Honestly, I'm just glad I hadn't played the games (not really my genre) or read the lore before watching the movie. As someone essentially ignorant to the lore, it honestly wasn't near as bad as I'd been led to believe. Not great, but not bad.
@@comettamer But then again, has Andy ever been unreasonably angry at Borderlands before? Or just unreasonably angry at anything before? No, seriously, has he?
Fun fact, Raul Julia took that part because his kids liked the game. He was dying at the time and had lost a lot of weight, but he put his all into the performance for his kids. For that, I love that movie.
The day Bison destroyed your village was the most important day of your life, For me it was only Tuesday. ( I may be misremembering it ). Best line in the movie.
I adore how Raul Julia was so committed to hamming it up as M. Bison because he wanted to leave his kids with a fun film before he passed away. RIP Raul
Honestly though, I'd say that 80% of the "worst thing ever" declarations come purely from people who played the games and didn't like what'd been changed or already knew too much. For me, a guy who doesn't play that genre of games, it was average at worst.
@@broEye1 You forget that when adapting something based on a source that already exists, faithfulness is a vast portion of what makes it great or horrible. It can be the best cinematic masterpiece to exist, but if it disrespects the source material, then it's pointless to judge it on its own merit. If a movie is average at worst, then that makes it doubly bad This is why the Street Fighter movie is considered to be good. On a technical level, it's pretty shoddy. It is also faithful and respectful of the source material though, enough to make the movie fun and enjoyable despite being objectively bad. That's why there's 'bad films that are actually good' and 'bad films that are *bad* bad'
Nothing can describe the sense of dread I felt when Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li showed up on the number 6 spot on this list, and I realized that it meant I was about to be shown _five_ movies that were, somehow, *worse* than Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li.
Wow really? I actually really liked the Legend of Chun Li one. Kristen Kreuk absolutely KILLED her role and then some, and you could tell Michael Clarke Duncan had an ABSOLUTE BLAST playing Balrog too. But maybe that's just me lol.
@@typacsk Hey "In the Name of the King" is the only good thing to come from Uwe Boll's film library. Yes, it was because the cast was incredible and saved that movie from being abysmal, but hey some credit is due, surely? haha~
The Flophouse Podcast did a live episode covering Super Mario Bros and it turned out one of the writers was in the audience. They then did a followup mini episode (Mini 39, 9/30/21) interview. According to the writer, they were given a partially-written early script and told "write what you want but it has to start with this opening," which is where the whole 'asteroid split the world into two dimensions' thing came from. He and his writing partner had also never played SMB and knew nothing about beyond that script. So they wrote a new script, got fired, and then brought back to fix the later script as it was being filmed.
I've truly grown to appreciate just how much love for Raul Julia's performance as M. Bison has spread. He was a gem, and it's always fun to watch lists like this say "No no, not him, not then." Raul deserves an Oscar retroactively.
To prepare, Raul Julia also studied Richard III and watched film footage of Benito Mussolini to copy his mannerisms and body language. In order to play a video game villain in what he had to know was a Z-tier movie. Now THAT is a professional.
@@coyoteone6197 Oh, he was already dying of cancer when he played the role. He apparently took the role as his last film JUST for his children, because they wanted him to.
aldotrioksidi, And that’s the scary part. That a man known for terrible movies, based on video games, could do better job than the one who directed the Borderlands movie. To give him some credits, *whether* he deserves them or *not,* at least *if* he directed the BL movie, the casting *would’ve* been a whole lot better than what we got.
All this Uwe Boll and no Bloodrayne? Michelle Rodriguez's horrific English accent? Meatloaf's bizarre cameo? Billy Zane sitting at a desk for two scenes and running away? Michael Madsen *allegedly* being drunk all the time? And who can forget Sir Ben Kingsley spending his time sitting being evil the whole movie until the last 10 minutes, when he gets up and stiffly walks around for a bit before dying?
And all Kristana Loken did in her role as Rayne was scream a lot. Probably her reaction to the script I'm sure. I miss when she was actually cool. When she was the T-X..
Not just that but all his video game movies. Which includes THREE bloodrayne movies, two alone in the dark movies, a Far Cry movie. They are all so bad that they make these ones look good except the borderlands movie. thats even worse still.
@@fernie-fernandez Well according to her Wikipedia page, she's still acting but as far as I can tell she hasn't done anything super note worthy, also her experience most not have been too bad since she worked with Uwe Boll again for one of those In The Name of The King movies he made.
Raul Julia was a treasure and he is sorely missed. I'm glad you decided his Street Fighter did not deserve a place on this list. (That sequel, on the other hand...)
A quote from Hoskins about the Mario directors: “The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set!” Apparently he and leguizamo spent a lot of time drunk in their trailers 😂
For the 25th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros movie, John Leguizamo thanked the fans who love and support it. It has a cult movie following if that's any indication. *Sorry, it was for the 20th anniversary, not the 25th.
I got a quote as well; "I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time -- he's now 18 -- he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' and I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly." -The late great Dennis Hopper
11:51 "It's just a tedious, unimaginative slog through a bunch of off-the-shelf CGI monsters and truly nonsensical lore." Sounds like a pretty faithful adaptation of the games to me.
Andy again reminding us that Uwe Boll existed and the terrible things he did to Movies, Videos and Video Game Movies (They all count as separate offences at he tribunal)
For the most part, 90s video game adaptations were bad, but enjoyably dumb. The 2000s and early 2010s were mostly just bad. The late 2010s and early 2020s gave me hope that we were on the way to "actually good", particularly Castlevania and The Last of Us. And then Borderlands hit a big reset button.
True, but difference with Castlevania and The Last of Us is that they were a series and gave enough time to give a story and let us enjoy the characters. Movies based on video games try to put in too much but not enough time
@@Cross177 There have been some decent video game movies, too. The Assassin's Creed (2016) movie comes to mind, as does the Warcraft (2016) movie and Detective Pikachu (2019). Granted, those three films almost require you to be a fan of the source material to enjoy them and they certainly aren't great movies, but they're good enough to enjoy the viewing. There's also the more universally popular game-movies like Wreck-it Ralph (2012), Super Mario Bros Movie (2023), or Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), but you might need to be younger to consider those "good" or "watchable".
@@Kartissa I imagine people going into those movies did so for the express purpose of ogling Kristanna Loken for 90 minutes. In that sense, the movies were a success.
@@ray-raypacheco276but that's a "So Bad It's Good" movie. Plus, the only reason Raul Julia did it was that his kids were fans of the series. And he OWNED that role! That should be the palate cleanser at the end.
@@ray-raypacheco276 Sadly, the copyright laws might be an issue. The only reason they watched most of those movies were because they were out of the copyright date assigned. But I’m sure that they would be able to do something about it!
As bad as the original Street Fighter movie was, the quote "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday." is so incredibly profound that you can apply it to anyone's life in some way or another. Your mom died? You graduated? Your kid was born? For 99.99% of the rest of the world, it was just any other day.
I cannot think of a more iconic line in any video game adaptation. It probably deserved to be in a better movie, but I honestly think that being in an otherwise terrible movie elevates it even more.
The point of the line is how Bison was directly involved in making the day important though, highlighting how powerful and cruel he is. It's a lot like: "Who are you?" "You killed my father!" "That doesn't narrow it down much. You're gonna have to be more specific..."
@@Stratelier Yeah, a completely normal day for me (Northern European). I was playing video games, paused for a while and watched some TV. Saw pictures/video from one of the planes crashing and thought it was from a movie and simply went back to my game. For me, it was a regular day. It was much later that day when I found out what I had actually seen.
@@MatthewFincham As a matter of fact, that was the reason the script caused a few actors to leave. What was the line supposed to sound-like is a mystery.
@@MatthewFincham Sindel was played by Musetta Vander, and one look at her filmography shows that's kinda her thing. In more serious dramatic roles that require more nuance, she'll tone things down, but if she knows it's dumb and silly she cranks the ham up to 11 and doesn't stop until the credits roll!
That's because it didn't suck. It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination mind you, it was just really boring. Not to mention critically underutilizing it's lead actor.
For the record, the DOA video games were actually fantastic. Ignore the obsession with boobs, and the whole "counter" system allowed you to turn button mashers on their head.
@@SigmentKurosai Wow, they actually put effort into the DOAX games then? That's... actually impressive of the devs. I already like the DOA games mainly because of Hayabusa(from Ninja Gaiden), being one of its characters, but it's good to know that even the spinoffs can have solid mechanics as well, and aren't just about attractive women from the DOA series playing volleyball.
Ive read somewhere that for the Super Mario Bros, John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins were drunk basically 24/7. Also, how is Doom: Annihilation not on this list?
Bruh Doom annihilation was one of the most dumb movies I've ever seen. Why would they take the iconic enemies out and replace them with some boring ass zombies
To be fair, Annihilation was a closer “Doom” movie than the first Doom movie was - at least it had demons from Hell and not just zombified scientists on Mars.
@@BleachFan9891Could've been any movie. Even a certain one with people out in the desert, with an annoying as s**t robot, voiced by Jack Black, but who knows, for sure? Not I...but I did love MK and MK Annihilation (at the time), but I didn't even know Double Dragon, KOF, DOA, or Tekken even got movies. What's next? Soul Calibur? Smash Bros? Marvel Vs. Capcom? Persona? Final Fantasy? Dragon Quest? Xenoblade? Xenosaga? Chrono Trigger? Tales of Symphonia? MegaMan Battle Network? Bayonetta? Silent Hill? Fire Emblem? Ace Attorney?
