Best and worst game to movies.
12-24-08, 11:07 AM
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Best -- Frogger (1992) -- loved the car dodging scene.
Worst -- My Dinner with Andre (1981) -- Would have enjoyed seeing Malle incorporate some of the boss levels into the movie between the dinner courses. Without them the film felt too rushed.
Worst -- My Dinner with Andre (1981) -- Would have enjoyed seeing Malle incorporate some of the boss levels into the movie between the dinner courses. Without them the film felt too rushed.
12-24-08, 11:10 AM
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Best: CLUE... no one said anything about excluding boardgames, and this movie is a bonafide hi-larious classic.
Worst: Everything else... except SILENT HILL. I dug that one a lot.
Worst: Everything else... except SILENT HILL. I dug that one a lot.
12-24-08, 11:16 AM
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Yes. Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her, so much... it-it- the f - it -flam - flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breath...
12-24-08, 11:41 AM
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12-24-08, 03:04 PM
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Best:
Mortal Kombat
DOA
Schindler's List
Hitman
Dig Dug (the remake starring Vin Diesel, not the old one starring Steve McQueen)
Worst:
Star Wars prequels...wait a second - these WERE actual video games playing in the theater.
Is Street Fighter still that bad? I don't even remember it, so maybe it was just fair. If it was really bad, I would have remembered it....
Mortal Kombat
DOA
Schindler's List
Hitman
Dig Dug (the remake starring Vin Diesel, not the old one starring Steve McQueen)
Worst:
Star Wars prequels...wait a second - these WERE actual video games playing in the theater.
Is Street Fighter still that bad? I don't even remember it, so maybe it was just fair. If it was really bad, I would have remembered it....
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12-24-08, 07:57 PM
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Good to see Silent Hill get some love. Christophe Gans is a strong visualist and the atmosphere he created in Silent Hill was sufficiently creepy and dread inducing.
On the other hand, Resident Evil: Apocalypse failed on every level. Visually, it was murky and choppy. Nonexistent characterization and minimal story. Total mess, especially compared to the first and third movies.
On the other hand, Resident Evil: Apocalypse failed on every level. Visually, it was murky and choppy. Nonexistent characterization and minimal story. Total mess, especially compared to the first and third movies.
12-24-08, 08:32 PM
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These are the only two video game adaptations that I have an even faint desire to see again. SF has that great Raul Julia performance and SMB is absolutely deranged, like somebody tricked the studio into fronting $42 million to film his worst fever dreams by pretending he was adapting Mario Brothers.
12-25-08, 02:14 AM
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12-26-08, 12:10 AM
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Super Mario Bros. is amazing. So many people here hate it, but I am endlessly amused and fascinated by how horribly it came out. It has reasonably good performances and moves at a fast enough clip, in service of a story that is not in any remote or miniscule way logical, sensical, reasonable or similar to the video game. Not that the Mario games have much of a plot, but it's almost innovative how mutated the concepts in the game have become in the movie. Most of these concepts any logical screenwriter would have left out, because there's no way to make them make much sense in context of the film, but they were used anyway. And of course, even if you ignored the various points at which the movie is meant to be like the game, it's just an insane movie all on its own. It would be amazing, even hard to believe if I was told that the filmmakers, after cramming all the twisted-beyond-recognition Mario details in, had ever considered how the film would be regarded outside of it being a Mario Bros. movie.
I saw someone mentioned Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. I like that movie a lot.
Doom is just mediocre, but the first-person sequence is amusing. Resident Evil was a little better than Doom, but not much. Tomb Raider was mediocre as well (worse than Doom), but still watchable. The sequel was unwatchable. Street Fighter was godawful. I hated Silent Hill. I can't think of any others that I've seen.
I saw someone mentioned Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. I like that movie a lot.
Doom is just mediocre, but the first-person sequence is amusing. Resident Evil was a little better than Doom, but not much. Tomb Raider was mediocre as well (worse than Doom), but still watchable. The sequel was unwatchable. Street Fighter was godawful. I hated Silent Hill. I can't think of any others that I've seen.
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