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Heres the place to complain about whats wrong with the bad game movies... i can only think of the two, fell free to add on...

Mario movie: King Koopa wasnt a Political leader, he was a monstrous tyrant. The world of Mario doesnt resemble Earth in any way (their aren't shopping malls in any Mario game).

Resident Evil: Well, for one: According to the Resident Evil books, the T-Virus doesnt actually kill the person, it just puts them in a coma... The mansion wasn't hightech, no-one lived in the mansion, the mansion was condemmed...

  • 12.11.2004 3:37 PM PDT
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Actually...maybe they just sucked :P

  • 12.11.2004 4:53 PM PDT
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Tomb Raider: Okay, well, this movie portrayed the sucking of the game pretty well. Nevermind.

  • 12.11.2004 5:06 PM PDT
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Mortal Kombat: It's a movie based on a friggin' fighting game, for cripe's sake! That's why it sucked!

Half the reason why videogame-based movies suck is because they choose the videogames with little actual plot (with the exception of Resident Evil and Final Fantasy, kinda).

The other half of the reason why videogame-based movies tend to suck is because your average videogame will last you about 15 hours. Condensing 15 hours of plot into 2 doesn't do too much good for the story.

I wish someone would pick up a MGS or Zelda franchise...and make it good.

  • 12.11.2004 5:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Twitch666
someone should make a movie out of pacman

Theres a PacMan Christmas movie.

  • 12.11.2004 5:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: DooMNukeM
Posted by: Twitch666
someone should make a movie out of pacman

Theres a PacMan Christmas movie.


Wow. I don't know if that's funny or sad or both.

  • 12.11.2004 5:28 PM PDT
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If there's any Game that would make a good movie, it would be MGS2 or any thing related to the Metal Gear series, seriously MGS2 already was a movie, just with small parts you could play.

  • 12.11.2004 5:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stalking Puma
If there's any Game that would make a good movie, it would be MGS2 or any thing related to the Metal Gear series, seriously MGS2 already was a movie, just with small parts you could play.

But MGS2's story was also too complex for its own good. It's also too complex to be crammed down into a two-hour slot.

The whole problem here is that not many people would like to see a game they play be turned exactly into a movie. I mean, why watch a movie version of MGS2 when you can just play it and get more out of it? All videogame-based movies usually just have the characters everyone's familiar with and puts them in new, original situations. So far, it hasn't exactly worked, though...

If they make a Halo movie, it sure as hell had better be good.

[Edited on 12/11/2004 5:42:20 PM]

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thats the problem with making movies out of games, if you make it exactly like the game, there will be one party complaining about just that. If you base it off the game and change it a little, there will be another party complaining about that as well. My personal opinion, I would prefer movies based off a game, but changed so that it's not the same-ol same-ol.

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Yeah, I'm with ya on that. That way, neither party can -blam!- too much.

You'd still be familiar with most of the things going on, but some new twists would still come up and be there to surprise you.

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Vagrant Story would make an amazing movie.

Doom would make a potentially great film too, it's a shame they're never going to make it. And no....a lame Alien clone with neither the words "demon" or "Mars" in the script is not Doom, no matter what it's called.

  • 12.11.2004 5:54 PM PDT