2 or 3 years later, Pikachu and Sonic would rise from the ashes of cinema and show that not all of Hollywood is out of touch when it comes to video games. The two films have potential on undoing this video game movie curse.

You gotta love how Erod butted in on Laura Croft's moment and she just rolls her eyes, like she's met him before.

What studios need to know is that a story in a videogame works for a game. The developers design the story arc over several hours. They need to write a new story from scratch that is related to the game or in the world of the game. And for goodness sakes, if it is a kids game or kind of kid related, make it animated.

well, at least the live-action Mortal Kombat movie was basically the only one that didn't suck and was very faithful to the video games despite it being PG-13.

And then detective pikachu and sonic the hedgehog came out. Who wouldve guessed those would be the ones to break the curse.

Anyone else think that Prince of Persia was decent?

Roll call Legion of Notifications from Badass-itude. MegaMr46!

The only exception to that is the two movies based from the video games: Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog. Those two were financially successful in the box office and liked my the fans because the writers and directors respected the genras and interpreted it their way possible.

wow, going against a bad movie is one thing but to go after an entire movie genre, that takes serious fanboy guts

I agree with erod the curse of the bad live action videogame movies will not end .

Both Detective Pikachu and Sonic would like a word with you, E-Rod.

Using the old NES controller while playing MEGAS XLR theme is funny and awesome as hell!

What's kind of ironic is that the Mortal Kombat movie actually influenced the games, mainly Kano being Australian as he was originally Japanese-American. Great review though!!!

i don't know if someone could be agree or disagree with this opinion, but mortal kombat was the only good movie based in a videogame, even to be a pg-13 rated, it was good

That Super Mario OVA was great!

Well, at least we have the Professor Layton movie.

The Pokémon movies are as close as we're gonna get

Maybe the Tomb Raider reboot staring Alicia Vikander, will be better than the Angelina Jolie ones.

The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney film from a few years back was pretty good. Kinda spooky (even though the game is mostly brightly colored and funny) but had great costume design and an interesting idea on how to present evidence in court like the games.

Well, the Castlevania anime Netflix series looks promising enough.

Sonic the Hedgehog: laughs

my thing about video game movies is almost the same with adapting from books. there is alot of material to sort through. some may have it easier than others but alot needs to be either axed or changed. i think it could possibly work given a good director and screen writers but that may be a bit hard to come by with them also knowing the ip they are working with and how long the movies tend to be.

10 points on the badass-a-tude meter Erod! Personally, I want video game movies to be good as well. The Ratchet and Clank movie is one of my guilty pleasures. I respect your opinion on the matter and hope for better in the future. Nice job on the high score by the way.

That woman getting hit on the head with a CGI rock was better acting than both Tomb Raider films.

I find it kinda funny to see Erod ragging on the Super Mario Bros movie, since he once stated it was a guilty pleasure of his

I'd like to see him utilize Thor's hammer and his own simultaneously

Awesome review! Can't wait for the next episode.

At least we have the Sonic OVA

About Ubisoft: Last year there were so many video game movies that it was going to be a turning point. Blizzard, Ubisoft and Insomnia were involved with the production of the movies. Then the movies started to flop. I'm willing to bet that Ubisoft's claim that the movies are commercials for the games was done as preemptive damage control.

That girl who played tomb raider was hot. You should employ her in more of your projects.

How could you not have M. Bison turn his head, and say 'OF COURSE'?!

Loved the Captain N reference in the opening!!

I think I'd pay to watch ERod's versions of all these films in full.

I wouldn't call this a review as much as an overly elaborate editorial.

Only three things are certain in life; death, taxes, and video game movies sucking.

Never thought of it that way.

oh...my. Hello Lara

9:58 ah there it is, thanks Erod. ^^

This was a fun one. Can't wait to your next video after TASM video.

Silent Hill by french director Christophe Gans was excellent, one of the few good video game adaptation movie.

This was a fun review. I'm not a gamer and I'm not very familiar with most of the movies being talked about, but I understand the point being made here. Sounds like a frustrating genre. I enjoyed this episode a lot.

I'm late on my Easter Egg hunt for the Super Mario Bros. Movie. but he makes a good point.

detective pikachu was great

great opening line!

Nice Video Erod

As an Assassin's Creed fan, I'm going to be honest and say I loved the movie. The visuals looked amazing and many references to the game I managed to spot. But the main problem? It was short. It needed another 30 minutes to expand on the plot and characters to be perfect.

I always thought the rail shooter _Carn-Evil_ and _Bionic Commando_ could easily be made into movies. The former has dopey teenagers have to survive a voodoo zombie amusement park while the latter is _The Expendables_ but with cyborgs fighting Nazis. *HOW IS THIS SO HARD??*

Mario is currently getting a animated remake and sonic is getting his movie in 2018 as if they got fans of the characters and people who made the games onto these movies, than they would be most likely good compared to films that didn't have any involvement from their makers like resident evil films for example.

