Sentences with phrase «video 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.

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.

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-...]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

But here's a thought: Why aren't we bringing video game adaptations to the small screen instead?

Justin Kurzel «s (Macbeth) film is a gloomy and moody video game adaptation that doesn't make a man reliving an ancestor's memories, as he fights in 15th Century Spain, as entertaining as it sounds.

While it won't set any records in North America, the video - game adaptation is a force to be reckoned with in China.

Matt Rodgers on the best ever video game movie scenes... The first part of 2018 will see two high profile videogame adaptations hit the big screen in an attempt to do what 2016's Assassin's Creed couldn't, by breaking a curse which has stretched back as far as 1993's infamous Super Mario Bros. movie.

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?

Having mastered the art of bombast with the Just Cause series, Avalanche Studios dials down the silliness but not the scale for the apocalyptic deserts of Australia in its Mad Max video game adaptation.

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.

So I'm not sure what to think of the video game adaptation of Toy Story 3.

In the last couple of years alone, the burly giant of Irish acting has narrated a feature documentary and appeared in a video game adaptation, not to mention everything in between.

Films adapted from video games have now been around long enough for the first major franchise reboot (Hitman and Street Fighter don't count), and while this new Tomb Raider movie has more honourable intentions than the shallow Angelina Jolie - starring films from 2001 and 2003, it too suffers from the inherent superficiality that tends to plague video - game adaptations.

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.

Disney Interactive's track record wasn't exactly stellar when it came to video game adaptations of films.

Not only did the franchise defy the rules of video game adaptations failing miserably at the box office, but it also gave us possibly cinema's best female action heroine since Sigourney Weaver's Ripley.

It's no secret that movie studios have struggled with video game movie adaptations in the past, and not all of them have been direct adaptations of their source material.

With video game movie adaptations not having the best of reputations (just look at the performance of last year's Hitman: Agent 47), gamers are still waiting for that truly -LSB-...]

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.

Another video game adaptation is all systems go, so let's hope it's not slaughtered like a certain tomb raider was, but SAFE HOUSE director...

Tomb Raider probably won't go down as the film that finally broke the video game movie «curse», but it does show that video game adaptations can make for decent (if disposable) genre entertainment.

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.

Ubisoft did not specify when we should expect to see the film hit the silver screen — given the typically tumultuous life of video game adaptations, it might be a while.