Poppular Videogame to Become Movie? High Risk of a Flop...

[Gerbil the Sinner]

Originally Posted by TokuNoob

So many movies have flopped lately such as "Eragon" and "Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li". But for all of their shortcomings they aren't bad movies, and certainly don't deserve the label.

...But those ARE bad movies. The Inheritance Cycle pretty much uses every fantasy cliche that ever existed (not to mention copying other, better works) and the Eragon film was a WORSE version of the already terrible book. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li not only had little ties to the source material (while being a genuinely bad story on top of that) but it wasn't even big budgeted, rendering your next point unusual when using this as one of your examples.