12 Ways 2016 Movies Definitely Made You Dumber

12. An Influx Of Terrible Video Game Movie Adaptations

It’s been said that playing video games makes you dumb. Well if the quality of movies based on video games released this year are anything to go by, the video game to movie genre increases the probability of losing a few braincells tenfold.

Though it’s not a genre known for its quality output, this year really took the biscuit. Duncan Jones’ Warcraft might’ve been able to scrape some profit from the Chinese box office, but its 28% Rotten Tomatoes rating is testament to how good a movie it really was. The boring, out of date adaptation of Ratchet & Clank fared even worse than Warcraft and it’s safe to say that The Angry Birds Movie, based on a mobile phone app game of all things, isn’t exactly an outstanding contribution to cinema.

Only time will tell whether Assassin’s Creed, starring Michael Fassbender and set for a late December release in the US, will flip the trend of awful video game movies this year. We can hold out hope, but given the genre’s bad reputation it doesn’t seem likely.