2006-06-26 17:22:12 · 5 answers · asked by Mike R 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Comic books often have a vast array of characters in them, both good and evil. Due to the large volume of unique characters this leads to better screenplays due to more content. Remember the X-men trilogy, the biggest compliant was not about the movie plot lines, but rather "My favorite X-man was left out." or " Wolverine would have never acted that way." Video games on the other hand, usually feature the character that is played by the gamer and that character simply faces a horde of enemies and their evil leader, especially in the Nintendo/Super Nintendo era. With the lack of a good back story writers seem to grasp and write ideas that usually were never apart of the video game universe. Thus screenplays seem to focus on bizarre situations that never happened in the video game, such as the Super Mario Bros. movie where Bowser is a blond haired human? Thus the complaint of a video game based movie is usually: Gee, that movie was nothing like the video game.
Video game movies also have a problem with their audience. Do you make the movie for little kids, (who Hollywood prolly feels are playing the majority of kids) or make it for teenagers and young adults (who prolly wouldn't be caught dead in a movie theater by their peers and/or girlfriend). This leads to some confusion on what direction to make the movie.
2006-07-01 19:13:57 · answer #1 · answered by Marked for Death 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's because comic book movies have been around allot longer and have more scenarios and background than most video game movies. Also most video game movies rely to much on special effects and have terrible scripts and plots.
2006-06-27 01:00:32 · answer #2 · answered by cyezero 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause comic book movies are alot better than viedo game movies because most video games come form a movie or a comic book.
2006-06-27 00:26:17 · answer #3 · answered by totalstuff8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because no good directors have ever directed any video game movies till just recently....plus comic book characters are much more familiar
2006-06-27 02:23:30 · answer #4 · answered by oultawstar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because there is more of a story behind most comic book movies.. plus alot of ppl have read them so that makes them popular too.
2006-06-27 00:25:59 · answer #5 · answered by tansyangeni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