Worst Career Achievement recipient Uwe Boll, known for the terrible Alone In The Dark film adaptation, says he should’ve directed the Borderlands movie, as he gets into it with fans on social media.
Although there’s still plenty of excitement about the imminent release of Borderlands 4, the release of the movie adaptation of Borderlands has done potentially untold damage to the franchise’s reputation.
The film did not go down well at all with either critics or fans, and has been branded an ‘epic fail’, while suffering a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Now Uwe Boll, known for directing the Alone In The Dark video game-to-movie adaptation, which has a score of 1% on Rotten Tomatoes, has made it clear he thinks the whole situation is hilarious.
‘Ha ha. My movies were rated R and made more money than this. Now you wish I directed,’ Boll says on Twitter.
In his tweet, Boll is referring to an infographic that says the Borderlands movie made $8.8 million domestically in its opening weekend, compared to its $115 million production budget.
Alone In The Dark only made $10.4 million in total though, so Boll isn’t being honest when he says his films made more. He might be alluding to profit but that’s not clear and in any case Alone In The Dark had a $20 million budget.
Things get even weirder in the comment section, where one poster turns the spotlight on Boll and his own underperforming movies.
The poster is popular YouTuber Stop Skeletons From Fighting, who says:
‘House of the Dead opened $5.5 million, final gross $13.8 million. Alone on the Dark opened $2.8 million, final gross $12.6 million. Bloodrayne opened $1.5 million, final gross $3.6 million. Dungeon Siege opened $3.2 million, final gross $13 million.’
Boll retorted that the YouTuber’s claim is wrong, adding an image implying that his movies have made more money because they’ve been illegally downloaded 41 billion times.
How that logic works, we’re not sure, but Boll, who has been nominated for three Golden Raspberry Awards, is just trolling and however bad Borderlands is it would’ve almost certainly been even worse if he’d made it.
He also received the rare Worst Career Achievement in 2009, which has only been awarded five times, for his films In The Name Of The King, 1968 Tunnel Rats, and Postal.
As for Borderlands fans, while the movie might be a disappointment to some, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has recently hinted that Borderlands 4 (the video game sequel) could be announced ‘sooner rather than later’.
That would make sense timing-wise, as a successful movie release could garner excitement before they announce the video game sequel, although that hasn’t gone exactly according to plan.
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