Duke Nukem Movie in the works from Platinum Dunes

[Andrew NDB]

Mortal Kombat? Bullsh**. A game whose sole innovation over its sole competitor at the time, Street Fighter, is Fatalities... makes a movie where they can't and don't show any in full-on PG-13 fare? Nonsense.

The first Resident Evil movie is the only one that's watchable... though it didn't bother to be anything like the games. It is Milla Jovovich: Superwoman. The sequels followed suit, with her literally using the Force to throw people around and explode crows and stuff.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by sdp

I'm not really into or understand the "so bad it's good.." but Street Fighter is the only exception. Super Mario Bros. on the other hand is pretty cool, it's such a trippy movie, if you go in thinking Super Mario then yeah it's nothing like it but if you go in waiting to see something cool then it is, I watched it recently to review on my site and was pleasantly surprised.

Dead or Alive, I remember watching it and being disappointed there wasn't more fan service but still didn't hate it for whatever reason. I remember liking the first Silent HIll movie and the first Resident Evil movie isn't so bad.

Well tbh it was never gonna be easy to get women was busty as the DoA character in real life. . I honestly didn't care for the lack of fanservice in the movie, tbh. It was a fun movie to watch on a weekend.

Also, about Mario's movie... wasn't it the first live action movie adaptation of a video game series? I guess they didn't have anything to compare to.

Also, people need to keep in mind how hard it is to adapt a video game into tv format. Most video games don't have very elaborate plots of stories. The experience is the actual gameplay. And games like Mario certainly don't have complex plots nor do they need to. No one plays Mario for the story. Also, the way narrative progresses in a game is different as well. In games you can usually go back to previous spots and such. Not to mention you can spend several hours or days stuck in a dungeon(Zelda)... that wouldn't translate well into a movie now would it? Try making a live action Zelda movie with several dungeons in it and fit all of it in 2 hours maximum... tough work, eh?

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Mortal Combat? Bullsh**. A game whose sole innovation over its sole competitor at the time, Street Fighter, is Fatalities... makes a movie where they can't and don't show any in full-on PG-13 fare? Nonsense.

It probably sold more tickets, though. Some of those fatalities would probably be hard/expensive to pull off in a live action movie... and it would up the rating to a hard R. They had to tone down on the violence a bit. And it's not like it was the only time Mk did that. There were also a couple of cartoon series of MK were there not? And they weren't as violent as the games were either.

[sdp]

Mortal Kombat's success was a lot because of the violence but also because of the lore, as silly as the story may be it was doing something that for other fighting games at the time was only an afterthought.

It really set you in the mood of all those fiction tropes they were inspired from and to a different world, the setting and characters did that as well. So the movie was able to survive the PG13 rating since it brought the other elements the franchise was known for. There's a reason that for many years it was considered "the only good video game movie" by most.

I never cared for the Resident Evil sequels, the first one you could still kind of overlook superwoman Milla since Wesker had similar strength in Code Veronica but they just went crazy with them. Then again the games story also went to hell after Code Veronica.

[Prowler]

What about Tomb Raider? I watched a movie of it ages ago, but barely remember it. Was it any good?

Originally Posted by sdp

Mortal Kombat's success was a lot because of the violence but also because of the lore, as silly as the story may be it was doing something that for other fighting games at the time was only an afterthought.

It really set you in the mood of all those fiction tropes they were inspired from and to a different world, the setting and characters did that as well. So the movie was able to survive the PG13 rating since it brought the other elements the franchise was known for. There's a reason that for many years it was considered "the only good video game movie" by most.

yeah MK has a nice universe and set of characters. gameplay wise it was never a the best fighter out there, so it had to make it up for that somehow. That being said, i really enjoyed MK9(2011) and been told MKX is actually pretty hard to master.

Street Fighter on the other hand... I never felt it needed a solid story or lore, since its gameplay was excellent.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Prowler

What about Tomb Raider? I watched a movie of it ages ago, but barely remember it. Was it any good?

