I love the games (the Telltale games were peak), and I actually like like most of the individual members of the cast (aside from Kevin Hart, dude just is plainly unfunny to me), and I think Eli Roth can do a decent job behind the camera. However I know most certainly this will be a product/marketing platform in the shape of a movie.
Is the cinema landscape this bleak these days? Movie magic is being wasted on this slop. Goddamn.
Ahh yes the best part of borderlands is the story, writing and cutscenes. Not the dopamine fest of its shooting and going full loot-goblin. Why not take the borderlands ip, strip out the gameplay, and replace it with more of the corny and cringy writing and cutscenes until it’s a film.
Ok is the film at least retaining the original iconic cell shaded animation? Nope it’s live action.
Riiight….
Ahh yes the best part of borderlands is the story, writing and cutscenes
To be fair-ish, I think certain parts of the Borderlands story, writing, and worldbuilding can be pretty solid, when it isn’t trying to be stupid.
Being totally honest however, even within the same game the writing can be anywhere to “good-ish sci-fi” to "juvenile gamer. Hell sometimes in the same questline it can oscillate between good and gamer.
Ok is the film at least retaining the original iconic cell shaded animation? Nope it’s live action.
BRO! I THOUGHT THE SAME THING! I lived in a cave for awhile and I heard they were doing a Borderlands movie. For the longest time I thought it was going to be like one of those by the numbers “Illumination” style animated films, when I heard the casting I thought they were gonna the voices. Nope. I was so wrong and dumb.
All the trailer dialogue is so awful and dry. You can tell most of the actors are phoning it in. Nobody is even hamming it up :(
The weirdest and worst decision is that it’s entirely based on just recreating Borderlands 2. Which is bizarre since the only memorable things from the game were the good design/voice acting for Handsome Jack, Tiny Tina, and Claptrap.
Nobody is even hamming it up :(
Agreed. You think with such “insane mayhem™” you’d could just be silly and goof it up but it doesn’t seems to strike a tone. Maybe it’s just the editing of the trailer? I have found movie trailers editing to be worse and worse these days, they either don’t tell you anything or just seem to hit all the high notes of the film.
Which is bizarre since the only memorable things from the game were the good design/voice acting for Handsome Jack, Tiny Tina, and Claptrap.
I’d throw in Ellie and her brother Scooter into memorable good design/voice acting , but yes totally agreed with your overall sentiment.
I can’t see a Borderlands movie ever being actually good, but Kevin Hart as Roland makes me think this won’t even be good for a Borderlands movie.
The entire cast is baffling to be honest
Cate Blanchett isn’t who I’d expect for Lilith, but I can see her making it work. There’s an overlap in personality between Jack Black and Claptrap, but he’s not quite the right actor for it, because he’s too Jack Black. Took me a while to realise JLC was meant to be Tannis. Kevin Hart is downright goofy and not remotely suitable for a straight man role. Can’t really speak for Ariana Greenblatt as an actor, but she doesn’t seem wild enough for Tiny Tina in the trailer. For all of them you see the actor rather than the character.
Honestly the only one that worked immediately is whoever’s playing Kreig. Looks perfect.
nice to see Blanchett still getting work at her age, maybe hollywood is marginally improving.
Blanchett has had a great career and i think she has a great career still to come! I do however think this is a bit of an odd role pick for her, though I could see on paper this being a fun cast to work with.
i agree it’s a weird role for her but they’ve been casting old men for shit like this for decades so it’s kinda whatever.
i’m sure the performances will be fine given what they probably have to work with but i can’t imagine the movie will be better than a transformers sequel.
They’re trying to get the entire world lesbian population in theaters by giving Cate Blanchett a cool outfit and a big gun and it’s gonna work.
I disagree, they must try harder.
i agree it’s a weird role for her but they’ve been casting old men for shit like this for decades so it’s kinda whatever.
Big TRUE!
