The Borderlands film was not good. I don't know anyone who likes it, and I've never read anyone say something nice about it on the internet. Even its creator, Eli Roth, doesn't seem to like it very much, and in a new interview with the director we can gain some insight into why it ended up as bad as it did.
Speaking to Variety about his new film Ice Cream Man which, as far as I can tell, is not a videogame adaptation, Roth said the exorbitant $120 million budget had the non-creatives worried. “As things grow bigger, studios just naturally become more risk averse,” he said. “My nature as a filmmaker is to do the thing that’s left of center, because that’s what has worked for me.”
With a budget like that the film needed to cast the widest net possible. Lionsgate executives demanded tweaks to accommodate a family-friendly PG-13 rating, which seems like an odd creative choice given that a) it's a Borderlands adaptation and b) it's made by the guy who made Hostel and Cabin Fever. To be authentic, it basically needed to be an ultraviolent gorefest, which it wasn'...
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