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zobz
Profile Joined November 2005
Canada2175 Posts
February 10 2009 23:16 GMT
#21
Resident evil was an awesome movie i dunno what you're talking about. The second one not so much but the first one was very good.
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pheer
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
5398 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-10 23:20:59
February 10 2009 23:20 GMT
#22
On February 11 2009 07:49 r0kamo wrote:
...except Half-Life <3

I was thinking of half-life (and mostly FPS) when I wrote that =)
RTS games, if you think about it, are the smallest ones to become movies...

final fantasy = rpg
doom = fps
mortal kombat = fighting
silent hill = rpg
resident evil = rpg

has any movie been based on RTS actually?

On February 11 2009 08:16 zobz wrote:
Resident evil was an awesome movie i dunno what you're talking about. The second one not so much but the first one was very good.

And the 3rd is the best if you liked #1 but hated #2. I really enjoyed 3 for some odd reason, probably because it was somewhat outdoors like dawn of the dead and I liked that.
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-10 23:41:38
February 10 2009 23:21 GMT
#23
Yea, Resident Evil is the only good converted movie I've ever seen. (but tbh I never really played or liked the games). MK is a close second, and any other comic/game movie just plain sucks. Some of the animated movies are not bad.

Good comic movies imo:
Sin City has it's good parts , Batman 1 1989, Blade , Fritz the cat 1& 2 (lol), Spawn was kinda terrible but its cool like MK, TMNT 1 & 2 awesome part 3 not so much.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_English-language_comics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games

Watchmen,Thor, Turok, and another Hulk movie, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li , are upcoming. And SC and WC are in the think tank afaik.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24768 Posts
February 10 2009 23:30 GMT
#24
Take your ~10 favorite games... and do more or less a cinematic retelling of the story/gameplay. What do you get? I have no idea because they never do anything even remotely like that when they make movies of videogames I liked. My guess is it's better than a lot of the trash they churn out.

Why did I love final fantasy 7? Tomb raider? Some of it they can't capture in a movie, but I feel like they don't even try to capture most of the rest.

Quoth my sister, "This is the thing I find astounding about it; the thing that surprises me most is the fact that I understand why that since the original videogame doesn't have a very strong story they want to massage the story or come up with a new one just for the movie, but in the case of a lot of them the story they come up with is so much worse than the one in the videogame. Example: Tomb Raider 1 vs the original TR movie. There's a lot of words there. Noooo. Stop quoting me.

Lol that's actually exact.
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Lurkersito
Profile Joined November 2005
Kyrgyz Republic64 Posts
February 10 2009 23:31 GMT
#25
Hitman didn´t suck, it was awesome.
Amber[LighT]
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States5078 Posts
February 10 2009 23:34 GMT
#26
Tomb Raider probably, most video game movies suck and I never realized this until now
"We have unfinished business, I and he."
Chuiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
3470 Posts
February 10 2009 23:37 GMT
#27
On February 11 2009 08:20 pheer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2009 07:49 r0kamo wrote:
...except Half-Life <3

I was thinking of half-life (and mostly FPS) when I wrote that =)
RTS games, if you think about it, are the smallest ones to become movies...

final fantasy = rpg
doom = fps
mortal kombat = fighting
silent hill = rpg
resident evil = rpg

has any movie been based on RTS actually?

Show nested quote +
On February 11 2009 08:16 zobz wrote:
Resident evil was an awesome movie i dunno what you're talking about. The second one not so much but the first one was very good.

And the 3rd is the best if you liked #1 but hated #2. I really enjoyed 3 for some odd reason, probably because it was somewhat outdoors like dawn of the dead and I liked that.

Wait wait, since when do survival horror games qualify as RPG's?
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
February 10 2009 23:42 GMT
#28
On February 11 2009 08:34 Amber[LighT] wrote:
... most [snip] movies suck and I never realized this until now

..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
February 10 2009 23:46 GMT
#29
On February 11 2009 08:37 Chuiu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2009 08:20 pheer wrote:
On February 11 2009 07:49 r0kamo wrote:
...except Half-Life <3

I was thinking of half-life (and mostly FPS) when I wrote that =)
RTS games, if you think about it, are the smallest ones to become movies...

final fantasy = rpg
doom = fps
mortal kombat = fighting
silent hill = rpg
resident evil = rpg

has any movie been based on RTS actually?

On February 11 2009 08:16 zobz wrote:
Resident evil was an awesome movie i dunno what you're talking about. The second one not so much but the first one was very good.

And the 3rd is the best if you liked #1 but hated #2. I really enjoyed 3 for some odd reason, probably because it was somewhat outdoors like dawn of the dead and I liked that.

Wait wait, since when do survival horror games qualify as RPG's?

Yea, I think it's more of an action adventure game imo. It's obviously a cross genre though. Because you've got countless puzzles, lots of items, role playing, tons of reading, some have spells or counterparts, etc.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
ZoW
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3983 Posts
February 10 2009 23:46 GMT
#30
Well at least the new Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li looks halfway decent, it might even end up being good...

\sarcasm

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RowdierBob
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Australia13365 Posts
February 10 2009 23:51 GMT
#31
Hitman and Resident evil were watchable.

The rest were farcical.
"Terrans are pretty much space-Australians" - H
deathgod6
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States5064 Posts
February 10 2009 23:52 GMT
#32
I liked Mortal Kombat when I was young. Now I realize it was only good for the song. MORTAL COMBAT!
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Flaccid
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
8887 Posts
February 10 2009 23:52 GMT
#33
It's because movies made into videogames are also almost always terrible. A balance must be maintained.
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-10 23:57:47
February 10 2009 23:55 GMT
#34
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
February 11 2009 00:09 GMT
#35
don't worry, this movie will come out in july and it will redeem all video game movies!
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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32278 Posts
February 11 2009 00:32 GMT
#36
QUEUE ZATIC RANT
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meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
February 11 2009 00:34 GMT
#37
Mortal Kombat 1 was good. I can't remember any other good video-game-to-movie films though.
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Straylight
Profile Joined March 2008
Canada706 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-11 00:59:29
February 11 2009 00:59 GMT
#38
Hahaha someone is screwing with the Uwe Boll wiki. Check under the "Financing" section.
Wikipedia:
Boll continues to find investors who wish to acquire the rights for future video-game-to-movie adaptations. His investors are mostly Ex-Nazis. He acquires the rights for potential future adaptations and personally oversees the execution of all Jewish studio employees, filming, and post-production.

There's more below it.
It felt like gravity.
mark718
Profile Joined February 2008
United States73 Posts
February 11 2009 01:07 GMT
#39
On February 11 2009 08:46 ZoW wrote:
Well at least the new Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li looks halfway decent, it might even end up being good...

\sarcasm

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WTF is that?!
mark718
Profile Joined February 2008
United States73 Posts
February 11 2009 01:09 GMT
#40
Incidentally, I actually enjoyed Fatal Fury a lot.
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