Adaptions of video games get panned all the time

The Tomb Raider films were stupid but enjoyable.

Resident Evil was so bad it's good. Most of the sequels stink.

Mortal Kombat was an awful film. Not to mention no spine ripping like in the game.

I never heard of the other two.

Another you may never have seen was the Max Payne film. That was really bad...

There has yet to be a legitimate video game film adaption. And honestly, I don't think there should be. What makes games so great is that they put you in the story. YOU make choices, get involved, and occasionally screw up. Video games are far more immersive than any film ever could be. It is an art form of it's own and shouldn't be hastily converted to another.

For example, they're making an Uncharted film and I believe it to be a disaster. What makes that series so good is it's immersive puzzles and action. If that's turned into a film, there won't be much to enjoy except cheap special effects and a mediocre story. When will the film industry learn...

 

I love completely idiotic video game movies. Slightly related to the games, pure action, and they hardly take themselves seriously. I've never seen Mortal Kombat so I can exclude it, but the others were pretty sweet.

Now if they were to take story-heavy games like Mass Effect or Assassin's Creed and make CG-fapping movies out of those, then I might get mad.

 

The problem with video game movies is that they choose the worst possible games to turn into movies. Instead of choosing story-driven games, like Grim Fandango or Mass Effect, they chose things like Moral Kombat or The Sims (?!).

 

There's a Sims movie?

And here I was blissfully unaware!

 

I know there's that FFVII: Advent Children movie. That one was a game, but was turned into a movie instead. Does that count?

 

Yep, believe it or not. Quite possibly the worst source material for a movie adaptation ever.

The Sims (film) - The Sims Wiki)

 

The idea of making a film from the game 'Battleship' was pretty bad, as well...not a video game, but why? What's next? Candyland? Checkers?

 

Tetris: The Movie 3D

 

With tensions with and within Russia rising, you might have something! =p

 

That'd be an impressive undertaking. I would see that movie just because the actors spoke Simish.
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I dunno, for me video-game movie adaptations don't fare as well for the same reason book-to-movie adaptations generally suck: through the process, a lot of the detail, story, character development, etc., that can be well-portrayed in a book/video game get lost in order to make them fit into a time constraint. It can lose a lot of the "oomph" it had in its original format. The stories have the potential to get changed a lot, and are generally not true to the game they were intending to portray.

Silent Hill: The Movie/Revelations was only loosely based on the Silent Hill games, and both mixed and matched different parts from different games in order to make it... I don't know. Different? Special? I have no clue. I mean, it wasn't to say the movies were awful, I enjoyed them both.

And as others have said, it loses it's immersion factor. In a game, you grow with the characters, you learn to love/hate the characters in the story, the story, in a way, becomes a part of you, even for only a brief period of time; in games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, etc, your choices can greatly effect the outcome at the end. It's engaging. Whereas movies are just an impersonal and passive demonstration of pictures.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I love movies as much as the next person. But adaptations come with a whole host of issues. There are some that have done it well (i.e., Harry Potter), but generally it's not something I would advocate. I'm a bit of a purist in that sense.

 

The problem with most game-to-movie adaptations is that they are either adapted from a game with no story, or one that nobody cares about. Or they're directed by Uwe Boll.

 

Most video game movies I only enjoy in an ironic way, like they're so bad they're funny. Super Mario Cros. is absolutely hilarious, for example, as are some Uwe Boll movies. I actually really like the Mortal Kombat movie, though, but that's mostly because of nostalgia