No mention of 2005 hit classic DOOM? Starring everybody's favourite relatable action hero Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in his big breakout role as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - but in a sweater!
Eh, if this was a Bottom 15 list, I'd say it'd be sitting comfortably at 11 or 12. Not *quite* dire enough to shove aside any of the ones that made the Bottom 10.
Honestly, I'd say DOOM 2005 is a film that is something of a guilty pleasure for many. Plus, it's got Karl "Billy fookin' Butcher" Urban in it as the movie's version of Doomguy. Now, if we're talking about that awful Doom Annihilation movie where they were all "who needs a Doomguy?"... then yeah, that movie is easily a stinker.
Nah I’d watch DOOM over any of these crapshoots any day. It’s mindless fun and that first person scene is genuinely one of the coolest scenes in any movie. Also the rock was better in it than his last 10 movies combined lmao
@@whitewolf3051, the first movie was somewhat faithful to the game while the other two were just outright crap. Between Billy the Kid (a vampiric version played by Zak Ward..."Postal guy" in Postal, Dave in the TV show Titus, Scut Farkus in A Christmas Story, the military member speared by Scorpinok in one of the Transformer movies) and the entirety of BloodRayne 3 (which was being made before the game was even announced as coming) and its parody (which was being filmed at the same time as BloodRayne 3), the following movies were some of his worst works; I'd argue that Postal was truer to the game than BloodRayne 2, BloodRayne 3, and Blubberella (the parody of 3...same cast (except for Rayne), same set pieces, just turned up to 11 with fat shaming (Rayne is a rather large woman) and juvenile gay stereotypes (Willam Belli plays the second-in-command of the resistance in both movies)).
@@mikejett2733 And he was, by some politician who got rid of that tax loophole which meant he could no longer pay back his investors even if his movie bombed.
I still stand by my opinion that to voice Claptrap, they should have gotten the guy that normally voices Claptrap. 1) that one's a professional voice actor (I think?) 2) He knows the character 3) definitely cheaper than Jack Black Not to mention, then Claptrap would have actually sounded like Claptrap.
All the casting smacks of producers thinking they needed big names to draw an audience, nevermind that many of the names are too old for the target demo to care about. And of all the casting, Jack Black is the one least often complained about.
100% I don't get how that made the list. It's just as stupid as the game and it's glorious, it gave us everything we wanted from a DOA movie including an over the top Zack.
Script is how. I mean, his performance feels pretty good to me. Only issue is, the things he's saying are questionable AT BEST. I dunno who wrote or directed this, but I'd just like to tell them that no, I do not want to hear Jack Black tell me to watch him take a number two
Believe it or not, they made him even unfunnier in the German version. Instead of being dubbed by the usual voice actor they hired a fucking RUclipsr to voice Claptrap.
Fun Fact - Motaro in Mortal Kombat Annihilation was played by Malibu from American Gladiators! He was also The Warrior in the vhs for the board game Dragon Strike!
Genuinely shocked the Doom movie from 2006 and Uwe Boll's adaptation of BloodRayne didn't make the list. It was also genuinely shocking to me how many of these I had to do martial arts demonstrations at local movie theaters for, and then got free tickets to sit through them. (Free was not worth it for DOA).
You've not seen the two follow-up BloodRayne movies, have you? They make the first one (somewhat faithful to the game, just poorly scripted and acted (which wasn't the fault of the actors)) look like an Oscar-winner.
You forgot Uwe Bolle's main reference to HOTD in his adaptation: interspersing footage from the arcade game at random points during the movie...well, actually, interspersing footage from the arcade game's DEMO since the 'Insert coin to play' caption can be seen flashing several times.
I'm surprised he went to that much effort frankly. It sounded to me like he heard the name of the game and just made up a movie based on the name alone Though, I'm not entirely convinced that's not what actually happened. Maybe it's the film editor who took the demo footage and spliced it in!
@mar_speedman great way to save money. Use shots that already exist, don't have to pay for the shots and actors that would have taken up those ten seconds.
@@pettespizzaparlor3245 That sort of logic might work with a modern game, but not so much a 90s arcade game demo But then again, who knows what these people were thinking? Not 'let's make a good movie' is all I know
Hold on. You're saying the abomination that is the Monster Hunter movie is BETTER than the old Mario movie? At least the Mario movie was fun, even if it wasn't true to the games.
I don't mind the monster hunter movie. It at least gave us the absolute basic of what the franchise is, people hunting monsters, you can tell at a glance what is. I'd rather see a double feature of dragon ball evolution and last airbender than see super mario bros again.
I'm frankly surprised that all the films in this list weren't made from Critical Nightmare Director Uwe Boll. 😹 Then again, he'd take up all the slots. So best limit his slots to 3 movies only so other bad movies can be covered too so they don't feel left out. 😹
I was pretty sure Borderlands would be on the list, since that was clearly the trigger for this, but yeah, I was expecting at _least_ eight Boll movies.
In an interview, Dennis Hopper said his son asked him why he made the Mario Brothers movie. He told his son it was because he needed shoes, and his son told him he didn't need shoes that badly.
Saw it using a free movie ticket that was going to expire at midnight. I felt like I had gotten pickpocketed. And I wanted my time back. In a post Matrix world they couldn't even give me ONE fight down a hallway with cool flips, punching, kicks, "guns" and such. Nope. We WALKED down an empty, no badguy filled hallway and had a "fight" with Dracula. By fight I mean,. . . you know in movies when they want to show first person drunk? That. with strobe lights and random sepia tone flashback to . . Someone's. . . life from before (Rain or Dracula 's I'm not really sure) Then Dracu-dad nopes right on out with a "we will fight again my child, when you have grow strong" . . . I think. I haven't seen this movie again and only saw it during the first week of release. In theaters. With a free ticket. . . . . Catwoman was better.
Now I'm hearing that Eli Roth wanted his name taken off of Borderlands, in no small part because he didn't even direct the copious reshoots. That was Tim Miller. A screenwriter, however, did get his name taken off.
"How can jack black as claptrap not be funny" well for starters claptrap is barely entertaining, but then the 30+ year long partnership and friendship of tenacious d coming to an end by a joke goes and shows you that the man who used to "stuck it up to the man with rock" has talent but was there for the money and not the passion
Monster Hunter did have some "proper" hunters too (the major ones played by Tony Jaa and Ron Perlman), they just focused on the army in the trailer to make the whole thing look extra-dull - most of those characters are binned off pretty quickly. Also, even those hunters didn't have wild enough trousers. While we're discussing Paul W S Anderson's game films: although I have a soft spot for the Resident Evil series, The Final Chapter absolutely deserves to be on this list.
I remember watching the Super Mario Bros. movie in the 90s and wondering if anyone in the movie had ever even played the game. I also remember watching Mortal Kombat and thinking "Huh, someone actually played the game" as well as watching Double Dragon and thinking "I didn't play the game, but it didn't deserve this, I'm sure". I loved Raul Julia in Street Fighter because it was Raul Julia (I mean, come on) and even in the German dub his performance was so full of vigor and energy that I was legitimately shocked to learn he'd passed away shortly after filming had been completed and I was disappointed that no one else in the movie seemed capable of going the full 200% with their character. I had completely forgotten that DoA had a movie, I never knew that King of Fighters and Tekken got a movie adaption (HOW?!) and when Assassin's Creed and Uncharted got their adaptions, I was still so haunted by everything I had seen in the 90s that I refused to watch them. I have since seen Uncharted. It's a movie (and the fanmovie with Nathan Fillion on RUclips is still a better adaption at only 15 minutes length). I will not watch Assassin's Creed, hard pass on Borderlands, Sonic 3, Ghosts of Tsushima and the God of War movie and if, at one point, the Legend of Zelda movie is released, I will watch it, but I will have my hardcore Zelda fans on speed-dial in case I need to warn them of imminent danger. Tl;dr: I am traumatized by video game adaptions because so few of them actually represent what I loved about the games in the first place. Except Raul Julia, who was perfection and cannot, shall not, be surpassed. PS: As a German I would like to profusely apologize for what Boll did in cinemas. I swear, we never meant to hurt you or any franchises you loved!
Boll hurt all of us. But we a united in our hurt and together we got through it. Although he did get that tax loop hole closed. Now it's the Americans who will have to apologize to the world for what ever garbage they come out with next. And no good service to humanity with closing tax loop holes. We apologize in advance and for the past.
Just to make things worse with the Monster Hunter movie, which I haven’t seen anyone in the comments bring up yet, is that the film wasn’t even based on the games. Paul W. S. Anderson has gone on record saying the reason he made the film was because he saw the Monster Hunter _crossover side mission in _*_Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker._* A non-canonical side op that was meant to parody the MH games by having a bunch of straight military men shooting the monsters with machine guns was the actual basis for a feature film centered on the Monster Hunter license.
So the Double Dragon movie has Alyssa Milano in it in her #7 movie appearance, yes this is a decade after starting alongside Arnold in Commando which was her #2 movie appearance.
