Things are going from bad to worse for the Borderlands movie, and now he’s received perhaps the harshest insult of all. The infamous director and full-time troll Uwe Boll went to great lengths to get the film’s reception, clearly gloating about the film’s poor reception.
Boll posted on social media a symbol he borrowed from IGN, which states that the film grossed just $8. 8 million in its opening weekend, against a budget of $115 million. “Haha,” Boll writes. My movies were rated R and made more money than that. Now you wish I would make them come true. “
Let’s leave aside the last component for a moment: did Boll’s films gross more than $8. 8 million?This is the case if you upload several of them together. Twitter user StopSkeletons responded to Boll with some stats: Boll’s biggest hit was House of the Dead, which opened with $5. 5 million and a final gross of $13. 8 million. Add in the first weekends of Alone in the Dark ($2. 8 million) and Bloodrayne ($1. 5 million) and you get $9. 8 million, albeit spread over 3 films (Boll in, of course, has achieved many others).
The response of our boy Uwe? The absolutely absurd claim that their movies have been illegally downloaded 41 billion (yes, “billion” with “b”) times. The discourse doesn’t escalate from there, with Boll throwing in other responses to call other people nerds, silly sandwiches, and, of course, the old classic “your mother. ”
“Boxing match between Eli Roth and Uwe Boll, please,” writes Naro Video. “The winner will direct the movie Zelda. ” My favorite response, and Boll’s also because he reposted it, is this meme from The Simpsons about Martin diving over Bart:
August https://t. co/qTiBnxswuN pic. twitter. com/jshfEfp2pi12, 2024
Of course, Boll isn’t done yet. He later reposted his original taunt and added: “But will players touch the creators of Stride Gum and convince them to give a loose pack of gum to each and every user who submits the petition that Eli Roth can’t lead anymore?”
If you’re having trouble understanding this, I get it: This is a reference to a campaign sponsored by Stride Gum in the 2000s, where the company handed out a loose pack of gum to whoever signed a not-so-easy petition for Boll to avoid directing wrongdoing. films. Movies. As you can see, it didn’t work.
Finally, Boll’s statement that “now you wish I noticed. “I can’t find any reference to the fact that Boll was once thought of directing the Borderlands movie, however, Boll appears in every project in progress: and he’s known for a long list of video game adaptations. He may have thrown himself into the ring at some point and was unceremoniously ignored.
Well. . . it’s weird to feel a little bad for Eli Roth, but Uwe Boll really does have the strangest reactions. I haven’t noticed it and Borderlands would possibly be a bit of a crisis but, honestly, I find it hard to believe that it is worse than a Uwe Boll movie.
Rich is a game journalist with 15 years of experience. He began his career at Edge mag before applying for a wide diversity of media outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was editor-in-chief of Kotaku UK, the British branch of Kotaku, for 3 years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a brief history of video games, a comprehensive history of the medium, which Midwest Book Review described as “[a] must-read for serious game historians and curious video game connoisseurs. “
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Borderlands grossed $16 million worldwide, leaving it about $60 million short of its break-even point, and that’s before theaters got their cut.
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