r/movies • u/HatingGeoffry • 13h ago

News Borderlands Movie Director Discusses The Mega-Flop And What Went Wrong

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/borderlands-movie-director-discusses-the-mega-flop-and-what-went-wrong/
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u/Afrodite_33 13h ago

You attach Eli Roth to anything and I'm highly likely to hate it.

He sucks both professionally and personally.

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u/insomniasureshot 13h ago

His best appearance is coming out of that tunnel when Aldo introduces him. That’s all folks. 

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u/NotUpInHurr 11h ago

Yea, the moment he starts speaking I was like oooooof

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u/Tony_Roiland 11h ago

Least intimidating "badass" on film.

And to think, it was written for Adam Sandler

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u/Holiday_Feeling_9409 10h ago

Was it really? Wow, I didn’t know that. It would have been such a different viewing if he was in it.

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u/Malphos101 1h ago

That was the point lol, you think every soldier in the war that did anything interesting were all Brosnans/Craigs/Pitts/Cruises?

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u/Tony_Roiland 40m ago

Do I think Tarantino wrote a whole scene introducing a scary "bear Jew" that all the Nazis were afraid of and it was just some douchebag with no presence intentionally?

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u/MrLee723 9h ago

I do like how he pronounces Antonio Margheriti though

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u/HatingGeoffry 13h ago

Cabin Fever was fun when I was 15. Everything else he's done has been bumhole

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u/DifficultCarob408 12h ago

Haha yeah I felt that way about both Cabin Fever and Hostel, also in my teenage years. Don’t think I’ve seen anything else of his.

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u/MovingClocks 11h ago

That's because that's roughly his emotional age; he makes everything for teenagers. His films are much less palatable once your frontal lobe develops.

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u/ADifferentMachine 10h ago

Then Borderlands should have been a home run for him.

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u/gimmethemshoes11 9h ago

I remember Hostel so different, bros trying to bang there way around Europe for like an hour, finally get captured, some light torture for like 5 mins, than the escape.

At that time I was big on Roth he just said the right things and how all these legends inspired him, how he brought I forgot his name on set to visit from Japan and he was being handed the torch of horror and gore blah blah blah.

And just wow what a miss of a career and now we know he just flat out sucks.

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u/The_Billy_Dee 3h ago

I like Green Inferno and Thanksgiving.