/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5392347]

There still hasn't been a video game movie as good as Mortal Kombat... How did that happen?

[Anonymous No.5392362]

The Super Mario Bros. movie is also low-key kino.
SFII is also not that bad, especially because of Bison.
But yeah, those are the only 3 I like.

[Anonymous No.5392365]

>>5392347
If by good, you mean "faithful to the original" I would argue that Tomb Raider, Silent Hill, Prince of Persia and Warcraft were pretty fucking decent.

[Anonymous No.5392368]

>>5392347
god i wish that were me

[Anonymous No.5392369]

>>5392347
I mean, it's not "good" good. But it's the most entertaining I'll give you that.

[Anonymous No.5392372]

>>5392365
He probably means good as in, it has SOUL.
The ones you mentioned are SOULLESS

[Anonymous No.5392381]

>>5392372
haven't seen the rest but I saw silent hill and it kinda had soul imo

[Anonymous No.5392382]

>>5392368
Why would you want Kano between your legs? That's gross.

[Anonymous No.5392393]

>>5392381
Silent Hill was legitimately scary at times. And IMO the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movie and Warcraft were also entertaining as fuck. Warcraft even skirts the line of being legitimately good in it's own right at times.

[Anonymous No.5392395]

>>5392372
these words mean nothing

[Anonymous No.5392427]

does this count?

[Anonymous No.5392429]

>>5392347
The Street Fighter movie is genuinely funny...but I guess you didn't see that, did you?

[Anonymous No.5392443]

>>5392347
>uses the weakest part of her legs

[Anonymous No.5392451]

[Anonymous No.5392456]

The only really awful video game movies are the Uwe Boll ones and Double Dragon. All the others have mostly been mediocre with a few good ones. Video game movies are just perfect bait for critics to shit on and fans naturally wont be happy with anything. I always thought the Max Payne movie was quite enjoyable, but I think it came out at a time when people were sick of Marky Mark and of course game fans hated it.

[Anonymous No.5392472]

>>5392347
MK1 itself took inspiration from old martial arts flicks, so it's an easy fit.

[Anonymous No.5392483]

>>5392456
Games are simply notoriously difficult to translate into movies. Some of them don't have enough story, some of them have too much story and some of them don't have enough identity to stand on their own feet as a movie.
Last of Us for instance, might be a decent story for a videogame (it is not IMO, but that's beside the point) - but in the movie world it would be yet another cheap and played out zombie movie.

Tomb Raider and MK are pretty much retellings of Indiana Jones with female protagonist and Enter the Dragon with supernatural elements respectively. Max Payne translated into big screen doesn't differentiate itself too much from thousands of other cop drama movies.
Resident Evil is a generic slasher horror movie with RE brand attached to it. Movie buffs have seen it a million times already, with better execution.
Warcraft on the other hand had too much lore that had to be explained in the movie, so a typical movie-goer that knows nothing about Warcraft was lost as fuck. The same problem would pop up for a movie adaptations of let's say, Mass Effect.

[Anonymous No.5392491]

>>5392429
It is. And the anime is great. I didn't see >>5392427 though.
>>5392393
I second that. Jolie Tomb Raiders were legitimate good action movies. Very much a product of its time in terms of style, but still.

[Anonymous No.5392512]

>>5392483
Resident Evil could have been easily well done if it was like the plot of the first game and they kept it a bit goofy. Instead, they made a super serious sci-fi thriller.

[Anonymous No.5392528]

>>5392491
You can clearly see that Angelina Jolie was having a time of her life playing Lara Croft. She was a spot-on casting choice.

Also, Lara Croft in this movie was always the biggest badass in the room. It fit the ridiculous tone of the pic.

I mean, it could be worse - just look at the 2018 TR movie, with this rebooted, sad, dark and "feminist" Lara Croft. This shit was horrible.

[Anonymous No.5392568]

>>5392365
>Faithful to the original
>Silent Hill
>Cherry picked elements from completely non-related story arcs to make one movie
Are you fucking serious?

Has anyone seen the Parasite Eve movie? Was it based off the game or the books more? I know it's semantics since the books are the source origin for the games but just curious if it's worth a look?

[Anonymous No.5392670]

>>5392568
But the protagonist finds the shotgun in the bathroom. That has to count for something.
I mean aside from Pyramid Head - who was there just for the fanservice, I remembered it following the SH1 story quite closely - aside from the obvious genderswap of a protagonist. Or maybe my memory is not as good - I've seen this movie ages ago.

[Anonymous No.5392702]

>>5392362
Gomez Addams as Bipson was pure luxury and he did it for his kids right before he died.

The best video game movie I have seen so far though has to be Rampage. It was such a pleasant surprise.

[Anonymous No.5392715]

>>5392362
SMB is one of my favorite films. I know it's cheesy, but it has heart and some actual amazing casting. I know it was probably never gonna happen anyway, but I was really bummed when both Dennis Hopper and Bob Hoskins died a few years ago partly because it meant there'd never be a sequel with them in it. I'm hoping to get John Leguizamo to sign my laserdisc if I ever find out he's going to a con near me.

[Anonymous No.5392734]

>>5392715
He's still portraying Luigi in John Wick.

[Anonymous No.5392742]

>>5392427
>>5392491
Assassin's Fist is WELL worth watching, and I would put that in a list of 'well made video games to movies' list if we're not splitting hairs(it's actually a series of episodes).

I think the main problem with a lot of video games to movies is that there isn't a single fan of the franchise in on the discussion. We're simply told that McAward Winner Dumbfuck is a 'fan' of the franchise, and that they are 'excited' to work on the project, and it will be 'faithfully brought to the big screen'.

No, fuck that...I would rather have any of the average fans of the franchise in question on the planning board, with full power to, at any point someone decides to diverge from the story with, "Wouldn't it be cool if...?", smack someone over the head with said game(case and all). Or a mallet, either one's good.

Just about everyone here has said what was right/wrong with each movie that was brought out, so I've got nothing left to add.

[Anonymous No.5392824]

>>5392528
>feminist
What?

[Anonymous No.5392834]

>>5392568
Book. Nothing at all like the game.

[Anonymous No.5393447]

>>5392568
It's pretty much an adaptation of the book. It predated the game after all.

[Anonymous No.5393471]

>>5392365
I still can't get over how I never noticed that Crystal Dynamics based Lara's house in the LAU games off of the one from this movie?

[Anonymous No.5394250]

>>5392347
>>5392365
No OP is right. MK isn't just faithful but its pretty damn good in addition to being very faithful to the source material in a way nothing else before or since has been. That includes the movies you posted. Even they did not match MK. I even remember the second being pretty good although not as much as the first.

[Anonymous No.5394291]

i have never seen the movie but this trailer was on every vhs i rented and it was kino of the purest kind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9escFiqUJ0U

[Anonymous No.5394306]

>>5394250
No - can't really say that MK:Annihilation was a good or faithful movie no matter how hard I try. It was a bullshit mess with incoherent story, that never stood near Mortal Kombat.
Characters show up and do things just for the hell of it. They just move from fight scene to fight scene with no rhyme or reason.
Although I do kinda liked that Noob and Ermac made it into the movie. They don't behave like Noob and Ermac but nobody does in this movie.
And I still don't know whether one of the "cyborgs" Sub-Zero fought was supposed to be Smoke or Sektor. The movie kinda mushed all the cyborgs together.

