The 12 Worst Video Game Movies Ever

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Adam Sandler's recently released Pixels is currently sitting at 19% on Rotten Tomatoes, and we are once again reminded of just how bad video game movies can be. Here is one editor's list of some of the worst video game movies ever. What's yours?

…Adam Sandler's version is looking like a dud, with a tired Ghostbusters-knock-off storyline and a retrograde depiction of gamer culture. But is it one of the worst ever? Only time will tell if it can match the legendary ineptitude of these big-screen video game bombs.
 
If the movie is based on a game....it's pretty much guaranteed to suck.

Video game movies, sequels to movies, re-made movies....Hollywood has really run out of ideas.
 
I didn't think Pixels was that bad, but then again I guess people are still living with nostalgia vision on thinking Billy Madison was some timeless work of art that all his other movies should compare to.
 
doom at number 8? what? that was THE worst one of the bunch!
 
Every Uwe Boll movie needs to be removed from history.

I'm surprised Dragonball wasn't on that list.
 
Resident Evil and Tomb Raider are among some of the better ones I've seen, but really those Half Life shorts are excellent.
 
These slides shows are a waste, all pictures and absolutely no substance. I liked the Wing Commander Movie as long as I took it for what it was. However, it did not follow along with the books or games as it should have.
 
I liked Street Fighter Legend of Chun Li, though Kristin Kreuk might have had something to do with it. :D
 
Wyodiver said:
Ya know, even with a wrastler with little talent, other than flexing muscles and arching an eyebrow, Doom didn't totally suck, of course that's just my opinion. Well, ok, the last few minutes were a great example of suckitude.
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When it went into first person, that saved the movie for me, even though they removed the Hell aspect and made it into a zombie movie.
 
I enjoyed the resident evil movies.. I must be a minority lol..

The game was mindless zombie killing.. and so was the movie.
 
Scythe said:
If the movie is based on a game....it's pretty much guaranteed to suck.

Video game movies, sequels to movies, re-made movies....Hollywood has really run out of ideas.
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Hopefully next year Warcraft will change that, I haven't watched any of the leaked stuff on it but from what I've heard it sounds promising.
 
But then I also cut my teeth on the original WC1,2 and (pew pew Hamill) 3 so I'm biased.
 
It's mind boggling that Uwe Boll found so many suckers to bankroll his movies. It has to be some convoluted tax write off scheme,or he has a bunch of embarrassing video tapes of movie company executives!
 
mmm, Personally I liked Mario Bros., Doom, and Postal (even if it was a little cheese)
 
Double Dragon is an excuse to look at Alyssa Milano :D, like Charmed. Postal was entertaining, so I'm glad it didn't make the list. Rampage is the best Uwe Boll movie I've seen, but it's not based on the fun Rampage arcade game.
 
If we expand the list to include gaming movies in general (not just video games) I would add the horrible TV movie from '82 "Mazes and Monsters" (it was built on the anti Dungeons and Dragons paranoia)
 
I liked Doom. It was good for what it was: A cheesy sci-fi horror action flick. As long as you didn't expect it to be anything more than that, it's alright.

Wing Commander... oh how I am still trying to forget it.
 
Pixels was doomed the minute they let Sandler get his hands on it. His infantile brand of humor lost it's appeal long ago,look at his long list of failures recently. Wreck It Ralph did a more entertaining job tapping into video game nostalgia. And speaking of Doom,whose brilliant idea was it to take one of the most popular action stars in the Rock and making him the heavy in the movie?
 
I think the Silent Hill movie, artistically, was probably the best video game movie so far. Ending was a little weird and unfitting but other than that they did it nearly perfectly.
 
If Resident Evil and Silent Hill didn't make that list, Doom shouldn't have.

House of the Dead is quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.
 
Flexion said:
Bestest video game movie ever to me was the original TRON.
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TRON wasn't based on a video game. It was the embodiment of everything that made 80's video games awesome: Bright colors, synthesized sounds, and trippy geometry. They just took the idea of a Roman gladiator pit and a freedom vs tyranny story and mashed it together into a movie that should not work, but worked astoundingly well.
 
w4ffles said:
Every Uwe Boll movie needs to be removed from history.
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+1

His movies are on a level of suckage all their own. They should be excluded from any "worst ever" lists with a footnote that they're the worst of the worst ever in the history of film making and will otherwise not be mentioned. To rank any of them above one another insinuates that they may have some cinematic value, some redeeming quality. And that just shouldn't be.
 
Parja said:
Yup, the video game was actually based on the movie.
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There's actually two games: TRON, and Discs of TRON. They wanted to incorporate the disc game into the first one, but it wasn't technically possible at the time, so it was released later as a separate game. Discs of TRON is not nearly as well known, but the ring platforms from it made its way into the "No Contact" arenas in the Rocket Arena 2 map #22 for Quake 2. Apparently Alpha_Male was a fan of the game.
 
deton8 said:
If Resident Evil and Silent Hill didn't make that list, Doom shouldn't have.

House of the Dead is quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.
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I actually paid money to see House of the Dead in the theaters.
I was like, WTF, when they started overlaying the game in the movie.
 
rewted said:
doom at number 8? what? that was THE worst one of the bunch!
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No it isn't. If you think it is you need to watch Wing Commander, Super Mario Bros. or Double Dragon. Shit I'd rank Street Fighter ahead of Doom in the worst movie category. The second Mortal Kombat was also an epic piece of shit and less watchable than Doom.
 
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