Wreck-It Ralph is a sweet bit of nostalgia for the good ol’ days of gaming, those colorful characters and simple platformers of the arcade generation. But what about the movies for people who never stopped playing games? Current franchises Resident Evil and Silent Hill make enough bank to justify sequels that decline in quality and increase in 3-D, but the horror survival genre in general is popular. The fact that these movies are based on video games is practically incidental. Angelina Jolie donned tiny shorts and a Brit accent for Tomb Raider. And there’s a slew of films in pre-production limbo—Uncharted and Halo spring most readily to mind. But none of these movies capture the cultural zeitgeist of the next generation of gamer, the sandbox generation.
In fact, the best movies about today’s gamers—and tomorrow’s—aren’t based on existing video games at at.
And they’re certainly not brought to you by Disney.
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