Sentences with phrase «video game movie adaptations not»

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-...]

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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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Much like video games can never translate into good movies, maybe the sport of MMA just simply can not be replicated for a good video game adaptation.

And when it does, it will be most likely be attributed to how «people just don't want any more video game movie adaptations».

Video game movies are still being made, and I'm not going to even humor the idea that any given adaptation will somehow «fix» the notoriously bad genre.

Because there aren't enough horrible movie adaptations of our favorite video games, Brett Ratner has decided that a Guitar Hero movie would pretty much be the best idea ever.

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?

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.

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The video game adaptations have mostly stayed true to the source material (both the movies and the books), and while not all of the games stood out in terms of gameplay, most Harry Potter games were decently fun.

But in setting the hornet's nest of video game crowdfunding to one side, let's focus on the concept of movie - to - game adaptations.

Video game to movie adaptations have not been very successful over the years, when it comes to games based on movies however, there have been some real gems.

A video game movie adaptation is something that just hasn't hit its stride yet.