Wing Commander

Pros: Some cool 40 second clips depicting Kilrathi ship movement.
Cons: Everything else.

Producers of video game based movies are clearly ignorant of the fact that such films would surely fail if not made properly in accordance to the original plot from the game. History has taught us viewers a valuable lesson regarding such films with...

Pros: One of the best good, basic space operas in recent film history.
Cons: As SF, it's not perfect, but space opera (be definition) never is.

While I was visiting my daughter last month in Oklahoma, and we were doing our usual round of shopping until dropping, we came across a used copy of Wing Commander. “Get it,” I said to her. “Despite what you have no doubt heard, it’s not half-bad.” ...

Pros: Effects (decent), Tcheky Karyo, general hilarity (often unintentional)
Cons: It's not a good movie.

Ever since I received NetFlix as a birthday present, I’ve done my best to use it the way it was meant to be used – a guilt-free way to rent movies I would be ashamed to pick up at a Blockbuster or Hollywood store. With this in mind, I approached ...

Pros: Tcheky Karyo...that's just a fun name to say.
Cons: Everything else about the movie.

Man...this movie was WAY cheezy. My favorite line in the entire thing...because of it's Shatner-esque delivery is "But ComMANDER, eMOTION is what seprates us from the KilRATHi!" Well, the plot for this movie blows. It's nothing really like...

Pros: Um, let's see... Malcom Mcdowell is cool in anything
Cons: Bad effects, boring story, dull dialogue, cheesy looking aliens.

The ship bobbed in space with no propulsion like an apple at a Halloween party, and I just about puked.


I love science fiction.

I think it's the most imaginative genre of literature and entertainment that you can find. It...

Pros: Umm... it had the trailer for "Phantom Menace" attached when it was in theaters?
Cons: Good lord, I don't even know where to start.

Few computer games have ascended to the rank of "cultural icon," but Chris Roberts's Wing Commander qualifies. Released by Origin Systems a decade ago (yes, it really has been that long!), the game, a self-described "space combat flight...

Pros: There are some worthwhile parts...
Cons: It is not that different from all the others...

Am I the only person that liked this movie? Everybody else seems to like the game and hate the movie. I like the movie and hate the game. This movie has a recommend 10% of the time here on epinions.com. It is not that bad, almost nothing is that bad,...

Pros: None.
Cons: Everything in the movie.

This is it. This is what I have been waiting for. Weeks and weeks have gone by and all I have been through mediocre films… films that I cannot fire off more than a few callous barbs at. But at last, a movie has come to me that I can truly enjoy.
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Pros: shooting yourself at point blank range with a boozaka dosen't seen like such a bad idea, Something that makes the game look even better
Cons: bad acting, bad plot, dosent mirror the game, the FX are decent at most

When will people in Hollywood learn that if your going to make a movie based off a video game you need two things. Number 1 you need a decent plot, and number 2it needs to go around the game. There have only been two movies that have been able to do...

Pros: Not a Thing
Cons: The Entire 99 minute running time

The best thing and the worst thing going for Wing Commander when it came out in the theater in March of 1999 is the fact that the new Star Wars trailer wass playing in front of it. The best thing because it actually brought people in to see this film and...

Pros: In ended
Cons: Everything from the start to the end credits

I need to create a new word to describe how bad this celluloid disaster truly is. The word I've created is "Prisqued" because watching this film is much like being in prison and being selected "girlfriend of the week" for your...

Pros: Is in color, and has sound.
Cons: Drains your will to live.

Wing Commander is a waste of celluloid, plain and simple. It was supposed to be a direct-to-video release, but 20th Century Fox had a marketing tool to good to give up: The second Star Wars trailer. For some reason, the day I saw it, it was the only film...

Pros: Might be okay if muted - look at the pretty pictures!
Cons: Worst dialogue ever - almost

Let's be perfectly honest, here - I saw this movie to see the Star Wars trailer. And that's about the only part of it that was worth seeing. Now, I'm normally very forgiving with movies. As long as I'm entertained, I'm OK. And it takes a lot to keep...

Pros: Wargame enthusiasts will enjoy
Cons: Not as good as the promo

If you are familiar with the classic submarine movie "Das Boot", watch it & count how many times Jurgen Prochnow gets to say the same lines in Wing Commander that he said in Das Boot. Then again, if you are familiar with Games Workshop's...

Pros: Not many
Cons: Nothing new

There is nothing new about adapting work originating in one medium for another. Shortly after it was published, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was adapted as a play; when movies were invented, both plays and novels quickly became a source for movie plots (a...