10 Video Game Movies That Made ONE Huge Mistake

[@camaronshoultz6137]

The subplot in Sonic 2 was not the problem. It was the fact that the character of the sister is completely unlikable with zero redeeming qualities. Nobody cares about her wedding because nobody cares if she gets a happy ending. Had her character been portrayed as someone who deserves said happy ending that changes everything.

[@stepheneddington1667]

I agree that the sister is one of the few bad things about Sonic 1 and 2. She really comes off as a total racist truthfully. There's no justification given for her hatred of her brother in law.

[@RM2011ish]

While honestly the Wedding scenes still got a few laughs out of me, Maddie's sister is pretty unlikable and only defined by her hatred for Tom. She definitely has shades of "I'm not letting a white person into this family."

[@512Nikc]

Number #10: The Resident Evil Live Action Franchise. "Being made by Paul W. S. Anderson... That's it." Number #9...

[@ArcherSuh4721]

I still can't believe how Anderson bs'd his way into the job by simply repeating what he read in a book about CGI and was given a crash course on HOW TO DIRECT A MOVIE by the actor who played Liu Kang during the first couple days of filming!

[@rorylynch7775]

The problem with Anderson resident evil movies was them constantly sidelining actual characters from the games in favour of Alice. They could have just made their own original zombie film franchise not based on Resident Evil with Alice as the main character. Then they could have done whatever they wanted with the films, instead of doing a poor adaptation of the video games.

[@davidcurry332]

Cause his B&&th WIFE 😅

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Alice is basically inserted Mary Sue character 101. She's better than everyone else in everything. Everyone thinks she's the best thing ever. And of course, everyone else, especially actual character from the games, gets totally sided.

[@wreckitralph4714]

Putting a couple hundred hours into borderlands 1,2 n 3, then watching what they did to your poor baby.

[@ragingvet390]

There is absolutely no way sonic 2 is worse than borderlands

[@Trzebiat]

Agent "47" in that Hitman movie wasn't bald because he was a different clone pretending to be 47. The actual 47 only shows up twice in the whole movie - first in a scene showing dead body in a bathtub with a toaster and iconic duck where he answers a call from Diana and second time right at the end of the movie. And he's actually bald. His barcode is changed by 1 digit from 47 to 48 suggesting he is the clone 48 but the barcode still has the correct Agent 47's date of creation while clones number 48 were created after 47. The movie starts to make a lot of sense after you take this into account.

[@nixeleth]

MK wasn't rated R because at least 60% of its fan base wouldn't have been able to see it in theaters, as most people who played the games were kids. I was still in elementary school, and almost all of my friends and I wouldn't have been able to go see it if it'd been rated R.

[@criminalmindsgirl2936]

PG-13 rating...I don't care. I still love Mortal Kombat. Blood or not

[@KennMila]

I liked the human subplot in Sonic 2 but I think I just enjoyed the actress who played the sister a lot. Good for her

[@Makman1994]

The worst thing about the Uncharted movie wasn't actually the casting of Tom Holland or Mark Wahlberg. There was way too much backstabbing and mistrust between the characters, instead of showing them bonding.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

The worst thing was letting Avi Arad in charge, just like Borderlands

[@DivineNaruto]

​@Zombiesnyder13 He was the producer and not even executive producer. You do know Avi was producer on almost every marvel movie.

[@BR-jw7pm]

I saw an internet comment that said Bruce Campbell should’ve cast instead of Mark Wahlberg and I agree with that casting

[@Talsedoom]

The worst part is they never considered to cast Nathan Fillion.

[@Talsedoom]

@@BR-jw7pm Bruce Campbell is in Hollywood's blacklist. For some reason. Only Sam Raimi take him in his projects.

[@jaykoops9502]

Not making The Minecraft Movie a full length animated movie and terrible creepy CGI designs.

