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Video Game movie of the decade?

xir

xir

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Oct 27, 2017
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there's a history of vg movies being notoriously awful, but I feel like the video game ADJACENT movies made some small headway this decade.

Scott Pilgrim counts? Sure
Wreck it Ralph? Yeah
Pixels? it sucks but same idea

more official adapatations hastly cut and and pasted from wikipedia:

Tekken
March 20, 2010

[Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time


]Resident Evil: Afterlife
September 10, 2010

[Resident Evil: Retribution
September 14, 2012

Silent Hill: Revelation
October 26, 2012


Need for Speed
March 14, 2014

Hitman: Agent 47
August 21, 2015

Warcraft
June 10, 2016


Assassin's Creed
December 21, 2016

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
January 27, 2017

Tomb Raider
March 16, 2018

Rampage
April 13, 2018

Detective Pikachu
]May 10, 2019


Outside of Detective Pikachu, pretty much trash. Tomb Raider was more boring than awful.

So, do you give it to the 'Chu or does Ralph and Scott count?

edit: so tables are NOT supported here! cut and paste in fine though...
 
Platy

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... unless you are missing something it was a pretty good decade... very few SUPER BAD movies or very disrespectfull ones like the first street fighter or the KoF one.

While Detective Pikachu is the only one I would consider very good, Tekken and the resident evil ones are the only ones I would consider TRASH

xir said:
So, do you give it to the 'Chu or does Ralph and Scott count?
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If Ralph and Scott counts than Jumanji and Edge of Tomorrow totally should too
 
LinkSlayer64

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Wreck it Ralph I personally feel is the best all around for how it was a wonderful love letter to many games, (I still notice things I didn't before) but detective Pikachu is obviously the best adaptation.
 
ckareset

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Sonic the Hedgehog Trailer was the only memorable moment
 
MadLaughter

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Detective Pikachu.

They could've made it less weird. They could've been like "Let's do our own designs!!!" like the Sonic movie. They could've tried to set it in our world or some dumb bullshit.

Instead, we got our protagonists pretending to do a cartel murder on a Mr. Mime. We got Dittos posing as humans in all it's horrifying glory. They fucking WENT for it, and I commend that.
 
Swiggins

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MadLaughter said:
Detective Pikachu.

They could've made it less weird. They could've been like "Let's do our own designs!!!" like the Sonic movie. They could've tried to set it in our world or some dumb bullshit.

Instead, we got our protagonists pretending to do a cartel murder on a Mr. Mime. We got Dittos posing as humans in all it's horrifying glory. They fucking WENT for it, and I commend that.
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Agreed, Detective Pikachu is the only videogame movie in years where I felt like the movie did the source material any justice.
 
UberTag

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Scott Pilgrim is the best movie.
But the one that felt the most like a video game for me was Ready Player One.
I was honestly expecting to hate it. It was quality turn your brain off entertainment.
 
Flipyap

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Can I cheat and nominate a webisode miniseries? Because Bright Falls, the Alan Wake spin-off from 2010 is by far my favorite live action video game thing.
 
Lukar

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I enjoyed RE: Afterlife and Assassin's Creed. Still need to watch the final RE movie, Detective Pikachu, and Tomb Raider.
 
Nephtes

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My vote is for Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle.

Come on. Best game movie by far complete with repeating dialogue NPCs, references to Street Fighter, and too many other videogame tropes to count.
 
D-Man

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The Ace Attorney movie is a really good time. It somehow managed to keep the wackiness the series and its characters is known for while having a pretty dark tone overall. It's a shame it never got a North American release cause I think it's a great adaptation. Definitely my personal favorite game movie overall.
 
Wink784

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Detective Pikachu was the least bad. Warcraft runner up. The Resident Evil movies are a guilty pleasure of mine. Honestly none of them are good movies. Still waiting.
 
Nameless

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Love gaming and film but I've somehow gone this entire decade without watching a single [new] video game movie. Unless the [unofficial] Uncharted short film counts, in which case it gets my vote

 
Shining Star

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D-Man said:
The Ace Attorney movie is a really good time. It somehow managed to keep the wackiness the series and its characters is known for while having a pretty dark tone overall. It's a shame it never got a North American release cause I think it's a great adaptation. Definitely my personal favorite game movie overall.
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I will vote for this, thank you for reminding me it happened this decade.
 
The Last One

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I really like the Scott Pilgrim movie but I'm not sure if counts as a video game movie, I mean it's a comic adaptation after all.
 
Phendrift

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i know it was 08 but still love the meme. Replace with Death Stranding or something
 
plagiarize

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Adaptations? Ace Attorney and Detective Pikachu. Both brought it. Both told great stories while being faithful to the source material.

VG Inspired? Edge of Tomorrow. I loved that movie.
 
chandoog

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Out of that list, Pikachu is by far and wide the only decent choice in a pile of literal shit.
 
UshiromiyaEva

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I hate that rampage is ashamed of its heritage but it would be either that or detective Pikachu. I'm looking forward to whatever follows detective up
 
Shadoken

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Oct 25, 2017
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From that list I would pick Prince of Persia.

Assassin's Fist was a pretty good Live action attempt.


But if we don't count Live action then Netflix Castlevania is the best Video game adaptation by far.
 
Violet

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RESIDENT EVIL RETRIBUTION, without a doubt.

AFTERLIFE is also great, but Retribution is probably one of the best genre films released this decade, so that one for sure.



If you still hate Paul WS Anderson you gotta stick to video games and not movies
 
B. Spaceman

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Prince of Persia was a decent blockbuster, but it lost a lot of the charm of the game
 
Secretofmateria

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I thought both tomb raider and detective pikachu were alright! I enjoyed both of them. Cant speak for the others as i usually avoid game based films like the plague
 
Sweeney Swift

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The entire Resident Evil franchise, and it's not at all a close race for me

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