Movies about games: Recipe for success?

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All these bad game adaptations are a real missed opportunity. Unlike books or certain comics that live or die by their story and whose film adaptations probably can't live up to their source material in the first place, games don't inherently need good stories (though they are appreciated). It's a shame more studios don't take that opportunity to improve on the game's storytelling, injecting better writing and more substance to add something of value to franchises. Laziness and perhaps even cynicism, I guess. =/