They should just give up and remove 99% of cutscene and dialogue in bl4,
How are they gonna make a movie about looking at the stats of ten million slightly different algorithmically generated guns?
This one time a person played Borderlands and said "wow this game is fucking terrible"
That's the story
I mean …. do you really need to ask if a movie adaptation of a video game is going to suck or not?
I mean Fallout was fucking great imo, but definitely an exception to that rule
Fallout is kinda interesting in that the games did a great job establishing a setting but the specific stories that take place aren't really integral to it's fallout-ness
so strongly disagree lol but i'm glad you were able to get more out of it than me
It's a genuine shock that Mortal Kombat movies don't do better. You literally just need to rip off a Kung Fu flick and change some names.
Lilith is 22 being played by Cate Blanchette who's in her 50's.
How much of this character being 22 is because gamers riot if they cannot masturbate to the women on the games, instead of being young being part of the narrative of the character?
Never played the game btw.
Lilith is a cliched sort of grindhouse/action movie heroine: a sarcastic, sadistic badass who's believably athletic. There are probably some 50-something actresses who can pull that off, but Cate Blanchette bringing "someone's mom, going through a mid-life crisis" energy is just such a bad choice.
Grabbing big name actors that they could get and who weren't busy, regardless of what the role needed was such a bad, quintessentially Hollywood choice. They should have gotten literal nobodies and made a schlocky grindhouse b-movie out of it, not good but like fun bad spectacle slop instead of a baffling "how did this even get made?" make-work project for some random big name actors.
The casting choices being way out of line with the source material is a giant red flag. It's not a meaningless nitpick like when a characters race is changed (and their race never informed the character). It's that the vibes of the characters do not fit the actors and the trailer doesn't show them modifying themselves to fit their roles. Roland especially, he is a straightman, the opposite of Kevin Hart.
First Tolkien, now Disco Elysium? Are they targeting my data and making shows specifically to upset me?
That's worse news for Amazon than for me, I can just not watch it. Costs them billions per show cause they seem to feel the need to spend that much. So, to all actors, writers, directors, directors of photography, gaffer, grips, best boys, extras, supporting actors, featured supporting actors, caterers, teamsters, truck drivers, cgi slaves, prop guys, property masters (title sounds weird but they just keep the warehouse where they store all the stuff for a movie organized), art directors, art consultants, key frame animators, janitors, special guest star Wayne Knight as well as the camera operators should thank me for Jeff Bezos pissing away a lot of money on their solid, usually union labor simply to spite my personal tastes. Hell of a briar patch.
Star Trek is the only one I can think of they could mine. That would genuinely harm me
The physical characteristics of the actors hired isn't why it's going to be dogshit.
The fact they couldn't even scrape together a mediocre trailer (which there are huge organizations DEDICATED to the art of pumping out trailers) is a sign it's going to suck. They also completely fucked up by not getting this crapshow out before Furiosa even though it was filmed 3 years ago is a sign it's going to suck. The writer (Craig Mazin who got awards for The Last of Us the TV show) HAD HIS NAME REMOVED FROM THIS MOVIE is a sign it's going to suck.
The fact they are trying to "adapt" the games at all, instead of just do what Tales from the Borderlands did.. and just do their own wacky adventure on a wasteland planet that is said to hold ancient alien treasures along with more recent human treasures from all the failed attempts to get the alien treasures, combined with the magical resurrection technology that eventually brings everyone back to life (maybe minus a few brain cells or a few dollars or maybe too late) can BE a fun premise for a movie.
https://youtu.be/WDlBirYlyAg?si=38bMGBqNpnhEgiZ3 tales from the borderlands works better, and the needledrops in the games were more interesting than the Movie trailer.. which also weirdly has a LOT of overlap with the 1 minute clip from IGN.
The thing is, always expect franchises and adaptations to be shit. The only reason to ever be interested is if they accidentally give control to people with interesting ideas like Bakemonatagi anime series being given to a director who hates conventional angles or doing anything straightforward, or Greta Gerwig doing Barbie (but also it's still inside of a system that doesn't want interesting things)
this movie was cooked from the start, the director Eli Roth was Work for Hire and managed to shoot and release another movie in between the filming and release of this. The whole movie exists because of Sunk Costs, Borderlands 3 wasn't really a big hit but things had been bouncing around.. and likely that Embracer group money was what was needed to push the movie from maybe to Sure. but then you know.. Embracer group went poof
Wasn't the live action One piece pretty good though?
I watched it and the lack of budget really shows. Stuff like adult Luffy having a slight accent (putting the emphasis on the wrong syllables or words in a sentence) while child actor Luffy doesn't. The hair dye looks pretty bad. Instead of fighting Buggy and his whole crew in Orange Town, the straw hats beat the crew off-screen and fight Buggy solo, with the only locations used being a small circus tent or the backroom of said small circus tent. Instead of fighting Kuro and the Black Cat Pirates on the beach to keep them from getting to Syrup Town, they fight Kuro and two other servants (who were apparently also undercover and working with him the whole time though this is never mentioned) in Kaya's mansion. Instead of fighting Don Krieg, because that would involve a large group and Baratie being damaged, Mihawk kills them all in the Grand Line so there's a small scuffle between Arlong's crew and the straw hats instead. Instead of fighting Hachi or the seacow, because those would have to be full CG, they have Sanji and Zolo just fight some random fishmen mooks, one of whom knows fishman karate. In order to re-use the sets they have (which are, in fairness, mostly very nice), they have Garp follow behind Luffy and talk to people in the same places.
Wait, what were we talking about?
Also the Charlie Sheen bit is from Hot Shots Part Deux.
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It looks like someone took a rejected script, had an LLM shit a Borderlands summary off of Wikipedia across it, and then they tried to save it by throwing whatever star power they could afford at it in desperation of getting non-fans in the seats.
Hey, this movie was written and shot LONG before they had LLMs working properly.
The casting is terrible and weird and probably the result of some other negotiations and deals, but setting that aside it also just looks bad. Like visually it looks like dogshit. Bad cinematography, bad choreography, bad effects. It looks like if Uwe Boll was given a bigger budget and modern CGI.
It doesn't even have like shitty B-movie charm, it looks like some kind of weird make work project for some big actors who don't have anything else on their plates right now where they're spending too much and playing it too straight for it to have some charming schlock to it.
Borderlands should only be adapted as some kind of low-budget, straight-to-cable grindhouse series with nobodies, something like Blood Drive.
I have not played the games and I think it looks like stupid fun slop
I found borderlands insufferable after the 1st to begin with so I was definitely not going to put myself through the movie version lol
Those casting choices
Including the named characters from the first game where the plot didn't matter at all
Including Tiny Tina
Why is this even a movie at all lmao.
The trailer is written like some off-beat PG-13 family comedy.
They should be going to the Grand Canyon with their new stepmom not fucking treasure hunting.
