Best Video Game to Movie Transition

I'd have to say Silent Hill is the only real movie to have done it "right" (being subjective here lol). At least you can tell that the filmmakers must've at least played the games, so understand the source material a little better.

In contrast, I remember hearing Paul WS Anderson saying he played Resident Evil 2 for like 20 minutes (which isn't very far unless you've already beat the game a few times and know all what to do and when), and then butchering what could've been a pretty good horror movie (still pisses me off how the "boss" of the first movie was just a regular monster, albeit one of the cooler ones, but still, just a "normal" monster. Where the heck was the Tyrant? That bastard still gives me the creeps of all the times I missed his claw swipe). Granted, the second one was slightly better, but mostly just because the actress playing Jill was kind of hot, and the comedy in the movie was pretty funny (if a bit out of place), although I still didn't like Alice and her "I can kick everyone's ass, even if I just look at them through a camera" attitude.

It's going to be difficult to make a good video game based movie, particularly if the filmmakers never played the games themselves, or aren't into gaming (they don't have to be hardcore, but I hope they at least played the games they're about to adapt long enough to understand it). And part of the problem is some games simply aren't going to make good movies (well, Mortal Kombat was okay, since it had somewhat of a backstory, but watch them make a movie out of Pong lol). Doom didn't have much of a storyline either (at least the ones prior to Doom 3, and I still remember the first game's backstory just essentially giving you an excuse to blow stuff up and kill aliens, which was okay cause it was fun), but they turned it into a movie, so don't say it can't happen lol (I doubt Nintendo will allow another Mario movie unless it's in CGI and Miyamoto okay's it, which is unlikely).

Jam it back in, in the dark.