Seriously, I don't need to tell you that basically every movie based on a video game just plain "sucks ass". I think the real problem with those movies is that they have very little to do with the actual games they are supposed to be based off of.

There have been plenty of shitty video game movies in the past, but with games today, there are more than enough opportunities to pick up a good franchise and make a good movie off of them. Games have been getting more and more cinematic as the years go by. I'm here to give you my list of what games would actually make good movies, if directors spent the time with them.

Video Game Movies That Wouldn't Suck

[1] Kane and Lynch: Dead Men

Kane and Lynch, as a game, has gotten mixed reviews and even has gotten someone fired (gamespot) because of their review. The game has a fantastic story and some fantastic characters with some mediocre gameplay that you probably won't wanna experience more than once. As I played the game I wondered why this was made into a game and not into a movie in the first place.

Actually, they are making a Kane and Lynch movie that is supposed to star Bruce Willis as Kane. I haven't heard anything else about the movie other than who they might be casting as Lynch (they are hinting at Billy Bob Thorton).

[2] Metal Gear Solid

This is a no brainer. I honestly don't see why anyone hasn't already made a Metal Gear Solid movie. All the games are cinematic as hell with cutscenes that can stretch well over an hour. The characters have become memorable enough that people can recognize them simply by the voice actor who plays them. David Hayter has become an icon in the video gaame world just for his role as Solid Snake. There is enough story to make an entire trilogy of movies, and that isn't even counting the stuff they didn't actually put into the games.

Actually, David Hayter pitched a movie idea for Metal Gear to konami but it got shot down. I guess Konami just wanted to do something different than what Hayter was pitching. Knowing that Hayter was the screen writer for the Xmen movies, I couldn't see why he couldn't help make an awesome Metal Gear Solid movie.

[3] No More Heroes

No More Heroes is a crazy game with an insane story. Travis Touchdown is the main character of this story. He buys a beam sword off the internet and decides he is going to become a master assassin.

There are plenty of twists, turns, colorful characters, and some stylized graphics to make things nice to look at and maybe if they translated that to the big screen then people would finally appreciate this underrated gem of a game for the WII.

[4] Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Out of all the star wars things to come out after the main trilogy, The Force Unleased has been better, storywise, than the prequels and most of the games to come out (minus Super star wars series on the SNES). The Force Unleashed reminds me of Kane and Lynch in that while playing it I wondered why this was made into a game and not a movie in the first place. TFU has a great story and some awesome characters while having mediocre gameplay that will bore you to tears.

All that makes me wonder why they needed to make The Clone Wars for the silver screen and not The Force Unleashed?

There is something you must understand: It isn't the game itself that determines whether or not the movie will be any good, it is how they handle the making of the film. Most video game movies are picked up by no-talent directors to make a quick buck because they are popular games. Few, if any, video game movies have had any effort put into them to try and make a good movie. They are just fan service that will only appeal to people who have played the game...And even then, most fans will find the movie terrible because no effort was put into it. Look at Doom. Fun game series, but I'd be willing to bet that even most Doom fans didn't like it because there was just no effort put into that movie.

If a competent director who actually cared about making a good movie picked up the license to a game then it could be good. You don't need to take a really cinematic game like MGS to make a good movie; you just need a team that doesn't suck to work on it. But until that happens I will continue to assume all video game movies will suck until one comes along and proves itself to not be shit.

Hitmans already a movie, and I liked it.

I whole heartedly agree with you that Kane and Lynch could be a great movie. If they also took som e liberties with the SPOILER SPOILER terrible endings of his daughter dieing and SPOILER SPOILER his daughter hating him END SPOILER i would be ok with that. Realy is a shame the game sucked cause the story had me hooked.

honestly, i want to say KOTOR, but I'm not sure how they would make something good that had so many ambiguous parts in the story. But Kane and Lynch does sound like a good idea

Silent Hill COULD have been a good movie. It just needed a decent director and actors. Once videogame movies start being taken on by real good directors and taken seriously, like what has started to happen with The Dark Knight and, hoefully, Watchmen, with comic book movies, that is when we start getting good videogame movies.

But there is a huge problem I have with videogame movies. Unless the movie has you on the edge of your seat, it just feels like a step backwards, as its just the same thing without you controlling it.

not to mention it wouldn't have killed them to actually follow a story line of R.E.
but alas, i'd go see it if they made one based on the 4th game...

MrBrightside919:
This is a no brainer. I honestly don't see why anyone hasn't already made a Metal Gear Solid movie. All the games are cinematic as hell with cutscenes that can stretch well over an hour.

Err.. then what's the point of making a movie of it?

AuntyEthel:

MrBrightside919:
This is a no brainer. I honestly don't see why anyone hasn't already made a Metal Gear Solid movie. All the games are cinematic as hell with cutscenes that can stretch well over an hour.

Err.. then what's the point of making a movie of it?

so should we just show the games on a projector at the movies?

the only two posible games that could be good(but unlikely)are halo and half life,and thats if bungie writes the story for the halo movie,and quentin tarantino makes the half life movie(his is a know fan of half life(sorry,no link)).like i said,not very likely

I heard Cliff Blezinski say he is working with the production team of the Gears movie to make,and I quote: "The First great videogame movie"

NamEleSs22:

AuntyEthel:

MrBrightside919:
This is a no brainer. I honestly don't see why anyone hasn't already made a Metal Gear Solid movie. All the games are cinematic as hell with cutscenes that can stretch well over an hour.

Err.. then what's the point of making a movie of it?

so should we just show the games on a projector at the movies?

No, people should just make original movies.

An Unreal Tournament movie might be interesting....

I don't see why Max Payne is going to suck it seems to stick close to the source material and as long as those Valkyrie things remain as hallucinations more than something tangible then they will.

Having said that I am tired of Cliff Blezinski. Gears of War is overrated and so will that movie be.

AuntyEthel:

NamEleSs22:

AuntyEthel:

MrBrightside919:
This is a no brainer. I honestly don't see why anyone hasn't already made a Metal Gear Solid movie. All the games are cinematic as hell with cutscenes that can stretch well over an hour.

Err.. then what's the point of making a movie of it?

so should we just show the games on a projector at the movies?

No, people should just make original movies.

Your living in the past. Origanal ideas are so 90s. The 21st century is all about riping people off. They might as well do it well

Halo.

...only, entirely from the point of view of The Arbiter - you know, start with the war amongst the alien races that were brought together into the Covenant by the Prophets, etc.

I think Prince of Persia looks promising, Disney make pritty decent family action movies (eg Pirates and so on) so this may turn out...well, not as crap as some videogame movies

SomeBritishDude:

AuntyEthel:

NamEleSs22:

AuntyEthel:

MrBrightside919:
This is a no brainer. I honestly don't see why anyone hasn't already made a Metal Gear Solid movie. All the games are cinematic as hell with cutscenes that can stretch well over an hour.

Err.. then what's the point of making a movie of it?

so should we just show the games on a projector at the movies?

No, people should just make original movies.

Your living in the past. Origanal ideas are so 90s. The 21st century is all about riping people off. They might as well do it well

Touche, my friend. Very well put!

Uncompetative:
Halo.

...only, entirely from the point of view of The Arbiter - you know, start with the war amongst the alien races that were brought together into the Covenant by the Prophets, etc.

Seriously! Halo was a pritty good game but even die hard fans can't seriously tell me that was a good story

Why you hate on the Cliff man, no really why??? there is a lot of people who want to grow up to be him dawg he is like the partyboy of game design...do you think gears sucked or something

Hitman is a movie and I am OFFENDED that it shouldn't have been made. However I like how people subject ideas for video game-movies when the video game is basically a movie already. I feel many times I am just along for the ride. HL2 is a great example of this integration (clear up to the lack of cutscenes that I cannot skip). KotOR would make a great film. One need not worry about the choices (the "light" side is canonical) with exception of the minute details. The Unholy War would rock my world if it was made into a movie. That was a great game that I want more story for.

SomeBritishDude:

Uncompetative:
Halo.

...only, entirely from the point of view of The Arbiter - you know, start with the war amongst the alien races that were brought together into the Covenant by the Prophets, etc.

Seriously! Halo was a pritty good game but even die hard fans can't seriously tell me that was a good story

I agree.

The Halo games have had a terrible story. Master Chief is a useless hero for a movie as there is no characterization to develop empathy for.

Halo 2 was by far the worst game, yet The Arbiter's story arc is workable and the costs of the movie could be spread over a trilogy, so the first film might end with the discovery of the Halo (but not the exploration of it), the second film would end with the punishment of the Gold Elite for his failure and his becoming the Arbiter, the third film would show him swapping sides with the final shot being him first meeting Master Chief. Fade Out.

This would effectively put most of Halo 3's plot outside the trilogy, but then... why film it again?

The only one that could probably work out of those would be Bioshock, although they'd have to be making one elaborate set faithful to Rapture City (which could prove to be quite difficult) as well as costumes faithful to the splicers and big daddies, and enough little girl identical twins (Although I do bet that if they were making a movie of Bioshock that they could use different girls, that would actually seem more realistic) to look like them. But they coudl also use CG-I, and that could also work just as well.

Another problem would simply be the ending...does he kill all the girls or save all the little girls? And you'd just have to get someone who looks pretty - he doesn't talk. :P

AuntyEthel:

MrBrightside919:
This is a no brainer. I honestly don't see why anyone hasn't already made a Metal Gear Solid movie. All the games are cinematic as hell with cutscenes that can stretch well over an hour.

Err.. then what's the point of making a movie of it?

Because people don't wanna watch hour long cutscenes when they are trying to play video games...

ACTUALLY...they are making a Bioshock movie...

shadow of the colossus...

dun,dun, duuuuun

I think that God of War could be really good source material for a movie.

Lots of fighting, Monsters, gore, blood, breasts, and a pretty decent story. All of the makings of a great action movie.

AuntyEthel:

No, people should just make original movies.

YES. THANK. YOU.

I'm so frigging sick of sequels and prequels and remakes and all this bullshitty creativity sidestepping they're doing in the mainstream movie industry.

NamEleSs22:

AuntyEthel:

MrBrightside919:
This is a no brainer. I honestly don't see why anyone hasn't already made a Metal Gear Solid movie. All the games are cinematic as hell with cutscenes that can stretch well over an hour.

Err.. then what's the point of making a movie of it?

so should we just show the games on a projector at the movies?

I actually like that idea, interestingly enough. That way you don't have to have all those camera's wooshing and wobling everywhere to get a close up view of Snake sliting a soldier's throat.

Wait, this poll was confusing! I can't wait for the Bioshock movie!

I believe that if they really, really tried they could make a GOOD Ico or Shadow of the Colossus movie.

Castlevania movie... why god, why.

Bioshock, only because of the underwater scenery. Gosh i am a sucker for good c-gen.

Giggety.

I think splinter cell would make a good movie.