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Movie adaptations of videogames have a fairly infamous reputation for being...well, let's be honest, terrible. But surely an entire genre can't be written off? Of the hundreds made so far, there must be a few good ones, right? Join hosts Jamie and Rory as they suffer through the seemingly endless sea of bad videogame movies in search of the few diamonds in the rough. There will be laughs, tears (mostly from Jamie) and nerdy details nobody could possibly care about! Let us suffer through thes ...
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Relive one of the classic VGMP episodes this week as we bring you our popular episode DOOM refreshed and re-edited to improve your listening experience. Karl Urban and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson star in this action flick adapting the classic PC game DOOM. The Rock plays against type by portraying the movies villain and the movie makes the bold choic…
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Amazon's Yakuza series continues with the next two episodes of the show based on Sega's hit gaming franchise. As both timelines progress we start to see how the decisions made in youth lead Kiryu to his position in the present day. Meanwhile Nishkiyami is making power moves as head of the family, but is he in over his head? Hosted on Acast. See aca…
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Jamie and Rory review this animated prequel to EA's infamous space-dwelling survival horror franchise. Set aboard the USG Ishimura at the time the mysterious "marker" is brought aboard. The film charts the chaos that ensues and the slow descent into madness that leads the Ishimura to the state you find it in when playing the first Dead Space game. …
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Produced by Capcom for release in Japan, Dead Rising: The Movie presents a new chapter in the developers second biggest zombie horror series. This low budget film may be lacking in budget but it makes up for it with plenty of whacky characters and inventive zombie action. Does it make for as enjoyable a movie as it does a videogame though? Hosted o…
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Produced as a CGI Arcade experience in Japan in the late 1990s, Resident Evil 4-D Executer is a lost piece of Resident Evil Media that Jamie has wanted to see for a very long time. Finally, as part of VGMP, Jamie has has a chance to see it. Was it worth the wait? Tune in to find out... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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You have once again entered the world of terrible videogame adaptations. We're stepping back into the so-called Andersonverse in this episode of VGMP as we look at the third entry in Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil series, it's Max Max with a RE skin; it's time to review Resident Evil: Extinction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more …
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Once again we're back with the Resident Evil franchise, this time reviewing a short proof-of-concept film that was made as a teaser for a proposed police procedural set in the Resident Evil universe. The show wasn't picked up in the end and now Jamie and Rory will review the short to determine whether that was a good decision or not! Hosted on Acas…
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September 30th 2024 is International Podcast Day and to celebrate we decided to re-upload a fan favourite VGMP episode with a fresh new introduction from Rory and Jamie. Fans responded particularly well to our episode on Angelina Jolie's second Tomb Raider outing and so we've chosen it to represent us on International Podcast Day. If you enjoy list…
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The iconic PlayStation treasure-hunting franchise comes to cinema screens in "Unchartered." Starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, the film was controversial on release as fans felt the two male leads had been terribly miscast. With little experience of the game franchise however, what will Jamie and Rory think? This episode also includes the now …
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TRIGGER WARNING: This movie and subsequently our conversation about it, touches upon themes that some people may find extremely disturbing. This is a difficult episode that, truth be told, we might have been better scrapping all together. Kung-Fu Master! is the only videogame movie so far to be deemed worthy of special release by The Criterion Coll…
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The late 1980s saw videogame media making its first steps into the realm of film and television and usually the results were, at best, ill conceived. Like this show featuring former wrestler Lou Albano as Mario in live action segments interspersed between an animated cartoon. Various celebrities of the time guest star but the show is perhaps best r…
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Loosely based on a true story; Gran Turismo tells the story of an outside-the-box marketing expert, a washed up race car driver and a teenager from the UK with big dreams who come together to try and pull off the ultimate brand cross over. To turn an adept player of Sony's Gran Turismo game (sorry, I mean "driving simulator") in a real life race ca…
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We're continuing to release our classic episodes and this one was certainly an odd one. Poor Rory fell ill one week and couldn't record and so Jamie decided to grab a mic and record thoughts on this strange piece of Resident Evil content that Capcom released alongside limited editions of Resident Evil CODE: Veronica X. Shining some light on the act…
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Jamie & Rory return to the Pokémon franchise as they review this Hollywood offering. Starring Deadpool (I mean, Ryan Reynolds) as Pikachu, Detective Pikachu was positively received on release but doesn't seem to have made an impact long term. Does it hold up a few years later? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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It's being decried as one of the worst movies of all time, reviving the long established "videogame movie curse" and some have even said it feels like an Uwe Boll film. So the question becomes; is Borderlands really as bad as everybody says it is? Joined by special guests, Jamie and Rory take a look at this hot new release to decide if the negative…
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This one is a blast from the past! From the early days of VGMP when we were still recording sharing one very cheap microphone in Jamie's noisy front room. Chill out with this freshly polished re-release as Jamie and Rory discuss 90s technothriller Hackers. A dive into hacking subculture that appears to have been made by somebody as far removed from…
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Based on the popular 1990s series of PC games, this science-fiction thriller stars 90s favourites Freddie Prinze Jr and Matthew Lillard in a story that feels like a mash-up of Top Gun and Starship Troopers. However, the film seems to be focusing its attention in the wrong areas. Tune in to this episode as Jamie and Rory discuss where the film goes …
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DIC return to the podcast this week with another of their Saturday morning cartoons based on a videogame. This time around it's Captain N: The Game Master, a giant Nintendo commercial featuring appearances from all of the iconic Nintendo characters such as Mega Man, Kid Icarus, Simon Belmont and Super Ma-...oh, wait, what's that? Mario isn't in thi…
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We love uncovering forgotten gems here on VGMP and this certainly ranks amongst them. Whilst he never stood with the likes of Sonic and Mario in the hall of platformer greats, Bubsy Bobcat had a few games in the early 1990s that were successful enough to warrant trying a cartoon based on the property. The result was this TV pilot that was not picke…
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The time has once again come for the boys to delve into the back catalogue of the most infamous video game movie director of all time, Raging Boll himself, Uwe Boll. No, your eyes don't deceive you, this movie does indeed star Sir Ben Kingsley in one of the biggest cases of "how the F*!K did that happen?" in the history of film. Clearly Ben was ask…
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The boys dip into one of Jamie's favourite franchises this week as they review the short tie-in web series "Bright Falls" released in 2010 alongside the original Alan Wake release. This low budget web series revolves around a man who visits Bright Falls and soon begins questioning his own sanity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info…
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In this episode of VGMP the boys take a look at the Japanese Sonic The Hedgehog OVA from 1996 which was released in western territories as Sonic The Hedgehog The Movie. It's an animated movie that definitely makes some interesting choices when it comes to voice cast and some of the more "anime" elements found in the film (yes, Robotnik kidnaps a ca…
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Relive this classic VGMP episode where Rory showed Jamie one of his all time favourite movies and Jamie...mocked it relentlessly. This is 1989's The Wizard starring Beau Bridges, Christian Slater and Fred Savage and features the first ever footage western audiences saw of Super Mario Bros. 3! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat…
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