I'm still waiting for Pac-Man the movie, where Ms. Pac-Man has an affair and aborts a baby Pinkie in the throws of a powerball famine.

nice. Is it going to be a "prequel" of the game's events? That would be sweet. Also, i hope they keep the political allegory and don't dumb it down too much.

I believe that the future of videogame movies lies with John Woo's production of Qbert.

I'm kind of excited actually, BioShock would be a pretty decent movie as long as its given to a director who isn't an idiot. And the fact that Gore has stated that they are going to push the Little Sister thing to the edge so they don't disappoint the fans, makes me happy inside.

Hey! I'm rather fond of the Resident Evil movies (...and I never even played the game.)
Well....hookay. Maybe I'm just fond of Milla...

I remember thinking what great potential it had as a movie while playing, but I don't see anyone attached to the project so far who impresses me.

Color me cautiously optimistic.

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@Miranda Kali: I would say that the Resident Evil movies qualify as a good movie based on a video game...

I don't expect video games based on movies to follow the story line from the game exactly..

This isn't a movie version of a novel...

@Miranda Kali: They were fine popcorn movies, the first was a decent horror movie and the second two were more action based.

I wouldn't give em Oscars, but who cares?

Also, YOUR SOUL IS MINE!, Mortal Kombat was a great movie when I was 14.

Silent Hill was a good movie.

Still, I hope Bioshock lives up to the videogame's quality.

The director is a good choice I think.

Wow, alot more 'yes' votes than I expected. I'm disappointed.

@JesusDeSaad:
No. No it was not. It doesn't even live in the same country as good movies.

That said, I enjoyed the RE movies quite a bit (more the first 2 than the last one, but still). The first Tomb Raider wasn't terrible either.

I think movies based on video games turn out to be awful simply because the film makers decide for some reason to warp the original premise of the games, and end up making a film that's only faintly related to their supposed inspiration.

Case in point, Super Mario Bros. The Movie.

Another vote for Resident Evil, all three. And yes I am fond of Milla...

@Belabras: frankly, anyone that endorses any RE flick has forfited the right to tell someone the silent hill movie wasn't good.

The resident evil movies weren't terrible like the Uwe Bolle ones. The first one was pretty good, second one was OK, and the third was 'eh'.

I enjoyed the first Mortal Kombat. Soundtrack was fun too.

@tetracycloide:
Watch Silent Hill all the way through then tell me that again.

It not just that it's bad, it is more that it had a lot of really good things going then just turned to crap at the end.

@tetracycloide: RE endorsement aside, did you completely miss the Tomb Raider endorsement?

I think the first word that came to mind when I saw Tomb Raider was "terrible".

Silent Hill was good, although I never played the games, so I am not an expert. I enjoyed the atmosphere very much, and it scared the shit out of my fiancée, so I liked it.

@Belabras: Don't just assume that everybody turned it off halfway through like you did.

@workingonyourinvoice:
Oh I watched until the end. I just wish I hadn't.

It's all about expectations - RE and Tomb Raider are honest about what they are: fun actionfests were the plot is really just a slave to the action and special effects.

Silent Hill, on the other hand, strives for a mystery/horror vibe that early it does very well. It starts to fall apart once we get to the cultists, and by the final reveal, we just don't care.

Either they should have aimed lower, or hired better writers.

@Stafford: Alyssa Milano has never looked hotter.

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"Video game movie for smart people"...

...I'm sorry, but I just can't comprehend the above statement.

@Belabras: I'm not a fan of any movie that can be successfully summed up in a single poster:

[www.imdb.com]

Tomb Raider was terrible.

I dunno: I was kind of disappointed in the game itself. Maybe it will make a better movie. Loved the soundtrack from the game, at any rate. It will be interesting to see how much of that is carried over.

I voted no, because I can't think of one off the top of my head.

In anticipation of the Silent Hill movie, my friends and I spent a night playing the Silent Hill games from start to finish. We were pretty disappointed by the movie.

The ones by Uwe Boll are, of course, terrible. Though Postal is supposed to be decent, it's probably just relative.