[@HighHeelKnight]

In the words of Prof Plumb and Mrs White... "One thing?" 🤷

[@Brandonmtlhd]

It was a different time in 1995. Video game movies hadn't really proven themselves as money makers and the only ones up to that point were Super Mario Bros, Double Dragon and Street Fighter, none of which were well received. Giving it an R rating would have been too much of a risk for the studio, because it would have limited the audience that would have seen it. They needed to ensure that it could get a big draw. Yes, I would have loved it if it was rated R but despite that, it was still a pretty good movie. The 2021 one had the R rating and wasn't very good but it is getting a sequel. Like I said, different time.

[@johnpovenmire209]

Plus most of the MK fanbase hadn’t graduated middle school, I know because I was one of them. If the original MK was rated R it would have bombed. Also no one at the time cared, everyone I knew thought that it was the greatest thing we’d ever seen.

[@nellurban7826]

Uncharted is maybe the most poorly cast movie out there, video game movie or otherwise. I'm surprised it isn't here. Tom Holland as Nathan Drake was baffling enough, but adding Mark Wahlberg as Sully to that was borderline insulting for anyone who had played even 10 minutes of any of the games...

[@nilotec]

All these Silent Hill: Revelation shots stitched in with Silent Hill ones were throwing me off LOL

[@Concreteowl]

So glad you clocked the Silent Hill problem.

[@BrokenNoah]

Jake Gyllenhaal is serviceable in Prince of Persia

[@sirtaelellevalerie1056]

Especially as 1) He actually has middle-eastern ancestry. 2) Persians are actually white, descended from european migrants (so is kurds).

[@Crazy_Eclectic]

Biggest mistake they keep making is placing movies on Earth. Most have massive lore, history, and world to explore, and keep putting them on earth instead.

[@josephesquivel4066]

Jake Gyllenhall wasn't nearly as bad a choice in Prince of Persia as Gemma Arterton's spray on tan.

[@ArcherSuh4721]

Alone in the Dark: Uwe Boll Far Cry: Uwe Boll BloodRayne: Uwe Boll Postal: Uwe Boll House of the Dead: Uwe Boll

[@brucenatelee]

In Mortal Kombat, Johnny Cage is white, but Lewis Tan could have easily played him instead of being an original character in an adaptation of a well loved video game. At the same time, they said they only made up Cole Young because they didn't want a white character being the main character (Johnny Cage), even though Liu Kang was always seen as the main hero of the series.

[@brucenatelee]

The only excuse of casting Jake Gyllanhaal in Prince of Persia is this stretch I'm about to do to the point Dhalsim from Street Fighter, Luffy from One Piece, and Mr. Fantastic would be jealous of me: Jake Gyllenhaal's mom is Ashkenazi Jewish, meaning she may be of distant Middle Eastern descent, and Persia is a part of Iran, which is translated as "Land of Aryans," in which we assume Aryan = white, though we know a certain asshole with a bad mustache ruined that word since around the 1930s. If you make up a bunch of dumb assumptions, you can barely get away with the bad excuse that Jake can be called "somewhat related to an ethnic group similar to Persian."

[@jonphilip3296]

I love the Sonic films but if you walked into #2 during that wedding sequence you’d watch 15min of what you think is a rom com before Sonic shows up 😂

[@nicksoapdish157]

Bonus: The entire movie as a whole:......Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

[@lordofthereels6790]

Somewhere between Shamylan's Trap and David Fincher's The Killer rests the best Hitman movie. Maybe have the tone like Jason X or Jason Lives keeping the boogyman spooky while making fun of the idea of it (like the Elwes scene in MI 7?).

