Movies that are related to video games, how ugly can it get?

For the most part when you think of video games adapted into movies you think oh hell no. That is... if you actually follow what most think. Me, a lot of the movies that were adapted from video games are in two categories. A., games I've played and B., games I've not played.
BoxOfficeMojo has complied a list of movies converted from video games and the one that tops them is the original Laura Croft: Tomb Raider. I adored this movie, never played the games at all, but adored the stuffing out of it. I found that I loved the main character's attitude and stances. They were something I could agree with. The movie, itself, grossed over 131 million at the box office world wide. I loved the movie so much I have it on dvd.
For the sake of brevity, i am going to look at the top 10 games turned into movies. This refines down into 5 different series. Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia, Pokemon, Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Tomb Raider had 2 entries that totaled over 232.9 million in revenue between the games and movies. What I included in all the titles was total games and their revenue and all movies and their revenue in the top 10 based off Top 10 Movie titles.
While this amount is massive and unthinkable to us, to them, after you add all the revenue up and take away the movie budget left the Tomb Raider franchise with almost 49 million in revenue. Still a hefty amount. This doesn't take into account the budgets of making the games and some of the games came out before VGChartz.com actually started compiling statistics.
These movies are not blockbusters like the Lord of the Rings series but they are not B rated movies. Well I take that back, the Pokemon might have reached that sort of notoriety considering the age range that it targeted. All those poor parents made to suffer. I am shuddering that I missed that bullet myself. The one thing that I couldn't find very easily is the actual copies sold of games. Boo!
What sites I did comb through were The-Numbers.com, BoxOfficeMojo.com and VGChartz.com to find all this information right at my fingertips. The first two gave me the total sales and budget of each movie and the later at least gave me sales in millions of what each series sold.
After compiling all the information into a spreadsheet, I started making charts to see what was happening. After comparing everything I noticed one thing, apparently the Prince of Persia series was failing pretty hard. Don't get me wrong, I loved the movie but when you add up all games sales and movie sales and then take away the budget, they were in the hole for 96 million. Ouch. Not very popular when you look at it that way. See below.

Pokemon on the other hand was a barn burner. A wildfire that parents ran in panic to get away from. I don't blame them, I find the Pokemon phenomena rather annoying but its not targeted at some 30+ year old woman, its targeted at age 15 and under kids. There is a lot of those around world wide so its no wonder after the sales of games plus the 2 movies that they would still rack up about 302 million in profit. They are truly the winners here and I applaud the money making machine they are. One would wonder how much money MTG would have raked in if someone decided to put that game into the movies. Come to think on it, its not too late... honest!
So when you look at the 5 series you find 1 children targeted movie/game, 2 adult(woo boy Angelina Jolie and Jake Gyllenhaal/Gemma Arterton body) movie/games, and two basically horror game/movies. What I know of people is basic common sense. You are going to get the fan boys and girls for the sexy, sexy actors to drool over, you are going to get the horror fanatics for the horror movie/games and then you have the kids cry and screaming about wanting to see Pokemon. Again, if you have kids, and they did that, I am sooooo sorry.
Anyways, going back to the breakdown, why are these movies top 10 in games adapted to movies? Well Angelina Jolie is a good reason for the Tomb Raider series, even I will admit that. Prince of Persia movies? Not quite sure, might be the leading actor and actress but while Jake Gyllenhaal is really nice to look at, I don't really remember the movie as anything more than a good action/adventure. I like action/adventures.
Pokemon is relatively simple to figure out... its for the kids and they rule because otherwise millions of parents would have been hearing whining all over the place and its easier to keep the midgets happy by throwing a few bucks at a movie that will keep them quiet, or not.
Resident Evil inherently is a horror genre game. Its a zombie apocalypse, end of the world type of game. I've not played it much but if you like the Left 4 Dead games, then you will like the Resident Evil ones too. The movie itself, well it did have a babe as the lead actress. Who can not admire Milla Jovovich for not only being a very sexy woman but also a kickass heroine? That here is why many boys flocked to the movie and got it to earn over 219 million after sales of the movies and games. More than that but only 3 of the movies hit the top 10 and there is a final chapter coming out in the future.
Silent Hill is almost in its own little room. It is a true horror along the lines of 13 Ghost of the more recent horror movie. Its dark, scary and only ones that would actually go see it are the game's fans. Of all 5 series, it made the lowest revenue at a tad less than 55 and a half million dollars. In fact if you take the revenue of the games and movies and remove the movie budget from it, they only got about 5 million out of the series at all. And considering the game dev budget, I am sure its in the red.
So basically what I can see of this all is the fact that movies adapted from games is not such a good idea. The trend tends to say that games turned into movies virtually almost always fail to make money. At the same time, there are rare gems that will generate so much money they make Scrooge McDuck look like a pauper. Most of the complaints I've heard about the movies converted from games is the fact they totally go off the reservation and commit the biggest sin of gamers. That sin is to change how the game is see entirely. To me, maybe that's a idea to think about because if you take a game in its entirety and make it into a movie its going to boring because you know what is going to happen from playing the game. Take that piece and chew a while on it.

Sources:

IMDB.com(2014), Search for titles taken from www.imdb.com

BoxOfficeMojo(2014), Video Game Adaptation, taken from http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?view=main&id=videogameadaptation.htm&p=.htm

Thompson, Mike(September8, 2010), Ranked: Best and Worst Movies Based on Videogames. Taken from http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-and-worst-movies-based-on-videogames

The Numbers(2014), Movie Budgets taken from http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/budgets/all

VGChartz(2014), Game Database of Sales taken from http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb

Stancil, Chris(October 24, 2014) Spreadsheet and Charts https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lqzxK_n-iHGF_LId_U6RSUJWsrcJFjK8WK9G8CLh6Fc/edit?usp=sharing