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Also the Mortal Combat soundtrack was pretty great.Wheat Loaf posted:Are there any video game movie adaptations that are good / competent? I'm probably alone in this but I really enjoyed the World of Warcraft movie. I'm also gonna out myself as a huge dork: after I finished watching it, I booted up Warcraft II and was overjoyed that the action took place right after the events in the movie. 
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Forgall posted:Well it does have highest metacritic score of video game movies at 58... Do you know what video game movie has the highest Rotten Tomatoes rating, which is only 43%? Angry Birds
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Mortal Kombat was great, and had a good soundtrack. Shame about MK: Annihilation.
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I was gonna say Super Mario Bros Movie but I just checked holy poo poo 15% RT score. How? I like that movie!. Sure it had bad acting, and bad planning, a ton of other things wrong with it, and didn't really follow the plot of the games at all and oh wait I see.
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I really liked World of Warcraft despite bad reviews. It got me to resub after years, too, though, admitably, it's probably hard to swallow for someone who doesn't know the game.
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Are the Raul Julia bits in Streetfighter enough to overcome the rest of the movie? He was very, very good as M.Bison. But then, the rest of the movie was very, very bad.
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Mario Bros is the best video game movie, but for entirely ironic reasons.
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Was it MK where Christopher Lambert played the main character? I've not watched it but I've considered it solely on the basis that Christopher Lamber was in it, because a) I love Highlander; and b) one of my favourite terrible sci-fi/fantasy movies is this Beowulf adaptation from 20 years ago that reimagines the story as "Beowulf if he was Mad Max".
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Chuck Tingle doing an AMA on Reddit today: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5nhd8p/i_am_dr_chuck_tingle_hugo_nominated_author_of/
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was it MK where Christopher Lambert played the main character? I've not watched it but I've considered it solely on the basis that Christopher Lamber was in it, because a) I love Highlander; and b) one of my favourite terrible sci-fi/fantasy movies is this Beowulf adaptation from 20 years ago that reimagines the story as "Beowulf if he was Mad Max". He played one of the characters, but I don't know that he was the main character.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was it MK where Christopher Lambert played the main character? I've not watched it but I've considered it solely on the basis that Christopher Lamber was in it, because a) I love Highlander; and b) one of my favourite terrible sci-fi/fantasy movies is this Beowulf adaptation from 20 years ago that reimagines the story as "Beowulf if he was Mad Max". He was basically obi wan but with lightning powers. I dont recall that he ever fought.
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How about the Street Fighter movie?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was it MK where Christopher Lambert played the main character? I've not watched it but I've considered it solely on the basis that Christopher Lamber was in it, because a) I love Highlander; and b) one of my favourite terrible sci-fi/fantasy movies is this Beowulf adaptation from 20 years ago that reimagines the story as "Beowulf if he was Mad Max". Like the other guy said, Obi-wan with lightning powers. He doesn't fight as such in this movie (in the sequel he does, but that's not Lambert). Also, he talks like he has marbles in his mouth for some reason. If you're a fan of Lambert, all the more reason to watch it.
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Sormus posted:How about the Street Fighter movie? So so loving bad. Everything builds up to Van Damme doing his Flash kick and they basically just pull him up on some cable while he does a lovely backflip. Although I vaguely remember Zangief busting through a wall which was cool because Gief is the best SF character. Not enough shots of Kylies rear end too, even Biodome got that right
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The Street Fighter movie is like a lesser version of Road House to me. Not good, exactly, but batshit insane enough it's incredibly entertaining.
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Mezzanine posted:Like the other guy said, Obi-wan with lightning powers. He doesn't fight as such in this movie (in the sequel he does, but that's not Lambert). Also, he talks like he has marbles in his mouth for some reason. If you're a fan of Lambert, all the more reason to watch it. How could anyone be a Christopher Lambert fan? Highlander was garbage that even Connery couldn't save.
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Astrobastard posted:So so loving bad. Everything builds up to Van Damme doing his Flash kick and they basically just pull him up on some cable while he does a lovely backflip. Although I vaguely remember Zangief busting through a wall which was cool because Gief is the best SF character. Not enough shots of Kylies rear end too, even Biodome got that right This was the best part of that movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj94FNPvUgw Also holy hell is that Ming-Na Wen?
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AnElegantPeacock posted:This. In fact, just watch John Wick for no reason. Have you seen John Wick lately? Cause goddamn John Wick. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Watchin John Wick tonight. Re: Mortal Kombat, Christopher Lambert was Raiden, you goddamned heathens! CowboyKid posted:How could anyone be a Christopher Lambert fan? 10 Beers has a new favorite as of 15:47 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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IamnotJoe posted:Also holy hell is that Ming-Na Wen? It sure is! She was also Mulan in the Disney animated movie.
