• Top 10 Worst Movies Based on Video Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 326 Comments
  Last Updated:: March 3, 2009

  Movies are great, and so are video games. So it only makes sense that if you combine them together  the result will be greater, right? Well no, they usually suck and of all the video game movies it was difficult for us to narrow the list down to the absolute worst. All of these movies are terrible and the ones I actually saw in the theaters made me loathe the time and money spent with my feet glued to the sticky floor. I’ve always known that Hollywood doesn’t have enough intelligent people to write at least one original script, so they beg, borrow, and steal from everywhere possible. Unfortunately the brain trust over on the west coast often fails us and we get stuck footing the bill. This little list is OW’s revenge.  We hated these movies and hope you did as well.

  
  10. Tomb Raider

  The Tomb Raider game was so obviously written by horny video game nerds that it’s not funny and hardly subtle. At best it was an okay game, and mainly held its audience’s attention because the main character had big boobs. Enter Angelina Jolie. The movie was terrible.  What’s worse is that for the amount of money they spent on it you’d think it would be at least remotely good. The action scenes were boring and predictable, and what I can remember of the plot was terrible. The only redeeming part of the movie is Jolie’s boobs, which have entranced enough gamer nerds to give this movie a minor cult status. What nobody is willing to admit is that the games and the movies are just rip offs of Indiana Jones with a hot chick. I’ve always found it funny that nerds seem to be more blinded by a hot chick than your average dude, and that’s saying a lot. This movie sucks and more people need to admit it.

  9. Resident Evil

  Oh that T-virus always causing all sorts of trouble with the zombies and what not. Here is another movie that has blinded the audience to it’s terribleness because of the hot chick who shows her hoo-hoo briefly at the end. The only part I liked was when the laser protection system became a grid and cut that dude into little cubes. And I must admit as far as video game movies goes this one isn’t the worst, don’t get me wrong it’s bad, just not the worst. The movie does make a greater than normal effort to make reference to the video game, even if a lot of it is in the wrong order.

  8. Doom

  The Rock (I know he goes by Dwayne Johnson or something now, but he’ll always be the Rock to me) stars in this wreck, and to be honest, with the popularity of Doom in the early nineties I’m surprised it took until 2005 to be made. So were we rewarded for our long wait? Decidedly no. If we quickly run down the Doom checklist we can see how well things match. In Doom the monsters are demons and the the demons are from Hell. Nope.  In the movie they are just mutations from a virus of some sort that gives them an extra chromosome.  They are definitely not demons, and they certainly are not from Hell. Parts of Doom can be downright scary, the movie on the other hand was only scary bad. The only redeeming part of the movie was the FPS scene at the end of movie in an homage to the original game, but this seems to be the only thing the movie and game really have in common.

  7. Mortal Kombat

  Everyone remembers the first time you played Mortal Kombat. It did what no fighting game had done previous to it, it let you kill your opponent, often times in a rather gruesome fashion. We here at OW were a little excited about this movie coming out, and boy were we disappointed after seeing it. The plot is stupid, something about the Outland being able to invade Earth, which is known as Earthrealm for some reason, because Earth had lost the Mortal Kombat tournament 9 times in a row. You’d think with the popularity of ultimate fighting, wrestling, and boxing that this tournament would be slightly more popular, maybe even have a pay-per-view special. Most of the fight scenes were terrible and all of the CGI was awful. If anyone could tell me why Scorpion’s spear was a living thing I would love to hear it. Sub zero’s fight was just as stupid.  Since when does he have to focus for two minutes straight to freeze people? And the fact that he gets killed by an ice spear is even dumber, or is that ironic?. This movie was just one big disappointment after another.

