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How much money do videogame movies actually make?

Amazingly some of them bring in big bucks at the box-office

Words: Matt Cundy, GamesRadar UK

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MarXmaN - 8 months 9 days ago

I actually liked DOA for it's directness.
Hot chicks and swords, what else do you want?

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Unoriginal - 8 months 9 days ago

Video game movies will probably always suck but they seem to be making their moneys worth.

If they made a movie out of a franchise I loved, let's say Zelda, and everyone would say it sucked I would still probably go see it. If we want these to go away or get better we need to stop seeing them and that probably will never happen so we are stuck this way.

But Tomb Raider>Godfather, that's unbelievable.
Interesting article

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derringer83 - 8 months 9 days ago

I'm gonna put this out there for all the idiots that think that Hitman was terrible. It was actually a very solid movie. Olyphant definitely held his own and was way better than Statham would've been, due to the fact that Statham is so recognizable which totally kills the whole idea. Also, Max Payne was not a bad movie, a little strange but c'mon the game was wacked too.

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killemall - 8 months 9 days ago

Lolz...doom, it had a great soundtrack though...

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CH3BURASHKA - 8 months 9 days ago

I haven't seen Max Payne, but I'm going to make assumptions and say that it does the game no favor. It was my first 3PS (I think), and when I saw the trailer I had a moment of fanboyness when I thought that maybe, just MAYBE, it will live up to my expectations. Then came the crushing blow of statistics, and that there would be no possibility of it being good.

Also, people are wondering why the economy is shit. Ahem...

reCaptcha: Sanford lish (?)

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gmilf71 - 8 months 9 days ago

mario and mortal kombat movies are so retarded looking it's funny. hitman was bad ass though.

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Geigan - 8 months 8 days ago

@ Red

Too late. Upcoming release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games

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deathrebellion - 8 months 8 days ago

well not all video game movies suk. SH wuz gud i heard

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Jpeg - 8 months 8 days ago

in my opinion Hitman is the most decent game-movie ive seen

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ugthecaveman - 8 months 8 days ago

i thnk every movie on this list was pure garbage its surprising how the ones on the 1st page made that much
its not surprising on the 2nd page

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ZombieGenocider - 8 months 7 days ago

Not all of them are bad, just most. I love the Resident Evil films and Mortal Kombat (mock me all you want :P).

I blame Uwe Boll for most of the failures (Bloodrayne anyone?), I did enjoy Mario Bros. when I was younger, but now I can see why it failed.

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NullG7 - 8 months 5 days ago

Wow Im not suprized look in that picture of DOA you can see they splurged on plastic swords

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stickboy8 - 8 months 5 days ago

I haven't actually seen any of these movies but they look pretty bad

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GamesRadarMikelReparaz - 8 months 4 days ago

Hey, DOA was a surprisingly fun movie, and it was even relatively faithful to the game's plot. Plus it has Eric Roberts at his overacting best. I'd actually say it's one of the better videogame movies made to date, although that's not saying much as most videogame movies are irredeemable piles of shit.

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GamesRadarBrettElston - 7 months 26 days ago

I saw the first MK in the theater FIVE TIMES.

Then saw Armageddon once and kinda regretted it.

Now, I LOVE Armageddon. It's easily the best awful movie in existence.

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