What sucked more? Movies based on games or games based on movies?

Street Fighter and Tekken movies were bad. I enjoyed fF:Spirits Within when I was young and it was released, even though I thought it had nothing to do with FF. Wasn't there a Silent Hill movie, or was that just speculated? The second RE movie is just two girls in skimpy outfits blowing up zombies, it's a pretty Hollywood-blockbuster-generic-man-boner movie. That's all I got off the top of my head. I almost always avoid movie games so I honestly can't say that way around. I do LOVE Lego: Star Wars, though.

Edit: I guess IMO the games suck more, at least in my previous experience; enough so that at some point I stopped playing them altogether. I might expect less from a movie, though.

There are good and bad examples of both. Mostly bad both ways.

But the Mortal Kombat movie is awesome :)

Movies based on Games are usually bad,while games based on movies in most cases are not bad ;)

I liked the 5th Element game. Awesome game based on a movie.

Besides, I haven't see a SINGLE good game-based movie . all of them are a piece of shit. (I'm looking directly at you, Resident Evil)

I was really disappointed with the Max Payne Movie :(

Uwe Boll. Need I say more?

Edit: I did like Rampage, a lot. Which is also one of his few non-game inspired movies. Coincidence?

What about games based on a movie that was based on a game? :p

Some games based on movies have been good. No movie based on a game has been good.

There hasn't been a single truly good movie made from a video game.So yeah I think movies definitely has the worse ordeal.

The Prince of Persia movie was ok, the same for Tekken: Blood vengeance... Other then that there are no movies based onbgames which I tought that where good.

But this movie looks good!

They both suck equally .

A game based on a movie which is based on a game. How about them apples?

From my understanding the riddick games were extremely good. I never played them myself, yet. The silent hill films were pretty crap imo. The resi evil films started great, I loved the first, but they did go downhill after that. Most films based on games seem to just share the name mostly and the rest has nothing to do with it. I also agree with tdc, I enjoyed FF: SW when it released, it was a great step in showing how good cgi could be, for a film released in 2001 it looked amazing. Just a shame it was recieved so poorly .

Games based on movies based on games: this

I am not so sure. Games based on movies are normaly cheap and movies based on games they just destroy the plot.

Tron, sort of, the gameplay of not crossing other players lines were around before the movie.

games made of books... they need to be mentioned as well :)

Absolutely games based on movies, there are a ton of decent games based on movies, like the Star Wars games. Good movies based on games? Few, really few.

Both. Licensed video games just suck so hard.

Games based on movies i enjoyed: Reservoir Dogs, The Godfather, Scarface and the LOTR games.

And movies based on games i enjoyed : Resident Evil series, Doom, Silent Hill and Max payne.

I am okay with the whole licensed video games thing, but theres alot of them i did not like.

Yes.

Can I add Back to the Future and Indiana Jones games and Ace Attorney movie to the list of counterexamples?

Games based on movies by a lot.

Personally I feel when they make games intomovies they come out pretty alright, sure you got the really hardcore fans bitching about tiny details or how this and this happened in the game and not in the movie but in general movies like Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and whatever else seem pretty alright.

I would like a Mass Effect movie, I always wanted to see a Devil May Cry one also....

Movies to games... Almost no good. The opposite, yeah.