Poll: Is "Wreck-it Ralph" the best ever video game movie?

[Fatboy_41]

I'm gonna vote for a movie that hasn't been made yet, but damn well needs to be. There is a book called Ready Player One which anyone that grew up in the 80's needs to read. It's basically a nostalgia trip through 80's pop culture all based around "players" searching for an Easter egg that's been placed in a world wide virtual reality game/world called The Oasis.

For extra awesomeness, the audio book is narrated by Wil Wheaton.

 

[afroebob]

Best video game movie? Yes. Best movie based on a video game? Doesn't count, obviously. It is a video game movie, thats undeniable (just because its undeniable it doesn't mean tons of people won't deny it anyways) but it is obviously not based on a video game.

 

[Negatempest]

I know some people "may" not agree with what I say, but deep down they know what I am about to say is truth.


The Pokemon movies are the best movies based on a video game. It very much stays true to it's source as close as possible. Also the people who only played the video games can talk with the people who only watched the anime/movies and know what is going on. So yeah, Pokemon.

 

[zumbledum]

well i was born in the 70's so the winner for me would have to be either tron or wargames , wreck it ralph wasn't bad though.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

I loved the movie. The smile plastered on my face wouldn't dissipate for a full five minutes after leaving the theater.

That said, I don't believe it falls into the category of "video game movie" that we're all familiar with. The idea generally refers to a movie adaptation of a game, not just a movie about video games or that heavily references a myriad of games.

 

[Evil Smurf]

wreck it ralph was fucking hilarious. Sarah Silverman shone. However:

The Pokemon movies

Nothing has beaten that.

I just want a tetris movie.

 

[9of9]

Wreck-It Ralph was a pretty great movie, but for me personally, not the top video game movie. I'd probably go with Cronenberg's exIstenZ, so long as we're allowed to go with movies about video games, rather than movies based on video games.

The best thing about Wreck-It Ralph is that it works really well as an allegory (and a positive one at that) about playing video games. Ralph stands in for an average guy who's not happy with his lot in life, who ends up escaping into playing games (to the point that he stops coming into work), obsessed by the need to feel some kind of sense of accomplishment that he can't get in real life. And he succeeds, but not because he wins a medal in a game, but because he meets other people through playing games and helps them out with their problems, while they help him out with his.]

Even while a lot of it is a bit too sugary for me, it's pretty awesome seeing such a strong message about games

I'm gonna vote for a movie that hasn't been made yet, but damn well needs to be. There is a book called Ready Player One which anyone that grew up in the 80's needs to read. It's basically a nostalgia trip through 80's pop culture all based around "players" searching for an Easter egg that's been placed in a world wide virtual reality game/world called The Oasis.

For extra awesomeness, the audio book is narrated by Wil Wheaton.

Hmm, if we're going to go with movies that don't exist as of yet, I'd have to vote for Prince of Gosplan, a short story by the awesomely surreal Russian author Viktor Pelevin. Pelevin and Mechner really need to get together and get that thing to the screen already! It's a story of a man working at the offices of the Government Planning bureau in Moscow, in the latter days of Communism, as seen through a playthrough of the original Prince of Persia. Along the way, he runs into other Soviet civil servants, enmeshed in their own games.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I'm leaning towards yes because it's about video-games. I find it a bit silly to restrict the genre of 'video-game movies' to pre-existing video-games.

This is my opinion. As a game about video games, it certainly beats Gamer.

 

[Sandernista]

Yeah.... I kind of had Samus pegged as a carefree type who's eager for adventure and loves doing what she does. I guess I was wrong.

I haven't played Other M, but her characterization in the Manga, and Fusion peg her as an incredibly cold mercenary. Not really by choice as she watched her family and race obliterated by Ridley right before her eyes.

OT: I freakin loved Eradicate it Eric, that and Demolish it Derek, blew Wreck it Ralph out of the water. Despite not being video game adaptations they were pretty damn fine movies.

(Also to everyone saying WiR is too kiddy, and then praise Tron need to go watch both movies again)

 

[Zanderinfal]

I honestly don't think it counts strictly as a video game movie, just a video game themed movie. I still haven't seen it, but I am planning on it after I watch the backlog of other films I have been awaiting to watch/re-watch.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm leaning towards yes because it's about video-games. I find it a bit silly to restrict the genre of 'video-game movies' to pre-existing video-games.

If that's the case the winner is clear: Tron.

OP: It doesn't count. To be a "video game movie" it needs to be based on a video game franchise. (eg. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, etc...)

I think Scott Pilgrim vs. The World remains my favorite "videogame movie".

That's actually a comic book movie that is loaded with video game humour.

I know that but watching it I got the kind of kick I always expect but never get from videogame movies.

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

I think not. Most of the film takes place in generic fantasy land five or whatever that place was called, and has nothing at all to do with videogames. Besides, I didn't enjoy it. Aside from my annoyances with the setting, the film in general felt really unimaginative. Nearly everything and everyone, once they're done showing off the grid (that's what it was called, right?) in the first few minutes, look like they could easily slot into just about any Disney channel show. The plot wasn't great either, but to be fair, you don't really go see animated Disney films for the plot.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Nope. Not even close. What was advertised as a nostalgia trip for gamers turned out to be a generic animated kids movie that barely used any licensed characters past 30 minutes in. I think most "gamers" were disappointed when the movie was set mostly in "Sugar Rush"'s world.



I'd highly nominate Community's video game episode as the best video game episode of television though. It did in 22 minutes what Wreck It Ralph couldn't do at feature length. It made video game humour specifically FOR gamers. The only other show to do that was Code Monkeys.

 

[FalloutJack]

There's a video game movie and a movie based on the plot of a game. Since this is the notion of the people who play the part of the games and their lives outside of the screenplay, it's fair to say that Wreck-It Ralph is the former. It's a game ABOUT video games, as though they were world and livelyhoods of their own. And how they handle it? VERY good.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

I can't really judge whether or not it is the best, since I haven't seen all video game movies.
In fact, I think it's the only one.
But it's definitely the best I've seen.
Obviously, since it is the only one.

 

[Pinkamena]

It's difficult to say, but I voted "yes". I don't think we should limit the definition of "video game movies" to movies about pre-existing games.

 

[Jayemsal]

No.

The movie is far from the best, far from good, in fact.

I was repulsed by the massive amount of pandering that the film entailed, and the completely formula nature of it.

Sloppy, Poorly executed pandering, the lot of it.

I did not approve.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I suppose it would all really depend on what you consider to be a "video game movie". If you mean a movie about video games, then yeah, Wreck-it-Ralph is a really good video game movie.

 

[MajorTomServo]

Hell no.

First of all, I didn't like that it marketed itself as 'the Roger Rabbit' of video games, when 70% of the movie is candy puns and has little to nothing to do with video games. Aside from that, it was boring, chiché, and an all around disappointment.