{"id":1435,"date":"2014-08-14T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2024-03-07T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:34:35","slug":"the-5-best-worst-videogame-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/the-5-best-worst-videogame-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 &#8216;best&#8217; worst videogame movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videogame movies are terrible. You might think that\u2019s a sweeping generalisation but it\u2019s actually been proven by science \u201d\u201c well, Rotten Tomatoes, at least. The <a title=\"highest score for a video game movie on the site is 44%\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_films_based_on_video_games\">highest score for a video game movie on the site is 44%<\/a>, and that was for the barely bearable <i>Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, there\u2019s something remarkably charming about videogame movies. Like watching a z-lister heroically choking on a kangaroo\u2019s bum on <i>I\u2019m A Celebrity<\/i>, it\u2019s hard not to be slightly impressed by how appalling the act you\u2019re witnessing actually is.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, here are 5 of our favourite videogame movies. And by favourite, we mean the ones that made us laugh the most by being brain-achingly awful.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Alone in the Dark<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-Gc5bgZ2B8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Alone in the Dark<\/i>, an adaptation of a mildly popular horror franchise, is without doubt the worst videogame movie of all time with <a title=\"an unthinkably low 1% on Rotten Tomatoes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/alone_in_the_dark\/\">an unthinkably low 1% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s quite an achievement, considering the dross that came before and after, that\u2019s made even more impressive by the fact <i>Alone in the Dark<\/i> has real actors that people have actually heard of, including Christian Slater as an American Derek Acorah-type and Tara Reid as an archaeologist (stop laughing at the back).<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s hard not to admire the sheer effort that\u2019s gone into making a movie as terrible as this. Someone, somewhere, actually wrote the hammy dialogue, and genuinely believed the rubbish CGI monsters were scary and for that, it deserves at least one watch.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Resident Evil: Afterlife<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9dc5iiT0f1s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe <i>Resident Evil<\/i> movie series is possibly the loosest adaptation of anything ever, with clone ninjas, karate and lots of attractive women replacing the slow-paced blocky survival horror of the original game.<\/p>\n<p>This is no truer than with <i>Afterlife<\/i>, which features main protagonist Alice in the centre of some kind of global conspiracy that requires lots of high-flying kung fu and ninja stars to defeat. It\u2019s worth noting that the company at the centre of this conspiracy, Umbrella, have turned everyone on the planet into zombies by this point, rendering their plans a bit pointless really.<\/p>\n<p>They plough on though, and so does this movie franchise, which remains very popular despite being quite obviously terrible. It\u2019s so popular that it\u2019s even influenced the <i>Resident Evil<\/i> games, with <i>Resident Evil 6<\/i> taking a distinctly movie-esque tone. Needless to say, it was awful.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Mortal Kombat: Annihilation<\/h4>\n<p>Believe it or not, the first <i>Mortal Kombat<\/i> movie is quite good despite having some of the worst costumes committed to film.<\/p>\n<p>The sequel, however, is unspeakably rubbish. The words to sum up how terrible this movie actually is haven\u2019t been invented yet, so here\u2019s a collection of the worst moments from the film so you can witness the full horror for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OocVcZodzII\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, <i>Annihilation<\/i> is based off a game where the main choice you have to make is whether you\u2019re going to rip your opponent\u2019s head off or kick them into a pit of spikes at the end of the fight, so it\u2019s not exactly ripe for emotional plot material.<\/p>\n<p>And the fight sequences aren\u2019t that bad either! If you fast-forward all the talk-y bits, you\u2019ve actually got yourself a passable martial arts flick.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Silent Hill: Revelation 3D<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KMWrZmD0AN4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nUnlike the other games in this list, the <i>Silent Hill <\/i>franchise is renowned for its excellent plot lines. A budding filmmaker could have easily taken the storyline of <i>Silent Hill 2<\/i> and crafted it into a Lynchian masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>But they didn\u2019t. Instead, they took the plot of <i>Silent Hill 3<\/i> and crafted it into an incomprehensible 3D horrorshow that got roundly panned by critics. Nice one, guys.<\/p>\n<p>That said, we\u2019ll never get tired of seeing Pyramid Head \u201d\u201c one of our favourite videogame baddies \u201d\u201c on the big screen.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Max Payne<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8UppYl3On9I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt\u2019s worth stating from the outset that <i>Max Payne<\/i> completely fails as an adaptation of the game, foregoing the game\u2019s noir-vibe in favour of some supernatural nonsense involving weird fairy people.<\/p>\n<p>But, against better judgement, we actually quite like it. It\u2019s different enough from the game to stand on its own, and we can\u2019t help but feel the slightly weirder aspects of the film would have been more appreciated if it wasn\u2019t so closely tied with an existing franchise.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re still not buying Mark Wahlberg as our Max though. Never.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What videogame movies do you enjoy? Let us know in the comments. And if you own any that you <b>don\u2019t <\/b>enjoy, <a title=\"sell DVDs with musicMagpie\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/entertainment\/sell-dvds\/\">sell your DVDs with musicMagpie<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>(Don\u2019t forget that we\u2019re giving away an Xbox One this month, and all you have to do is trade in a selected game \u201d\u201c <a title=\"Trade any of these games in August and you could win an Xbox One!\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/2014\/08\/05\/xbox-one-trade-competition\/\">check out this blog post for the full list of games)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videogame movies are terrible. You might think that\u2019s a sweeping generalisation but it\u2019s actually been proven by science \u201d\u201c well, Rotten Tomatoes, at least. The highest score for a video game movie on the site is 44%, and that was for the barely bearable Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. 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