There's a moment in the Alone in the Dark movie where a monster is killed by tracer fire...which is animated, obviously in post production, as missing the monster by a country mile
New rule for Hollywood; No director shall direct a movie based on a game until they 100% the game. Good luck to anyone wanting to direct a Dark Souls movie.
...Unfortunately, this never was apply to HollyWood, but mostly indie-studios that tried to adapt, which failed. Steven Paul's case with Tekken was an example.
i find kinda funny you talk about a dark souls movie when videogame movies are usually based on videogames with no plot (dark souls have lore but plot? i dont think so)
I think Demon’s Souls or Bloodborne would make decent movies. Their plots would be easier to explain in a movie than a Dark Souls game where almost everything is explained through gear or region lore.
No mention of DOOM: Annihilation? You wound me. TLDR: Only features the weakest DOOM monsters, uses only two identifiable DOOM guns (and they're severely nerfed), and looks like a generic SyFy channel movie. It was so bad that iD Software said "we are not with them".
To be fair on Postal, even if it was a Tax scheme on Boll’s part. Postal is about as nonsensical as you can get. NPCs have insane solutions to modern day problems and our main character the Postal Dude goes from 1-100 in a matter of days due to stuff out his control Probably the only movie he made that inadvertently hit its mark considering what was Postal 2. And maybe for some disagreements here, that movie hit me in the “So bad it’s kinda funny”category.
Postal the videogame was about as offensive as it got, even from the name. For those who don't know or have forgotten, the name comes from the phrase "go postal", a reference to a string of killings perpetrated by and against U.S. Postal Service employees and ex-employees starting in 1986.
Fun fact - the studio that made the Chun Li movie hosted a preview for a group of FGC players who proceeded to MST3K the movie so hard that the studio heads who came to see the reaction snuck out halfway through.
fighting game community, mystery science theater 3000 If you don't know mst3k, it's basically the granddaddy of terrible game let's plays. But they're commenting over crappy movies.
@@prod.byjoker3778FGC: Fighting Game Community. MST3K: Mystery Science Theater 3000. An old TV show where a guy and two robots would sit in front of a screen (shown as silhouettes in front of it) and watch mostly low budget, schlocky sci-fi and horror movies, providing humorous commentary and occasional skits. Has a cult following, basically inventing the whole "sitting behind a screen and talking shit about a crappy movie while scenes of it play" genre you see here on RUclips and elsewhere if I remember correctly
@@Dafmeister1978, my thoughts exactly...except the first one was fairly okay (I don't think it'd make this list); the second one was pushing it and the less said about the third movie (especially since it came out *before* the third game), the better...and I suppose Blubberella could be tied into all this (I'm not sure why I get a laugh out of that pile, but I do).
Could've just been: Uwe Boll, Mortal Kombat Annihilation(maybe the 2021 film too? That one is definitely boring as hell), Borderlands, Double Dragon, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Far Cry, Bloodrayne, DOA, Tekken, and maybe every Uwe Boll movie?
@@Alsebra Wait, what, there were 3 BloodRayne movies? I guess that makes sense, because there's 3 BloodRayne games? I only meant the first 2, but not the games, I know the games aren't bad, I just never played them myself. I've only heard of them. And the people who have played them, know how good they are themselves, and I'm sure they are. But I never got a chance to play them myself though. Because when they came out, I was a kid, and I knew my parents wouldn't let me play a game like BloodRayne. But at least I got to play RE2, and the N64 MK games, like Trilogy, 4, and Mythologies, and the DMC games, as a kid, even though I absolutely hate Mythologies, even though the death animations of seeing Sub-Zero falling to his death were hilarious, with him falling off the cliff. The FMV's were the best part of the game, because they're hilariously bad.
@@shawnfields2369, all three of the games were halfway decent, but the movies stopped being similar in the second one. The third one took place during WWII in Nazi Germany...and Clint Howard plays a Mengele-like character.
@@Alsebra Oh, all right, so while the games were halfway decent, but the third movie was set in WWll, and in Nazi Germany? And i think that the games have never had anything to do with Nazis or been set in Germany(just a guess), Its just that Uwe Boll is TERRIBLE, at understanding the games he makes bad movies about, (like House of the Dead, for example, which Andy talks about). And also, I got in trouble watching the House of The Dead movie as a kid, too. Seriously, its definitely the worst video game movie I've ever seen. Not even MK Annihilation is THIS bad. That one's just laughably bad. The HOTD movie is just boring, and ALMOST laughably bad, but it's just hard to watch, (like literally EVERY other Uwe Boll movie ever), seriously, does the guy even know or care about the games he's making these movies out of?
Still getting used to the new background :D As a german I want to formerly apologize hereby for all the horrible Uwe Boll movie adaptations of game franchises. He even also made a Far Cry movie, which definetely also should have been on this list
DOA dead or alive was a fantastic video game movie it was probably the best video game movie on your entire list of worst video game movies they had Kevin Nash as Bass Armstrong that's perfect casting in my opinion in fact the entire cast was perfect for the characters of video game
How could it NOT have that line?! That's like, the ONLY slightly even remotely CLOSE to being good line IN the movie itself! And I should know! I was utterly OBSESSED with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation as a kid!(and the first MK movie as well, but because of how much fun that one managed to be). But Annihilation? I still don't get why I ever liked it in the first place...also, they killed Johnny Cage in the FIRST TWO MINUTES, of the film, who was all ready to reprise his role as Johnny, until he read the script, saw that he was going to be killed off, and signed off, giving his own Johnny Cage like response to the whole thing, proving that he's always ever been the only guy out there who's ever been right to play Johnny Cage, in live action. Same with the actors for: Liu Kang, Shang-Tsung, Kano, Sonya(in the first movie, not Annihilation) Blade, Kitana, and Rayden as well.
I liked this video, but two things: Borderlands might be awful, but in no way can you ever convince me that it's supposedly worse than MK Annihilation, that's just recency bias. It can be bad, but there's WAY worse. Hell, all of the ones before Borderlands are provenly worse. But most important, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, please, PLEASE, for the love of everything, don't fall in the rabbit hole of becoming yet another hate-filled channel that just likes trash talking everything and making fun of everything and just... Hating on everything. I swear, I can't deal with another one of those channels, and I especially can't deal with one of my favorite channels that I watch for fun and to feel good, beocming that exact thing. But even the Gamescon thing was kind of borderline that, and if anyone tries extremely hard with that whenever he gets a finger to do so, it's Mike. So please, for the love of gaming, don't let yourself become that.
Borderlands maybe the most disappointing here. HOW can these actors and this background fail, even if it looks cheap (like the game) or has bad jokes (like the game) it may miss on every point and so be even worse than anything of Uwe Boll!! It misses especially at ONE point all game parts had: All villains and heroes have a more or less tragic background (leading to murder and cynism), and you do not see it in the entire movie. Love your line of eternal viggilance.
Not even going to touch Uwe Boll's "In The Name Of The King" huh? It's got a 4% on Rotten Tomatos and basicaly just craps all over Dungeon Siege. (And the two sequels only get worse from there.)
As I type this I've only reached House of Dead in the video and was scrolling through the comments assuming Max Payne had to be in the list. Maybe the younger generations have forgotten but we never will and as with breaking the law ignorance is no excuse.
@@Crazy_Borg Because of how HORRENDOUSLY, LAUGHABLY, AWFULLY BAD, she was as Mona Sax? I mean, I've never touched the first 2 Max Payne games, and even I could've told you that Mila Kunis was one of the absolute WORST things about that entire movie, besides literally everything else in the whole movie, and one that I try to forget that I had seen multiple times, literally everyday, since that tragic day that the Max Payne movie came out all that time ago, back in 2008. Mark Wahlberg wasn't too bad as Max Payne, but the constant slo-mo dives were all hilariously stupid. I know that's a thing Max does in the series, and it's iconic there, but what always WORKS out in a game, does NOT always work in a movie, especially not a live action game movie, and especially not a REALLY, REALLY BAD one like Max Payne... because it felt like if the Scary Movie franchise had done their own terrible parody of the Max Payne games the entire time. Ugh, so difficult to sit through...
You missed out that the best part of Postal is when the maker of Postal shows up and shoots Uwe Boll for making such a shit movie, you have to admit that at least got a chuckle
Let's be honest, they literally made this list because they wanted to rank/talk Borderlands (2024) in number 1, and it was easy to grab other 6 flops movies-clips for a video.
@@N.BR500 I've never been a fan or played Borderlands... But I must admit, that awkward silence surprised me about Borderlands 4's announcement. I get the movie was rubbish (not seen it myself) and people hate it but I thought people would still love the games, why on Earth is the movie having an impact on the game's reputation???
@@Myomer104 Gotcha. Thank you for the insights to both you and the other comment. I didn't know the 3rd game wasn't well regarded. I can understand why the movie has fractured the reputation further then. 😳😳😳
As a German i want to apologize for unleashing Dr. Uwe Boll on the movie industry. At least his DVD commentaries are pure comedy gold. If that counts for something...🤷🏻♂️
It was Karl Urban as the Slayer. The Rock was basically just the main antagonist. Honestly, I kind of had the Rock picked out as the commanding officer Doom Guy decked that got him sent to Mars in the first place. Though, in a way that makes it obvious the people making the movie never actually checked the lore beyond the most basic skimming.
