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Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/movies@lemm.ee
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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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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hell, even Doom beat that with $58M.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Rofl
There is prob a 'can it run Doom' joke somewhere in there but it's not worth making it.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The FNAF movie is actually not that bad. It surely isn't masterpiece, but its good movie and also understandable for someone who barely knows anything about fnaf.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I still think The Banana Splits is a better movie, though.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If you spend MILLIONS of dollars for marketing anything, you're a cunt

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

This has to have been some form of egregious waste.

I can’t recall seeing any promotional material for this besides the trailer being reposted to talk shit about the movie.

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

Found Butcher!

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

I don’t think the movie was that bad. Sure was predictable, but it was fun.

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

Ok, how tf did I miss this many gaming-related movies?

And, should I be glad I did or not?

Bcs imho Borderlands is a solid rpg movie with a basic story imagined by a nice, productive dm (not the best as far as dms or rpg movies go, but like a reliable standard).

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

Ok, how tf did I miss this many gaming-related movies?

There's a lot - I have a list that's incomplete but has 86 films on it, Vulture ranked all video game films back in 2016 and there is, obviously, a Wikipedia page for them.

That list is for bad adaptations that made more money than Borderlands, so it leaves out all Us Boll's tax scam movies that are pretty universally awful (I had to bump Alone in the Dark's rating up, so I could rate the sequel lower than it).

And, even with that criteria, it misses out:

  • Rampage - $418M
  • Angry Birds - $353M
  • Angry Birds 2 - $152M
  • Monster Hunter - $42M
[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

IMHO, the list in the OP are actually fairly decent, with the exception of Warcraft, Need for Speed and Assassin's Creed. (Not because they are bad but because I never saw them.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

need for speed is the best video game adaptation imo, completely captured the vibe of NSF Most Wanted (2005), fite me.

I also think Wow could have been decent, but there seems like there was some studio meddling or weird cuts that makes the movie disjointed as it weirdly shifts tone to being about love.

[–] DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

NSFW Most Wanted

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