You're Top-10 Movies/Shows based on Games

[Clint_L]

For shows, The Last of Us is fantastic!

My favourite board game movie is Clue.

I thought DnDHaT was good fun and captured the spirit of the game well.

 

[Aeson]

It took me awhile to figure out what DADHAT is. I tried to figure out why I hadn't heard of a game or movie with such a terrible name.

There was a straight to video D&D movie I enjoy.
DADHAT
DAD: Wrath of The Dragon God
Wing Commander
Original Mortal Kombat and remake
The Last of Us
Fallout
Borderlands
Resident Evil
Final Fantasy The Spirit Within

 

[GreyLord]

The first Mortal Kombat (1995) movie was surprisingly entertaining. Eh, but I can't look you in the eye and say it's good. I'm looking at a list of movie adaptations on Wikipedia and nothing looks good. Keeping in mind I haven't seen Detective Pikachu or the new Mario movie.

I forgot about Detective Pikachu. That actually was a pretty good movie. I wasn't all that interested in it and very skeptical, watched it because a grandchild wanted to watch it, and was pleasantly surprised. I have no idea on how it is related to or even consistent with the source material. I don't know anything about the base material the movie is based on.

The movie itself was a decently good movie.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Hmm, in no particular order:

• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• D&D (original cartoon)
• D&D (Honor Among Thieves)
• Silent Hill
• The Last of Us
• Fallout
• The Gamers series
• Record of Lodoss War

Oh, if we're including sports?

Rocky. Top of the list. DADHAT doesn't come even close.

Rocky is a great movie. Everyone remembers Gonna Fly Now playing as Rocky triumphantly runs up the steps, but they don't remember him failing to do so earlier, or that he doesn't actually win the big match. It's a grittier movie than most people remember.

 

[Tonguez]

Hmm, in no particular order:

• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Oh, I hadnt heard of that one - where can I find it?

 

[Morrus]

Rocky is a great movie. Everyone remembers Gonna Fly Now playing as Rocky triumphantly runs up the steps, but they don't remember him failing to do so earlier, or that he doesn't actually win the big match. It's a grittier movie than most people remember.

I’m sure most people remember just fine.

 

[Clint_L]

Hmm, in no particular order:

• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• D&D (original cartoon)
• D&D (Honor Among Thieves)
• Silent Hill
• The Last of Us
• Fallout
• The Gamers series
• Record of Lodoss War

Rocky is a great movie. Everyone remembers Gonna Fly Now playing as Rocky triumphantly runs up the steps, but they don't remember him failing to do so earlier, or that he doesn't actually win the big match. It's a grittier movie than most people remember.

It's one of my favourite films of the 70s, which is saying something, and the grit is what makes it great!

A lot of people probably do tend to focus more on 80s Rocky. Which is a whole different tone.

Edit: Getting back to the OP, I'm not sure that sports movies have much in common. Films and shows about games are by necessity an interpretation, whereas sports films can use direct depictions.

I wanted to add the best video game film I've seen in recent years, the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin. It's a Norwegian film from last year that tells the story of a young man, slowly dying from muscular dystrophy, who increasingly lived his life through World of Warcraft. It is beautiful, inspiring, and raises some profound questions about the nature and value of virtual life.

I can't recommend it highly enough. But...keep some kleenex handy. Something kept happening to my eyes while I was watching it.

 

[Willie the Duck]

I’m sure most people remember just fine.

But how are we going to feel special if others know this thing we know (...which is the entire point of the thing in question...pertaining to one of the largest and most mainstream movie properties of all time)? This is kind of like the 'what's your favorite nerd property no one else remembers' threads we get occasionally where everyone lists the same 1-3 dozen things but treat them as divisive/rebellious hot takes.

But in all seriousness, I think there's a plausible argument that at least the series itself loses sight of the original theme. Later installments definitely lean pretty heavily instead into the theme that Rocky will take a licking, but then underdog his way into a full victory. The same happened with Stallone's other huge series, Rambo, in that the later movies in the series tend to ignore the personal-struggle aspect of First Blood and the surrender-to-make-a-point plot in favor of turning Rambo into an invincible action character. The audience remembers, but the series maybe doesn't.

Anyways, to the thread topic --
Among actually good movies or shows, I think there are:

• Clue
• D&D:HAT
• The Last of Us
• and Jumanji, which I think maybe shouldn't actually count. When the movie was released (or the 1981 book before it), there wasn't an actual game upon which it was based. The plot centered around a game, but the game was entirely fictional. If we include this, I'd think we'd have to include things like War Games and The Last Starfighter.

 

[Morrus]

But in all seriousness, I think there's a plausible argument that at least the series itself loses sight of the original theme. Later installments definitely lean pretty heavily instead into the theme that Rocky will take a licking, but then underdog his way into a full victory.

Well, they condense it. Rocky I-II together is that. Then each of the subsequent movies is individually. Well, except for V and Balboa.