Right now it seems that we are in the golden age of adaptations of video game. Titles like The Last of Us, Fallout and League of Legends managed to break the curse to give us very good television series.
However, until a few years ago, Hollywood seemed to just grab the name of certain products without caring about their history or mythology. Thinking about all the nonsense and disrespect that we were given in those times we decided to create this top 5 with video game adaptations so bad that they left sweet baby Jesus crying
The worst video game adaptations
5 – Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Lino has nothing to do with video games
Street Fighter It already has two adaptations to the world of live-action, but nothing else works. Yet his worst offense against humanity is The Legend of Chun-Li. It's obvious that the people who made this movie didn't play any of the Capcom video games and only went for the name. Well, there is nothing that resembles what we saw in these titles.
To begin with, here Chun-Li is a pianist who goes in search of her father kidnapped by Bison. In the purest style of karate Kid She learns Kung Fu from an old man overnight and ends up becoming a fighting goddess.
You can tell that it is one of those films that I didn't trust that following the video game would be enough. It is taken very seriously for its own good and is very out of harmony with the original work. Where's my Bison in his red suit? Why isn't Balrog a boxer? Who thought of Vega being played by one of the Black Eyed Peas? Even the 1990s film with Jean Claude Van Damme remains a work worthy of screenings in the national cinema library if we compare it to this atrocity.
4 – Silent Hill Revelation 3D
The first Silent Hill movie was curiously attached to video games and even gained a cult following over the years. We can't say the same about its sequel Revelations 3D.
This film replaced the more psychological terror of video games and the first installment with a lot of gore and excess jumpscares. Surely to copy some of the success of the Saw series that was so popular back then. He also got on the 3D movie train to 'make us feel inside the story'. But of course his use of technology was only to make the viscera and traces of blood pop.
The video games of Silent Hill They do have violence and grotesque beings, but they were never characterized by their excess. Here they only took the name and wanted to pass it off as any other horror-gore franchise, but it failed them tremendously.
3 – Netflix's Resident Evil proves that these video games are cursed to not have a good adaptation
The video games of resident Evil They seem cursed not to have a good adaptation into a series or movies. But of all its adaptations, we think what Netflix did was a real kick in the butt for all fans.
Although they said it was an original story, they took elements from the games but changed them completely. The worst thing is that supposedly what happens in the series is canon with the world of video games.
They thought that by adding zombies and some of the most iconic creatures they were already covered, but that is not the case. Especially if you include a head-to-head story that also has dance numbers. dance number in Resident Evil, Now we have seen everything.
resident Evil on Netflix it was one of those series that neither fans nor people who didn't know anything about these survival horrors liked. It was so bad that they canceled it after just one season. Lucky us.
2 – Super Mario Bros. from 1993
We must admit that Mario video games are not exactly known for their story. In addition to the fact that in 1993, when his first film came out, there was much less mythology about the character. Even so, we can't explain why the directors of this adaptation decided to give us Mario and Luigi in a combination of Blade Runner and Mad Max.
There are too many things to criticize about this film. Goombas are giant fascist soldiers with tiny heads. The princess to rescue is Daisy and not Peach. Yoshi is a mini t-rex and Bowser is a corrupted human-like king. Where is my beaked turtle?
Although it was a pioneer in video game adaptation, we cannot deny that they went overboard and got excessively creative. Woe to the children of 1993 who wanted to see the mushroom kingdom and got this thing.
The film was so poorly received that Nintendo refused to return to film for more than two decades. Of course that changed with the new Mario movie which at least gave us the characters and settings that we love so much.
1 – House of the Dead
Like Mario, games House of the Dead They have a very basic story. After all, they are arcade shooters where you just had to reach the highest score. Still, it had something resembling a narrative, where some government agents must stop a deranged scientist from unleashing hordes of the undead against humanity.
The film changes the agents to rowdy teenagers who go to an island to participate in a rave. Suddenly everyone is attacked by zombies. The reason? The island is home to an immortal Spanish priest capable of creating zombies.
It's not enough for the story to be bad. The film is poorly directed and poorly acted. Not to mention that it has one of the most embarrassing confrontations with zombies in the history of cinema. All with a heavy metal soundtrack. Ah! But yes. During this shootout some images taken directly from the game are shown. Just so you don't forget that it's an adaptation.
Choosing just five disastrous adaptations was no easy task. For many years Hollywood seemed hell-bent on destroying video games instead of profiting from them. Fortunately, it seems that those times are behind us and we will no longer have adaptations as bad as these. Or if? What did you think of our top? What other video game adaptation do you think we were missing? Tell us in the comments!
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