I can't speak to the 2nd one (never seen) but the first Jolie movie was god awful.

[sdp]

I watched both Tomb Raider movies last year and they're pretty bad, especially the second one nothing like Tomb Raider at all. Legend of Chun Li I thought had potential but man it's bad, nothing cheesy that's fun to watch like the original SF film. I also saw Tekken last year and it was a snoozefest.

I liked Double Dragon* but I was like 7 when I saw it, I remember liking Prince of Persia too. Hitman/Final Fantasy I just can't remember at all, it's been too long since I watched them but I think my opinion was that they were ok.

VG related: Scott Pilgrim is ok, Wreck it Ralph is ok, The Wizard is awesome but that might be because of nostalgia goggles YMMV.

And as far as DOA they surely could've found some girls with big fake boobs and had some gymnastics background for the roles and even if no nudity given more fanservice like the games do, why else make a DOA movie.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I can't speak to the 2nd one (never seen) but the first Jolie movie was god awful.

LOL I totally forgot Angelina Jolie was Lara Croft in that movie.

Originally Posted by sdp

I watched both Tomb Raider movies last year and they're pretty bad, especially the second one nothing like Tomb Raider at all. Legend of Chun Li I thought had potential but man it's bad, nothing cheesy that's fun to watch like the original SF film. I also saw Tekken last year and it was a snoozefest.

I liked Double Dragon* but I was like 7 when I saw it, I remember liking Prince of Persia too. Hitman/Final Fantasy I just can't remember at all, it's been too long since I watched them but I think my opinion was that they were ok.

VG related: Scott Pilgrim is ok, Wreck it Ralph is ok, The Wizard is awesome but that might be because of nostalgia goggles YMMV.

And as far as DOA they surely could've found some girls with big fake boobs and had some gymnastics background for the roles and even if no nudity given more fanservice like the games do, why else make a DOA movie.

I had no idea there were live action movies of Double Dragon and Hitman.

How many of those girls with big fake bobos and background in gymnastics can act, though? Also, the way you say it it's almost like you wanted it to be a softcore porno . It honestly didn't bother me the lack of massive tits. And clearly it made the movie suitable for a wider audience. They clearly wanted straight women to check out the movie as well. The video games might have fanservice... but that's more like a bonus than the main purpose of the game. It's a fighter.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Prowler

I had no idea there were live action movies of Double Dragon and Hitman.

Double Dragon I can understand... but Hitman? C'mon... there have been not one but two big budget movie versions in the past 10 years (both terrible), the last one coming out only two years ago.

And the ability to act has very little to do why 10 out of 10 video game movies suck.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Double Dragon I can understand... but Hitman? C'mon... there have been not one but two big budget movie versions in the past 10 years (both terrible), the last one coming out only two years ago.

And the ability to act has very little to do why 10 out of 10 video game movies suck.

As Cure said... I'm out of touch really. I was more of a movie watcher when I was a kid.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I can't speak to the 2nd one (never seen) but the first Jolie movie was god awful.

It's worse in almost every way except maybe editing. The first one felt like it was edited in a wood-chipper.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

So did Mortal Kombat. So did Doom. All terrible, ghastly.

It's considered to be the best video game adaptation alongside first Resident Evil and, sometimes, first Tomb Raider and first Silent Hill.

It's actually competent flick. Very 90-s. With good action scenes, cool charismatic actors. The lack of violence is really nothing special in this case. If that's the thing that bothers you...on the other hand you are fan of Mirage TMNT, so your opinion is kind of irrelevant when it comes to violence.
My advice, grow up a bit - not everything should be dark and gritty.

Originally Posted by Prowler

yeah MK has a nice universe and set of characters. gameplay wise it was never a the best fighter out there, so it had to make it up for that somehow. That being said, i really enjoyed MK9(2011) and been told MKX is actually pretty hard to master.

