10 Video Game Movies Everyone Forgot About

10 Video Game Movies Everyone Forgot About

Between $200 million Disney failures, mid-2000s horror slumps, and sequels that fans didn’t even know existed, these movies are better off forgotten.

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Given that video game movies have a notorious reputation for being bad, it’s almost impossible to imagine the quality of the ones that audiences can’t even remember. For every Resident Evil, there are about a dozen other adaptations that fade from the popular consciousness. Some studios know the movies are so bad that they’ve intentionally made these adaptations so difficult to seek out.

However, some of these video game movies are worth the hassle of finding because they’re so bad that they’re good. Between $200 million Disney failures, mid-2000s horror slumps, and sequels that some fans didn’t even know existed, these movies are better off forgotten.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

2021’s Mortal Kombat split critics and audiences, as it was loved by fans of the game and was completely unpretentious. It’s the movie that fans of the fantastical fighting series deserve, which can’t be said for the 1995 movie of the same name. However, as average as the first Mortal Kombat movie is, it looks like Citizen Kane compared to its follow-up.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a direct sequel to the first movie, but it features almost none of the original cast. Not only that, but the movie makes absolutely no sense either. At least its predecessor was coherent and still had decent action sequences despite the lack of fatalities. Fans wanted to forget about the movie as soon as they left the theatres in 1997.

Wing Commander (1999)

Wing Commander was a computer game from the mid-90s that sees players getting themselves into dogfights with random spaceships. Because there’s almost no plot to the original game, a lot of liberties had to be taken with the source material when it came to the movie adaptation.

However, the movie doesn’t delve much deeper into a narrative and keeps things simple. Audiences follow a group of human dogfighters who attempt to defend themselves from a cat-like alien race. The movie is full of cheesy practical and digital effects, and the dialogue is somehow even cheesier. But Wing Commander might be worth seeking out because of how ‘so bad it’s good’ it is.

Alone In The Dark (2005)

Alone in the Dark is a supremely successful video game series that has been going for 30 years. The reason why the survival horror games are so successful is that they actually have well-written storylines as well unsettling environments and terrifying jump scares. Along with Silent Hill and Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark is one of the best horror game series out there.

Unfortunately, the movie adaptation doesn’t resemble any such thing, and it’s one of only 22 movies that have received an “F” CinemaScore. There were so many strange choices made for the movie as it’s a sequel to the fourth video game. Straight away, it’s impossible for any audience member to understand anything that’s going on.

Doom (2005)

Dwayne Johnson might be the most bankable movie star in the world right now, but in the 2000s, he had several false starts. Between action movies like The Scorpion King and Southland Tales, a movie so serious it bordered on parody, it was looking like the Rock wasn’t cut out for Hollywood. But one of the worst decisions the actor made was Doom.

Based on the popular sci-fi first-person shooter of the same name, Doom follows a group of marines who are sent to a facility on Mars, only to be attacked by genetically engineered monsters. The movie was a box office bomb and received miserable reviews from critics. According to Video Games Daily, the creator of the video game series actually enjoyed it.

Max Payne (2008)

Game developer Rockstar is best known for its huge sweeping open worlds found in the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series. Max Payne is somewhat of an outlier in their catalog. Though almost every Rockstar game features an open world and is satirical, Max Payne is a linear game that’s completely dark and depressing.

The 2008 movie is a fairly faithful adaptation of the source material. It follows the former New York City cop turned vigilante on a vengeful murder spree after his family was murdered by drug addicts. It didn’t get quite the same reception as the game, however, as Mark Wahlberg was nominated for a Razzie for his performance as the titular character.

Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (2010)

Prince of Persia is one of the best adventure game series. Though it’s clearly influenced by the likes of Tomb Raider, it stands as its own great franchise. However, the Disney-produced adaptation missed the mark in more ways than one. It was quickly forgotten because it wasn’t quite something the non-fans wanted to see. The movie had a completely different premise to the game and fans of the games weren’t interested either.

Even the basic elements of the game that were used for the movie just didn’t translate well. In the game, players can rewind time, which is a great gameplay mechanic because it’s so easy to fall while free-running alongside the buildings. But because the ability is so tied to the gameplay, it doesn’t work in the context of the movie adaptation.

Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)

Though the first Silent Hill movie didn’t get great reviews from critics, it was a hit in cinemas. It was even loved by audiences that weren’t clued in about the video games. It was a suspenseful, terrifying movie full of disgusting creature designs. Unfortunately, the sequel clearly attempted to reach a wider audience with less gore and more action.

The rule of thumb is that when studios produce a sequel, it always has a budget higher than the original. However, Silent Hill: Revelations had a budget of $20 million, less than half of the first movie’s budget. That’s the biggest cause for concern possible. The studio was obviously trying to get the widest profit margin possible, but that resulted in hardly anybody knowing about the movie, not even fans of the original.

Need For Speed (2014)

What gamers’ favorite Need For Speed games depends entirely on how old they are. The series has gone through many different phases in the past 20+ years. Whether it’s the originals where players used sports cars to outrun police or the Porsche-sponsored releases. And the 2000s kids will love the Underground games the most, which are some of the best street racing video games.

When it comes to the movie, it was again another example of the studio trying to appeal to a wider audience than just gamers. But in doing so, DreamWorks disappointed fans of the video game series and underwhelmed general audiences. The adaptation could have been more memorable if it was based around Japanese imports and street racing, a la The Fast and the Furious, but that fad had long passed by 2014.

Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

Though Hitman: Agent 47 is only six years old and still fairly young in movie years, it’d be unsurprising if audiences thought the last movie in the series was 2007’s Hitman. Even though the 2007 movie disappointed fans and was underwhelming at the box office, 20th Century Fox didn’t learn from its mistakes and performed even worse in every area.

Agent 47 got some things right when it came to adapting the video game, but the movie’s biggest problem is that it contradicts the very point of the game. The 2015 film attempts to be an explosive action movie when it’s based on a complete stealth-based video game. Also, it lacks Agent 47’s dry sense of humor too. The movie has been so forgotten that it isn’t even available to stream anywhere, but it’s unlikely that anybody noticed.

DOA: Dead Or Alive (2006)

As game developers are notorious for trying to use sex appeal to sell their video games, Dead Or Alive is the biggest culprit of that with every playable character being a bikini-clad female. The same was the case for the movie adaptation, as the movie studio thought casting Holly Valance and Devon Aoki in the lead roles was enough to sell theatre tickets.

The film had a narrative that was stretched as thin as the characters’ bikinis and the action sequences were the bare minimum. DOA: Dead Or Alive ended up being a box office failure, which goes to show that audiences need more than eye candy to enjoy a film. In fairness, even the video game series has largely been forgotten too, as it never left enough of a lasting impression on gamers for them to remember it.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/forgotten-video-game-movies/

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