i know there are people who like certain movies, but i am talking about a movie that is critically acclaimed and possibley award winning. i cant see it ever happening, but have any been taken seriously?
will there ever be a good movie based on a video game?
i know there are people who like certain movies, but i am talking about a movie that is critically acclaimed and possibley award winning. i cant see it ever happening, but have any been taken seriously?
super mario bros.
theres apparently a mortal kombat coming in october. wonder if that will be any good.
also another resident evil coming sometime this year as well.
rumors of halo and world of warcraft movies.
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NES/Famicom
Batman
There won't ever be a movie based on a video game that wins an Academy Award. You can take that to the bank. Though I am sure some game-to-movie projects have ended up winning a Razzie or something like that.
I mean it is hard enough to make a "good" movie, one that might win an award, without the added pressure of having that movie be based on a game and making THOSE fans happy.
i don't think i've ever seen a video game movie that wasn't horrible. i know there will be alot of people telling me i'm crazy, but game movies are usualy just hollywood garbage. i've heard people rave about mortal kombat (no pun intended), and i thought that movie was the biggest pile of crap ever. who cares about my oppinion though. most people think the movies i like are crap.
they are all utter shit. i agree. however Silent Hill was amazing. its one of my favorite movies. however i never played any of hte games so i dunno how close it is/isnt. its a damn good scary movie in my opinion.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within & Advent Children
...You've never heard of FInal Fantasy VII: Advent Children or Super Mario Bros.: The Movie, have you?
FF7:AC was quite possibly the best video game-based movie ever, and SMB was so cheezy, it was friggin' awesome!
I personally liked Doom, Resident Evil, FF Spirits Within, and Silent Hill. FFV11 Advent Children was a snoozer. I couldnt stay awake to see the ending it was so boring. I think its just too hard to make a video game based movie that will please everyone. People will always complain that a certain part of the game wasnt mentioned or shown.
Super Mario Bros. was so cheesy that it sucked balls! The king being turing into a drooling mushroom.. c'mon!
I would point to the first "Mortal Kombat" movie, but it suffers from sub-par American fight sequences.
But I might be biased as I watched it after seeing a Jackie Chan movie.
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I think that Silent Hill was the greatest game movie so far, never liked FF so yeah to me both movies sucked Doom wasn't so great either. I think this mortal combat will be a little better mostly cause it leaves out the 80's and 90's cheesy fight scenes. but as far as academy award winning probably never. EVER!
Some will be better than others, but there's no way ever that any VG based film can seriously compare to a real masterpiece.
VG films will always, always be cash ins, milking the cow.
"If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made."
TO be honest, I watched it with some friends recently and we all thought that it was the biggest pile of shite we'd seen for a long time...It's amazingly well done, but the story is crap IMHOOriginally Posted by PentiumMMX
I liked Silent Hill, was never the biggest fan of the games but the movie was pretty cool. I liked AC too, mainly because I've finished FFVII several dozen times (almost). Didn't think much of Mortal Kombat/Dead or Alive though. And the less said about Street Fighter the better.
What, no love for Street Fighter: The Movie?
Raul Julia (RIP) FTW!
I thought the best movie to game adaptations were E.T., Jaws and Friday the 13th.
Oh wait, this is about video game to movie adapt.
To reitterate some of the earlier posts, good moves include: Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, Final Fantasy and Street Fighter. These are live action selections of course, and there are some good animes out there too. I still can't believe how Doom and House of the Dead turned out, it's a real pitty.
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