12 Video Game Movie Lessons The Last Of Us Adaptation Must Learn To Not Suck

9. But Casting Is Something - Alone In The Dark

That said, it never hurts to get name actors, appropriate actors and more to the point, good actors on your side, a rule director Uwe Boll (who we'll be hearing a lot about in this list) totally disregarded with Alone in the Dark, regarded by many as the worst video game movie ever made. Christian Slater is a fine actor when he wants to be, though he was fundamentally miscast as protagonist Edward Carnby: he just wasn't what I imagined from the video games. Then there was the ridiculous decision to cast Tara Reid as his female cohort from the games, Aline Cedrac, a young, whip-smart academic. Seeing Tara Reid kitted out in a lab coat and glasses is laughable from the outset, due to both Reid's terrible performance and the fact that, well, seeing Tara Reid playing a genius requires a mind-melting suspension of disbelief. Examples of good casting in video game movies? The Rock as the protagonist of Doom, and Radha Mitchell made for an excellent lead in Silent Hill, even if her character was essentially reinvented for the movie and looked nothing like the game's equivalent, the very male Harry Mason.