I'll just leave this here:
Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
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#72Mostly because videogame plot lines aren't as good as we give them credit for. Videogames are great at being interactive diversions, but their stories leave a lot to be desired and are really just thin background dressing for the real reason we play videogames: for the gameplay. The most successful videogame movies tend towards genre films like Mortal Kombat (the film) and Resident Evil (the series). Of course, let's…
I disagree. You have games like The Last of Us, The Uncharted Series, Yakuza 0, and even the latest Wolfenstein game having very well made and engaging stories which I think can translate well on film.
I'd go back to GP's "why" question.
I thought that The Last of Us was an absolutely fantastic game. Honestly, its one of the few games I've managed to stay engaged with all the way to the end. It works as a game. It's wonderful within its medium. A movie can't give you moral choices (did you guys kill the doctors at the end??), nor the time required to really get aquainted with the characters.
The narrative works best in the medium it was designed around. As a movie, I Dunno, what would the medium bring to the table? I suspect it'd just be another throw away zombie movie
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mortal Kombat was not a bad movie if you ask me.
Even as a teenager, I found it pretty cringy.
I think that, like Mars Attacks and Starship Troopers, it's a movie that one benefitted a lot from expecting a B- or C, and being pleasantly surprised by a B (or B+)-ish experience.
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#74I actually really liked Prince Of Persia. I don't know that it compares to the game, but I liked it.
The story for Prince of Persia was developed by Jordan Mechner, the author of the original game and head developer for the series. He recognizes that movies and games are fundamentally different and completely reworked the story of The Sands of Time to work better as an action-adventure movie, since watching the game's plot on the screen would've been painfully boring.
It was an incredibly fun watch.
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#75Because there are no good video game movie ideas
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#76There are lots of good comments here and I don't know where my response belongs, but I still think a good movie is possible.
I know it was a commercial disaster, but Final Fantasy is the closest we've come IMO. The series has a great aesthetic and style that doesn't feel too derivative of anything else, and it's known for having great plots and characters (by video game standards). If anything, they strayed too far from the source. Make it about a group of adventurers in a weird cyberpunk/fantasy universe with outrageous haircuts fighting an insane demigod and I think it can work. Obviously that works in the games.
What you have to do is take games that have strong styles already and adapt the feeling and personality, not the mechanics.
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#77So many video game movie projects are missing the simple question, "why?" So many of these games are inspired by movies in the first place, and their stories are mostly just cliches based on their source material. It's fine in the context of the game, because the player is doing something, but when you put that into a non-interactive medium, the flaws become obvious. If you take Indiana Jones, turn it into a game wit…
Mortal Kombat was not a bad movie if you ask me.
Came here to say the exact same thing. Street Fighter wasnt that bad eiter.
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#78Because Takashi Miike did it with "Yakuza" (2007). It's perfect.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mortal Kombat was not a bad movie if you ask me.
Mortal Kombat wasn't amazing but it's definitely watchable. The sequel, on the other hand...
Agreed. MK Annihilation is amazingly bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA5nDyJ8sA0
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#80The Sims dodged the bullet (so far) -- it would have been just so horrible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims#Film
Film
A live action drama film based upon The Sims was announced in 2007. [15] On May 25, 2007, it was announced that The Sims film rights had been purchased by 20th Century Fox. [16] It was to be written by Brian Lynch and produced by John Davis. [17] [18]
[15] "The Sims Coming to the Big Screen". ComingSoon. May 25, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007. http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/20635-the-sims-coming-...
[16] ""The Sims" to move from PC screen to silver screen". Reuters. May 28, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-electronicarts-thesims/th...
[17] "Producer John Davis Gives Updates on THE SIMS Movie, the Aliens vs. Predator Movies and Jason and the Argonauts! | Collider". 2008-09-21. Retrieved 2016-08-09. http://collider.com/producer-john-davis-gives-updates-on-the...
[18] "The Sims movie planned". Retrieved 2016-08-09. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-sims-movie-planned/110...