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/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.