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

Was he heavily involved in the film's production? I'm not very familiar with how this movie was made, but a lot of the stuff I've heard about it gives me the sense that his style didn't influence it very much (weird casting, lame jokes, etc.)

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As a part of the 1993 SMB movie's cult following, I wouldn't say it's the level of fail that has contributed as much as a combination of nostalgia, and just how damn unapologetically strange it is. Someone honestly went and pitched a grimy, dieselpunk take on Super Mario Brothers, with Daisy as the princess rather than Peach, and humanoid/reptilian koopas, Toad as a punk busker, a velociraptor Yoshi, and Dennis Hopper looking absolutely insane as Bowser. And somehow, that movie got made and didn't end up being the subject of "the insane reinvention of Super Mario Bros. that could have been" documentaries, and fan-film homages.

I'm aware that Hoskins and Leguizamo both have said that had a terrible time making the movie because of how disorganized it was, but I don't care, the finished product is amazing.

The way I see it, SMB93 is just mental enough that it slipped into cult movie territory. It’s obviously not a cash grab rammed full of fan service, so there’s an authenticity to it that makes it endure.

Is it a great movie? Fucking right it is.

Is it a Super Mario Bros. movie? Weeelllll…

But I come it from the perspective of someone who was 12 when it came out, so didn’t really give a shit about it being faithful to whatever story the games had. It was just a stupid, fun movie for me.

Street Fighter is a masterpiece

You just reminded me that I used to have that on CD. It was packed full of jams!

Forgive my ignorance, but did they make CGI buttholes, then remove them before it premiered?

Uwe Boll is schlock you know your getting schlock, shclock is fun

It's a not awful swashbuckler and few of those are made these days.

And weird trivia: the Alanis Morrisette theme song “I Remain” is not available on streaming legally. All of the other OST songs are there but that one is always missing.

I watched it so you dont have to. It is not just a bad Borderlands movie, it's an utterly terrible movie period. CGI is bad, characters are ill-conceived, the story is a mess, editing is a mess, everything is a mess. I liked the end-credits though.

Abd I say this as not being a fan of Borderlands. I played the first one for a total of a few hours and somewhat liked it but never got invested into it. Someone who is invested into it would of courses mention that it is an utterly terrible adaptation.

The number one reason I had no interest in it was they replaced Claptraps voice with jack fucking black. Ultimate slap in the face to any fan. Everything else was terrible, but that was the worst to me. Pure Hollywood. "We'll just throw in what we think gamers like and call it a day!"

I saw it in theaters with a friend who was really into the assassins creed games. It was pretty disappointing. Michael Fassbender is the lead though, I think he did a good job

in the cast of the film, more than one will drop significantly in their next works.

Kevin Hart. There's a feeling already thst we are getting too much Jack Black on our screens but Kevin Hart was a lead and his part just fell flat. JLC is a legend at this point and Cate Blanchett is getting there, they can both coast through a stinker or two with all the accumulated good will. But Hart...

I had no idea that Roth directed this movie. Like who thought that getting a cheesy splatter film director was a great decision? Honestly they got what they deserved with this mess.

Because the show writers are the same that wrote the game, last of us has a very strong advantage. They can't deviate from the plot and key elements because they are too invested in it. But they can change what they feel like is weaker, or wouldn't work as well in a show format. And its really noticable if you played both the game and the show. They've discussed how they already planned it to be a two season series, but they also mentioned if they have enough inspiration and they can figure out a way to make a third season that stays within the spirit of the story line, and they honestly enjoy it then they will.

With the first season being as good as it was, I have complete and utter faith in them.

Yes. Although I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn't called Uncharted.

Tom Holland was good, but Marky Mark was a big “meh”.

And the end action set piece was too over the top bonkers for my taste

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.

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.

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.

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

Because it's not very good and we all made a pact never to speak of it again. A pact now broken!

Freddie Prince Jr & Mathew Lillard.

It’s not great, but it’s fun. Might be a tad dated if you watch it for the first time today, but I enjoyed it a lot when I saw it.

Of course, I was very stoned when I watched it.

If all the game to movie adaptations weren’t studio led soulless cash grabs and some young filmmaker who loved a game’s story/world and passionately wanted to share it in their preferred medium I’d actually be interested to see it and it may actually be good

Fallout is good tho, and Sonic as well.

I mean it’s Chris Roberts. He is behind 750 milion dollar 12 year space demo alpha that perpetually can’t take off and his biggest released game was only released because of external intervention and removing him as a lead

The one with Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kurylenko in it? It was fine, had a few good action sequences in it. Managed to both not be much of an adaptation of the game, but also trying to be enough of an adaptation that it frequently makes very little sense. Probably have been better if they'd cut loose a little more, had some more fun with it. Gets a completely OK / 10 from me.

It was nice, I actually watched it more than once

We can live in hope.

I'd like to think we're turning a corner on this now - Lionsgate have taken a beating with both Borderlands and The Crow, which should make others think twice before just crapping out some half-baked adaptation, remake or franchise fodder. Disney have certainly learned their lesson, dialing back both Marvel and Star Wars releases to, hopefully, focus on quality not quantity. It's clear that people just won't turn out for more "content" and that they want to see something made by skilled creators who genuinely want to make the film or TV series, not some soulless corporate-mandated product. I'm confident that James Gunn's approach at DC will also show the benefit of this approach (it's basically just an extension of what he was doing in the MCU).

Almost everyone, including Kevin Feige, seems to have learnt the wrong lesson from the success of the MCU (that it's all about the franchise and the IP) and it is now really starting to hurt their bottom line, which is the only stimulus they really understand. It'll take a bit for the supertanker to course correct as it has a lot of momentum (so we will probably have to endure the seemingly endless Avatar films for a while) but it should lead to better blockbuster films and the cinemas being less carpet-bombed with franchise-fodder leaving room for lower budget films to have their chance to shine (and we've seen quite a few do very well recently which might encourage more studios to take a chance - your hit to miss ratio can be lower if you aren't spending 100s of millions on a film).

I've never played Borderlands, I don't really like the comic book aesthetic, but I really enjoyed the movie.

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.

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.

That could be so good

I’ve wanted this so badly for years

Rofl
There is prob a 'can it run Doom' joke somewhere in there but it's not worth making it.

Chew bubble gum scene.

Full iconic movie

No, and let's keep it that way!

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.

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

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.

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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?

Ok, how tf did I miss this many gaming-related movies?

There's a lot - I have a list that's incomplete but has 86 films on it, Vulture ranked all video game films back in 2016 and there is, obviously, a Wikipedia page for them.

That list is for bad adaptations that made more money than Borderlands, so it leaves out all Us Boll's tax scam movies that are pretty universally awful (I had to bump Alone in the Dark's rating up, so I could rate the sequel lower than it).

And, even with that criteria, it misses out:

• Rampage - $418M
• Angry Birds - $353M
• Angry Birds 2 - $152M
• Monster Hunter - $42M

How do you translate borderlands into a watchable film?

It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake.

Deadpoolesque humour, Mad Maxy aesthetics with Idocracy-like characters and frequent Wick tier violence.

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

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

to me, Mortal Kombat goes under the "Soo bad its good" category.