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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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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Missing:

Resident Evil (2002) $103m ($180m adjusted)

..of the rest of the movies on your list, I have only not seen Hitman and Five Nights at Freddy’s; but I would be pretty safe in betting that they would both be more enjoyable than Borderlands.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Hitman is an ok action film. Had fuck all to do with the point of the games sneaky and stealthy core. Goes full on Holywood action with gunfights in the street.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Watched fnaf just to see how bad it was. It actually was a decent movie that didn't require any previous knowledge of the games. Nothing fantastic, but not as bad as it could have been.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Also Final Fantasy made $85m in 2001 (about $52m short of its costs). That's $151m today. And I liked the movie, so I include this as a video game movie that made more, not a bad one, though I believe that is how it was received back in the day.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I'm a fan of the Resident Evil movies but I've never played the games