Am I the only one who enjoyed the Hitman movie? I haven't seen it in a long time, and I never played the games.
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The one with Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kurylenko in it? It was fine, had a few good action sequences in it. Managed to both not be much of an adaptation of the game, but also trying to be enough of an adaptation that it frequently makes very little sense. Probably have been better if they'd cut loose a little more, had some more fun with it. Gets a completely OK / 10 from me.
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I donβt think the movie was that bad. Sure was predictable, but it was fun.
If Wing Commander's $11.5 million is in 1999 dollars, that's $21.7 million today. Still less than Borderlands, although it probably also cost less to make.
I never even saw any marketing for it.
That's because they seem to have realised it was going to flop hard and cut back on the marketing - it's usually similar to the budget but they only spent $31M which is very low for a film of this size.
If you spend MILLIONS of dollars for marketing anything, you're a cunt
This has to have been some form of egregious waste.
I canβt recall seeing any promotional material for this besides the trailer being reposted to talk shit about the movie.
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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).
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
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.