movies inspired by games

Assassin’s Creed – Lineage – (2009 movie)

2016-01-01

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Assassin's Creed - Lineage (2009) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587390/
was assassinscreedlineage.uk.ubi.com (Flash)

An assassin, that everyone knows, does some assassiny things but everyone knows him.

This is basically a long intro to a video game. While not bad, it’s not good. It is rife with over-acting and it felt confused to me. I didn’t stay interested.

I see there are other shorts, but I’m not going to watch them.

This is a series of three short films.
This is the actual series, not the CGI one.
The CGI series is:
Properly titled Assassin’s Creed: Lineage.

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Metroid – The Sky Calls – (2015 short)

2015-11-09

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5183582/
https://youtu.be/x3kfyZJhC3U

Receiving a signal from her now-dead foster-parent race, Samus Aran investigates.

There is no plot. It’s confusing and ugly. Do not watch this.

Properly titled Metroid: The Sky Calls
See also Metroid the video game.
A Sam R. Balcomb film.

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Pixels – (2015 movie)

2015-09-25

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2120120/
pixels-movie.com

A time capsule shot into space back in 1982 is received as a declaration of war by aliens, who respond with multiple waves of 1980s video games-made-real, which only lifetime-loser video game nerds can face.

Uh. From the ground up, this movie cannot work. It’s a kids movie which relies upon the nostalgia only a handful of middle-aged men might have but hopefully won’t.