Games and Films - A Happy Union? (17 titles)
Movies based on games are notoriously for all the wrong reasons - and the same is true the other way round. Here's a list of cash-ins that have hurt, helped and hindered the relationship.
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Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children
A surprisingly accurate follow up to the seventh FF game - pity it only made any real sense to the few people who finished the game.
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Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children
on DVD
Starring: Ayumi Ito, Takahiro Sakurai, Maaya Sakamoto
Director: Yoshinori Kitase, Tetsuya Nomura
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is the much anticipated sequel to Square's top selling game Final Fantasy VII: a full blown CGI movie! After Cloud saved the world from Sephiroth, the citizens of the planet begin suffering from a strange sickness called Geo-Stigma. Meanwhile, Cloud has secluded ..read more »
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from 6,713 members
Lara Croft - Tomb Raider
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Lara Croft - Tomb Raider
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen
Director: Simon West
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LARA CROFT - TOMB RAIDER stars Angelina Jolie as Croft, a tough, sexy, heavily armed adventurer. Fans of the cult video game on which the film is based will undoubtedly already be familiar with the plot, which sees Croft blasting her way past various monsters, villains, and pitfalls as she ..read more »
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from 18,475 members
Scarface
A great film and a pretty good game too - this is how you do a cash-in!
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Scarface
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Loggia, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Brian De Palma
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A tense and violent update of the 1932 Howard Hughes gangster classic with the setting changed from Chicago to Miami. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and ..read more »
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from 32,933 members
Super Mario Bros. - The Movie
Controversially, I like this film. Yes, you read that right - Bob Hoskins is perfect as Mario, and its hilarious to see Dennis Hopper saying to himself "What am I doing in this?"
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Super Mario Bros. - The Movie
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Dennis Hopper, John Leguizamo
Director: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
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Buckle up and hang on tight-the discovery of a parallel universe launches you into the adventure of a lifetime! Mario and Luigi, two wacky plumbers, undertake a daring quest to save a princess in "Dinohattan"-a hidden world where the inhabitants evolved from dinosaurs! Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi ..read more »
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from 1,518 member
Star Wars Trilogy
The eponymous series has resulted in more games than you've had hot dinners. Some are good, some are bad, and some are just plain ugly.
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Star Wars Trilogy
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Director: George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand
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The complete original STAR WARS trilogy in one set, in their 1997 remastered Special Edition versions, with an extra disc containing a documentary and other amazing extras. STAR WARS - A NEW HOPE, George Lucas's stunning sci-fi masterpiece, is arguably one of the most inventive and entertaining ..read more »
80%
from 73,178 members
Silent Hill
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Silent Hill
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden
Director: Christophe Gans
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Radha Mitchell (PITCH BLACK) stars as Rose Da Silva, a young mother whose adopted daughter Sharon speaks of the eponymous West Virginia mining town as she sleepwalks. Rose decides to take Sharon there in an attempt to discover why it haunts her dreams--but Silent Hill has been a ghost town since a ..read more »
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from 30,155 members
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Movie
Produced a number of games, starting with the classsic on the NES. Prepare for a flurry of cash-in games with the newest remake.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Movie
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, James Saito
Director: Steve Barron
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A live-action version of the popular animated TV series for kids. Due to radiation exposure, the four artist-named teenagers Michelanglo, Raphael, Donatello and Leonardo, have mutated into turtles; now, they live in the New York City sewers, where they eat pizza, talk jive, and learn the tricks of ..read more »
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from 2,782 members
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within
Much maligned movie of the FF series - actually not as bad as they say, though the characters still look a bit plastic... and sound a bit plastic too!
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Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Ming-Na Wen
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
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Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi (who also created the best-selling series of video games that inspired the film), the groundbreaking FINAL FANTASY, which stars a startlingly lifelike cast of animated characters, is the first photo-realistic computer-generated feature film ever made. In the year 2065,..read more »
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from 5,158 members
Zone Of The Enders: Delores - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-5
Watch the series before watching the film and play the game before doing either!
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Zone Of The Enders: Delores - Vol. 1 - E...
on DVD
(2002)
Director: Zone of the Enders: Dolores
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Based on the popular PlayStation 2 video game, ZONE OF THE ENDERS: DOLORES finds the planets on the verge of an all-out war. Space trucker James Links is just about the only person to whom this does not as he is primarily concerned with his estranged wife and the chances of reviving their moribund ..read more »
61%
from 397 members
Grand Theft Auto
Okay, the film has nothing to do with the game (other than including cars and guns) but I had to get this in here somehow!
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Grand Theft Auto
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Nancy Morgan, Ron Howard, Hoke Howell
Director: Ron Howard
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Ron Howard made his directorial debut and wrote the script for this car-chase collage.A rich heiress elopes to Las Vegas with her boyfriend in a stolen Rolls-Royce, prompting her father to offer a reward for her return. The promise of the reward motivates a cross-country chase and spectacular ..read more »
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