The theory probably doesn't add to Nintendo, because Nintendo was interested on an earlier script of the Super Mario Bros movie, but because of a sudden change during production, both on people and script, the actors didn't like it, and neither Nintendo; So nintendo decided to plan on making their own animation studio, not letting america use their properties. Which is why just anime based on the video games were made, because Nintendo of Japan is able to supervise it. At least, that's what I understand what happened, the Mario movie being the last nail in the coffin.

Well, some the straight to DVD movies are OK.

Hey Erod, are you ever gonna review the Warcraft of Assassins creed movie?

1:55 Bowser is more of a turtle-dragon, Erod. Also, I believe Tomb Raider (2018), Rampage, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Mortal Kombat (2021) would like to have a word with you today.

Prince of Persia was okay, Mortal Kombat was decent, and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is a guilty pleasure

Where's Luigi in the beginning of the video? Probably out with daisy.

The Blockbuster Buster can you bust Lizzie McGuire The Movie, Hannah Montana The Movie and The Suite Life Movie.

cough cough Warcraft was okay. cough.

I think the ratchet and clank movie reboot viewed on its own was good. The only reason that it was heavily criticised was because they lifted most of the scenes right out of the game that was made in relation to it. A sad fact that the company didnt think to either hold off the game release date or not work on both at the same time. But as a movie, since I havent had the chance to play the game yet, It really isn't bad. It has the basic premise and improves the original story where it lacked. I am a BIG ratchet and clank fan so I knew what to expect from the movie. It was servicable and my expectations werent high, so i was able to enjoy it more.

I liked the Mortal Kombat movie. Chris Lambert was awesome as Raiden. Because of Trevor Goddard they retconed Kano. The Johnny Cage/Scorpion fight was awesome. 09:58 We were all waiting for it.

Question: All of these bad video game movies and not one mention about ANY of Uwe Boll and his abominations?

Hey Rod, what are your feelings of Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist and Warcraft, films which were genuine efforts to be as faithful and compelling as the source material?

In The 90s there was gonna be duke nukem movie.

Theres always pokemon, animal crossing, detective pikachu and sonic

I legitimately loved the Super Mario Bros. movie

I feel like Japan has a better grasp on adapting video games into movies than the US. Ever see the Ace Attorney live action film that came out in Japan? It's fantastic and amazingly faithful.

Really liked this episode. The joke with the bomb really worked for me. I agree. I don't play much in VG, and those I do don't get movies (Skyrim, Lego Marvel, Mirror's Edge). But still, it would suck to know a movie based on my favorite game stinks. It happened to TV series that I liked, so I can see the main idea. Eventually when a video-game based movie will do the change and will be considered good both by critics and general audience, only then others will follow and do the same. Until then, enjoy your assassin's creed and Ratchet and Clank.

Warcraft is one of my guilty movie pleasures! Lok'tar Ogar

oh come on there are good video game movies out there!

This topic should be a spoof movie, as long as Seltzer and Friedberg stay well away from this idea!

E-rod, I love you buddy, but the new mini-skits are extremely distracting. I prefer the format of your Honest Reviews.

So Erod, have you ever seen the "Double Dragon" animated series that came out in the 90's? If you have what did you think about it? If you haven't I guarantee you that its on KZfaq. Personally I really liked it, it stuck with me for many years. Had an awesome theme and great characters. Billy and especially Jimmy are badass who wield magic swords need I say more?

So this is one of the main reasons why they hate ERod. And I can see that.

I really like this format of talking of a subject rather than busting a movie. the old way of busting a movie with clips was better in my opinion. also, How come the dvds behind you are so VERY French?

Hey, why doesn't someone make THAT movie? "The Game-Over Man".

While Prince of Persia and Warcraft are my favourite video game adaptations, I also must be one of the very few who liked Assassins Creed. No Joke! as flawed as that movie is, at least it respects it's source material than trying to adapt it from the 'very first' game, which by the way wasn't perfect itself.

This is one thing that pisses me off with Hollywood. They can't get game to movies or animated shows to movies right, even with all the money at their disposal. Yet fans do a hell of a better job, even if lacking the thousands or millions of dollars. What the hell Hollywood? Get your shit together and start doing these movies right!

So if you're a _Half-Life_ fan and wondering why any of the games haven't been made into movies (Be it the Black Mesa Incident from the first and Gearbox expansions or Gordon's adventure in the cyberpunk dystopian future of City 17 in the second or the comedic spin off _Portal_), NOW YOU KNOW! And Knowing is half the battle. *_UWE BOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL!!!!!_*

captain N the game master

Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children was actually legitimately GOOD.

