# Movies based on games and toys **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 4, 2026, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199 "2026-03-04T18:28:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/21 "2026-03-04T19:45:33Z")
Magic 8 Ball - The Movie. How would it work? Horror movie? The 8 ball gives ominous warnings that come true, and it has to be defeated by flushing it down the toilet Like Final Destination? The eight ball predicts death to the person asking questions, then causes the deaths by a series of overly complicated scenarios People get miniaturized like Fantastic Voyage and get trapped inside, and have to use their sub to manipulate the messages before their air runs out Sci Fi: The 8 ball is the advanced guard of an alien invasion. It can transform into different shaped weapons ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/22 "2026-03-04T19:49:32Z")
I’ve heard it will be a horror-comedy. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/23 "2026-03-04T21:29:35Z")
You sunk my [Battleship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(film))! Sunk is actually pretty apt – it tanked at the box office. ETA: I misread the OP and thought was was about _actual_ movies. Now that I realize this is about nominations for games to turn into movies, I would totally go see Minesweeper: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HgL4pj3gRgk/hqdefault.jpg "minesweeper movie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgL4pj3gRgk) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/24 "2026-03-05T00:01:13Z")
Strolling Bowling. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q4qvM-f7YKc/hqdefault.jpg "Strolling Bowling By Tomy (Commercial, 1981)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4qvM-f7YKc) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/25 "2026-03-05T00:34:54Z")
I’m actually kind of amazed there hasn’t been a Monopoly movie yet; what, you can’t build a story around someone buying up railroad properties and local utilities, and paying folks off because that’s what it means to win an election, while someone else goes directly to jail? Complete with all the beach scenes you want — like someone coming in second at a beauty contest, right by the oceanfront boardwalk — plus maybe a scene where four separate houses are getting knocked down, because it’s time to build a big fancy hotel? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/26 "2026-03-05T01:13:10Z")
Even better would be to show a hotel built around a house that’s still standing, as in this real-life example from Atlantic City. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/View_of_house_between_two_casinos_-_Town_of_Atlantic_City%2C_North_end_of_Absecon_Island%2C_South_of_Absecon_Channel%2C_Atlantic_City%2C_Atlantic_County%2C_NJ_HABS_NJ%2C1-ATCI%2C19-3_%28CT%29.tif/lossless-page1-960px-thumbnail.tif.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/View_of_house_between_two_casinos_-_Town_of_Atlantic_City%2C_North_end_of_Absecon_Island%2C_South_of_Absecon_Channel%2C_Atlantic_City%2C_Atlantic_County%2C_NJ_HABS_NJ%2C1-ATCI%2C19-3_%28CT%29.tif/lossless-page1-960px-thumbnail.tif.png) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/27 "2026-03-05T02:04:12Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I misread the OP and thought was was about _actual_ movies. And I did mention Battleship in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/28 "2026-03-05T02:16:54Z")
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a _Magic The Gathering_ movie yet. Seems like the kind of thing that would be attempted. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/29 "2026-03-05T02:45:48Z")
_A Minecraft Movie_ was huge. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/30 "2026-03-05T02:50:44Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Upcoming movies subjects include: > > - Hungry, Hungry Hippos > … I do hope some of these are just jokes (loss of faith in humanity and all that …) . > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > BATTLING TOPS: THE MOVIE They’d have to work in the catchphrase from the insipid B&W commercial: “It’s DOWN! But… it’s UP AGAIN! ANYthing can happen with Battling Tops!” ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/31 "2026-03-05T03:00:12Z")
I want to see them make a movie based on cribbage. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/32 "2026-03-05T03:09:23Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I do hope some of these are just jokes (loss of faith in humanity and all that …) [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34494076](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34494076) Seems like a tenuous connection, but there you go. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/33 "2026-03-05T03:21:04Z")
There’s certainly enough material in its inventor’s life for a biopic: > **[John Suckling (poet)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suckling_(poet))** > > Sir John Suckling (10 February 1609 – after May 1641\[a\]) was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem "Ballade upon a Wedding". > Suckling was born at Whitton, in the parish of Twickenham, Middlesex, and baptized there on 10 February 1609. His father, Sir John Suckling, was Secretary of State under James I and Comptroller of the Household of Charles ... > Suckling is said to have sent numerous packs of marked playing cards to aristocratic houses in England and then travelled around playing cribbage with the gentry. He managed to win around £20,000. > In 1634, scandal was caused in his circle by a beating he received at the hands of Sir John Digby, a rival suitor for the daughter of Sir John Willoughby. > In 1639, Suckling assisted King Charles I in his first Scottish war, raising a troop of a hundred horse at a cost of [£](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pounds_sterling "Pounds sterling")12,000, and accompanying Charles on the [Scottish expedition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishops%27_Wars "Bishops' Wars") of 1639. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/34 "2026-03-05T03:25:53Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > With Hollywood running out of ideas and The Lego Movie, Barbie, the Transformers, Trolls, and Power Rangers being fairly successful, they’e been casting about for other content. Power Rangers started off as a TV show, not a game or a toy. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/35 "2026-03-05T03:45:41Z")
Yeah, i think Pokemon and Power Rangers don’t really count. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/36 "2026-03-05T03:47:14Z")
Pokemon started as a game first. So it should probably count. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/37 "2026-03-05T03:48:02Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I want to see them make a movie based on cribbage. There is a whole industry of movies based on poker. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/38 "2026-03-05T04:21:13Z")
There are quite a few Ouija movies. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/39 "2026-03-05T04:28:49Z")
Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. Human combat sports (boxing, wrestling, etc.) have been outlawed, but humans can still get their boxing fix from human-like robots. The robots have been programmed to fight each other, and not humans. Until a glitch in the programming occurs, that is … ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199/40 "2026-03-05T05:00:39Z")
_Real Steel_ has that premise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-based-on-games-and-toys/1028199.md?page=3)