[@Talsedoom]

4:40 MK movie had PG-13 rating. Still was better than anything than what was made after that movie. It's bacause the director knew that movie should be about the story. You know the only part that lacking in all MK products after that movie. Borderlands... well it's not just miscast. Everything is wrong about this movie! 1) From whole cast of characters only Lillith and Roland were teammates. And damn, who thought casting Kate Blanchett would be a great idea? Joe Biden? 2) Thanis was never adventurer type, she a scientist. 3) Tiny Tina should be a little kid at that time and completely bonkers unlike her older self that she was in the third game. She was a teenager in part 3, and Roland was dead at that time. 4) They added Krieg for some reason but the movie doesn't have Maya, who's the only person Krieg was in relationships. Also Krieg was in Part 2 when Lilith was not among the main heroes. 5) Claptrack loves humas, he doesn't hate them.

[@joshpetzoldt6344]

12:59 ... especially Sonic himself, I'd imagine, who called Keanu Reeves a "national treasure" in the first film after watching Speed through the window of Donut Lord's house. Funny how things work out, huh? I wonder if they'll find a fun, kind of meta way of referencing this?

[@justinwearn620]

Im surprised number 1 was the original Super Mario Brothers movie taking place outside the cartoonish, happy mushroom kingdom for a dystopian/cyberpunk landscape

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

The whole cast and the PG-13 rating - Borderlands

[@Zombiesnyder13]

But most of all, Avi Arad

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

@@Zombiesnyder13 don't remind me

[@lingitsheshark]

Why does Borderlands look like Cowboy Bebop should have?

[@VidsAtLarge]

Honestly, I love Assassin's Creed, and I think that the amount of time spent in the present makes sense

[@AndyBarkerBee]

Basically ... higher the Metacritic rating, the lower the IMDb score. It's the law of the jungle.

[@BerylliumGold]

I mean, I'm not gonna hate on the practical effects for Nemesis, and considering what we know about Alice, it makes a weird kind of sense that she could go toe to toe with him. The face turn is BS though.

[@manuelvelez7777]

I never understood how the hitman movie had a woman who is supposed to be secret agent who had to go all around an airport just to avoid cameras. I just thought that the scenes of her sneaking around was a bit much

[@adventfear]

I just see the Mortal Kombat movie from 1995 as being based off the censored Super Nintendo version of the game. lol

[@chrisbellon3739]

A direct to video movie doom , had hell in it i think but I'm sure

[@ryanswaynow]

“The terrible human subplot” is also what ruined kingdom of the planet of the apes for me

[@TheCatBilbo]

It's personal but I prefer narration which is natural & flows more. This is difficult to understand at times & I find it setting my nerves on edge.

[@weirdmusicmixmaster]

have no faith at this point but id love a good hitman movie about the methodical set up and execution of the accidental unseen unfound body kills, it would have less action but more tension and an interesting tone to pull off.

[@tonysalazar2601]

There is more than just one thing wrong with all of these movies.

[@beardednategaming7188]

While its been awhile since I've watched it, Silent Hill, was a good video game movie from the point, I never really played the games apart from the first one, I hoped for a sequel to it for a few years after watching it.

[@josephesquivel4066]

Mortal Kombat had to be teen friendly because most of it's gamer audience were still teenagers. Should have went for the R rating but then their audience would have to get permission from Mom and Dad

[@1Love-starboss]

Showing nemesis to a child or any creature monster from any horror should be a straight up crime a felony it should be illegal

[@PrinceIsot]

Lol no

[@BrokenNoah]

When I watched Assassin's Creed in the local theater, it was very dark and there were scenes where I can't make heads or tails with what's happening. Don't know if they got a bad copy of the movie or if it's really like that.

[@josephesquivel4066]

Assassin's Creed also when taking place the Animus it looks absolutely nothing like the Animus of the game...which probably could have helped keep much of the visuals in the past rather spend so much money on cgi to have this giant robot crane look like it's making substitute Desmond look like he's going through all the physical motions of the memory.

[@richardjamesgallardojr.7584]

What the hell did the Cascade blanchett as Lilith in the borderlands movie

[@scottishzombie]

There has only ever been one exceptional video game movie. Wreck-It Ralph.

