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[Draugoth]

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Proving less successful at that is “Borderlands,” Lionsgate’s long-gestating adaptation of Take-Two’s shoot-em-and-loot-em video game series. The feature took in a meager $4 million from 3,125 locations, even with increased ticket sales from play in Imax and other premium large-format auditoriums. The sci-fi comedy is in serious danger of opening below $10 million — a terrible result considering its production budget of $115 million. It could even be below director Eli Roth’s last feature, the modestly budgeted slasher “Thanksgiving,” which got to eight-digits in its debut last fall.

The writing has been on the wall for a while now with “Borderlands.” Now opening more than three and a half years after principal photography kicked off, the would-be franchise-starter has earned the worst critical response of any wide release this summer. Even franchise fans that prioritized seeing the feature as soon as possible are calling it a turkey (a terrible D+ grade on Cinema Score).

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[digital_ghost]

If this was an animated movie it would have probably done better.

 

[Gaiff]

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

I’ve tried to watch it in my country (I love to watch bad movies) and I failed from the start because I was the only idiot who bought the ticket and the bare minimum for a theater to even bother burning electricity is five sold tickets.

I have nothing else to add.

 

[Dacvak]

Stop making bad movies.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

And still has better writing than that utterly shit 3rd game

 

[StereoVsn]

It’s absolutely not surprising.

 

[Killer8]

Can't believe Eli Roth made this.

 

[Mortisfacio]

I didn't even know this movie existed. That image of the cast makes me not want to watch it.

 

[LectureMaster]

$110m budget vs $4m box office

 

[StereoVsn]

Maybe we are all wrong and the producer is trying to write off bunch of ca$h ala “Producers”!

 

[{insert code here}]

That picture tells me everything I need to know about what kinda film this is and why it bombed

 

[Ceadeus]

Releasing this so close to Deadpool, longlegs and Alien was a big fail. Bad idea.

 

[TGO]

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Looks like a cheap 90's sci-fi TV series

 

[Holammer]

If this was an animated movie it would have probably done better.

CG animated series, mini or season based even.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I’ve tried to watch it in my country (I love to watch bad movies) and I failed from the start because I was the only idiot who bought the ticket and the bare minimum for a theater to even bother burning electricity is five sold tickets.

I have nothing else to add.

This is how I felt 2 days ago, when I saw Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom in the cinema.

I was the only viewer in the cinema at 10 at night.

 

[Pejo]

I hope this lessens the likelihood of future game->movie adaptations, it's just bound to suck ass given the current state of Hollywood.

They've demonstrated that they have no interest or intention in staying true to the games' story or characters, and most of the time the key players admit that they don't like games/didn't play the source material. Whenever I see a game (or Anime really) related TV show or movie, you know the key message is "Remember that thing you loved? Watch us piss all over it."

 

[Vyse]

Hoping it’s still in theaters on Tuesday (movie night) so I can experience this cinematic masterpiece!

 

[Vyse]

Btw, buying tickets for Longlegs and sneaking into Borderlands. Ha!

 

[semiconscious]

Looks like a cheap 90's sci-fi TV series

bingo! that's just the effect that they were going for!...

Spoiler

i hope...

 

[LavitzSlambert]

$4,000,000 overall

3125 locations

Let's say $10 per ticket, so that's 128 people on average at each location who wanted to see this dumpster fire. Probably less considering the imax markup.

 

[dreamstation]

Well it looks like shit so of course. What did they expect?

 

[Dorfdad]

Should have been a Netflix animated series and cost no more than 20 million. It would probably do well there but humans dressed as furrys and horrible acting is disaster! It’s like the think because a niche community is vocal that the mass market agrees with their lunacy!

 

[Frwrd]

Ps: fuck Kevin Hart's unfunny ass.

 

[Frwrd]

I’ve tried to watch it in my country (I love to watch bad movies) and I failed from the start because I was the only idiot who bought the ticket and the bare minimum for a theater to even bother burning electricity is five sold tickets.

I have nothing else to add.

May I ask which country? I'm genuinely curious.
What in the actual fuck. Please tell me you got your money back or at least punched someone in the fucking mouth...

 

[analog_future]

Go woke or go broke!

Spoiler

Am I doing this right?

 

[poppabk]

Just as game adaptations were washing the stink off we get this giant turd.

 

[Ozzie666]

It will be on streaming soon, they will collect some tax credit when it bombs out of theatres, money laundering complete.
Partially kidding. Dead Pool and Wolverine is still taking most screens in theatres in my area, with Twisters, Minions and some others. It's pretty crowded out there for this type of trash to survive.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

May I ask which country? I'm genuinely curious.
What in the actual fuck. Please tell me you got your money back or at least punched someone in the fucking mouth...

Refund was issued automatically.

 

[Northeastmonk]

$4 million is probably what they paid Jamie Lee Curtis to star in the film.

I wouldn’t watch this if they gave me a free ticket.

 

[Kerotan]

Seen ads for this plastered everywhere. Obviously like every advert I skip after 5 seconds but I was thinking it would be big just based off the IP alone. Must be pretty shit though.

 

[R3TRODYCE]

Looks like a SNL skit.

 

[Quasicat]

I’ve tried to watch it in my country (I love to watch bad movies) and I failed from the start because I was the only idiot who bought the ticket and the bare minimum for a theater to even bother burning electricity is five sold tickets.

I have nothing else to add.

I grew up in a small Ohio town and lived within walking distance to a single screen theater, this was normal. For us, it was a four person minimum requirement…if you didn’t have four paying customers, they would cancel the movie and send you home with a refund.

More on topic: I haven’t been to a movie since Mario came out and the kids wanted to see it. Otherwise, I haven’t been to a movie theater for myself since before Covid. I guess I prefer watching movies on my personal setup at home instead of going out and paying $15 to $18 to see something that I could rent/buy in A few months for the same price or cheaper.

 

[Barakov]

Go woke or go broke!

Spoiler

Am I doing this right?

Randy Pitchford is far too greasy for this to happen.

 

[Hot5pur]

Is the movie actually that bad? Like what's wrong with it?

 

[Complistic]

Can't believe Eli Roth made this.

I mean he directed it, he couldn't of had that much control over it.

 

[cash_longfellow]

If this was an animated movie it would have probably done better.

No…no it wouldn’t have. Nobody in their right mind wants to watch the cringe ass humor of BL in a movie. It’s perfect for a video game because trying to farm a bad ass weapon is the only way to filter this God awful ass writing in the film and the games. No one gives a shit about the story, we just want to randomly shoot things in first person with fun guns. Stop trying to make BL something that it isn’t.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

 

[cash_longfellow]

Edit - sorry, wrong thread.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Is the movie actually that bad? Like what's wrong with it?

 

[Fake]

This year just keep deliverying.

$110m budget vs $4m box office

No fucking way there aren't money laundry in hollywood.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Yep. It looks completely awful and a victim of development hell and no vision. Just needed to get a product out, no matter what. They knew at the end they were delivering a turd. There was nothing to be done about it.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

With or without the marketing budget?
I am seeing adds everywhere

 

[Draugoth]

Randy Pitchford having a meltdown

 

[N30RYU]

Looks like this movie doesn't have... longlegs

 

[mitch1971]

Boredolands.

 

[RedC]

Stop making bad movies.

That's easier said than done in anything.

 

[Roni]

Randy Pitchford having a meltdown

Silver-tongued as always... If only he was as competent developing games as he is talking Borderlands would be in Fortnite's place nowadays.

Kudos to the people who got paid... Goes to show you don't really need that much talent.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Randy Pitchford having a meltdown

That’s some prime karma for ruining Homeworld 3, Randy.