Video Game Movies Are Good Now, Actually
This is gonna seem like a weird starting point when Uncharted: The Movie: Based on the Video Game Push by Sapphire just got reviews I’d call “usually normal for a video game movie” and “honestly, not that bad for a video game movie.” By all accounts, Uncharted is a by-the-books action film that respects the material but doesn’t know how to make itself more exciting than, you know, actually playing the Uncharted games.
It’s also another example in the long-held belief that video game movies suck. Immediate reaction I have from friends is there being some curse on one fun thing being turned into another fun thing. And I definitely understand! I was nine when the Super Mario Bros. movie came out. I walked to the mall movie theater alone with another nine-year-old friend - and that theater was not close. It was a different time when two idiot children could walk along a busy four-lane street to go to the movies without telling anyone.
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That movie sucked, and even my nine-year-old self knew it. It had the feeling of a movie that didn’t want to be about its subject matter. That if this weird action sci-fi thing could escape the prison of the Mario franchise, it would’ve been something kinda cool. It wasn’t the first bad video game movie, but boy did it cement them as something in which being bad was the rule, not the exception.
People said the same for the all-too-maligned Street Fighter movie. It’s weird! Nothing makes sense! The characters all act like they’re on cocaine! But that’s what Street Fighter is! Okay, the last one is because Jean-Claude Van Damme reportedly was on cocaine. But for the rest - that is Street Fighter. It’s a series of weird people who are martial
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