![]() It's when you have Yoshi appear as a tiny ass dinosaur that looks sad all the time, or when Wing Commander first utters the words "Pilgrim." The other scene is where it is made really really clear that video game plots are too complicated for people that haven't actually played the game. ![]() One is where it's made really really clear that the director doesn't care about the actual video game plot. There's almost always two scenes in video game film adaptations. Or maybe "decided" is the wrong word, because if you look at Randel's output in other films versus what we have here, it's obvious that regardless of the understanding Randel had towards the source material, he clearly didn't give a flying fuck about it. So in the mid-90s, Tony Randel, a guy who got his start directing Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 (a cash-in sequel that was surprisingly good in that it at least recognized that all we wanted was more skinned people and more Cenobites) and Ticks (I make no apologies for loving this movie) decided it was time to broaden his horizons and go film.a direct to video adaptation of an anime that only hardcore nerds were really aware of at this point (unless you had like 500 dollars to burn on VHS tapes with 3 episodes apiece, ah the good old days). Because YOU WA SHOCK is about a million times better than whatever the hell you watch. Finally you get relatively unknown films such as Wing Commander or King of Fighters, films that have avoided the brunt of scorn either because the source material isn't as readily familiar to 13-year-olds, or because the movies are just really kind of dumb and forgettable.Īll this being said, it's kind of shocking and depressing that Fist of the North Star seems to be at the bottom of attention, since in addition to the film being far more insane and terribad than the vast majority of film adaptations, it also implies that not enough people have watched/read the source material. Then you have the second tier, films like Double Dragon and the entire oeuvre of Uwe Boll, which get their fair share of in-depth outrage. At the top you have stuff like the aforementioned Mario and Street Fighter, films that virtually every internet review king has to talk about at some point. ![]() There's even fairly obvious tiers to these films based on how many reviews of them there are where someone goes WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA, MY PRESHIOUS NOSTALGIA (mug, mug). Certain awful people have built their entire internet empires on making wacky faces in between random scenes from Super Mario Brothers. It's no secret that snarky reviewers love to rip open adaptations. ![]()
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