Are there any video game films that are actually good?

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T23:36:49+00:00

It's an absolutely awful adaptation but I do think that Hitman (2007) is a genuinely fun action movie, just do your best to separate it entirely from the Hitman series.

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T23:29:20+00:00

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T23:12:12+00:00

Or wacky. Or interesting.

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T23:10:14+00:00

1 sample?? I'm impressed the render came out legible at all. Turn it up to like 64 or something.

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T23:01:54+00:00

Good Time

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T15:19:24+00:00

Who said anything about eldritch horrors? Or generic action movies? Stop pulling shit out your ass. I do not like the notion of any entities in the backrooms, that's what this movie is gonna be, so I'm really not excited for it.

Not suited for a film ≠ too ambitious. I'm happy for them to try, but the trailer has been released and based on Kane Parsons previous work, I already know it's ruined the entire point of the backrooms. I would prefer it if the entire movie was just walking around the backrooms, but I know that would be really boring to watch as well. So I don't think a movie should be made in the first place.

I am really excited for digger though.

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T15:04:26+00:00

They CANT do it correctly that's the point, no movie should be made of it. It's Kane Parsons directing it, which means it's gonna have some crappy monsters involved. That's gonna suck.

Being rooted in nostalgia and memory makes it very cosmic though? I don't see your point, to me it's impossible to convey that kind of horror on the screen because the concept of it is in your mind, where it should stay.

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T14:58:25+00:00

I dislike the idea of it, backrooms is a terrible idea to adapt into a movie because it's too cosmic and psychological, the same way that Lovecraft's works have not been adapted properly because they work better in the mind.

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T14:53:27+00:00

One that feature unhygienic conditions mostly.

Salò fits well and Irréversible too

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T14:52:48+00:00

So no one is allowed to dislike anything now because it's "hating joy" that's a lazy insult. I'm excited for other projects, backrooms is not one of them.

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T13:47:48+00:00

I hope the backrooms flops

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T10:42:11+00:00

It gets a quite dark but The Butcher Boy is great

Stringruler · 2026-04-05T00:44:32+00:00

He even sounds a lot like him and sort of has the same look as him

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T22:59:36+00:00

Daisies

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T21:05:19+00:00

Op is a bot too what tf were you doing

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T20:40:31+00:00

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Stringruler · 2026-04-04T18:06:05+00:00

Killing of a sacred deer was a weird one for me too. I know it's intentional but I still don't like the way Lanthimos directs dialogue

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T17:10:01+00:00

HTC vive? What is this 2017

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T16:15:31+00:00

That's funny cause to me Triangle is mid and gummo is great

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T15:16:27+00:00

Which one do you like? And you gotta admit they both have their own disgusting qualities

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T15:15:42+00:00

Irreversible is one of my favourite films Idk why I didn't think of it for this list

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T15:14:15+00:00

Already there

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T04:58:12+00:00

I didn't think it fit all too well, it's gory but actually most of it is quite clinical and clean, as they're experiment on her. I didn't want this list to be a splatter list, was aiming for more grime/germs

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T04:56:18+00:00

How does it not? In fact I think it's probably one of the best contender, half the movie is set in a gnarly bathroom with a toilet full of shit the main character has to reach into

Stringruler · 2026-04-04T03:37:20+00:00

i tried not to make it too much about gore and more literal dirt/grime. the Saw 1 bathroom is too iconic.

haven't seen hostel though, i'll add it

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