Game -> movie adaptations

[Rei_Shao_Khan]

Give it time to evolve. Book and comic movies are getting good. They just needed to do like a million of them and run out of original ideas first.

 

[Cirex]

Mortal Kombat, Tomb Raider and a few more are good conversions. You may like the movie or not, but they are somewhat loyal. I haven't watched DooM yet because I'm a purist and since the monsters don't come from Hell, I don't want to watch it.

Double Dragon and Mario, in example, were produced 14-15 years ago, when games were a cult thing and they didn't have many ideas or money to do a loyal conversion. What Uwe Boll does now is horrible, but well, he was cheating the tax system in Germany by making those movies.

Street Fighter is actually one of my favoriute movies.

 

[Rei_Shao_Khan]

Blanka was Charlie...
Street Fighter killed a great actor...

I don't see it.

My problem with the idea of being loyal is that a game is not a movie. Books turn movie adaptation were the best when they realized that the movie was not the book. Comic books turn movie adaptation were also the best when they took their own spin and interpretation of the comic book. Trying too hard to be loyal to the game will make it worse, and often cheesy.

 

[Zalriel]

i was thinking about that, too. the problem is that the main audience for those movies would be ppl who have played the games. they know the story already inside out and it would be pointless to just copy the storyline for the movie. nobody would want to see it anymore because it's known already. makes sense, no??

Yes it does make sense and I agree to a certain extent, however, while most of the audience would be fans of the series I still think it would be a good idea to just simply follow the story and possibly add a few minor changes. ( unlike creating a random new hero/heroin for the series* cough Alice cough*) Movies that come from books always do this, and while you always here "The movie is not as good as the book" films such as the count of monte cristo still get a high approval. I still think, to this day that the Silent Hill movie was the best video game movie to date. Very little was tampered with, story line wise and the fact that they made a woman the main character instead of a man made a bit of sense. you know the whole mothers bond to her child kinda thing...

 

[Jlikew00t]

Silent Hill has been the only video game turned movie that I truly enjoyed.
Shame it lacked that fear the games induce.

Most video game to movies are cheesy as hell and maybe it is cause video games are still a young medium and with time they will adapt and learn the secrets to success.

I'd like to see a Kill Bill video game; because that movie was structured like one; going from one locale to another to 'boss fight'. If you see what I mean.