Oh nooo. Just means more debt is available to offset future taxable income.
Lots of people are going to lose lots of money on Borderlands
Not me lol.
But good for them. To make a movie is a big investment and a big bet. To make a videogame adaptation while pissing on the source material while also a bad movie, they deserve this much.
Lionsgate is not nearly as big as Universal, Paramount, or Disney and is not as well equipped to handle such a big loss.
Tiniest violins are playing for them right now
A market dominated by very few super corporations, a new smaller company tries to break through and break the oligopoly, but hey, they made a bad decision on a particular product, let’s make fun of them, surely the market is better without those busybodies, Disney would have done better
Lionsgates roots go back to 1962, while that’s more recent than Disney or Warner, I hardly think it classifies them as new.
I hope they know it’s not because we didn’t want a borderlands movie. It could have been good, but they didn’t choose that path.
I have a really hard time imagining a good Borderlands movie. It would basically need to be a different franchise like Mad Max.
Right? Like I see folks in this thread and elsewhere echoing some of the typical things you hear when Hollywood botches an adaptation. Things like “it would be better if it was faithful to the source material” and other sentiments like that.
However, in this case, the one aspect of the games that is easily translateable to film (the writing) seems to have aged the absolute worst. Self-referential Internet humor was a bold, unique aesthetic in 2009, but it’s been largely played out the 15 years since the og game released, or at least Borderlands’ take on that style of humor has gotten stale. Maybe the writing was better outside of 2 and Tiny Tina’s (the entries I played the most), but I sort of doubt it.
I would not want to be tasked with adapting Borderlands. Stick close to the source material, get flamed for writing something juvenile. Diverge from the source material, get accused of not capturing the spirit of the franchise. It’s an impossible situation.
Same with Warcraft, Eragon, Valerian, the new Lara Croft. Sometimes I wonder if engaging with the source material hurts screenwriters or why they avoid it so much.
The Warcraft movie was actually really good, not sure why it did poorly in the States. Everywhere else in the world loved it.
Just looked it up, and wow you’re right. Only made $47 million in the US? Seemed to be unusually overseas-heavy.
From Wikipedia:
Variety reported that the film was generating only moderate interest among U.S. moviegoers, which could possibly hurt its box office performance stateside, with poor reviews and competition from the aforementioned films and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (released the week prior) also affecting its performance.
Tbh though, the horrible reviews make me want to see it. Before it came out, I was meh about it. I never played the regular borderlands games much, though I lobe tiny tina’s wonderlands. So it was something I would have watched if it was on, but nothing I’d put effort into.
Now though, it’s at the point where if it’s that bad, I want to see the train wreck.
I strongly advise against seeing this movie, not even as a hate-watch. It’s not the kind of “good” bad, it’s just “boring” bad.
Honestly it’s not even worth pirating.
I’ve said this before but I got a free ticket to watch it so I watched it.
The only movie I’ve ever seen that was worse than that was The adventures of Pluto Nash, and The adventures of Pluto Nash taught me how to recognize what a bad movie was.
I have posted a full review a while ago here so if you want to read that just scroll through my history and it’s not that far down, I’m not going to repost a 500 word article here.
