Borderlands (2024)

In annoyed a film I was looking forward to is garbage.

I'm glad it has been punished by dire financial performance. Hopefully it sends message to directors and studios to stop producing garbage.

So many decisions they made were clearly pants and not "in hindsight" but at the time.
 
ianh said:
As unlikely as this was to ever break $100m, based on its initial reviews, I'd not expect Lionsgate (who distribute the film) to pull the film from the cinema after only 3 weeks as they know it'd NEVER reach $100m by that point, so I'd expect them to keep it in the cinema for a while after streaming release, probably until the end of Sept (7-8 weeks run) in an attempt to hit that elusive $100m and beat Madame Web just for the "positive" PR of not being the No1 flop of 2024.

The international markets haven't updated since the 14th so there's probably a few more million all combined to be added but the Global Box Office for this is just $25m (possibly upto $30m) with it making just $752 per cinema over 3 days in the US, which based on a average ticket price of $10 is just 75 people per 3-day weekend per cinema are watching this during its 2nd weekend vs something like Trap which on its 3rd Fri-Sat weekend still made almost double per cinema ($1410) than Borderlands did over the same 3 days.
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Boxofficemojo reporting quite a bit lower still. Various other sites report similar. BOM is normally pretty accurate. Does seem the international data is very slow coming though.

$18.6m

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as a massive borderlands fan, i was really dissapointed with the film. took a friend who has never heard or seen the game before to get a different perspective and he also hated it. its a shame as it had promise.

the only good bit was jack black.
 
Watched it to see how bad this would be, in true Kevin Hart fashion within 5 seconds of him being on screen there is a short joke. You can see the reshoots as Tiny Tina ages up and down throughout the film. Claptrap 'pooping' bullets out was a scene that wasn't required at all and not even sure what age group would find that funny.

First film in a while I've watched where the main cast has 0 chemistry with each other.
 
Glanza said:
Watched it to see how bad this would be, in true Kevin Hart fashion within 5 seconds of him being on screen there is a short joke. You can see the reshoots as Tiny Tina ages up and down throughout the film.
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There were reshoots with a different director and the original screenwriter took his name off the film. That tells you a lot
 
Well, i saw it this weekend and I never touched or knew anything about the games at all. It wasn't quite that bad. At least as most people are making it out to be, but what it is, is empty, generic, plodding and highly predictable. There's nothing original at all about it and nothing we haven't seen done better in a billion other movies. It's a McDondlads burger that's easy to digest and as quickly forgotten about. 4/10

They really need to stop the "girl is the key to everything" trope, and bury it along with the "As you know" dialogue in movies
 
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Watched it and...well its not a good movie, and I know little to nothing about the game. You can tell its been reshot quite a lot in the film, and they must have tried to make up for it in the editing suite cause narratively and tone was leaping all over the bloody place I couldn't really understand who was what and why they where there.

Really more interested to see the hyperviolent version that Roth actually filmed and completed before the executives brought in the other director to refilm it.
I read that the tone and change was so massive they had to rescore the entire film suit the new tone.
 
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