Movies based on games that take their style from other movies are merely recycling ideas that are already recycled, and that is precisely
why movies based on video games, to put it frankly, suck.
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.
At the time they were made, Mario had recently been the subject of the
first movie based on a video game (Super Mario Bros.) and, according to one survey, was more recognizable to American children than Mickey Mouse.
Hollywood being Hollywood, there is always an executive with dollar signs in their eyes willing to turn this triumph of gaming into a movie, only to run into inescapable truth:
movies based on video games suck.
Said film, of course, is in the long - standing tradition
of movies based on video games that almost invariably fail to attract critical support (the only probable exceptions are the Resident Evil films by Paul W.S. Anderson and Takashi Miike's Ace Attorney), but this particular incarnation's failure is more puzzling than usual.
Although deservedly R - Rated, the first film didn't feel like
a movie based on a video game.
If there's something done well in 2018 fantastic cinema, it's animating and playing a gorilla, but this is still
a movie based on a video game based on an arcade game based on movies.
Continuing to put together a cast that suggests they don't realize they're making
a movie based on a video game about historical parkour fanatics — and could thus stand to maybe coast a little bit — the producers of Assassin's Creed have announced that Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Irons have signed on to appear in the film.
Doom has one or two clever ideas, and even as a derivative movie, it isn't nearly the worst of its ilk, but make no mistake, this is
a movie based on a video game that liberally borrows ideas from sci - fi, action and horror movies.
Movies based on video games have pretty horrible track records.
There is a point to that race, but it requires more explaining than should be necessary (For
a movie based on a video game series with little to no story, there is plenty of plot making up for it here).
Most
movies based on video games aren't very good, but most movies based on video games also aren't supported entirely by the powerful, charismatic shoulders of Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson.
I also just did
a movie based on a video game that doesn't have a title yet but I am sure you will be hearing about it soon.
Tomb Raider's action is pretty sweet and Alicia Vikander is great, but the script is so cliched and boring, it's oddly disappointing even for
a movie based on a video game.
«Stupid», that's usually non-video game playing viewers response to
movies based on video games.
Paul W.S. Anderson is famous for two things: Being Mr. Milla Jovovich and making
movies based on video games.
«Street Fighter: The Movie» on PlayStation and Sega Saturn was a video game based on
a movie based on a video game.
Ratchet & Clank is a title that exists because Sony Interactive Entertainment and its partners decided to invest in
a movie based on the video game franchise and then discovered that the coming entertainment product would benefit from the existence of a video game tie - in.
Until this is acknowledged within Hollywood video game movies — and I certainly hope it is when it comes to my beloved WoW movie — I stand by my statement:
movies based on video games suck!
It's well established that
movies based on video games are terrible — I'm looking at you, Tara Reid.
The gutters of Hollywood are lined with the rotting corpses of
movies based on video games.
Earlier this week, we struggled to find five
movies based on video games that are worth an online rental much less a Blu - ray purchase price.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider earned an estimated $ 48.2 m on its first weekend of release in the US, the best debut ever for a movie based on a video game
This week man will battle machine over video games based on movies and
movies based on video games.