Episode 59 - Video Game Movies

Nothing wastes your time and money quite like a movie based on a video game. Even if by some miracle one manages to kinda- sorta get it right, the overall experience is still uniquely disappointing - even downright pointless. It’s a bit like watching your friends play video games all night because they are hogging the controller, but you are too lazy to find new friends. We talk the highs and lows of the oddball film sub-genre that refuses to die, even though it has repeatedly given us every reason to believe it should. 0:00 Intros 6:00 Downsizing 10:11 Mission Impossible Fallout 16:09 Extinction (Netflix) 20:50 Adam Ant 27:40 Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast 29:10 Tokyo Drifter 31:28 Video Game movies 34:10 Super Mario Bros. The Movie 38:25 Double Dragon 40:43 Mortal Kombat 47:30 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) 53:25 Uwe Boll 58:46 Game mechanics in movies 1:02:23 Warcraft 1:04:00 Assassin’s Creed 1:04:33 Resident Evil 1:08:30 Street Fighter The Movie 1:14:07 Hitman 1:17:19 D.O.A. Dead or Alive 1:20:35 closing thoughts Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl The Immortals - Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Rolfe Kent - The Tiny City Beckons / Estate Sale - Downsizing (Music from the motion picture) Liberty Medical - Wilford Brimley on Diabetes Lorne Balfe - Mission: Accomplished - Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Music from the motion picture) Limp Bizkit - Take A Look Around (Mission: Impossible 2) Pharsalus - Side-And-Chain (Extinction original soundtrack) Glam Skanks - Bad Bitch Adam Ant - Live banter in Cleveland 2018 Tokyo Drifter (trailer) Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Wendy Carlos - Tron Scherzo - Tron (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Bobby Albert - Super Mario Bros. Main Title Fatboy Slim - Illuminati (featuring Bootsy Collins) - Tomb Raider Ramin Djawadi - Warcraft (Original motion picture soundtrack) Flyleaf - I’m So Sick (T-Virus Remix) - Resident Evil: Extinction Original motion picture soundtrack Henry Jackman - Arcaders ‘82 - Pixels original motion picture soundtrack