I was just waiting for the first Uwe Boll mention. He may not have got the top spot, but three whole entries to himself is definitely impressive. No single person has done more damage video game adaptation.
@SomewhatSlightlyBored My bad, when I saw that it had the same producer of "Uncharted, Spider-Man, and Venom," I assumed that it was Sony. Doesn’t change the bad part.
10-2 had the small excuse of the 90s and early 2000s era were stoner humor influencing everything. Borderlands has no such excuse, just soulless shitty writing.
Fun fact: The DOA movie has Kane Kosugi on it. And if anyone here is a Tokusatsu Fan since Kakuranger and has watched the Years Later TTFC Movie Special, yes he starred in this movie after the Kakuranger series have ended. And it's probably why he had a good English fluency when he brought it back in Japan in the Kamen Rider Revice Battle Familia movie and the Kakuranger Years Later movie
I'm 100% convinced Andy suggested they make this video no more than 5 mins into watching the Borderlands movie.
I think he probably waited for Jane to wake up, before proposing this idea, so it might have taken a little longer
@@flusendieb6833Jane probably took in a bed frame and mattress to the theater.
Pretty sure he was planning it out during the movie to give him something enjoyable to do.
Honestly, I'm just glad I hadn't played the games (not really my genre) or read the lore before watching the movie. As someone essentially ignorant to the lore, it honestly wasn't near as bad as I'd been led to believe. Not great, but not bad.
5 minutes after hearing Kevin Hart and Cate Blanchet playing Roland and Lilith.
So, this entire video was Andy's therapy session? he was the angriest of the three at the Borderlands movie
Not unreasonably, I'm sure.
@@comettamer But then again, has Andy ever been unreasonably angry at Borderlands before? Or just unreasonably angry at anything before? No, seriously, has he?
Fun fact, Raul Julia took that part because his kids liked the game. He was dying at the time and had lost a lot of weight, but he put his all into the performance for his kids. For that, I love that movie.
Don't forget the best line ever, he was awesome in that.
Which one?
“OF COURSE!”
Or
“For me, it was a Tuesday.”
The day Bison destroyed your village was the most important day of your life, For me it was only Tuesday. ( I may be misremembering it ). Best line in the movie.
@@Cross177 See, for me, the highlight is,
"Beheld SATAN as he FELLLL from HEAVENNN! Like LIGHT-NIIIIIIIIIIIING!"
"All I want to do is to create the perfect genetic soldier! Not for power, not for evil, but for good."
I adore how Raul Julia was so committed to hamming it up as M. Bison because he wanted to leave his kids with a fun film before he passed away. RIP Raul
Of course!
True, Raul Julia was the only thing good about Street Fighter!
Absolute legend. RIP M. Bison/Gomez Addams...you are missed!
The movie would only be good if it only focused on M. Bison, Vega, Balrog, Zangief, Cammy and Chun-Li.
The man was so serious about doing the movie that he went and did a whole bunch of reading about dictators to model Bison on.
I love that they made this whole video just to reinforce how much they hated the Borderlands movie, and they're not even trying to hide it.
One should not hide the truth
I don’t know if Borderlands deserves to be #1 but, it really is that bad.
They shouldnt. It was sh*t.
You know a movie is bad when it starts spawning "worst movies" lists.
Still waiting for that "Worst Puzzles" list video, that they threatened to do in response to the bishop puzzle from "The 7th Guest."
The speed that this video came out is approaching that of the one they made just to complain (rightly!) about GTA Definitive Edition 😂
Honestly though, I'd say that 80% of the "worst thing ever" declarations come purely from people who played the games and didn't like what'd been changed or already knew too much. For me, a guy who doesn't play that genre of games, it was average at worst.
Or just farming for views.
@@broEye1 You forget that when adapting something based on a source that already exists, faithfulness is a vast portion of what makes it great or horrible. It can be the best cinematic masterpiece to exist, but if it disrespects the source material, then it's pointless to judge it on its own merit. If a movie is average at worst, then that makes it doubly bad
This is why the Street Fighter movie is considered to be good. On a technical level, it's pretty shoddy. It is also faithful and respectful of the source material though, enough to make the movie fun and enjoyable despite being objectively bad. That's why there's 'bad films that are actually good' and 'bad films that are *bad* bad'
There is absolutely more to Monster Hunter than turning building sized animals into trousers.
Sometimes you turn them into hats.
Which really made the movie's tie-in mission even more lame.
EXATCLY! Whole outfits, not just pants. Fashon hunters unite!
I thought you also turn them into swords, which is something I'm a lot more interested in...
Best thing about Monster Hunter is the Palicos 🐱
And weapons, really, really big weapons!
"This f****ng movie sucked!"
See, this is the concise, measured, and honest commentary that sets OX from the rest of the pack.
Nothing can describe the sense of dread I felt when Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li showed up on the number 6 spot on this list, and I realized that it meant I was about to be shown _five_ movies that were, somehow, *worse* than Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li.
Wow really? I actually really liked the Legend of Chun Li one. Kristen Kreuk absolutely KILLED her role and then some, and you could tell Michael Clarke Duncan had an ABSOLUTE BLAST playing Balrog too. But maybe that's just me lol.
I liked Legend of Chun-Li, it kept things simple and stuck to the games' lore.
I feel like "Mario Brothers" and maybe "Chun-Li" should have been taken off the list, to make room for "Bloodrayne" and "In the Name of the King."
@@typacsk I still don't understand how Uwe Boll got all of those great actors into "In the Name of the King".
@@typacsk Hey "In the Name of the King" is the only good thing to come from Uwe Boll's film library. Yes, it was because the cast was incredible and saved that movie from being abysmal, but hey some credit is due, surely? haha~
The Flophouse Podcast did a live episode covering Super Mario Bros and it turned out one of the writers was in the audience. They then did a followup mini episode (Mini 39, 9/30/21) interview. According to the writer, they were given a partially-written early script and told "write what you want but it has to start with this opening," which is where the whole 'asteroid split the world into two dimensions' thing came from. He and his writing partner had also never played SMB and knew nothing about beyond that script. So they wrote a new script, got fired, and then brought back to fix the later script as it was being filmed.
I've truly grown to appreciate just how much love for Raul Julia's performance as M. Bison has spread. He was a gem, and it's always fun to watch lists like this say "No no, not him, not then." Raul deserves an Oscar retroactively.
To prepare, Raul Julia also studied Richard III and watched film footage of Benito Mussolini to copy his mannerisms and body language. In order to play a video game villain in what he had to know was a Z-tier movie.
Now THAT is a professional.
@@coyoteone6197 Oh, he was already dying of cancer when he played the role. He apparently took the role as his last film JUST for his children, because they wanted him to.
I also really liked the guy who played Zangeif. He seemed to be in the same campy, scenery chewing headspace as Raul.
@@scottmacgregor3444 he absolutely was killing it as Zangief!
"nonspesific-istan" made me laugh far too much. Thank you so much for that delivery Mike
The irony of Borderlands being so horribad is that Borderlands 3 has a miniquest line that takes a shot at Uwe Boll.
Uwe apparently also said that the people who made the movie wished that he directed it, because none of his movies have been this big of a blunder.
aldotrioksidi, And that’s the scary part. That a man known for terrible movies, based on video games, could do better job than the one who directed the Borderlands movie. To give him some credits, *whether* he deserves them or *not,* at least *if* he directed the BL movie, the casting *would’ve* been a whole lot better than what we got.
Borderlands 3 sucks ass, honestly can't laugh at anything, not even Uwe Boll.
@@aldotrioksidiHe did. He tweets about it constantly. When he's not asking Elon Musk to fund Postal 2.
@@aerthreepwood8021 I genuinely would go see Postal 2. I sort of like the first movie.
All this Uwe Boll and no Bloodrayne?
Michelle Rodriguez's horrific English accent?
Meatloaf's bizarre cameo?
Billy Zane sitting at a desk for two scenes and running away?
Michael Madsen *allegedly* being drunk all the time?
And who can forget Sir Ben Kingsley spending his time sitting being evil the whole movie until the last 10 minutes, when he gets up and stiffly walks around for a bit before dying?
And all Kristana Loken did in her role as Rayne was scream a lot. Probably her reaction to the script I'm sure.
I miss when she was actually cool. When she was the T-X..
So Madsen was following the lead of Hoskins and Leguizamo in SMB. They too, were allegedly drunk almost constantly during the filming of the movie.
@@scottylewis8124 I wonder where is Mrs. Loken now...
I wonder how she remembered that film all these two decades?
Not just that but all his video game movies. Which includes THREE bloodrayne movies, two alone in the dark movies, a Far Cry movie. They are all so bad that they make these ones look good except the borderlands movie. thats even worse still.
@@fernie-fernandez Well according to her Wikipedia page, she's still acting but as far as I can tell she hasn't done anything super note worthy, also her experience most not have been too bad since she worked with Uwe Boll again for one of those In The Name of The King movies he made.
Raul Julia was a treasure and he is sorely missed. I'm glad you decided his Street Fighter did not deserve a place on this list. (That sequel, on the other hand...)
A quote from Hoskins about the Mario directors: “The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set!”
