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Borderlands Nominated For Worst Movie of The Year at The Razzies

While we await the nominations for the Oscars, on the opposite end of the awards season spectrum sits the Golden Raspberry Awards (or Razzies) which celebrates the absolute worst movies of the past year. 2024 definitely had its fair share of truly awful movies but few sunk as low as Eli Roth’s live-action Borderlands, which is up for Worst Picture at the 45th Razzies this year.

Borderlands has some stiff competition in the Worst Picture category, going up against Joker 2, Madame Web and Megalopolis. Elsewhere, Eli Roth has also been nominated for Worst Director while Cate Blanchett has received her first-ever Razzie nomination in Worst Actress. Kevin Hart and Jack Black both get the dishonour of being nominated for Worst Supporting Actors. Black is also nominated for Worst Actor for his role as Satan in the forgettable holiday movie Dear Santa.

Borderlands became one of the biggest box office bombs of 2024, earning around only $32 million worldwide. Despite the fanbase for the video game franchise being much wider than those numbers suggest, it seems like very few of them actually showed up to the movie adaptation which showed a sliver of promise given the talent behind it.

Game development studio Gearbox’s boss Randy Pitchford previously expressed his desire to use the Borderlands movie to kick off a cinematic universe (because everything in Hollywood absolutely needs a cinematic universe now, apparently). It doesn’t seem like those plans are going to hold anymore.

In related news, Gearbox Software is putting a lot of effort in toning down the toilet humour for Borderlands 4. In a moment of clarity, the studio reflected on the less-than-stellar and unsavoury writing of Borderlands 3, making sure to not repeat similar mistakes for the fourth game in the series. Borderlands 4 doesn’t have a release date yet but it’s coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.

Source: Comic Basics

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