Were you brave enough to ignore our Borderlands movie review and not find out exactly what you were in for when you watched it? Well, at least it wasn’t a video game adaptation directed by Uwe Boll. Disgraced director mocks the film on Twitter though.
Borderlands’ global box office haul in its first weekend in theaters was a paltry $16.5 million against a production budget estimated at around $115 million (plus marketing costs). Needless to say, it’s a massive flop, one that immediately kills any hopes of a sequel. There was simply no physical buzz surrounding the film, and brutal reviews from critics certainly didn’t assist the case.
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Now even Boll, the creator of F-rated hits like Alone in the Dark (2005), BloodRayne (2005), and Far Cry (2008), is openly mocking the failed Lionsgate film directed by Eli Roth. “Join the fun,” I would say, but he ruined it by saying that everyone would like him to direct Borderlands.
Yes, his low-budget adaptations have done “better” than Borderlands at the box office, based on the money made relative to their cost, but that’s like saying getting pissed on is better than getting shit on (unless that’s some kind of personal perversion of yours). By all accounts, Boll’s efforts in this arena have been equally as colossal failures, and the films themselves are even worse.
Someone actually appeared under his post with receiptsto which Boll simply responded with a (quite entertaining) shitpost:
The fact that he defends his films’ performance after theatrical/domestic release by citing illegal downloads is amusing, but the non-standard image and the very specific number of 41 billion are the icing on the cake. Personally, I don’t care if these numbers are real; it’s quite based onas the kids say.
Ironically, Boll’s career is actually quite longand I am the first to admit that it was so almost let’s get to something with his brutal adaptation of Postal. Outside the realm of video game movies, his films Rampage and Assault on Wall Street have even managed to enter “positive” territory when it comes to audience reviews, so he’s not completely out of character either, just a little delusional.