Apparently he and leguizamo spent a lot of time drunk in their trailers 😂
& absolutely 💯% worth seeing 🍄👍
That just makes the movie even better. Though more drunkenness on set might have done the movie a few more favors.
For the 25th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros movie, John Leguizamo thanked the fans who love and support it. It has a cult movie following if that's any indication.
*Sorry, it was for the 20th anniversary, not the 25th.
I got a quote as well;
"I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time -- he's now 18 -- he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' and I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly."
-The late great Dennis Hopper
Bob Hoskins said that this was the worst movie role of his career. Frankly, it's the only bad one I can think of.
Andy, tell the truth, Did you sugest doing this list just so you could complain about the Boarderlands movie some more?
Mike finally made it to the new set
He took the long way
Going through Paris is truly a route.
He's like Zoro, terrible sense of direction.
11:51 "It's just a tedious, unimaginative slog through a bunch of off-the-shelf CGI monsters and truly nonsensical lore."
Sounds like a pretty faithful adaptation of the games to me.
The games had you blowing away zombies while dressed as Santa.
@@paulgibbon5991 Well, those were just the boys on Santa's naughty list.
Andy again reminding us that Uwe Boll existed and the terrible things he did to Movies, Videos and Video Game Movies (They all count as separate offences at he tribunal)
For the most part, 90s video game adaptations were bad, but enjoyably dumb. The 2000s and early 2010s were mostly just bad. The late 2010s and early 2020s gave me hope that we were on the way to "actually good", particularly Castlevania and The Last of Us. And then Borderlands hit a big reset button.
True, but difference with Castlevania and The Last of Us is that they were a series and gave enough time to give a story and let us enjoy the characters.
Movies based on video games try to put in too much but not enough time
@@Cross177 can throw in live action adaptations of anime into film as well (remember Dragon Ball E and Death Note)
@@Cross177 There have been some decent video game movies, too. The Assassin's Creed (2016) movie comes to mind, as does the Warcraft (2016) movie and Detective Pikachu (2019). Granted, those three films almost require you to be a fan of the source material to enjoy them and they certainly aren't great movies, but they're good enough to enjoy the viewing.
There's also the more universally popular game-movies like Wreck-it Ralph (2012), Super Mario Bros Movie (2023), or Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), but you might need to be younger to consider those "good" or "watchable".
What's ironic is that BorderLand's adaptation started around the 2010s...!
@@TheFallingFlamingoAssassins Creed was notoriously awful.
Gotta say it's pretty impressive for Borderlands to beat not just one, but several Uwe Boll movies.
Yeah, ol' Uwe can finally breathe a sigh of relief. "At least there's worse out there than me, now..."
Honestly, I was expecting one of his BloodRayne movies.
@@Kartissa I imagine people going into those movies did so for the express purpose of ogling Kristanna Loken for 90 minutes. In that sense, the movies were a success.
@@marauderdz They were still bad movies, though.
@@Kartissa Oh certainly, no argument there.
Remember when they watched some bad horror movies for Halloween? They should do that for videogame movies.
My suggestion is to start with "Street Fighter: The Movie" starring Jean Claude Van Dam and Raul Julia.
Oh, that'll be fun.
@@ray-raypacheco276but that's a "So Bad It's Good" movie.
Plus, the only reason Raul Julia did it was that his kids were fans of the series. And he OWNED that role!
That should be the palate cleanser at the end.
@@ray-raypacheco276 Sadly, the copyright laws might be an issue. The only reason they watched most of those movies were because they were out of the copyright date assigned. But I’m sure that they would be able to do something about it!
They watched borderlands so we don't have to, surely they've suffered enough!
I love the respect for Raul Julia. His delivery of the, "For me it was Tuesday" monolouge is perfection itself.
the 90 Mario Movie was also wildly dangerous on set Bob Hoskins almost died like 10 times
Likely because he was supposedly spending a lot of time off set drunk in his trailer, as was Leguizamo.
As bad as the original Street Fighter movie was, the quote "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday." is so incredibly profound that you can apply it to anyone's life in some way or another. Your mom died? You graduated? Your kid was born? For 99.99% of the rest of the world, it was just any other day.
I cannot think of a more iconic line in any video game adaptation. It probably deserved to be in a better movie, but I honestly think that being in an otherwise terrible movie elevates it even more.
The point of the line is how Bison was directly involved in making the day important though, highlighting how powerful and cruel he is.
It's a lot like:
"Who are you?"
"You killed my father!"
"That doesn't narrow it down much. You're gonna have to be more specific..."
Did you know that a certain infamous day in September 2001 legitimately happened on a Tuesday?
Of course!
@@Stratelier
Yeah, a completely normal day for me (Northern European). I was playing video games, paused for a while and watched some TV. Saw pictures/video from one of the planes crashing and thought it was from a movie and simply went back to my game. For me, it was a regular day. It was much later that day when I found out what I had actually seen.
4:18 "Too bad YOU, will DIE..." I laugh so hard at that scene all the time because of how overly serious it is...
To this day I say that Sindel was the best part of that movie! I feel the actress knew the movie was bad and just went for it full camp!
@@MatthewFincham Yup!
@@deannielsen2 Should I mentioned that MK11 even referenced that line as a tag?
@@MatthewFincham As a matter of fact, that was the reason the script caused a few actors to leave.
What was the line supposed to sound-like is a mystery.
@@MatthewFincham Sindel was played by Musetta Vander, and one look at her filmography shows that's kinda her thing. In more serious dramatic roles that require more nuance, she'll tone things down, but if she knows it's dumb and silly she cranks the ham up to 11 and doesn't stop until the credits roll!
Legit shocked Far Cry wasnt in this, yet another Uwe Boll masterpeice
That's because it didn't suck. It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination mind you, it was just really boring. Not to mention critically underutilizing it's lead actor.
Now uwe boll owns a restaurant in Vancouver that is apparently actually good, strange career shift but hey now he’s making decent stuff lol
It was actually pretty decent all things considered.
@@redshirt49
They fire a total of 5 bullets. It's a fighting movie based on an fps
The ironic thing about videogame adaptations is that they're often decent movies... if you've never even heard of the videogame in question
I hope Raul's kids know how beloved he is for his performance.
For the record, the DOA video games were actually fantastic. Ignore the obsession with boobs, and the whole "counter" system allowed you to turn button mashers on their head.
I've also been told that the DOAX games are possibly the best volleyball video games on the market. Go figure.
@@SigmentKurosai As in they're ACTUALLY "good" volleyball games, or good for specific reasons?
@@shawnfields2369 Actually good. Like, solid game mechanics and whatnot.
@@SigmentKurosai Wow, they actually put effort into the DOAX games then? That's... actually impressive of the devs. I already like the DOA games mainly because of Hayabusa(from Ninja Gaiden), being one of its characters, but it's good to know that even the spinoffs can have solid mechanics as well, and aren't just about attractive women from the DOA series playing volleyball.
Ive read somewhere that for the Super Mario Bros, John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins were drunk basically 24/7. Also, how is Doom: Annihilation not on this list?
I had scrubbed that movie from my memory
Probably because that was a Direct-to-Video title.
Bruh Doom annihilation was one of the most dumb movies I've ever seen. Why would they take the iconic enemies out and replace them with some boring ass zombies
cause borderlands came out and removed it from said list
To be fair, Annihilation was a closer “Doom” movie than the first Doom movie was - at least it had demons from Hell and not just zombified scientists on Mars.
13:35 I love that you can see the film crew member help to open the hatch. Really just high quality film making.
Did nobody notice that in post, or did nobody care?
@@NoNameForNone Both hahaha
The entire movie is a low effort fan made RUclips movie.
😂 I didn't notice that until you pointed it out! Thank you!
Gotta acknowledge the crew for lending a helping hand.
I hope he was credited and paid well for his effort.
I wonder what prompted this? 🤔 hmmmm…
We may never know for sure
@@BleachFan9891Could've been any movie. Even a certain one with people out in the desert, with an annoying as s**t robot, voiced by Jack Black, but who knows, for sure? Not I...but I did love MK and MK Annihilation (at the time), but I didn't even know Double Dragon, KOF, DOA, or Tekken even got movies. What's next? Soul Calibur? Smash Bros? Marvel Vs. Capcom? Persona? Final Fantasy? Dragon Quest? Xenoblade? Xenosaga? Chrono Trigger? Tales of Symphonia? MegaMan Battle Network? Bayonetta? Silent Hill? Fire Emblem? Ace Attorney?
15:03 let me rephrase that: "not even Jack Black can make Claptrap funny"
No mention of 2005 hit classic DOOM? Starring everybody's favourite relatable action hero Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in his big breakout role as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - but in a sweater!
Eh, if this was a Bottom 15 list, I'd say it'd be sitting comfortably at 11 or 12. Not *quite* dire enough to shove aside any of the ones that made the Bottom 10.
and his impossibly white teeth.
Honestly, I'd say DOOM 2005 is a film that is something of a guilty pleasure for many. Plus, it's got Karl "Billy fookin' Butcher" Urban in it as the movie's version of Doomguy.
Now, if we're talking about that awful Doom Annihilation movie where they were all "who needs a Doomguy?"... then yeah, that movie is easily a stinker.
