Poll of the Day > Best movie based on a video game.

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A few of these aren't that bad.

Mortal Kombat out of those.
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trodi_911 posted...

Mortal Kombat out of those.

This, even though it's not very pretty when you take off the nostalgia goggles.

I thought the Max Payne movie was okay, even though I don't remember much of it now.
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Street Fighter, just for Raul Julia's "For me, it was a Tuesday." line.

Resident Evil / Mortal Combat are probably the most famous.
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Prince of Persia wasn't the worst

Street Fighter by far. It had some many insanely great quotable moments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plZYkAnsa-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shxiy7l5b_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjogCytzX0s

Compare that to a lot of the others which weren't even funny in their awfulness.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

Prince of Persia wasn't the worst

Yeah, Prince of Persia was a decent movie.
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Silent Hill. And even then, it's forgettable.

Mortal Kombat. Even now it's a fun, cheesy watch.

The Warcraft movie wasnt that bad, fans of the series enjoyed it, but I can see anyone going in knowing nothing might now enjoy it
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GameLord113 posted...

A few of these aren't that bad.

Resident evil started off meh and got about as ridiculous as the games became as time went on so I guess in many ways, it's true to the source material but MK is the one that captured the feel of the game the best.
Honourable mention to Doom for having fun with it and halfway decent FPS sequence.
Also, I really hope they get the TR reboot right but Alicia Vikander is a terrible choice.

Dead or Alive :)
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Of that list, Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil are tied for me. I like a bunch of Video game movies though.
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Super Mario Bros. had some fun moments and a pretty great soundtrack, but it was plagued by script and production problems. It arguably had potential, but it was squandered by its two directors making contradictory decisions and studio interference.

Double Dragon was shit.

Raul Julia's performance in Street Fighter was amazing. Unfortunately, every other part of that movie sucked. Similarly, the only part of The King of Fighters that I enjoyed was every time Ray Park was on screen.

Mortal Kombat was a pretty good adaptation of the video game, but I just couldn't buy French Raiden. Also, it proved popular enough for a shitty, shitty sequel. I shouldn't hold a sequel against the original film, but god damn, Mortal Kombat Annihilation was so terrible that I have to.

I haven't seen it in years, but I'm pretty sure Tomb Raider was an enjoyable movie.

Resident Evil actually did a pretty great job of telling an original story loosely set in the Resident Evil universe.

I haven't seen Doom, Hitman, or Warcraft.

Though it's not on the list, DOA: Dead or Alive was actually a pretty good movie. It's probably the best live action movie based on a fighting game. But it's not the best movie based on any video game.

That honor goes to Gyakuten Saiban. It didn't completely capture the silliness of the games, but it did an upstanding job of adapting the first game to a live action movie.
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Mortal Kombat is my favourite and it had Chris Lambert. But Raul Julia was in a league of his own
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Doom was pretty good. Not amazing but probably the best on that list.
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Street Fighter was hilarious

Mortal Kombat was probably the best and closest of any of them. It at least set the tone right.
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JanwayDaahl posted...

Doom was pretty good.

I didn't mind Doom. But that was mostly because I expected it to be nothing like the game.
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WarGreymon77 posted...

Silent Hill. And even then, it's forgettable.

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I enjoyed the first Silent Hill movie. Not to all tastes, perhaps, but still a very atmospheric film. It at least tried to be scary, unlike the Resident Evil movies.

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dainkinkaide posted...

Double Dragon was shit.

This. It deserves the zero votes it currently has.
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Silent Hill
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Mortal Kmobat.

Prince of Persia would be second.
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Live action movies only right?

Silent Hill for live action and probably that Professor Layton movie if we include everything. Haven't ever seen anything I'd consider great though.
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I_Abibde posted...

I enjoyed the first Silent Hill movie. Not to all tastes, perhaps, but still a very atmospheric film. It at least tried to be scary, unlike the Resident Evil movies.

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dainkinkaide posted...

Double Dragon was shit.

This. It deserves the zero votes it currently has.

I never heard of a Double Dragon movie.

