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.

Comments

[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.