I liked "Wing Commander". I laughed my ass-off through the whole film. The scene where the fighter-plane thing crashes onto the flight-deck of the carrier and has to be pushed off to clear the deck, and it FALLS off was hilarious!, and the "Das Boot" parody was first-class. Jürgen Prochnow actually yells at a crewman to "Be quiet!" while they are being stalked by an enemy vessel surrounded by the vacuum of space...!

What's that?, it wasn't meant to be a comedy?....

...Oh my god...

Personally, I thought Dead or Alive was a great video game movie. It really captured the feel of the video game, and it was entertaining and fun to watch. The acting was terrible, but still it was highly entertaining.

Are we talking strictly Live Action here?
Because there are a bunch of great Video Game movie Animations. But, I guess, thats my own anus, I mean opinion. Thusly, everyone has one and thinks theirs is the most important. Lets all keep in mind the old proverb "one mans trash... and then think, what are we talking about how good a movie is or how well it was adapted from it's source material? It always brings me back to "One night with Kevin Smith" and his discussion about his involvement with the Superman debacle.
Do we want big giant spiders and a main character who loosely based on its source or do we want a dauntingly accurate translation of our coveted media that looses a studio money that only 100 people go to see? I like to sit in the middle, where most Video Game movies exist. I would be nice to go to the theater and not feel like you've been slapped across the face and money torn from your pocket, but remember there are a lot of people involved in the process that get paid way too much to not care about what you and I do. That said, I think Bioshock is the best Video Game ever, so I can hope that the studio exec's would have a hard time screwing it up as a movie.

@Gann:
I clearly have lower standards. It makes me a happy man.

I wait for Tetris by Uwe Boll!

Actualy, I like Uwe Boll and bad movies in general.
Nothing better for an Evening´s entertainment than beer and flicks like Mortal Kombat 2.
Makes for good drinking games.

I'd want to see the movie happen prior to the game as well. I think it would be awesome to go into more detail on the fall of Rapture.

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: total hair-hot. though i suppose whatever hair shes got, shes still an A+ in my book.

Super MArio Brothers? Tron? Or was the the other way around? A movie based on a non-existent video game that became a video game?

War Games?

All i'm saying is that the line is getting pretty blurred.

@Belabras: Me too.. Aids the digestion to like mediocre stuff, and not work up a swivet about plain old bad movies.

Hohum, pass the popcorn.

@Stafford: So Hair-hot.

but whats 'good' really?? good can be campy but coherent- i don't recall any adaptions of videogames to be as moving or in depth as a wes anderson film but they're still fun to watch!

@evilninjapinguin:
rofl hell yesssss- i just watched bloodrayne and now the doctor said i can't take the bandages off my eyes until the end of the summer x_x

Mortal Kombat was good when I was 12.

Hitman was mediocre.

Wing Commander was funny, but wasn't so bad it triggered my upchuck reflex.

Uwe Boll should be shot for the Dungeon Siege fiasco. I haven't seen his other movies, and won't now.

The RE movies were ok. I watched them and didn't want to go back in time and take those minutes of my life back, so they weren't bad.

Tomb Raider was ok. Hey, it felt like Tomb Raider - and to me that was what mattered.

I wouldn't give any of them Oscars, but the above mentioned ones all have some redeeming qualities, in my opinion.

Why can't they whip out another Tron-esque movie. It's semantics as to if Tron fits into the definition of video game movie. Game and movie came out together, but does ultimately come down to video gaming being a big part of the plot.

And it had Journey.

@GenXCub:
Like so: [www.cinemablend.com]

@trekkie: oh come on!! house of the dead ROCKED! yeah i couldn't even say that with a straight face. whoever thought cutting the action scenes with actual game footage seriously needs their head examined.

on the plus side...it had boobs?

@russdanger: I was worried you weren't to mention that whole parts of "Wing Commander" wasn't "Das Boot"-IN-SPACE!...

I was laughing during that "Be quiet scene....

Final Fantasy animated = Good
Street Fighter with Jean Claude Van Damme = so very very Bad

::ahem::

How has no one mentioned Mortal Kombat? (The first one)

Okay, it wasn't Oscar material, but why would it be? It's based on a game where people beat each other up. The movie stayed relatively true to the overall story presented in the game, and managed not to look completely ridiculous.

