The original Mortal Kombat movie. The newest Sonic movie was also pretty good imo.
But yes, this can probably go very wrong.
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Noerknhar@feddit.org 1 day ago
I’m sure they’ll fuck it up.
Name one good videogame movie. One.
simple@lemm.ee 1 day ago
simulacra_procession@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Lol it may be an unpopular opinion but I don’t think we can call mortal Kombat objectively ‘good.’ It’s a cult classic for sure and a fun watch, but for reference it aired at Quakecon’s Master Pancake sat night event one year with the MST3K folks and well… they don’t typically do blockbuster hits
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
First, it’s A24 and they put out amazing movies .
Second, Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros Movie, and I’m not sure if it would count, but Wreck It Ralph are all good video game movies.
WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
You just listed a bunch of animated children’s movies?
If you’re looking for actual examples there’s Silent Hill, Fallout, or The Last of Us.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
I don’t think I’d consider Detective Pikachu or Sonic to be animated. Just like I wouldn’t consider Fallout or Last of Us to be movies.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a cult classic.
The 2023 movie is forgettable garbage.
The Sonic movies are fun though. Knuckles TV as well.
PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] 1 day ago
The Hoper Mario is something - it’s so off the rails, that it’s crusing on anothet track.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Wreck It Ralph doesn’t count because it wasn’t based on an actual video game, but on video games in general. But it was indeed great.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
I don’t know, just because the video game isn’t real doesn’t mean that the movie isn’t based off of a video game. I think it just shows that the reason most video game movies fail isn’t because the movie is bad, but because the fans are too harsh. If Wreck It Ralph replaced the main characters with characters from Mario but still had the same basic plot I don’t think it would have been as well received.
ogeist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wonder it is going to be THE Elden Ring story or An Elden Ring story, a small contained story in the Elden Ring world could fly really well, bonus points if Patches kicks the protagonist off a cliff.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
my preference would be a film about the shattering, giving us some (but not too much) more insight into just what fucked the world up so godsdamned much.
but that would need to be extremely faithful to the lore and character designs and i just don’t see hollywood showing up for that.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
WoW, Prince of Persia
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Does Last of Us count? Sonic movies and Mario were pretty decent too.
aliceblossom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Normally I’d agree, but it being A24 makes me very hopeful.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Alex Garland has made some pretty good movies, so there’s a chance. I thought his instincts with annihilation were pretty much spot on. But yeah, movies based on games do not have a great track record.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Silent Hill
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 day ago
That one got a lot of hate, but I actually liked it.
dellish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Street Fighter. It’s fantastically bad.
Goronmon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Its funny in this case because not “fucking it up” effectively means making a movie that’s barely related to the game outside of the basic setting.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not a movie, but the Fallout series had a great first season, and I’m looking forward to the second.
trungulox@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The last of us was great too. Not a movie still. But .