Worst Movie Adaptations of Video Games

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Since the early 90s, Hollywood has been making movie adaptations of video games. Most of them were terrible and Hollywood never learns.

Super Mario Bros. was the worst movie adaptation of a game ever for a lot of reasons many of us could agree on.

The Silent Hill movie was also bad maybe because some of us didn't like Harry Mason being replaced with a female.

What's the worst movie adaptation of a Video Game you ever saw?

Doom- had nothing to do with the game, had a first person scene which should have had more of

Tomb Raider movies - not so much raiding tombs...

Resident Evil movies - not really scary enough...

Double Dragon: So bad its actually funny. I discovered that movie while watching Iron Chef America, the host plays in it.

Street fighter: The best example of so bad its funny, everything was over the top and they where more focussed on making the characters look the part rather then act in character. Although i do like M.Bison's performance Raul Julia tried his best.

Street fighter: the legend of Chun-li: so bad its NOT funny. it was way too unnecessarily dark, and now M.Bison is an Irish businessman, the movie also completely tore apart the canon of the game. Oh and Vega is played by one of the guy's from Black eyed peas o.O

Mortal Kombat Annihilation: Say what you want about the first one, at least it had a plot and stayed fateful to the original story. Annihilation was so damn awful!

Hey I loved the super mario movie, back off! BloodRayne was a pretty bad movie

I think the Super Mario Bros. movie didn't make any sense in a lot of ways which is the main reason people say its so bad(including Nintendo). For example, Bowser was a human-male played by Dennis Hopper.

It was the farthest thing from the Mario universe depicted in the video games.

I've heard that the Wing Commander movie was pretty awful. Just watch spoonys review of it.

Has anyone seen the Legend of Zelda TV show? That was pretty bad...

I'm suprised Hitman hasn't been listed yet.

All of them?

Bad as Street Fighter was (and there are days I'm willing to dispute that, finding fault mainly in the portrayal of the characters and not so much in the silly plotline or the action OR the humour), I think King Of Fighters was infinitely worse.

I say this because, while Street Fighter was recognisable as Street Fighter, King Of Fighters went out of its way to divorce itself from the source material. It featured far too few main characters from the game, and those that were in the movie were transformed beyond recognition. Its plot had little to do with the premise of the game, which, like Street Fighter, is basically just a tournament of the world's best martial artists, with the additional factor that the KOF tournament is for teams of 3 fighters instead of single fighters. None of that is in the movie.

I was rather surprised that KOF was thought to merit an American movie adaptation. Here in Europe, virtually no one knows what King Of Fighters is. I only know about it through the Capcom vs. SNK series. That's what got me interested in all those other fighters who weren't from Street Fighter.

Noah Antwiler reviewed some fighting game movies that make Street Fighter and the first Mortal Kombat movies like cinematic masterpieces. He does, however, comment that both the Tekken and Dead Or Alive US live action movies got one thing right: both focused on the tournament and the fighting. And DOA also focused on the cheesecake, but then, so does the game. Can't hold that against them. I don't much care for either movie, but then I had some expectations of Tekken that were not met.

The best video game based movies are animated ones like "Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children" or "Dante's Inferno" which is based on the EA game. Those were straight to DVD though and not theatrical releases. A pretty good theatrical released video game movie was "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within".

Non-animated video game based movies with live actors usually turn out pretty bad for some reason.