Weekend Open Forum: Best and worst video game to movie adaptation

It's no surprise that a number of technology enthusiasts also happen to be avid video game players. There have been countless gaming franchises over the years, many of which were successful enough to warrant a transition to the big screen.
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Hitman was probably one of the best I've ever seen. I thought the story and acting was very good and payed to the games really well.

Max Payne is undoubtedly the worst I've ever seen. The one based on Final Fantasy was also not really well done in my opinion.

Personally, I would like to see some more of the Final Fantasy games into movies... I know that a lot of people are going to think I am stupid for this... but I got so wrapped up in some of the story lines...

If I'm honest, I hated the Mortal Combat film. It was terrible, bad acting, bad costume, bad camera quality, everything about seemed to scream to me 'DON'T WATCH THIS FILM', so after 5 minutes, I turned it off.
However, I'm quite partial to fantasy films and dark films, Lara Croft and Resident Evil were pretty good, RE1-2 were good, but I will say, I bought Max Payne on DVD from Amazon for quite a cheap amount, and I've tried to watch it about 4 times, and each of the times, I just loose concentration, I just can't watch it, maybe after reading this I'll give it another go, but I just can't watch it.

Street fighter with van damme from 1994!

"quick! change the channel!"

Haha as a child I thought the Street Figher and Mortal Combat movies were way cool. But Im sure now as an adult if I were to watch them for the first time with my expectations from the games I'd probably puke. But as a child they were great

My favorite is definitely the first Resident Evil, but I also love the first Silent Hill movie.

Oh! And I think that a Mass Effect movie would be awesome!

I don't know if this was true to the game, cos I never played them, but silent hill is a great film.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was pretty crap

As a college student, I watched streetfighter (starring van damme, damn you)

I couldn't think of any I'd seen and even went to Wikipedia to see if I'd missed any. And I hadn't - I really haven't seen any game-to-movie adaptations. I know they all suck...LOL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games

But if it could be done RIGHT (fat chance...), I think a Borderlands, Fallout or Mass Effect movie would be interesting.

Hitman and Resident Evil both were/are great.

Streetfighter was tolerable ONLY because Kyle Minouge was Cammy.. everything else was shite in the movie.

All the videogame movies are reaaaaaally bad, are you ppl blind or something? if we continue like this soon we are going to need license to see or put movie scores.

Actually, van damme's street fighter was quite funny and I think that makes it more entertaining than one would expect

I quite enjoyed Halo: Forward Unto Dawn. I dunno if it classifies as a movie but its at least decently put together. I still love the first mortal combat but I'm not sure if its just nostalgia. The Mario Bros movie was pretty bad though.

I hope you meant Kylie Minogue.

I actually enjoy Mortal Kombat, it has just the right amount of 90's cheese.

Probably the worse among the video-game-to-film genres are those of director Uwe Boll's (House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, In the Name of the King).

On the other hand, I'm in favor of Final Fantasy: The Spirit's Within and Max Payne. Two of my favorites when Playstation 2 reign supreme.

You can't actually "watch" a Uwe Boll movie per se, the correct term is, "endure, with prejudice"...!

This:
was possibly the worst movie of all time, spanning all categories.

I only took away two things from suffering through it:

1. Natassia Malthe should have left her shirt on. Boll can't even make a vampire lesbian scene that doesn't cause you to avert your eyes from the screen in disgust.

2. Uwe Boll needs to give up making movies, and find a suitable avocation. For example, riding shotgun on a garbage truck.

The only possible way to feel somewhat clean after watching this movie is to , take a shower, wash your hands repeatedly, reformat your hard drive, and microwave the DVD.

Moving on, "Mortal Kombat", (as "Mortal Kombat: Conquest"), was a short lived TV series, It ran one season, 22 episodes, and sported the unhappiest ending I've ever witnessed. It's almost impossible to find the DVD set nowadays. It's become something of a collector's item.

Kristanna Loken was in that series, as well as the first (3?) "Blood Rayne" movies. I think an infatuation with carbohydrates may have prevented her from appearing in any more. Either that, or she wised up, and decided there were some things that shouldn't be done, even if there's money involved.

I enjoy the "Resident Evil" movies, mostly because of Milla Jovovich's "Alice". At 16 years of age, she was a more than worthy successor to Brooke Shields in, "Return to the Blue Lagoon".... (If you go in for that sort of thing).

I'm looking forward for the new Assassin's Creed movie!

So in other words, it made you a little too unclean having watched Boll's films? You know what, you and me both.

Looking forward for the Splinter Cell and Need for Speed film adaptations by the way.