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Remember that hugely popular game from your childhood that everybody played, and spawned many many successful sequels and spin-offs? For me, it was the Street Fighter series. Ever since Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, I’ve been hooked on fighting games – and almost every fighting game I’ve played since then has been directly influenced by that series.

With this in mind, you can see why video games are an attractive prospect for movie studios. Game to movie adaptations are an awesome idea… on paper. You’ve effectively already got the story sorted out, the characters are already developed, and there’s already a sizable fan base. So how do movie studios get it so wrong?

All too often movie studios take a great concept like the Resident Evil series, and they butcher it to within an inch of its life, skewing too far from the subject material and losing the whole point of adapting it in the first place.

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