It's not the worst videogame movie ever, but it's definitely going to come up in the conversation.

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.

  • MycatiskaiEnglish
    191·
    2 months ago

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

    Must have blinked and missed it.

    • Taako_TuesdayEnglish
      111·
      2 months ago

      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

      • MycatiskaiEnglish
        18·
        2 months ago

        After I made the comment I looked it up and realized I have actually seen it and that is how forgettable it is.

        • Im_old@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Same for me! My brain tried to scrub it away lol. And I’m not exactly a movie snob! 😅