Why Do Video Game Movies Suck? - #7

​Blumhouse Productions plants $5 million in the ground, waits a few months until a scary movie like Get Out blooms from the earth and then they pick their tens of millions of dollars in profit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

​Kong Skull Island is supposed to be the return of the great monster movies. But did they ever leave? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

The Video Game Adaptation Curse is a real thing, because Hollywood is stupid. Apparently, it's impossible for Hollywood creatives to take a great video game's story and just make a live action version of it. No, they have to ruin it by putting all their dumb ideas into ...

Movies based on video games don't exactly have the best track record. We've had a few cult hits, and some critical success, but should we abandon hope on getting a truly exceptional video game film?

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We discuss this big budget adaptation of one of the scariest video games of all time.