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Mister Macys posted:The Raid (and for that matter, Dredd) is basically the 99 floor skyscraper climb in Parasite Eve. This should not be as appealing to me as it is. Another movie added to my list of movies to watch. banned from Starbucks posted:youve got the right idea! the best VG movies are ones not advertised as VG movies I think both have value and are good but I want you to know I really appreciate this cheeky poo poo. 
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The second half of Punisher War Zone is similar to The Raid and Dredd too; apartment crawls of murder and mayhem. Gears of War is Avatar where you play the humans. 
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Dec 9, 2016 10:52
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Alicia Vikander is the new Lara Croft for a 2018 Tomb Raider movie, which I can see being fun. The Tomb Raider games are no longer about "OMG LOOK HOW HUGE HER POLYGON TITS ARE" and I wonder if they'll integrate the Trinity storyline from the last one or just go in a totally new direction. I saw one of the Angelina Jolie ones on a flight once and don't remember much about it.
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sticklefifer posted:Alicia Vikander is the new Lara Croft for a 2018 Tomb Raider movie, which I can see being fun. The Tomb Raider games are no longer about "OMG LOOK HOW HUGE HER POLYGON TITS ARE" and I wonder if they'll integrate the Trinity storyline from the last one or just go in a totally new direction. I saw one of the Angelina Jolie ones on a flight once and don't remember much about it.
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I have a love for all video game movies. I think they're tremendous fun and will usually see them at the cinema. The only one I haven't is the Warcraft movie because I've never played it. I saw Super Mario Brothers on opening day in Leciester Square, England! It was freaking awesome!
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sticklefifer posted:Alicia Vikander is the new Lara Croft for a 2018 Tomb Raider movie, which I can see being fun. The Tomb Raider games are no longer about "OMG LOOK HOW HUGE HER POLYGON TITS ARE" and I wonder if they'll integrate the Trinity storyline from the last one or just go in a totally new direction. I saw one of the Angelina Jolie ones on a flight once and don't remember much about it. Yeah, the Angelina Jolie ones were extremely forgettable. The new ones could be decent, though, particularly if they go for an Indiana Jones-style deal that plays up the supernatural aspects and weird locales.
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achillesforever6 posted:Man you'd think Sony would be trying to make an Uncharted movie by now It would just be a bad Indiana Jones
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ConfusedUs posted:Is it cool to talk about movies based on a fictional video game? It also gave us this gem. The First Person scene in Doom and Silent Hill were fun. I have a soft spot in my heart for Uwe Boll's masterpiece "Alone in the Dark." There is an earnestness to it. It's like an angry 13 year old's fanfiction that they think is totally rad and also just like this one thing but different enough so it's all original.
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blackguy32 posted:The last video game movie I saw was Ratchet and Clank
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I forgot they made a Max Payne movie until I saw it in a thrift store today. I didn't buy because I don't really care about Max Payne but has anyone here seen it? For actual content, I first saw The Wizard about a year ago with Rifftrax behind it and man am I glad I wasn't around in the 80's to get nostalgic about it. It's a bland film out side the Smb3/Powerglove advertising. Was surprised that Rainman for kids is the plot they went with though.
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The Wizard in one line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pivGBEIlIpU
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Mister Macys posted:No. It was poo poo. It's only redeeming feature is the soundtrack. The fighting is slow, slow enough to seriously injure a good chunk of the actors, I suppose Hollywood Reporter posted:Anderson: Robin would rate the fights. They would be a one, a two or a three. That would refer to how many ribs he bruised when he did the fight. The Reptile fight was a three-rib fight, so he really felt like he'd delivered for me. I remember Linden Ashby as well. He was eating Advil like they were M&M'S. We just kicked the hell out of him during that fight. I remember him coming off set going, "I've never been in so much pain in my life." And I'm like "How many ribs have you broken? Robin's broken three!" quote:the acting bad for direct to video, eh. most of the actors are okay, and the guys who played Johnny Cage, Kano and Shang Tsung are outright awesome. quote:the effects cheap, eh. hit and miss. the Reptile CGI is loving awful but the Goro puppet would look impressive even in a 2016 movie. quote:and the turnarounds are what a child would write. counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OY5oetA1kU WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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the Mortal Kombat movie was a very large part of my childhood and I will tolerate no disparagement of it
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:slow enough to seriously injure a good chunk of the actors, I suppose Slow and bad =/= "injury free". Directors not giving a gently caress about the health of the talent enough to choreograph fights (so they don't have to "improvise", which is how bad injuries happen) does not a good movie make. In fact, it serves my point about Paul Anderson's shittiness as a writer/director. And Goro is stiffer than the Henson puppets in Labyrinth (the minimum standard of puppetry, imo) and given all of what, three closeups? to hide how cheap he looks. It speaks volumes that the  "fight" is shown from, oh, a good fifty feet away, in between the first hit, and Goro's fall. Because they didn't dare use CG or puppetry, given the budget. Remember; Dragonheart was released not a year later.And I wasn't clear what I meant by turnaround. "Star turn" would probably be more accurate; I was referring to the stars being at a disadvantage during combat, only to suddenly bring it back, and become unstoppable!  The Reptile fight being the most egregious example. I stand by my opinion that the only good combat is the first 30 seconds of the Tsung/Kang fight, and maybe the bo staff fight with the cool black guy with the loving awesome hair.I'm not saying it doesn't have its moments (I quote it to this day), but it just hasn't aged well, given the evolution of fight scenes alone, in the last fifteen years. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Mister Macys posted:Slow and bad =/= "injury free". drat, Labyrinth "the minimum standard of puppetry"? You're either the most discerning connoisseur of puppet movies I'd ever hope to meet, or you don't know good puppetry when you see it.
