The Challenging Journey of Video Game Movie Adaptations: Annihilation

Nerd of Mouth

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Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

We've talked about video games based on movies but this time we're going the other way and focusing on movies that are based on video games and why they usually suck. Holden guides through the dark ages of Mario and Street Fighter, the darker ages of anything Uwe Boll has done, the mostly forgettable 2010s (There was in fact no need for speed) and how a little electric Pokémon gave the genre the creative spark it desperately needed and how we're still benefiting from it. . I guarantee this will be the most memorable podcast of your life. For us, it is Monday. Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Nerd a mouth
0:01.4	Mortal
0:04.0	Combat And you're a fucking And you're a... Mortal combat
0:21.1	And you're fucking
0:24.4	11 years old
0:26.2	You're actually no wait
0:27.5	That was Jurassic Park
0:28.6	No you're around that age
0:30.2	You're you're so young
0:32.5	You think maybe you shouldn't be seeing this movie
0:34.5	Right? It's like dangerous
0:35.7	That song comes on. You actually
0:38.7	stand up. You stand up. You like flex. You start like flexing. And a movie experience happens to you
0:45.8	based on a video game experience, a beloved one that you've been going crazy for for so many
0:51.2	years. And some magic shit happens in that movie theater that day it was pretty
0:56.4	incredible and i think and and and and nintendo has already primed you for a pg 13 version of this
1:03.1	world yes so you're not that numb to it yes it was kind of incredible that's right today we're talking
1:09.7	about video game movie adaptations i don't even know the exact best way to say the phrase.
1:16.5	Crap. For the most part. There's some gyms. We did tie-in games to movies. We did anime adaptations, the live-action Disney So we were, we were going to get here at some point.
1:30.0	Yes. And it's a topic so dear to me. I mean, because it's one of those where we were there from the very
1:36.6	beginning. Now, I think we need to pare it down. I realize we're not going to probably be talking about
1:41.4	like stuff like The Wizard or things that are like video game movies, not what? I had a whole speech about gamer starring Gerard Butler Yeah, there's a lot of like those aren't we talking about like ready player one or something like that we're talking about movies that are based on video game Franchise. Yeah, so save your fucking thoughts about pixels Yeah. I thought about that last night. It's like, oh, sure, are we going to have to talk about pixels?
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