Everyone talks about how usually video game movies or movies based on video games are bad. But this of course isn't always true.
For example, the Spider Man games that follow the movies, have been unusually exceptional, given what they are (not the best mind you, but more like best of show, hahaha).
But also there have been some good movies based off of video games, but not many (there is a rumor about Postal 2 but I've not seen the film).
If you could have both products turn out really well, what games would you like turned into movies and what movies would you like turned into games?
I can't wait for the Mad Max MMO that is coming out, and I'd love to see a movie based off of Jet Set Radio, but until then I might have to settle for Hackers.
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I wish a Max Payne movie. A real one. Please.
About games into movies... I prefer games adapted into series, because you can actually develop a story on the contrary of a movie. I wish some The Longest Journey episodes :)

I was actually quite happy with the Hitman movie, with the exception that for some reason, they felt they had to change the entire background story. That sucked. But other than that, I thought the movie was excellent. And I do hope they'll make a sequel. And that, in doing so, they'll put down the temptation to add more "love story" to it.
If it wasn't for the fact that I just KNOW Hollywood would screw it up, I'd like to see a movie based on Maniac Mansion. And possibly Zak McKracken.
And now that I think about it, if you folded the stories of Crysis and Crysis: Warhead into each other, and added a bit more interaction between characters, you just might have a hell of a movie.

Well the one game i played that I'd love to see as a movie because it had a lot of potential was Clive Barker's Jericho. I think the cg cutscenes were great, and I'd actually love a full feature cg animated film, but live action might work too. As long as for the creatures they made real costumes and used as little CG as possible. I thought 30 Days of Night worked so much better over I Am Legend (one of my favorite vampire novels) because they actually used some old school effects for the gore and vampires. It did use some cg but very little.
Splintercell would be good too if they picked the right actor. I had read rumors of this happening though.
Also if they took all the hard work they poured into the Lineage 2 movies and disregarded the game, that story would be quite interesting. I love the dark elves in that game. They had written so much great story and made such impressive cg sequences/movies, yet none of that rich content appeared in the grindfest which is Lineage 2.
Also the anime Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - They did make a PS2 game based on it, but I wish someone would make a PC game, totally new and based on the series. Using all the main characters and being a team based game... though Motoko would probably be able to take care of herself.
Bladerunner as a PC game too.. maybe they made a game out of that for some console long ago though. I didn't look. I don't even know what they'd do for the game. I just know I've made many maps based on or inspired by the city for several game engines. I always loved the vibe and loved mapping it but also adding my own ideas to it.

Personally, i'd love to see Arcanum made into a film, a proper one, not like the half arsed attempts at game films that are around at the moment.
the twists in the story line, the brilliant characterisation and the genuinely captivating victorianesque world with the uneasy struggle between the blossoming techs and traditional magicas causing rifts in society
it could start just as the game does with the zephyr and the crash and go from there in search of the truth about arronax and nasrudin. all the while the main character, an unlikely young hero, is torn trying to decide which route they should take... good/evil, magic/tech and realising just how important the desicions are.
with the right film company it could be really amazing :D

Actually, there has been a very good [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_(1997_video_game)]PC adventure game[/url] based on Blade Runner. I highly recommend it if you can find it... Great atmosphere, and I think it's the only example I know of a universe being so successfully declined into a book (the original, P.K. Dick's original Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), a movie and a video game, each of them with its own personal artistic vision.

That Mad Max MMO does sound pretty interesting, although i'd much prefer the Fallout MMO to be released in its place, they're too much along the same lines, so the fallout rights will probably never be used. Shame.
Back on topic, I think a movie version of Mass Effect would be great. The writers, content, gameworld and voice casting was so immersive in the game that it was almost like an interactive movie in itself, so a real movie wouldn't be far off. It's one of the only games (along with Oblivion and Fallout 3) where it was so good I actually almost drowned in immersion!

I second this. The book, the movie and the video game are fantastic works of art.

Video games into movies? If anyone's ambitious enough to list some movies, maybe it would jog my memory but offhand I can't think of any that I'd say were good.
Movies into video games? I don't think I've ever played a game based on a movie, but if I had to choose, I'd probably go with Blade Runner as well. The upcoming Alien RPG from Obsidian has my interest piqued though.

Doom was made into a movie. Nothing like the game really but was a fairly good flick, albeit not amazing.
Resident Evil, who can forget those movies. First one was really great, kinda went downhill from there.
Silent Hill, was an average film. Nothing amazing, not scary at all, good special effects though.
That's all I can think of for now.

If you're dead serious about having a game made into a movie then let's at least have a team or a single individual who can write a somewhat plausible story. Oh, and under no circumstances shall Uwe Boll or Michael Bay be allowed anywhere near the script since their mere presence might bugger up the whole thing.

Beneath A Steel Sky could be a fantastic movie, I think. I'm just afraid (again) that Hollywood would completely fail to capture the zany humor.

they're making another Resident Evil movie, but this one is completely CGI and is written by the games writers.
Also, I think I'd like to see Escape From L.A. done in a style like Fallout 3. That would be fun.
Maybe I'm weird but I'd also like to see some chick flicks made into games, made up like dating sims with minigames.. but maybe I'm just crazy

Hey if you want a sort of chick flick dating sim experience, just install the free second life game and you can find me in there. They don't show enough on the page to sell it. If only we could private message people here, I could show you how I took myself and turned it into a game character and all that. That game could be scary but hanging out with me would make it fun.
Btw if there's a UT2004 mod based on Escape from NY. Might be hard to find. I have it somewhere from when I hosted it.