[Anonymous No.5394317]

>>5394291
I'm exactly the same. Never seen it, but always like the trailer.

[Anonymous No.5394318]

>>5392347
>>5392368
>>5392443
I read a full and very detailed preview synopsis before the movie came out in which Sonya actually spared Kano's because she wasn't "that type of girl", annoying Shang Tsung. I don't know why they changed it (probably to enhance Liu's role as protagonist), but the dead Kano shot in the final film is kind of awkward and the closup of Sonya "giving him a break" was probably a pick-up done afterwards.

It's fantastic B-movie 2bh. Probably Paul W. S. Anderson's best, which is kind of sad

[Anonymous No.5394319]

>>5394291
I vaguely remember watching in VHS as a kid, but I didn't rewatch it until the Best of the Worst episode (which is a great one btw)

[Anonymous No.5394321]

>>5392365
Unless you're just talking about the atmosphere, the Silent Hill movie changed a few things, probably for people watching the movie who never played the game. I didn't really like Dark Alessa or Sean Bean's scenes.

I thought the second MK movie was good too, even though it was a little corny in some parts.

[Anonymous No.5394325]

>>5392670
>aside from the obvious genderswap of a protagonist.
"Dark Alessa" from the movie was a fairly big difference from Alessa in the game.

[Anonymous No.5394326]

>>5392483
It is because MK the video game was based off of those Kung-Fu flicks anyways, hence why it was so easy to translate to the big screen. Don't need too much story when you have tournaments to take up movie time before you get to the big bad.

[Anonymous No.5394332]

>>5394317
it's probably one of these movies that are better as a trailer. like mad max fury road

[Anonymous No.5394347]

DOA Dead Or Alive, I give it credit, although painfully miscast, actually does stick to the lore and has entertaining fight choreo. It's just a shame the casting director went the trendy route.

[Anonymous No.5394450]

>>5392715
I agree with you anon.
Jelly of that Laserdisc, I hope you can get it signed.
I was lucky I was able to see it on theaters when it came out, went with my dad.

[Anonymous No.5394527]

>>5392734

[Anonymous No.5394534]

>>5392365
>warcraft was pretty decent
You don't deserve the air you breathe

[Anonymous No.5394535]

>>5394347
Those extras dont give a fuck

[Anonymous No.5394537]

>>5392451
I gotta watch that shit again

[Anonymous No.5394545]

>>5392372
like james brown?
cmon, brother. get down

[Anonymous No.5394564]

>>5392365
PoP was by far the best "vidya" movie, to the point where you can watch it and utterly ignore the fact it's adaptation of the game (can't be said about either TR or SH, but they are at least enjoyable and watchable, while WC makes no sense even if you are familiar with the game)...
... so naturally, PoP was the biggest box-office bomb out of the lot.

[Anonymous No.5394570]

>>5392824
nuLara essentially exists as a massive pandering to non-existing crowd of imaginary feminists, all done by horribly inept marketing department of Squenix.
Shame, really.

[Anonymous No.5394581]

>>5392528
I'm still confused how one takes something as silly and self-aware of its sillyness as Tomb Raider and turn it into dead-serious material. How and most importantly - what fucking for? You end up with unlikable character and still a plot so convoluted it just can't be treated serious, but is served as if it was a period drama, rather than, you know, escapist adventuring stuff

[Anonymous No.5394584]

>>5394570
In every executive's mind exists the perfect scenario of replacing your target audience 1:1 with the target audience of shaming and alienating them. So far it has never worked but hey, gotta keep trying

[Anonymous No.5394609]

>>5394584
But in this case they've literally imagined non-existing target audience of some super-stereotypical """"feminists"""" as potential buyers for complete reboot of an established franchise. No market research, no preliminaries, just dumping 85 and eventually 100 millions into development of "maybe this gonna work" game. And then not getting the memo the target really is imaginary, despite making three of those games, in the process also selling rights for a movie. A movie that WB did their very best to get out from making, because they've realised they're stuck with a stinker half-way through pre-production and did their very best to not make it at all, only to get pretty much strong-armed into it by contractual obligations.
Unsuprisingly, it flopped, because who makes a drab, sad sap story and then tries to still sell it as action-packed adventure flick about totally not spirits, just to make it on Chinese market (and that was a good executive decision, because it saved the movie from being a complete financial bomb).

[Anonymous No.5394640]

>>5392347
Look, I can understand someone wanting to do their own stunts but...come on. Someone really should've said something here.

[Anonymous No.5394659]

>>5394640
She's pretty terrible; she was a last minute casting choice after Cameron Diaz got injured and probably only had time for some last-minute training sessions

[Anonymous No.5394706]

>>5394609
Except that the new games are more popular than Tonb Raider actually was. Outside if the first game it never really blew up like they all would have wanted.
Though I don't think it's due to any sort of feminist angle (""""""""""""""lol""""""""""") but rather that gameplaywise they made the series much more like a scripted Uncharted action game rather than a puzzle based exploration game.

[Anonymous No.5394707]

>>5394659
Yeah but "Johnny Cage" had a obvious stunt double. Why not her?

[Anonymous No.5394714]

Prince of Persia was pretty good, awkward metaphor for the war on terror aside.

[Anonymous No.5394716]

>>5394291
It's meh.
t. it used to rerun at least once a year here in Brazil

[Anonymous No.5394721]

the vast majority of video games that would make good movies would make good movies precisely because they are so derivative of movies. so when they are made into movies, they just turn out to be junk due to the derivative feedback loop

[Anonymous No.5394724]

>>5392362
SMB is shit
But street fighter is “too bad, too good” + Raul Julia LITERALLY give the life for the movie

[Anonymous No.5394729]

>>5392347
Because no film director worth his weight would make a videogame movie. There aren't many franchises that would translate well into a videogame. Those that do are usually something that has already been done, so they would exist only to appeal to the fans, e.g. Yakuza.
>>5392512
But it would need a massive overhaul. Most of Resident Evil is Jill/Chris going around solving puzzles and shooting zombies or running away from them, there's a background story for everything but you barely hear it.

At the moment I'm struggling to think of anything. Even Legacy of Kain, one of my favorite videogame-movie franchises, consists of nothing but combat and puzzles with a few story dumps in between, it's never a constant story flow.

Fallout COULD work since it has enough story to it. If it was approached as a B movie I think it would be fine. There's enough story, the ending is kino, it could probably skip the initial Water Chip exposition and jump straight into something else, like the Dweller getting to Shady Sands. George Miller could make it work.

[Anonymous No.5394735]

>>5394729
There are plenty these days that COULD make for a pretty damn good movie. The problem is most studios don't want to actually put in the effort and money to make a high quality movie. They just want a quick return by cashing in on name recognition. Especially since presumably most studio executives don't even play videogames.

