Best Videogame to Movie Adaptation?

I'm not sure if a similar topic has been started already, but I figured, what the hell?

Um, so yeah, comments, additions, etc. I was inspired by reading a feature on Kotaku earlier today, and I thought back on what movies I actually did like.
Silent Hill got the atmosphere perfect, but the movie itself was lacking- overall not bad though.
The three Resident Evil movies were hit or miss to say the least, but I liked the last one personally. The recent CG flick was ok too, but unlike the live action movies, It made me want to play the games instead.
The first Tomb Raider was ok, the second was awful.

Any others? I'm going to see Max Payne and Hitman soon enough...oh, and that new Chun-Li movie will be terrible....and I'll be there first day to see it.

Mortal Kombat.

Big Rigs.

Wait...

"I'm waiting for the Halo movie to come out....most of the other video game to movie adaptations were just crap.  I didn't like mario bros or street fighter.
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"I'm not sure if a similar topic has been started already, but I figured, what the hell?

Um, so yeah, comments, additions, etc. I was inspired by reading a feature on Kotaku earlier today, and I thought back on what movies I actually did like.
Silent Hill got the atmosphere perfect, but the movie itself was lacking- overall not bad though.
The three Resident Evil movies were hit or miss to say the least, but I liked the last one personally. The recent CG flick was ok too, but unlike the live action movies, It made me want to play the games instead.
The first Tomb Raider was ok, the second was awful.

Any others? I'm going to see Max Payne and Hitman soon enough...oh, and that new Chun-Li movie will be terrible....and I'll be there first day to see it.
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There are no acceptable answers other than Mortal Kombat

TurboMan said:

"There are no acceptable answers other than Mortal Kombat"

^, loved mortal kombat the movie, the theme song never gets old.

Postal, me not care less about if it was cannon.. it's Postal.

"Postal, me not care less about if it was cannon.. it's Postal."

Mortal Kombat. And that's funny because it was a horrible movie. But it nailed the particular awfulness of the MK world perfectly.

I quite like the Silent Hill movie and generally feel that it held up well and I really enjoyed the mood and atmosphere of the movie.

But Takashi Miike's adaptation of Ryu Ga Gotoku (AKA Yakuza in the States) was just too much fun to not be a top runner. 

Oh, totally forgot about the Uwe Boll crap. House of the Dead is awful, but extremely entertaining in that "so bad its good" way, while "Postal" is possibly his best film period (which is not saying a lot, since it's still not very good).

Gonna have to go with Max Payne, since I actually liked it a little.

Silent Hill was the only one I've actually, seriously liked.

Other game to film adaptations:

Street Fighter: It is great and it is cheesy. Bought the recently released Special Edition DVD the other day and I plan on watching it tonight because I imagine the director's commentary is going to be the best, most self-loathing and full of vitriol thing since Joel Schumacher's commentary for Batman Forever.

Street Fighter II - The Animated Movie: Kickass. Watch in Japanese with English subtitles. The dub's not bad either, and the dub music actually kinda fits the movie but makes it feel differently, so buying the Special Edition DVD basically gives you two movies in one.

Resident Evil Trilogy: I hate these movies. The first one wasn't horrible, but Resident Evil isn't supposed to be serious business. It's supposed to have cheesy acting and ridiculous situations that somehow feel right in the context of the game. I am watching Degeneration this evening, probably before Street Fighter.

Advent Children: Pretty. Also vapid.

Max Payne: I refuse to watch this because I loved the games so much.

Super Mario Bros: Watch this smashed with friends and you will have a good time. When viewed sober it is horrible.

Fatal Fury: Captured the spirit of the games perfectly and was fun to watch. Anime adaptations of video games seem to usually be better than live-action adaptations.

Art of Fighting: Anime adaptation, did not capture the spirit of the games very well and also sucked as an anime. Not worth the $7 it would cost you to buy on DVD, really not worth your time at all.

And those are the ones I've seen that I remember.

Dude, the Mario movie! "Truse the Fungus" Oh man, that was terrible!

How the hell did I forget about Advent Children? definitely the best.

Saying there's a best implies there's a good one.

Silent Hill was decent..

Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie. Booya!

