Considering
the few video game movies I've seen (Doom, Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros.) I was a worried that this may end up the fate of another crappy video game movie.
Many fans would point the finger to the fact very
few video game movies are up to muster, while the filmmakers behind the adaptations will tell you that Hollywood has little faith in the concept and fans have too high expectations.
Not exact matches
Fast - forward a
few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have put consoles in one of every two homes in the U.S. and helped make
video games a bigger business than the entire music industry — and almost as big as the
movie industry.
The past
few years, the major studios and production companies that create
movies, broadcast television, streaming content, and even online and
video games have been under cyber attack.
Interests include
video games, watching
movies, cuddling, anime (obviously), tattoos, music: rock / metal / alternative / j apanese music / just to name a
few I'm a pretty outgoing person, most would consider me shy as I tend to be quiet alot in most social situations.
I have quite a
few interests besides of course
video games, I do enjoy the
movies, I'm right close to the beach and I really enjoy swimming.
Love dad and hopeless romantic Looking for someone cool to hang out with that enjoys
movies, music and
video games (just a
few of the things I like to do).
Love reading writing cooking playing
video games listening to music watch
movies and spend time with family and my
few friends I have.
Hi, i «am simon, i passed a
few years alone, waiting to find a girlfriend who disorve my love, i hate lying and i don't lie at all, i love partys dancing and listening and playing music even i «am only an amateur, i love watching
movies playing
video games and the most lovely thing to me is KIDS...
Despite the best intentions of everyone involved, Warcraft failed to break the dreaded
video game movie curse a
few months ago.
The trailer to the new The Lego
Movie Video game was released online a
few days ago and we must admit, it looks like a heap load of fun.
Now, if only there was a chart that included all of the projects the Big N is involved in outside of the
video game market — a park at Universal Studios and character appearances in
movies like Detective Pikachu and Wreck - It Ralph, to name a
few.
A golden age of comic book
movies may be dominating Hollywood right now, but over the past
few years there have also been signs of an effort to turn around the thus - far lackluster genre of
video game - turned film adaptations.
Calum Petrie reviews The LEGO Ninjago
Movie Video Game... The LEGO
games have been around for a good
few years now, often taking on a comical and lighthearted approach to the source material and its licensed properties.
If you want to know why there still haven't really been any decent
movies based on
video games up until now, there are a
few obvious reasons, the biggest one being the lack of quality directors stepping in to bring a coherent vision to the big screen.
The headline additions are much more important: four new characters, rounding out the cast to a more respectable 20, and a free full - blown cinematic story mode which is essentially an all - new Street Fighter
movie that's interrupted as you watch with a
few one - round fights to fulfil the
video game end of the bargain.
Even though the
video game characters are based on a
few computer sprites, the
movie made them look super cool and very realistic.
They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next
few years, such as the
video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official
movie that kicks off Universal's classic
movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.
The most interesting notion that the new «Tomb Raider» reboot has to offer apparently comes from the 2013 reimagining of the original»90s
video game: It gives us a Lara Croft who's capable but not superhuman, making her more like Bruce Willis» legendary John McClane (in the first
few «Die Hard»
movies, anyway) than the usual impenetrable war machines who so often anchor action flicks and
video games.
Video game movies have a bad reputation because, honestly, there are very
few that we'd call actually «good.»
It's quite impossible for me to separate the
movie from it's ink and paper sibling, which has been the object of my geeky affections since my little brother brought it to my attention a
few years back (right around volume 4), but quite frankly, judging by a majority of the reviews, at least a passing familiarity with the comic and
video game culture is apparently essential to actually getting the point.
Video game movies are always a dicey proposition: there are a
few surprisingly unshitty ones (Silent Hill, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within), but even those have significant flaws that keep them from being called great
movies.
Video games may not be the best subject to translate into
movies, but there are a
few rare gems, such
After a
few years that have seen studios deciding to focus on trying to make
movies out of board
games, it looks, from the last couple of days, as though
video games are cycling back around as the hot source material.
There are also a
few new extras as well, like the «Worthy Adversaries» trivia
game, where you complete lines from the
movie while it's playing; a picture - in - picture
video commentary with cast and crew interviews and behind - the - scenes footage; and a feature called «Mark It, Dude» that tracks all the profanities and Dude - isms that appear throughout the film.
The internet was pretty obviously in competition with a
few obvious industries at that point — like meatspace book stores — but caught (and is still catching) others off guard: cable TV,
movie companies, music companies, FedEx / USPS / UPS,
movie theaters, desktop software makers, book publishers, magazine publishers, shoe / apparel stores, newspaper publishers,
video game console makers, libraries, grocery stores, real estate agents, etc. etc....
Regardless of the impending
movie's level of success, Venom is more than deserving of a well - crafted modern
video game and there are a
few key elements that can help drive the title to go above and beyond.
Most
video game movies are pretty bad, but I think a
few video game worlds could be really cool as a live - action film..
Few things can be as potentially shocking, devastating and emotionally resonant as death in a great book,
movie, TV show or, yes, even a
video game SPOILERS Horatio Carlin — Watch Dogs 2... Continue reading →
I feel Ghostbusters excelled as a
video game and was one of those
few exceptions of a great
video game that was based on a
movie and / or show and South Park robbed it of that award.
A
few of my favourite
games being Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Soul Blade, Resident Evil 3 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.When not gaming, you will probably find me editing
videos for my YouTube channel, writing scripts for said
videos, watching
movies on Netflix or reading books (I am a bit of a sucker for anything made by H. P. Lovecraft or J.R.R. Tolkein).
It reads along with - and deconstructs - Ernie Cline's Ready Player One, one of the most popular novels of the past
few years, soon a Spielberg - directed
movie, and an enraptured paean to
video games and»80s pop culture.
Last year was filled to the brim with
video game movies, and while very
few of them were smash hits that isn't stopping other studios from trying their own spin.
Previously, Funko has released Pop Vinyls of famous
movies, tv shows and
video games, to name a
few, but this new entry in their catalog is actually...
The LEGO Ninjago
Movie Video Game sticks to bits and pieces of the formula established by the LEGO
games that came before it, but does manage to adopt a
few features of its own.
A
few of them include: activity summary (walking / cycling), boarding pass, concerts, currency, breaking news, events, event reminders, Fandango (ticket service), flights, friends» birthdays, hotels, location reminders,
movies, nearby attractions, new albums / books /
video games / TV episodes, next appointment, package tracking, public alerts, and traffic.