Videogame based movies

[Cerebus]

Oh yeah, maybe. Or Bustin' out. But it would still need the mysterious force controlling them. Else, it wouldn't be a Sims!

I do hope if that Metroid movie comes out, they won't add some love story and such...

[Archem]

No Metroid movie. There's no way it can be good, so don't ruin my Metroid for stupid money.

[fruckert]

Agreed

The closest story that Metroid has had was in Prime, and it sucked
Plus think of how boring the movie would be

"Oh, whats that? OMG ITS A MISSLE TANK!"
"OMFG PLASMA BEAM"
'OMFG ANOTHER ITEM! THATS THE 306TH IN 2 HOURS!"

Ugh

[Cerebus]

Well I don't think that's how it would be. For exemple, in Resident Evil, they don't cure themselves with some random plant they find on the ground, or some First Aid Spray. There's no wandering demon vendor who keep weapons inside his coat to sell them to whoever he come across. There's not so much puzzles to solve, too. And in FF7, they don't wander around killing monsters to get stronger and defeat Sephirot... I think.

[fruckert]

Good point
But there still isn't enough story in the source material, save from the Prime games, to build up a good movie
The most story, in all of the actual Metroid games, is this-

Pirates killed my parents
Go find stuff to kill them
Blow up base

Metroids are dangerous
Go kill Metroids
Find baby
Bring baby to ship
Baby get's stolen
Go get stuff to save baby
Find more pirates
Kill pirates
Blow up planet
Yay

Definitely not enough to keep an engaging movie

Most of Metroids charm is from exploring a world that you technically have full access to, and finding more tools to help you explore the world
Translating that into a fixed story is nearly impossible, without it sucking uber hard core

[Grandy]

Well, Lord of the Rings is basically

 Ring is evil
 Go destroy it

 And they made a heckload of it.

[Djanki]

...I actually LIKED the Mario Bros. Movie...Leguizamo was funny....

...to each his own, I suppose. It's not easy to take the acid-trip-world of Mario and make it live-action, mind...

[RuneBlade]

Saw Max Payne a few days ago, it was IMO not bad as a movie, but according to a friend who played the game around 321318 times, wasnt related to the game stories. He said something like the names of prota/antagonists were the same, not counting Max ofc.

[Djanki]

Saw Max Payne a few days ago, it was IMO not bad as a movie, but according to a friend who played the game around 321318 times, wasnt related to the game stories. He said something like the names of prota/antagonists were the same, not counting Max ofc.

I never played Max Payne, but it always looked like some sort of dark and gritty noir-mafia-game. The movie looks really....supernatural...

[Desimodontidae]

I liked Doom. Max Payne fuckin blows.

Halo movie = bad idea, though.

[Musha]

Max Payne wasn't all that terrible. It could've been better, but it could've been much worse.

As for other video game movies, I like Silent Hill, Mortal Kombat, DOA: Dead or Alive, Resident Evil (only the first one), and Advent Children.
I hated Super Mario Bros., Doom,  Street Fighter, the second Mortal Kombat, the second Resident Evil.
I'm looking forward to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li...It has to at least be better than that first SF movie, right?
Oh, and I haven't seen any of Uwe Boll's movies, nor do I ever plan to.  I also haven't seen that Double Dragon movie they made back in the day, but I've heard conflicting reports on whether it's any good....

[Drace]

Well, Lord of the Rings is basically

 Ring is evil
 Go destroy it

 And they made a heckload of it.

True, true. Lord of the Rings is not a complex story because it's really easy to see who is evil and who is good.

[Emerates]

Passion of the Christ was a pretty good VG-Based movie...

[Grandy]

True, true. Lord of the Rings is not a complex story because it's really easy to see who is evil and who is good.

 I didn't say that.

[Drace]

I didn't say that.

It's still true though, in my opinion.