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Originally Posted by Blizzaga
See, the hard thing about making a movie based on a game is, you'll either appeal to moviegoers and disappoint the fans, or appeal to the fans and disappoint the moviegoers. Find a middle section, and you may have mediocrity.
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I think one of the big problems with video game movies is that nobody has attempted to make a movie out of a game that could actually make a good movie. Here's a list of various game movies:
Tomb Raider
Mario Bros.
Doom
Double Dragon
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
House of the Dead
Resident Evil
There are more, but I don't care to continue. Very few of those games could have been a good movie. Now, here's a list of games that one would think would have been made into movies:
Final Fantasy
Castlevania
Prince of Persia- the first of the new trilogy would be the best (Sands of Time)
Metal Gear
Fire Emblem
All of those have great elements for a movie, PoP in particular. Why nobody has attempted one, I'm not sure. As for Metroid, it would probably fit better in the category of games with cool action but little story. The fight sequences I have no doubt would be well done, but there's just not enough plot throughout any of the game to make a good movie out of it.