Weekend Box Office: Deadpool & Wolverine narrowly held on to the top spot while Eli Roth's Borderlands was an all-out disaster.

Brilliant film makes money, bad one doesn’t! 😁

Borderlands only opens with $8m. Ouch!

    • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      3 months ago

      It’s bizarre to me. Hollywood has generally figured out that if a book sells really well that you shouldn’t fuck with the movie version any more than you have to. If you gotta jiggle a few things around for pacing, fine.

      But they’ll still absolutely torch a video game story to "make it better"with no comprehension of the source material and it’s literally never ever worked.

      TV figured it out w/ The Last of Us and Fallout.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        But games are about the player getting to engage with and explore the world and story at their own pace and shows let it aorta slow down too.

        Really the answer seems to be take the world and make your movie in it as needed to make the story engaging.

        The recent mortal kombat movie, Mario movie, detective pikachu and sonic movies show that it works. Also don’t mess with the characters to much if you include them.

    • gandarf @startrek.websiteEnglish
      151·
      3 months ago

      Not good, per se, but certainly some entertaining ones.

      The Last of Us is fantastic, but it’s not a movie.

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        I hate that movie so much. I mean it was done pretty well and all but one scene pisses me off.

        The first time she goes to hell dimension she gets up from the floor by grabbing a perfectly sized metal pipe. Which is the first weapon you use in the first two games. I’m like oh shit it’s on now. But she didn’t take the pipe with her. It seemed like a deliberate fuck you to fans of the games.

        If I had never played the games I’d probably like the movie a lot more.

    • 1hitsong@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Can I count Big Trouble in Little China as the first Mortal Kombat movie?

      If so, then yes, there’s been at least one.

      • dellish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Check out the first Mario Bros movie (1993 I think?) if you want to feel your brain vomit out your ears. How they got to that story with the source material is anyone’s guess.

    • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Both Sonic movies are a lot of fun and Jim Carrey is obviously having a great time being Robotnik.

      • mars296@fedia.io
        7·
        3 months ago

        Does the Gran Turismo movie count as a “video game” movie? I haven’t watched it but I know the general plot and that Gran Turismo is essentially a driving sim with no storyline (most recent one I played was GT4).

        I think of it like if there was a movie about an avid Flight Simulator player has to land a passenger jet after both pilots are incapacitated, I wouldn’t consider it a video game movie. Maybe that’s how they remake Airplane! though.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          It’s based on a true story. They auditioned the top GT players to see if anyone could actually drive in a race. One guy made it.

          • mars296@fedia.io
            5·
            3 months ago

            Right. I mean that it doesn’t take place in the “universe” of Gran Turismo. Which is the criteria I think I would use to consider it a “video game movie”.

      • Maestro@fedia.io
        2·
        3 months ago

        I really don’t agree with the rating on some of these. I thought “In the name of the king” was quite enjoyable, as was the original 1995 Mortal Kombat.

    • dellish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Street Fighter was OK, wasn’t it? I’m asking because I haven’t seen it since I was a teenager and my sensibilities may have changed since then.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Guile: This is the collection agency, Bison. Your ass is six months overdue, and it’s mine. (In the thickest definitely not American accent you have ever heard)

        Yeah I’m not sure it was that good but it’s fun to watch.

    • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Good in terms of being a good example of great cinema, no

      Good in terms of being faithful to the source material and/or fun to watch?

      • ratchet and clank
      • resident evil
    • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      The Silent Hill series was pretty great. Also, the original Mario Bros movie.

      Oh, and Advent Children!

  • Starcade@sfba.social
    8·
    3 months ago

    @UKFilmNerd

    I’m sure I’ll see Borderlands eventually, but it wasn’t tracking for me as a must see. The trailer was just okay, and I’m not sure did the movie any favors-- In fact it looks like it was made by the same person that made the trailer for The Suicide Squad (2016).

  • auzzy@bbq.snoot.com
    4·
    3 months ago

    @UKFilmNerd It’s crazy how badly the projections have been missing opening weekend hauls over the past two months. It seems that since Bad Boys, they’ve undershot every blockbuster by a significant amount.

    • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      I find it strange that there seems to be a job of professionally guessing movies opening weekend numbers. 😄

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        Well, money makes the world go round and movies are a combination of really expensive gambling and money laundering.

        So you want to know the odds before you gamble your money too.