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and the like. You? You'll learn your lesson... they won't.

So con is now out of the way. What's the pro to all this?

One - Great collectible to add onto a good movie experience... if it's a good game.

The first two Spider-Man movie games (not Spider-Man 3, that blew), Chronciles of Riddick : Escape from Butcher's Bay, any Traveller's Tale/LEGO movie game, Super Star Wars (SNES), GoldenEye 64 (N64), a few examples of a good product worked with loving care that didn't make you regret the money you spent on the purchase. Admittedly these gems are few and far between, more likely you'll be happier with the non movie related games that release at the time of the movie or between movie and DVD slash BluRay then you'd be with the actual movie based game.

Alot of good examples can be found in Super Hero movie to video game translations, for instance you'd probably be far happier owning The Incredible Hulk : Ultimate Destruction over Hulk the Game. X-Men Legends 1 & 2 over X-Men the Official Game. MARVEL Ultimate Alliance over most of the movie to game translations of the characters who appear in said games with probably the exception of Blade (games looked decent enough). Fantastic Four? Iron Man? Ghost Rider? Forget the movie based games, get this one. The only real exception to this rule is The Punisher game (which came out at the time of the Thomas Jane Punisher movie). Why is this an exception? Because it's based on Garth Ennis' first storyarc of his version of The Punisher over the movie it came out in conjunction with, so what's not to love about that. And Thomas Jane reprised his role as Castle in the game, so you can't say there's isn't a Thomas Jane Punisher product you hated... because this isn't bad.

Other good examples of good game = high sales is bulletproof stuff like the Poke'mon game series (the RPG over 100+ hours of gameplay stuff, the latest of which is Poke'mon Platinum), LEGO anything (last year we had LEGO Batman (original content not based on any past movie or TV Series) and LEGO Indiana Jones (despite promses they did throw in an early experimential stage covering "Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"... you just had to beat 100% of the game to unlock it - it's not complete, there's game mechanics involving magnetism that aren't completely thought out yet, but it's there all the same). Then there's the recent turnabout in certain formerly plagued franchises like DragonBall & Naruto, both recently having a better than average

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