Video Game Movie Marathon.

On this episode of the Hollywood Video Guys podcast Mike, Don and Randy are joined by Legion Gamings Deucey for a discussion about movies based on Video games. Video game movies has seen a renaissance over the past few years with films like Detective Pikachu, Sonic and the Super Mario Brothers movie, but the genre was not always the money maker it is today. Listen as the crew takes you through the history of video game movies. First, the guys talk about the origin of video game movies including the first live action video game movie Super Mario Brothers (10:15). Next your HVG crew examine video game movies through the early 2000’s with films like Tomb Raider and Resident Evil (35:00). Lasly, we end with the present state of video game movies (45:00). After, the HVG crew and Deucey discuss video games they’d like to see turned into movies, movies they’d like to see turned into video games, and finally each host will rank their top 5 favorite video game movies of all time (1:09:00). 

 

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