You see it all comes down to who’s making the movie, whether or not they’ve even played or heard or the game, and even if they had played the game they would still have had to have liked it as well. The games that are being chosen to be converted into films haven’t been around nearly long enough for somebody to want to have the job of making that conversion happen. Maybe in 10 or 20 years, somebody who played Mass Effect, Bioshock or Metal Gear will be graduating from film school. Writer or director, he or she might just want to make one of them a film.
There’s an ongoing curse that has been in Hollywood for decades now. For some bizarre reason, a movie studio will obtain the rights of a video game franchise to try and turn it into a movie. In most situations, it then takes years and years before the movie even makes it to the script writing stage, where if it’s very lucky, it then gets a director attached to it and things can finally start rolling. But then the movie comes out, the reviews release and it more often than not bombs at the box office. So how is it these multi-million dollar video game franchises fail all too often at the box office? Well there’s actually multiple potential reasons why.
It can be summed up rather simply as... time constraints. Movies have to come in at a certain length (on average of 2 hours +/-) while games exceed that by a considerable amount. Now if a company wanted to take a game and break it down into multiple movies then I could see that happen in order to maintain the nature and context of the source material.
The movie industry stopped caring about quality a long time ago. I remember movies didn't release weekly and the overall production took longer. Now they are pumped out so quickly that they for the most part stink.
"Why video games movie's fail"
Simple......most average movie goer don't know the game. and second producer do not use source material what made the game the game we like.
it always turn out Garbage.
that's why video game movie's fail.
same principal for action movies and superhero movies. Example : Spiderman Homecoming was Garbage.
Usually the story doesn't match the original in game story along with bad direction & a tired production.
Detective Pikachu is definitely up there in terms of best video games movies, but what about other ones that were actually decent?
I’ve seen all those movies, I think some are there by default. And where is Street Fighter?!? Raul Julia owned what is one of the best movies of all time period.
Detective Pikachu one of the best? Well, don't need to read anymore to know this is trash. DP was an absolute nightmare fueled lazy crapfest. Not to mention the plot was predictable from the first trailer and the gaping plot hole ruins the already awful movie. The new Tomb Raider too? Come on guy, the porn parody is a better Tomb Raider than that.
We discuss bad video game movies for a change as we wait for Matt to get back.
So long as Uwe Boll doesn't make any films they can't be any worse then they are.
comic book films suck just as much comic book games, it is just other movies suck harder. other games do not.
Cause with comic books there is usually more to the story that film makers will use. With games the film makers usually are limmited with the story so they create there own version of it and it usually sucks. Movies based off comic books are more like the comic, movies based off games are hardly like the games.
A comic book is essentially a storyboard. Videogames are game first, story later. Can you imagine a videogame consisting of only cut scenes? That pretty much defeats the whole point of videgames as being games.
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