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    Illogic: That last sentence is what hell looks like for movie lovers. more »
    dnwilliams: Comics are a storytelling medium, games aren't. That's why games are 'harder' to adapt to film, there's nothing but visuals, and if there is a story t... more »
    Bill-Lee: The only thing I remember about Doom is the Rock's best line: "I'm not supposed to die!" more »
    Jesse Astle: I bored so many people to death telling them how bad Catwoman was. I was so pissed off I payed to see that ass crap movie. Seriously though, how can y... more »
    hiteklolife: I would actually like to see some P&PRPG movies rather than videogame & comic movies. Games like Shadowrun, Rifts, Call of Cthulhu, (or CthulhuTech), ... more »
    brett108: Does this post seem overly defensive of video game movies? And there actually appears to be a paragraph in here that would insinuate that the Resident... more »
    sicboi: And so it must be said that the biggest loser here overall is: original sci-fi movies... more »
    Prosthetics: Perhaps this decade is the best for those because people can't think of their own ideas anymore, so they have to steal ideas that already exist. more »
    Koztah: Ridley Scott? Directing Monopoly? I'll say this: it better be about a guy in a top hat with a huge mustache riding around in a giant thimble and buyi... more »
    GeneJacket: Bear with me, this will be a little long. Here's the biggest problem, and the one that hurt comic book movies for far too long: The medium is still ... more »
    (Starman) NONAME: ;_; Uwe Boll, how I hate you for fucking up the plot for Alone in the Dark so badly. more »
    lightninglouie: As for why Halo fell through, the answer is simple: Movie execs see video game-based projects as low-budget affairs, designed to pack in the 18-34 mal... more »
    gods-n-clods: The verdict is probably Toy Movies for 2 years. Bigger and dumber. But in the videogame versus movie argument, it could be that games need to evolve ... more »
    0kami: I thought Silent Hill was the best game adaptation yet. Even though they shifted the story a bit, the first half of the movie is almost identical to t... more »
    Dr Emilio Lizardo: "Uwe Boll would have to work overtime and weekends to make a film half as bad as Catwoman" The data does not support your assertion. "Catwoman" got ... more »
    fernandosolano: Maybe videogame movies suck because videogame stories are generally crap. Most videogames are about violence, so the story in a videogame(much like t... more »
    collex: "But the other thing that becomes apparent, after you look at all of the superhero and video-game films of the past decade, is that the overall level ... more »
    JRD_2: Isn't it more accurate to say that superhero movies took a downturn in the 1990s and are now enjoying a resurgence to their former status? The 70s an... more »
    cjscampbell: Why no mention of Blade? I'd say it was the start of the new comic movie wave. Definitely the first Marvel one and showed what was to come in the 2000s. more »
    CalderMedusa: There's one reason that video games movies aren't successful. And his name is Uwe Boll. more »
  • #decadeinreview

    The Decade That Superhero Movies Beat Video-Game Movies

    Ten years ago, superhero films and video-game films were both minor genres. You had your Batman Forever and your Mortal Kombat, but not much else. Both genres blew up in the 2000s, but superhero films won much bigger. For now. More »
  • #transformers3

    Transformers Writers Trade In Autobots For View-Masters

    One has the dream team of Orci & Kurtzman attached and the other, has robots? The Trek/Fringe writers have left Transformers 3, claiming they didn't have a solid story. They've moved on... to writing a vehicle for the View-Master toy. More »
  • #viewmaster

    Already, A Toy-Based Movie Even Weirder Than Asteroids

    Never mind the Asteroids movie... there just may be a movie being worked on that comes from an even less likely toy origin. Are they really making a movie based on Viewmaster? More »