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[Jake007]

If you have seen any movies based on video games, what do you think of them? In my opinion, there are a few good ones, but a few bad ones as well.

I saw Hitman: the movie and thought it was pretty cool, but not great. But then I saw bloodrain: the movie, and it sucked. (I guess because Uwe Boll directed).

[tdalton]

MORTAL KOMBAT (the first one, not the dreadful sequel) was a great video-game to film adaptation. RESIDENT EVIL was also fairly decent, even if it didn't have much in common with the game series in terms of storyline. I also thought that SILENT HILL was quite good.

[Jake007]

I've heard that Silent Hill was really good.

btw, I heard there's gonna be movies based on Halo, Metal Gear Solid, and Splinter Cell.

[tdalton]

I've heard that Silent Hill was really good.

btw, I heard there's gonna be movies based on Halo, Metal Gear Solid, and Splinter Cell.

SILENT HILL was very good, although I would have enjoyed it more had Sean Bean been featured a bit more than he was.


I've heard about those films possibly being made, although they've been talking about them for a while, so it's a bid hard to determine how far along they are, or if they've made any progress at all. Of the three, a METAL GEAR SOLID film would be the one I'd be looking forward to the most.

[Conlazmoodalbrocra]

Loved Silent Hill
Loved Mortal Kombat
Liked Hitman
Hated Mortal Kombat II

[Jake007]

They also made a Dead or Alive movie.

[dinovelvet]

I have yet to see one that was any good. Some of them had some decent moments, if I had to pick one I'd say Hitman was the best. Then again maybe I'm just thinking of some of those scenes with Olga...

Max Payne was pretty weak, for a game that's basically non stop gunfights, the film had what, two shooting scenes.

I don't know why a Splinter Cell movie hasn't been made yet, that could easily be a good Clancy-Bond blockbuster series if done well. It was in development with Peter Berg as director but I don't know what happened after that.

[Harmsway]

MORTAL KOMBAT (the first one, not the dreadful sequel) was a great video-game to film adaptation. RESIDENT EVIL was also fairly decent, even if it didn't have much in common with the game series in terms of storyline. I also thought that SILENT HILL was quite good.

All three were terrible.

[tdalton]

MORTAL KOMBAT (the first one, not the dreadful sequel) was a great video-game to film adaptation. RESIDENT EVIL was also fairly decent, even if it didn't have much in common with the game series in terms of storyline. I also thought that SILENT HILL was quite good.

All three were terrible.

I didn't say that they were great movies, just great videogame to movie adaptations (there's a difference, considering that most of the films in the "genre" are amongst the worst films ever made in the history of cinema). None of the three are films that I've watched more than once.

[Adam_Almond]

Apparently the Metal Gear Solid screenplay will be written by David Hayter, who is the voice of Snake in the games.


He also wrote the screenplay for X-Men.

[Harmsway]

Apparently the Metal Gear Solid screenplay will be written by David Hayter, who is the voice of Snake in the games.

Not as far as I'm aware. He turned in a screenplay for METAL GEAR SOLID (which was apparently like a technothriller version of APOCALYPSE NOW), but it was rejected. I don't know what the status of the project is now, but Hayter's take wasn't received well.

[Jake007]

I didn't think Hayter was involved.

[SPECTRE ASSASSIN]

I have to probably give my vote to the "Tomb Raider" movies with Angelina Jolie. Given they're were not good movies at all, the filmmakers at least attempted to make a serious adaptation to the games, and Jolie was perfectly cast in the title role.

[OmarB]

Two words, Uwe Boll.

All video game movies suck balls.

[Jake007]

All thanks to that lowlife.

[Safari Suit]

Back in the day I chose to see Super Mario Bros. in the cinema over Jurrasic Park!

[Jake007]

Back in the day I chose to see Super Mario Bros. in the cinema over Jurrasic Park!

I bet you still regret that to this day.

[OmarB]

Who picks Leguizamo over Spielberg?

[Jaws0178]

Safari Suit, apparently.

[Safari Suit]

A six year-old Safari Suit in all fairness, guv.

[Vauxhall]

I don't play video games, so my opinion is probably invalid, but I found HITMAN to be serviceable enough as a brainless action movie.

[Doctor No]

Who picks Leguizamo over Spielberg?

I'd take The Pest, Spawn and Land of the Dead over Hook any day.