Movies From Game Titles

[essexlad1975]

Although I'd be the first to admit there have been in the past movie's made from video games that were truly abmismal, the 1993 disaster area that was Super Mario Brothers simply made me cry on because I wasted the money for the cinema ticket :(. Or even worse, the 2003 movie House of the Dead which made me cringe from the very beginning to twenty minutes later when I turned it off the placed it in my bin .. literally *l* Although credit due to Paul Anderson who was brave enough to make Resident Evil, a good movie on it's own, which sadly went down in standard as soon as the sequel got released. This time, I think that maybe, just maybe hollywood have got it right, not once, but twice.

Looking through imdb, I caught the trailers for these two titles, first Doom (www.imdb.com/title/tt0419706/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419706/)) kind of gives me a sort of alien/resident evil feel to the whole extravaganza starring The Rock and Dexter Fletcher (hmm I forgot he was still around :p). Second trailer that caught my eye was for Alone in the Dark (www.imdb.com/title/tt0369226/) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369226/)). That got my interest if only because I enjoyed the game and it's sequels, and it looks like it's got a pretty decent cast line up (Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff).

I only hope they don't go for the typical tactic of showing the best bits in a trailer lasting a couple of minutes and leaving out the rest which could potentially be a load of old pants :D

[Zaphod]

Ummm.... I thought Alone in the Dark came out a while ago and was extremely terrible.

[SafeCracker]

I actually like the Super Mario Movie....

[essexlad1975]

Ummm.... I thought Alone in the Dark came out a while ago and was extremely terrible.

A movie of that title probably did, and probably was.

[GrilledMonkeyFat]

Where to begin....Super Mario Bros was awful. Double Dragon, gay. The first Mortal Kombat, good. Second one, hella gay, and don't even get me started on Street Fighter. What a way for a truly great actor (Raul Julia) to go, to make a bad movie before you pass on. Let's hope they have better luck making a Legend of Zelda movie.

[essexlad1975]

Thankfully I never saw the Double Dragon movie, though I should slap myself for forgetting about the atrocity that was Street Fighter, give me the Manga version of that movie anyday. Credit where it's due, Mortal Kombat stomped ass for it's time, I could definately sit down and watch it again .. Then the squel, definately a case of the least said the better.

[GrilledMonkeyFat]

We used to come up with ideas about Video Game Movies. Who could play our favorite game characters. I had Warwick Davis (Willow) playing Kid Icarus, Leo Dicaprio playing Link in Legend of Zelda, Jodie Foster playing Samus Aran, and Peter Weller (Robocop) playing Bionic Commando.

[GrilledMonkeyFat]

And having the Rock do "Spy Hunter" better be good, too, cause I don't want to have to "sa-mell-la la la la" (smell) The Rock cookin' a box office bomb.

[Yodaporn]

BTW, there was some old news that at one time Van-dam was actualy trying to get a street fighter 2 made, and trying to get Dolph Lundren(sp?) to come out of retirement to be in it. Apearntly everyone around Van-dam was too nice to tell him how the last one was recived.

I think Mortal Kombat 1 was possibly the best game to movie transition yet (of course I never played much resident evil, so I dont know how that worked out). MK did what it should; Dont screw with the characters too much, Dont mess with the situation too much. Style-ise them to be more practical, and presentable. Examples; Since sub and scrop were working with a mythical wizzard, and obviously came from outworld, they got to keep all their weird powers. The humans, being from mostly normal earthly backgrounds, never got to shoot a fireball, or punch somone's head off. Yet the filmmakers still managed to blatently let them each use one of their moves from the game, and still be within the confines of what a human could do in a kung fu filck.

[Yodaporn]

Almost forgot, wanted to coment on doom;

Doom, the game, was about one dude awaking from some kind of deep-freeze brig to a horror story, and haveing to blast his way though the forces of hell, with no help in the world but the weapons he came across on his way out.

Doom was not a lame Aliens clone where a small army came in already armed, to a genetics research planet that had stoped responding.

....and then, they had the nerve to give Rock's character the callsign "Sarge". Its not because of his rank, I've talked to army fokes, no sargent has sarge as his callsign. For those not knowing what level of lameness I'm trying to get at here, the character from Quake 2 was called "Sarge". These morons ripped it off thinking that all "id" leads are called Sarge.

Just to spite this thing I think on the day it comes out I'm going to watch the Aliens dvd, then turn around and play quake 2 front to back in one sitting.

::Lights cigarette:: Ahh, that felt good.

[GrilledMonkeyFat]

I think just having one guy throughout a whole movie blasting away at pink demons would lose an audience pretty quick. It'd be easy to make a Duke Nukem movie. Just add a crapload of chicks, and you've got something. I had an idea boiling for years that Bruce Willis would be Duke Nukem....Don't ask.

[Yodaporn]

I think just having one guy throughout a whole movie blasting away at pink demons would lose an audience pretty quick.....
I think it could work, it would have to be more psycological, not constant action. Portraying him having very little ammo, having to run from things, hide in not so comfortable places for lingthy periods of time, the whole time gradualy going crazy, and having hallucinations.

Then again, hopefully the Rock's team dies in the first 10 mins, then thats what we do get.

BTW, I allways thought Kurt Russle would make a good duke nukem.

[GrilledMonkeyFat]

Ooooh, good one. Kurt Russell could. Believe it or not, I thought they would do a Super Mario movie sequel. Keeping in mind, Dennis Hopper's character turned that one guy into a monkey. That could be Donkey Kong. But since the movie sucked on toast, never mind. They should put Jodie Foster in a Metroid movie.