But what does Ebert think about video game movies?

not a single one of those is good imo.

I heard when Siskel died they sprinkled his ashes on the movie theater floor. or was it that he was buried with his thumbs up...

i liked spirits within and mortal kombat (i was only like 12 though) and i also liked advent children even though it's not on the list

Jenny Lewis!

And now what you've all been waiting for... the Bloo Review!

The Wizard (1989) -> didn't see it

Mortal Kombat (1995) -> C+

Super Mario Bros (1993) -> didn't see it

Wing Commander (1999) -> saw it - 100% unmemorable

Double Dragon (1994) -> didn't see it

Doom (2005) -> C

Resident Evil (2002, 2004) -> A-

Tomb Raider (2001, 2003) -> B-

Dungeons & Dragons (2000) -> board game movie

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) -> C

P.S. No Street Fighter? The horrible ending to Raul Julia's career and the complete ruining of the Blanka character gets no Eibert love?

Wow. He made it to the second level of TMNT. Yeah he's a video game expert all right.

Ebert liked Final Fantasy but said it wasn't a "videogame" movie - technically true, but that's not how he meant it.
So, any movies he does like lose their attachment to the inferior media of videogames (his opinion, not mine).
Critics are useful when not pretensious (sp?), almost never - for film anyway.

Ebert is right with these movies. Roeper is Eberts bitch.

• The Wizard (1989) –The best of that movie was the power glove and SM3 and that’s all what I have to say about it well that and the remark it was just a Giant Nintendo Ad.
• Mortal Kombat (1995)-This Movie was fantastic, it hold as its own as one of the best movies with the best soundtrack ever, really It used the name of the character properly and hell I even started to think Mortal Kombat had a plot, It was EXCELLENT too bad its sequel was so damn lame and lackluster.
• Super Mario Bros (1993)-Weird dude just weird, it was like if the Director, the producer and the writer played Super Mario while being on an Acid Trip and then they decided to make a movie about it.
• Wing Commander (1999)-I don’t know if I didn’t watched it or I just don’t remember but if I did it wasn’t very memorable either way I think it was Bad
• Double Dragon (1994)-Ha-ha I watched on Tv once Hilarious, reminds me of a 3 ninja movie, kind of lame like a Karate kid rip off.
• Doom (2005)-ONE Word: Disappointing.
• Resident Evil (2002, 2004)-Kinda of cool even if the whole Resident Evil plot was missing it was cool.
• Tomb Raider (2001, 2003)-Awesome, I mean until George Lucas and Steven Spielberg decide to make another Indiana Jones movie this is pretty Cool.
• Dungeons & Dragons (2000)-lol even Eragon was better, this movie was laughable. It wasn’t bad but every D&D fan out there who thought this was going to be good was B slapped. Again it wasn’t bad but lol.
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) –If there was a In 5 seconds review of this movie it would be the same as the Matrix…WOW.

So I’m not the only one who doesn’t remember crap about wing commander.
But I have to say I disagree with you, Mortal Kombat was genius back in the Time A+ considering it was a Movie based on a game and it was ridiculously good.

MST3K FTW!!!

Yeah - that's why I gave it a C+. The first time I saw it I thought I liked it until I realized it was 1200 screaming fans at Mann Chinese that made it entertaining. On second viewing, the movie was not that good.

The Wizard was great

Mortal Kombat was good

Super Mario.. I liked it, but I was 12 so I didn't have good taste then.

Wing Commander.. Oh god that was bad. Really bad. I would rather watch Mortal Kombat 2 or a Bowe movie over that.

D&D: Not really a video game movie. But, it still stank. Tom Baker was the best actor in the movie. Even if he only had 5 mins of screen time.

Final Fantasy: I was worried about the story when I heard the tib bits about it. I was write. That movie was NOT Final Fantasy. More like Final Bad Dream. Ironic how a game that was named for being a company's last game was rightfully named for a Movie company's last movie.

What about that piece of monkey Silent Hill?

I had a thing for Jenny Lewis when I first saw the wizard, and I have a thing for Jenny Lewis today.

I wholeheartedly endorse any news with a Mystery Science Theater 3000 reference within.

Siskel gave Mortal Kombat a Thumb's Up. Just saying...

I just watched the Wizard review, and it's surprising to me that it's a great review. I would have mentioned that it is a kids movie, so lacks much of the depth needed to suck someone in. But they made some great comments using common sense which you don't see in these hollywood fantastic entertainment tonight type of shows...

Wow, Siskel tore into Double Dragon (arguably my favorite of the movies listed). Ebert didn't like it either but at least he said kids may like it.