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Post by default on Nov 26, 2009 20:51:33 GMT -5
Super Mario Bros., imo. For the sheer fact they took the single greatest and most recognizable video game franchise and crapped all over it. Yet everyone had to go to school and pretend it was awesome for some reason. The director or writers or whoever, you could just tell had no interest in any real SMB storyline and we ended up with a subpar sci-fi-ish plot with very few Mario characters. Just. Lame. I still enjoy the movie some... in the same way I enjoy stuff like Suburban Commando, Tank Girl and Soldier.
Oh, and as for DOA... I can't hate on a movie with Jaime Pressly tight little body and cute little bumble bee butt in bikinis and other revealing outfits. Plus, Kevin Nash was great hamming it up. Plus I mean... KEVIN NASH took a role that was obviously based on Hulk Hogan. Sheer brilliance in casting.
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Post by Drink Up Me Cider on Nov 26, 2009 20:56:42 GMT -5
^Boobs don't just do it for me, but yea Big Sexy was one redeeming point I'll give you that.
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Post by renzino on Nov 26, 2009 20:57:27 GMT -5
Super Mario Brothers
I say this because it's the one that disappointed me the most.
The other movies based on video games that I seen are bad no doubt about that, but this was suppose to be a movie based on one of the most popular game franchises ever it should have been better.
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Post by Dee. on Nov 26, 2009 21:20:40 GMT -5
I loved Doom, and I can quite well say I am not unashamed of liking it.
That said, Mortal Kombat was a childhood movie of mine. Annihilation is good in a hilariously 'C-movie' bad way. Jax was the only good thing about it.
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Post by PaperStreetBrigade on Nov 26, 2009 21:22:28 GMT -5
Okay, this begins and ends with Uwe Boll. I've seen House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. He's also done Bloodrayne, In The Name of the King and Postal. Its been mentioned before, but once again, the reason that Uwe keeps getting money to make movies is because of a German tax law that allows the producers of films made in Germany that lose money to take a tax write off. So that means Uwe Boll is actually ENCOURAGED not to make good movies.
Also, he was PROUD of the fact that Postal had almost no script. Postal also begins with a parody of one of the 9/11 planes. That's right, Uwe Boll parodies a 9/11 flight. Oh, and Postal is actually considered the movie that Uwe Boll did the best in translating from Game to Film. Also they couldn't get Gary Coleman to appear in the film.
I mean Super Mario Brothers, Double Dragon, MK:Annihilation, at least they TRIED to make money. They TRIED to make a good movie. That already puts them head and shoulders above anything that Boll has made. I went to a movie theater to see MKA and SMB, I've seen DD on TV. Really, they are all far superior to anything made by Boll.
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Post by Drink Up Me Cider on Nov 26, 2009 21:26:37 GMT -5
^Yep Postal is a disgrace to humanity on a moral and humor level.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Nov 26, 2009 22:27:38 GMT -5
I actually thought the original Mortal Kombat film perfectly captured the spirit of the games (at least the first two).
The sequel? Egads that was bad.
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Post by Photogenic Huss Bosh on Nov 26, 2009 22:32:37 GMT -5
In the Name of the King was an abomination. Boll casted Burt Reynolds, Jason Statham, Ron Perlman, and Ray Liotta. And still managed to create this steaming pile of f***.
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Post by wwerules60 on Nov 26, 2009 22:52:09 GMT -5
Super Mario Bros should have been something fun, even if it turned out to be really stupid they could have made a very fun film, but what they did make was not fun at all.
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Post by default on Nov 27, 2009 10:13:59 GMT -5
^Boobs don't just do it for me, but yea Big Sexy was one redeeming point I'll give you that. It was butt not boobs. But yeah, it doesn't necessarily for me, but I've had a thing for Jaime Pressly ever since Poison Ivy: The New Seduction.
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Nov 27, 2009 12:06:52 GMT -5
I don't get why people hate postal so much.
It's so obviously 4chan: the movie, that I can't hate it or call it a disgrace. I mean yes making fun of 9/11 and the people who died is completely in poor taste, but when the film is supposed to make jokes that are in poor taste I can't really mind it. I'm sorry but I was way more offended at how twilight supports abusive relationships than I was at postal.
But as far as the worst video game movie goes... street fighter legend of chun li is pretty bad. Uwe boll's house of the dead movie had more things in common with the game it was based on than this movie. Final fantasy spirits with in had more in common than this movie. hell the super mario bros. movie had more in common than this movie. This is a movie where producers bought a property just to make a cheap buck and nothing more.
