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Now the list could get rather long so lets try to keep repeats at a min  also lets lay some rules

1--must either be based on a game series, or revolve around gaming in general

2--must not be low budget--by this i mean it must be something that has a little star power and not just chuck and tom from down the street

 

Here we go....Grandma's Boy

 

B/t games and partying the guy manages to get the girl and introduce his grandmother to cable---all around good time---well at least until you start thinking about "silver fox"



 

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Yikes. That movie looked terrible.

Anyways, the ultimate gaming movie is The Wizard! It's got Fred Savage, Super Mario Brothers 3 and... The Power Glove!


"I love the power glove. It's so bad"



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Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!

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Hard topic, especially with Uwe Boll out their screwing up every title he gets his hands on.

Does it have to be a movie?



Words Of Wisdom said:
Hard topic, especially with Uwe Boll out their screwing up every title he gets his hands on.

Does it have to be a movie?

 Yeah, can't we just say "Best Game Related YouTube" video or something? Only other movie about games in general I can think of was that awful Stay Alive movie.

As for movies based on actual games, yeesh, I've seen more of those than anyone should have. I guess either Doom or Silent Hill. Both of which were fairly mediocre. Silent Hill could have been good (not great) had they not spent a third of the movie going back to her useless husband who's wasting time finding nothing but pointless explanations that just highlight how absurd the plotline is. =P



The Resident Evil movies have been WAY better than I thought they would be. I actually want to see RE Apocalypse.



                                   

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I haven't seen the Resident Evil movies, so I don't know about those. Silent Hill was pretty damn good, so I think that is the best. Advent Children was pretty good too, but that is more of an anime-movie than a movie proper. The Mortal Kombat movies were atrocious, but they hold a special place in my heart.

After looking at that list. I am still sticking to Silent Hill as the best movie-game.

Here is a list off of Wikipedia:

* Super Mario Bros. (1993)
* Double Dragon (1994)
* Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (1994)
* Street Fighter films:
o Street Fighter (1994)
o Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)
* Mortal Kombat films:
o Mortal Kombat (1995)
o Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
* Pokémon films:
o Pokémon: The First Movie (1998)
o Pokémon: The Movie 2000 (1999)
o Pokémon 3: The Movie (2000)
o Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (2000)
o Pokémon 4Ever (2001)
o Pokémon Heroes (2002)
o Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker (2003)
o Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys (2004)
o Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005)
o Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (2006)
o Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai (2007)
* Wing Commander (1999)
* Final Fantasy films:
o Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
o Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (2005)
* Tomb Raider films:
o Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
o Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
* Sakura Taisen: Katsudou Shashin (2001)
* Resident Evil films:
o Resident Evil (2002)
o Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
o Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
* House of the Dead (2003)
* Alone in the Dark (2005)
* Doom (2005)
* BloodRayne (2006)
* DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
* Dōbutsu no Mori (2006)
* Silent Hill (2006)



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What is it about a movie? A game that came from a movie you mean?

If it is.. The best is spiderman 3.



 

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akuma587 said:
I haven't seen the Resident Evil movies, so I don't know about those. Silent Hill was pretty damn good, so I think that is the best. Advent Children was pretty good too, but that is more of an anime-movie than a movie proper. The Mortal Kombat movies were atrocious, but they hold a special place in my heart.

After looking at that list. I am still sticking to Silent Hill as the best movie-game.

Here is a list off of Wikipedia:

* Super Mario Bros. (1993)
* Double Dragon (1994)
* Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (1994)
* Street Fighter films:
o Street Fighter (1994)
o Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)
* Mortal Kombat films:
o Mortal Kombat (1995)
o Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
* Pokémon films:
o Pokémon: The First Movie (1998)
o Pokémon: The Movie 2000 (1999)
o Pokémon 3: The Movie (2000)
o Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (2000)
o Pokémon 4Ever (2001)
o Pokémon Heroes (2002)
o Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker (2003)
o Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys (2004)
o Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005)
o Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (2006)
o Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai (2007)
* Wing Commander (1999)
* Final Fantasy films:
o Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
o Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (2005)
* Tomb Raider films:
o Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
o Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
* Sakura Taisen: Katsudou Shashin (2001)
* Resident Evil films:
o Resident Evil (2002)
o Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
o Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
* House of the Dead (2003)
* Alone in the Dark (2005)
* Doom (2005)
* BloodRayne (2006)
* DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
* Dōbutsu no Mori (2006)
* Silent Hill (2006)

The original Mortal Kombat was interesting simply for the Cage vs Goro fight.  High point of the movie.  Beyond that, meh.

Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture was actually decent and a lot more story-oriented than you'd expected a movie based off a Fighting game to be.



I was surprised with "Grandma's Boy", it was pretty funny.

Does anyone remember "War Games" and "Cloak and Dagger"?

I will go with a classic....TRON.



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Movie games are notoriously camp, i don't think there is one that takes itself serious, apart perhaps from silent hill which had good production values. Anyway we have VG movies that stand out:

Best Comedy: Street Fighter. "Quick change the channel!"

Best Fanservice: DOA.

Best have-nothing-to-do-with-the-game: Super Bob Hoskins Bros.

Best FPS movie: Doom

and so on...Uwe Boll films are a category of it's own.

 

 



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