There are few challenges more daunting in Hollywood than getting a videogame movie right. Many of them fail. Many of them fail badly.
Only the rare few are dependable box office earners, and they can have trouble being embraced by audiences beyond the gaming community.
In honor of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, ostensibly the sixth and final installment of the most bankable videogame movie franchise ever, it's time to examine good, the bad and the ugly the genre has to offer.
Below is an attempt to understand just what makes some of them hits (Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider movies), some of them spectacular failures (1993's Super Mario Bros.) and others not appropriate for polite company (we're looking at you, Uwe Boll).