Super Mario Bros. was very memorable... for the wrong reasons :)

Mortal Kombaaaaat!!!

street fighter and mortal kombat were both great

People saying Mortal Kombat haven't watched the movie since they were 8 years old. That movie is terrible now.

I'd say Street Fighter because at least it knows its terrible, and Raul Julia is actually amazing in it.

keyblader1985 posted...

trodi_911 posted...

Mortal Kombat out of those.

This, even though it's not very pretty when you take off the nostalgia goggles.

I thought the Max Payne movie was okay, even though I don't remember much of it now.

Mortal Kombat Annihilation's final battle is indescribable. The CG claymation hydra is really something else.

Pokemon

Even my ex-mate who had never shown any interest in the franchise thought it was a very good movie when he saw it with me in the cinema.

Angelina Jolie was the perfect cast as Lara.
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FrozenBananas posted...

Dead or Alive :)

That is the absolute WORST of the bunch, even more than that shitty DBZ movie.
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fettster777 posted...

People saying Mortal Kombat haven't watched the movie since they were 8 years old. That movie is terrible now.

Wrong.
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Syntheticon posted...

Resident evil started off meh and got about as ridiculous as the games became as time went on so I guess in many ways, it's true to the source material but MK is the one that captured the feel of the game the best.

idk, RE1 always struck me as crap. RE2, for whatever problems it may have had, was at least fun.

dainkinkaide posted...

Super Mario Bros. had some fun moments and a pretty great soundtrack, but it was plagued by script and production problems. It arguably had potential, but it was squandered by its two directors making contradictory decisions and studio interference.

Double Dragon was shit.

Raul Julia's performance in Street Fighter was amazing. Unfortunately, every other part of that movie sucked. Similarly, the only part of The King of Fighters that I enjoyed was every time Ray Park was on screen.

Mortal Kombat was a pretty good adaptation of the video game, but I just couldn't buy French Raiden. Also, it proved popular enough for a shitty, shitty sequel. I shouldn't hold a sequel against the original film, but god damn, Mortal Kombat Annihilation was so terrible that I have to.

I haven't seen it in years, but I'm pretty sure Tomb Raider was an enjoyable movie.

Resident Evil actually did a pretty great job of telling an original story loosely set in the Resident Evil universe.

I haven't seen Doom, Hitman, or Warcraft.

Though it's not on the list, DOA: Dead or Alive was actually a pretty good movie. It's probably the best live action movie based on a fighting game. But it's not the best movie based on any video game.

That honor goes to Gyakuten Saiban. It didn't completely capture the silliness of the games, but it did an upstanding job of adapting the first game to a live action movie.

SMB was weird.

Double Dragon was hilarious, not sure what you're talking about.

Street Fighter had tons of great non-Raul Julia scenes. JCVD's (Guile's) big speech was hilariously awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzWClNWNIaY

"Colonel, have you lost your mind?"
"Have you lost your balls?"

Also note that the clip is missing a brief moment right after the speech when the diplomat orders Guile to have the men stand down and Guile responds, "I would love to, but some asshole just fired me."

Then everything with Zangief was gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlZU02G3ak

I was let down by MK1 and MK2 was much worse.

Both Tomb Raiders were terrible. They didn't even have camp going for them.

RE1 sucked, RE2 was watchable, then not sure if I saw the ones after.
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Not gonna lie, when I was at work earlier, it's right across the street from a Police Station and I think a Fire Station and the horn thingy went off and my first thought was, "am I in the Silent Hill movie?"

The thingy went off 3 times but I'm safe at home now so I don't think anything weird happened.
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Street fighter. I mean, sure, it wasn't the 'best', but all the movies on that list sucked. So why not pick the one that's easily the most quotable?

'For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.'
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Easily Tomb Raider.
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hoggys2much99 posted...

Even my ex-mate who had never shown any interest in the franchise thought it was a very good movie when he saw it with me in the cinema.

Angelina Jolie was the perfect cast as Lara.

Every time I look at her face I want a blowjob
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Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva was a great movie.
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Actually, come to think of it, Pokemon 3 would be the best I can think of.
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Mortal Kombat: the Movie.
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Chalk me up as another vote for Silent Hill.
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