

That is just awesome!

 

[SatEL]

Silent hill was a fairly good adaptation IMO

Silent hill was an awesome horror movie, one of the best I have seen in years. I cant remember jumping at a film in a long time until I saw that.

 

[kane9321]

I''ll be watching it today....it cant be that bad...really

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

so where are all the people who were defending this film before it's release, come on keep your hands up so we can count