Well Said

I mean, what games have been made into films now?
Street Fighter - Great game, cr@p film
Mario - Great game, cr@p film
Alien Vs Predator - Great game, cr@p film
Tomb raider(2 movies) - average games, average film
Final Fantasy (2 movies) - poor games, average films
Resident Evil (2 movies) - great games, great films
and now..Doom....(out in the uk soon, already showing in the states)
Probably more but those are the main ones.
What gets me is that they don't ever make the movies of the games. If they did that, it could be good. For example, Tomb Raider - other than casting someone as Lara Croft what relavence was there to the game? Virtually nothing story wise. Mario, same; AvP...well that was totally ruined. Street fighter? pfft
Now if for example with teh new Doom movie, it was actaully doom, ie your a loan marine fighting his way through hell on phobos or something it could be a cool movie, maybe add a bit of character interaction throughougt (maybe add a commander over the radio, and some innocents that you meet on your way through). It wouldnt be amazing viewing but better than totally changing the movies story to the point where it's only got a tenious link to the game.
The exception here is Resident Evil - I loved those films and there were a load of links back to the games throughout. Ofc casting milla as the lead role helped it a bit
