I'd say probably Resident Evil. It was the game that had the best film potential and they managed to get it so wrong.
And the sequel was potentially The Worst Film I've Ever Seen.
But the thing that really gets me is that George Romero's denied script that had the creepy mansion and the Wesker betrayal and the Tyrant and all the things from RE that we actually liked...Was actually good. Not great. But that could've been a GOOD film.
Mark my words. There can be no GOOD movie adaptation of a game. It's impossible. It shouldn't be, but it's like an unwritten law of the universe.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the Game Boy Advance. It was tedious, confusing, punishingly difficult and just plain not fun. This not only turned me off from movie games, but since it was one of the few games I owned, it temporarily turned me off gaming.
The Incredibles for the PC. I'd rather have spent that thirty bucks on a cheap air ticket that went to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where I'd jump out, dive down in the ocean, and live with the squids there, where I would be accepted as one of them. Then I would lead my new squid army to Disney World, where we'd raid all of their toy Lightsabers, then destroy all Disney studios in the world. If I'd done that, we wouldn't have a damn movie and game about hamster spies.
Lilo & Stitch. I bought that at a very young age, and didn't buy another one for about 5 years. For all the adults at this site, DONT LET YOUR CHILDREN BUY TERRIBLE GAMES!!!
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Hands down Super Mario it was the first video game movie I saw and it was shit. What you had was The sopranos ran by bowser Mario screwing his ex. And Luigi saving a dinosaur he's sleeping with. Mario is crazy, but they made it to crazy where it wasn't Mario it was sopranos: Red Crack. God at the end of that movie the most unnatural thing happened me and my friends started vomiting all over the floor as soon the credits roll and my dog was draging his ass all over the carpet.
I don't know what posessed the director to make that posionis shit. But right now I have it so in case someone tries to break in my house all I have to do is flash open the case and their face melts off. Still not worth my three dollars.
All I just hope if that if the entertainment industry decides to give another shot at Mario that they use Micheal Bay and the whole team from transformers to do some crazy Mario shit where buildings are exploding, Bowser is rapeing godzilla. And when Mario jumps everyone with-in a ten mile radius gets squished under a huge shock wave. And they do everything else right including killing of Luigi in the first minute by having a huge boulder. And for please Micheal Bay no Shyla Lebuff! Or however the hell you spell it. We all know how much you want to screw him, but come-on he isn't bad-assed enough to do Mario and his mustache is more of a puss-stache.
Woo now since that's out-of my system I fell young and have a craving for cakes. thank you GR for letting me get that of my chest!
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Crap mixed up the question well to awenser your question with out burning down my neighborhood out of anger. I'd say spider man. Spider man can go suck my balls. I wasted $7 dollars because of the panzy.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. It was a meh of a hack-n-slash game with PS1 quality graphics and recycled film footage. At the time, I loved it because I was still obsessed with everything Lord of the Rings aka The-Greatest-Movie/Book-Series-Ever-Made. When I played it again after my obsession died down a little, I wondered how I ever liked it in the first place. This kind of crap always happens to me: I get ultra obsessive of one particular thing and then everything based off of it, no matter how terrible, I end up liking because I was blinded by my love of the source material. The Simpsons Road Rage, South Park the Game, Enter The Matrix, Harry Potter games, LotR games, X-Men games, Futurama the Game, Family Guy the Game, etc. I'm starting to notice a pattern...
the Toy Story game for N64, I never knew how to save so I would have to do the first level over and over again, I was like 7 at the time so all I remember is Buzz Lightyear, possibly some jumping, but it was boring so we took it back
I've had the common sense to stray far away from movie games, but lately I can't even stand the sight of them because lately the movie industry has started planning on making too-crap-to-be-true movies based off of videogames (Shadow of the Colossus). These movies serve only to destroy the reputation of gaming in public eyes and diminish the entire game the movie was based on itself. Movies already tainted gaming with their movie based games, but now they take it to an all new low by basing movies off of games. How can you live with yourself and sleep at night, movie industry? HOW?!
I try my best to stay away from movie-games. And I did considerably well for a long time. Until my friend gave me a PC game--CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and it's sequel, Dark Motives. Yeah, they're not movie-based, but they're crap just the same. Glitchy, terrible voice-acting and fugly visuals--you required a patch to even run the game, and even then it crashed. And then if you didn't click on this tiny, three pixel by three-pixel space, your icon wouldn't change to a magnifying glass, and you couldn't proceed. You'd go back to the police station and the suspect would just look back at you with their tilted head, like "Durrr?" I remember telling saying, "CSI? That sounds awesome!" And then I remember playing the game, and saying, "CSI...This fucking sucks."
Well the first movie game I played was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the GBA which was awesome. Then Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the GBA which was ok. Then I played the Spongebob Movie game. Oh god how I regret wasting those 5 minutes of my life "playing" that glitchy, clunky mess.
I don't remember what specific game it was, but as I grew older my standerds grew as well. Last year however, for one reason or another I played wall-e. That is when I realized that not only was this not fun, it was just abysmally bad. I mean I fell through the platform like 7 times I can't be this bad. Never again.
actually i have three hateful movie-based games which embossed me for my entire gaming life, all really annoying,laughable and expensive (jup, games where more costly in the old ages): while on vacation in florida, i bought (or my parents, to be precise) Timecop for my SNES, which was amazingly stupid and a waste of money. I remember fighting squids or something...
The second and better example of wasting cash was Waterworld for my Virtual Boy (yes, i am one of the 94.000 Buyers of this precious black'n'red gem) - my god, why was this even sold?
Third one is PS1's Star Wars: Master of Teräs Käsi, no need to mention why its so horrible, just look at the title (note: Title is even more hilarious when speaking german, because "Käsi" can be translated as a belittlement of the word "Cheese")
Honorable Mention: Terminator 2 - Judgement Day on the Gameboy (it was pretty good, but so hard i almost cried back then after failing while reprogramming the T-800)
Hands down...Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the NES. The build-up punch feature where he hobbles for a minute with his fist in the air while you wait for the punch bar to get to full...The corny jokes you're forced to answer when caught on the road by the bad guy toons...
The only redeeming feature was when you did manage to build up your punch, you can knock Roger Rabbit off the screen.
Some random Star Wars game for the PC. I remember it mostly because it had a huge peripheral that was strapped to the keyboard, which resembled the interior of the Millennium Falcon. Basically it played back random scenes from the original trilogy, to which you had to push down on a plastic likeness of Chewbacca(who is sitting in the gunner seat of the Falcon) to shoot random creatures from these scenes including the trash compacter monster... thing. There is no aiming, just bash Chewy as fast as possible to kill... whatever, with laser blasts (most of the battles were outside of the Falcon, strangely).
There might have been more to it, but I had it when I was 5 or so(it was a game meant for kids), and I played it for maybe ten minutes before stopping, and eventually, it (the keyboard peripheral) ended up in the trash can.
Since then, I have avoided buying movie games, the exception being Spiderman 2, which was, in fact, good. Spiderman 3 not so much.