Dead or Alive, Blood Rayne 1 and 2, Mortal Kombat 2 and 3, Street Fighter, theres a long list of horrible movies based on games. I'm surprised some of them actually got made especially the later MK movies I have seen.

Theres a select few game movies what get my thumbs up, usually I'm left disappointed by movies based on games mostly because like a great book thats slaughtered in making the movie such as this travesty of a movie of a fantastic book they don't get it right and that irritates me. I will ofcourse name the Resident Evil movies, I forgive them for changing parts of the games layout and style for movie making but they didn't impede the movies they made them better, following the games formulas would not have worked properly and the movies would have sucked. I also liked the original MK movie and the FFTSW movie though not directly tied in to a game, Advent Children too deserves an honorable mention I feel. BoB is right however, the Pokemon movies were based on the cartoon which in itself is loosely based on the game, though like all good tv series or movies based on games they changed it to make it work, how boring would it be following the series if it involved grinding for 40+ hours to get your pokemon to level 100?

A good point to discuss in this is also what movies based on games you'd like to see done? I'd put it out there and say I could envisage a Metal Gear movie shot very much in the style of maybe the later bond movies (Daniel Craig era) or the same style as the Bourne series of films though I feel the bond style will work better since it's a less busy less hasty version of the bourne style. I just feel that it'd really work well especially if they put a decent director/producer/screenwriter team behind it, ofcourse you'd need to focus on just one of the 4 games because doing more than one in one film would make it too cluttered and too long. Gears of war done in similar syle to the Resident Evil films would also be awesome, lancers on the big screen oh yeah baby.