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Which are worse
Movies based on video games
 
 77.8%, 7 votes
Video games based on movies
 
 22.2%, 2 votes
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FX

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Posted on 10-28-08 09:48 PM Link | Quote
Pretty simple.

Personally, I think that movies based on games are worse. For the first part, there's a decent number of games from movies that are awesome (First 2 Spider-Man games, Riddick), and even when they're mediocre, they have good moments (Bat Tank levels in Batman Begins); whereas movies based on games tend to be crap, with a few mediocre ones sprinkled in.
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Posted on 10-28-08 10:33 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FX
(First 2 Spider-Man games)
I loved Spider-Man 2. You can guess my disappointment after playing 3, expecting it to be the same as (or an improvement of) 2.

Movie-based games have at least had some quality in them, compared to game-based movies. King Kong, for example, was surprisingly fun. A pretty solid FPS.
Astrophel
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Posted on 10-31-08 12:48 PM Link | Quote
Movies based on games.

I haven't seen a game-based movie that I've liked. I have played movie-based games that I've liked.
FX

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Posted on 10-31-08 01:15 PM Link | Quote
Well, there is one good movie based on a game:


Rogue
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Posted on 10-31-08 04:10 PM Link | Quote
It's a pretty even split to me actually.

Good grief, the Catwoman game.

But I can't really think of a GREAT movie that's based on a game, tbh.

Street Fighter? Terrible.

Mortal Kombat? Where's the story again?

Silent Hill? Meh.

The collective works of Uwe Boll? Yikes.

Well Tomb Raider wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either.

Still can't believe they're making a Pac-Man movie, though.
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Posted on 10-31-08 04:37 PM Link | Quote
Well, you know, Catwoman didn't really have good source material either.

Honestly, then I very much prefer games based on movies. The only reason that there are so many bad ones is because the people making those games don't quite understand that the game needs more than just voice acting from the movie stars to be good. Also, so many rely on cutscenes from the movies, which never works.

However, like the Spiderman games, there are plenty of good examples. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King was a fun game, and Batman Begins, while not a great game, was fun to play.

Game movies however pretty much always suck, the only exception being Tomb Raider, which unfortunately spawned a nearly identical sequel. They were both good, but not quite as good as they could have been.
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Posted on 11-06-08 02:45 PM Link | Quote
Nothing worse than Super Mario Bros. The story is quite inaccuate before the relation on SMW2 Yoshi's Island for the Super NES. Most of stuff in the Mario Movie itself is inaccurate relation to the actual video game.
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Posted on 11-06-08 03:06 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by insectduel
Nothing worse than Super Mario Bros. The story is quite inaccuate before the relation on SMW2 Yoshi's Island for the Super NES. Most of stuff in the Mario Movie itself is inaccurate relation to the actual video game.


xD, you know, I actually thought that that movie was pretty hilarious.
Astrophel
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Posted on 11-06-08 05:23 PM Link | Quote
Vulkar, that hilarity was probably unintentional.

And insectduel, I'm pretty sure the movie came before SMW2 was made.
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Posted on 11-06-08 06:31 PM Link | Quote
People will always be torn on that movie.

As inaccurate and odd as it was ... I've always loved it.
Astrophel
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Posted on 11-06-08 06:44 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xeu
People will always be torn on that movie.

As inaccurate and odd as it was ... I've always loved it.

So what we have is an ongoing debate between So Bad It's Good and So Bad It's Horrible?
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Posted on 11-06-08 11:38 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Astrophel
Originally posted by Xeu
People will always be torn on that movie.

As inaccurate and odd as it was ... I've always loved it.

So what we have is an ongoing debate between So Bad It's Good and So Bad It's Horrible?

Haha, yeah.

I'd have to say ... "So Bad It's Good" describes every single Steven Segal movie out there. I'll never forget in one of his newer ones (straight to DVD or whatever), he shoots down a helicopter with a pistol. Amazing.
FX

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Posted on 11-07-08 01:21 AM Link | Quote
Hmm....
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Posted on 11-07-08 11:07 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FX
Hmm....

He finally got his own website? Sweet.

I was getting tired of subscribing to his videos on YouTube and then they'd get suspended for TOS violation bullshit from people screaming about copyright infringements.
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Posted on 11-10-08 12:52 PM Link | Quote
Tetris: The Movie

Thing is, I like a lot of movie based films, and I rarely enjoy the games based off films.

I liked the Resident Evil trilogy, I liked the Silent Hill movie, I even enjoyed Super Mario Bros movie. Maybe I'm affected too much by nostalgia, but meh.
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Posted on 11-10-08 01:08 PM Link | Quote
Well, there's always Mega64.
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