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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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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never even saw any marketing for it.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days 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 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Clent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I didn't think it was a bad movie but I've never played the video game.

It certainly wasn't anything amazing but I watch a lot of movies and I've seen far worse movies that were touted as cinematic masterpieces.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

She looks so much like John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) in that photo

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Mortal Kombat isn't a good movie. Nostalgia just tells you it is

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

I don't care what anyone says the Scorpion - Johnny Cage fight was great and the soundtrack is a classic for a reason.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

You're wrong, but that's okay. Those movies are masterpieces.

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