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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 10 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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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Retreaux@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Found Butcher!

[–] derfunkatron@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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.

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

NSFW Most Wanted

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[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Wow was a difficult one to make. You've got the cliche of humans vs orcs, but in the context of Warcraft the orcs aren't pure evil antagonists. How do you make a swords and magic story where neither side are the bad guys?

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months 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.

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