My mother even liked it.

Now, Annihilation... that was a travesty.

Also, as genehuntlover said, there are plenty of decent animated video game movies, anime of course. The Street Fighter II movie was pretty good.

@DeepFriar: Beat me to it ... Final Fantasy was actually pretty good (though the ending was "meh").
RE one and three (two was terrible)
I too like Wing Commander, in fits and starts.
Tomb Raider had Angelina Jolie, so what's not to like?
Yeah, there have been a lot of "good-ish" vidgame adaptations, IMHO.

Hey, what's with the Wing Commander love-fest?

I thought I was the only allowed to like that movie.

I admit it is one of my guilty pleasures. It's quite simply a terrible movie by any reasonable standards. And while it has a few mistakes, I don't even laugh at it too much.

It just feel nice as a movie. I guess you could say it has spirit.

Maybe there hasn't been a genuinely good video game movie, but there are a couple of "Good Enough" films. The first Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, and Silent Hill are at least watchable...

Both Final Fantasy movies rocked.
I don't care what my wife says.

@reddingofish: The first one was actually quite awesome. The second one was really sporadic (I didn't play the games though) but was pretty.

Somehow I don't think they are going to play up the Ayn Rand connection in this movie. It would be nice, but I doubt it.

Maybe if it were an indy film called "Fall from Rapture" that focused on the backstory it might be cool.

What? No mention of Doom? - The greatest film with The Rock playing second fiddle to Karl Urban. ever.

Also contains proof that Urban's a truly great actor: Anyone that can deliver the line "If they're so great, why are they so dead?" with any conviction must be something special!

Hitman was good if you go into it knowing that it is based off of a video game and should inherently lower some standards. Plus that girl was hot!

The movie version of DOA was awesomely campy. The original Mortal Kombat and DOOM were even fun to me. I'm actually saddened by the news of a Bioshock movie. I thought the narrative of the game was so strong, I would rather loan my copy to someone than have them just see a movie based around it.

I'm going to have to agree with anyone who endorses Mortal Kombat. I think that's pretty much the best live action adaptation of a game in America.

As for the best adaptations period, I'd have to say that first and foremost is the animated Street Fighter II film. After that comes the Fatal Fury TV movies. I finally watched Resident Evil a few weeks ago, and I guess that was OK. Silent Hill was a poor movie storywise, but it would have made for a great imax experience or something. I think they should have gone for high concept and focused just on the visuals while making the movie a silent feature - like the horror equivalent of Fantasia or something.

"Dystopian-future"??

Last time I checked, when I played the game, it was an alternate history. Not a futuristic game.

I'd love to see a Bioshock movie if it's reasonably well done and true to the look and sound of the game. But I have seen very few videogame movies, and the ones I have (like Hitman, which was really, really, really bad) give me the fear.

Er, is no one going to mention the pokemon movies? But seriously, it seems only the Japanese understand how to take the strong parts of a game and weave them into a movie; Final Fantasy: Advent Children, the Street Fighter II, Fatal Fury, and Tekken animated movies, plus a bunch of animated shows. I'm not saying theyre oscar worthy (the end battle of advent children was pretty damned impressive) but at least they take their source material seriously.

As for America, I'd say Hitman and Mortal Kombat have come closest to being faithful to the game and still being decent flicks. Its amusing to note that, of all the awful game movies made, NONE of them stayed anywhere NEAR the source material. I'm talking to you, Uwe Boll. My name is on that petition to make you stop butchering my hobby...

Well, there's a difference between good and enjoyable. I can enjoy something without it being good (Starship Troopers), and something can be good without me enjoying it (28 Days Later).

That said, I said no, but I just realized that Silent Hill was a pretty good horror movie- and not just good for a video game movie.

The jury is still out on the Final Fantasy movies.

Does AvP count as a videogame movie? Oh wait, it sucked anyway.

I watched Hitman last night and it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be.

So Bioshock is set in the 60s, not the future.

How is Bioshock for smart people? Because it uses the word "dystopian?" If you've played the game, you've already seen the best version of any Bioshock