Krillin
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We recently got a new Tomb Raider movie, Pikachu’s motion picture will be out next year, a Sonic the Hedgehog one is in the works and even Super Mario is apparently getting a reboot.
Since we’ve been getting big screen adaptations since way back when I’d like to ask you: what are you favorite game related movies (live-action or animation)? What about the worst ones?
My favorites:
Mortal Kombat (1995)
Fun, unpretentious and packed with cheesy one-liners and decent action scenes, Mortal Kombat was cool as hell back in the day. Let’s just forget about the sequel…
Street Fighter II - The Animated Movie (1994)
As a teen I watched the US version first and liked it a lot. Great action, characters were quite faithful to the original source material and the soundtrack was right up my alley (Alice in Chains, Korn, Silverchair…). Fast forward a couple of years, I finally watched the original Japanese version and it rocks!
Bottom of the barrel:
House of the Dead (2003)
One of the worst movies I ever watched, gaming or non-gaming related. Very poor acting, plot holes around every corner and a lot of stuff that just doesn’t make sense… I wonder if there was even a script for this. It was directed by Uwe Boll, who somehow managed to make a handful of awful movies about videogames.
Double Dragon (1994)
Bad acting, poor casting and bland story. Visually, it’s somewhat interesting (I usually like dystopian aesthetics) but at the end of the day it’s just another extremely poor adaptation. Not even Robert Patrick from Terminator 2 fame stands out in this movie.
Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Bob Hoskins as Mario is the only good thing about this movie since everything else was an utter mess: Mushroom Kingdom is set on a sci-fi dystopian world, Koopa is a humanoid, Daisy is a paleontologist whose ancestors were dinosaurs, Goombas look awful, Mario and Luigi don’t look like twins at all (more like father and son) and so on. I understand studios have to take some liberties and all but this was way too much. Honestly, there are worse movies based on games out there but Super Mario Bros. was such a departure from the original source that I just couldn’t stand it. What a disappointment this was back in the day…
Guilty pleasure
Street Fighter (1994)
Not good at all, tried too hard to show as many characters as possible, no hadouken and practically no special moves but I like it. Don’t know why actually, I just do…
Now that the wall of text is over: what about you, what’s your take on this kind of movies?
Since we’ve been getting big screen adaptations since way back when I’d like to ask you: what are you favorite game related movies (live-action or animation)? What about the worst ones?
My favorites:
Mortal Kombat (1995)
Fun, unpretentious and packed with cheesy one-liners and decent action scenes, Mortal Kombat was cool as hell back in the day. Let’s just forget about the sequel…
Street Fighter II - The Animated Movie (1994)
As a teen I watched the US version first and liked it a lot. Great action, characters were quite faithful to the original source material and the soundtrack was right up my alley (Alice in Chains, Korn, Silverchair…). Fast forward a couple of years, I finally watched the original Japanese version and it rocks!
Bottom of the barrel:
House of the Dead (2003)
One of the worst movies I ever watched, gaming or non-gaming related. Very poor acting, plot holes around every corner and a lot of stuff that just doesn’t make sense… I wonder if there was even a script for this. It was directed by Uwe Boll, who somehow managed to make a handful of awful movies about videogames.
Double Dragon (1994)
Bad acting, poor casting and bland story. Visually, it’s somewhat interesting (I usually like dystopian aesthetics) but at the end of the day it’s just another extremely poor adaptation. Not even Robert Patrick from Terminator 2 fame stands out in this movie.
Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Bob Hoskins as Mario is the only good thing about this movie since everything else was an utter mess: Mushroom Kingdom is set on a sci-fi dystopian world, Koopa is a humanoid, Daisy is a paleontologist whose ancestors were dinosaurs, Goombas look awful, Mario and Luigi don’t look like twins at all (more like father and son) and so on. I understand studios have to take some liberties and all but this was way too much. Honestly, there are worse movies based on games out there but Super Mario Bros. was such a departure from the original source that I just couldn’t stand it. What a disappointment this was back in the day…
Guilty pleasure
Street Fighter (1994)
Not good at all, tried too hard to show as many characters as possible, no hadouken and practically no special moves but I like it. Don’t know why actually, I just do…
Now that the wall of text is over: what about you, what’s your take on this kind of movies?