The 16 most awesomely bad videogame movie moments


Above: Actual movie still

It also predicted that the streets of New Angeles would be✤ ruled by rejects from The Warr🍌iors…

And that the only pe🦄ople brave enough to stand up to the♔m would look like this:


Above: This is how 1994 imagined street punks would dress two years ago

And also like this:


Above: Psh. Nice wrist-socks, guys

Does that ജbad guy in the middle panel look at all familiar? It’s Robert “T-1000” Patrick, who ൲looks damn near unrecognizable as “shadow boss” Kogo Shuko, and probably would like to stay that way.


Above: “F*** you for reminding people this exists, GamesRadar”

Finally, the movie predicted that by 2007, everyone’s trash-burning cars would 🧔have built-in police computers that could identify the person standing next to your car and menacing you. This is how we’re introduced to Bo Abobo (Nils Allen Stewart), a tragic figure who is always꧅ played for laughs.


Above: Cool, now you know trivia nobody else cares about

While he starts out as a tough-♊but-stupid gang leader, Abobo is soon made a test subject in Shuko’s labs and given grotesquely huge muscles (but no new clothes to fit them).

Late in the f🤪ilm, he sees himself in the 🧜mirror – apparently for the first time – and has a bit of a moment:


Above: Bawwwwwwww

If you’ve ever wanted to see a really bad latex creat❀ure cry about its own ugliness in a dingy restroom, well, now’s your chance:


When it comes to Uwe Boll’s Postal, there are generally two prevailing schools of thought. One holds that everything in the film is funny except for the scene where all the kids get shot, and the other maintains that the only funny thing in the film is the scene where all the kids get shot. We’re part of that latter scꦓho🦂ol.


Above: Look, it’s funny in context. Just trust us for now, all right?

The scene begins in Little Germany, a shitty theme park owned by Uwe Boll (playing himself). As the park unveils a꧟n exclusive shipment of must-have dolls, Postal creator Vince Desi unmasks himself and rushes Boll for making a shitty movie out of it.

This leads to what may be one o𝕴f the bestജ images ever committed to film:


Above: YES DESTROY HIM THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

Also, Chris Coppola is there.


Above: Apparently he insisted on wearing his street clothes for this scene

Just then, Desi pulls a gun, and as nominal hero Postal Du💖de tries to wrestle it away from him, itꦰ goes off…

… killing this guy…

… which enrages these cops…

&h🐠ellip; and gives Boll an excuse to start shooting…

… which then dr🥂aws fire from these terrorists, who were there to steal the dolls:

Now, see, what’s funny about what comes next is that all these armed guys are shooting directly at each other, and the only people they manage to kill are the only people they weren’t aiming at. Which is to say all the kids in th♛e theme park.


Above: We like to think that the french-fry statue is the real culprit here

Oh, and Boll gets shot, too. In the balls.


Above: See, we told you it was funny

Still don’t see the humor in it🅘?🍬 Maybe you should watch it for yourself, then:


Again, this is one we’ve hammered on before, when we unilaterally declared it the worst thing Uwe Boll ever filmed. But as time has worn on, we’ve come to realize that – while it’s far from the best thing he’s ever filmed – it&r▨squo;s easily the most memorable. And there’s no Chris Coppola anywhere!


Above: Nope, not here

So, yeah, the House of the Dead movie – if you didn’t already know – is about a bunch of kids wh𝕴o go to an island near Vancouver f𒊎or a rave sponsored by Sega.


Above: Actually it’s a pretty tiny rave

All of them are then devoured by zombi♏es, except for a core group of survivors who, after spending the movie cowering in fear, suddenly develop expert firearms proficiency and dive headlong into a series of stupid, Matrix-wannabe combat stunts. Because, you know, that’s what fans expect to see from a zombie movie.

It’s insipid, horrible and irredeemably hokey. What’s worse, it’s long, and it’s only made longer by a 𒈔sequence in which one of the characters, after watching another character ⭕get mauled by zombies, has a fast-forward flashback of the entire scene we just watched.


Above: DID NOT NEED TO SEE AGAIN THANK YOU

Oh, and sequences from the House of the Dead games are liberally spliced in, possibly to add “context🃏” and be “total bullshit.”


Above: Actual movie still

We’re tired of talking about this thing now. Just watch it already, provided you’ve got se🐽ven mi🔯nutes and nothing better to do:


Really, you didn’t even need to sit through Resident Evil to know about this one – it was burned into everyone’s mind the second it showed up in the trailers. The idea of someone in the Resident Evil universe delivering a flying kick to a zombie dog’s face is so ridiculous (or at least it was, prior to 🃏RE4) that it instantly becameꦅ the image most readily associated with the movie.

But first, a💞 bit of context: the Resident Evil movie centers around Alice (Milla Jovovich) who’s trying to escape the underground Umbrella lab from the first game along with some friends, several of whom wind up like this:


Above: Ewwwwww

Later, alone, 🔴Alice meets several of these handsome ch🅺aps:

After emptying her gun into the faces of the zombie dog pack, she runs out of ammo and discovers that there’s one dog left standing. Not knowing what else to do, her T-virus-enhanced su🦂perpowers take hold and she does the only thing that makes sense: she kicks the dog in the head, which sends it flying through a window.


Above: BAM

You can see it in action below:


When you can’t get Christopher Lambert to come back for the sequel to your relatively successful videogame movie, that’s a clear sign that something’s very, very wrong. But the producers of Mortal K🐼ombat: Annihilation soldiered on anyway, creating a cheap-looking Z-movie that enraged fans and was simply ignored by everyone else.


Above: Seriously, they got James Remar instead

However, once we’dꩲ put aside our fan-rage (only took us about 10 years), we began to appreciate Annihila🐟tion for the camp masterpiece it is. Everything in this movie is either unintentionally silly, over-the-top stupid or completely unnecessary, from the way Sub-Zero makes his grand entrance…


Above: I CAN FLY PEW PEW

… to everyone’s pref♏erred meth𒀰od of navigating short distances…


Above: Why walk when you can somersault?

… to the way Shao Kahn looks:


Above: “DADDY I CONQUERED A EARTH!”

Easily the dumbest scene, however, comes near the end, when Shao Kahn (Brian Thompson) is beating Liu Kang (Robin Sho💃u) like a little schoolgirl.

Suddenly, Liu Kang’s course of acౠtion becomes clear: HE HAS TO TURN INT🅰O A REALLY SHITTY CG EFFECT.


Above: Oooooooooooooooookay

There’s only one really appropriate response to this, but Shao Kahn apparently ꦛcame prepared:


Above: OH IT’S ON NOW

Cue a really darkꦦ, boring battle between two awful CG automatons, which ends at the exact moment the movie’s special-effects bud꧃get does.


Above: RARRRR BLARRRRR

So, yeah. We kind of liked the Animalities better wh🐭en 📖Liu Kang just turned into a Chinese dragon and bit a guy in half. But then, that wasn’t this jaw-droppingly awful:

After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.