[@danwarrjack]

Entirely wrong. The Wizard

[@reecedrury4145]

Bit of a difference between bald and bold.....

[@playerknownasmousecop]

The resident evil movies are great action movies but terrible resident evil movies

[@marvelsProtege]

My problem with Max was I couldn't tell what was real and what was idk not

[@teamtim87]

Correction: *ALL* of the Resident Evil movies are one big mistake.

[@TheTsengMao]

If the original MK was rated R, it would have flopped hard as none of its fanbase would have been able to go see it

[@SuperLocrian]

TMNT: Mutant Mayhem does not good enough love or attention!

[@kevinclapson]

I'd say REA did more damage to Jill than Nemesis. Also, while I understand the complaint, its completely disingenuous to act like Jakes casting was even the core issue with PoP.

[@raymason9907]

Funny enough, I just watched Max Payne yesterday

[@Forgery_world]

That's a poor take on nemesis, the film wasn't based the game, so expecting a character to be exactly as he was in 3 is silly. He fulfilled his roll perfectly.

[@davidcurry332]

Yeah, he’s his outfit. It could’ve been better. The only thing that still cruise me out and gives me a some chill affect the make ups actually honestly not that bad for early 2000s I’ve seen make up now that they attempt to use now everything is so dumb with computers in our minds especially me I’ve seen a lot of crazy stuff my wife and I’ve seen horror movies. I’m an 80s kid so even Freddy cougars original make up and maybe three or four of his movies they change but when you go down to so much computer I can see your point it doesn’t look realistic Then Mrs. three he wasn’t the best. He should’ve had a Changa not a rocket launcher as much I think they didn’t use his Gatlin good enough and you should’ve stuck with that but as far as having a tall dude with make up he what he had there is kind of a chill factor, but I can see your point it be like if they had Kane from WWE playing nemesis would be a good one that if yeah I guy that size yes but I don’t know if CGI for a realistic movie it probably would’ve been done crappy because the 2000s everything was so sorry to be computer this computer this there’s no real people. Yeah you can kind of see where I’m going. It will look even more dumb.

[@horrorluver565]

Great list 👌

[@giaiaspirit]

TIL sonic has a 2nd movie… kinda glad that I didn't know about it until today…

[@ninjatim7142]

What do you mean?

[@giaiaspirit]

@@ninjatim7142 cause I also learned that there is a 3rd movie in the making? So binge time, when it comes out. I quite liked the first one

[@rebus1221]

There's also a knuckles spinoff tv series set between movie 2 and 3

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video and awesome list what culture,fantastic job. What about Warcraft, street fighter,tekken and the king of the fighters many others too. Getting tired little bit annoyed of everyone putting down a movie how bad it is that might like even knowing it’s not good enough. But I might love all the same for expected xmen dark Phoenix everyone hated but I love it more than Logan or anything that good out there too.

[@brorjordas1979]

Oh man!! Luckily, never much into the video games themselves - and Resident Evil: Apocalypse had a way good enough for me of a Nemesis. 😊😊😁

[@MariaLopez-ti4oo]

There's another video game movie that made a huge mistake and it isn't even out yet a Minecraft movie the huge mistake being and made live action instead of animation

[@Zombiesnyder13]

The biggest mistake of BORDERLANDS was letting AVI ARAD in charge of everything Without him, the movie wouldn't have been PG-13, Eli Roth wouldn't have been the director, and no one would've been miscasted

[@AndymionD]

Or the script that became Doom was something else entirely they threw the Doom name on hoping to make a few bucks more on name recognition

[@jamesking7330]

Prince of Persherr??

