Best and Worst VG Movies

[Mass Distraction]

We certainly have had our share of the good and the bad when it comes to video game movies and tie-ins. What I'd like to know is what are your favorites and why? Which ones make you want to shove nails to your eyes and how badly?

I'll start with a couple movies I personally liked, I'll get to my ranting on the bad ones later.

Silent Hill is propably the best live action video game movie I have seen. It kept the spirit and overall story/mythos of the games fairly well and was just presented very nicely overall. One of the few movies I can never get enough of. Totally excited to see the sequel.

Other good ones I should mention are Prince of Persia and Doom. I did enjoy those movies thoroughly. Then, of course, there's basically every animated VG movie ever, including Tekken, Street Fighter, Resident Evil and Final Fantasy. Speaking of, I really need to rewatch Advent Children. I managed to get my hands on a copy of the Complete Edition blyray and I intend to watch it all extras included.

As for the bad ones... You can see my rant in the spoiler tags.

Spoiler

Okay, now to the bad ones that I've actually seen. Let's start off with Tekken. Now that that's out of the way, to the next one, which is Dead or Alive. My GOD was that movie bad. I watched it with a friend and when the credits started rolling we just sat there for a while, looked at each other and agreed never to watch that again. If I had had it on a disc that I had actually paid for, the best I would have gotten out of my money would have been destroying that infernal movie. How satisfying would that have been...

In any case, let's get to the bottom of the barrel. The Resident Evil movies. Now, I'm not complaining because I'm a fan of the actual series. I'm complaining because the movies have just gone from bad to worse. Okay, so I liked the first movie. I really did, and I was excited to see the sequel, Apocalypse, becuase I did (and still do) find the first movie good. That one was... It was okay, it was decent, though it got a bunch of the characters wrong and Alice was going crazy mary-sue all over the place. In any case, it was still watchable. Then we got Extinction. That is clearly where Anderson dropped the ball for good, not only ruining my favorite character (Carlos) but just making the plot insanely stupid with superpowers and shit. Next came Afterlife and that movie was just horrifyingly bad. So bad that I'd rather have spikes stuck under my nails than watch it again. I'm not saying it's a bad RE movie, I'm saying it's a bad movie and everyone taking part of making it should feel bad and have their kneecaps blown off. The CG was worse than anything on an Atari 2600, the plot made no sense, they introduced characters nobody cares about and the zombies are now majini for no reason. Retribution was better but by no means was it perfect. It was mostly boring and the plot still makes no sense. I'll stop now before this wall of text consumes the galaxy.