Video games based on movies are almost universally terrible, we all know that. The studios want them to be commercials, the game designers haven't seen the movie yet and the only people who buy them are confused grandparents late for a birthday party.
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There's a big chunk of movie history that missed video games, and some fairly recent great movies nobody's bothered adapting yet. We asked you to show us what some of the greatest movies of all time might look like if the gaming industry got a crack at them.
Video game movies date back to the mid-1990s at the latest, with the release of Super Mario Bros. in May 1993. A slew of releases followed from Double Dragon to Rampage. It took over a quarter of a century for a video game movie to earn a positive score on Rotten Tomatoes, with Pokémon: Detective Pikachu in May 2019. Even then, positively reviewed video game movies were rare. Those movies that did earn net positive scores, like the two Sonic the Hedgehog movies, were hardly raved about.
In the past, Hollywood has had trouble transitioning video game characters from their consoles to cinemas. Only three adaptations have garnered "Fresh" ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and none of them have garnered more than $500 million worldwide.
"Video game-based movies have had a tough time gaining consistent mainstream acceptance while simultaneously filmmakers have clearly struggled with properly adapting the storyline, characters and iconography that made them so popular and turning them into big screen blockbusters," Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, said.
In the 2005 film, Mike is from Denver, Colorado, and has a more contemporary wardrobe in lieu of cowboy attire, now wearing a skull t-shirt and dark jeans with white socks and Converse sneakers. His interests include the Internet and video games (especially first-person shooters) in addition to television viewing. He is confrontational with Wonka, who pretends not to understand what Mike is saying, opining that Mike shouldn't mumble so much, providing a contrast between Wonka's thought process of imagination versus Mike's based solely on logic. He only talks with Charlie one time in the movie, during their ride in the Great Glass Elevator, but seems to understand the latter's family's problems beneath his anger. Mike is more willing to talk about his Golden Ticket than his previous incarnations and provides an explanation as to how he found it, which he never did in the book or the previous film (albeit as he is playing video games). He proves to be both scientifically and economically literate: he finds his Golden Ticket by taking the derivative of the Nikkei Index and analyzing the date codes of the other ticket finds, offsetting them by the weather that day, and then calculating the location of the next ticket, thus requiring him to purchase only a single Wonka Bar. He also says that he hates chocolate and only wanted the ticket to test himself, which Grandpa George finds particularly insulting. His father (Adam Godley), who later serves as Mike's tour chaperone, laments during the press conference about his inability to understand his son's thought processes while bemoaning children's obsession with modern technology in general. Mrs. Teavee, however, doesn't seem to mind Mike's obsessions, albeit she has no speaking role, so it's unclear on what she thinks of her son's obsessions. When the five children first enter the facility, Mike is the only one whom Wonka addresses by name, adding, "You're the little devil who cracked the system." (implying he hacked the distribution of the Wonka bars). He gets along well with Charlie (as in the 1971 movie) and jumps in shock at seeing Veruca being chased by furious worker squirrels. For some reason, in spite of his claim that everything in the factory is "completely pointless", he seems impressed by Fudge Mountain.
Much like in the books and movies, Mike meets his doom in the TV room, shrinking himself down to go inside the television and hopping from channel to channel until they are able to retrieve him ("Vidiots"). However, he is not stretched back out in the end, Mrs. Teavee expresses her relief that he is unable to cause his usual trouble, anymore, and brings him home as-is. This makes him the only of the four other golden ticket winners to survive their tour through the factory in the musical adaptations.
The survey, which was conducted by Compare The Market, sampled 1,001 adults in the U.K. who had previous experience with both "playing video games and watching movies." 33.2 percent of respondents chose Roar Uthaug's film interpretation of the long-running action-adventure Tomb Raider franchise as being among their favorites. Further illustrating the Tomb Raider love, 19.5 percent of voters offered praise for 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, resulting in the Angelina Jolie-starring film coming in third place.
2020's Sonic the Hedgehog, which was directed by Jeff Fowler and stars Ben Schwartz as the titular character, was ranked as the U.K.'s second favorite video game movie with 29.5 percent of votes. The other films that cracked the top ten list include 2021's Mortal Kombat at number four, 2017's Resident Evil: The Final Chapter at number five, 2017's Assassin's Creed at number six, 2020's Monster Hunter at number seven, 2019's Detective Pikachu at number eight, 2016's Warcraft at number nine and 2015's Hitman: Agent 47 at number 10.
While it will likely be a while before the sequel hits theaters, there are several other Tomb Raider adaptations in the works to the delight of gamers and fans. An anime based on Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics's reboot trilogy is underway at Netflix and Captain Carter's Hayley Atwell has been cast as the voice of the gun-toting explorer. Moreover, a Tomb Raider tabletop role-playing game is being launched to celebrate the franchise's 25th anniversary.
Castlevania, and Arcane have become huge successes for Netflix. They brought with them an already-built fan base that was eager to watch their favorite characters do cool stuff. They also brought a ton of new people into their respective universes thanks to the massive reach of Netflix as a platform. We could say that the Castlevania and League of Legends universes are now more popular than they have ever been, and with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, recently managing to basically resurrect the game it was based on, it seems like a no-brainer to put these adaptations on Netflix.
In the 2005 film, Mike (portrayed by Jordan Fry) is from Denver, Colorado and is depicted as more arrogant, more disrespectful, and has a more contemporary wardrobe in lieu of cowboy attire, now wearing a skull t-shirt and dark jeans with white socks and Converse sneakers. His interests include the Internet and video games (especially first-person shooters) in addition to television viewing. He is confrontational with Wonka, who pretends not to understand what Mike is saying, opining that Mike shouldn't mumble so much, providing a contrast between Wonka's thought process of imagination versus Mike's thought process based solely on logic. He only talks with Charlie one time in the movie, during their ride in the Great Glass Elevator, but seems to understand the latter's family's problems beneath his anger. Mike is more willing to talk about his Golden Ticket than his previous incarnations and provides an explanation as to how he found it, which he never did in the book or the previous film (albeit as he is playing video games). He proves to be both scientifically and economically literate: he finds his Golden Ticket by taking the derivative of the Nikkei Index and analyzing the datecodes of the other ticket finds, offsetting them by the weather that day, and then calculating the location of the next ticket, thus requiring him to purchase only a single Wonka Bar. He also stagates that he doesn't even like chocolate and only wanted the ticket to test himself, which Grandpa George finds particularly insulting. His father (Adam Godley), who later serves as Mike's tour chaperone, laments during the press conference about his inability to understand his son's thought processes, while bemoaning children's obsession with modern technology in general. Mrs. Teavee, however, doesn't seem to mind Mike's obsessions, albeit she has no speaking role, so it's unclear on what she thinks of her son's obsessions. When the five children first enter the facility, Mike is the only one whom Wonka addresses by name, adding, "You're the little devil who cracked the system." (implying he hacked the distribution of the Wonka bars). He gets along well with Charlie (as in the 1971 movie) and jumps in shock at seeing Veruca being chased by furious worker squirrels. For some reason, in spite of his claim that everything in the factory is "completely pointless," he seems impressed by Fudge Mountain.
Much like in the books and movies, Mike meets his doom in the TV room, shrinking himself down to go inside the television and hopping from channel to channel until they are able to retrieve him ("Vidiots"). However, he is not stretched back out in the end- Mrs. Teavee expresses her relief that he is unable to cause his usual trouble, anymore, and brings him home as is. This makes him the only of the four other golden ticket winners to survive their tour through the factory in the musical adaptations. 2ff7e9595c
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