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Goro isn't even as animated as Robert Picardo's character in Legend. It's a horribly stiff skin covered animatronic at best. Henson did more with less ten years prior.
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 Of course Goons are connoisseurs of the worst most godawful and utterly craptastic movies to ever defecate their way into theater. The puppets look loving terrible. Maybe, at some point in the '90s, they looked alright, but they haven't aged well at all.As loving terrible as Resident Evil:Afterlife was when I saw it (well, strictly speaking, I didn't actually see most of it, I was in the same theater), I actually sat down and watched it one night and honestly, it's probably the closest thing to the absurdity of Japanese video games to ever make it into theaters. I love the look of it, I love how absurd it is, and I especially love this fight scene in particular for capturing that stupid sunglasses toss.
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Yes it certainly captured the boring and insanely stupid cutscene fights from RE5.
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A White Guy posted:I especially love this fight scene in particular for capturing that stupid sunglasses toss. Oh my God, that  as gently caress look on his face right before he throws them, too. The perfect smirk. I will never be able to curl my lip that well. Only Riki Takeuchi (Battle Royale 2, Deadly Outlaw Rekka) comes close. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Turbinosamente posted:I forgot they made a Max Payne movie until I saw it in a thrift store today. I didn't buy because I don't really care about Max Payne but has anyone here seen it? It's complete trash and barely direct-to-video quality. Stay away. A White Guy posted:
Holy poo poo, how does anyone enjoy the RE movies? They're so poorly directed, written and generally designed in every way. What is wrong with you?
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Even Manos is funny now and then.
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I just can't wait for the upcoming big nerdy premiere next week!.jpg)
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Improbable Lobster posted:It's complete trash and barely direct-to-video quality. Stay away. I don't watch movies to lose my sensation of disbelief anymore. I watch them purely to be entertained by either how well they're made or how awfully they're done. RE:A is just so bad, it's comical at points. It's like the actual video games - comically loving awful, but still trying to take itself seriously. Imagine if the first Saw had a pie in the face gag in whenever a new character got introduced, and you'd have an idea of how utterly disjointed the tone of the video games is. Palpek posted:I just can't wait for the upcoming big nerdy premiere next week! Another video game movie, no way this isn't going to be an enromous steaming pile of- quote:Budget: $130-200 million What the actual gently caress.
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achillesforever6 posted:Man you'd think Sony would be trying to make an Uncharted movie by now They are. For a while Mark Wahlberg was supposed to play Nathan Drake. Apparently that's not the case anymore. http://www.avclub.com/article/mark-wahlberg-unattaches-himself-uncharted-movie-247376
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The most memorable part of Mortal Kombat that holds up over time for me is the set pieces. Set design for that movie was fantastic, especially Scorpion's multi-tiered ancestral burial chamber. The location shoots are great too, like the rubber tree plantation that same fight starts in. Dated CGI aside, they did a great job of making the practical surroundings look really cool.
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Mung Dynasty posted:event horizon is the best doom movie Did it have a shotgun? Because I can't score a DooM movie without a shotgun higher than one star. They can do whatever else to the story and setting, but it needs a hero with a shotgun, or I walk.
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While not based on a real game eXistenZ did a good job of making a movie about being in a RPG
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Last weekend a friend of mine hosted a Resident Evil marathon. (She likes movies big, dumb, and action filled best). I had never seen past part 2 prior. It's funny how quickly they stop taking themselves seriously. Also, the fifth film has like 10% plot and the rest is just setting up action scene after action scene. Seems to accurately capture video games if you ask me.
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They're really poorly directed and acted and written and produced action scenes that aren't fun to watch witb your eyeballs though
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This was an epic scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH61uqfZqxQ
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Palpek posted:This was an epic scene: Just a shame the rest of the movie beyond that part is a barely lit snorefest. Rewatched it a while ago with some friends and had honestly forgotten how incredibly dull that movie as a whole.
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They should have attempted to make the entire movie like this honestly, dialogues and all. One giant gimmick justified but by the source material.
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Mortal Kombat owns and it's weird bc it's probably also the most accurate VG movie despite how little sense some of the stuff in it makes: it's a colorful stupid action thing about a bunch of weirdos fighting in violent karate deathmatches for spurious reasons on an island ruled by a sinister Chinese sorcerer and a four-armed dipshit I don't particularly care but I always thought it was weird that Resident Evil wasn't more faithful to the source material, because it would be one of the easiest games ever to make a 90-minute summer movie out of
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Palpek posted:This was an epic scene: Karl Urban and the Rock's acting was a pleasant surprise in what I thought would be a bad movie. It's really fun watching Dwayne play the straight man, becoming more cutthroat as it progresses. Palpek posted:They should have attempted to make the entire movie like this honestly, dialogues and all. One giant gimmick justified but by the source material. Hardcore Henry would've been a lot better with the DooM script. yeach Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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I've seen it. It's bad, but not D&D (otherwise known as 'the movie that shall not be named') bad. It's mainly just boring fantasy. Not sure if I'd put it above Hawk the Slayer, but definitely better than Dungeonmaster, Land of Faraway, and Neverending Story 2. Really, it just feels like it's a decade too late in coming out. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Dec 20, 2016 |
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Event Horizon is a better Doom movie than Doom. The Quest is a better Street Fighter movie than Street Fighter. The Quick and the Dead is a better Red Dead Revolver movie than one by the same name.
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God drat, The Quest was fun to watch. I think van Damme only did one more movie (with Rodman) before his exile to direct-to-video Hell. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Dec 20, 2016 |
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Tenzarin posted:
I still wonder how they'd decided that loving Dungeon Siege of all games needed an adaption. That was just a decent but ultimately completely forgettable Diablo-clone. I don't think there was anything to the story besides "big bad army invades, plucky player character kills them all".
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