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For Your Consideration: Building off Minecraft, here are some other great video game movies
There have been many great video game movies, even if they weren't necessarily what audiences might have expected at the time. We're singing the praises of Doom, Super Mario Bros. and Sonic right here
The wonderful fever dream that is the trailer for A Minecraft Movie is a sign that, even if a film can’t entirely replicate the feeling of a video game entirely, it can certainly come up with a close approximation of the feeling of a game, with some added celebrity star power in the process. (Including Jack Black, judging by the evidence of Minecraft and Super Mario Bros.) Any arguments in the direction of, ‘Now movies can do video games right’ should take a back seat, though, because we’ve been enjoying some great game movies for years. For your consideration, dear friends: three classic video game movies from the past few decades. Yes, I said decades.
This is For Your Consideration, in which we try to come to terms with the inescapable fact that, honestly, there’s too much out there to
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