Veel films die gebaseerd zijn op videogames zijn pure bagger, en daar zijn oa Double Dragon (1994) en Super Mario Bros uit 1993. goede voorbeelden van. Maar zo nu en dat verschijnen er ook een verfilmingen die wel heel tof zijn, daarom heeft de website Dorkly.com deze top zeven gemaakt. Het was moeilijk om er één uit te kiezen, want eigenlijk zijn ze allemaal heel sterk. Maar mijn favoriet is toch wel:

2. Mortal Kombat

This entry is debatable, I won't deny that. As one of those "so bad it's good" films of the '90s, this is a cult classic for just about anyone who's seen it. Sure, it ultimately destroyed the careers of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Robin Shou, who could never be thought of as anything but Shang Tsung and Liu Kang respectively, but you don't see people calling Star Wars terrible for ruining Mark Hamill's future prospects or Jurassic Park for marking Sam Neil as "Hey, it's that guy who played Dr. Grant."

The movie respects the lore and characters of the MK universe so well that future iterations of Kano in-game were modeled to reflect the performance of late actor Trevor Goddard. It's useless to resist his Aussie charms, ladies. He's studied all your moves. But fellas, don't feel left out. If you ever want to impress a woman, just take a tip from good ol' Johnny C and be a total douche. Because that's how he do.

Come on, you can't tell me you didn't run around in some trees after watching this when you were little, pretending you were fighting the mighty Scorpion. That's why the Mortal Kombat movie is one of the best videogame films: it satisfied our fantasies of seeing our favorite characters come to life, and in return we acted out scenes from the film ad nauseum.