  6. House of the Dead

  My God was this a terrible movie. Its based on the arcade game produced by Sega, and everyone knows how OW feels about all things Sega. In this case, however, we actually like the game. It was fun to play, had good graphics, and we liked the way how some of the zombies made these monkey-like sounds. In all honesty none of us could remember the plot of the game, only that the characters were agents of some sort.  What I’m sure of is that they weren’t teens trying to go to a rave on an island, which turns out to be the plot of the movie. To get to said rave they pay off some ship captain, named Kirk (get it, Captain Kirk?), who is also smuggling a cache of weapons. Well you can predict what happens next, turns out the rave was actually a zombie party, and the only place to hide is a house in the center of the island. A house of the dead, get it? It’s a house, but everyone in it is dead. Ughhhh, anyway just when you think it can’t get worse, well it does. Turns out all of the teens seem to have some sort of advanced weapons training, but they just stand still when their weapons are out of ammo. Other than the name it seems the movie and the game share very little in common.

  5. Street Fighter

  Generally speaking there is no such thing as a good Van Damme movie, there are only degrees of bad. This one has to be one of the worst. The plot of which, the game had none as far as I know, takes a special forces team into the jungle of a made up country in Africa called Shadaloo, which has a capitol ingeniously named Shadaloo City, to fight the drug lord turned general, M. Bison. To be honest I don’t remember much about this stupid movie. There were some fight scenes, some dialogue which loosely tied things together, and something about M. Bison getting charged with electromagnetic energy and being able to shoot lightening, thus giving a real world explanation to one of Bison’s powers. All of the characters back stories were changed to fit this ridiculous plot further making the movie worse.

  4. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

  With the popularity of Lord of the Rings it makes sense that the studios would be jumping at all things fantasy. The film has a cast of very recognizable actors who don’t, by any stretch of the imagination, fit in this genre. It suffers from terrible direction of Uwe Boll, who is also responsible for House of the Dead. Jason Statham does not look like a farmer, and should never be placed in this type of movie.  He belongs in modern world action flicks that made him popular. What made me laugh the most was Ray Liotta as a wizard and Burt Reynolds as the king.  Its almost as if the studio had a bunch of contracts running out and decided to just throw these guys in. Neither of them fit these roles and almost everything they say is hilarious because its so bad. This movie is only good to laugh at and doesn’t seem to have anything in common with the Dungeon Siege series other than a few names, Krugs, Ehb, and what have you. If you removed those references and made up anything else it wouldn’t have mattered and it wouldn’t have made the movie any better or any worse. That’s what’s so terrible about the movie, its so generically bad that nothing would fix it. The studio could have called it; Generic Fantast Movie, with the subtitle “Because LOTR is Popular and We Want To Jump on That Bandwagon While it’s Hot”. If you want to laugh and cringe at the terribleness (and you will do both, trust me), then by all means watch this movie.

  3. Wing commander

  I know what your thinking, how can you go wrong with Freddie Prince Jr.?  Unfortunately not even his incredible acting ability can help this movie. In this case I’m not sure what’s worse, the game or the movie, because they are both terrible. The game could have been called Generic Space Shooter and follows that plot perfectly. A confederated group of planets is fighting off an aggressive warrior race bent on taking over the universe. The only cool thing about the game is that there are two different paths the game takes, depending on how you perform as a pilot. Much like many movies on this list, it is very loosely based on the game which it is named after. You hardly ever see the cat like Kilrathi, and for some reason they lost all their hair and they also change the way the ships look, making the movie look even more generic. Needless to say the movie was a box office flop and failed to even break even (it actually lost close to $20 million) which convinces me there is something still right with the world.

  2. Double Dragon

  Wow this is bad, well not as bad as the Mario movie, but still that’s not saying much. I mean the Mario movie is so bad that it may actually be the worst movie ever. I wouldn’t be surprised if it makes to number one on this list, no peaking! For some reason Alyssa Milano was in this movie and she looks terrible, almost as if the movie didn’t have a budget. The story revolves around some medallion that makes you invincible and lets you enter other people’s souls and takes place in a post apocalyptic L.A. which apparently suffered an earthquake, leaving only weird eighties clothing for the denizens to wear. No one at OW can remember if that was the plot of the game, or if the game even had a plot. Plus our fact checking kittens are busy working on something else and I’m way to lazy to do anymore work than this. I do remember at the end that a theater blows up and that Scott Wolf plays Billy Lee, but I don’t remember why this was made into a movie. It seems like a bad idea in the first place.   The game was fun but got boring after the first few levels. This is another one of those movies that’s only good to laugh at and I’m not sure it was supposed to be a comedy.

