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MMRants: Video Game Adaptations
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 00:15:40
Publish Date: 2014-10-06 06:44:22
Description: Movie Menu Rants about VideoGame Adaptations Rant: Why do all videogame film adaptations suck? Will their be a good one in the future? Hosted by: Alexander Z, Dan "The Man" Muñoz, and Mike Stand Notes: For many decades… many studios have tried to do the impossible. To make movies based on videos games good. So far, none have really reached its potential. I mean, there are some that are decent or good, however not great. But! There is hope, with WARCRAFT directed by MOON director, Duncan Jones which comes out 2016 and stars Ben Foster, Tobey Kebbell and a slew of incredible actors. Does that mean WARCRAFT is our last hope? Well like Yoda said... “No, There is another” with Michael Fassbender’s Assassins Creed, but we are going to have to wait for that one because it just got pushed back to an unknown date. I still have hope that it can potentially be an entertaining and bad ass adaptation, but it being pushed back doesn’t show much. I’m gonna be in denial and say that they are perfecting it. Either way we won’t know how these films are until these movies are released. Until then, lets rant about the ones that have been out and have sucked beyond sucked. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the highest rating a movie based on a video game has gotten, was 44% and that was Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which as you remember, was a CGI Animated film, which it’s easy to talk about animated video game movies, just look at Street Fighter 2 and Final Fantasy Advent Children, those movies are amazing, so this RANT is strictly about LIVE ACTION video game movies. Now, obviously, some people enjoy video game movies. The Resident Evil Franchise has done pretty well for itself having made 5 movies with a 6th one on the way. And there are some franchises that should have never been made.. I’m looking at you BloodRayne! Damn you Uwe Boll you son of a bitch. Do you guys have a movie based on a video game that you enjoy? Mortal Kombat is probably one of my favorites. Its silly, and though it is PG-13 while the game would be MA, still does a good job telling the story, much better than its counterpart of the live action Street Fighter. That was a piece of shit. The first video game movie was Super Mario Bros. Though, as kids we all loved it… it really screwed everything up about what we loved about Mario Bros. With the mushroom kingdom as this post whatever that was city. Goombas that weren’t Goombas, Yoshi, and everything else. However, it was still a fun fuck up of a movie. I sometimes wonder if they would have done Super Mario Bros. justice, that the trend of video game movies would have been a lot better. Let us compare this to the age of comic book movies, where comic book movies were shit until finally someone decided to make a good one, people argue that Blade started this and others say X-Men did, either way, look at the age we are in… where comic book movies reign over all. We just need that one major hit.. and studios will take notice and you know Disney will make their own video gaming movie studio and take video games adaptations seriously. What are some of your.. to put it nicely… worst adaptations of video games? Is there a video game or game franchise you hope to see on the big screen anytime soon? Well… though we can enjoy some of the video game adaptations, the fact is, none of these can be taken seriously. Until, one studio decides that there is potential big money to do a great adaptation and make the new age of video game movies, we have to deal with what we have been given. Hopefully… the future is bright. We will just have to wait and see.
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