Brilliant film makes money, bad one doesnβt! π
Borderlands only opens with $8m. Ouch!
has there ever been a good video game movie?
Street Fighter was OK, wasnβt it? Iβm asking because I havenβt seen it since I was a teenager and my sensibilities may have changed since then.
While not amazing, Silent Hill was ok (6.5 on imdb)
I hate that movie so much. I mean it was done pretty well and all but one scene pisses me off.
The first time she goes to hell dimension she gets up from the floor by grabbing a perfectly sized metal pipe. Which is the first weapon you use in the first two games. Iβm like oh shit itβs on now. But she didnβt take the pipe with her. It seemed like a deliberate fuck you to fans of the games.
If I had never played the games Iβd probably like the movie a lot more.
Itβs bizarre to me. Hollywood has generally figured out that if a book sells really well that you shouldnβt fuck with the movie version any more than you have to. If you gotta jiggle a few things around for pacing, fine.
But theyβll still absolutely torch a video game story to "make it better"with no comprehension of the source material and itβs literally never ever worked.
TV figured it out w/ The Last of Us and Fallout.
But games are about the player getting to engage with and explore the world and story at their own pace and shows let it aorta slow down too.
Really the answer seems to be take the world and make your movie in it as needed to make the story engaging.
The recent mortal kombat movie, Mario movie, detective pikachu and sonic movies show that it works. Also donβt mess with the characters to much if you include them.
Ranked by Tomatometer, there are 6 certified fresh!
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/video-game-movies/
Does the Gran Turismo movie count as a βvideo gameβ movie? I havenβt watched it but I know the general plot and that Gran Turismo is essentially a driving sim with no storyline (most recent one I played was GT4).
I think of it like if there was a movie about an avid Flight Simulator player has to land a passenger jet after both pilots are incapacitated, I wouldnβt consider it a video game movie. Maybe thatβs how they remake Airplane! though.
Itβs based on a true story. They auditioned the top GT players to see if anyone could actually drive in a race. One guy made it.
Can I count Big Trouble in Little China as the first Mortal Kombat movie?
If so, then yes, thereβs been at least one.
Havenβt seen either yet, but everyone seemed to love the Mario and Sonic movies
Check out the first Mario Bros movie (1993 I think?) if you want to feel your brain vomit out your ears. How they got to that story with the source material is anyoneβs guess.
Not good, per se, but certainly some entertaining ones.
The Last of Us is fantastic, but itβs not a movie.