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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Aug 2, 2011 0:44:03 GMT -5
Speaking of VG adaptations...Resident Evil. Only one question comes to mind in regards to that movie franchise: "What the f*** was that!?" Honestly, out side of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," I refuse to acknowledge the others as Resident Evil movies, and even 2 is stretching it. Jill Valentine wasn't even the star of the bloody movie she was actually in! For some reason, they butchered the story to squeeze in Milla Jovovich in an original role. Wesker, THE villain of the franchise, doesn't even show up until movies 3 & 4. Chris, one of the main protagonists, doesn't appear until the 4th freakin' movie! Leon hasn't even been discussed aside from a newspaper clip during the credits of Apocalypse. As regular movies, the quality ain't that bad. As Resident Evil movies, they suck! To top it all off, there will apparently be a 5th Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Retribution. I can barely contain myself... I only accept the first RE movie as an RE movie. Why? Well, because it was the only good film out of all of the live action films(the rest were mediocre or worse), and because it was the closest of the films to actually capturing the games, specifically RE1. Check it: Both were about a team a highly trained and skilled people under Umbrella's payroll(in the original game it was the now famous S.T.A.R.S. police unit, who by being part of the police were on Umbrella's payroll unknowingly, and in the film it was their first response security team) surviving unknown horrors roaming around a scientific laboratory hiding behind the facade of a peaceful mansion estate within Raccoon Forest near the Arklay Mountains. In the film ammo becomes scarce thanks to them learning too late how to properly deal with the zombies, reflecting how ammo was scarce in the original game from the beginning, however the game was kind of reverse from the film, whereas in the film they started off with an arsenal of badass semi-automatic weapons that were dwindled down to just various sidearms, in the games you'd slowly upgrade your arsenal from just a simple Beretta to things like a shotgun, a grenade launcher, and even a magnum revolver. Both the film and game had a lot of dark, small corridors the protagonists had to make their way down. Both of them had the zombies being a side effect of an outbreak of the virus. Finally both the film and game had the heroes trying to escape the facility in a certain amount of time while fighting the biggest, baddest experiment there. Also, there is just no way I could possibly call the second film the most RE like for the simple facts of it being the first film Alice's psychic powers showed up(and nothing in the RE games had psychic powers, not a single thing) and that she beat the Nemesis in a hand to hand combat fight, she beat the boss that survived everything thrown at it in RE3, including a freaking particle cannon, and was finally done in when the nuke that wiped out Raccoon City detonated. Hell even Nemesis' death in the film was pure bullshit. That wasn't the Nemesis from RE3. That was Nemesis Lite. |
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Aug 2, 2011 0:44:27 GMT -5
The Tekken movie wasn't as much of an abomination as people make it out to be. It had its inaccuracies, but it was more accurate than the majority of the video game movies out there. Plus a lot of the fights were entertaining. (though some were rather disappointing.) They call the Mishima Zaibatsu the Tekken Corporation. Dude, if they can't get the company that the villain owns right then it's not an accurate adaption. |
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Aug 2, 2011 1:44:49 GMT -5
Even though it doesn't follow the game storyline I really like the Resident Evil movies. Find them to be enjoyable and am anxiously awaiting the next movie.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Aug 2, 2011 7:30:30 GMT -5
Seriously though, for anyone who reads this thread and has seen Tekken, what the heck was up with that tournament?! Random Usage of weapons and killing the participants, along with the transforming arena confused me. All in all, not a good film. |
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Post by Gummydavidson on Aug 2, 2011 7:42:05 GMT -5
Am I the only person on this forum who enjoyed the Doom movie?
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Aug 2, 2011 7:54:05 GMT -5
Thing about fighting game movies, I dunno why they're done so wrong. They write themselves, in as much as there's a genre waiting to receive them (martial arts), the audience expects very little and they write themselves (people fight).
The King of Fighters attempt, odd. It had some good casting choices, but the story just drained and the action was mediocre from what's to be seen. A call into another dimension? What's this Mortal Kombat?
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 2, 2011 8:01:02 GMT -5
Am I the only person on this forum who enjoyed the Doom movie? As far as these things go, it wasn't that bad at all. |
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Post by mysterydriver on Aug 2, 2011 8:22:53 GMT -5
Am I the only person on this forum who enjoyed the Doom movie? I enjoyed it well enough and own the unrated version. The Movie Novelization isn't too bad, either (it actually gives the other team members...gasp...personality). That's the thing with movies with "elite squads." Most seem to think as long as one or two of the characters are tough and cool, the rest can just fill the cliche meter and they're. I like it when movies try to get you to care about everyone in the group beyond just saying "He's the rookie!" |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 2, 2011 9:28:17 GMT -5
I agree that Mortal Kombat was the best adaptation, though it hasn't aged brilliantly, if I'm honest. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is the worst, by a mile.
