Your post is valid....twenty years ago. Take a look at stuff that has come out since then, pee-paw. https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/sources/based-on-game
Maybe this will be the first good movie Eli Roth has ever done Were Rob Zombie and Ewe Boll the Executive Producers?
Getting "found family" vibes where the real vault treasure was the friends we made along the way. Despite the source material pre-dating Guardians of the Galaxy, its gonna have its work cut out trying to shed the knockoff label. Also something about the sets, costumes, and characters feels too..clean?
Cate Blanchet as the lead is a bold move. Across the board the casting isn't exactly what I'd expect outside of Jack Black as comic relief.