I feel in coming years we may see videogame movies that are of decent quality as younger people who actually play videogames get higher up in the industry.

[Anonymous No.5394751]

>>5394735
It's definitely a possibility, and there's no doubt name recognition is the perfect excuse not to bother making a good film.

[Anonymous No.5394779]

>>5394729
>Fallout COULD work
Not to rain on the parade, but theoretically, what would differentiate Fallout from Mad Max movies? Or shit like The Road? I can assume that the most biggest problem for the movie would be critics and people who don't give a shit about the games, the lore differences and the nitty-gritty of the Fallout setting dismissing it as a "Mad Max" ripoff with some 50' vibes.
And that's one of the problems of videogames adaptations - how to differentiate itself from a million of other movies that have done it before.

[Anonymous No.5394783]

>>5392347
>>5394318

I remember this scene really impressing my mother who was/is a pretty staunch feminist. She gets beat down but takes it and fights back then wins all on her own merit even killing him. I always thought it was an awesome fight as well.

[Anonymous No.5394787]

>>5394779
If they made a movie of Fallout and it could even be spoken of in the same breath as The Road I would consider that a pretty massive success for a video game movie. I do generally agree though they're usually not great material to base a film off and would almost always be better as just a stand alone experience.

[Anonymous No.5394789]

>>5392369
oh my fuck that gif lol

[Anonymous No.5394794]

>>5392347
As I recall people quite liked Silent HIll.

[Anonymous No.5394808]

>>5394779
>Not to rain on the parade, but theoretically, what would differentiate Fallout from Mad Max movies?
Many things would, IMO. Have you seen Mad Max? The two most popular films are glorified car chases.

I think of Fallout more as a post-apocalyptic western, but I know what you mean anyhow. That hasn't stopped lots of films from being "more of the same" but remembered nonetheless. After all, Fury Road WAS more of the same regarding The Road Warrior.

[Anonymous No.5394821]

>>5392365

the tomb raider movie was a decent 6/10

[Anonymous No.5394831]

>>5394729
Personally, I think if they were to do any fallout movies, they should start with a Dead Money adaptation. It's perfectly self contained, but it can also start setting up the setting if they wanted to do something else in the wider setting.

And it's just a great story.

[Anonymous No.5394835]

>>5394808
furry road was honestly one of my fav films of the last decade

[Anonymous No.5394838]

>>5394724
SMB movie is "too bad, too good" too, Hoskins and Hopper alone "give the life for the movie" as you say, plus there's a certain charm in seeing a dystopian cyberpunk Mushroom Kingdom.

[Anonymous No.5394840]

>>5392365
PoP was better than decent I'd argue.

[Anonymous No.5394842]

>>5394835
Same with me, but did it really do anything that Road Warrior hadn't done already? If it had been called anything other than Mad Max people would have called it a rip-off.

[Anonymous No.5394846]

>>5394842
>did it really do anything that Road Warrior hadn't done already?
In terms of narrative? Not really. But the costume, set and vehicle designs are a step above IMO.

[Anonymous No.5394969]

>>5394534
Not the poster you replied to but what's with the hate man? I think it's praiseworthy that they transformed the lore from the first WarCraft to silver screen instead of some bollocks introduced in WoW or WC3. I wish they did a sequel that would cover the events from WC2 and maybe Adventures.

[Anonymous No.5394985]

>>5394835
I don't want to start a thing, I know everyone has different tastes and lots liked it. Fury Road though is the only movie I can remember where I actively decided to just take a nap through the last half. I remembered liking at least the first two when I was younger too. Really don't want to rewatch them now.

[Anonymous No.5394989]

>>5394985
I thought it was pretty boring too. Nice visuals (saw in on theatres, with the 3D meme), but honestly it should have been a music video, 5 minutes max.
I went with a friends and 2 thots we were dating, the thots left the theatre half way through, we stayed because it was a good opportunity to get rid of them.

[Anonymous No.5395000]

>>5394969
Given how much lore there is in Warcraft, they kinda had to start from the very beginning in order for the story to make even a lick of sense. And people were still confused as fuck, even after the movie glossed over some more complex details - like the fact that Medivh and Gul'dan were on the Legion's payroll and that's where this "Fel" comes from.
It's funny - as a Warcraft fan I knew exactly what's going on from start to finish and found the movie pretty coherent. My friend who never played any of the Warcraft RTS games was confused and lost like a puppy.

[Anonymous No.5395052]

>>5394706
Yeah, no. Tomb Raider in 90's was HUGE. It was a cultural phenomenon with Lara becoming a mainstream icon. TR reboot cannot compare in terms of popularity with Core TR glory days.
And after Shadow of the Tomb Raider the franchise is already on the downward spiral due to low sales and fans getting bored with this new, "radical" approach. Squeenix pretty much put the franchise on "indefinite hold" until they figure out what to with it next.

[Anonymous No.5395079]

>>5394989
Yeah the characters and setting made almost no sense to me which made it hard to care about any of what was going on. When they decide to turn around and drive back I was done. We at least rented it at home though so it wasn't a huge loss.

[Anonymous No.5395092]

>>5395052
The idea of Tomb Raider and Lara herself were cultural phenomenons, but outside of the first two games the series itself never really got the traction it wanted. Uncharted was way more popular and that's why the reboot follows more in it's footsteps.

This is at least my experience. Tomb Raider 1 is still one of my favorite PS games that ever came out and even in college where almost everyone played games of some sort it was hard to find other people who cared much about it let alone played more than one game.

I think the reboot looks like total ass, but that's also because I regard the Uncharteds as some of the worst games ever made. I don't think feminism comes into it much at all. I knew feminists back in the day who thought Lara was rad.

[Anonymous No.5395093]

>>5394724
>Raul Julia LITERALLY give the life for the movie

>Despite his poor health, he completed The Burning Season and was eager to continue his plans to play M. Bison in Street Fighter, which was to be filmed in Australia in the autumn. Julia felt that this film would allow him to spend more time with his children, who were fans of the video game franchise and helped him prepare for the role.

F

[Anonymous No.5395123]

>>5392365
Tomb Raider blew it by not setting the films in the time period of the games.
But as action films judged completely apart from their pedigree, they're very good.

[Anonymous No.5395127]

>>5392347
>as good as Mortal Kombat
You have some extremely low standards, buddy.

[Anonymous No.5395235]

>>5395123
The Tomb Raider game takes place in moden times though.

[Anonymous No.5395427]

>>5394714
>awkward metaphor for the war on terror aside.
Literally what?
Or you are so much cheeseburger-inhaling Yank that any sort of allegation of weapon smuggling instantly reads to you as "supposed caches of hidden weapons of mass destruction used as cover story"?

[Anonymous No.5395437]

>>5394706
>Except that the new games are more popular than Tonb Raider actually was
Top fucking kek.
Last time I've checked, original Lara was so iconic, my grandma, who knew jack-shit about video games, was still capable of recognising the character. That's how big the franchise was.
Now it's a small ghetto of manlets playing watered-down Uncharted with very small tits attatched to it and nobody outside them and old fandom cares.