Nah I’d watch DOOM over any of these crapshoots any day. It’s mindless fun and that first person scene is genuinely one of the coolest scenes in any movie. Also the rock was better in it than his last 10 movies combined lmao
Now you guys need to rank all of Uwe Boll's video game adaptations from bad to worst.
Especially the Blood Rayne movie, which was not on this list for some reason.
@@whitewolf3051 Somehow the two BloodRayne sequels, also directed by Boll, manage to be even worse.
They had to watch three of them for this list-haven't they suffered enough? 😆
For the most part, they just did. It's absolutely astonishing that Borderlands managed to surpass Boll's utter piles of manure.
@@whitewolf3051, the first movie was somewhat faithful to the game while the other two were just outright crap. Between Billy the Kid (a vampiric version played by Zak Ward..."Postal guy" in Postal, Dave in the TV show Titus, Scut Farkus in A Christmas Story, the military member speared by Scorpinok in one of the Transformer movies) and the entirety of BloodRayne 3 (which was being made before the game was even announced as coming) and its parody (which was being filmed at the same time as BloodRayne 3), the following movies were some of his worst works; I'd argue that Postal was truer to the game than BloodRayne 2, BloodRayne 3, and Blubberella (the parody of 3...same cast (except for Rayne), same set pieces, just turned up to 11 with fat shaming (Rayne is a rather large woman) and juvenile gay stereotypes (Willam Belli plays the second-in-command of the resistance in both movies)).
These are 10 of the worst video game movies and 11 of them are by Uwe Boll
It means hes terrible at makin films this man must be stoped
And they still managed to leave off Uwe's version of 'Bloodrayne'
Postal was atleast kind of Funny it dosnt belong on this list!
@@mikejett2733 And he was, by some politician who got rid of that tax loophole which meant he could no longer pay back his investors even if his movie bombed.
@@jonathanbarr9764 oh hes a cleaver snake
The absolute silence when they announced the new borderlands game says quite alot 😂
some people in the audience were excited.... although not many... and I think they might have been planted there to increase hype :)
It was so silent you could've heard a cockroach fart.
@mattyt1961 that's partly better if any 😅🤣
@@rossorat2306 🤣🤣🤣
I think I heard a skag shart 🤣🤣
1:05 i personally think the monster hunter movie made the monsters look really good
I did too but I also didn't realize that it was based on anything lol
I loved it
The monster designs, Ron Perlman, and the - extremely brief appearance of - a Pilaco were the few good parts of the movie.
I still stand by my opinion that to voice Claptrap, they should have gotten the guy that normally voices Claptrap.
1) that one's a professional voice actor (I think?)
2) He knows the character
3) definitely cheaper than Jack Black
Not to mention, then Claptrap would have actually sounded like Claptrap.
All the casting smacks of producers thinking they needed big names to draw an audience, nevermind that many of the names are too old for the target demo to care about. And of all the casting, Jack Black is the one least often complained about.
@@concinnus Jack Black is the best thing about this disaster, true enough.
Doesn't change my opinion on Claptrap voice actors, though.
I thought DOA movie was really dumb but fun imo
100% I don't get how that made the list. It's just as stupid as the game and it's glorious, it gave us everything we wanted from a DOA movie including an over the top Zack.
That Holly Valance after the shower scene ^ ^
It's one of the bad ones you like to watch. The only thing I hated was that they turned Hitomi into a dude for no reason.
Yeah I love it but then it was at the peak of my Holly Valance obsession. These days she's crazier than this film sadly.
@@Caralast Don't worry, when you watch the video they'll explain why DOA made the list
Yeah, how is Jack Black as Claptrap not funny?
Andy be asking the real question here.
One would think, given how well he played Bowser.
Script is how. I mean, his performance feels pretty good to me. Only issue is, the things he's saying are questionable AT BEST. I dunno who wrote or directed this, but I'd just like to tell them that no, I do not want to hear Jack Black tell me to watch him take a number two
Believe it or not, they made him even unfunnier in the German version. Instead of being dubbed by the usual voice actor they hired a fucking RUclipsr to voice Claptrap.
Personally I think almost everyone was miscast. Jack tried and had the energy… but his voice was so different from Claptrap’s that it was jarring.
@@Just4Fun-Zocker Yikes. Well. See what the celebrity casting mentality brought them. The german cast directors and the american ones
Fun Fact - Motaro in Mortal Kombat Annihilation was played by Malibu from American Gladiators! He was also The Warrior in the vhs for the board game Dragon Strike!
Nice! I didn't know that!
Game Company: We want a movie with our game title!
Movie Company: What's the story?
Game Company: Who cares? We just want the TITLE.
Genuinely shocked the Doom movie from 2006 and Uwe Boll's adaptation of BloodRayne didn't make the list. It was also genuinely shocking to me how many of these I had to do martial arts demonstrations at local movie theaters for, and then got free tickets to sit through them. (Free was not worth it for DOA).
You've not seen the two follow-up BloodRayne movies, have you? They make the first one (somewhat faithful to the game, just poorly scripted and acted (which wasn't the fault of the actors)) look like an Oscar-winner.
@@Alsebra I have not, but it sounds like it will be a terrible movie night to inflict on my friends, thank you!
You forgot Uwe Bolle's main reference to HOTD in his adaptation: interspersing footage from the arcade game at random points during the movie...well, actually, interspersing footage from the arcade game's DEMO since the 'Insert coin to play' caption can be seen flashing several times.
I'm surprised he went to that much effort frankly. It sounded to me like he heard the name of the game and just made up a movie based on the name alone
Though, I'm not entirely convinced that's not what actually happened. Maybe it's the film editor who took the demo footage and spliced it in!
@mar_speedman great way to save money. Use shots that already exist, don't have to pay for the shots and actors that would have taken up those ten seconds.
@@pettespizzaparlor3245 That sort of logic might work with a modern game, but not so much a 90s arcade game demo
But then again, who knows what these people were thinking? Not 'let's make a good movie' is all I know
@@mar_speedman I know Mark A. Altman had a so-so response about that when helming DOA: Dead or Alive after THoTD...
I remember seeing this in the theatre and being just flabbergasted at the game footage spliced in to replace special effects. Pure trash.
Hold on. You're saying the abomination that is the Monster Hunter movie is BETTER than the old Mario movie? At least the Mario movie was fun, even if it wasn't true to the games.
Only fun thing about the movie is nobody has to see it
Yeah, I’ll definitely take the unhinged goofiness of the old Mario Bros. movie over the tedious snooze fest of that Monster Hunter movie.
Who in Gog's name told him Nerscylla live in swarms?
I also quite enjoyed DOA. It's not a good movie, but as a dumb schlocky film it's fun and a reasonable adaptation of the source material.
I don't mind the monster hunter movie. It at least gave us the absolute basic of what the franchise is, people hunting monsters, you can tell at a glance what is. I'd rather see a double feature of dragon ball evolution and last airbender than see super mario bros again.
I'm frankly surprised that all the films in this list weren't made from Critical Nightmare Director Uwe Boll. 😹 Then again, he'd take up all the slots. So best limit his slots to 3 movies only so other bad movies can be covered too so they don't feel left out. 😹
Nah, even Uwe Boll ragged on Borderlands, so at least the first spot would be the same. The rest would probably be Uwe Boll films, tho.
@@lizardofoz4954 Hey just because the guy knows bad movies doesn't mean he wouldn't have made the Borderlands movie worse. Takes one to know one :P
I was pretty sure Borderlands would be on the list, since that was clearly the trigger for this, but yeah, I was expecting at _least_ eight Boll movies.
Nah, Just Anderson who ruin every videogame ip he touches. Capcom hasn't learnt apparently
@@lizardofoz4954 I'm sorry, but Borderlands is LEAGUES better than any of the garbage that Boll has churned out.
Today i learned that Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is not only Shang Thung but also Heihachi Mishima.
Your assessment of Monster Hunter is completely accurate. Kill giant monsters, make pants from them.
Utterly pissed the flower bed is a great phrase. I'm going to use it from now on.
In an interview, Dennis Hopper said his son asked him why he made the Mario Brothers movie. He told his son it was because he needed shoes, and his son told him he didn't need shoes that badly.
I feel like BloodRayne earned a place on this list.
At least the first one had almost proper attire... Second one was bad and the third one i dropped 5 minutes in
VeRG1L, I only saw the first one in theaters, didn’t know there were sequels until now.
@@whitewolf3051 they were direct to DVD. for a time there were special editions of the second game and movie that were bundled together
Saw it using a free movie ticket that was going to expire at midnight. I felt like I had gotten pickpocketed. And I wanted my time back.
In a post Matrix world they couldn't even give me ONE fight down a hallway with cool flips, punching, kicks, "guns" and such. Nope. We WALKED down an empty, no badguy filled hallway and had a "fight" with Dracula. By fight I mean,. . . you know in movies when they want to show first person drunk? That. with strobe lights and random sepia tone flashback to . . Someone's. . . life from before (Rain or Dracula 's I'm not really sure) Then Dracu-dad nopes right on out with a "we will fight again my child, when you have grow strong" . . . I think. I haven't seen this movie again and only saw it during the first week of release. In theaters. With a free ticket. . . . . Catwoman was better.
@@VeRG1L_47 You made it thru the first one? wow.
