Are you brave enough to ignore our review of the Borderlands movie and miss out on what you’ll want to know when you watch the movie? Well, at least this isn’t a video game adaptation directed by Uwe Boll. However, the disgraced director took to Twitter to tease the film.
Borderlands grossed just $16.5 million worldwide in its first weekend in theaters, against an estimated production budget of about $115 million (plus marketing costs). Needless to say, it was a huge flop, immediately killing any hopes of a sequel to the film. There wasn’t any real hype for this movie, and the brutal critic reviews certainly didn’t help.
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Now, even the man behind such F-rated video store hits as Alone in the Dark (2005), BloodRayne (2005) or Far Cry (2008) , are now openly mocking Lionsgate’s Eli Roth-directed flop. I’d say, “Let’s have fun,” but when he said he was asked to direct Borderlands, everything went haywire.
Yes, his low-budget adaptation did “better” at the box office than Borderlands, considering the money made and costs, but that’s like saying it’s better to be pissed off than shitted (unless these It’s some of your personal struggles). By all accounts Boll’s effort in this area was an equally colossal failure, as was the film itself. What’s worse.
Someone actually showed up under his post with a receipt, and Bol just replied with a (very funny) spam post:
The fact that he used illegal downloads to defend his film’s theatrical/domestic release is hilarious in itself, but the custom graphics and the specific number of 41 billion are the icing on the cake. I personally don’t care if those numbers are real; that’s pretty cool based onAs the kids say.
Ironically, Ball’s career was actually quite extensive, and I’ll be the first to admit that he was almost Something to do with his brutal postal adaptation. Outside of the realm of video game movies, his Fury movies and Assault on Wall Street even managed to get into “positive” territory in terms of audience reviews, so he’s not completely boring, just a little delusional.
