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Andrew76

deathrider wrote: »

I've been doing a few youtube videos with my mate lately where we watch movies based on video games and then have a wee chat about them. So I'm looking to pick up a hape of these movies on DVD. I have a bunch of the obvious ones (Doom, Tomb Raider, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, blah, blah, blah), I was wondering if there are any cool obscure ones that might be worth picking up. They don't have to be good though. Onechambara is on my list if I can find a localised DVD copy of it. Any ideas, lads?

I think there was Alone In The Dark with Christian Slater. Never watched it though, probably muck.

Optimus Prime

Andrew76 wrote: »

I think there was Alone In The Dark with Christian Slater. Never watched it though, probably muck.

I seen that years ago, it is muck haha..

deathrider

I started watching Alone In The Dark on Netflix one night ad got mad bored, mad fast. It's on the list though.

martineatworld

There's films based on silent hill, bloodrayne, and dead or alive. Look up uwe bolls wiki page, as he's directed a lot of awful awful video game films.
There's a house of the dead film which is so bad it's kinda enjoyable. I'd recommend it for some very low brow entertainment!

Myrddin

Any mobile gaming fans here? {iOS/Android etc}. We've put it to a vote to see if it'd be a better idea to have a subforum of the main Games forum devoted to mobile/android/iOS games - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057075544 As it stands, mobile gaming chat gets drowned out very fast in the busy Games forum. So feel free to +1 or -1 the idea {for or against}

Andrew76

Myrddin wrote: »

Any mobile gaming fans here? {iOS/Android etc}. We've put it to a vote to see if it'd be a better idea to have a subforum of the main Games forum devoted to mobile/android/iOS games - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057075544 As it stands, mobile gaming chat gets drowned out very fast in the busy Games forum. So feel free to +1 or -1 the idea {for or against}

Defo a good idea. Massive market these days with some quality titles, easily worthy a forum of it's own imo.

Star Lord

DinoRex wrote: »

I watched Grabbers last night. Wasn't too bad, I quite liked the creature design.

I loved Grabbers. I was possibly strongly influenced by large amounts of it being filmed in my home town. The pub exterior they used was the pub I grew up above till I was 6! :-D

DinoRex

The DoA movie is probably pretty much the most perfect adaptation imaginable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSkoUn4udqw

deathrider

martineatworld wrote: »

There's films based on silent hill, bloodrayne, and dead or alive. Look up uwe bolls wiki page, as he's directed a lot of awful awful video game films.
There's a house of the dead film which is so bad it's kinda enjoyable. I'd recommend it for some very low brow entertainment!

I've got the DOA flick here for one of these shows. It really is awful. It's like Charlie's Angels without the fun... Our the Drew Barrymore.

Yeah, House of The Dead is spectacularly bad. We covered that one in our first episode.

eddhorse

Steve SI wrote: »

New Ghosts 'N Goblins game kickstarter. I dunno, in the video they talk a lot about how good they are and how great the game will be, but not a bit of in game graphics at all! If they are so good surely they could mock up some sort of "it will look like this a bit" footage.




http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/phantasmstudios/ghosts-n-goblins-demon-world/

Good god that's a terrible video promoting themselves, Capcom would be right to steer clear, leave the original, it's great, don't bastardise it !!

Doge

Dr Bob wrote: »

ah stigsgameroom , lovely guy!
I did a video on all the tomytronic loveliness a year or two ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=damMnxulEqI

Ah great video Bob, only had time for a quick search-a-rooni last night! You are probably the only person on youtube to attempt to record it.

I remember the screens being pretty bright and vibrant as a child, is that definitely the case?

I see you mentioned Steve Benway also in your video, have had him added on facebook for the last year. Its excellent how everyone is interconnected!

the groutch

I think that it's a general given that movies based on games, or games based on movies are going to suck balls.
Of course there is the odd rare exception, like Raul Julia's portrayal of M Bison in Streetfighter: The Movie.

deathrider

the groutch wrote: »

I think that it's a general given that movies based on games, or games based on movies are going to suck balls.
Of course there is the odd rare exception, like Raul Julia's portrayal of M Bison in Streetfighter: The Movie.

They're usually pretty much balls, but there are a few that I enjoy. Tomb Raider is good fun, although it's pretty silly and is miles away from it's source material. Mortal Kombat is dumb as a bag of hammers, but that's one of the reasons I love it. I remember really enjoying Silent Hill too, although I recently watched the sequel and it's awful.

As far as M.Bison goes, there a video doing the round of Ono from Street Fighter recreating on of Bison's scenes from the movie. It's gas. Well worth checking.

richymcdermott

I liked the silent hill movie aswell as mortal kombat and street fighter

o1s1n

Street Fighter is great! Watched it for the first time in years recently and really enjoyed it.

deathrider

Always thought Street Fighter was muck myself. The Street Fighter II animated movie is great fun though.

richymcdermott

Now who wants to go home ....and who wants to come with me!!!

johnny_ultimate

o1s1n and deathrider's avatars are so similar it looks like someone with multiple personalities arguing with themselves :eek:

Optimus Prime

deathrider wrote: »

Always thought Street Fighter was muck myself. The Street Fighter II animated movie is great fun though.

Dont forget there is a ChunLi film as well with Lana from smallville in it! its actually not completely muck, close though.

Mr.Saturn

Neil McDonagh as Bison/Dictator struck me as an inspired choice, as was the retconning of his backstory to one of a quasi-Irish fascist, but from the 25 odd minutes I've seen of it, it seems to be a middling kung-fu flick propped up by a vague adherence to the source material. Frankly, it's more notable for the fact the chap who played Gen also starred in Mortal Kombat as Liu Kang.

