Well, I'm going to be devil's advocate and defend a few of them.
I only saw the first Resident Evil and for that kinda movie I thought it was fairly good, if rather lacking in 'resi-ness'.
Dead or Alive and Mortal Kombat 1 both did a great job I think, of being a good 'video game movie'. While not being Oscar winners in their own right, they bring across the feel of the game wonderfully, MK in the hyperactive fights with special moves, and Dead or Alive in the sense of girl on girl fight action with added voyeurism, and the 'can you hand me my bra' fight was brilliant.
Postal knew what it was, made no excuses, and I thought wasn't actually BAD as such, especially compared with what Uwe Boll excretes when he's attempting a serious game movie.
Silent Hill at least managed to be kinda creepy, with the dusty, almost monochrome town, although I feel a certain belief in the rumours that Sean Bean was only in it, because they felt they couldn't market a movie like that without a male lead, even tho you could have removed his part and not notice.
I thought Max Payne was, well, above average, I just wish we could ask for more than just 'reasonably good' from a videogame movie.
Streetfighter and Mario Bros, oh and Doom tho, oh dear oh dear. I saw Bloodrayne too, well, parts of it, and it seemed just like a low budget episode of Xena - Warrior Princess with a dye job.
I still don't get why they'd revitalise the Streetfighter franchise only to fail so hard. Look at the animated SF movie, it's sterling stuff, great action, a plot that's followable, and no 'stars' crammed in pointlessly in the hope of selling more tickets. (Kylie and JCVD anyone?) I still sorta feel bad that it was Raul Julia's swansong, he'd have been better going out on the Addams Family sequel than that. (although in fairness I felt he actually made a damn good Bison, and rose above the awfulness of the movie surrounding him.) Oh and Zangief was played well too
I think if Hollywood STILL thinks there's money to be made from creating video game movies, then hell, look to Youtube, and hire some creative people.
I'd have paid good money to see a full length 'Street Fighter - The Later Years'.
If you haven't seen it, its based on the lives of the SF fighters ten years on, Dhalsim is a cab driver, Chun Li is working in a laundry, Guile's selling hot dogs from a van, they've all hit on hard times.
Here's episode one, they're only short, I imagine you could watch the whole series in half an hour.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1711287
