Terrible videogame movies

richymcdermott

We all know by now the movie industry and the videogame industry dont mix , AT ALL , but thats not to say they have not tried , think it all started back in the day on the sega cd with it crap movie rendering /game crap, then movies wanted to make movies from videogames , just for funzies i like to hear peoples all time worst videogame movie they have seen or experiences when watching them. so lets get started

House of the dead: probably the only thing the movie and the videogame share in common is that they both have zombies , crappy acting , terrible cast cept for my beloved erica durance but this movie deserves to be buried and never see the light of day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaF3dN_fVfY

Hitman: started off ok but took a you turn and making agent 47 care for some women , story made as much sense as the third matrix and so many moments made me cringe at this terrible movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh2fYGssoFI

Mortal Kombat 2: Annihilation
...Yeah:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIt0VY7Yg2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InrQBpj__Vc

Retr0gamer

Don't know what the **** they were thinking when they made this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtMZKYnLg5c

gizmo

The Alone In The Dark film isn't just the worse video game adaption ever, or the worse film ever, it's the worst thing ever.

Azza

Behold the greatest scene in film history....nah history itself.

Retr0gamer

Street Fighter the Movie is a misunderstood classic.

richymcdermott

Azza wrote: »

Behold the greatest scene in film history....nah history itself.

i was hoping no one involve street fighter , i like that film

Skerries

Mark Wahlberg...nuff said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2jAEoBz6RY

krudler

most of them?

Twilightning

The Resident Evil movies are dire, each one more horrifying than the last. The first was at least tolerable, then it just became a mish-mash of stupid scenarios and cramming in as many characters in as possible.

NTMK

Tekken.
it has to be the worst piece of bile ive ever suffered through.

Doctor DooM

NTMK wrote: »

Tekken.
it has to be the worst piece of bile ive ever suffered through.

Tekken is a f^&king masterpiece compared to some of the other fighting game movies. At very least it looks like a competently shot film


Don't believe me?

StreetFighter: The Legend of Chun Li
Dead or Alive

and the motherload, perhaps one of the worst films I have ever had te mispleasure of sitting through, King of Fighters.

I'm getting angry thinking of it now.

Grayditch

Didn't think Hitman was so bad. Nothing like the game, never could have been, but not the worst movie. Kinda liked it.

NTMK

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Tekken is a f^&king masterpiece compared to some of the other fighting game movies. At very least it looks like a competently shot film


Don't believe me?


Dead or Alive

and the motherload, perhaps one of the worst films I have ever had te mispleasure of sitting through, King of Fighters.

I'm getting angry thinking of it now.

oh god i forgot about DOA what a **** film
i never have or will ever want to see another SF film and i can only imagine the horror of how bad KOF is

deathrider

Azza wrote: »

Behold the greatest scene in film history....nah history itself.

I'll see your Street Fighter, and raise you one Legend Of Chun-Li

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1cuEy82PeQ

It's just that bad!

On a side note, I have House Of The Dead on DVD. It was so awful that I simply had to have it in my collection.

A_Sober_Paddy

Far Cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ommmlfCNk

...genuinely one of the worst movies I've seen, and I've seen Hitman & Max Payne

pixelburp

Hmmm, I liked Hitman, and that's speaking as someone who's a big fan of the game. Sure it took liberties with Agent 47's backstory and motivations, but I thought the tone of the film was roughly correct & got the feel of it all right. Was an average enough film all told, which is better than most game adaptations could achieve.

I'd like to think that Gore Vibinski's, R-rated, multi-million adpataton of Bioshock would have been the greatest video game movie, but we'll never know!

Professey Chin

No mention of Doom yet? :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAajNPrU_mY

Although tbh Ive seen worse.
All that science crap was pointless though

Darkglasses

Super Mario Brothers, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy?

Amalgam

The first PC in our house came bundled with Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom.. I've always wanted to see this, knowing full well it's probably awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAxG4u_rqug

maximoose

I tried to watch Doom recently, what a load of crap that was.