My personal favorites are the Mortal Kombat movies, (yes thats right, both of them) the first Street Fighter movie, (Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile is too awesome not to like) and Doom (only the Unrated version) the story has nothing to do with any of the games, yet somehow it is still awesome.

I think that Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within was a pretty good movie...it just had absolutely nothingto do with Final Fantasy.

Other than that, Mortal Kombat 1, Tomb Raider 1, and the rest are all animes.   Although, I will add that DOA: The Movie is not all that bad, as long as you don't expect it to be anything worthwhile, if that makes any sense.

Meowayne said:

"The machinist is a great adaption of Silent Hill 2. Much more Silent Hill than the Silent Hill movie.

Max Payne is quite decent movie. Mortal Kombat for its cheesyness, Slient Hill, Final Fantasy: Advent Children and Resident Evil: Degeneration are good.

Doom is well, the rock is in it so... well...yea.

Street Fighter 2: animated movie is good, and the New Street Fighter 4: The ties that bind is not too bad, I liked it.

Super Mario Bros. because it was so horrible it was awesome.


If we're talking about movie to videogame, then Stalker.

I thought DOOM was decent.

Doom wasn't terrible. I bought it on a whim when I was out of town on business and wanted something to watch in my room.  I actually saw Street Fighter in the theater, back when Van Damme was a real action star- biggest waste of money since I saw Contact.....ICK.

But they need to stop making game-to-movie and movie-to-game translations. I've yet to see it work out well either way. It's just a marketing gimmick.

I've seen Silent Hill 4-5 times, so I'll go with that.

i loved hitman and i didn't mind the resident evil films all of them. thought postal was okay it was just a crazy movie.

The resident evil's are OK. So was the first Mortal Kombat.

The last time I played Silent Hill I was about 8, but I remember the atmosphere vividly, and I thought the film captured it perfectly, however, some of the film was quite dissapointing.

I thought Resident Evil Extinction was good fun.

I haven't seen many, but others have already mentioned the decent ones I've seen. I also think Tomb Raider was an okay adaptation, and having Angelina Jolie doesn't hurt.

danterandal19 said:

"Oh, totally forgot about the Uwe Boll crap."

Just saw "The Legend of Chun-Li" (because it looked amazingly terrible), and it wasn't amazingly terrible, just horrendous.
The fight scenes were ok, and Moon Bloodgood was damn good-looking in the film, but everything else was super-self serious and painfully boring.

But did anyone honestly expect the movie to be any good?

How was Kristen Kreuk in the movie? That's the only reason for me to see it.

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Yes, I really liked this CG movie. I thought it was well done. Advent Children wasn't bad either, but Spirits Within was better.

Silent Hill is definitely the best live-action video game movie, but if we're counting CG, RE: Degeneration is the best. It felt like a 1 hour and a half long cutscene - and that's why it was so good. The mistake that directors do when making movie adaptions of video games is trying to make it movie-ish(if you get what I mean), when they should be making it cutscene-ish. Otherwise the whole video game "feel" will be lost, resulting in that people who have played the games don't like the movies.

I thought Max Payne was decent as a movie. Not bad but not so good either. If you look at it as a movie based on a game called Max Payne, it will suck big time. Try to forget that Max Payne the game ever existed and you might enjoy it. It had some scenes that were visually really stunning.

I also like all three Resident Evil movies. But I think I'm alone with this.

The Chronicles of R- waaaaaaaait...

The Resident Evil movies are acceptable. The Silent Hill movie is, from a visual standpoint, at the very least nice to look at. It's not a particularly BAD movie either.

"How was Kristen Kreuk in the movie? That's the only reason for me to see it."

Mortal Kombat - First movie was great but the second was lame.

Street Fighter - Meh.

Resident Evil - The first one was ok, the second one was kinda cool and the third one sucked. It's overrrated just like Transformers.

Silent Hill - Never watched. Heard bad things about it.

Max Payne - Haven't seen it.

Super Mario - It's funny but not too special.

I'm not a big fan of the Live Action RE movies, but I actually liked Degeneration a lot.

I recently watched Advent Children, and the action was tight, but as Ryan said in TANG, it's mostly fan service.

"My personal favorites are the Mortal Kombat movies, (yes thats right, both of them) the first Street Fighter movie, (Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile is too awesome not to like) and Doom (only the Unrated version) the story has nothing to do with any of the games, yet somehow it is still awesome."