49 of the Funniest Burns from the Week of August 5, 2024

On Friday, Eli Roth’s adaptation of Borderlands hit the big screen after a decade of development. Despite having a gun-slinging Cate Blanchett looking the best she’s ever looked on-screen, the Hostel director’s take on the popular video game debuted on Rotten Tomatoes to a zero percent rating. The critical consensus called the film “balderdash” with one reviewer describing it as “loud and annoying” while another mocked it as “Guardians of the Galaxy without any soul, humor or imagination.” 

Borderlands wasn’t able to pull itself out of the mud until polarizing critic and vlogger Grace Randolph gave the film a positive review bringing its Rotten Tomatoes score up to 4 percent. But as one Twitter user noted, Randolph providing the sole rave may very well be worse than being stuck with a goose egg.

Lucky for Roth, though, his impending box-office failure wasn’t the only thing going up in flames this week. Other digital burn victims included hotel architects, someone unfamiliar with the word “friend” and the streamer that thinks it invented channels.