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

[MarkB]

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

Netflix.

 

[Deset Gled]

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.

By my understanding, Jumanji counts because the movie exists within the game. The plot with Alan living in the jungle then coming out, the kids entire existence, etc, is all just a story happening inside a game of Jumanji. War Games and The Last Starfighter are movies where the game exists inside the movie, but it's still just a game. Therefore, they do not count for the purpose of this thread.

 

[Autumnal]

8. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. I will defend this as a classic and a milestone in animation and technology.

I rise to support. Saw it again just recently and felt that it had aged well, and remained utterly gorgeous. So much…gratuitous beauty, I guess, like the special forces plummeting in their ballistic gel cushions. Could have been much less beautiful and nothing would have changed in substances, but the movie seizes so many chances to be beautiful just because it can.

 

[Parmandur]

Yikes. Has there ever been a good one? Not that I can recall.

Minecraft, Mario, and the Sonic movies have proven decent.

 

[nyvinter]

Need to think about the list as a whole but good adaptations that hasn't been mentioned yet: Werewolves Within, based on the VR version of werewolf it has no right being as good as it is.

Also liked the first Resident Evil and Rampage. Really wish we had gotten more Dragon Age animated movies/tv shows too — but if they don't want to make more games perhaps that opens up that venue without creative clashes.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Oh! The Dragon Age series. I liked that too.

 

[Gradine]

Oh man I forgot the Resident Evil movies; those were varying degrees of campy fun

 

[MGibster]

• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

I was only thinking of videogames when I read through the OP for some reason. Edgerunners did more with cyberpsychosis than R. Talsorian Games ever did.

 

[MarkB]

By my understanding, Jumanji counts because the movie exists within the game. The plot with Alan living in the jungle then coming out, the kids entire existence, etc, is all just a story happening inside a game of Jumanji. War Games and The Last Starfighter are movies where the game exists inside the movie, but it's still just a game. Therefore, they do not count for the purpose of this thread.

On the other hand, if the game in question was invented for the movie or show and doesn't exist outside of it, can it really be said to be based on a game? You wouldn't say a movie was based on a novel if that novel only existed within the fiction of the movie.