Then and Now

There have been five live-action 'Resident Evil' films made, and it wasn't until the most recent ('Resident Evil: Retribution'), that all the main characters from the video game series were finally introduced. Over the past decade, Paul W.S. Anderson has been doing his best to damage the brand Capcom has so carefully curated since Resident Evil arrived on the PlayStation in 1996. Since 2002, no fi

In 1999, video game cinema was not much more different than it is now. In short, it was terrible. One of the leading guilty parties was 'Wing Commander,' an adaptation of the extremely popular PC space-shooter franchise. While the video sequences for the games starred the likes of Mark Hamill and Malcom McDowell, the feature could only draw actors from the severely less talented pool of teen heart

Girls. Martial arts. Bikinis. Eric Roberts. It was a recipe for success. The end result however was a hilarious disaster, the likes of which could never be replicated again. 'DOA: Dead or Alive,' based on Team Ninja's and Tecmo's voluptuous fighter, brought together a mishmash of some of the most beautiful ladies on the planet and forced them into an action flick they had absolutely no business be

Seven years ago, the world was forever changed by one brilliant movie. That movie was not 'Bloodrayne.' No, 'Bloodrayne' was something more. It may not have won any awards or acclaim, but 'Bloodrayne' was destined for greatness of a different sort. As the product of one of the most infamous directors of our generation, 'Bloodrayne' set a new standard for the absolute bare minimum we could expect f

In 2006, TriStar finally wizened up and developed a film based on Konami's horror classic Silent Hill. Written by former inmate and 'Pulp Fiction' co-screenwriter Roger Avary, 'Silent Hill' was actually not a bad adaptation of a video game. Shot in Centralia, PA, where an underground mine fire has been burning since 1962, 'Silent Hill' may have spent a little too much time pontificating the arcane

Nearly twenty years ago, Street Fighter II was one of the most popular arcade games across the world. As such, it made sense to try and capitalize on that success with a movie tie-in. Universal Pictures tapped the writer of 'Die Hard' and 'The Running Man' to adapt the game into a feature. The results were less than stellar. While 'Street Fighter: The Movie' still has some cult classic status with

There once was a time when the name Uwe Boll was synonymous with video game movies. It was not a good time. However, in spite of the lack of success of these adaptations, Boll managed to fund several different film franchises based on relatively popular video game series. While some of the films made sense to bring to the big screen, no one was asking for the Postal movie to get made. Still, that

Coupled with bullet time shooting, the Max Payne video games were highlights of the early 2000s. The same could not be said for the movie adaptation that came out in 2008.

In 1994, someone decided it would be a great idea to turn Double Dragon into a film. It wasn't a terrible idea in theory. Kung-fu action flicks always find an audience, and there was definitely potential in the story of two brothers taking down a crime kingpin to rescue a girl. That potential was completely squandered by the geniuses behind 'Double Dragon.' Nearly 20 years later, let's take a look

Lara Croft returned earlier this year, re-establishing her cred as one of the premiere leading ladies in gaming. However, Lara's stock may never have been higher than it was a little over a decade ago when she inspired not one, but two feature films. Now, twelve years after her first silver screen adventure, we take a look back at 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' and 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle o