Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs

Calling it now. Next Borderlands game is going to have some referential jokes about this train wreck that are meant to be funny self-deprecation but will actually be transparent attempts as covering up how much Randy Pritchford is malding about this.

I'm honestly surprised we aren't seeing more public meltdown from him. Can only imagine what's happening behind closed doors.

Street Fighter in 1994 is $99m, and adjusted to inflation it would be $210m, while Super Mario Bros 1993 is $38.9m, today would be $84.7m. Rub it on Randy's face, hope it leave a mark.

$38,912,465

That's how much the 1993 Mario Brothers movie grossed worldwide. Really pause and think about that.

Let that sink in.

The mario brothers movie made $7,000,000 more than this, in 90s money. One of the greatest disappointments in movie history, which has a cult following for its level of fail, outperformed Borderlands.

That is the orbital nuke of fails.

Mortal Kombat gave us that sweet sweet soundtrack.

Hollywood budgets are insane these days.

I watched Godzilla -1. That movie was fucking boss, and apparently its budget was only $15 million. That's less than they spent removing the CGI buttholes from Cats.

Uwe Boll has entered the chat.

The Warcraft movie wasn't even bad, they just didn't go hard enough. It was impossible to cram that whole story into one movie. They shoulda done a Hobbit with it.

This is the kind of thing that ruins careers and maybe even production companies. Of course, Eli Roth will never be given a big budget to direct again and in the cast of the film, more than one will drop significantly in their next works.

Slightly off-topic: might be alone in this, but I actually really enjoyed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It's nice, self-contained, has some fun action, some cool scenes, and it turned me on to Jake Gyllenhaal and I've liked his work ever since. It's Generic and schlocky but it's better than the usual videogame movie garbo.

It fits nicely into that B-movie slot IMO.

Is it yet another one of those "our adaptation has barely anything to do with the actual games and that is good!" kinda tone-deaf deals?

Crazy that they spent that much on marketing and I still had no idea that movie was coming until I read articles about how badly it bombed. Did they blow the marketing budget on hookers and blow and call it good?? What the hell happened here?!

I didn't even realize there was an Assassin's Creed movie.

Must have blinked and missed it.

Wait, there is a Wing Commander movie?!? How did I not know that...

I thoroughly enjoyed the Last of Us series. I do hope it ends where it is now, but it was some very good TV writing and acting.

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.

Uncharted was good too. Street Fighter is campy, but fun.

GOOD! Now let games be games and learn to write an original story.

The thing that baffles me about Wing Commander is that Mark Hamill was right there and already had an established character in the game's canon. But even with a different story and cast, I don't understand how anyone could have screwed up a bog-standard space opera that badly.

Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat deserve their respective paydays. They're both stupid and fun. That's what the source material is after all. But Mortal Kombat might do well with a little love: just throw a few million at Corridor Digital and update the CGI effects and re-release it.

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.

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

Would Valve allow an aperture science/black mesa film?

I never even saw any marketing for it.

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.

Hell, even Doom beat that with $58M.

I never realized any of those were movies.

Still waiting for a Duke Nukem movie

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.

There was a Borderlands movie?

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

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

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).

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.

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

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.

Here's an idea: Maybe stop making films no one asked for?

Even fans of the franchise didn't really want this. How do you translate a looter shooter into a watchable 2 hour film?

I really enjoy playing Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, 15 minutes at a time on my Steam Deck. I'm not sure I need to see some forced deep cinematic character development extrapolated from it. There's not that much to it.

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