Eli Roth’s adaptation of first-person shooter Borderlands had a fan event this week that left the majority underwhelmed.
I don’t normally pay attention to reviews, but I had a feeling this was coming. When they released that one minute clip a while back, it didn’t feel right, or even funny. One of the biggest pointers towards its lack of quality was the piss “joke” in the trailer. As one of the quotes mentions, it may just come off as a poor man’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
How anyone could have seen the first trailer and thought it would have been anything but absolute drek is beyond me.
Borderlands is media that works as a video game because you are a willing participant in the idiocy. Its brand of idiocy is too idiotic be enjoyable if you’re not a part of it.