Video Game into Films/Movies
by Sventhors · in General Discussion · 08/17/2006 (9:43 am) · 28 replies
I can find more movies that have Hacker theme/plot then I can find Movies that have video game theme/plot or Video game that has gone into a Film. Also, there are tons more movies that came from comic books. I was getting mixed up. I did not list any. Sorry. However, are hackers films better then Video Game Films?
Any suggestion or to fill the list or comments?
Any suggestion or to fill the list or comments?
GAME MOVIES: Doom Resident Evil Super Mario Bros Tomb Raiders Halo (2008) Video Game Invasion: The History of a Global Obsession Lara Croft: Tomb Raiders: The Cradle of Life
HACKER MOVIES: Hackers Tron (Could be Game Movie) Antitrust Enemy of the state The Perfect Score Sneakers Swordfish Takedown The Lawnmower Man Triumph of the Nerds Wargames (Could be Game Movie) The Net Matrix
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#2
08/17/2006 (10:16 am)
Riddick was probably the best movie franchise to game, shame about the films being terrible. Butcher bay the game was outstanding :) 
#3
Double Dragon
Street Fighter
House of the Dead
Alone in the Dark
A couple of more movies which had prominent videogame stuff in them:
Joysticks (Porky's in an arcade)
Nightmares (Bishop of Battle story; w/Emilio Estevez)
Clockers (urbanity and videogame violence)
And something that has a geek retrofit:
Dungeonmaster
EDIT:
Parasite Eve (I forgot about this, too, though the game and movie were based off of the novel).
08/17/2006 (10:19 am)
Silent HillDouble Dragon
Street Fighter
House of the Dead
Alone in the Dark
A couple of more movies which had prominent videogame stuff in them:
Joysticks (Porky's in an arcade)
Nightmares (Bishop of Battle story; w/Emilio Estevez)
Clockers (urbanity and videogame violence)
And something that has a geek retrofit:
Dungeonmaster
EDIT:
Parasite Eve (I forgot about this, too, though the game and movie were based off of the novel).
#4
08/17/2006 (10:20 am)
Ah yes, how could I forget the MK games when I remembered Nightmares and Joysticks?
#5
The Last Starfighter
Evolver
Brainscan
08/17/2006 (12:46 pm)
If we're including fictional video games:The Last Starfighter
Evolver
Brainscan
#6
The Wizard
Chasing the Edge
Cloak and Dagger
Grassfire
Oh, and don't forget this year's crap-fest, Stay Alive
Pfew! Lots of stinkers in there. =)
08/17/2006 (1:08 pm)
More video game-related movies...The Wizard
Chasing the Edge
Cloak and Dagger
Grassfire
Oh, and don't forget this year's crap-fest, Stay Alive
Pfew! Lots of stinkers in there. =)
#7
EDIT:
Damn, I can't believe I forgot Cloak and Dagger as well! Grrr.
Evil LARP movie FOUND! Shakma! Oh...Roddy McDowell. I don't remember seeing him in much since Fright Night. And Christopher Atkins. Now I want to see The Pirate Movie...
08/17/2006 (1:09 pm)
I've been looking for a film about some "live action RPG'ers" who play D&D in a biology building with radios and outrageous outfits, let out an ape that has been experimented on, and end up as monkey fodder. I cannot remember the name. It is not MALEORVS though they share the D&D reference.EDIT:
Damn, I can't believe I forgot Cloak and Dagger as well! Grrr.
Evil LARP movie FOUND! Shakma! Oh...Roddy McDowell. I don't remember seeing him in much since Fright Night. And Christopher Atkins. Now I want to see The Pirate Movie...
#9
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08/17/2006 (1:16 pm)
I remeber another movie. really bad one. hahaARCADEus.imdb.com/title/tt0106302/
#10
08/17/2006 (1:22 pm)
@David: You're making this up, right? I find it difficult to believe that a movie THAT bad was ever made, and escaped my notice. =)
#11
08/17/2006 (1:29 pm)
Was Cloak & Dagger actually a game before the movie? As with several of you, I was a computer geek at the time and I don't remember that game actually existing before the movie.
#13
@John
Yup. I actually found it. Shakma. It even has people I like in it. Of course, it sounds really terrible. So terrible that I had to pick it up.
08/17/2006 (1:39 pm)
I belive C&D was a movie before it was a game. But the game cart in the film had "the goods' which caused big problems in the life of little Davey.@John
Yup. I actually found it. Shakma. It even has people I like in it. Of course, it sounds really terrible. So terrible that I had to pick it up.
#15
The movie showed footage from the coin-op game and pretended it was an Atari 5200, prompting Atari addicts to ooh and ahh over the (at the time) impressive graphics. Atari was sold off before the home version was completed, though, and the project was scrapped.
08/17/2006 (1:44 pm)
@Cliff: Sort of! The movie revolved around a kid obsessed with a character in a video game. There was a Cloak and Dagger coin-op game under development when the movie was in theaters; IIRC, the working title of the game was "Agent X". The movie showed footage from the coin-op game and pretended it was an Atari 5200, prompting Atari addicts to ooh and ahh over the (at the time) impressive graphics. Atari was sold off before the home version was completed, though, and the project was scrapped.
#17
08/17/2006 (1:46 pm)
@David: Dear God. That... looks... horrible! (shudder) And it stars Roddy "Will Act For Food" McDowell! I think I'll go disinfect my monitor now...
#18
Residental Evil: Apocalypse www.imdb.com/title/tt0318627/
Hopefully Halo be good movie.
08/17/2006 (1:48 pm)
Opps I forgot Residental Evil the Second one. Residental Evil: Apocalypse www.imdb.com/title/tt0318627/
Hopefully Halo be good movie.
#19
best videogame movies; mortal kombat, resident evil, and the last starfighter.
08/17/2006 (2:25 pm)
I was trying to think of some more but i think you guys covered all of them. the super mario bros movie was complete garbage. and yes there was a bloodrayne movie. you're better of not knowing that it existed. gawd the movie as awwwful!best videogame movies; mortal kombat, resident evil, and the last starfighter.
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Edit:
# Far Cry (2008) (pre-production) (producer)
# Postal (2007) (pre-production) (executive producer) (producer)
# In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007) (post-production) (executive producer)
Alone in the Dark
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
Does Dungeons and Dragons count?