The Best And Worst Video Game-To-Movie AdaptionsAna DouglasKirsten Acuna
Something has happened in video-game adaptations over the past few years. In the three decades since the release of the first game-to-screen movie, 1993’sSuper Mario Bros., there have been precious fewgoodentries in the genre (in a critical sense). But things started to change with the ...
" movie adaptations. That the games continue to be so, so strong -Valhallawas enough to distract people fromCyberpunk 2077's turgid launch,Odyssey still entertains playersfor hours on end - only serves to highlight the sheer joylessness and emptiness of this film. Which was surely a tricky ...
"Tonally messy, narratively janky and slathered with pasted-over narration that reeks of creative indecision, the film is an embarrassing affair for even the most hardcore of gamers, who already have no shortage of indifferently produced video-game adaptations to contend with." —Barry Hertz, The...
The bar for video game movies has been staggeringly low, and why these screen-to-screen adaptations are so hard to crack is a subject for another day. Borderlands doesn’t just suffer from the usual slings and arrows of moving something stupendously successful in one medium to another, ...
Great AdaptationsRanking, deconstructing, and thinking about movies based on books, TV shows based on comics, plays based on cartoons, musicals based on toys, etc. The Most Disappointing TV Shows Based on Movies The Best Shows Based on Books 13 Adaptations That Were Mor...
It's easy to view the originalMortal Kombatmovie with rose-colored glasses, considering the embarrassing video game adaptations that followed. Even so, the movie relied on well-known (if notacclaimed) actors and a simple enough story of a martial arts tournament and a young man's quest for ...
(I also left out direct-to-video sequels to video-game adaptations. Please send my deepest and most heartfelt regrets to BloodRayne: The Third Reich.) There are a lot of terrible movies to get through, so let’s just get started... Every Video Game Movie Ever Made, Ranked From Worst...
The worst films are usually sequels, third or fourth or even seventh installments, remakes, video game adaptations, spoofs, and parodies, or offshoots of a franchise that refuses to die. Because these movies implicitly refer to the original film, they're already up against impossible odds as ...
Uwe Boll’s notorious stint allegedly exploiting a loophole in German tax laws in order to produce video game adaptations of unbelievably poor quality began withHouse of the Dead, which bore little resemblance to the shooter arcade classic — and even less resemblance to a good motion picture. ...