Video Game movies

[SuperJediHero]

So other than "Last Of Us" anything else were talked about at Comic-Con?

 

[Thundarr]

Pong: The Movie

(You know they're gonna do it eventually)

 

[Silvermoth]

I feel like after the last few people are starting to get a bit less frightened of going to see a movie based on a video game which is promising. Do you think we’re going to see a cultural shift soon in video game adaptions?

 

[DarkKnight88]

I don’t think people were ever averse to seeing video game movies depending on the brand. I mean, Mortal Kombat 1995 or Lara Croft had big box office back in the day.

I think more than anything people are even more critical, especially since games themselves have become more cinematic with their expansive storylines.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Maybe if the TV shows based on The Last of Us, Halo and Assassin’s Creed are good, the conversation around video game movies might change. Sonic being well-received helps. But after the disaster that was Mortal Kombat, I think we’ve still got a long way to go. Maybe the one saving grace there is that no one (including the movie studio, obviously) really believed in MK to begin with.

 

[The Big G]

MK would have worked better as a show on HBO.

The best VG movies as of right now IMO: Sonic, Detective Pikachu & MK 95

 

[Luigi]

Best ones to date for me are Detective Pikachu, MK 95 and Silent Hill.

 

[Captain Tired]

I'd love to see film adaptations of System Shock and Dead Space.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I think the Tomb Raider re-boot was good as well.

Hope the RE re-boot can deliver.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I really thought we were gaining some good momentum after some quality videogame adaptations like DP, Sonic and to a degree Tomb Raider, but then MK 2021 had to ruin all that goodwill.

I really hope that Resident Evil reboot is good because if not we are going to be exactly where we were 5 years ago with crappy videogame movies like Assasin's Creed and Warcraft.

My personal favorties are still MK 95, the first two Resident Evil movies and Silent Hill, but I also enjoyed DP and Sonic which were way better than they had any right to be IMO.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I used to think that the problem with video game movies was that they were adapting games like Super Mario and Street Fighter that didn’t have good stories to begin with. But then Assassin’s Creed and Warcraft proved that no, you can have a game with a rich story and great characters and still manage to **** it up beyond belief in a movie.

I would love to see movies (or better yet, TV shows on HBO) based on Dragon Age: Inquisition, Skyrim and Diablo. But if any of those ever happened, who knows whether they would be good. I have hope for the upcoming adaptations of Assassin’s Creed (hopefully the TV series turns out better than the movie) and Fallout but it’s way to early to tell how either of those will turn out.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

I still hope for a proper Doom movie.

 

[Fincher]

The ones I know and like are Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Advent Children, the first Tomb Raider, the first Resident Evil, and the first Mortal Kombat.

 

[Silvermoth]

I still hope for a proper Doom movie.

same, that would drive me absolutely wild

 

[Sithborg]

Doom doesn't work as a movie. Doomguy is a horrible protagonist for a movie.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Does Doomguy have a personality in the games at all? I only played a little bit of one of the more recent ones. If he doesn’t, then a good creative team could theoretically write a good main character (i.e. not Karl Urban in the first Doom movie). But that might be too tall an order lol.

 

[metaphysician]

I've said it elsewhere, but I still think the fundamental issue is that the people in Hollywood making movies simply do not respect video games as a valid art form and source material. Mostly this comes down to age and generation, since video games are only 40 years old ( and video games with enough of a story to be useful in adaptation a good 10+ years younger ), which means the majority of the movers and shakers? Are still people who didn't grow up with video games. You won't start regularly getting good adaptations until you reach the point that the average Hollywood bigwig is someone for whom video games have been part of the pop culture milieu their entire life.

 

[psylockolussus]

Movie adaptations for Grand Theft Auto could be fun.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I would LOVE a Vice City adaptation. Haven’t played any GTA since San Andreas (which was also really good) but VC will always be my favorite and it would make such a fun movie.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Vice City is basically a homage to Scarface already.

 

[Detective Conan]

Here’s a good video from a couple year back that explains the issue with adapting videogames to movies.

 

[Drizzle]

I just wish Hollywood would stop adapting fighting games as movies. They never work, at least not in live action. There's barely any story to those games in the first place.

They've finally started to have some success with movies like Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog, but even those weren't critically praised across the board. The reaction to those was more, "Hey, this doesn't actually suck."

I'm okay with stuff like the Uncharted movie being a prequel since it still shares the same canon as the games, and The Last of Us being an HBO series means there's plenty of room for it to be good even if it's more of an adaptation than its own story set in the same canon.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

Doom doesn't work as a movie. Doomguy is a horrible protagonist for a movie.

The Doom movie with the Rock had the right idea to make it Aliens with Hell but the script, execution, and other ****, was just god awful.

 

[Silvermoth]

Doom doesn't work as a movie. Doomguy is a horrible protagonist for a movie.

that’s harsh, think of all the out of work wrestlers looking for a job at the moment.

how to do doomguy

1. cast a bad ass
2. Have him snarl about the importance of family for a bit
3. The rest of the movie is about demons getting a chainsaw through the face

$10 billion at the box office opening night

 

[:eek:]

Problem with Hollywood these days is that they just want some easy cash. So they buy rights to video games, toys and whatever left and right and throws out movie after movie and hopes for people to show up because it happens to have some familiar franchise-name slapped on it.