Appropos of my last post

[trinityvixen]

Rotten Tomatoes has a listing of the top 30 or so ranked video game movies, and despite the mediocre reviews, Prince of Persia is #2.

Please consider that your mileage may vary with their rankings--they have no less than four Uwe Boll movies on that list--but it's interesting to look at all the video games that people have tried to make into movies and which have been successful and which have not. I still think Pokemon and Digimon are cheating, though, seeing as they're not putting up video games made into movies so much as they are making movies based on TV shows that happen to also have games associated with them.

Not sure I agree with which film they put at #1. Haters may hate, but I really liked the first Resident Evil movie. I thought it did justice to the games while still doing its own thing.

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[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

No less than FOUR Uwe Boll films on the list? Well...I guess to get the list up to 30, you'd have to include just about every video game-to-movie adaptation I can think of. Sure, Uwe Boll films are enjoyable in their own way, but they are not even remotely good and they're almost bad to the point where they stop being funny-bad. I'm gonna have to look at that list and see how high they scored.

Pokemon and Digimon? Now there's no excuse for those two being on the list in my opinion. Were they video games before they were TV shows/cartoons? No? Then THEY DON'T COUNT. Ugh, do the people/person who put this list together have no shame?

Resident Evil is #1? Well, at least this list has that going for it. Love it and thoroughly enjoyed all three of the films so far. Looking forward to the new one.

Hmm, I wonder where Mortal Kombat and Double Dragon placed? I love Mortal Kombat and I even enjoy Mortal Kombat: Annihilation even though it's a significant step down from the first. Have you ever seen Double Dragon? One of my best friends and I watched that and Street Fighter The Movie back-to-back in what was supposed to be a horrible game-to-movie adaptation movie night years ago -- Street Fighter was every bit as bad we expected it to be, but Double Dragon turned out to be good! Not good good, of course, but it was bad in a way it intended to be and had us laughing at lines and scenes that were actually meant to be funny!

Alright, back to work...

[oblvndrgn.livejournal.com]

Que? How were Pokemon and Digimon not video games before they were cartoons? Arguably Digimon was a virtual pet (read: tamagotchi) before it was anything else, but I'm pretty sure the video games as well as the card games were both out before the tv series and movies started. I'm not defending them as movies, mind you, just saying they were indeed games first.

I was also complaining about the placement of movies on this list until I realized it was just sorted by RT aggregate votes, and indeed, many video games were average but had awful critic reviews. Well, the first RE and Tomb Raider movies anyway. Street Fighter was awesome because Raul Julia is the best Bison ever. The day you saw him in that movie was the most important day of your miserable life, but for him, it was Tuesday.

[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

OK, were Pokemon and Digimon actual video games before cartoons, or were they card games or whatever? I honestly don't know, but I assumed any video games came after the cartoons. And I'm just thinking movies that were made after video games in particular.

I liked the second Tomb Raider movie quite a bit more than the first, but that could partially be because the first was NOT what I expected and I was sorely disappointed. Raul Julia is magnificent and his portrayal of Bison was a a definite highlight, but not even he was enough to save the film in my opinion. Other than him, the only thing I actually LIKED about it was that Vega looked pretty close to the Vega from the games.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think what we're objecting to is that the story of the movies is most definitely an extension of the respective TV series. The games never loaned themselves to any sort of story telling. Far as I know, all the Pokemon/Digimon existed before the series, but not the humans that used them that then went on to be in the movies.

The day you saw him in that movie was the most important day of your miserable life, but for him, it was Tuesday.

LOL. God, I can't believe I remember that line.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, Double Dragon was listed at the bottom. You know you have to be doing something really, really wrong if you're that far down below an Uwe Boll movie, much less all of them. I have trouble imagining the movie that could be worse than House of the Dead, but then I guess I'm not an internet site that accrues critical ratings...