{"id":219748,"date":"2026-01-04T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/219748\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:47:08","slug":"one-of-the-worst-sci-fi-movies-of-the-last-decade-just-passed-a-major-free-streaming-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/219748\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the Worst Sci-Fi Movies of the Last Decade Just Passed a Major Free Streaming Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featuring a stacked cast that includes Oscar-winners Cate Blanchett<\/a> and Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a>, along with major box office stars Kevin Hart<\/a> and Jack Black<\/a>, the video game adaptation Borderlands<\/a> crashed and burned with critics and the audience. The movie suffered a tumultuous production, and grossed only a fraction of its reported budget. It was even disowned by its writer, Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin<\/a>, and was completed without original director Eli Roth<\/a>. Borderlands remains one of the prime examples of how an A-list Hollywood production, featuring A-list talent, can still go off the rails. However, despite its poor theatrical performance, it has emerged as something of an oddity on home video, where it recently passed a major milestone.<\/p>\n

According to FlixPatrol, Borderlands completed 150 days on the domestic Pluto TV charts this week, which is in stark contrast to the $15 million that it could manage to haul during its domestic run. The movie made just over $30 million at the worldwide box office, against a reported budget of $120 million. After Roth couldn’t return to oversee reshoots \u2014 they were directed by Tim Miller<\/a> \u2014 the movie opened to poor reviews, continuing a terrible 2024 for Lionsgate<\/a>. It’s currently sitting at a 10% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus reads, “Glitching out in every department, Borderlands is balderdash.” The movie’s marketing made it seem like a space Western in the vein of James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies<\/a>, but audiences didn’t agree.<\/p>\n

Eli Roth Returned to Horror<\/p>\n

Blanchett was coming off of an Oscar nomination for her performance in T\u00e1r<\/a>, while Curtis had won an Oscar recently for her supporting performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/a>. Black and Hart had appeared together in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle<\/a> and Jumanji: The Next Level<\/a>, which earned a combined total of over $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office. Last year, Black starred in A Minecraft Movie<\/a>, which made nearly $1 billion worldwide; he can now be seen in the meta-comedy Anaconda<\/a>, also featuring Paul Rudd<\/a>. Roth rebounded by returning to familiar territory, horror, with the film Thanksgiving<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can watch Borderlands at home, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.<\/p>\n

\"Borderlands<\/p>\n

Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAugust 9, 2024<\/p>\n

Runtime<\/p>\n

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