Movies Adapted from Video Games: The Poll

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System, Friday, 31 May 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 1 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link

two years pass...

Fans "restore" Super Mario Bros. by adding in 20 minutes of extra footage found on a VHS copy. One of them is the guy who made the "recobbled cut" of The Thief and the Cobbler, and here's an interview with him.

https://slate.com/culture/2021/06/super-mario-bros-movie-restoration-morton-jankel-cut.html

wasdnuos (abanana), Thursday, 10 June 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link

not gonna lie, i’m kinda stoked to watch this

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 10 June 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link

Not really played much Silent Hill buy enjoyed the film quite a bit!

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 10 June 2021 10:13 (two years ago) link

The second SH film isn't too bad, either. If the strongly-rumored 2021 SH reboot is PS5 only and gets good reviews, I'll be incentivized to buy a PS5.

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link

I GOT ARRESTED FOR BEING A PLUMBA

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link

movie predicted Trump

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link

I sort of skimmed over the news, but a name popped out to me: Garrett Gilchrist. It suddenly came back to me that I interviewed him maybe 15 years ago for something, because he was the guy that painstakingly restored the original Star Wars trilogy using the best available materials back when you couldn't get the theatrical versions on home media. He also did "Deleted Magic," iirc a sorta doc of all extant (then) unreleased Star Wars stuff.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 June 2021 12:54 (two years ago) link

The second SH film isn't too bad, either

wow @ just encouraging people to watch SH:R3D like this

has one of the worst kit harrington performances on film and also malcolm mcdowell in a big chain suit for five minutes

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link

i watched street fighter the other day, amazingly entertaining film, were resident evil not so great i would've voted for it

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link

or silent hill, tbh, which i think i finally saw after this poll happened? adapts the atmosphere of the games flawlessly and twists the story just enough to feel like its own thing

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link

one of my favorite movies of all time tbh

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link

WHO WANTS TO GO HOME?
AND WHO WANTS TO GO WITH *ME*?!!!

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link

I thought Silent Hill was outstanding

80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link

DOA: Dead or Alive is surprisingly fun garbage that successfully translates its source material to screen better than virtually all the other movies on this list. Plus, it has Eric Roberts as the big bad who wears computerized Oakleys that give him superhuman fighting ability.

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link

Still think Doom is enjoyable trash

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 11 June 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link

glad lots of people like the SH movie. I'm quite picky about horrors but I thought it was great, although I have friends who are fans of the game who didn't like it as apparently it wasn't true to it or whatever

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 11 June 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link

although the only thing i didn't like about the SH movie was the fact Sean Bean's character was totally and utterly superfluous to the plot. I guess he only served as a device to show there was a real world beyond the Hill and that people were looking for his wife and daughter

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 11 June 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link

Need a Battletoads movie

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 June 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link

although the only thing i didn't like about the SH movie was the fact Sean Bean's character was totally and utterly superfluous to the plot. I guess he only served as a device to show there was a real world beyond the Hill and that people were looking for his wife and daughter

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, June 11, 2021 8:48 AM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he was written into the movie bc producers thought it needed a male element. ultimately my feelings about that are "ew" and "wow what could've been." regardless... i kinda like his role, he is just absolutely clueless about what the women in his life are going through

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link

I had no idea there even was a video game when I saw Silent Hill and I thought it was "just" a really good horror movie. The atmosphere alone is amazing, and some of the monsters are genuinely frightening.

but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 11 June 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link


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