Sentences with phrase «game adaptations not»

Considering the track record of video game adaptations not directed by Paul W.S. Anderson or Takashi Miike, the chances that Hitman: Agent 47 will be good are slim.

The Last Witch Hunter might be the worst video game adaptation not actually based on a video game.

Not exact matches

Basak explained that strategy - based video games include, not only real - time strategy games, such as «Rise of Nations,» which was used in her research, but also computer adaptations of strategy board games such as «Settlers of Catan,» a favorite among physicists and mathematicians; «Ticket to Ride,» for geography lovers; and especially the classic strategy game of chess — all played with a time constraint.

It doesn't half ass its adaptation to your choices like almost every other game, and breaks dozens of tropes.

All in all, Transformers Dark Side of the Moon wasn't the worst game I've played, and moreover certainly wasn't even the worst movie adaptation of a game I've played but it certainly could have used more QA time.

The storyline in negligible, and doesn't really go anywhere, it feels like if there were four dark sector books, and then they decided to make a crappy game adaptation of the fifth.

For Disney to duplicate its 2013 success, it will need films like Sleeping Beauty spin - off Maleficent, video game adaptation Need for Speed, and musical Into the Woods to be major hits, and that doesn't seem likely.

Just to nix any rumors, Rampage doesn't break the seemingly perfect losing streak of video game to movie adaptation, but only because this year's wafer - thin but highly entertaining Tomb Raider did that already.

Now streaming on Netflix, Gerald's Game is the latest Stephen King novel to receive a feature film adaptation, and while I probably won't find myself ever revisiting this movie, it's worth a watch if you can stomach it.

Still, there's something to be said for a video game adaptation being an interesting and well - intentioned failure and not a raging garbage fire, as is often the default with this kind of movie.

Mainly because there hasn't been a single genuinely good video game movie adaptation yet.

I've never played a minute of the Assassin's Creed games in my life, but that isn't stopping me from looking forward to this year's big screen adaptation of the popular video game.

Video game adaptations often don't attract filmmakers of Kurzel's caliber (although there's another rare exception this year).

The mark of a good video game adaptation isn't necessarily due to faithfulness to -LSB-...]

And here's a plot synopsis for Sam Raimi and James Franco's new film, which is not an adaptation of a board game at all but instead some sort of book or something.

When Hollywood realises you can't appease an entire fan base by including all game aspects in a film adaptation, this ailing sub-genre will enter a more resolute and artistic place.

Not much as changed with the idea that video game to film adaptations are never a good idea, «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D» ensures that trend, and while it's dazzling at times, it will leave an audience hungry for a better movie and experience.

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Fans of the hit series will probably even call this the best game - to - film adaptation ever produced, and they wouldn't be too far from the truth.

It's an approach not really open to other video game adaptations — the various and largely abominable Street Fighter films couldn't really engage their audience in some supernatural fisticuffs, and Tomb Raider couldn't really replicate the game's thrill of exploration, opting instead for the cheaper thrill of ogling Angelina Jolie in a catsuit.

In case you haven't heard by now, From Software's popular Souls series is getting an official board game adaptation, and the board game's Kickstarter...

Didn't Boll know that the upcoming Rampage is an adaptation of a pre-existing arcade game?

Even the «Portal» short film I did was not a literal adaptation of the game.

Street Fighter might not be the most obvious franchise fit for a board game adaptation, but this new project looks pretty cool all the same.

The adaptation of Orson Scott Card's beloved science fiction novel Ender's Game hit theatres on Friday, and while it's not looking like a break - out hit, it did not embarrass itself either.

Coming from Arc Systems Works — the same developers behind Guilty Gear Xrd, BlazBlue, and Persona 4 Arena — their next game is not only looking to be a faithful adaptation of the series, but also one of the most exciting fighting games of 2018.

If you look at video game adaptations, quite often that isn't true.

Video game film adaptations do not have the greatest track record, but Warner Bros..

While these meetings haven't been officially confirmed and neither has the project in question, the one that makes the most sense is the aforementioned adaptation of Ernest Cline's nostalgia - filled, video game - playing novel.

However, I'm not here to review the video game, as there are many other sites for that, I'm here to review this movie adaptation.

Set aside your concerns about Mark Wahlberg portraying PlayStation 3 action hero Nathan Drake in the big screen adaptation of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, because it doesn't sound like this movie is based on the video game at all.

Twenty - eight game adaptations have been reviewed on the website Rotten Tomatoes and not one has reached over a fifty per cent fresh rating.

The plot is kinda meh, but the trailer is something I wasn't expecting for a Need for speed game adaptation.

Wright didn't reveal any deep, festering secrets about his adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's beloved slacker / video game comedy (outside of the not - wholly surprising revelation, also discussed on the film's commentary track, that test audiences were super torn on the movie's end).

Its box office performance will dictate the future of video game adaptations in Hollywood (along with Assassin's Creed in December), but it certainly hasn't struck a critical chord.

2016 is not only a big year for the comic book adaptation, it's also a proving ground for the video game movie.

Assassin's Creed won't be out until 21st December, but we now know how long the video game adaptation will be on the silver screen — 140 minutes.

A handful of anime adaptations and Silent Hill (which, despite its admirable stylistic emulation of the games, still wasn't very good) pretty much stand alone in their loyalty to their respective inspirations.

Amongst numerous other problems (not least Uwe Boll), it's shocking the casual disrespect video game adaptations have for their source material.

This movie is a mashup of «The Da Vinci Code» and «The Matrix» that may well be a fun framework for a video game in which you skulk around period settings murdering people, but in a feature film adaptation could not possibly be less interesting.

The movie currently boasts the highest Rotten Tomatoes critical score for a video game adaptation with 50 %, but US audiences haven't embraced it as widely as international markets.

Video game adaptations haven't traditionally been huge box office hits, with only one movie, 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, earning over $ 100 million domestically.

While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.

Legendary Horror novelist Stephen King has experienced quite the resurgence in popularity lately, with the recent theatrical releases of IT: Part One and The Dark Tower; not to mention the Netflix adaptations of Gerald's Game and 1922.

A big screen Game of Thrones adaptation probably won't be happening any time soon, but fans of the series — and fantasy in general — can instead focus their intentions on Guy Richie's upcoming epic, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

It's not the first video game adaptation Johnson has been involved with, he also starred in 2005's Doom, though I'm not sure if anyone actually saw that movie.

I think I may be in the minority when I say that I liked Mark Wahlberg in The Big Hit... Don't know whether that's a good thing to come to mind while thinking about this video game adaptation movie.

In a move destined to delight genre fans, Deadline reports that popular Game of Thrones actors Charles Dance and Lena Headey will mix it up with the undead — no, not wights — in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

The game holds a place in many of our gaming hearts, but with the terrible track record of video - game - to - film adaptations, and the assumption that this movie will probably just be like your typical Godzilla or Cloverfield, our gaming hearts probably don't want this movie to come to fruition.

Whether or not you're looking forward to the film, the original remains as of the few video game adaptations that stayed...