At this point, I'm kind of waiting for the Borderlands movie's redemption arc to kick in. Despite its stacked cast and many years in development, this thing has been universally declared a stinker: and not even the so-bad-it's-good kind. PCG's own Joshua Wolens found it left him pining for the original Super Mario Bros movie, the Rotten Tomatoes score stands at 10%, and the opening box office receipts were utterly dire ($16 million globally on a $145 million production / marketing budget, and that's even before the theatres take their cut).
It's the latter that matters, of course. Hollywood wouldn't give a toss if everyone hated Borderlands and the cinema cash registers were ringing. Indeed this was the angle of attack chosen by Uwe Boll, who's presided over many terrible videogame movies but reckons this one is so bad everyone's now wishing he directed it. And now it looks like the writing's on the wall.
