No you can't. A book is much more like a movie than a video game, and the Lego Movie was good because it used Lego as a way to explore wider topics. Very poor comparison.

And Batty, you know Alone in the Dark is a classic.

I have very much been meaning to watch that. Also to play the first game. Thank god for DOSBox, an actual MS DOS emulator.

OK, so video games have stories, characters, settings, and plots. So do books. Toys, I cna understand. Oh, by the way, you might want to look up Metal Gear Solid Philanthropy, which is said to be one of the best fanfilms ever made.

If you're going to say toys are better suitable for making movies, that really doesn't make any sense. The reason why video games are often poorly adapted are because they are usually geared towards fans and made by fans. In terms of 90's movies like Mario or Double Dragon or Street Fighter, it was extremely hard to capture the fictional feel of the games because they were taking a more realistic approach or because the movie was an official one made by fans who got the rights and have had little to no moviemaking experience, hence bad directing, casting, and special effects.

Still, I'd say Prince of Persia was actually quite good. Never played the games, but an enjoyable enough adventure. Could've been better, but also way worse. The only toys I can think of that has a series and a full on plot geared towards fans is Bionicle. Lego had to invent its own story for the Lego Movie, and it made constant pop culture referrences due to Lego's connections with other franchises they can sell as Legos, like DC, Star Wars, LOTR, and Ninja Turtles.

There's a reason why there are more popular video game movies than toy movies (unless you count direct to video kids movie series like Barbie or Hot Wheels, which really don't get enough notoriety to be considered good or bad). The video game these days have the capability to use CGi and other moviemaking aspects to try to make an official movie. Still, most of them are simple money grabs, so that was really what these movies are sadly going for. I will say this, Bratz: The Movie gets a far worse reputation than any video game movier I can think of, even Super Mario Bros. So there's that.

As a bit of a sidebar: What's your favorite movie that contains the word DARK in its title?

The Dark Knight would be an easy off the top of the head pick but I'm going with Dark City.

I didn't say toys were more suitable. I said I don't care if a movie accurately depicts a video game because when they try to hard to gear the movie towards fans of the games it ends up being a steaming pile of **** for anybody who isn't a fan of the game. I think toys are a different conversation because again, they are different than a video game, as are books. I'm not saying there aren't exceptions either, but as a general rule most video game movies don't fair very well.

Too easy, Army of Darkness.

Not really a rule as much of a theme.

As for Dark, Dark Knight and Dark City are both perfect IMO, but Dark Knight takes the cake.

Zero Dark Thirty was definitely too long, but was some quality ****. Some people might complain that it was right wing, but I just think it was stark and uncompromising, but without drawing any actual moral conclusions.

Donnie Darko

"My name is Chula, and I approve of this message."

The Do-Over

It's on Netflix. I like Adam Sandler and David Spade. It's not the greatest movie ever made but it's pretty good for a movie with the two actors in it. The premise is pretty good and it's done pretty well. Definitely better than I expected it to be. Probably best as a movie in the background or a late night watch.

HBO's Hacking Democracy (2006)



I'm seriously going to have trouble sleeping tonight.

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Adam ****ing Sandler.

There's nothing worse than Adam Sandler apologists.

I'm not sorry for that.

I bet you think that Melissa McCarthy should be allowed to make movies, too.

Wouldn't trust people who hate Kung Pow & Good Burger. I like Mr. Deeds, so I'll watch any Adam Sandler movie with "screw Rotten Tomatoes" in mind.

If a comedy makes me laugh, its job's done. I'ma say it, and I'm not apologizing because I'm glad I can enjoy it. Mr. Deeds was good. 8/10.

Ya same, there was an Adam Sandler death hoax the other day on Facebook and I'm slightly upset it was just a hoax.

i watched murmur of the heart/le souffle au coeur (1971) and it was ****in brilliant 10/10

i need to watch the rest of louis malle's filmography

I confess to getting a couple of laughs out of the wedding singer but I can't think of any other Sandler movie where he hasn't just played an annoying, obnoxious dick.

Funny People is worth not apologizing over. And PDL.

Have you seen the movie SPY? It's piss your pants funny. Her bits in Bridesmaids are also comedic gold.

Gattaca.

Not sure why it took so long to check this out. A bit dated but still a killer SF flick. Really cool seeing Hawke, Law, and Thurman when they were still young and hungry.

Bridesmaids was comedy pyrite.

If you didn't laugh at the food poisoning scene, or her advances on the air Marshall on the plane then you have no funny bone.

One more thing you have none of.

american comedy movies are not funny especially ones starring adam sandler

She tries waaaaaaay too hard to be funny mate and she falls flat on her fat face.

This is one of the funniest scenes I've seen in ages. Much better in the full context of the movie though. And everyone is trying too hard in this scene. That's what makes it so funny.

You need to watch some funnier movies brother.

Next you are going to tell me that Airplane sucked?

No but I watched Spy Hard the other day and kind of wished I hadn't.

Really man, McCarthy has never failed to make me cringe. And not in a good Peep Show/The Office kind of way.

If anyone is missing something it's you for thinking she's ever played a funny role. Every single movie I've seen her in has had the EXACT same poorly wrote bits. I get it, she's fat, ha ha let's laugh at how fat she is, oh look now she's stupid hehe, oh check it now she's acting like a man lol wow!!!

Here to jump on the melissa mccarthy is awful train

Watched through season 1 of Scream the TV Series with my girl and actually really liked it, which inspired me to watch through Screams 1-4 again (one of my all-tome favorite series). I'd rank them 1>4>2>>>>>>>>3

My ranking would be more like 1>

So you havent watched the rest??

Yup, and that's the role she's gonna keep on playing. i didn't mind it as much in Bridesmaids because it was the 1st time ive seen her do that role and because she was just a supporting character but then in every other movie she kept playing that same role.

She makes me laugh. Shoot me.

The first few times it's fun. But she gets really annoying quick.