[Anonymous No.5395440]

>>5395092
>I will project my own experience as some sort of universal truth and voicing it up
Why are you so gay?

[Anonymous No.5395635]

>>5395437
Lara and her games are separate. That's what I was explaining.

>>5395440
Yeah in my experience, despite Lara Croft being well known, the actual games she was in were never as popular as she was. That's the whole reason they rebooted the franchise to be an action-story type game like the massively popular Uncharted. I'm really just explaining to that dude it has little to nothing to do with feminism because he seemed stuck on that point. Sorry for providing a real world example instead of just pol-tier conspiracy theories about evil sjws lol.

[Anonymous No.5395652]

>>5395235
You think ancient Egypt still exists in modern times?

[Anonymous No.5395689]

>>5392451
Didn't the Shamwow guy show up in this movie, or am I misremembering things?

[Anonymous No.5395809]

>>5395652
Lol what? Do you think Lara time traveled three thousand years in the past and thought to bring her pistols?

[Anonymous No.5395918]

>>5395635
>Continue to use own experience as universal truth
Nigger, didn't they teach you back in the fucking elementry about personal experience bias?

[Anonymous No.5395942]

>>5392372
That's because YOU'RE SOUL IS MINE!!

[Anonymous No.5395983]

>>5395427
The whole plot was instigated by a treacherous adviser telling the leader of persia (aka George bush) that another country (Iraq) had weapon forges (nukes), so they invade to stop that, but really there were never any weapon forges to begin with, the treacherous adviser used that excuse to get at the Sands of Time (oil) that is underneath the land.

The war on terror was a bit more complicated than that, but it's a pretty clear metaphor.

[Anonymous No.5396040]

>>5395983
This is what being American does to your brain. Stay safe. Don't be American.

[Anonymous No.5396051]

>>5396040
Nice retort.

[Anonymous No.5396069]

>>5396051
The level of mental retardation required to read it as any sort of allegory, especially this particular one, pretty much screams "American".
Can you guys finally move on? It's been 18 years and you are still stuck. Same shit you did with Vietnam - up until mid-90s still having issues about it. It's like you literally can't, on national level, move on.

[Anonymous No.5396082]

>>5396069
We can't, we're never going to leave

[Anonymous No.5396106]

>>5392365
People will bitch about Silent Hill all day and night, but it was actually a really interesting psychological paranormal thriller.

[Anonymous No.5396120]

>>5395918
Okay sure Tomb Raider was massively popular and everyone played it I just had the crazy luck of all the people lived in a bubble lol.

[Anonymous No.5396163]

Even though I kinda liked the cheesier vidya movies in the past like SMB, SF, and MK. Silent Hill was the first adaptation that I felt did some justice to the source material and captured a bit of the feel of the games.When I heard the Akira Yamaoka tracks played in the movie I had a bit of a fangasm.

[Anonymous No.5396196]

>>5396069
RENT. FREE.

[Anonymous No.5396224]

>>5396163
>>5396163
To be fair cheesy as it is, Mortal Kombat captures the feel and totally does justice to it's source material. But I do agree on Silent Hill as well, it was almost as good as you can hope for a video game movie. Got the feel, told a story that was close enough to be clearly Silent Hill but different enough to be interesting to someone who knows the exact plots of the games, meanwhile working for those who don't.

had no idea, but they filmed it near where I grew up and the opening scene is a plavr I would ride my bike to on weekends. It was pretty nuts.

[Anonymous No.5396263]

>tfw no cheesy 90s Killer Instinct movie with god-tier UK techno soundtrack

[Anonymous No.5396894]

>>5392347
Depends on what you consider to be a video game movie because if we're including animated works from Japan then

[Anonymous No.5396948]

>>5395918
He's right though. Lara Croft was popular but no one actually played the Tomb Raider games.

[Anonymous No.5396960]

>>5396263
IT'S THE WAY YOU MOVE TO THE KILLER GROOVE.

THAT BEAT IS RARE

[Anonymous No.5397057]

>>5392568
There was a Parasite Eve movie? This is literally the first time I'm hearing about this.

[Anonymous No.5397195]

>>5397057
nip live-action

[Anonymous No.5397209]

>>5396224
hello there, fellow hammerdweller

[Anonymous No.5397292]

>>5392451
Came here just to make sure Postal got posted. Good show anon.

[Anonymous No.5397303]

>>5392483
>- but in the movie world it would be yet another cheap and played out zombie movie

You forgot to mention its pretty much just The Road But With Zombies.

[Anonymous No.5397312]

>>5394707
Its fits for Cage.

[Anonymous No.5397858]

>>5396120
... how's being from Nowhere, Kansas luck?

[Anonymous No.5397865]

The first mortal kombat movie was casted perfectly IMO. That and not taking itself too seriously, I think made it an enjoyable movie. SF couldn't decide if it wanted to be serious or funny

[Anonymous No.5397913]

>>5396106
Best part about it is how with just few minor tweaks it can work on it's own. And it works for the most part anyway as stand-alone horror flick.

[Anonymous No.5397914]

>>5396948
>but no one actually played the Tomb Raider games
Yeah, I mean those record sales were all made by fans of Lara to make a shrine with game inside, nobody played those at all.
It's like you actually started to believe in Squenix bullshit

[Anonymous No.5397915]

>>5392715
Fun fact a sequel actually got well into the preproduction phase before it was cancelled. Stanley Kubrick ended up using a lot of the costumes in Eyes Wide Shut.

[Anonymous No.5397995]

>>5394581
>I'm still confused how one takes something as silly and self-aware of its sillyness as Tomb Raider and turn it into dead-serious material.

The same way you take Star Wars, a golden goose that's been laying billion dollar eggs for 40 years, and suddenly give it 'franchise fatigue' by making a story about a grumpy unlikable bitch that only bitter feminists identify with at all.

The meat-grinder that Lara Croft has gone through is a fucking tragedy.

[Anonymous No.5398076]

>>5397995
Don't forget they've killed Luke to achieve that. And essentially discontinued everything within the EU

[Anonymous No.5398502]

>>5397995
>>5398076
Sjw culture has irrevocably destroyed everything from the 70s/80s/90s that its gotten it's grubby mits on

[Anonymous No.5398752]

>>5397915
>Stanley Kubrick ended up using a lot of the costumes in Eyes Wide Shut.
There's no fucking way...

[Anonymous No.5398758]

>>5392429
Street Fighter is a good movie, even if it is by Raul Julia's performance alone.

[Anonymous No.5398796]

>>5392347
>There still hasn't been a video game late night TV series as amazing and hokey (in a good way) as Mortal Kombat Conquest
ftfy

[Anonymous No.5398820]

>>5398796
I kinda enjoy the hokey finale to this series. It's a 45 minutes of prolonged "rock falls, everybody dies".
When my buddy told me that "they all die" I thought he was shitting me. But no - every named character dies in the last episode for one reason or another.

