These days there are a lot of movies out based on video games and more to come.  This is going to be a pretty open topic, but what are your thoughts of video game movies already made, ones that are coming out, and what games would you like to see made into movies? 

I think Resident Evil one was good and three was crap.  And Uwe Boll couldnt make a good video game movie if his life depended on it.  The one movie I am looking forward to is Hitman.  And Halo could be good, if it ever comes to be.

House of the Dead, Silent Hill and Alone in the Dark come to mind.

Wing Commander is no good either.

Actually IMO Silent Hill and the first Resident Evil are the only 2 I can think of that are worth watching

some particular bad memories of mine

Super Mario Brothers: The Movie
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

And I agree Hitman looks like it may have some potential

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House of the Dead, Silent Hill and Alone in the Dark come to mind.

I think Silent Hill was better then a lot of them out there.

What I don't get is that they already that the story done for them.  You turn the story into a script which shouldnt be that difficult.  Find actors that can act and good effects and you have a movie. But I feel the smae way baout comic book movies.

The trouble is video games rely on much more to get the story across, so it's not as simple as translating a pre-written story to a script. (Often the same with comic books, although they are usually picking one moment out of a long history so will always struggle to please everybody.)

For me Half Life 2 has a really well written story when played as a game (although episode 2 was disappointing) but if I boil it down to just the story and not the part played in the game and the set pieces you take part in, it really would need a lot of work to turn it into a decent film. Especially as the character you play is a mute.