-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
The Sonic Movie was good. What is the best Video Game movie ever made?
- Thread starter Deleted member 44129
- Start date
Easily the original Mortal Kombat. Ol' Sonic overthrew Silent Hill for second place. I still can't believe it...
OP
OP
I really can't agree with this one. It's like the first part of the film (about the first third if I recall?) was this massive video game homage, and then they just completely change tact and it becomes a Candy Crush Kart Racing thing,
Yes, it counts.
This is my answer too, Mortal Kombat Annihilation is a contender for WORST video game movie (even though I think the worst is actually Double Dragon) but the old Mortal Kombat movie is still watchable. ALSO! The old Destructoid podcast with Jim Sterling and Anthony Burch did a commentary for it and it's hilarious.
Yes, it counts.
All these years later, and I still can't find an answer to why Dr. Wily was pulled from the movie.
Good movie, but reminded me of a gaming version of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Not a bad thing, mind you.
It still blows my mind that the madman that spawned the Resident Evil "saga" made this. How one marriage can destroy so much.
This.
The movie honored the source material so much that aside from the game its based on it could actually fit within the canon of the games.
I mean, slavish devotion to the source material doesn't inherently make something good.
Still, yeah, I'd say it's the best.
I actually just came back from watching the Sonic movie and really liked it, but my answer is still this:
Yes, it counts.
I don't think it does. It's a movie about a fake video game with references to other real video games. If that counts, Ready Player One should count.
Detective Pikachu is decent at least, so much better than most/all video game movies
The only excellent game adaptation is Castlevania on Netflix
The only excellent game adaptation is Castlevania on Netflix
Also, it seems like people are forgetting about Rampage. Which is a shame because it's actually not as bad as I thought it would be, it was actually quite fun. I'd put it up there with Detective Pikachu, Silent Hill and Sonic.
It's been a long time since I've seen Prince of Persia, I remember that being okayish as well? I could be remembering with rose tinted glasses though.
It's been a long time since I've seen Prince of Persia, I remember that being okayish as well? I could be remembering with rose tinted glasses though.
Apparently Angry Birds 2
My favourite is probably one of the 2D Pokemon movies or something. I can't stand these live action adaptations.
My favourite is probably one of the 2D Pokemon movies or something. I can't stand these live action adaptations.
Street fighter 2 anime, castlevania, witcher netflix series
I also remember really liking Silent Hill movie
I also remember really liking Silent Hill movie
This. Sonic movie was surprisingly good, but I still preferred detective Pikachu by a fairly decent margin....
All that said.... I had hoped DP was good, but from announcement the Sonic movie was a huge joke to me. The fact that it not only wasn't, but was legitimately good? Easily the biggest surprise for me.
Also the worst video game movie of all time was the double dragon movie, which is almost never mentioned by anyone. I assume simply because they don't know it exists.
Mortal Kombat is the GOAT so much so it cemented itself and the franchise as cultural icon no other video game movie can claim such a feat.
Castlevania is not a movie or live action but the only one I really liked. Pickachu and silent Hill are at the very least decent.
Witcher is based on the books and not the games. It's actually a direct adaptation of some of the stories in the books.
Witcher is based on the books and not the games. It's actually a direct adaptation of some of the stories in the books.
OP
OP
I genuinely think the first Silent Hill film in 2006 was at the very least a decent film and definitely the most faithful adaptation there's been of any video game adaptation. It was truly able to capture the atmosphere and all the dread that entailed and certain shots mirrored those from the games almost identically. You could really sense that the director was an admirer of the source material and wanted to do right by it.
To me it's really the only video game film worth a damn.
To me it's really the only video game film worth a damn.
One thing I didn't really like about the Sonic movie is how 'in the now' it was. Stuff like the floss and jokes about Amazon drone deliveries are inoffensive and I get why they put it in there, but they're really slapping a date on the movie with shit like that. Those jokes are old news at the end of the year (and some of 'em already are), where Detective Pikachu didn't really have stuff like that iirc. Those jokes and references were all in-universe for as far as I can remember and I really appreciate that.
WIR was good until they introduced the annoying little kid.
Yes, it counts.
And then Ralph was suplanted in his own movie.