  1. Mario Brothers

  There are so many things wrong about this movie that I really don’t know where to start. Why was it futuristic? Why is it so dark? Why were they all people? What’s with the fungus? Where are the koopa troopas? Why are the goombas big monsters? Why aren’t there any turtles? Since when was Mario’s last name Mario? Why are all the cars attached to an electric grid? Who authorized this terrible piece of crap? Who ever said Koopa descended from a T-Rex? Why would dinosaurs evolve into Humans? How could you possibly ride Yoshi when he was that small? How is there a whole society of people living under NYC? Why does Koopa need the necklace to leave said city? Why is Toad a dirty hippie with a bad hair cut? Since when is the Princess an paleontologist?

  Well, I guess the Bob-ombs are sort of accurate. I’m not sure about the King being a mushroom though. I’ve heard some people say the reason everything is so bad is because they didn’t have CGI back then and needed to think of alternatives, but this is just terrible. And that’s just considering the story line and the setting.  When you factor in the acting, this train wreck takes on whole new proportions. While Bob Hoskins is generally a good actor, not even his abilities could help save this movie. Though I agree John Leguizamo sort of looks likes Luigi, I don’t think many people would agree he knocked anything out of the park on this one. The only other person of note in this movie is Dennis Hopper, and not even his cult icon status does anything to help fix all the things wrong with this movie. Now we here at OW love Mario but we refuse to endorse this movie.

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326 Comments

1. #1 David Macphail says:
   March 18th, 2010 at 11:12 pm

   Sweedish tool – everytime you post under that name you make an even bigger idiot out of yourself. Kind of like a snowball rolling down a hill. Right now you are at the bottom and you are one HUGE idiot.

   You CANNOT claim to be proud of your Sweedish heritage yet be ashamed of your own family’s name at the same time, that is being hypocritical! Either admit your mother and father were raped by Hitler and you are indeed the spawn of the Devil or just stop posting, you’re embarassing yourself.

   It looks like you are the only one here who is ashamed of your real name….i wonder why that is, is it because you have a last name that suggests you could be the cause of World War 3?

   Come on….there must be worst surnames than “Hitler” going around…….what about “Anus”? That would be a pretty bad last name………”Prostate”? “Papapeepeepoopooshire”? Hitler would be an awesome last name compared to those!

   Stop torturing yourself, if your were HONESTLY proud of your Sweedish heritage you would show the whole world, i’ll bet you’re not even from Sweeden, you’re probably one of those illegal immigrants working in the UK who carries my luggage up to my hotel room, LOL!

   Maybe the Sweedish people are shamed of YOU and have therefore banned you from letting anyone know your name incase it puts a black cloud over their “Country”?

   Like i said……you’re making yourself out to be a moron. If you’re ashamed of being sweedish come out and say so, if not then use your real name instead of hiding behind multiple ones like some kind of internet troll.
2. #2 David Macphail says:
   March 18th, 2010 at 11:14 pm

   Man…..we could really do with a new list to change the subject.
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5. #5 Alex says:
   March 18th, 2010 at 2:09 pm

   You guys should disable the comments in your articles. It always end up talking about WWII instead of Mario’s family name issue.
6. #6 Fitzgerald says:
   March 18th, 2010 at 9:13 pm

   You could do this list only with Uwe Boll
7. #7 Gandolf says:
   March 18th, 2010 at 3:49 pm

   Add “DRAGON BALL” as the first!!!!
8. #8 Sol (Frederick) Badguy says:
   March 18th, 2010 at 9:17 am

   Replace “Mortal Kombat” with Annihilation & “Street Fighter” with another “Resident Evil” movie so long as it isn’t Degeneration. I like these I told you to replace in this list
9. #9 "The Claw" says:
   March 18th, 2010 at 7:29 pm

