They also made the Tomb Raider movies, remember? Oh god, that was terrible. I think the second one was slightly worse than the first one, but it's hard to tell when you're at that level of quality.
There is also the Wing Commander movie, which is probably one of the worst movie adaptions of a game, ever. It just stinks so badly. It's cast does include Jurgen Prochnow, who is a great actor IMO. It's sad to see actors like him humiliated by having to take crappy roles like that.
And on the subject of Jurgen Prochnow, he was also in House of the Dead, which, now that I think about it, is probably worse that WC. For some reason the director thought it would be cool if small clips from the arcade game was scattered throughout the movie with five minute intervals. And it wasn't even the newest game in the series, as fa as I could tell. It was the oldest one. Damn, that movie stinks!
What about Street Fighter? That one stunk as well. Or Mortal Kombat? Stunk even worse.
Anyway, games I'd like to see as movies? I can't think of any, actually. But I did hear that there are plans to make a Hitman movie. That might sound as an all right idea, except it's going to star Vin Diesel, and I can't stand Vin Diesel.
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