Thread:Winter77/@comment-3526639-20180412125422/@comment-2038153-20180429232644

Well there's also the Pokemon series, Final Fantasy films not named The Spirits Within, Digmon and movies that tie directly into the movies and personally I find Pokemon 3 The Movie to be a rather underrated movie in it's own right and worth checking out.

In fact I do think that Video Games that are Adapted into TV shows usually work mainly because it can incorporate most of the major elements from the story. It also helps that games are made to be more episodic with each level having a more or less self contained story before moving on to the next part of the game.

I think this is one of the reasons that so many video games movies, even ones that are actually good, (few as they are) don't work as the film makers don't know how to translate something that is so against the usual film format as a film, normally, contains 3 to 5 acts that tell a complete story that flow into each other naturally.

However, one thing that always boggles the mind is how in so many cases, like 2018 TR film, how the film makers change things or add things that didn't need to be added or changed. The TR Legacy Fan film got pretty much every major element of the game in without needing to shoe horn in a character who wasn't there before.