We finally got a story involving the two heavy-hitters, Mew and Mewtwo. Oh, to be stuck in the 90s with practically no way to explore such rumors. The rumor mill insisted that this was really Pikablu and that it would play a huge role in the next generation. The film started with a short episode that featured only Pokémon, including Marill. We had the first generation games, cards, toys, cartoons, and the promise of the second generation game in the works. Pokémon mania was reaching a fever pitch when this movie was released. Best: Pokémon: The First Movie (1998) Oh, I broke him The only thing that makes this movie worth watching is when you realize that the guy playing Shao Khan was Buffalo Bob in Joe Dirt. The new crop of characters mostly looked bad and they somehow acted worse. Some of the worst scenes include every single one with Sindel and the final battle with animalities. The “Raiden becomes a mortal” storyline was bafflingly stupid and only furthered an embarrassingly convoluted plot. Not only is Mortal Kombat: Annihilation probably the worst video game movie from the 90s, it might just be the worst thing I’ve ever laid eyes on. Worst: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) No, really. The film was one of the first good entries into live-action video game movies. Some of the fights were pretty neat, like Kano and Sonya, and others were a little off the mark, like Goro and Johnny Cage.Īs far as films go, this one was palatable as a second-rate effort, but you can tell that the production team actually cared enough to look at the video game before starting. The visual effects were not great for the time, but that didn’t stop me from loving Scorpion and Sub-Zero’s special moves. The casting was good for some characters (Shang Tsung was the best, by far) and not so good for others (The Highlander was a weird choice for Raiden). The movie was a live-action adaptation of a video game that vaguely followed the meager storyline from the first game. People were spreading rumors and using their toys to reenact fights- it was a madhouse. When the news of this movie’s arrival spread across the playground at my school, kids went nuts. Mortal Kombat arrived in theaters when the frenzy over the titular fighting game was at its height. We’re going to take a look at five of the best and five of the worst video game movies from the 90s to see what the film industry got right and what they did wrong. The worst movies were the travesties that tried to ring a few bucks out of video game lovers and failed at even that. The best movies made an effort to appeal to the audience without insulting them or the games they are based on. Now, I’m not going to rate these games for their contributions to cinema or anything like that. Other video game movies were so bad that they should have never seen the light of day. Some of them were cool because you could see your favorite video game characters on the silver screen with all-new stories. And I mean “awesome” in both the modern and medieval ways. A larger number of households had a console at home, and people were still flooding into arcades.Īs video games continued to gain popularity, moviemakers looking to capitalize on the biggest hits started writing scripts. Video games were becoming more mainstream in the 1990s. June 23, 2021Jby Kyle Glatz In Uncategorized Leave a comment
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