Now I'm hearing that Eli Roth wanted his name taken off of Borderlands, in no small part because he didn't even direct the copious reshoots. That was Tim Miller. A screenwriter, however, did get his name taken off.
"How can jack black as claptrap not be funny" well for starters claptrap is barely entertaining, but then the 30+ year long partnership and friendship of tenacious d coming to an end by a joke goes and shows you that the man who used to "stuck it up to the man with rock" has talent but was there for the money and not the passion
Monster Hunter did have some "proper" hunters too (the major ones played by Tony Jaa and Ron Perlman), they just focused on the army in the trailer to make the whole thing look extra-dull - most of those characters are binned off pretty quickly. Also, even those hunters didn't have wild enough trousers.
While we're discussing Paul W S Anderson's game films: although I have a soft spot for the Resident Evil series, The Final Chapter absolutely deserves to be on this list.
Wow. Talk about a bad movie. When it's so bad that the trailers are trying to convince you not to watch it...
I remember watching the Super Mario Bros. movie in the 90s and wondering if anyone in the movie had ever even played the game. I also remember watching Mortal Kombat and thinking "Huh, someone actually played the game" as well as watching Double Dragon and thinking "I didn't play the game, but it didn't deserve this, I'm sure". I loved Raul Julia in Street Fighter because it was Raul Julia (I mean, come on) and even in the German dub his performance was so full of vigor and energy that I was legitimately shocked to learn he'd passed away shortly after filming had been completed and I was disappointed that no one else in the movie seemed capable of going the full 200% with their character. I had completely forgotten that DoA had a movie, I never knew that King of Fighters and Tekken got a movie adaption (HOW?!) and when Assassin's Creed and Uncharted got their adaptions, I was still so haunted by everything I had seen in the 90s that I refused to watch them. I have since seen Uncharted. It's a movie (and the fanmovie with Nathan Fillion on RUclips is still a better adaption at only 15 minutes length). I will not watch Assassin's Creed, hard pass on Borderlands, Sonic 3, Ghosts of Tsushima and the God of War movie and if, at one point, the Legend of Zelda movie is released, I will watch it, but I will have my hardcore Zelda fans on speed-dial in case I need to warn them of imminent danger. Tl;dr: I am traumatized by video game adaptions because so few of them actually represent what I loved about the games in the first place. Except Raul Julia, who was perfection and cannot, shall not, be surpassed.
PS: As a German I would like to profusely apologize for what Boll did in cinemas. I swear, we never meant to hurt you or any franchises you loved!
Boll hurt all of us. But we a united in our hurt and together we got through it. Although he did get that tax loop hole closed. Now it's the Americans who will have to apologize to the world for what ever garbage they come out with next. And no good service to humanity with closing tax loop holes. We apologize in advance and for the past.
I'm sorry, there's a god of war movie adaptation? When?
@@colewest7096 Supposedly coming in 2025, starring Dwayne Johnson as Kratos.
@thundercookie3214 ...No, I don't think I will. They should stop now before they spend more money on it.
@@colewest7096 I think I will go for a nice walk at the park when it comes out. Maybe visit a museum.
top TEN??? what are these extra three doing here
their next clip is gonna be "the only good four video game movies in history" so it averages out.
It took the extra three to cleanse Andy's soul while writing the script
I’d say isn’t enough, since they left the Blood Rayne movie.
@@whitewolf3051 i was just about to say it. God that piece of s... cant even be called a movie.
The directors took creative license when adapting the "list of 7 things" format for this video
Just to make things worse with the Monster Hunter movie, which I haven’t seen anyone in the comments bring up yet, is that the film wasn’t even based on the games. Paul W. S. Anderson has gone on record saying the reason he made the film was because he saw the Monster Hunter _crossover side mission in _*_Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker._*
A non-canonical side op that was meant to parody the MH games by having a bunch of straight military men shooting the monsters with machine guns was the actual basis for a feature film centered on the Monster Hunter license.
So the Double Dragon movie has Alyssa Milano in it in her #7 movie appearance, yes this is a decade after starting alongside Arnold in Commando which was her #2 movie appearance.
There's a moment in the Alone in the Dark movie where a monster is killed by tracer fire...which is animated, obviously in post production, as missing the monster by a country mile
I didn't even realize there was a monster Hunter movie
You were better off not knowing
Don't learn.
There’s a good reason for that
I didn't realize it was based on the video game, I thought it was just summer humans v. monsters schlock.
Same, I didn't even realize it existed
New rule for Hollywood;
No director shall direct a movie based on a game until they 100% the game.
Good luck to anyone wanting to direct a Dark Souls movie.
...Unfortunately, this never was apply to HollyWood, but mostly indie-studios that tried to adapt, which failed.
Steven Paul's case with Tekken was an example.
That would be SO worth it.
i find kinda funny you talk about a dark souls movie when videogame movies are usually based on videogames with no plot (dark souls have lore but plot? i dont think so)
@@verguco6051 I picked DS because it is hell to 100%.
I think Demon’s Souls or Bloodborne would make decent movies. Their plots would be easier to explain in a movie than a Dark Souls game where almost everything is explained through gear or region lore.
No mention of DOOM: Annihilation?
You wound me.
TLDR: Only features the weakest DOOM monsters, uses only two identifiable DOOM guns (and they're severely nerfed), and looks like a generic SyFy channel movie. It was so bad that iD Software said "we are not with them".
The movie theater I watched Borderlands in was empty. I pulled out my phone and started reading 20 minutes in.
I LOVE DoA. Girls CAN get it Done.
To be fair on Postal, even if it was a Tax scheme on Boll’s part.
Postal is about as nonsensical as you can get. NPCs have insane solutions to modern day problems and our main character the Postal Dude goes from 1-100 in a matter of days due to stuff out his control
Probably the only movie he made that inadvertently hit its mark considering what was Postal 2. And maybe for some disagreements here, that movie hit me in the “So bad it’s kinda funny”category.
Postal the videogame was about as offensive as it got, even from the name. For those who don't know or have forgotten, the name comes from the phrase "go postal", a reference to a string of killings perpetrated by and against U.S. Postal Service employees and ex-employees starting in 1986.
Right? I would argue it's the LEAST bad of Boll's VG movies (even if that didn't take anything) if just because he hit the nail on the head for once.
I think postal was atleast funny!
Fun fact - the studio that made the Chun Li movie hosted a preview for a group of FGC players who proceeded to MST3K the movie so hard that the studio heads who came to see the reaction snuck out halfway through.
It'd be so nice if you could use words I could understand so I know what you're talking about...
wtf is FGC and wtf is an MST3K?
fighting game community, mystery science theater 3000
If you don't know mst3k, it's basically the granddaddy of terrible game let's plays. But they're commenting over crappy movies.
@@prod.byjoker3778FGC: Fighting Game Community.
MST3K: Mystery Science Theater 3000. An old TV show where a guy and two robots would sit in front of a screen (shown as silhouettes in front of it) and watch mostly low budget, schlocky sci-fi and horror movies, providing humorous commentary and occasional skits. Has a cult following, basically inventing the whole "sitting behind a screen and talking shit about a crappy movie while scenes of it play" genre you see here on RUclips and elsewhere if I remember correctly
Thanks for the elaboration, both of you
I cant believe Uwe Boll got three spots on this list and none of them was Dungeon Siege
Or Bloodrayne.
@@Dafmeister1978, my thoughts exactly...except the first one was fairly okay (I don't think it'd make this list); the second one was pushing it and the less said about the third movie (especially since it came out *before* the third game), the better...and I suppose Blubberella could be tied into all this (I'm not sure why I get a laugh out of that pile, but I do).
Dungeon Siege was enjoyable.
1:35 Andy must not have watched the Resident Evil movies
He said *aren't* cinematic masterpieces, but it sounded like be said *are*.
The first few aren’t too bad, I’d say after Extinction it might as well have just ended
Mike on about colourful trousers again - He really is becoming OxBox Fashion reporter
This list could have been almost entirely Uwe Boll.
Could've just been: Uwe Boll, Mortal Kombat Annihilation(maybe the 2021 film too? That one is definitely boring as hell), Borderlands, Double Dragon, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Far Cry, Bloodrayne, DOA, Tekken, and maybe every Uwe Boll movie?
@@shawnfields2369, BloodRayne was okay...numbers 2 and 3, on the other hand...
@@Alsebra Wait, what, there were 3 BloodRayne movies? I guess that makes sense, because there's 3 BloodRayne games? I only meant the first 2, but not the games, I know the games aren't bad, I just never played them myself. I've only heard of them. And the people who have played them, know how good they are themselves, and I'm sure they are. But I never got a chance to play them myself though. Because when they came out, I was a kid, and I knew my parents wouldn't let me play a game like BloodRayne. But at least I got to play RE2, and the N64 MK games, like Trilogy, 4, and Mythologies, and the DMC games, as a kid, even though I absolutely hate Mythologies, even though the death animations of seeing Sub-Zero falling to his death were hilarious, with him falling off the cliff. The FMV's were the best part of the game, because they're hilariously bad.
@@shawnfields2369, all three of the games were halfway decent, but the movies stopped being similar in the second one. The third one took place during WWII in Nazi Germany...and Clint Howard plays a Mengele-like character.