MK9 and MKX are very competent fighting games.
The best in the series from the gameplay standpoint (which is not hard considering how previous games were).

[Candy Kappa]

Oh boy, will it be Doom bad or Silent Hill atrocious?

Time will tell

[Spike Spiegel]

The Street Fighter II animated movie and Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist are somewhat decent adaptations of the game series they are based on.



I also liked that Bayonetta anime.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Sumac

It's considered to be the best video game adaptation alongside first Resident Evil and, sometimes, first Tomb Raider and first Silent Hill.

It's actually competent flick. Very 90-s. With good action scenes, cool charismatic actors. The lack of violence is really nothing special in this case. If that's the thing that bothers you...on the other hand you are fan of Mirage TMNT, so your opinion is kind of irrelevant when it comes to violence.
My advice, grow up a bit - not everything should be dark and gritty.

That's much ado about nothing, and you're sorely missing the point. Mortal Kombat is LITERALLY a game built around killing your opponent in an assortment of different ways, around Fatalities. If your video game movie adaptation can't show any... that's a pretty big freaking problem. A pretty big freaking fundamental problem.

[sdp]

I'm glad people in this thread know how forgiving I can be with some movies

Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel

The Street Fighter II animated movie and Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist are somewhat decent adaptations of the game series they are based on.

Well I was only counting live action movies, animation actually has some decent adaptations. Street Fighter II The Animated Movie is so awesome even if there's barely any plot.

I can't believe I still haven't watched Assasin's Fist, I loved the original 3 minute short film and was hyped for it and just never watched it.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That's much ado about nothing, and you're sorely missing the point. Mortal Kombat is LITERALLY a game built around killing your opponent in an assortment of different ways, around Fatalities. If your video game movie adaptation can't show any... that's a pretty big freaking problem. A pretty big freaking fundamental problem.

It did have fatalities, albeit in PG13 mode. I mean I get your point but they did keep the spirit of the games even with a PG13 rating, sure it took the blood out but it adapted it pretty well for PG13.

I'll take that any day over the "realistic" R rated mortal kombat Rebirth (fan?) film that came out a few years ago

[joe-eyeball]

This movie seems nearly 20 years too late and it’ll most likely bomb!

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by joe-eyeball

This movie seems nearly 20 years too late and it’ll most likely bomb!

It's true. Duke Nukem doesn't even have a fandom anymore. The ones it did have largely left when Duke Nukem Forever finally dropped, and sucked.

[PApagreg]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That's much ado about nothing, and you're sorely missing the point. Mortal Kombat is LITERALLY a game built around killing your opponent in an assortment of different ways, around Fatalities. If your video game movie adaptation can't show any... that's a pretty big freaking problem. A pretty big freaking fundamental problem.

Maybe but the Mortal Kombat movie is a okay movie and a okay adaption, sure they didn't follow any of the gore but they did get lots of stuff right like Scorpion's flaming skull, Raiden being a mentor to Liu Kang, Sonya being special forces, and best of all Johnny Cage.

[sdp]

That didn't stop Rampage from getting green lit.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That's much ado about nothing, and you're sorely missing the point. Mortal Kombat is LITERALLY a game built around killing your opponent in an assortment of different ways, around Fatalities. If your video game movie adaptation can't show any... that's a pretty big freaking problem. A pretty big freaking fundamental problem.

If your problem with the video game adaptation is not the fact that's its lacking interesting characters and engaging plot, but the fact that it lacks extreme violence, you seriously need to reevaluate how you approach movies. Or anything really. In general, you fascination with "violence" and "grittiness" everywhere comes of as very immature.

MK success was built around three things - violence (though it went away circa MK3), easy gameplay and story. Obviously, movie could not adapt gameplay, but they did nicely with the story and even had special moves and finishers. More than enough for a decent flick.

Also, MK genesis was lying with such movies like Blood Sport and Big Trouble in Little China, which didn't had "extreme violence". In this respect MK movie, hit close to home.