Sentences with phrase «of video game movies»

Will this movie remove the stigma of all video game movies being horrible?

It's not for want of trying, though, as there has been a large number of video game movies released since gaming became a part of the popular landscape.

Despite the many bombs and failures of video game movies, there have been a few successes.

Join Damo and Paul as they pick through the history of Video Game Movies discussing the bad and the worse and where there is room for improvement in the future.

It was important to him too that Rampage not succumb to the curse of video game movies.

We have DECADES of video game movies failing to prove it.

There have been a lot of video game movies in recent years of varying qualities, but one game that seems almost perfectly suited for the cinema experience is Konami's «Metal Gear Solid» and now that the writers strike is over, De Luca and Columbia Pictures can get back in gear (ha ha) and move forward with bringing the game to the big screen.

Score aggregator Rotten Tomatoes tweeted to point out that Rampage «s average review score at the time (53 %) would put it ahead of every video game movie in history.

Presumably hoping that they can elevate the ever - flagging respectability of the video game movie, New Regency and Ubisoft continue to pack their upcoming film adaptation of Assassin's Creed with high - profile talent.

DEADLINE: One tricky part of video game movie deals has been rights - holder involvement in film, a medium they don't really know, where they press filmmakers to adhere closely to the game.

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Tomb Raider (2018) is a reboot of the video game movie franchise that winds the clock back to when Lara was in her early 20s and taking college classes in London, making her living as a bike courier.

The making of the total mess of a video game movie was documented in Blake J. Harris» book Console Wars (you can read all about it right here).

It's well worth the $ 10 price tag and will sit with honor next the rest of your video game movies.

He believes the film can buck the trend of video game movie quality, which had been almost unanimously poor.

As the majority of critics will never have played an Uncharted game in their life, their reviews will undoubtedly be coloured by their memories of the good Dr. Jones (the closest cinematic analogue) which, combined with the almost universally negative perception of video game movie adaptations that already exists, could severely limit the film's box office success.

If you're still wont to deny to that a tidal wave of video game movies is forming, destined to hit theaters two - four years years from now, I think that this movie removes all doubt from the equation: MGM Pictures has brought the rights to make a movie based on Metro 2033, a series of Russian sci - fi novels, which inspired the critically lauded 2010 video game.

But as the years went by and video game - based movies continued to be... not good, even as games became more movie - like themselves, the sub-genre of video game movies grew to become something of a joke.

Uwe Boll has made a heap of video game movies including Postal, FarCry (yes really), and Bloodrayne along with its sequels.

As Hollywood continues to scour the globe for content to sell to us the topic of video game movies has been a hot topic for many.

With the Tomb Raider reboot coming this year, and Detective Pikachu, Minecraft, and Uncharted all on the way Call of Duty is going to need to deliver, or become just another victim of the video game movie curse.

It's easy to draw parallels between the first couple of decades of the video game movie and the way that comic book adaptations were stuck in the doldrums in the 1990s.

«A lot of video game movies are made by directors who don't know the video games they are based on from a hole in the head», he told MCV.

This turn of events could make the hearts of many sink: the history of the video game movie is a terrible one, full of commercial flops (the top - grossing video game film ever is «Prince of Persia» with a little over $ 300 million worldwide, but is still seen as a huge money loser), and worse reviews.