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The Hive: Resident Evil is possibly the only real \u201csuccess\u201d in the video game movie world, with a saga spanning six movies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Watching video game movies for the past 20 years has been a bit like watching a friend continuously jump in and out of bad relationships. At one point you have to ask yourself that maybe the people your friend is dating aren\u2019t the problem, it\u2019s your friend. <\/span><\/p>\n

Movies based on video games are infamous in both the film and gaming communities for being unfaithful to their source material and poor quality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since the first video game film <\/span>Super Mario Bros<\/span><\/i> back in 1993, based on the famous video game series of the same name by Nintendo, this has consistently been the case. The <\/span>\u201890s<\/span> only continued this trend.<\/span><\/p>\n

1994\u2019s <\/span>Double Dragon<\/span><\/i> took a simple <\/span>beat-\u2018em-up <\/span>arcade game about twin brothers teaming up to save the elder\u2019s girlfriend from a gang and thought it was a good idea to make a <\/span>Warriors <\/span><\/i>rip off in a 2017 post apocalyptic Los Angeles with a dash of a <\/span>Big Trouble in Little China<\/span><\/i> magic talisman in the mix. It wasn\u2019t. <\/span><\/p>\n

Street Fighter<\/span><\/i> in 1995 thought it was a good idea to cast European action movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile, the all-American American with the greatest theme ever and make him the main character instead of the franchise\u2019s famous lead Ryu. It wasn\u2019t. <\/span><\/p>\n

1995 also brought a PG-13 Mortal Kombat<\/em> movie, based on a franchise that essentially created the M rating in the<\/span> Entertainment Software Rating Board, <\/span>and made a sequel two years later that nobody liked. <\/span><\/p>\n

The only reason people went to go see 1999\u2019s <\/span>Wing Commander<\/span><\/i> is because the film had a trailer for <\/span>Star Wars: Episode I \u2013 The Phantom Menace<\/span><\/i> in front of it. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first decade of the <\/span>2000s <\/span>wasn\u2019t any better as a majority of the videogame films we got were at the hands of German schlockmeister Uwe Boll.<\/span><\/p>\n

Films like <\/span>House of the Dead<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Alone in the Dark<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Bloodrayne<\/span><\/i> were massive critical and commercial failures, but were still successful to Boll due to his exercising of German tax loopholes that reward his investments into the films even if they totally bomb. <\/span><\/p>\n

It also brought us the horrors of possibly the only real \u201csuccess\u201d in the video game movie world: the Resident Evil<\/em> Franchise. <\/span><\/p>\n

Despite being financially successful, fans of the video games have written off the films as self-insert fanfiction. Although the film is similar to the game in some ways, the main character Alice (played by Milla Jovovich) never appeared in the games and is essentially an overpowered Mary Sue that takes too much precedence over the other characters. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfully the franchise is said to conclude with its sixth and final chapter of the movies this month. Now we can stop focusing on how bad these movies are and focus on how bad the quality of the games have become with <\/span>Resident Evil 7: Biohazard <\/span><\/i>also due out this month. <\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of the current year, let\u2019s talk about this decade so far. The <\/span>2010s <\/span>brought a recent trend to video game movies, but improvement seems very far away. <\/span><\/p>\n

This trend: put effort to make the movies look professional, but not enough effort to make them any good. <\/span><\/p>\n

For example, the decade started with Disney\u2019s adaptation of <\/span>Prince of Persia<\/span><\/i> a movie that had a massive budget upwards of 200 million, starring big name talent like Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley. It was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, essentially meaning that Disney was banking on it being their next Pirates of the Caribbean. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t flop, but didn\u2019t make enough money to warrant a sequel. While critics didn\u2019t hate it as much as previous video game adaptations, they considered it mediocre at best and a boring blockbuster at worst. <\/span><\/p>\n

Fans of the games didn\u2019t hate it, but they didn\u2019t particularly love it either.<\/span><\/p>\n

This has also been the same in cases like <\/span>Need for Speed<\/span><\/i> and the animated adaptations of <\/span>Ratchet and Clank<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Angry Birds<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

2016 also brought us films that were criticized for being too faithful to their games. <\/span>Warcraft <\/span><\/i>was praised by fans of the games for being very faithful to the fantasy world of Azeroth (the director Duncan Jones is an admitted uberfan of the Warcraft franchise) but critics and audiences were mixed. Many praised the visuals and world building while others criticized the story as complicated and boring. <\/span><\/p>\n

Assassin\u2019s Creed <\/span><\/i>had a similar reaction from both its fans and critics, except for the fact that even fans of the game criticized it for being too faithful. <\/span><\/p>\n

Despite all of these flops, I still feel that we will have a video game movie renaissance. It took a while before we got to the modern state of superhero films, where (thanks to Marvel Studios) it\u2019s a seemingly never-ending stream of good quality blockbusters. <\/span><\/p>\n

Video game movies are just going to have to finding a balance of pleasing their fanbase by being loyal to their games while not being loyal enough to alienate critics and audiences. One day, I feel that will happen. I just hope I\u2019m alive to see it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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