[Anonymous No.5398828]

>the screenshot when your original video game were literally a better movie than the movie that was in theaters, especially the cast.

[Anonymous No.5398837]

>>5392347
I'm pretty sure I watch this movie 15 times the weekend I rented this as a kid. I have no idea why, but I love this movie. The others sucked.

[Anonymous No.5398872]

>>5398820
MKC is awesome. I remember reading that the elder gods were supposed to show up and undo all the bullshit, but there was no second season so it never happened.

Highly recommend it though. It has the best Raiden out of any adaptation. The same guy plays Shao Kahn in it too.

[Anonymous No.5398893]

>>5398872
It kinda sucks that they never did anything with Scorpion. He was just "a guy". He wasn't Hanzo Hasashi, had no feud with Lun Quei, wasn't connected to Quan Chi. Just some random dude that was bit by a scorpion and became a wraith. Showed up for one episode and then fucked off. Lame.

[Anonymous No.5398894]

Is my memory failing me or was there an animated kind of short movie as a preview to this one?

[Anonymous No.5398907]

>>5398872
>It has the best Raiden out of any adaptation
I guess in terms of faithfulness to the source material, maybe.

I still love the fuck out of Christopher Lambert. He knew exactly what kind of movie he was in and by god, he was determined to have fun. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was also a joy to behold.

[Anonymous No.5398985]

>>5394347
You can't go far wrong with Kevin Nash. Unless you're a wrestling company.
For anything else you're golden.

[Anonymous No.5398994]

The Mortal Kombat movie was literally Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon retold with Mortal Kombat's mythology. In Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee is a secret agent named "Lee" who travels to a mysterious island to fight in a tournament, while he is there he is on some drug busting mission, and he also goes to avenge his brother. In Mortal Kombat, Liu Kang gets sent on a boat to a mysterious island in the NetherRelm to fight in a competition to save the earth. He's also there to avenge his brother. The character Roper from Enter the Dragon is basically Johnny Cage. The main bad dude in Enter the Dragon has a henchman named Bolo who is a bit like Goro. They just we-wrote Enter the Dragon, and you know what? It worked. It worked as well as a PG-13 Mortal Kombat movie can work.

[Anonymous No.5399007]

>>5398994
Pretty much this.

[Anonymous No.5399019]

>>5399007
>Pretty much this.

I died at Cynthia Rothrock. But yeah, this is accurate summary of Mortal Kombat. The first Mortal Kombat movie has a lot of flaws, don't get me wrong. But it works on this level. Mortal Kombat the game series was always a big homage to Bruce Lee, Jean-Claude Van Damme, 1970's and 1980's Hong Kong cinema blended with this strange mythological element. So the movie going in that direction worked. The sequel is a strange mess. It tries to expand on the Mortal Kombat mythos, but it is a low budget disaster.

[Anonymous No.5399035]

>>5399019
Annahilation can be described as "too many random characters that show up for no rhyme or reason and then they fight". I guess I appreciate that Cyrax, Mileena, Rain and Noob Saibot were in this movie. But they just appeared out of nowhere, did nothing, we were never told who they are and what their deal is and then they were forgotten about.
Even Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile in MK1 had buildup, with this little CGI monstrosity stalking the gang and Sub-Zero and Scorpion showing what they can do.

[Anonymous No.5399054]

>>5399035
>Annahilation can be described as "too many random characters that show up for no rhyme or reason and then they fight". I guess I appreciate that Cyrax, Mileena, Rain and Noob Saibot were in this movie. But they just appeared out of nowhere, did nothing, we were never told who they are and what their deal is and then they were forgotten about.
>Even Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile in MK1 had buildup, with this little CGI monstrosity stalking the gang and Sub-Zero and Scorpion showing what they can do.

The movie is bad. But it does have a few choreographed fight scenes that were fairly well executed. Also the fight scenes did try to emulate the look of the game. So some credit for that. Annahilation still is a cluster fuck of too many characters with nothing to do beyond a their single cameo. And a pretty convoluted plot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGVdLAS6AGc

[Anonymous No.5399069]

> "TYRANOSSAAAAURUUUSSS!!!!!!!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOMCnZeih8

The acting is so bad that it is kinda good. No wonder why Christopher Lambert didn't come back as Raiden.

[Anonymous No.5399225]

>>5398502
>Muh bogeyman
SJW are meaningless. It's retarded marketing decisions to pander both on nostalgia and modernisation of classic, neither asked for.

[Anonymous No.5399280]

>>5399225
Both are asked for by legions though. Just because it's not you or I doesn't mean it's not a market worth making games for. This whole attitude that 'grrr they're making games for normies and even GIRLS now! How dare they!' is so surreal to me.

[Anonymous No.5399287]

>>5399280
I don't think you understood my point. For past... decade Hollywood is eating its own ass, by non-stop pulling remakes and trying to market them on "hey, remember how SUPER COOL the 80s were!" while selling it to kids (at best) born after '95. In the process they do everything that could be done wrong with the remake, in poorly-organised attempt to do "modern" version. And I don't mean it in terms of SJW bullshit, but changing the way how film is paced, edited and what are the plot points of it, turning good and/or non-standard production into safe-bet schlock with absolutely zero saving grace.
Just recall how Robocop was absolutely mangled. It did everything that could only be done wrong with it, for the sake of being an 80s classic remake, only done by commitee of utter hacks.

[Anonymous No.5399290]

>>5392369
dead or alive is more entertaining

[Anonymous No.5399291]

>>5392347
>good as Mortal Kombat

[Anonymous No.5399292]

>>5399290
I guess in some ways it is more ...aesthetically pleasing.
I still loved me my Talisa Soto. I just wished her attire was more accurate with the games.

[Anonymous No.5399392]

>>5398752
Shy Guys, Tweeters, Phantos, they're all there.

[Anonymous No.5399394]

>>5399392

[Anonymous No.5399451]

>>5398907
Lambert is probably one of the reasons the movie turned out so well. Not only because he hammed it up in the best way possible, but even behind the scenes he was just so into things that his influence rubbed off on others. He willingly worked more days on set with no extended pay, and was always providing things for the other cast and crew. I think like on the last day of filming he threw this big party for everyone just for the hell of it.

[Anonymous No.5399454]

>>5398820
There was supposed to be a season two but it got canceled. The "finale" we got wasn't supposed was actually simply the conclusion to season one (I'm assuming they were gonna have some insane way to explain all that shit away,) but it just ended on that terrible note. I remember being heart broken at the conclusion of that episode, especially for Raiden...fuck

[Anonymous No.5399460]

>>5399280
>This whole attitude that 'grrr they're making games for normies and even GIRLS now! How dare they!' is so surreal to me.

Its not that they make things for them, its that a lot of times they try to piggyback off the success of established/popular things, often not understanding why those things got popular in the first place, and fucking things up in the process.

