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It stinks!
You just reminded me of this reference. (But yes it looks like it’s going to be horrible)
Cate Blanchett for Lilith, but no lines spoken to showcase her personality. Tina except she’s a Zoomer girl boss that occasionally lapses into the actual Tina in the most superficial ways, Roland but comedy, and the psycho as a main character when you have gunzerker and commando.
This just feels like another quick cash in on an IP that they believed they could turn into pulp action content.
I don’t understand anyone who would choose to watch this instead of playing borderlands, given they’re a fan of the game. Who is this for?
Couldn’t make it through the trailer. I loved the first 3 (1, PS, 2). BL3 was shit and Gearbox got more and more shitty. Not something I’m going to watch.
I’m not even all that familiar with the games, but the casting seems really off.
I’ll watch it, but as a borderlands fan I’m expecting trash
I have been equally pessimistic and excited about this dumpster fire from the earliest rumors. I think this movie will be bad, and won’t be any less fun for it. as long as they answer one question best asked by mister torgue flexington: explosions?
oh if they have someone playing Torgue I’ll watch it with mouth agape. I don’t know who could pull it off though.
Who would they even get to play Torgue? Like honestly? Because from the main casting choices, it would probably be someone like Kyle Gass or Michael Cera.
DID I HEAR SOMEONE ASK #$@!NG EXPLOSIONS?!? THAT IS THE ANSWER. THE QUESTION IS ¥π&@ING WHEN?!?*
Same. I can’t imagine it being anything other than off-brand Mad Max, though
I’d watch it.
Couldn’t have picked a worse game to try and make a movie out of. From the looks of it, they aren’t trying very hard either.
Looks like it’ll be a fun popcorn movie. Not expecting it to be faithful to the source material.
Just counting my lucky stars they didn’t cast The Rock as Kreig.
I absolutely love the game. I’m going to watch this movie with very low expectations and I think I’ll be happy.
Never having played Borderlands… is the game actually this unapologetically stupid? I chuckled at a few bits in the trailer, but I felt bad for doing it.
It is definitely a stupid game, but this feels a lot like it fan fiction written by someone’s nephew.
Implying bl3 wasn’t already exactly this lol
Lmao you bastard
Yes. Humour is dumb. Some jokes work, some jokes don’t. Not everyone agrees on which ones are funny.
Borderlands 1 is stupid and fun, Borderlands 2 is stupid and fun with more flamboyant characters, Borderlands The Pre-Sequel is like Borderlands 2 but Australian and shorter, Borderlands 3 is too stupid and annoying to be much fun with a shitload of influence humor in it.
I will gladly recommend playing B1 and B2, and if you want more B2 get TPS.
B3 is just annoying.
B2 is my favourite in the series
2 also has the best
villianhero of any game ever, Handsome Jack.spot on.
The humor in the games is definitely “stupid” but not as cringe as this movie looks.
No, it’s exactly as cringe as this movie looks. There’s a horse called Butt-Stallion in the games.
Yeah but in context it’s actually pretty hilarious. Handsome Jack’s monologues made borderlands 2 for me. Such a great villain.
Is it bad that I’m scared/worried to watch the trailer based on the comments I’m this thread alone?
As a fan of the games, and having watched the trailer: no.
I watched it. I wish I hadn’t. But now I definitely know I’m not going to watch this until it hits a streaming service that I’m subbed to. Maybe.
It really looks like they wanted this made in the vein of a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. I guess if you start with Borderlands and try to come up with an existing movie property that’s in the same ballpark, that kinda seems like a reasonable target?
Problem is, none of the actors look like they are having fun. I think this is going to land somewhere between the Suicide Squads, and not closer to the one you’d want it to.
This is what happens when someone who has never played Borderlands derives their script from watching teen streamers playing the game. Expectedly awful.
Is Borderlands the godfather now? Who cares? Borderlands story is trash, it’s characters are one dimensional. This is like when people complained that they’d mess up twisted metal, as if we were speaking about an adaptation of the old man and the sea. It’s Borderlands, and if the movie is a solid 7, it’s as good as the game.
Borderlands story is not trash and its characters are not one dimensional. They are caricature in nature and can seem shallow at first glance. The story takes it queues from tales of old while also being extremely puerile and silly but at times it’s also heartfelt and charming (Tiny Tina’s Adventure). What we see here in the trailer is, again, gaming translated to the screen by people who clearly haven’t played the games themselves.
I don’t think anyone here is saying the movie will be bad for not getting the Borderlands story right. I think they’re saying it looks bad because it looks like a passionless by the numbers cash grab banking on nerd pandering and brand recognition. Especially because this was the type of game that never needed to be made into a movie. I mean, the trailer has Kevin Hart yelling stuff and ends with a diarrhea joke. Nuff said.
I mean it doesn’t look like citizen kane but it also doesn’t look that bad? A lot of people in the comments here seem to think that Borderlands has some Baldur’s Gate level story to explore when it really is just a bunch of assholes doing assholish things for video game reasons. I say this as a massive bl2 fan that has always been willing to point out and accept every shortcoming that every game has had so far.
Yeah that’s always my biggest issue when people complain about these movies, Borderlands isn’t a masterpiece of story, it’s not hard to make an action movie based on that world.
I mean, even as someone who isn’t really a fan of Borderlands, this feels immediately different in tone, and the actors all look cheap and out of place. The aethetic (esspecially in contrast to the games) kind-of reminds me of old 80s/90s direct to VHS movies where it was made by a small studio trying to make something completely out of scope, and of the writing shown, it seems slower, shallower (even by Borderlands’s low standards) and more sanitized. Borderlands doesn’t set a high bar, but this seems like it’ll struggle to meet even that.
