Its funny in this case because not “fucking it up” effectively means making a movie that’s barely related to the game outside of the basic setting.
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Noerknhar@feddit.org 10 months ago
I’m sure they’ll fuck it up.
Name one good videogame movie. One.
Goronmon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Silent Hill
samus12345@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That one got a lot of hate, but I actually liked it.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
First, it’s A24 and they put out amazing movies .
Second, Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros Movie, and I’m not sure if it would count, but Wreck It Ralph are all good video game movies.
WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
You just listed a bunch of animated children’s movies?
If you’re looking for actual examples there’s Silent Hill, Fallout, or The Last of Us.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I don’t think I’d consider Detective Pikachu or Sonic to be animated. Just like I wouldn’t consider Fallout or Last of Us to be movies.
samus12345@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Wreck It Ralph doesn’t count because it wasn’t based on an actual video game, but on video games in general. But it was indeed great.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I don’t know, just because the video game isn’t real doesn’t mean that the movie isn’t based off of a video game. I think it just shows that the reason most video game movies fail isn’t because the movie is bad, but because the fans are too harsh. If Wreck It Ralph replaced the main characters with characters from Mario but still had the same basic plot I don’t think it would have been as well received.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a cult classic.
The 2023 movie is forgettable garbage.
The Sonic movies are fun though. Knuckles TV as well.
PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] 10 months ago
The Hoper Mario is something - it’s so off the rails, that it’s crusing on anothet track.
ogeist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wonder it is going to be THE Elden Ring story or An Elden Ring story, a small contained story in the Elden Ring world could fly really well, bonus points if Patches kicks the protagonist off a cliff.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
my preference would be a film about the shattering, giving us some (but not too much) more insight into just what fucked the world up so godsdamned much.
but that would need to be extremely faithful to the lore and character designs and i just don’t see hollywood showing up for that.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Alex Garland has made some pretty good movies, so there’s a chance. I thought his instincts with annihilation were pretty much spot on. But yeah, movies based on games do not have a great track record.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not a movie, but the Fallout series had a great first season, and I’m looking forward to the second.
trungulox@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The last of us was great too. Not a movie still. But .
ScoobyDoo27@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Season 1 was good. Season 2 is pretty terrible.
trungulox@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Haven’t seen season 2 yet That’s disappointing
dellish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Street Fighter. It’s fantastically bad.
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Does Last of Us count? Sonic movies and Mario were pretty decent too.
aliceblossom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Normally I’d agree, but it being A24 makes me very hopeful.
simple@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The original Mortal Kombat movie. The newest Sonic movie was also pretty good imo.
But yes, this can probably go very wrong.
simulacra_procession@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Lol it may be an unpopular opinion but I don’t think we can call mortal Kombat objectively ‘good.’ It’s a cult classic for sure and a fun watch, but for reference it aired at Quakecon’s Master Pancake sat night event one year with the MST3K folks and well… they don’t typically do blockbuster hits
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
WoW, Prince of Persia