[Anonymous No.5400787]

>>5399460
I would argue in the case of Tomb Raider that they finally made a game that actually appeals to a wider audience. TR always seemed appealing because of the concept and Lara, but the games themselves are challenging 3D puzzlers with clumsy combat and never had broad appeal. The bew ones are generic action shooters which everyone is used to playing so it's far more accessible to more people.

[Anonymous No.5401153]

>>5399225
>SJWs are meaningless
Nobody can be this wrong unless they're trying to be wrong on purpose.

[Anonymous No.5401183]

>>5400787
Core TR games were 3D PS1 platformers/puzzlers, not so differrent from all the Raymans, Spyros and even games like Soul Reaver. Back in the day, such games were huge. And the platforming there was very solid - combat not so much, but that series never focused on combat. So I'm not buying that TR never had a broad appeal. I remember most people with PS1 owning at least one TR game. But that may be my personal bias getting in the way

[Anonymous No.5401192]

>>5401183
>Core TR games were 3D PS1 platformers/puzzlers, not so differrent from all the Raymans, Spyros and even games like Soul Reaver.

Reading this I don't think you've ever actually played Tomb Raider.

[Anonymous No.5401229]

>>5401183
>Core TR games were 3D PS1 platformers/puzzlers, not so differrent from all the Raymans, Spyros and even games like Soul Reaver.

They are not quite in the same genre as some of those other games. Tomb Raider was designed for dpads, it was also targeted at the Sega Saturn as the lead console. The controls were inspired by games like the original Prince of Persia or Out of this World. Which are generally called "cinematic platformers". Cinematic platformers work on a grid movement system. The original Core Tomb Raider series are basically 3D cinematic platformers. The controls work on a non constrictive grid. Were pressing forward would move Lara one grid space. Doing a backroll moves three grid spaces. Sprint forward plus jump would make the character leap for three grid spaces. This is what made the Tomb Raider series easy to play to play with just a keyboard on DOS and Mac.

With Angels of Darkness, we saw the Crystal Dynamix Tomb Raider series, which switched the controls to a more tradional 3D control scheme seen in the other 3D platformers at the time. The OG Tomb Raider series were in their own sub genre of 3D action games.

[Anonymous No.5401310]

>>5401153
>If I insist long enough on my delusion, it will turn real
>Just look at me, I've already convinced myself
There is nothing more pitiful than people actively looking for a boogeyman to be scared off

[Anonymous No.5401316]

>>5400787
>t. barely legal millenial
I get it, TR is older than you and you have zero recollection how HUGE it was as a game series, insisting now on utter bullshit that reflects your own (lack of) experience with it, but there is ignorance and then there is active stupidity.

[Anonymous No.5401531]

>>5401316
I'm 44. Tomb Raider was among my favorite PS games.

[Anonymous No.5401681]

>>5392347
Fun fact: Reptile was not featured in any of the promotional material for this movie. So when he showed up it was an actual hype moment because nobody saw it coming.

[Anonymous No.5401684]

>>5401681
So you might say that he was a secret character?

[Anonymous No.5403402]

>>5392362
fpbp

[Anonymous No.5403694]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JHIfHL5UgFs

Lui : "You can't run from me Shang!"
Shang: "I don't NEED to run." ( that line was cut from the movie)
KANO
LUI KANG
RAIDEN
JOHNNY CAGE
SCORPION
SUB ZERO
SONYA
MOOOORTAAAL KOOOOMBAAAT!

I was 14 when this movie hit the cinemas. I actually did see the Super Mario Bros in the cinema, along with Street Fighter the movie. The SMB movie was weird as fuck. I didn't like it at all as a kid. But i can appruciate it as a weird interpretation of Mario these days. I always thought the Street Fighter movie was trash with a few brightsides in the casting. Can still be fun to watch in the right mindset, but still a trainwreck of a movie. But for Mortal Kombat, its no award winner either. But it did many things right for a videogame movie. Yes it still took creative liberties, and yes it was a redressed Bruce Lee movie. But it did actually hit its target for me. It was close enough to what i actually wanted to see out of a Mortal Kombat movie, that i still give it a pass.kinda sad that most video game movies fail at getting the basic elements of the games right. I was so dissapointed with that Max Payne movie. Should've been a homage to John Wu like the games are. Not the slow plodding crap it was.

[Anonymous No.5403731]

Gene Siskle actually gave Mortal Kombat a thumbs up. He called it "the best video game movie to date, which is not really saying much". I'm paraphrasing there, but its basically what he said. Roger Ebert gave it half of a thumb up, and said he can't quite recoment it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uOOsqHRJqog

Heres their review for The Super Mario Bros movie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEH66qiwrY

They both thought it was a confusing mess and gave it thumbs down.

I can't find any reviews these two did for Street Fighter, and Tomb Raider came out after Gene Siskels death, But Roger Ebert actually liked the first Tomb Raider movie. Also here is a review for Pokemon: The First Movie that Roger Ebert did with a guest reviewer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kVIJqw64-gA

The guest reviewer gave it a pass for children. Ebert didn't like it at all and thought it only served a purpose to sell more Pokemon products for kids.

[Anonymous No.5403759]

>>5403731
>Ebert didn't like it at all and thought it only served a purpose to sell more Pokemon products for kids
>Implying it had any other porpose or represented any kind of quality by itself
At least the series anime could be watched completely detached from the games and merch (if still existing to sell said merch). The movie was made entirely to cash on the already rolling hype and make merch sales even easier.

[Anonymous No.5403819]

>>5392347
The live action Tekken movie was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.5403826]

>>5401681
>>5401684
that's cool

[Anonymous No.5403894]

>>5392347
>imagine the smell

[Anonymous No.5403928]

>>5399291
>video game movies
>good
It's all relative, man.

[Anonymous No.5403938]

anyone happens to have the MK3 source leaked a couple months back?
i could use it for a machine learning project

[Anonymous No.5403947]

>>5394347
>Me at the bottom

[Anonymous No.5403956]

>>5394291
It's so bad it's good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS_CsKRICTY

[Anonymous No.5404528]

>>5403938

Those source codes first leaked here on /vr/. Here is a backup to that thread:

https://archived.moe/vr/thread/5117527

However, the links are all dead. I can't find any working ones.

[Anonymous No.5404660]

>>5403938
Heres a link from internet achive. But its missing one of the ps1 zip files.
https://archive.org/details/Various-Mortal-Kombat-3-Source-Code-Collection

[Anonymous No.5404665]

Underrated movie.

[Anonymous No.5405081]

>>5392429
What a brutal cunt, shame we never got more of this Bison.

[Anonymous No.5405108]

>>5392347
Same thing that happened to comic book movies until the Sam Raimi Spider-Man came out - producers just see it as low key kiddie shit.

[Anonymous No.5405124]

>>5405108
>Same thing that happened to comic book movies until the Sam Raimi Spider-Man came out - producers just see it as low key kiddie shit.

