Movie-inspired Videogames or Videogame-inspired Movies?

The Walking Dead game comes from the graphic novel.

Edit: Many "old school" movie licensed games were good.

I think i havent played any movie based game apart from The walking dead, and i have to say i loved it!

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie video game for the Sega Genesis is pretty damn good.

Early Harry Potter games are great.

Mortal Kombat? :P

If I had to choose between movie licensed games and terminal illness, I'd take the illness... EVERY GODDAMNED FUCKING TIME!

Why has no one mentioned Wreck-It Ralph yet??? I just saw it this weekend, and it was incredible! The best videogame-related movei I've ever seen! Sure, it's not a video game, but it's a cool love letter to gamers everywhere.

Cheesy or not, I really enjoyed the Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil movies.

Riddick games are good. Also X-Men Origins: Wolverine wasn't bad I believe.

"Telltale games Walking Dead was good, but it was really just a point-and-click adventure."

Just? What?

Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game

super mario the movie(where princess daisy was queen of the lizard people yoshi was a Jurassic park raptor and mario(first and last names) had a brooklyn accent and not once went "weeeheee")
was much more awesome than et the game(most of the copies got a shallow mass grave in the desert somewhere)

Walking Dead is a game based in a comic. And its awesome.

i liked the silent hill movie. the sequel, not so much

Movies based on videogames have always been awful. I can't think of a single notable exception.

Games based on movies can be good. AvP games come to mind. Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena was very good. The new Ghostbusters game seemed to be good (never played it myself)

Batman

Telltale games Walking Dead was good, but it was really just a point-and-click adventure.

What did you expect it to be? A RTS?

not played it myself.. but I thought goldeneye would have been mentioned by now :P

Already on the forum: http://www.steamgifts.com/forum/MmEb9/do-you-know-any-good-games-based-on-movies
Also Telltale's game is based on Robert Kirkman's original comic books, not some movie.
AvP games are mediocore at best. Resident Evil movies are terrible, so is Doom. People watch them for how dumb they are.
Those weren't good examples. There is not much room for discussion either, you can count good movie tie-ins on your hands and they pop up from your search engine.

I thought the Postal movie was great. Yes it was made by the Devil, yes it wasn't exactly like the games, but to me it captured the atmosphere of the games perfectly. Same with Tekken and the Mortal Kombat and Silent Hill movies. As for games,there ARE a few gems, though you really have to search for them. I haven't found them though and goddammit I have been searching hard.

There has yet to be made a good movie based around a video game.Maybe once a director/writter with actual talent and passion for the material comes up maybe then we'll get one.Until then it's all poo straight from the biggest hacks in hollywood and everywhere else.

Batman arkham series

How about Book-inspired Videogames?