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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 5 days 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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[–] Aermis@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh warcraft was bad? I actually enjoyed that one, was hoping for a sequel.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I enjoyed it too. Felt bad for Duncan Jones when it seemed to get shit on from all directions.

That said, I was never much of a WoW player, so didn’t know any of the lore going in. My wife is though, and she enjoyed it too.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm glad that it seems to be higher up on this list in terms of money made. Probably my favorite one of these movies, next to Mortal Kombat, although I haven't seen Uncharted yet.