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05.08.2012 5:59pm

GaiaLanzer
Vangard of the Elite

Is this American adaptations, or are all nationalities welcom. I think the BEST video game movie, despite being old, has to be Sweet Home. For those who don't know it, the game is a Capcom horror RPG taking place in a haunted house. Word was that the first Resident Evil was going to be an continuation of the series(or remake) until they decided to do something original. The movie, while obviously being dated, it was kinda nice for 1989. Dick Smith did some of the SFX. Kinda cool that the final scenes in the movie actually feature the final boss of the game(looking like it did in the game). It's kinda debated whether the movie came first or the game came first, or if they were actually made side-by-side. I would guess that the concept of the game came first, considering the producer of the movie and the director were both members of Capcom at the time(and were responsible for the game).

Other movies I like would be, of course, Silent Hill(which captured the feel of the games REALLY good).

The first Mortal Kombat was perfect, IMO, for what it did. One has to be realistic, considering the games were ultra-violent(for it's time), yet the biggest fanbase were kids. They weren't going to be able to do an ultra violent, hard-R MK movie. Just wasn't going to happen. What they did, IMO, was the best for what they COULD. They had to get the kids(their biggest fans) in the seats. Toning the violence down, but keeping some of the kills, like Sub-Zero geting impaled by an ice spike, Scorpion's skull head being sliced apart and Kano's neck being snapped, kept some of that "Oooo, people are getting killed!"/Fatality aspect without going overboard.

Resident Evil, the first movie, was actually pretty good. It could be a ghost/companion piece to the games, kinda like, "This happened elsewhere before RE2", a kind of "untold story in the RE universe". All the other movies sucked, though. LOL.

Nearly every other game movie has been HORRID. I will say this, as far as hokey-ness is concerned, I do like the Super Mario Bros movie. It's one of those bizarre, late 80s/early 90s offbeat flicks you got back during that time. As a goofy "two guys enter a bizarre world, with strange things and dystopian setting", it was alright in a quirky way. As a Super Mario film, it sucked. I still like it, though.

Double Dragon, I had hopes it would be good, only because I always thought the idea could've translated extremely well to film. My concept(ever since I was a kid) was that a Double Dragon movie could've basically been part-The Warriors, part-Streets of Fire, and part-The Last Dragon. What we got was a Power Rangers-esque take on the first TMNT movie.

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05.08.2012 6:08pm

Ashilyn
Career GM

Silent Hill is definitely not without it's issues (as an SH fan, it wasn't RANDOM PYRAMID HEAD I took exception to, it was the stupid and silly changes to the town's cult that made them even more nonsensical than they originally were that made me go :|), but it's still probably hands down the best adaption so far. Resident Evil 1 is a lot better than som epeople give it credit for, as is the first Mortal Kombat.

Doom could have been good with soem touchups on the writing and better direction. The Rock and Karl Urban are typically good actors for action movies, but the direction and some of the writing in that movie are just absolutely dreadful, but the core concept behind the adaption was pretty solid.

Speaking of core concepts in game based movies, am I the only one who doesn't mind when they take liberties with a game's story or setting (SIlent HIll example above being a rare exception). If I want a retread of a game's story, I'll play the game/watch the anime based on it if there is one. It's the same deal I have with comic movies - I don't want to see the same thing over again. I want to see either a new story, or an old story with a twist, something that still has everything that makes, you know, Spiderman Spiderman, or in this case, Doom Doom, or makes Resident Evil what it is. I don't want to watch a rehash of Super Mario 1 or of Ocarina of Time or of the first Resident Evil game. The problem with that is when people veer too far from the source (Uwe Boll's movies) or try too hard to stay close while doing something, uh, "different" (Super Mario - which can be a fun, stupid movie to just watch sometimes).

And yeah, Silent Hill has a sequel coming out late this fall, called Silent Hill: Reveelations 3D. Unfortuntely, Roger Avery (...who is in jail iirc) and Christopher Gans are out, both replaced by Micheal Basset. It's a sequal to Silent Hill 1 and an adaption of Silent Hill 3, which makes me nervous (since it seems like a straight adaption with a few changes), but the cast sounsd good and the production stills look GREAT. So, we'll see how it turns out.

And really, a lot of video game movies become so good their bad if you stop fretting over their innaccuracies. Street Fighter is the best examople. That movie is incredibly fun to watch, even though it's so bad. Super Mario can be the same way. Only the wiorst of the worst are really hard to find enjoyment in - Uwe Boll's movies, DOA, the Resident Evil movies after the first, Double Dragon, and Street Fighter: Legend of CHun Li (hands down the worst movie I've ever seen, and yes, I've seen some of Uwe Boll's) are all pretty irredeemable.

SPeaking of movies based on games, as far as Japanese ones go, has anyone seen teh Ace Attorney one yet? Is it even out on DVD? It looked like a lot of goofy but welld one fun and I wanna see it.

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05.08.2012 6:09pm

shooter_mcgavin
Registered Member

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within ... yeah s**k it haters!!!!

The Tomb Raiders films were well produced Hollywood productions, but they still suck.

And of course District 9 was supposed to be the Halo Movie.

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05.08.2012 6:14pm

Ashilyn
Career GM

shooter_mcgavin said:

And of course District 9 was supposed to be the Halo Movie.

Not entirely accurate. They simply reused some assets from the planned Halo movie and turned it into District 9. That's about as far as the relation between the two goes.

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05.08.2012 11:33pm

Sei'taer
lost

I thought people hated the silent hill movie?

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05.09.2012 1:56pm

Murasame
HALE YEAH

I can't say I truly liked anything besides The Spirits Within. Silent Hill had great atmosphere but tanked pretty hardcore with the writing and story, Resident Evil was more or less the same, and everything else that wasn't given a huge budget is just bad. Granted, some of it lies in the so bad it's good camp (Mortal Combat, Double Dragon... possibly Uwe Boll's House of the Dead).

But Super Mario Bros.?

Awesome. Loved that movie as a kid.

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05.11.2012 10:16pm

Crono
Crono can cross dimensions too!

Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat win it for me.

Currently Playing: Dark Cloud 2: 3 hours.
Also Playing: CT, FF VI, Solatorobo, Secret of Mana, Halo 4.
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05.12.2012 2:53am

Ramses
Registered Member

I doubt any will take down Street Fighter 2 The Animated Movie!

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05.13.2012 4:28pm

Revrick
Mind your P's and Q's

Silentt Hill was awesome until the whol tentacle rape ending. I recall reading the director sought inspiration from that scene from some hentai he was a fan of. And this is why we can't have nice things.

I'm pretty sure I've lost more of them in several moves but I proudly displayed my Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros, and Double Dragon DVDs side by side. There are few greater pleasures then being stoned for an incredibily bad movie I might watch THe Room later today thinking on it.

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05.14.2012 5:14am

FenixDown
The King's orders are absolute

I liked the Super Mario Bros. movie as a kid. Haven't seen it in years so I'm not sure how I'd react to it now. I'm looking forward to the eventual DVD release of the Ace Attorney movie, the reviews I read around the time it was in theatres in Japan were pretty positive overall. FF: The Spirits Within I would have enjoyed more if it wasn't labeled as an FF movie, it was good on its own merits, it just did not come off as much of a Final Fantasy. I like the action and music in Advent Children.

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