I've lost count of how many video game adaptations there have been, but I haven't forgotten how bad most of them were. Take, for example, Super Mario Brothers. My favorite game of all time became a Disney movie that had the vision to cast a Cockney actor and a Puerto Rican as Italian plumbers, as well as Dennis Hopper as a dragon. It remained unwatchable. Speaking of dragons, how about Double Dragon? Here's a movie that didn't make a lick of sense and had a stereotypical Asian woman pop up in a circle saying "You have found da secret of da Double Dwagon!" While I cop to liking the first Mortal Kombat movie, I couldn't sit through Doom or any of the Resident Evils. [Hey, the first RE rocks! - Zach] Here's a simple formula, Hollywood: Playing the game: fun. Watching the movie version of the game: NOT FUN.

Since our cited article also mentions a remake of Capcom's Street Fighter, presumably with CGI graphics that turn Kal Penn's Dhalsim into the Stretch Armstrong clone he is in the game (that is, if they cast Kumar), let's take a stroll down memory lane and look at the original Street Fighter movie. It starred the "Duh From Brussels," Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile, ER's Ming-Na as Chun-Li, Emmy-winning actor Raul Julia in his last film as M. Bison and Kylie Minogue as Lieutenant Cammy. Yes, that Kylie Minogue, the Aussie singer whose biggest hit used to be the hold music whenever I called my neurologist. The movie was terrible, a Ha-Do-Ken aimed at the brain of any viewer dumb enough to buy a ticket (hence my visits to the neurologist), so there's no possible way Capcom's remake could make it any worse.

Someone once said that Hollywood should remake unsuccessful movies instead of classics. The same should apply to video games. We are bombarded with the H'wood trend of making movies from video games that either have no major plot to speak of or have a universe better suited to interaction than reaction. Why not make a movie based on a game that would be BETTER than the game? My suggestion is Pong. Pong was a game with two lines and a ball. The ball bounced against Player 1's line and then flew across the screen toward Player 2's line. Back and forth, a ball and two lines. Now cast Anthony Anderson as the ball and the Olsen Twins or maybe a pair of Kate Mosses as the lines, set it in the Mojave Desert, and VOILA! You've got a movie that's more fun than the game.