I can't think of any even semi-decent game movies, but there's some amount of crap...

Doom
Hitman
Silent Hill
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat (uggggh thinking of it puts that awful theme song in my head, gives me the shivers)
Alone in the Dark
Tomb Raiders

Are there any good ones?! I suppose the Resident Evil films aren't bad compared to the other rubbish that's been made

CastorTroy

I liked Resi Evil, Silent Hill, Mortal Kombat and Final Fantasy Spirits Within. Though out of those, I've only played MK and the first Resi Evil.

Isn't Uwe Boll the main guy for bad movies. Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Bloodrayne, Postal, Dungeon Siege, Metroid.







I know the last one isn't true, thankfully but it was rumoured to star Jessica Simpson.

TerrorFirmer

Resident Evil is actually a good movie in its own right, and a decent video game movie as far as they tend to go, but the sequels drag it downhill, the latest one actually bears no resemblance to the game apart from a few token characters.

Wing Commander is watchable but not great, the effects were decent though.

I thought Silent Hill was pretty decent! Really enjoyed it.

Postal was actually good too - it was just SO like the game, that without having played Postal and Postal 2, a lot of it would be mistaken for terrible direction.

Resident Evil: Degeneration was also alright.

Red Faction was respectable, and House of the Dead 2 was a step above the original - not that that'd be particularly hard.

maximoose

What games do you think would make great movies?

JohnMarston

maximoose wrote: »

What games do you think would make great movies?

Red Dead Redemption
Max Payne 1 (with the original soundtrack as a score)

folan

Final Fantasy is decent.

Super Mario Brothers is a guilty pleasure. I love it.

degrassinoel

CastorTroy wrote: »

Isn't Uwe Boll the main guy for bad movies. Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Bloodrayne, Postal, Dungeon Siege, Metroid.

That guy, i have no idea where he gets funded from but the list of atrocities he calls films is enormous, every single one of them are ghastly!

Kinski

Are there any good video game movies? I know Takashi Miike directed an adaptation of Yakuza, so that might be good (sadly his Dead Or Alive movies aren't connected with the games:P)

degrassinoel wrote: »

That guy, i have no idea where he gets funded from but the list of atrocities he calls films is enormous, every single one of them are ghastly!

I've heard it's something to do with German tax laws - you get tax breaks if you invest in the indigenous film industry or something. But I'd say they probably do make a profit anyhow; after all, they're low budget action movies yet we've all heard of them.

Grayditch

I didn't think Tekken was the worst, either. People need to watch Hitman again, it's really not the disaster some people seem to think it is. It's subjective of course, but it seems a lot of people I know anyway, make up their mind about the movie before they watch it.

Uwe Boll movies make Tekken and Hitman look like Aliens and Terminator 2.

Zero-Cool

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Don't know what the **** they were thinking when they made this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtMZKYnLg5c

Am I the only one who thought this was absolutely brilliant? Great memories of this from my childhood!

Zero-Cool

JohnMarston wrote: »

Red Dead Redemption
Max Payne 1 (with the original soundtrack as a score)

Max Payne is on my list to watch, heard it was awful but want to get in the mood for Max Payne 3.

I thought Silent Hill was really good, looking forward to the next one as well.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I have a 1080p rip of Dead or Alive and I stick it on from time to time, only for 5-10 minutes at a time though

Zero-Cool

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

I have a 1080p rip of Dead or Alive and I stick it on from time to time, only for 5-10 minutes at a time though

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH :pac::pac::pac:

AnCapaillMor

Yeah that scene with holly valances bra was about the only good thing to come out of that movie.

CastorTroy

The thing about the DoA movie was the fact that the actresses didn't exactly...ummm... fill the roles.

JohnMarston

sheehy83 wrote: »

Max Payne is on my list to watch, heard it was awful but want to get in the mood for Max Payne 3.

I thought Silent Hill was really good, looking forward to the next one as well.

I recommend watching the cutscenes from Max Payne 1 (and possibly 2) to get into the mood for max payne 3, available on youtube.

