I quite enjoyed Doom. Silent Hill was rather good too. I must say, I actually liked Dungeon Siege. I think he's getting better and better. Though for a while that was a bad thing, since his movies went from so bad it's good to just bad.

Agree on SF - there was a decent anime movie of it though.
Super Mario didn't work for me either nor DOA.
MK movie was ok but I liked the look of the 'not-trailer' posted on YouTube a while back (someone made a pitch for a new MK movie - looked great, no idea if it was taken up though)
Doom was ok - it was a shoot-em-up movie, not much else.
Enjoyed the Silent Hill movie too.

I would disagree with this. The Myst franchise is boasting over 12 million copies sold. (6 million of that number being the original Myst game). The original Doom sold an estimated number that is argued over but seems to settle in around 1.5 - 3 million. Seems like the conversation would lean more towards people not hearing of Doom than of Myst. But that is only one side. The other is this... who ever heard of Forest Gump before the movie came out? What was a Terminator before the movie? A good movie is 100% about story. You sit in the seat and stare at the screen. It has to have a good story or you will stop staring and stop buying. Just because "SOME" people haven't heard of Myst doesn't mean it can't be advertised and attended by the same people that never heard of Star Wars until they saw the previews. The only difference is at least 6 million people actually HAVE heard of it and will likely go if the previews look halfway decent.

But I'm not just talking brand or marketing. Lots of people misread my post. While I disagree with some about what a quality movie is... :p ... I was much wore discussing why this genre is skipped when its already by default primed for the big screen? To get Mortal Kombat to the screen, lots of liberty had to be taken to add a story that the game didn't deliver. Same for Doom since those games don't inherently have story. To get Myst to the screen... there are books and books and games worth of information that tell amazing and unique stories that both gamers and non would enjoy. Just seems backwards to me that we put up one versus one fighting games at the box office but not epic stories that rival some of the finer cinematic presentations to date.

One final aside... I think it would be worthwhile to simply retell some of the finer adventure games... but with so much plot and back-story a movie could greatly add to the adventure we have experienced instead of just re-pasting it on the screen.

Very happy to see the Myst link posted earlier... hopefully that will receive the justice it deserves. Done right, that could open up a trilogy or even a 6 movie saga that brings alot of entertainment and makes a serious amount of cash ;)

It should have either been a cartoon or used muppets. Kids would have loved that. Instead we got a depressing grimdark Mario Bros.

I can't help but wonder exactly which computer games they were making movies based on 100 years ago ;-p
Information, damnit! You can't just come out with something like that without posting a link :-D

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464220/

And from Hitman's wikipedia article:
"IESB has confirmed that 20th Century Fox has hired writer Kyle Ward to pen the script for the sequel to Hitman.[22] Adrian Askarieh, Daniel Alter and Chuck Gordon will return as producers. American actor David Hess will have an as-yet-unnamed role and Timothy Olyphant will return as 47. Daniel Benmayor has signed to direct the sequel.[23] Daniel Casey will completely rewrite the film, or base it upon the previous script by Kyle Ward."

I wasn't saying that I feel they would make bad movies or anyting. I agree that those games would make great movies. The best movies even. I just don't think its likly. Hollywood has only been interested in making movies out of games with brand recognition . The only one of those games listed with that is Myst. At one time Myst was a powerhouse. Its not anymore though. Myst faded away a while back. Its time for a movie adaptation is past. Again, im not saying I like it that way or anything. I would LOVE a Myst movie. Its a very versatile franchise. Im just looking at how things are, and making the assumption that they wont be changing anytime soon.

Maybe I did misunderstand you intentions of the post. I was attempting to directly answer the question at the end of your post. I don't believe any of these games will be made into movies because they are not popular and/or current enough.

No, no, I think you were one of the few who understood. You did answer the question. I was just debating with you a bit. I guess the problem is that movie studios bring some games in (no offense, but like Doom and Mortal Kombat) for fast cash. The name sells it and they don't have to throw anything significant at it. While some gamers may enjoy them, they mean nothing to the rest of the world.

Seems like not being able to see the forest through the tress IMHO to take that approach when there are subjects at hand that could BOTH sell on name AND sell on plot and new IP.

What makes me sad is some game's movies have tried to break the mold... like Silent Hill and Max Payne and they weren't well received. I'm afraid the industry is getting the wrong messages from the sales of those movies. I thought both of those were pretty good, actually, but they just didn't sell. Part of me thinks its because they are billed as Moive-Games and non-gamers try to avoid those.

So, I guess I wasn't arguing with your answer, but more the logic for the answer... I'm arguing with the studios if that makes sense ;)

Metal Slug The Movie. Finally, a great game movie.

godfather was good