News - Copyright trolls lose extortion case against alleged pirates

[crossy]

Tbh I see V for Vendetta as the 'spiritual' sequal to the matrix

Never thought of it that way - quite like VfV, found it thoughtful.

Oh, trust me it's easily done, look how many games to films have been distasters, Mortal Kombat, Streetfighter, Far Cry, Tomb Raider, Doom, the list goes on

Oh the shame of it, I'm going to have to admit buying the DVDs of MK and Streetfighter...

[iworrall]

Oh, trust me it's easily done, look how many games to films have been distasters, Mortal Kombat, Streetfighter, Far Cry, Tomb Raider, Doom, the list goes on

Also Suoer Mario Brothers, especially since Bob Hoskins (who played Mario) died yesterday.

[aidanjt]

Well thats disappointing! How do you screw up the cinema of a great videogame franchise?

Start by getting Uwe Boll to make it.

[aidanjt]

I ran across a theory that the sole purpose of Uwe Boll's filmic output was to provide a tax write-off for his investors...

You know... That would actually explain a lot.

[TooNice]

Oh the shame of it, I'm going to have to admit buying the DVDs of MK and Streetfighter...

I am going to shamelessly say that I did not find the first MK movie a "disaster", and definitely one of the better video game based movies. And looking at the 5.8 rating on imdb, I am not the only one who think it is not masterpiece but certainly watchable (obviously only for fans of the game, and keeping in mind it is special effect heavy movie without a huge budget, based on a gaming genre without much story to begin with, made almost 20 years old). On the other hand, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li was so bad, that it is horrible (as opposed to be so bad it's good).

[Ttaskmaster]

Oh, trust me it's easily done, look how many games to films have been distasters, Mortal Kombat, Streetfighter, Far Cry, Tomb Raider, Doom, the list goes on

Tomb Raider wasn't a disaster as far as some of the support actors are concerned - They got more work out of it. One of them even got to ditch his awful American accent and play at James Bond!

Prince of Persia was pretty good, IIRC...
Final Fantasy was AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING, if only for the eye candy!
Resident Evil 1 was great, but the franchise really needs to give it up now...!

Assassins Creed and Mass Effect, if/when they ever manage to happen, will likely tank and enrage millions of people.

[Jonj1611]

I think probably everyone has their own ideas on what makes a good film, for me Tomb Raider wasn't very good at all, and Daniel Craig was around long before that film lol.

Prince of Persia, even though a Disney film was ok actually, quite watch-able even though I didn't really see that much wall running lol
Final Fantasy, absolutely agree, Advent Children had amazing graphics.

I have all the Resident Evil films, I thought the films were ok BUT I haven't played the game so can't really make a good comparison there.

Some games to films do come out ok, I may have been over-critical about Mortal Kombat but I used to play it on the Megadrive and I never saw Raiden once fly across the room to attack so that was kinda disappointing

[Makzilla]

Oh, trust me it's easily done, look how many games to films have been distasters, Mortal Kombat, Streetfighter, Far Cry, Tomb Raider, Doom, the list goes on

Seriously, a Streetfigher movie? And I never saw the Tomb Raider movie.

[Jonj1611]

Yep, here you go, enjoy -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsTKoGcFS78

[Ttaskmaster]

for me Tomb Raider wasn't very good at all, and Daniel Craig was around long before that film lol.

I wasn't a big fan, either. Jolie is horrible.
Dan Craig was 'around' well before, yes... but was he THAT famous? How famous was he after Casino Royale? Which film/show did people most know him from when he walked out in that tuxedo?

Second film has Gerard Butler (who I *did* already know from his earlier works) and both have Chris Barrie, so the TR movies aren't completely bad...!

Seriously, a Streetfigher movie?

I'm not normally a Kylie Minogue fan... but her backside really is the star!!
Also, they cast Van Damme, so I didn't think they were taking it that seriously anyway!!

[Jonj1611]

I really don't know mate, I saw him in Tomb Raider and wondered where I had seen him before knowing I had seen him in another film so if it made him famous from that film, god knows.

Just a bit of trivia for those that watch Marvels Agents of Shield, Chun-Li from the Streetfighter film is Agent May

[stoatwblr]

Quite interesting, although the whole "lost crucial evidence in a crash" puts a different view on it.

I've done IT work for law firms. They all make lots of backups.

This is convenient speak for "We really don't want to produce this in court as it will make things 10 times worse for us"