Jack burton

Mortal kombat seems to have gotten off the lightest treatment, most things that have its name on it arnt complete muck. Even the TV series was.....well watchable.

the Street Fighter movie, well from watching now, it seems as if they knew it was **** even making it so they had some fun with it. Well everyone except JCVD, he's playing it legit all the way!

o1s1n

Speaking of JCVD, I watched Hard Target for the first time in years on Saturday. Cheesy as **** but it's fantastic!

This is how action scenes should be done. None of that shaky camera nonsense. Just big ass stunts with JCVD standing on a motorbike while shooting a gun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mtafjUOuE

CathalDublin

@1:00 how did he manage to stay standing lol?

Jack burton

Oh Hard Target is a winner.

And you make a good point with shaky camera. One of my friends has a cinema in his garage and we regularly watch ****ty films there and even 80's B movie fight scenes are better than a lot of the shaky camera crap that I find so irritating now.

o1s1n

CathalDublin wrote: »

@1:00 how did he manage to stay standing lol?

I find that bit especially hilarious due to all the boxes.

'****, we need boxes for this stunt, how do we hide them?'

'Meh, just leave them in!'

Jack burton wrote: »

Oh Hard Target is a winner.

And you make a good point with shaky camera. One of my friends has a cinema in his garage and we regularly watch ****ty films there and even 80's B movie fight scenes are better than a lot of the shaky camera crap that I find so irritating now.

Shaky camera has completely ruined the modern action film alright

Fairly sure The Raid had very limited use and it was such a nice break from it.

DinoRex

Hard Target is probably the only good John Woo US movie.

Lance Henrickson is great in it.

Oh and if you're into bad movies the Miami Connection is probably one of the best of all time. Neon 80s rock band who are experts at Taekwondo go up against a gang of drug smuggling ninjas. It's absolutely crazy.

the groutch

Bloodsport is another of those "so bad it's good" Van Damme movies. It's like Rocky IV meets The Karate Kid, but on a shoestring budget.

johnny_ultimate

First glimpse of The Raid 2 due tomorrow, incidentally. Hopefully it will be back for JDIFF in February following the incredible response to the first that cold Saturday morning two years ago!

DinoRex

Red Letter Media's 'Best of the Worst' series is brilliant for discovering new crap:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_TJFLc25JR3VZ7Xe-cmt4k3bMKBZ5Tm

Very funny series.

Also I recommend the 'How Did This get Made' podcast:

http://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/

Retr0gamer

Jack burton wrote: »

Mortal kombat seems to have gotten off the lightest treatment, most things that have its name on it arnt complete muck.

Pity the games are complete muck (mk9 being the surprising exception).

Nerdkiller1991

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Pity the games are complete muck (mk9 being the surprising exception).

I don't know. I heard Shaolin Monks is an intresting twist on the series. Ed Boon even hinted at a HD release for it.

I never played any MK title. Only very briefly my brother's Mega Drive copy of UMK3.

deathrider

MK games are great fun, even if they are heavily flawed, but I'm not getting into that debate here again. Shaolin Monks if fantastic stuff though. It paid like a co-op 3D Streets of Rage style game set around the events of the first three Mortal Kombat titles, complete with hammy voice acting.

Retr0gamer

Actually I have to admit shoalin monks was good fun. It was pretty mediocre but the 2 player mode elevated it into some good stupid fun.

I just find the my games as fighting games absolutely atrocious. There's very little depth as multiplayer and single player is a chore. Loved the games when I was younger but looking back and playing them now they really were some of the worst fighting games around and I was only playing for the naughty gore.

Jack burton

DinoRex wrote: »

Hard Target is probably the only good John Woo US movie.

Lance Henrickson is great in it.

Oh and if you're into bad movies the Miami Connection is probably one of the best of all time. Neon 80s rock band who are experts at Taekwondo go up against a gang of drug smuggling ninjas. It's absolutely crazy.

An amazing film!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVtyOwcQo-w

johnny_ultimate

Extraordinarily disturbing video, even by Twilight standards: http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/meet-the-terrifying-puppet-baby-axed-from-twilight-073013871.html

Maybe CGI isn't so bad...

Atavan-Halen

A&R secret santa thread is now live!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057076504

James Howlett

I see that SuperValu are selling the new Call of Duty at 45euro again, why can't they do that with games that I want to buy?

Nerdkiller1991

That chin. Makes Bruce Campbell's seem normal by comparison.

Steve X2

Sony PocketStation is back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKcQHpEm3tE

CiDeRmAn

I'd say Retr0 soiled himself at the image of Legend of the Dragoon, available from the Playstation Store!

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'd say Retr0 soiled himself at the image of Legend of the Dragoon, available from the Playstation Store!

The horror.

Nerdkiller1991

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'd say Retr0 soiled himself at the image of Legend of the Dragoon, available from the Playstation Store!

Well...

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The horror.

I'll take that as a yes.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The horror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUVDmXvXcbk

CosmicSmash

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Legend of the Dragoon, available from the Playstation Store!

Free with every download:)

CiDeRmAn

Now I know what to give him if I get Retr0 in the secret santa!
Nice!

Had a go of DK Jet thingy today, it's still muck

Doge

The Rip-Hoff pt.1

safetyboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKI-ovYW2Nw

nice little stop motion NES vid

Doge

safetyboy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKI-ovYW2Nw

nice little stop motion NES vid

Were you saving that especially for your 1000th post?


THe combined RAM of all the units sold is scary compared to todays standards.

CiDeRmAn

Very impressed with Nov entries in the Instant Game Collection on PSN+
Remember Me and MGS Revengence, the former of which seems very nice indeed, though the designer seems to have made a chimera of Uncharted and Mirrors Edge.
Motorstorm RC is there too and, boy, am I glad I didn't pay cash money for that!

deathrider

I got my 500th video game today. I'm well happy about that.