   I read a lot of the comments, and I’m surprised no one I read called you on this. While I won’t try to make the argument that Mortal Kombat was good or bad (that’s subjective), the plot actually followed that of the video game really well. Maybe it is a little ridiculous, but when its predecessors were Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon, and Street Fighter, I’d say it was actually pretty faithful to its source.
10. #10 "The Claw" says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    I read a lot of the comments, and I’m surprised no one I read called you on this. While I won’t try to make the argument that Mortal Kombat was good or bad (that’s subjective), the plot actually followed that of the video game really well. Maybe it is a little ridiculous, but when its predecessors were Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon, and Street Fighter, I’d say it was actually pretty faithful to its source. That, and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was MUCH worse than the first!
11. #11 Bleson says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    What? Tomb Raider? You serious? One of the WORST movies? Come on, it’s such an epic classic, I can’t imagine you literally yawning during its time of fame.
12. #12 Steve says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    David McPhail is pretty stupid. And he continues to be owned by a “Sweedish” person.

    If there schools are second rate, your school must suck ass. You can’t even spell Swedish correctly.

    The mother disses prove that you are about 13 or so years old.

    >> This is a retarded debate. Why did i give my opinion lol
13. #13 avi says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 11:48 am

    the guy who makes fun of ppl’s spelling on other posts misspelled swedish more than 1ce.
14. #14 Steve says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 9:55 pm

    “the guy who makes fun of ppl’s spelling on other posts misspelled swedish more than 1ce.”

    No I didn’t retard. Lol, if that were the case on the other hand, then you also spelled it wrong.
15. #15 avi says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 10:29 pm

    I wasn’t talking about you, Steve. I was talking about MacPhail, hence the ”on other posts” part.
16. #16 Kurono says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 11:05 pm

    Jesuschrist, no matter who bad influence was the shitty movie of Mario Bross, The House of the Dead actually is one of the WORST movies in all the World, then, it be the WORST movie based on Video Game make ever. All Uwe Boll’s movies (I cant’t even write his fucking name whihout make me sick) are really a bullshit, but this particular one is the most horrible.

    Replace MK I whith MK II: Annihilation, SF (starring Van Damme) whit the SF: Chun-Li (Chun-Li is chinnesse, and the main character don’t even have the tipical oriental eyes!), and Resident Evil whit Alone in the Dark (YESSSSS!!!!, DIRECTED BY BOLL)
17. #17 Delta says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 12:06 am

    I remember someone saying Uwe Boll in general is a terrible director, but his video game licensed movies are the worst of the lot. Someone even said that all aspiring directors MUST watch Uwe Boll’s movies, as a lesson in how NOT to make a movie.

    For God’s sake, he made Tara Reid a scientist in HOUSE OF THE DEAD, and a dead victim in ALONE IN THE DARK got up. And no, she wasn’t raised from the dead or a zombie or whatever you wanna call it, she just got up before she was supposed to, and they didn’t even bother to edit it out.
18. #18 Captain Raccoon says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 11:08 pm

    “Why is Toad a dirty hippie with a bad hair cut:

    LMFAO!
19. #19 Lowell says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 8:06 am

    Fuck that SMB brings back haunting memories. I wish I could go back and stop myself from seeing that one.
20. #20 CaptainAustralia says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 5:16 am

    Man, you guys suck… you forgot not only one of the worst video game movies ever, but you left out quite possibly the worst REGULAR movie ever…

    …Alone in the Dark, much?
21. #21 Furyof5 says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 1:06 am

    Resident evil was a good movie, while it wasnt really true to the game, it was a great horror movie. There was an underground facility full of ravenous zombies. The characters were unable to escape. The computer system was trying to kill them. It really gives the viewer the sense of being trapped, of futility, and inescapability, which is one of thet biggest points of horror movies.

    So this movie shouldnt be on here. Now Final Fantasy, that would make a good replacement.