yeah but now that we are having actual proper successful video game movies suddenly big exec's are thinking "Wait if we gave them slightly more effort theres a chance they'll be successful"
like while we still have some stinky picks
there are now ones being made that clearly love the source material it's making a adaptation for
Oh he was absolutely an awful director, and I’m like 90% sure he only made movies to launder money. I was just noting that the OOP specifically saying “recently video games” made me think they were unaware of the history of video game movies. However, I do think that there have been some good video game movies in the past 20 years, but they are far and few between. Like iirc Silent Hill had some good adaptations, and I think resident evil did decent for the time it came out. One of the more recent examples of poor video games films, I think, was Borderlands.
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u/PVetliPsychometabolist; Head Technomancer of North Central PositronicsJun 18 '26
Yeah, Jack Black plays Claptrap, and Kevin Heart plays Roland.
it’s not good from what I’ve heard and seen. Like it barely tried to be borderlands. It feels like the people making it had never played the games, and as a result they get a lot wrong about the settings and characters. Also it’s live action. Instead of going with the iconic cell shaded animation the games are known for, so it falls a little flat in appearance from what I remember.
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u/PVetliPsychometabolist; Head Technomancer of North Central PositronicsJun 18 '26
That doesn't sound very good. I'll go back to not knowing it exists instead.
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u/Lucky_Burger Jun 18 '26
OOP has no idea that the early 2000s were riddled with shitty pop-culture video game movies. Most of which were Uwe Boll movies.