Sentences with phrase «other video game adaptations»
So far this film is looking good, but so have other video game adaptations.
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The Street Fighter movie holds a special place in my heart alongside other video game adaptations from the»90s like Super Mario Bros. and Mortal Kombat: I know that technically they're not good movies or whatever, but who cares?
The movie is lacking in substance, yet it avoids getting bogged down in a convoluted mythology - something that has tripped up other video game adaptations in recent years - and should offer a perfectly enjoyable watch at home, since it's not necessarily worth a trip to the theater.
The Street Fighter movie holds a special place in my heart alongside other video game adaptations from the»90s like Super Mario Bros. and Mortal Kombat: I know that technically they're not good movies or whatever, but who cares?
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.
Michael Fassbender, one of Hollywood's A-list, heads the cast which includes such luminaries as Marion Cotillard (who co-starred with him in last year's Macbeth, directed equally by Kurzel), Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Irons, giving the piece a built - in pedigree unlike almost any other video game adaptation in history.
Not exact matches
After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Last January, we reported that Syriana director Stephen Gaghan had signed on to direct The Division, an adaptation of the Ubisoft video game about special military operatives sent in to a plague - ravaged Manhattan to execute gang members and troll other human players with high - tech gadgets and various different - colored...
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.
Amongst numerous other problems (not least Uwe Boll), it's shocking the casual disrespect video game adaptations have for their source material.
Two diametrically opposed teams face - off against each other in the latest gameplay video of Blood Bowl 2, the sequel to the video game adaptation of Games Workshop's famous board game that combines American football with the fantasy world of Warhammer.
On top of all those, other big movies opening in 2017: Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One, Pixar's new Dia De Los Muertos movie Coco, a remake of Murder on the Orient Express, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins movie (not to be confused with Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book movie arriving in theaters in 2016), Christopher Nolan's new WWII action movie Dunkirk, the video game adaptation Uncharted; Ninjago, Barbie and Emoji movies (scraping the bottom of the brand barrel); live - action Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson, new Beauty and the Beast and The Mummy movies, Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, restart of Kong: Skull Island, Tom Cruise in Doug Liman's sci - fi Mena, plus Luc Besson's return to epic sci - fi with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
The adaptation, directed by Moon's Duncan Jones, was not well - received by critics and opened lower than other video game counterparts at the box office.
In other news, the L.A. Times reports that Peli's next film will be called Area 51 — not the video game adaptation that comic book writer Grant Morrison penned.
These were the best video game adaptation nominees, vote and select the best among these or write in the comment section below if you feel some other movie can fit here.
From our point of view, there's a couple of other major issues that limit video game adaptations from being much good.
Activision and Beenox» video game adaptation of the upcoming Spidey film sequel will feature none other than Wilson Fisk, The Kingpin of Crime.
On the PS3, Godzilla will roar to life on the video game stage and do battle with other kaiju in Bandai Namco's latest adaptation of the radioactive beast.
The official video game adaptation of the internet phenomenon, Slender: The Arrival will send the most fearless gamers into panic as they unfold the twisted mystery in a dark, foreboding atmosphere and a story fraught with terror, paranoia and other - worldly forces.
If we're lucky, we'll see a video game version of that as well, along with similar adaptations for the publishers other novels: Android Karenina and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
However, while recent reports suggest headway is finally being made on production, and that the finished article might not be as disastrous as other famous video game - film adaptations, there are, nevertheless, plenty of arguments against making an Uncharted movie in the first place.
Video game adaptations into other media tend to be hit or miss, but Ishinomori, genius that he is, pulls off his manga rendering of A Link to the Past flawlessly.