From Yahoo:


    * Super Mario Brothers
    * Double Dragon
    * Street Fighter
    * Wing Commander
    * House of the Dead
    * Alone in the Dark
    * Dead or Alive
    * Bloodrayne
    * Silent Hill
    * Dungeon Siege
    * Postal

While I was amused that our favorite, Uwe Boll, directed half of these stinkburgers, I was surprised that Super Mario Brothers was on the list.  IMHO, the film was very imaginative and captured the spirit of the game.


Phil

Quoted from dogglebe Super Mario Brothers

As a kid, I remember being very upset that Mario and Luigi didn't wear their trademark outfits until the last 20 or so minutes of the film.  Lame.

I actually enjoyed Silent Hill, but I've never played the video games before, so I can't really compare the two.

Sean

The Wizard is the only video game movie I ever really cared for... While not directly tied to any one franchise, other than Nintendo itself, I still feel it has something to it.  A lot of people disagree with me. A lot of people think it's a curd of cheese from a cows tit, but I like it.  The whole thing.   Even the absurd nature of how Universal Studio got a free commercial spot as did Nintendo.

There is something to be said about the 80's... It cannot be duplicated. Also, this was Tobey McGuire's 1st on screen flick, I do believe.

But, on topic... Yeah, all those movies sucked.  Super Mario Bro's wasn't as bad as some make it out to be. It's just different.  Some of it was pretty ingenious at times... You just have to set aside your love for the games and characters to see the vision.  I wrote a script covering super mario bro's one time.  It was pretty true to the series and a lot of folks who got ahold of it on various game site/forums talk about it to this day...  

Not to defend Uwe Boll or anything because the guy has no talent as a director but Postal is NOT that bad. The Phantom, Captain America and many others are worse overall films.

Double Dragon and Street Fighter are not that bad either... where's MK2 on this list?

At the height of Super Mario brothers, I took my kids to see the movie and...we all HATED it. Complete trash!

I'm sorry, but there's no way in hell Silent Hill deserves to be anywhere near that list. It is miles, and I mean miles ahead of anything listed there. In fact, it's probably the only half-way decent videogame adaptation to date. Anderson's Resident Evil movies, Mortal Kombat (or its sequel), or Doom should take its spot instead. These guys obviously didn't do their homework on this one.

--Julio

I have to disagree about silent hill and street fighter.

Silent hill was good enough ( the game was better of course). Street fighter was bad, but not in the top 10! maybe top 20.

Alone in the Dark is one of the worst films I've ever seen. I mean, Tara Reid playing someone intelligent? Whoever was in charge of casting that role should never work in movies again. And don't get me started on Uwe Boll.

Silent Hill was very watchable and I agree it shouldn't be anywhere near that list.

Never saw the Super Mario movie, I've always been a Sonic the Hedgehog man myself.

I would watch Dead or Alive again, but not because the film was any good, just for the very wet Holly Valance. Other than that, it fully deserves its place on that list.

Agreed, Silent Hill was pretty decent.  As for the rest, yeah thet're all pants lol.  Oh and I thought Doom wasn't great either, especially after the incredibly long wait for it to be made.

If you look over the wikipedia list of video game movies you begin to see a trend with why these films are on the list. I'd say very few of the films that are live action are widely considered great or even good.

Why people expect a masterpiece based on the source material is beyond me.

All I have come to expect over the years is the same cliche tired narrowminded storyline that is used in every movie anymore.

I give Silent Hill props for not doing that unlike pretty much every other film. They tried something different and it didn't work great but it works.

Replace Silent Hill with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.

Then, maybe replace Super Mario Bros. (that can be 11th) for Max Payne. For two reasons, this should be done. 1. The game is a long movie! 2. See 1. ALl it had going for it was the visual style, which I'll admit, I liked.

Max Payne had 2 games to just steal the story and some idiot thought it was a good idea to write that film we saw.

They use the name to sell the film and change everything else for no reason.

Bring on the Hollywood version of Price of Persia which will be unfaithful and poorly made.

Quoted from Old Time Wesley Max Payne had 2 games to just steal the story and some idiot thought it was a good idea to write that film we saw. They use the name to sell the film and change everything else for no reason.

Max Payne was a colossal pile of crap.

If they didn't use the name it probably would have been straight to dvd bargain bin crap and not "Max Payne" pretty much tainting the franchise for no reason since it really had nothing to do with Max Payne.