Sunday, November 11, 2007
Games made into movies


Over the years a lot of movies has been turned into computer games like recently LOTR and Transformers. It usually goes from book to movie, and from movie to games.
But the concept also works the other way, so movies are inspired by games. I remember an arcade game from 1987 called Doubble Dragon were you walked down a street and just beat up everybody (yes i am that old :p). The neat thing about this game was that you could play corporative! That same year the classic Street Fighter series had is premiere and both games where eventually made into movies in 1994. In Street Fighter the movie non less than
Jean-Claude Van Damme starred! Other fighting games like "Mortal Kombat" and Dead or Alive has been made into movies as well.
In 1996 Tomb Raider hit the streets and i got to admit i only played the tutorial part cause i found it so amusing to run away from the old butler all the time ^^. Laura Craft starred in her first movie in 2001, played by Angelina Jolie and the sequel came in 2003. Also in 2001 the Final Fantasy games got animated into a really nice movie!
As a kid i played a lot of Doom2 and its still one of my favorite games till this day. But i never dared to play Doom3 cause its way to scary now that graphics got so much better! I did dare to watch the movie they made about it in 2005 tho. I liked it simply because it was the Doom universe, but other might not think it was so great. Think you have to be a fan to really like it, but the part were they film it as a fps gamer is really kewl.
Another series of games i never dared playing is resident evil. Dark places and zombies supricing you just isn't my thing - i get scared from watching someone else play it even. The game was first published in 1996 for Playstation and many has followed since. The first movie came in 2002 starring Milla Jovovich as the zombie slaying hero. In 2004 the second movie came and this year the third movie called "Extinction" has already been released in some countries. Im definitely gonna go see that one soon.
Another movie based on a game will have its premiere in 2007 and its the danish developed game called Hitman! (hehe i had to say its danish ^^). I have never played the game myself but
basically its about a balled guy killing a lot of people in somewhat brutal ways. I know a lot of people are looking forward to this one, and i always think its fun to watch movies based on some sort of video game.
And here the point of my post come: Somewhere in 2009 there should be a movie out called "Warcraft" starring our very own Thrall - but told mostly from The Alliance side! The time of the movie is set about 1 year before World of Warcraft begins and it should be a real warmovie :)
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Naarm and myself saw "Resident evil extinction" last night at i thought it was great. I especially like the way they have made the lead character very rogue-like with her daggers and her moves :D Well she does a little Aoe as well but.. :p
Scary stuff!
Scary stuff!
as a mage the scene with the zombies makes you wana aoe :p
i have seen most of the movies some time ago but never wanted to see the doom movie cause doom 3 really REALLY sucked.
ps. i think bourne is probably better then the hitman :P . . at least my personal prefference
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i have seen most of the movies some time ago but never wanted to see the doom movie cause doom 3 really REALLY sucked.
ps. i think bourne is probably better then the hitman :P . . at least my personal prefference
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