There are a few exceptions here. The original Richard Donnor Superman is was generally regarded as one of the best super hero films, for the longest time. It wasn't written off as "kiddie shit" either. Superman II had a similar effect. Tim Burton's Batman tried to do the same thing, and it created a smaller trend of comic book movies, like The Crow, which tried to appeal to older audiences. The first Ninja Turtles movie was also an adaption of the original comic books, that was actually one of the most successful "indy" movies of its time period. There were also movies like Dick Tracy and stuff. But yeah, it wasn't until Spider-Man where comicbook movies became really mainstream.

[Anonymous No.5405183]

>>5394969
I'm a fan of the original game but have zero interest in the movie due to Blizzard shitting all over the property and ruining the dark aesthetic the first game had. I'm not even talking about just the movie, but what Blizzard has been doing long before that (orcs going from bloodthirsty savages to misunderstood victims, the retconning of the religion from a medieval Christian-inspired one to the holy light one, etc.). It's gone from a cool, grimdark Warhammer knockoff to just another generic fantasy series.

As much as the second game was a huge part of my childhood, looking back you can even see things starting to change on an aesthetic level that early on with its brighter, more cartoony color schemes and clockpunk-style technologies being introduced.

[Anonymous No.5405194]

>>5392347
Only in Hollywood could Sonya EVER beat Kano in a hand-to-hand fight.

[Anonymous No.5405206]

The street fighter anime movie was better

[Anonymous No.5405696]

>>5405194
In the actual games she could probably manage just fine; the fight in the film might have genuinely been built around the replacement actress having almost no time to exercise before filming began.

[Anonymous No.5405707]

Half Life would make an amazing trilogy prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.5406062]

>>5405707
>Half Life
>>5405707
>trilogy

Oh please... did Gabe learn to count to three yet?

[Anonymous No.5406121]

>>5396948
I can't tell if you actually believe what you're saying, or you're a legitimate retard.

Tomb Raider is one of the highest selling video game franchises of all time. Me and my friend both owned Tomb Raider 1, and he had Tomb Raider 2.

[Anonymous No.5406321]

>>5404665
>This piece of shit
>Underrated
It's a failure as a regular police movie and it's an utter mess as game adaptation. The only """"saving grace"""" it has is how you can watch it without knowing this is a vidya adaptation, but it doesn't make it good or even average - it's mediocre through and through

[Anonymous No.5406323]

>>5403928
Tomb Raider (the Jolie one) was good.
Silent Hill was good.
Prince of Persia was fantastic.

Compared with those, MK is a fucking joke.

[Anonymous No.5406351]

>>5394347

The fact that Jaime Pressly and Devon Aoki are in this movie just makes it the best thing ever.

[Anonymous No.5406974]

>>5394291
i watched this in the cinema when i was a kid and it was meh

[Anonymous No.5408042]

>>5406974
I watched Godfather 2 in the cinema when I was a kid and it was meh.

[Anonymous No.5408084]

>>5392347
>There still hasn't been a video game movie as good as Mortal Kombat
That's pretty sad and says a lot about the quality of video game movies. Also the first Silent Hill movie was better, but still pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.5408086]

>>5392451
Imagine being born without a frontal lobe and actually sitting through a uwe boll movie voluntarily, let alone enjoying the experience.

[Anonymous No.5408169]

>>5403819
I respect that you like it; for me it was a C Minus, it barely passed because of two things, the fight scenes and the costume department. Not everyone looked as good but some characters were perfect.

[Anonymous No.5408170]

>>5392347
it's in
B I S O N
D O L L A R S

[Anonymous No.5408214]

>>5406323
>Compared with those, MK is a fucking joke.
wasn't that the point of the movie?

[Anonymous No.5409123]

>>5408170

Raul Julia was such an odd choice as M. Bison. But for some reason it worked really well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF1KKAs-RmY
But then again, the entire cast of this movie is fun to watch. But the movie itself is a train wreck.

[Anonymous No.5409386]

>>5404665
What a dumpster fire.

Could have been legendary if they just stuck to the source movie. Marky mark would have had the chops to pull it off. Mila Kunis was miscast

[Anonymous No.5410002]

>>5406062
Hl1, HL2, and the expansions as 1 plus a real ending

[Anonymous No.5410843]

>>5392347
It's because the movie ripped off the movie which the game was based on.

[Anonymous No.5410950]

>>5408086
Postal really is the exception though.

[Anonymous No.5410962]

>>5410950
No, it really isn't.

[Anonymous No.5411227]

Vampire Hunter, Fatal Fury 2 and Street Fighter Alpha's OVA is pretty good.
Of the live action movies, Super Mario Bros. and Street Fighter are the best.

[Anonymous No.5412604]

>>5395942
nice try, but it's "YOUR"

[Anonymous No.5414250]

>>5392372
/v/ is that way, zoomer

[Anonymous No.5415775]

>>5392347
I'm not sure what you mean by claiming MK was a good movie. It doesn't even work as a dumb popcorn munching movie

[Anonymous No.5415778]

>>5394318
>Probably Paul W. S. Anderson's bes
That's pic related. And then there is also "Soldier" with Kurt Russell

[Anonymous No.5416151]

>>5392427
It's faithful to the source, but it does a terrible job at being a legit movie because of no plot.

[Anonymous No.5416165]

>>5415778
If you squint hard enough, Event Horizon is a pretty decent prequel to Warhammer 40k. So it counts?

[Anonymous No.5416387]

CTRL+F "siren"
0/0

[Anonymous No.5416458]

The MK movie is mediocre at best. Why they didn't just put tons of blood in the movie like in the games was retarded.

Pic related is still the best vidya movie.

>>5392362
>>5392715
Kill yourselves. It's a shit movie and you can't blame Hoskins and Hopper for being embarrassed by it.

[Anonymous No.5416496]

>>5410002
>>5405707
>trilogy where one of the main selling points is YOU are a silent protagonist who experiences a bunch of crazy shit from beginning to end in first person should be made into a passive experience
>implying HL2's retcons to HL1 would make anymore sense as a movie
>prove me wrong
Well that wasn't hard.

[Anonymous No.5417570]

>>5392528
That NIN track that plays during this scene

[Anonymous No.5417596]

>>5398828
I have a soft spot for the Wing Commander film

[Anonymous No.5417705]

>>5416458
>Pic related is still the best vidya movie.

I think it is easy to say that most of the OVA video game movies are better adaptions than their Hollywood counterparts.

[Anonymous No.5417730]

>>5406323
>Tomb Raider (the Jolie one) was good.
The movie works IMO because despite it's sillyness, the cast was really into it.

Jolie was hyped that she can play a badass, have fun and travel across the world and Daniel Craig, being a gamer, was just excited that he's gonna be in a Tomb Raider movie - because he loved the fuck out of the games. And those two have some legit fun on set.

[Anonymous No.5417747]

>>5398758
>Street Fighter is a good movie, even if it is by Raul Julia's performance alone.


How can you not like Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile? It was so good and bad at the same time.

But Raul Julia died too fucking early in his life. Good or bad movie, he held quite a presence when he was onscreen. He was perfect as Gomez Addams. His performance as M. Bison was fun, to say the least. Street Fighter wasn't even the worst movie he was in.

