Game adaptation movies: Will they ever get it right?

Has there ever even been a decent game-based film that didn't suck ass? Hitman was the only half-decent one i've seen and that was quite poor.

Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Dead Or Alive, Doom, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat. All of which where crap (with the exception of the first Resi film) and yetthey had so much potential!

Wll there ever been a quality Game-to-film adaptation?

On Wikipedia, there is a list of such films TBA. Stuff like Deus Ex, God Of War, Halo, Even The Sims was on there! But will they get it right? I doubt it.

Has there ever even been a decent game-based film that didn't suck ass? Hitman was the only half-decent one i've seen and that was quite poor.

Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Dead Or Alive, Doom, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat. All of which where crap (with the exception of the first Resi film) and yetthey had so much potential!

Wll there ever been a quality Game-to-film adaptation?

On Wikipedia, there is a list of such films TBA. Stuff like Deus Ex, God Of War, Halo, Even The Sims was on there! But will they get it right? I doubt it.

Agent_305

They are generally low budget films aimed towards a young audience. Don't count on them ever not sucking.

Riddick. Tomb Raider wasn't bad either.

Riddick. Tomb Raider wasn't bad either.

beutlich99

i agree that the first resident evil and Hit man was decent films. but resident 1 is so far the best out of all of them.

The movie dudes needs to realize they need to follow the game more closely and not make dam changes they thank will be better for it them.

It needs to be about the game, not a real life version of the game with out all the non fiction stuff.

just for once follow the game and not from someone opinion......

FYI- Spirit Within was bad yea, but they still got the best visuals of all the games turn movies so far.

Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, is going to direct Bioshock, the movie. Len Wiseman, director of the Underworld movies and Live Free or Die Hard, is said to be working on a Gears of War movie, however, Wiseman's comments about the game made it sound like he's another clueless Hollywood director who doesn't care about staying true to the source material. But who knows, maybe one of these guys will make a good video game movie for the first time ever.

The first tome raider was ok too, forgot about it LOL

I would like to see a S.T.A.L.K.E.R movie based on the game. (Yes I know the game is based on the movie, but I would like to see a new movie that is more like the game.)

Totally disagree, Silent Hill was great, Mortal kombat films are basicaly meant to be "Fun" and fun is what they were, honestly how are you going to make a revolutional story out of a Fighting game ? LOL it was good for it was. Resident evil 1 was ok, didnt like the rest that much, but they made the films the best way they could, Resident evil is not a series only about Horror, But science fiction aswell.

To me, it depends on 2 things: If the movie is good, or if the movie is a good adaptation of the game itself. I'm one of the few people that actually enjoyed some of the crappy movies, like the first Street Fighter and Mario Bros.

The first street fighter was great for the simple fact that it had the great Raul Julia as M. Bison. That and the fact that it knew it was going to be a camp movie and didn't try to be anything else is what makes it great, IMO. I agree that Silent Hill was a good movie too.

I like the idea of a Bioshock movie. I like it alot, but i can just see the reviews on Metacritic now... :?

Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, is going to direct Bioshock, the movie. Len Wiseman, director of the Underworld movies and Live Free or Die Hard, is said to be working on a Gears of War movie, however, Wiseman's comments about the game made it sound like he's another clueless Hollywood director who doesn't care about staying true to the source material. But who knows, maybe one of these guys will make a good video game movie for the first time ever.

lolfaqs

I did not like the first RE movie, but I liked the ones after the first one.

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Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, is going to direct Bioshock, the movie. Len Wiseman, director of the Underworld movies and Live Free or Die Hard, is said to be working on a Gears of War movie, however, Wiseman's comments about the game made it sound like he's another clueless Hollywood director who doesn't care about staying true to the source material. But who knows, maybe one of these guys will make a good video game movie for the first time ever.

RobbieH1234

Nice, I didn't know that.

[QUOTE="lolfaqs"]

Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, is going to direct Bioshock, the movie. Len Wiseman, director of the Underworld movies and Live Free or Die Hard, is said to be working on a Gears of War movie, however, Wiseman's comments about the game made it sound like he's another clueless Hollywood director who doesn't care about staying true to the source material. But who knows, maybe one of these guys will make a good video game movie for the first time ever.

Oh yeah, there's also the Warcraft movie being made by Legendary Pictures (same studio that did 300, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, etc.). But they don't even have a director attached yet, and there hasn't been any news that I'm aware of on the movie in over a year, I think. It's still going forward from what I understand, but Blizzard and LP are being very hush hush about it.

[QUOTE="lolfaqs"]

Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, is going to direct Bioshock, the movie. Len Wiseman, director of the Underworld movies and Live Free or Die Hard, is said to be working on a Gears of War movie, however, Wiseman's comments about the game made it sound like he's another clueless Hollywood director who doesn't care about staying true to the source material. But who knows, maybe one of these guys will make a good video game movie for the first time ever.

Hey Mortal Kombat pwned