Why Are Movies Based on Video Games SO BAD?

This is not a rant. This is SCIENCE.



First, all the data (culled, of course, from my beloved Wikipedia). Click to embiggen.







Some facts:


Movies based on video games have an average Rotten Tomatoes score of 18 out of 100. None of them got higher than 42.
Most (72%) had a budget of $50 million or less.
Most (68%) made less than $100 million at the box office.
It should be no surprise then that half of these movies did not make a profit.

So that's pretty bad (relatively; I mean I wouldn't...
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Published on July 30, 2012 05:09
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