However, I still think the upcoming tekken movie will make all the movies in this topic look good by comparison. I mean... IT'S FREAKING BASED ON TEKKEN! YOU DON'T BASE A MOVIE OFF A VIDEO GAME WHERE YOU CAN FIGHT AS A BOXING KANGAROO.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Nov 27, 2009 12:16:04 GMT -5
MK2. MK1 was so good, it worked better than any game film up to that point. It like they got it. Then MK2 came out, and well, it's so horrible.
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Post by theryno665 on Nov 27, 2009 12:27:29 GMT -5
House of the Dead
If you're so lazy to intercut actual game footage into the movie instead of shoot your own footage, then you shouldn't be directing.
At least Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li had CHARLIE NASH, INTERPOL! in it.
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Nov 27, 2009 12:36:50 GMT -5
House of the Dead If you're so lazy to intercut actual game footage into the movie instead of shoot your own footage, then you shouldn't be directing. At least Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li had CHARLIE NASH, INTERPOL! in it. the thing is though, it's like they saw a character named charlie nash and a charcter named chun-li from a video game and just put them in a generic movie. That to me was much more lazy than house of the dead.
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Post by Wolfaga on Nov 27, 2009 12:36:58 GMT -5
However, I still think the upcoming tekken movie will make all the movies in this topic look good by comparison. I mean... IT'S FREAKING BASED ON TEKKEN! YOU DON'T BASE A MOVIE OFF A VIDEO GAME WHERE YOU CAN FIGHT AS A BOXING KANGAROO. Like yeah, Tekken has a fighting Bear, Panda, Kangaroo, Dinosaur (way back at Tekken 2) and Wood, yeah, Fighting Wood But this adaptation is SRSZ BIZNIZZ, It doesn't even have ANY of those things, because it's a totally SERIOUS tournament Check the trailer and various pictures of characters (who actually look like the characters in the game), it actually looks quite good
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Nov 27, 2009 12:38:55 GMT -5
However, I still think the upcoming tekken movie will make all the movies in this topic look good by comparison. I mean... IT'S FREAKING BASED ON TEKKEN! YOU DON'T BASE A MOVIE OFF A VIDEO GAME WHERE YOU CAN FIGHT AS A BOXING KANGAROO. Like yeah, Tekken has a fighting Bear, Panda, Kangaroo, Dinosaur (way back at Tekken 2) and Wood, yeah, Fighting Wood But this adaptation is SRSZ BIZNIZZ, It doesn't even have ANY of those things, because it's a totally SERIOUS tournament Check the trailer and various pictures of characters (who actually look like the characters in the game), it actually looks quite good But it's still the story of tekken, somewhere down the lin jin is going to be thrown into a volcano and have to make a deal with the devil creating a character called devil jin. And you have to deal with bryan fury, a character who's been dead FOR THREE GAMES.
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Post by theryno665 on Nov 27, 2009 12:46:54 GMT -5
Before this devolves into another "the movie sucks because it didn't follow the game close enough" argument, I must again bring to light this informative Cracked.com article. It's too early to tell just yet but Tekken does look pretty decent. But I think we can agree that most of these movies (Super Mario Bros., Uwe Boll's entire catalog, etc) not only fail as Video Game Movies, but as movies in general. It just so happens that movies based on video games tend to suck more than movies not based on them.
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Post by bubbles on Nov 27, 2009 12:51:23 GMT -5
I saw some of a Double Dragon movie on TV once, it seemed pretty bad.
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Post by Grendel on Nov 27, 2009 13:00:47 GMT -5
^Boobs don't just do it for me, but yea Big Sexy was one redeeming point I'll give you that. It was butt not boobs. But yeah, it doesn't necessarily for me, but I've had a thing for Jaime Pressly ever since Poison Ivy: The New Seduction. Understandable. Dead Or Alive is a rather crappy movie, but when I'm in the mood for a really stupid fighting movie, I can laugh at this one.
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Post by Magician under the moonlight on Nov 27, 2009 14:16:34 GMT -5
I saw some of a Double Dragon movie on TV once, it seemed pretty bad. I was just about to say this one. Yeah it's horrible. Villains were unconvincing and what's with that medallion thing? Also Final Fantasy: the spirits within. It would have been decent if they didn't use the Final Fantasy name on it.
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