Wonder-Twin powers activate! Recently, we were hanging around the proverbial MTV News watercooler, debating a question that’s kept every sensible American up all night at one point or another: “Why do video game movies suck?” Knowing that this was too epic an issue to tackle by myself, I recruited our gaming expert and king of the Multiplayer blog, Mr. Stephen Totilo.
Our resulting team-up article just went live over on MTV.com; in it, we interview top names from Hollywood (Sam Raimi, Mark Wahlberg, “Twilight” star Cam Gigandet) and the gaming community (Kyle Gabler from “2D Boy,” Harvey Smith of Arkane Studios and Chris Taylor from Gas Powered Games) to get their thoughts on why comic books yield gems like “Iron Man” and the “Dark Knight” while the gaming world leaves us hanging on “Hitman” and “Silent Hill.”
If you see “Max Payne” this weekend, leave a comment below and let us know if it finally breaks the video game-movie curse. In the meantime, here are my picks (in reverse order) for the worst gaming movies of all time:
10. “Double Dragon”
9. “Street Fighter”
8. “BloodRayne”
7. “Doom”
6. “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider”
5. “Wing Commander”
4. “Alone in the Dark”
3. “Super Mario Bros.”
2. “House of the Dead”
1. “Resident Evil: Apocalypse”
Click here to read our article, then come back and give us your list: What are the worst video game movies of all time?
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