Call me crazy, but I actually enjoyed the Mario movie.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 2, 2011 9:42:49 GMT -5
Am I the only person on this forum who enjoyed the Doom movie? I enjoyed it well enough and own the unrated version. The Movie Novelization isn't too bad, either (it actually gives the other team members...gasp...personality). That's the thing with movies with "elite squads." Most seem to think as long as one or two of the characters are tough and cool, the rest can just fill the cliche meter and they're. I like it when movies try to get you to care about everyone in the group beyond just saying "He's the rookie!" The monkey is the scariest part of the movie. |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Aug 2, 2011 12:03:03 GMT -5
Part of my dislike for videogame movies is that none of them seem to stick to the games and just end up being disapointing. I'd quite like a video game adaption that just follows the plotline of the game. Exact same characters, exact same story just in movie form instead,
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 2, 2011 15:11:03 GMT -5
Speaking of VG adaptations...Resident Evil. Only one question comes to mind in regards to that movie franchise: "What the f*** was that!?" Amen brother. I've come to accept the Resident Evil franchise is Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovoich ego #*$@ to themselves and their attempt to stay relevant to Hollywood. Now they are making The Three Musketeers. Here's a list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_gamesHonestly, looking over the list, I think my vote would probably go to Prince of Persia and Mortal Kombat in a tie. MK is probably better as an adaptation, PoP as a standalone movie. PoP for anyone who hasn't seen it, is pretty much a Pirates of the Carribean-lite, with some parkour action and a shirtless Jake Gyllenhall. It is overwhelmingly okay, which still puts it above basically every other game movie. |
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Post by jrcz on Aug 2, 2011 15:14:01 GMT -5
Hero of time is awesome.
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Post by Krimzon on Aug 2, 2011 15:23:29 GMT -5
Amen brother. I've come to accept the Resident Evil franchise is Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovoich ego #*$@ to themselves and their attempt to stay relevant to Hollywood. Now they are making The Three Musketeers. Here's a list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_gamesHonestly, looking over the list, I think my vote would probably go to Prince of Persia and Mortal Kombat in a tie. MK is probably better as an adaptation, PoP as a standalone movie. PoP for anyone who hasn't seen it, is pretty much a Pirates of the Carribean-lite, with some parkour action and a shirtless Jake Gyllenhall. It is overwhelmingly okay, which still puts it above basically every other game movie. having a higher RT rating than Mortal Kombat & Prince of Persia makes me quite sad. Resident Evil: Extinction having a higher rating than Apocalypse downright pisses me off. I'd rank Extinction as the weakest of the RE movies. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2011 15:29:10 GMT -5
I still love Street Fighter in a non-ironic way. Raul Julia played a perfect cartoon villain.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Aug 2, 2011 16:41:02 GMT -5
only TWO decent fighting game-2-movies EVER
1: MORTAL KOMBAT
2: THE FIRST STREET FIGHTER ANIMATED MOVIE
also HALF LIFE TRILOGY, MAKE IT BLOODY NOW
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Post by AnActualBear on Aug 2, 2011 22:07:44 GMT -5
I've only ever seen Mortal Kombat 1&2, Street Fighter (1994) and the Animated movie based on 2, Resident Evil 1, 2 and Degeneration, the first Pokemon movie and (if it counts) Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy. Out of those MK 1 was fun, MK2 was terrible, Street Fighter is pretty much owned by Raul Julia, The animated SF movie is fantastic, RE1 is average, RE2 is slightly better, Degeneration is garbage, the first Pokemon I can't remember all that well and MGS:Philanthrophy is great considering it is a fan made movie. Out of those I'd say the Animated SF movie and MK1 are probably the best. Still would like to see Doom, Hitman and Tekken before I make a decision though.
Also I'd be remiss if I didn't post this:
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Aug 2, 2011 22:37:28 GMT -5
Now they are making The Three Musketeers. Here's a list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_gamesHonestly, looking over the list, I think my vote would probably go to Prince of Persia and Mortal Kombat in a tie. MK is probably better as an adaptation, PoP as a standalone movie. PoP for anyone who hasn't seen it, is pretty much a Pirates of the Carribean-lite, with some parkour action and a shirtless Jake Gyllenhall. It is overwhelmingly okay, which still puts it above basically every other game movie. having a higher RT rating than Mortal Kombat & Prince of Persia makes me quite sad. Resident Evil: Extinction having a higher rating than Apocalypse downright pisses me off. I'd rank Extinction as the weakest of the RE movies. Extinction was my second favorite aside from the first. Apocalypse was my least favorite. |
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Aug 2, 2011 22:39:21 GMT -5
Am I the only person on this forum who enjoyed the Doom movie? I liked it. Honestly, not sure what people were expecting from it. I wanted to see stuff blown up and a cool first person action sequence and it delivered. |
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Aug 3, 2011 2:56:38 GMT -5
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