[Anonymous No.5417797]

>>5417747
>How can you not like Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile? It was so good and bad at the same time.

> "Eyem going to keek that sun-uv-a-beech By-suns ass so hoard!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMV2hnlcmgU

[Anonymous No.5417816]

>>5417797
True American Hero.

[Anonymous No.5418935]

>>5416165
>squint
>implying an actual prequel requires any squinting
/tg/ have ruined me. I want to go back when I was capable of watching that movie on its own

[Anonymous No.5418948]

>>5417570
The entire soundtrack is great. They really, really grasped what kind of movie they are making and what kind of music that requires
I'm also always amazed with the OST Graeme Revell made for it. Not due to the quality (and then there are the few obvious cues borrowed from Pitch Black), but the fact he literally put it together in 3 days, while having to work with finished movie AND pre-picked songs for it. And having a really serious deadline, because he was hired 10 days before premiere.

[Anonymous No.5418952]

>>5417747
>But Raul Julia died too fucking early in his life
Part of the reason why he was in both of those movies was that he was already terminal. He asked his kids to pick what movie he should be and then asked for a fuckload of money, to set them up for lives.

[Anonymous No.5420224]

>>5394318
Bridgette Wilson was an underrated actress desu. Not very talented, but very good-looking. I often wonder why she wasn't in more stuff.

[Anonymous No.5420521]

>>5394318
it wouldn't be mortal kombat without gratuitous fatalities (in every other fight they are forced to kill their opponent i think) but i wish kano had survived, he was a great character.

[Anonymous No.5420572]

>god tier sets
>shit tier costumes
Why bros?

[Anonymous No.5420942]

>>5420572
You know something? Until now, I never actually quite picked up how underwhelming the costumes in the film were. I suppose they got the core elements right and the character work was strong enough to see it through. We live in a world with Shadaloo sparring outfits for Ryu and Ken, and business casual Terry Bogard. I tend to take what I can get and MK's costumes were sufficient.

[Anonymous No.5420960]

>>5420572
The costumes are fine. The problem in motion picture production is that completely different departments design and work on those things. It's a nightmare to coordinate and get everything to one, consistent level of quality. Most productions fail at this.

[Anonymous No.5421060]

>>5420572
The weird thing for me is that the costumes in the second movie were somehow way worse than the first one.

[Anonymous No.5421062]

>>5420521
They were actually following the story of the game for once. I love that she kills him though as great a character as he was.

[Anonymous No.5421073]

>>5392347
Why shoehorn one medium into something completely different? I've never seen a video game based movie that wasn't total shit from the points of story and pacing.

Let games be games and movies be movies.

[Anonymous No.5421098]

>>5421060
Because the budget was stupidly small. And the director decided to shoehorn as many ridiculous looking MK characters as he could.
IMO the only three characters that look good are Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Motaro - although Motaro should be more monstrous looking, IMO.

[Anonymous No.5421108]

>>5421098
I really should watch it again of only for laughs. I'd loved the first one then Annihilation seemed like such a masdive turd I couldn't even laugh at it. I do remember Motaro looking particularly stupid though, like it was just a guy in fuzzy pants with a cg horse behind him...

[Anonymous No.5421112]

>>5394714
Seen it, like it. Dont get the "war on terror" meme.

[Anonymous No.5421124]

>>5417596
You and me anon, you and me.

[Anonymous No.5421131]

>>5415778
I've seen Soldier back in the day. Seen it a few years ago. i like it.

[Anonymous No.5421138]

>>5420224
Maybe she wanted to spend more time with family?

[Anonymous No.5421254]

>>5394838
HEY I MEMBER THIS ARTIST!

too bad he not just baleeted his pixiv shit, wasn't he working on a Super Mario universe fighting game that even have Prince Haru from the Japanese movie and Dennis Hooper Koopa?

[Anonymous No.5421497]

>>5420224
>Bridgette Wilson-Sampras performed all her own stunts (refusing to use a double), including the fight scenes. She dislocated her shoulder during one scene, but they were able to fix it on set, without any recurrence.

oh it shows

[Anonymous No.5421504]

I actually re-saw the film last week and its not that bad actually. The production value is really good for its time, and the fight scenes were pretty dope. The story sucked, but hey, who the fuck watches a movie based on a game for the story right?

[Anonymous No.5421505]

How does the KoF movie stand among the fighting game movies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho4tiCCbqqo

[Anonymous No.5421510]

>>5421504
>who the fuck watches a movie based on a game for the story right

[Anonymous No.5421534]

>>5421504
>who the fuck watches a movie based on a game for the story right?
for what else would you watch a movie?

[Anonymous No.5421638]

>>5416458
>Kill yourselves. It's a shit movie and you can't blame Hoskins and Hopper for being embarrassed by it.
Why are you so angry anyway?

[Anonymous No.5421650]

Angry Birds is unironically the best video game movie adaptation thus far.

[Anonymous No.5421664]

>>5392483
I really liked the first Resident Evil movie. The ones after that were pretty bad though, and I'd be hard pressed to call the first movie a 'video game movie' because it barely even shares any story elements aside from zombies and Umbrella.

The weird thing is that none of the movies seem to have a whole lot to do with the games. They share some character names and the Umbrella corporation and the presence of zombies, but that's it. The game characters feel like weird, forced cameos in a movie that's not about them, like Jill Valentine. And the Wesker fight in the last movie was such a weird Matrix ripoff, it's both ridiculous how similar it is and how it came out a decade after the last Matrix movie. But I liked it because I like garbage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J58VPpPrmQU

[Anonymous No.5422826]

>>5421664
Yes the first one was pretty good. I liked the first 4 honestly, everything went to shit with 5 onwards.

[Swift S. Lawliet !!VIQsbxF6xwO No.5422838]

>>5392347
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is an underrated classic.
Too bad it (alongside Titan A.E., Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Treasure Planet) bombed at the box office, and now we most likely won't get any more serious, mainstream anime-like Western animated films.

[Anonymous No.5423634]

>>5421504
i think the story is pretty good with the characters they had to work with. everyone has a distinct role, no one is superfluous and they all have nice moments

[Anonymous No.5423660]

While we're at it, I've actually rewatched Annihilation a few months ago and it was actually pretty cool (for what it's worth). The best MK movie is just the last game's story mode, though. It's not especially good in any way but it's the best that can be made out of Mortal Kombat without completely changing everything. It was stupid and very entertaining, and character designs were pretty damn spot-on.

[Anonymous No.5423668]

>>5422838
Besides not being Final Fantasy in any conceivable way, Spirits Within was very silly and extremely boring. "Underrated"? Maligned as it is, it STILL is infinitely more widely known as it's ever deserved to freaking be.

[Anonymous No.5423675]

If we're serious for a second, the best video game movie was Silent Hill

I'm not even kidding, it's a misunderstood masterpiece

[Anonymous No.5423750]

>>5423675
Have you tried Prince of Persia?

[Anonymous No.5423762]

>>5421505
Accuracy wise? One of the worst ever. As a narrative? Rubbish.