We're Making the WRONG Video Game Movies

Now this would look like a good movie!

With the recent release of Need for Speed. That makes it the latest video-game movie to be made since the likes of Silent Hill and Resident Evil movies. Having only seen the meta-critic and rottentomatoes ratings for the past video game movies, Nothing tells me or other gamers/movie-goers that this video-game movie is going to be any different. The past video-game movies like Prince of Persia and Resident Evil have received abysmally low ratings and it's fair to assume that Need for Speed, even with a brilliant actor like Aaron Paul, should follow a similar path.
 It's not that there are no good video games to turn into movies, rather, it's just that we're making the wrong kinds of video game movies. I mean, The video game movies that are made don't consider the story aspect - which is the most important thing for a movie - and focus more on how well-known the video game is to the world. Take the Resident Evil movies for example, It's famous world-wide as the gripping and intense zombie game. And although the Resident Evil films try to fit in some game references, It still barely follows the original Resident Evil storyline. The same can be said of Max Payne. Max Payne was an okay game but an absolutely terrible movie. Based on this list by Wikipedia, You can clearly see that no video game movie EVER has received a rating higher than 60!


If a video game didn't have a solid story in it - for example, Need for Speed, Mario and Street Fighter - then how would you expect the movie to turn out even remotely successful? The answer, It doesn't. Hollywood should stop making video game movies based on how famous the video game is and instead, try make video game movies based on video games which actually have a good narrative to it. No more story-less video games like Need for Speed and Street Fighter to be made into movies. Instead the Last of Us should be made into a movie, or even the likes of Heavy Rain and Beyond 2 Souls. All these games are games MADE to deliver a strong and emotional narrative. Perfect for the silver screen. 

Don't worry about how well known the video game is. The most important thing that filmmakers of video game movies should focus on is following the game's storyline and actually making a good film. If the video game movie turns out to be good, then both the movie and the video game will definitely be successful. 

I'm 100% positive that if narrative driven games like Uncharted or Metal Gear Solid and Last of Us - Basically games that focus on narrative but have some action in it - were made into big budget movies, and if they followed the storyline of the games, They will be hugely successful. Gamers will go see it, movie fans will go see it, heck, even people who've never heard of the game would probably go see it. 


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