@@Alsebra Oh, all right, so while the games were halfway decent, but the third movie was set in WWll, and in Nazi Germany? And i think that the games have never had anything to do with Nazis or been set in Germany(just a guess), Its just that Uwe Boll is TERRIBLE, at understanding the games he makes bad movies about, (like House of the Dead, for example, which Andy talks about). And also, I got in trouble watching the House of The Dead movie as a kid, too. Seriously, its definitely the worst video game movie I've ever seen. Not even MK Annihilation is THIS bad. That one's just laughably bad. The HOTD movie is just boring, and ALMOST laughably bad, but it's just hard to watch, (like literally EVERY other Uwe Boll movie ever), seriously, does the guy even know or care about the games he's making these movies out of?
Still getting used to the new background :D
As a german I want to formerly apologize hereby for all the horrible Uwe Boll movie adaptations of game franchises. He even also made a Far Cry movie, which definetely also should have been on this list
Is it true he is singlehandedly responsible for Germany fixing that loophole?
If it served to close the tax loophole and stop him, _alles ist vergeben._
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wow. i see jovovich in combat uniform and immidiatly think about resident evil.
you got me there ^^
DOA dead or alive was a fantastic video game movie it was probably the best video game movie on your entire list of worst video game movies they had Kevin Nash as Bass Armstrong that's perfect casting in my opinion in fact the entire cast was perfect for the characters of video game
I can't believe this didn't have the "too bad YOU will die" line from the MK movie.
How could it NOT have that line?! That's like, the ONLY slightly even remotely CLOSE to being good line IN the movie itself! And I should know! I was utterly OBSESSED with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation as a kid!(and the first MK movie as well, but because of how much fun that one managed to be). But Annihilation? I still don't get why I ever liked it in the first place...also, they killed Johnny Cage in the FIRST TWO MINUTES, of the film, who was all ready to reprise his role as Johnny, until he read the script, saw that he was going to be killed off, and signed off, giving his own Johnny Cage like response to the whole thing, proving that he's always ever been the only guy out there who's ever been right to play Johnny Cage, in live action. Same with the actors for: Liu Kang, Shang-Tsung, Kano, Sonya(in the first movie, not Annihilation) Blade, Kitana, and Rayden as well.
About once or twice a year I revisit that clip on RUclips just for a little pick me up
"He utterly pissed the flower bed" is absolutely entering my vocabulary! 😂
I liked this video, but two things:
Borderlands might be awful, but in no way can you ever convince me that it's supposedly worse than MK Annihilation, that's just recency bias. It can be bad, but there's WAY worse. Hell, all of the ones before Borderlands are provenly worse.
But most important, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, please, PLEASE, for the love of everything, don't fall in the rabbit hole of becoming yet another hate-filled channel that just likes trash talking everything and making fun of everything and just... Hating on everything.
I swear, I can't deal with another one of those channels, and I especially can't deal with one of my favorite channels that I watch for fun and to feel good, beocming that exact thing.
But even the Gamescon thing was kind of borderline that, and if anyone tries extremely hard with that whenever he gets a finger to do so, it's Mike.
So please, for the love of gaming, don't let yourself become that.
Borderlands maybe the most disappointing here. HOW can these actors and this background fail, even if it looks cheap (like the game) or has bad jokes (like the game) it may miss on every point and so be even worse than anything of Uwe Boll!! It misses especially at ONE point all game parts had: All villains and heroes have a more or less tragic background (leading to murder and cynism), and you do not see it in the entire movie.
Love your line of eternal viggilance.
Not even going to touch Uwe Boll's "In The Name Of The King" huh? It's got a 4% on Rotten Tomatos and basicaly just craps all over Dungeon Siege. (And the two sequels only get worse from there.)
The Monster hunter games also have cat friends.
And owls. And you get to stroke your owl! 😍
And large dogs you can ride in Rise, as well as another rideable monster in the next upcoming mainline game.
DOA is a guilty pleasure for me.
You forgot Mark Wahlberg in Max Payne. That was god awful, Mark still today says "they brought it to a new level".
As I type this I've only reached House of Dead in the video and was scrolling through the comments assuming Max Payne had to be in the list.
Maybe the younger generations have forgotten but we never will and as with breaking the law ignorance is no excuse.
At least Mark tried to fill the shoes brought upon him in the movie.
Can't say that about Milas Kunis version of Mona Sax...
Mark, did you enjoy working on Max Payne?
"What? No!"
@@Crazy_Borg Because of how HORRENDOUSLY, LAUGHABLY, AWFULLY BAD, she was as Mona Sax? I mean, I've never touched the first 2 Max Payne games, and even I could've told you that Mila Kunis was one of the absolute WORST things about that entire movie, besides literally everything else in the whole movie, and one that I try to forget that I had seen multiple times, literally everyday, since that tragic day that the Max Payne movie came out all that time ago, back in 2008. Mark Wahlberg wasn't too bad as Max Payne, but the constant slo-mo dives were all hilariously stupid. I know that's a thing Max does in the series, and it's iconic there, but what always WORKS out in a game, does NOT always work in a movie, especially not a live action game movie, and especially not a REALLY, REALLY BAD one like Max Payne... because it felt like if the Scary Movie franchise had done their own terrible parody of the Max Payne games the entire time. Ugh, so difficult to sit through...
I was hoping for the Doom movie starring the Rock to be on the list
You missed out that the best part of Postal is when the maker of Postal shows up and shoots Uwe Boll for making such a shit movie, you have to admit that at least got a chuckle
I can agree with the rest, but DOA is absolutely wonderful! You should replace it on the list with the whole ridiculous Resident Evil -saga.
I remember watching the og Mario Movie with members of the OutsideXbox crew at their PAX West event a few years back. Good times.
Let's be honest, they literally made this list because they wanted to rank/talk Borderlands (2024) in number 1, and it was easy to grab other 6 flops movies-clips for a video.
@@N.BR500 I've never been a fan or played Borderlands... But I must admit, that awkward silence surprised me about Borderlands 4's announcement.
I get the movie was rubbish (not seen it myself) and people hate it but I thought people would still love the games, why on Earth is the movie having an impact on the game's reputation???
@TheHufflepuffSaint It's more that, from what I've heard, 3 started to sour the games' reputation, with the movie doing the franchise no favors.
@@TheHufflepuffSaint Because the last good one was Borderlands 2
They went and grabbed 9 for good measure because video game movies are a very delicate matter to attain success.
@@Myomer104 Gotcha. Thank you for the insights to both you and the other comment. I didn't know the 3rd game wasn't well regarded. I can understand why the movie has fractured the reputation further then. 😳😳😳
As a German i want to apologize for unleashing Dr. Uwe Boll on the movie industry.
At least his DVD commentaries are pure comedy gold. If that counts for something...🤷🏻♂️
He'll forever be a warning to all movie makers
Didn't Mark A. Altman unintentionally unleashed him...!?
He’s now a restaurantuer in Vancouver lol, apparently a german place he opened up is pretty good
The only good thing from the 'Alone in the Dark' movie was Nightwish's 'I Wish I Had An Angel' great song from a great album~
The DOOM movie should get a spot here. Going from a demon shooter that was action packed into… a shitty horror movie starring the rock as the Slayer
It was Karl Urban as the Slayer. The Rock was basically just the main antagonist. Honestly, I kind of had the Rock picked out as the commanding officer Doom Guy decked that got him sent to Mars in the first place. Though, in a way that makes it obvious the people making the movie never actually checked the lore beyond the most basic skimming.
Hey guys. You're all breathing. Andy specifically.
No I'm not. I'm a zombie. You're a zombie races
Didn’t they make a terrible Bloodrayne movie? I’m not imagining that, right?
Yeah, it starred the T-X girl from "Rise of the Machines." (Uwe Boll might have directed that one too, I'm not sure.)
Think there's like 3 of them
They made a few. I did watch the first one on Prime. It wasn't good.
@@typacsk He did. All 3
MrYin, wait...three? I only know of one, the first one, which I saw in a theater.
AKA the Uwe Boll championship.
The championship where everyone loses
I was just waiting for the first Uwe Boll mention. He may not have got the top spot, but three whole entries to himself is definitely impressive. No single person has done more damage video game adaptation.
Once I knew that Sony produced Borderlands, I knew that it was going to be bad. This is the same company that made Madame Webb.
Borderlands was produced by Lionsgate.
@SomewhatSlightlyBored My bad, when I saw that it had the same producer of "Uncharted, Spider-Man, and Venom," I assumed that it was Sony.
Doesn’t change the bad part.
@@macrobov Now imagine having Screen Gems & Constantin Films.
As for LionsGate...everything about that studio are full of Red flags.
I legit loved the 90's Mario movie, and nothing you say can change my mind.
15:43 they should call someone about that cricket problem.
10-2 had the small excuse of the 90s and early 2000s era were stoner humor influencing everything. Borderlands has no such excuse, just soulless shitty writing.
Fun fact: The DOA movie has Kane Kosugi on it. And if anyone here is a Tokusatsu Fan since Kakuranger and has watched the Years Later TTFC Movie Special, yes he starred in this movie after the Kakuranger series have ended. And it's probably why he had a good English fluency when he brought it back in Japan in the Kamen Rider Revice Battle Familia movie and the Kakuranger Years Later movie
Imagine making a movie so bad it inspires a ranking video and you’re #1