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So that's bad, yeah, but just how bad is it? With help from Google and The Numbers' movie comparison feature, I can tell you this: It's really bad.

I present to you...

An Incomplete List of Shitty Videogame Movies That Made More Money Than Borderlands

(in no particular order)

  • Warcraft ($439 million)
  • Max Payne ($88 million) Doom ($59 million)
  • Street Fighter ($99 million)
  • Assassin's Creed ($241 million)
  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ($336 million)
  • Hitman ($99 million)
  • Mortal Kombat (but Mortal Kombat is actually good) ($122 million)
  • Need for Speed ($194 million)
  • Five Nights at Freddy's ($297 million)
  • Uncharted ($401 million)

One big-budget, big(ish)-cast Hollywood film Borderlands managed to beat, which I bring up only because I paid good money to see it in theaters and I'm still sore about the whole thing, is Wing Commander, an utterly execrable celluloid waste of time and effort that bumbled to $11.5 million globally. Frankly I'm surprised it did that well.

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[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait, there is a Wing Commander movie?!? How did I not know that...

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Because it's not very good and we all made a pact never to speak of it again. A pact now broken!

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will watch it and curse you twice

[–] 108@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Please report back after seeing it

[–] Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

As far as I remember the quality of the video sequences of the game were way better in comparison to the movie. They even had Mark hamil in it.

[–] Serdalis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

As a kid I loved that movie! Didn't even know there was a game, it reminded me of freespace.

[–] GCanuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Freddie Prince Jr & Mathew Lillard.

It’s not great, but it’s fun. Might be a tad dated if you watch it for the first time today, but I enjoyed it a lot when I saw it.

Of course, I was very stoned when I watched it.