I’m not sure I know anyone, Borderlands fan or not, who believed the film adaptation of the game would be good, based on everything from casting to trailers. Now that revisions are coming in ahead of their release tomorrow, those fears have been validated. And then some.
As I write this, the movie Borderlands has a flat rate of 0% for rotten tomatoes. There are no positive reviews, and those offered are only negative, although brutal. Here is a sample:
Sure, there’s still a lot of criticism, and the score would possibly go up, but everything I’ve noticed outwardly from some gaming influencers who attended the premieres (or are literally extras in the movie) has been relentlessly negative, and I would . be. I’m surprised to find that more than a handful of positive reviews appear in the end. Hopefully.
A 0% on Rotten Tomatoes is, of course, as low as it gets. If we take a look at the lowest-rated video game videos ever made, this list would now be:
I put the year here so you can see that most of those ultra-terrible ones are from about a decade ago, when making a clever adaptation of a video game was at its peak and the only other people watching were admins like Uwe Boll part of the time. Lately we’ve noticed some heavily counterfeited live-action video game adaptations in film (Sonic) and television (The Last of Us, Fallout), and Borderlands feels like a step backwards by 10 to 15 years.
I hope it exceeds 0 percent. There are so many reviews on Rotten Tomatoes of questionable quality and taste that you will probably like and rate them higher than some of them (I’m one of the reviewers so I can’t judge), but this hasn’t happened as of this writing. . Training
Who saw this coming? All. Everybody has done it. And we do it.
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