[@matthewflanagan9097]

I didn't even realise there was a Prince of Persia movie, I grew up playing the original on my 286, and I probably would have wanted to watch, but I'm glad I didn't 😂. I do agree, though why cast Jake Gyllenhaal (other than name value) as the lead role when there would have been plenty of actors of the correct Heritage to play the part other than as I said name value. However, to say that it is unenlightened and 'white washing' to cast a white man to play a fictional Persian Prince. Yet be completely okay with a Black woman playing Arial (a white fictional character) in live action and cartoons or an American Colombian woman playing Snow White, just seems like a double standard to me. Either call it out for all films or call it out for none. Don't hide behind getting popular likes from the 'woke' Just to clarify, I agree it was wrong to cast him for that role, for the exact same reason. However, it was also wrong to cast the women in the other roles too

[@theintdesigner]

Please STOP already, judging past movies with today's standards. There are plenty of actual "Persians" who look like Jake Gyllenhaal, and many who are even more handsome! Many of those "complaining" wanted someone who looked "Arabic", and if you want a fight on your hands try saying a real Persian looks Arabic! They like that as much as telling a Korean he looks Japanese. So, find a REAL reason (like Hitman not being bald, cause that was a GREAT one) for saying a movie failed at one big thing.

[@bobfather7355]

They were made...

[@zanethind]

That hitman movie was bad. They need to redo a proper Agent 47 movie. It wasn't even the bald aspect and ssure while that was bad and Timothy Olephant did a better job with being bald the actual movie and acting was terrible. And the story was fine sure but it could've been better with a better movie. God I can ever forgive them until they do

[@StingNicks]

Silent Hill- gender swapping main character, Monster Hunter-whole movie being an intro the last 15 mins of the movie starting the game, Borderlands- yeah no words, Resident Evil series- changing the lore totally.

[@stephenragland7710]

Stick to the set stories of the games and DON'T change major points; the "Need for Speed" movie failed, and should have stuck with the source material for accurate movies of game titles

[@NostalgiaBrit]

You mention Agent 47, without talking about the _original & far superior_ *'Hitman'* movie, with *Timothy Olyphant* as the lead (and he was completely bald)! _Shame on you!!_ 😠😡🤬

[@jackmackakaheavyguyhaiku545]

If you ever do a comic book version of this video, I can tell you my #1. No Skull Tee The Punisher (1989) The first time Frank Castle's story was told on the big screen (in earnest, anyway), the big man himself Dolph Lundgren took on the mantel of the vigilante. A great telling with maybe the perfect performance of the character so far. (His Frank does not care if he lives or dies. The kids he saves, surrogates for the family he lost, giving him a chance to right the wrong of weakening mob families so much that they can't even protect themselves or their children.) What this pre MCU Marvel movie gets the most wrong is the fact that we never see Mr. Skull Tee in his traditional garment. Yes the skull daggers is a nice touch, the glaring omission (with its OG storyline of his late son gifting his dad the shirt) would've gone a long way to letting others see what I do in this near masterpiece of comic book cinema. (Btw, I don't expect the shirt to look bright, like older comics made it look. It should be faded and maybe replacements for the original are worn while he has a piece of the first one in his pocket.)

[@DrFunkadunk]

Borderlands is the perfect type of story to give a lesser known actor the chance to really take control and own a role, because there are so many wild and unique characters. It's too bad the studio really had no idea how to handle a theatrical adaptation of it and instead just wanted to use bigger name actors to get people into the theater. Video game adaptations only work in the correct format, and open world RPG adaptations only really work in tv show format, it's why Fallout did so well. Think of it like you have your main mission, the series, and the mini quests you do along the way, all the episodes.

[@vizman9886]

Lamest complaints

[@MDavis-d4v]

Max Payne was such a horrible movie.

[@jaymckeown7601]

What on earth happened to this channel? Don't even have th facts right in most of these. Example, Doom movie is terrible for sure. But the Doom games ARE mostly set on Mars, not actually in Hell, and ARE as a result of science gone wrong.

[@reecedrury4145]

No if they were to cast Prince of Persia now it would be a woman who thinks their a cat and has a roller coaster as a partner.

[@Y0uKnowMyName]

"Prince of persher"