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Let's keep things on track with a wonderful picture from an Assassin's Creed game. Having actually seen Assassin's Creed today I have to say it is a great adaptation considering what they were handed and condense into a two hour movie. It's not as bad as people made it out to be but I even hesitate to say it was somewhat decent. In fact, it's probably a movie I'm going to dislike more and more if I keep thinking about, because it is certainly not without flaws. Marion Cotillard really was given some terrible lines. CowboyKid posted:How could anyone be a Christopher Lambert fan? Mayhe their sight is just as bad as Christopher Lambert's eyes. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 15:52 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Stay safe movie pupper
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It sure is! She was also Mulan in the Disney animated movie. Can't be - she's smiling.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Are there any video game movie adaptations that are good / competent? Super Mario Brothers starring Dennis Hopper.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Are there any video game movie adaptations that are good / competent? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcySXoQLI5Q 
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The Mario Bros movie is a terrific film, because its a perfect representation of what a Mario game looks like to an 8yo who has consumed so much sugar and caffeine that his pupils are vibrating and he is up until dawn playing Super Mario World in some bizarre trance. What I'm saying is, it brings back a lot of good memories.
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Jellymouth posted:The Mario Bros movie is a terrific film, because its a perfect representation of what a Mario game looks like to an 8yo who has consumed so much sugar and caffeine that his pupils are vibrating and he is up until dawn playing Super Mario World in some bizarre trance. What I'm saying is, it brings back a lot of good memories. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Are there any video game movie adaptations that are good / competent? I haven't seen it, but I've heard good things about Parasite Eve and the Phoenix Wright movie was directed by Takeshi Miike, so it's guaranteed to be at least entertaining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20xsntIVokk Guy Goodbody has a new favorite as of 16:37 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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yeah this is good. sad. but good.
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There was a Dead or Alive movie, it was trashy as hell and by God it was aware of it! Yes, it has volleyball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHQFZV_dgsU
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Guy Goodbody posted:I haven't seen it, but I've heard good things about Parasite Eve The Phoenix Wright movie is a pretty good watch. You won't get anything new out of it if you've played the first Ace Attorney game, but it's still worth a watch. My only complaint is it's very focused on the fourth case from the game for most of it's runtime, though they do at least use the third case as a cutaway scene to establish Edgeworth prosecuting the hell out of the culprit. They also use the English character names in the subtitles rather than the Japanese ones, which is a nice touch really.
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There's a parasite Eve movie?
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Guy Goodbody posted:I haven't seen it, but I've heard good things about Parasite Eve The Parasite Eve movie was based on the Parasite Eve novel, not the game. The Parasite Eve game was a sequel to the book and came out after both the book and the movie.
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I think I recall that Hopper actually bought a house from the money he made on the movie. He loving haaaaaated working on it, he was only supposed to be on set for a couple of weeks but because of production bullshit that blew out to a couple months. But however much Hopper hated the film it's nothing on how badly Bob Hoskins hated it. He loving loathed that production, to the point where he was getting hosed-up-drunk with John Leguizamo between takes every day. Hoskins had to wear a cast on his hand for a lot of the shoot after Leguizamo broke his hand in a van door when they tried to do some driving scenes when he was drunk. Bob Hoksins posted:The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin' nightmare. Fuckin' idiots. The film killed the career of the co-directors (they went back to making music videos) and Nintendo were so upset with the results that they refused to licence any of their IPs for live action adaptations for decades, only easing up when they approved a live action Pokemon movie last year.
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Ride The Gravitron posted:There's a parasite Eve movie? IIRC, Parasite Eve was one of those media blitz properties that Japan loved so much at the time where they pumped out everything with that name so that consumers could get some Parasite Eve no matter how they were consuming media. If we include Japanese stuff, then the best video game movie is probably the Yakuza film since it at least was directed by Takashi Miike.
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Ride The Gravitron posted:There's a parasite Eve movie? A quick search says it was made in 1997, and it's based on the original novel. Nothing to do with Aya Brea or Daniel Motherfuckin' Dollis.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The Phoenix Wright movie is a pretty good watch. You won't get anything new out of it if you've played the first Ace Attorney game, but it's still worth a watch. My only complaint is it's very focused on the fourth case from the game for most of it's runtime, though they do at least use the third case as a cutaway scene to establish Edgeworth prosecuting the hell out of the culprit. I liked the first Pheonix Wright game well enough, but I couldn't wrap my head around how the cutesy presentation and slapstick humor were a complete contrast with how brutal the crimes were.
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