Worst video game to movie adaptations

[Carnivol]

- Doom (what? Evil is determined by DNA? Fuck that, I want my hellspawn!)
- Super Mario Bros. (FULL of FAIL, except for Bob Hoskins)
- Street Fighter (oh man... Where to start with this one).

Doom: I remember laughing out loud in the cinema when they said it was all caused by an extra chromosome... Commonly, when casually talking about having an extra chromosome like they did in that movie, you're usually talking about what's commonly referred to as downs syndrome.
(I suspect Event Horizon's rumored Doom origin is why Doom ended up trying to be Aliens meets Evil Dead or something.)

SMB: For some reason, I absolutely love the absurdity of that movie. + Bob Hoskins as Super Mario; f-yeah! (And Dennis Hopper as Koopa )

SF: There are everlasting ghost stories about how the script for the movie was initially a G.I. Joe script... certainly explains a lot about the general setup of the movie and its narrative...

If RE was handled by same team as the Biohazard 4D Executer video it would of be great the only decent re film in my books, shame they didn't work on degeneration instead we got fucked up lip-sync, dodgey animations and a numb Leon.

I doubt the 4D Executor team would've been able to make a full length movie. I hardly managed to stomach my way through Executor, so I fear for how 1h30m of similar-ish stuff would've ended up.

As for Degeneration lip-sync; Fire up the JP audio track, for some absurd reason, the Lip-sync seems to be mainly tweaked towards the JP speech track (I'd probably suspiciously point fingers at Sony Pictures. It really seems like a typical production thing they'd come up with, especially seeing as RE has been English as it gets all the way.)

The only one I've ever heard anything positive about is Postal.

What is the difference between a duck?



Anyway, I put my money on Legend of Chun-Li as the worst game movie. It must be really bad, or at least somewhat heavily broken, as I haven't seen it yet!

[Mr_Zombie]

The worrying thing is that Sub Zero and Sub Zero's brother do pretty much the same thing, Sindel and Kitara pretty much do the same thing and Johnny Cage does die...it was actually worryingly true to the games in ways.

I don't remember the whole Kitana-Sindel storyline, but the story about Sub-Zero, his brother and Scorpion (not to mention between the new Sub-Zero and Lin Kuei and the whole plot with turning ninjas into cyborgs) was a little more complicated. The biggest problem with the movie was that they wanted to put as many characters there as they could, and thus there was no real storyline, just a series of: a new character appears, a fight scene, that new character either dies or joins main heroes;

[nemesiswontdie]

That movie ended for me when Johnny Cage died.

That movie ended when it wasn't Bridgette Wilson who played as Sonya.

The worrying thing is that Sub Zero and Sub Zero's brother do pretty much the same thing, Sindel and Kitara pretty much do the same thing and Johnny Cage does die...it was actually worryingly true to the games in ways.

Yeah true. It was stupid when they brought back Scorpion (which is saying something because Scorpion and Reptile are my favorite MK characters) because he died in the first movie as well.

[Darkmoon]

The worrying thing is that Sub Zero and Sub Zero's brother do pretty much the same thing, Sindel and Kitara pretty much do the same thing and Johnny Cage does die...it was actually worryingly true to the games in ways.

And yeah, I think Uwe Boll has to take the cake, and then shit it out, because that's how he makes his bloody awful movies. The only one I've ever heard anything positive about is Postal.

[aris13]

I think the worst was this

Kitana: "Mother.....you're alive!"
Sindel: "Too bad you.....will die."

That movie ended for me when Johnny Cage died.

[Xander Ashford]

A lot of video game movies, you can pretty much tell right away if it is going to be something spawned from the feces of retarded demons or if it will be okay.

For example, Silent Hill has an interesting trailer from what I can recall. I mean, it was clearly enough to get me to watch the movie, and I actually liked that movie. I realize some people are under the impression that if a movie based off a video game does not mimic that video game nothing short of perfection, then it is automatically deemed "stupid."

"OMGZ! Wesker'seS SunGlasses aren't be dat size! GARR! They R 2 roundeseses."

And back to my thesis on good/bad trailers making/breaking the movie: The Chun-Li one...Oh, dear Satan...I'm sorry any one paid to see it.

Anyway, some are good some are bad, naturally, but these are merely interpretations of a video game...And yes, sometimes interpretations are bad.

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[CODE_umb87]

The 2nd Mortal Kombat movie. Holy shit that is terrible.

"Sub Zero I thought I killed you!?"
"No. That was my twin brother."

I think the worst was this

Kitana: "Mother.....you're alive!"
Sindel: "Too bad you.....will die."

[GuardhouseMusic]

I saw the first 30 minutes of Alone in the Dark and I didn't want to see anymore.

That's the only REAL exposure I've had with a Boll film besides the internet critics who rip on them constantly. As long as I don't have to watch them I'll look at 'em in a "so bad it's good" way with scenes such as this

Mortal Kombat 2 and The Legend of Chun-Li are close in quality. Just horribly made films, not even appealing on a fun basis.

[A-J]

House of the dead

wait .. anything done by Boll really.

[rewak]

Bloodrayne, my god it was terrible!

[kevstah2004]

If RE was handled by same team as the Biohazard 4D Executer video it would of be great the only decent re film in my books, shame they didn't work on degeneration instead we got fucked up lip-sync, dodgey animations and a numb Leon.

[Beanovsky Durst]

sigh...

- Resident Evil Apocalypse, Extinction and possibly Afterlife. (First one was ok, though).
- Mortal Kombat 2. (I agree with it being like a bad cosplay effort).
- Everything directed by Uwe Boll.
- Doom (what? Evil is determined by DNA? Fuck that, I want my hellspawn!)
- Super Mario Bros. (FULL of FAIL, except for Bob Hoskins)
- Street Fighter (oh man... Where to start with this one).

I'll take any animated/CGI movie over any live action flick.

[JcFFx]

Legend of chun li was definitely a huge waste of my money.

[Mr_Zombie]

Although, I have a glimmer of hope for Prince of Persia.

PoP is a decent action-adventure movie; however, although it more or less captures the atmosphere of Sands of Time (the game), especially when it comes to Prince-Tamina interactions, it has very little to do with the games (besides the sands of time). The story, characters - everything is different. Still, a good summer blockbuster.

And about worst games to movie adaptation - I would go for "The Legend of Chun-Li". The JCVD's "Street Fighter" at least doesn't take itself seriously and is full of cheese; the new SF movie tries to be serious, but ends up being just stupid.

[Gideon Quinn]

Yeah, MK2 was really bad. The costumes were horrendous and made the cast look like bad cosplayers. The acting was abysmal and the fight scenes were messy and badly choreographed with too many wires. Stupid movie that should have never been made. MK1 was by no means a masterpiece, but it was a fun little martial arts / action film that paid homage to a popular game series.