Best Video Game to Movie Transition

Silent Hill is pretty much the only game franchise that actually had potential for being made into a movie. And that's because most of the other games that had movies, it was not a game that had most of the "gaming experience" coming from gameplay but from the story and the mood, which both are things that can be translated to a movie. Gameplay on the other hand is impossible to translate.
Plus, Silent Hill was pretty much the only game-movie that wasn't basically an essence of a certain kind of movies.
Resident Evil for example was a game based on various Zombie Movie cliches.
Mortal Kombat was a game that was based on Hong Kong style martial arts movies.
So... to make a movie based on such a thing is basically like making a copy, of a copy, of a copy.
Silent Hill might have been influenced by some things, but essentially it was something new. So it could be translated to another medium without the copy-of-a-copy losses.
Doom was IIRC the first movie that tried to bring some of the "gameplay" into a movie, but ultimately failed.

Personally, I wouldn't want ANY more game-movies. Simply because the industry usually picks games that are impossible to translate simply because the game franchises have been successful. Silent Hill is pretty much the exception so far. A Metal Gear Solid movie could be cool. COULD BE. Still it's nothing I'd want to see.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Wtf? Why is Eleo banned? O_ô
*heads over to the ban discussion*

Yeah, that's another story. Most movies throw the gaming content overboard. Be it Doom, or RE. Sheesh... I really don't get it why they threw the Demons and Hell theme overboard with Doom. Fear of the christian right?

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Originally Posted by Dark Nation

For accuracy FFVII:AC: The movie is EXACTLY a sequel to the game. Its not an 'adaption' of the original story, or an alternate universe, its a movie sequel. For that aspect it was entirely accurate. The story was weak, but lots of action,
and... well... okay voice acting. The charater development was non existent except for possibly Cloud.

Don't even get me started on that crapfest. Yes, I lack the FFVII nostalgia to fully appreciate that bucket of fangirl-service. Advent Children just... Sucks plain ass. Maybe it's a good transition of the game (which doesn't help me much, as I loathe Final Fantasy anyway), but as a movie it just fails. Bad script, bad directing, total overuse of supposedly badass camerawork...
Not to speak of the overall weakness on the technical side. It's just not good. In no part it offers.

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I really don't wish to see a DX movie.
Honestly. They can just fuck it up. Plus, I highly doubt any US studio would be willing to produce such a highly controversial, unpatriotic story.

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