More videogame movies coming Comments by Ellie Gibson

New Resi film?

Please, oh please, oh pretty please please do not suck as much as Apocalypse...

Oh, Anderson is back? Well, that seals it...

/cries

\o/ MORTAL KOMBAAAAT!!!

/got nothing.

Please please do a good job on the new Resi Film.

Still haven't seen Apocalypse - too scared!

But Anderson didn't direct Apocalypse..

Video game movies = crap.

blackdog- come on now, Cobra on the Spectrum was ace! Stallone's best work!

Videogame movies don't have to be crap. Game fans are generally elitist bastards and nothing will ever please them when converting a game to a movie, even if it IS genuinely a good movie. Part of the problem is that people already decide the movie will be bad before they even see it.

Nope.

Batman: The Movie was a great game on the Amiga 500 many years ago.

King Kong looks good here in 2005.

Really enjoyed the first 2 Resident Evil films - bit of a shock as I was expecting them to be dire.

"Since when did Hollywood stop coming up with original ideas and start nicking game concepts instead?"

Hollywood... original ideas? I wanna live in your universe, Ellie.

Let's not forget Ghostbusters.

Aladdin was also an awesome platformer back in the days

Both of the Resi films are great! Looking forward to Afterlife. :)

Since when did Hollywood stop coming up with original ideas

When did they start?

Videogame movies don't have to be crap. Game fans are generally elitist bastards and nothing will ever please them when converting a game to a movie, even if it IS genuinely a good movie. Part of the problem is that people already decide the movie will be bad before they even see it.

Have you ever watched any of the videogame adaptations? They are, almost without exception, utter shite. It's not about being elitist, it's about them being total crap. Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil are about as good as it gets, which really isn't saying much.

Games based on movies suck

Riddick, The Warriors, Aladdin, Spiderman, TIE Fighter, KOTOR?


Back of the class!

PearOfAnguish - yes, most of them are crap. But they don't -have- to be. People seem to think that a movie of a game is automatically **** JUST because it's a movie of a game.

And the RE movies are actually pretty decent. If you like zombie flicks (which I do) then they're rather good. They're as good as almost any zombie movie around.

What about Platoon on the C64?

What about 'that' N64 Bond game?

What about Riddick?

Games based on films are not ALLLLWAYS terrible.

Films based on games though...well now THAT is another story.

Streetfighter as a live action movie...and gawd damn, then they made a Streetfighter game BASED on the Streetfighter film.

Awesome!

" Games based on movies suck
Movies based on games suck"

Ooooold, and not true.

Shit games suck.
Shit movies suck.

/fixed

"Mobile phones are quickly becoming the entertainment device of choice for many consumers."

...at which point he was quickly mobbed by his company's PSP marketing division and beaten?

New Resi? Ace!

At the end of the first resi, you got to see her muff.
At the end of the second one, you got to see her baps

In this one can we see her being rogered up the back passage by some giant zombie bloke?

PearOfAnguish - yes, most of them are crap. But they don't -have- to be. People seem to think that a movie of a game is automatically **** JUST because it's a movie of a game.

Can you blame them? Paul Anderson's best film was Event Horizen, which was surrounded by rumours of other people actually putting together a decent edit, and since then the man has done nothing but make utter crap. After he'd finished destroying whatever credibility there was for videogame movies he then moved on to fucking up the Alien AND Predator franchises. And Uwe Boll...c'mon...he has never, ever made one film worth bothering with. I'm not just talking about his videogames movies, the man's 'career' is a joke, he's raping the dead corpse that Anderson left behind and movie and game fans have every right to reel in horror when either of these two fuckwits are linked to anything.

And the RE movies are actually pretty decent. If you like zombie flicks (which I do) then they're rather good. They're as good as almost any zombie movie around.

I love zombie movies. Both RE movies are crap. They're crap films and they're crap zombie films. Romero should have been allowed to do it then we might have got something more interesting than the watered-down kiddie shit-a-thon that was RE 1 & 2. As good as any zombie movie around? Sure sparky, next time I feel like watching a decent horror I'll put on RE instead of Dawn of the Dead, Zombie Flesh Eaters or Re-Animator.

'Mobile phones are quickly becoming the entertainment device of choice for many consumers' what a load of cack !!! Lets pay 20 quid to watch a film on a tiny screen or lets pay 10 quid to watch the dvd on a big tele in surround sound, and thats without even getting into consoles as 'entertainment device of choice'

true mate - but surely work and bus time is reserved for playing Advance Wars DS ;)

Good games based on movies:
- Goldeneye
- Chronicles of Riddick
???

Good movies based on games:
????

I think the original Resident Evil was OK at best, and Doom was average... but that's really pushing things... Mortal Kombat was OK... god, this is HARD!

Remind me never to pick this as a subject for Mastermind...

I'm not going to argue they're good movies - but the Pokemon films have always seemed quite popular with their target audiences.

Oh, and the original Tomb Raider was pretty good. The sequel kinda blew but there you go.

The WARRIORS is a good film based on a game.

OllyJ, it's the Dunces Cap for you...

Why?!

/wanders off...

The original Resi film was fantastic. Granted, Apocalypse was utter shit, but hopefully the new one will rectify the situation with Anderson back at the helm.

Resident evil? nope i'll pass. But a Kameo anime from the makers of Sky Blue? SOLD!
(Self proclamed otaku!)

A Kameo movie - what is the world coming to...

Get a life Gouki.

Batman Begins and Constantine weren't half bad videogames...

*hides*

... Really, BBIAJ? 'cause Constantine had the potential to be alot fun. I just thought it, y'know, wasn't. Haven't tried it yet though.

I wonder if they'll make a movie of the N64 game "Goldeneye"...

Great game...

Well, I picked up Constantine dirt cheap as part of GAME's Deal Of The Week some months back now, and not having seen the film, have found it to be quite fun and enjoyable, despite the critical drubbing it received upon release.

Has certainly made me want to see the film more so now.

Kameo animated movie? Umm.. Pollution is bad? FFS! Haven't those people heard of Fern Gully?! The plot sounds soooo 1990s... Oh look, those horrid people in the Amazon are destroying trees for a living, but Kameo will make these people look toward sustainable rainforests and cut back on fossil fuel.