For the Fanboys

[Queasy]

Link - Goes over everything from Mortal Kombat to Resident Evil to Lara Croft. Only putting the opening here because it would be too long otherwise.

In the beginning there was ?Super Mario Bros.?

In 1993, Hollywood blew millions on a film about a mustachioed plumber named Mario. That the Mario of the film title was based off a video game character was strange. Stranger still was the 140-minute run-time, longer than ?Citizen Kane.?

?Super Mario Bros.? tanked among filmgoers, the bong-and-waffles set excluding. Yet neither Hollywood nor the paying public learned their lesson. Over the following decade we saw video game inspired films like ?Mortal Kombat,? ?Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within? and this Friday's release of ?Doom.?

Trash, all of it. But with geek auteur Peter Jackson set to apply his chubby fingers to the adaptation of the Xbox game, ?Halo,? and perhaps infect an average SciFi plot with (shudder) emotional resonance, we may look back at the last decade as the golden age of bad video game films.

Let's celebrate the trash that is the video game-based movie with a look back at the low/high points. Readers are warned. Spoilers lurk in the paragraphs below. But if you're the type to get upset over spoilers in these types of movies, well, perhaps you should be separated from your Blockbuster card.

 

[purbeast0]

the only truly bad movie on that list was Final Fantasy the Spirits Within.

 

[GeneValgene]

??

how come i don't remember a mario movie

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
the only truly bad movie on that list was Final Fantasy the Spirits Within.

Yeah, he left out some of the absolutely horrendous ones like House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. Super Mario Bros only got a passing mention but was more dreadful than Final Fantasy.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: GeneValgene
??

how come i don't remember a mario movie

Because it was such a truly awful movie that you have subconsciously blocked all memory of it?

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: purbeast0
the only truly bad movie on that list was Final Fantasy the Spirits Within.

Yeah, he left out some of the absolutely horrendous ones like House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. Super Mario Bros only got a passing mention but was more dreadful than Final Fantasy.

Yea I agree.

mario bros was just horrible, as were the other 2 you mentioned.

 

[VTHodge]

Final Fantasy was just plain "not good". Super Mario Bros. was bad enough for you to pity the children of everyone involved for the never-ending shame that the movie brought to the family's name. Don't think I'll bother to see Doom.