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There have been good video game movies, but the number is vanishingly small. Many are "so bad it's good" such as anything Uwe Boll makes, but there are a couple that seem to be created by directors who genuinely love the source material and take it in interesting directions (e.g. the first Silent Hill film, the first Resident Evil film, arguably Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within). Also, Mortal Kombat (1995) is a good…
Uwe Boll's "Tunnel Rats" is surprisingly decent BTW.
I also thought the WarCraft movie was very good, but there I did grow up playing the hell out of WarCraft: Orcs and Humans, and reading and re-reading the manual with the backstory covered by the movie (not to mention the lovely concept art). Bit of a shame that it didn't do quite well enough to continue the story.
Wreck-it Ralph is a good movie. And so was the first Resident Evil movie.
Video games plots don’t seem like they would generally lends themselves well to movies since they seem to only exist for the purpose of gameplay. I think movies would do better converted to games like Golden Eye. I would love to check out Gone in 60 Seconds as a game, similar to GTA.
To be fair, Hollywood is improving. Their first attempt was the Super Mario Brothers movie, which was so bad that it's difficult to understand how they finished it.
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I don't want that story to be ruined by directors/producers/writers taking creative liberties. Some things just shouldn't be live-action movies. Look at all the anime movie failures. They were perfectly fine in their original animated format. No need for live action, except to keep people in the movie industry employed.
It's also just a way longer story than fits in a movie yeah?
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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
Holy crap, this is bad. 3% on Rotten Tomatoes...