I rewatched Bloodsport (because my roommate had never seen it) and it holds up. It’s basically a well done Street Fighter movie.
That scene in The Dark Knight where Joker is on the street and trips and misfires a shotgun always felt very GTA to me, and I read somewhere where Nolan said the game was an inspiration. Not a video game movie but a very video gamey movie moment.
Wasn’t fun sitting next to my little brother wondering WTF with the entire movie…we thought we were getting an actual Mario movie, but instead we got…whatever that abomination was.
Nothing at all against so-bad-it’s-good movies…just this particular one. Rifftrax treatment or nothing 
the moment I fell in love with rich evans:
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I love me some RLM
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I categorically reject those listed in the main article.
errr… live, die, repeat? I guess. I know, i know but it’s so videogamey.
There’s a papers, please short film.
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Obtaining a copy involves serious risk of ending up on the wrong side of the humorless folks at the Treasury’s OFAC for dealings with Specially Designated Nationals; but the best Angry Birds movie is clearly the not-technically-canon-or-Rovio-approved Angry Birds: Nest of Martyrs.
It takes the ludonarrative dissonance common to games, and sometimes overwhelming in game-based movies and runs with it; visually in the artful combination of bold, cheerful, vector graphics and gritty, lo-fi live action footage(some archival, some acted and shot to appear so); and a story whose characters are propelled by their initial acceptance of a implicit narrative frame of scored attainment and enjoyable victory into a series of increasingly dark and ambiguous scenes of vengeance, loss, shock; and grief.
Parents strongly cautioned.
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Anyone considering watching Pixels should first watch this essential takedown, which is for SURE is better than the movie could ever be.
There’s only 1 good video game movie.
Existenz from 1999. Only intelligent games related movie I’ve seen.
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I’m always, always disappointed when I see something like this and the Street Fighter anime film is not mentioned. Save for what was clearly unnecessary in that shower scene, the film was tight, had good action, and the plot actually wasn’t half bad.
Why not a movie that’s not based off a video game, but one where real life is the video game: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
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Video game anime are often in a different class entirely.
I’ve seen 48 of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 49 english language movies (and yes I include Breakin’ where he is only on screen for 8 seconds clapping along while the main character dances and still dominates the movie) and Bloodsport isn’t anywhere near his best. It isn’t even his best man-fights-in-world-stereotype-martial-arts-contest-that-Frank-Dux-claims-was-based-on-his-utterly-fabricated-life movie, which was The Quest.
Please, please watch the 2008 JCVD, van Damme for the art house. It will awaken an appreciation for the man.
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This is a good answer 
Live, Die, Repeat also known as Edge of Tomorrow is Halo meets Groundhog Day meets mecha
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I don’t see why. I mean, similar to live action video game films, most of them suck. I think we should celebrate all of the standouts.
I thought the Prince of Persia film was fairly decent.
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Ahem!
Bloodsport II
If we’re going to talk about more general “game” movies then Wargames and Clue would be up for voting too.
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Plus Tron, the Last Starfighter and Wreck it Ralph.
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