Opinion: Video game movies need to stop sucking

Sad news today as another Hitman movie was announced. Why is it sad news you might ask? Hitman is an incredible game series, and although the first movie adaptation of it was atrocious, the second may have some potential.

Well, I'm sad to say that the second movie adaptation of the fantastic game series will probably be worse than the first. The reason for my quick judgement is that our beloved Agent 47 will be played by another talentless hack of an actor, Paul Walker.

Olyphant doesn't even look like a convincing 47

If Timothy Olyphant's dull performance wasn't bad enough, now Paul Walker will slap a bar code on the back of his head and give a performance that will most likely be flatter than the pancakes I ate this morning. This should come as no surprise though seeing that this kind of thing happens all of the time.



In all fairness, the actor doesn't necessarily make or break a movie. Any movie buff knows that the writing is the most important aspect of a great film. Without a great script, you have a shit movie. Cinematography, costume design, effects and the score of a movie are also important aspects of making a great film. A good example of this is Gran Torino. I don't think I've ever seen a movie that good when the acting was so bad.

That should explain why movie adaptations of video games that actually cast good actors (Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia and Mark Whalberg in Max Payne), still end up being god awful. Those are two of the worst movies that I have ever seen, and it was mainly due to a bad script that wasn't true to the video game. Also, although I consider Whalberg and Gyllenhaal to be good actors, I don't think either of them were the right choices to play their respective roles in either of those films.

Disgraceful

It doesn't just stop with movie adaptation of video games though. Recently, an atrocious movie titled N00bz was released. The movie is a gross over exaggeration of gamer culture and a disgrace to cinema. In fact, the movie pissed me off so much that I couldn't finish it. For more information on this piece of garbage, read this article from Gameinformer.

Hollywood needs to step up and put out a quality video game film. Why should they though? They can just put out a piece of crap and people will go see it because of the name. It's up to us as gamers to protest these movies by simply not paying money to see them. I may seem like a bit of a hypocrite by saying that, but the truth is, I've never paid to see one of these shitty adaptations of great video games and I sure as hell didn't pay to see N00bz.