Silent Hill was actually one of the better movie adaptations and its worth a watch. It doesn't take from any one silent movie, but elements from the first 3

Doctor DooM

I think they should make a Skyrim movie. The first 15 minutes could be an epic escape from a dragon with excellent actors, and then the main character could wander around talking to people and making swords for another 2 hours.

dreamers75

Theres a Wing Commander movie, caught it one night in Syfy, its watchable i suppose.

Better than the tripe above

Kinski

Doctor DooM wrote: »

I think they should make a Skyrim movie. The first 15 minutes could be an epic escape from a dragon with excellent actors, and then the main character could wander around talking to people and making swords for another 2 hours.

Don't forget the flower-picking. No other game in history has boasted that it features flower-picking.

humanji

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Red Faction was respectable, and House of the Dead 2 was a step above the original - not that that'd be particularly hard.

There was a Red Faction movie?


I quite liked some fo the films mentioned here. Doom and Wing Commander were grand films. Nothing special, but a bit of fun if there's nothing else to do with your time.

Double Dragon should be added to the list of bad fighting game to movies. It's just shockingly bad. Although it does almost have that "so bad it's good" quality, so it may be inhanced by drugs and/or alcohol.

The Prince of Persia game wasn't too bad. It was well put together, which is rare for a lot of game adaptations.

And what about the Assassin's Creed short films? Are they any good?

Myrddin

I could probably count the amount of good videogame movies on one hand.

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

I could probably count the amount of good videogame movies on one hand.

A hand which at some point lost several fingers in a freak accident.

Kolido

Tubbs4

Dead or alive has to be on of the worst films. They have a shot where through camera goes 360 around each character holding the wrong gun during a fight with a horde of zombies.
The resident evils are getting or past the point where you think your watching the sci fi channel. The giant with the hammer in the last one just brutal but i still march them.
A new silent hill movie will be out in October this year and i think its based on the 3rd silent hill as Heather is the main character.

Doctor DooM

Tubbs4 wrote: »

Dead or alive has to be on of the worst films. They have a shot where through camera goes 360 around each character holding the wrong gun during a fight with a horde of zombies.

That's House of the dead, and when I saw it in the cinema the entire crowd audibly groaned at that shot

Ian7

the biggest video-game to movie crime was the fact that George Romero was supposed to be originally involved with first resident evil film.

Think Mortal Kombat was mentioned here but I think its a great film. Must have watched it at least 15 times before me da brought it back to the video shop. Don't know what this says about me though.

Tubbs4

Doctor DooM wrote: »

That's House of the dead, and when I saw it in the cinema the entire crowd audibly groaned at that shot

Sorry meant that film but it still hurts me i can't even write it as i had to watch it in clips as it was so bad. Sorry you saw it in the cinema as it still pains me thinking of that masterpiece.

fundlebundle

I was surprised how decent the silent hill movie was, it was pretty incoherent but the music and atmosphere was great.

They should do a guitar hero movie.

JohnMarston

fundlebundle wrote: »

They should do a guitar hero movie

They probably wouldn't be able to do it any better than that one south park episode, Guitar Queer-O

Tubbs4

The worst grossing film is postal by uwe boll grossing for the first year 146,741 dollars worldwide.
Must say that i never heard of the game or film.

penev10

Ian7 wrote: »

the biggest video-game to movie crime was the fact that George Romero was supposed to be originally involved with first resident evil film.

I've read the script of that (it's easy to find on the aul interwebs) and it stuck very close to the game. At the time I thought this was a good thing but now I'm not so sure. I've watched all of the RE films several times and taken for what they are - inane, OTT silliness - then they are actually good craic (especially the last 2 which totally free themselves from the games' universe). I think if you take that kind of subject-matter too seriously it would end up looking pretty daft.

I did think the Silent Hill film was very good but then I've never played much of the games.

Ian7

penev10 wrote: »

I think if you take that kind of subject-matter too seriously it would end up looking pretty daft.

George Romero's films aren't exactly serious in fairness.