It seems every time a video game is adapted into another medium, particularly a motion picture, the people in charge find a way to royally screw it up so bad that some results are just out right laughable. Why is that? The most notable examples of a bad movie adaptation of a game have got to be Street Fighter, Super Mario Brothers and the second Mortal Kombat movie. But there are some other rotten apples out there as well like the Resident Evil movie franchise (just die already), the Fatal Fury live action movie (yes, they made one) Tekken (yes, they made that one too) and now there are talks of a Need for Speed and Gran Turismo movie. Seriously, what the hell? The one that is still considered (last time I checked) to be the best out of all of these is the first Mortal Kombat movie and while that was a fun movie, I gotta be honest, it could have been a lot better. They made it PG-13, played a lot of it for laughs, made Goro into a laughing stock and made Sub-Zero and Scorpions slaves of Shang Tsung. And while I'm not going to pretend like Liu Kang's story was all that exciting in the games, giving him a brother and changing it to the typical revenge trope was just meh.
I can't think of many examples on the TV side of things but am leaving it open for discussion. While Mortal Kombat Conquest had its fair share of problems I thought some of the things they did were done well. They redeemed the Rain character in my eyes after the way he was treated in the second movie and Shao Kahn, oh my God their Shao Kahn is probably the greatest portrayal of him in live action they made him into a bawse and I love how Raiden and Shao Kahn are played by the same actor! That whole confrontation between the two at the end of the series was what the second movie should have been like.
Discuss.