As a critic, my task is sometimes to treat all things gracefully, but I’m pretty sure of myself in saying that the movie Borderlands, which received shocking reviews, didn’t fare well. I accept as true the opinion of PC Gamer editor Joshua Wolens, who, after sitting back and watching the whole thing, called it “a tasteless porridge that no one interested seemed interested in keeping” and “an excuse to buy a bucket of popcorn. “.
This critical reception turns out to have manifested itself at the American box office, with Variety reporting that Borderlands the Movie grossed $8. 8 million in its opening weekend in the United States. It is a film that cost 115 million dollars to make and another 30 million. market and distribute.
Adding up those costs, this means that Borderlands’ run in the United States over the weekend was worth about 6% of what it cost. To put that into perspective, you now want to sell the same number of tickets about 16 times as much just to break even.
Of course, there are upcoming releases abroad and, as Forbes reports, 60% of its production budget has already been covered through pre-sales, which leaves, i. e. around $58 million (again, combining production and marketing/distribution costs) to recover later. the fact before the cash starts flowing.
I’d upload a sarcastic joke here, but I feel the same way I felt watching Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which not only lost about $200 million at Warner Bros, but lately is betting on. . . Let me check: 86 people in total on Steam (with a peak of 217 in 24 hours) at the time of writing. That is: sad. This makes me sad.
Thinking about the amount of waste that is generated by something like this is simply frustrating, especially since the Borderland series is characterized by a tendency to miss simple dunks. It’s got a killer aesthetic and, for the most part, very fun gameplay – I immersed myself in Borderlands 3 and its respective DLCs for about 58 hours.
But other aspects, namely its story and overall direction, have been chronically mishandled for years, and it’s sad to see this spill over into the film. I’m starting to see why Craig Mazin, the actor from HBO’s The Last of Us, jumped off the movie bandwagon before it became a real disaster.
Harvey’s history with gaming began when he begged his parents to subscribe to World of Warcraft at the age of 12, even though he has since been cursed with the mastermind of Final Fantasy 14 and an enormous weight on G’raha Aunt. His beginnings as a freelancer, writing for internet sites such as Techradar, The Escapist, Dicebreaker, The Gamer, Into the Spine, and, of course, PC Gamer. It will bite into anything that looks interesting, even if it has a comfortable place for RPGs, soulslikes, roguelikes, deckbuilders, MMOs, and weird indie titles. It also plays a lot of TTRPGs when offline. Don’t ask her what her favorite formula is, she has too many.
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