Nothing wastes your time and money quite like a movie based on a video game. Even if by some miracle one manages to kinda- sorta get it right, the overall experience is still uniquely disappointing - even downright pointless. It’s a bit like watching your friends play video games all night because they are hogging the controller, but you are too lazy to find new friends. We talk the highs and lows of the oddball film sub-genre that refuses to die, even though it has repeatedly given us every reason to believe it should.

0:00 Intros

6:00 Downsizing

10:11 Mission Impossible Fallout

16:09 Extinction (Netflix)

20:50 Adam Ant

27:40 Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast

29:10 Tokyo Drifter

31:28 Video Game movies

34:10 Super Mario Bros. The Movie

38:25 Double Dragon

40:43 Mortal Kombat

47:30 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

53:25 Uwe Boll

58:46 Game mechanics in movies

1:02:23 Warcraft

1:04:00 Assassin’s Creed

1:04:33 Resident Evil

1:08:30 Street Fighter The Movie

1:14:07 Hitman

1:17:19 D.O.A. Dead or Alive

1:20:35 closing thoughts

Clips

Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

The Immortals - Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat)

Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

Rolfe Kent - The Tiny City Beckons / Estate Sale - Downsizing (Music from the motion picture)

Liberty Medical - Wilford Brimley on Diabetes

Lorne Balfe - Mission: Accomplished - Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Music from the motion picture)

Limp Bizkit - Take A Look Around (Mission: Impossible 2)

Pharsalus - Side-And-Chain (Extinction original soundtrack)

Glam Skanks - Bad Bitch

Adam Ant - Live banter in Cleveland 2018

Tokyo Drifter (trailer)

Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

Wendy Carlos - Tron Scherzo - Tron (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Bobby Albert - Super Mario Bros. Main Title

Fatboy Slim - Illuminati (featuring Bootsy Collins) - Tomb Raider

Ramin Djawadi - Warcraft (Original motion picture soundtrack)

Flyleaf - I’m So Sick (T-Virus Remix) - Resident Evil: Extinction Original motion picture soundtrack

Henry Jackman - Arcaders ‘82 - Pixels original motion picture soundtrack