Very funny, I love the references. As much as I know the Mario bros movie was crap it's still one of my guilty pleasure. XD

You think if some of these guys pulled a Marvel when it came to making video game movies we would finally get a good one?

Erod watch Press Start. It is one of the best video game movie I ever seen.

The best video game movie is TRON hands down

At least the Warcraft movie was enjoyable. Thing is, it's much harder to follow if you're not already a bit of a lore nerd.

Hey Erod, can you please review Jaws 3D & Jaws the Revenge? 47 Meters is coming out, so this may be a good time to bust those two! Don't forget to mention that JAWS 3D was made because of Universal being petty about the movie Great White!

Check out the very last second of the video, it is the best hahahaha

Erod, I was hoping you gave the Warcraft movie a review at some point, since I find it doesnt fall on the usual faults of other videogames movies, yet still is not liked by many people (not me though)

Ooh, you forget to make fun of Uwe Boll movies :D

the curse is kind of broken thanks to Ratchet and Clank for theatrical films, but in the animation department , video game adaptions tend to excel much better as it sticks to their animation. the Resident Evil CGI films are a good example of this, and the ratchet and clank movie was a good reboot for a almost 10 year old seires. Sonic boom was a shit game, but had a pretty good 100 episode cartoon seires. Megaman has some mixed results, and now we got Castlevaina hitting the scene and flexing some seirous muscle.

You forgot uwe Boll

Hollywood needs to involve the people behind the games so the movies don't suck as there making a movie based on the Minecraft by the way.

Video game cartoons, in the other hand...

So studios make bad videogame movies so people will go back to playing the video games they liked in the first place... It's like these video game movies were produced by Black Willy Wonka!

There is one good video game movie which is Phoenix Wright. To bad it never left Japan.

At least Pokémon: Detective Pikachu was good! Dare i say, already the best movie based off a game!

There ARE actually some good video game movies. ".Hack//G.U. Trilogy" is a really damn good adaptation which explores it's source material's events from a differing perspective--and is my pick for overall BEST Video game movie. "Ace Attorney" is Hilarious and fully captures the frenetic energy of the Phoenix wright series all the way down to the protagonist's hairstyle. And "Fate/Stay Night Unlimited blade works", while upstaged by the full anime adaptation of that sect of it's source visual novel, was actually pretty damn good, and there's a lot of hype for the next adaptation of the series covering it's "Heavens Feel" sect which is going to be released in the next year. I've also heard the Persona 3 movies aren't a bad adaptation either, which is surprising as the company that adapted them, A1 pictures, is notorious for poor work. ...Buuuut THOSE were all done by japan. In The west, their death knell is as you said; not understanding the source material or how to best adapt it. And Of the western Video game movies...I Think the best we've had are the Warcraft film and Ratchet and Clank. Though in the former's case that's mostly because I was passively aware of the Lore to Warcraft so could follow what was going on, But I can understand how an outsider might find the film's story impenetrable, as it was PACKED with stuff. Similarly, Ratchet and Clank's biggest sin, while mostly getting the story of the original game, was how generic it's plotting felt in it's re-imagining. But at least they got all the principle actors of the games to repreise their roles. So in both of these cases they were actually being respectful to their source material, something that can not be said of MOST hollywood and western Video game movie adaptations.

I'd say the Tomb Raider movie is probably the worst one mainly because of how boring it is. All the others were bad, but they weren't boring.

Warcraft and assassin's creed did suck at the box office in 2016

The point are valid, but I kinda disagree with "the pot doesn't resemble one in the game" objection. Sometimes it is actually PREFERABLE, since I often don't want a faithful adaptation of videogame plot, I want a movie based on a videogame. Things that work for the videogame medium won't work for the movie. I think that Resident Evil movie (first one) wasn't THAT bad. It had all the crucial elements of the series (zombie outbreak, t-virus, Umbrella corp etc) but tried to tell it's own story in that setting, rather that just re-telling the story from the game.

i will admit, i wanted to like Assassins Creed. I went in ignoring the critics and i still ended up hating it.

Yeah but I liked Mortakl Kombat it is one of my favorite action movies ye sit needed to be rated R but if you think of the game itself it was the while reason the ESRB was even created. So of course they would get the movie rating wrong. Also could have used a bit more blood actually the only time i remember seeing blood is at the end after Liu Kang Got in a cheap shot to the jaw of Shang Tsung right before Shang summoned up five guys from the dead. Though the bit with Reptile getting taken over by the statute when Liu Pulled him out with all the bugs and thing was some what disgusting. The best part though Was Johnny's iconic Nut Cracker or was it Ball Buster? Which ever the "Damn That Hurt!" line cracks me up every single time. Ahh good times.