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“I hate that thing that you love, so I convinced someone to pay me a million dollars to shit on it for you.
”Offhand I can only think of one movie (and sequels) where “didn’t read the book” made the movie significantly better: The Bourne Identity. Those books really were awful!
I thought the 1993 Mario movie was pretty fun
The Witcher video games are better than the source and the original author is seething from its success
The games are great because CD Project are massive fans who read the books many times, so that hardly fits.
I mean the books are great too, apparently they’re even better in it’s native language.
I think there’s a difference when the source material isn’t great. IIRC Forest Gump is another example.
Also Starship Troopers
I thought that was debunked?
I’m not sure how you think this video is related to the comment I replied to ?
There’s also Adaptation, technically.
Not only that, they probably would have been better off not using the original 4 playable characters since every game comes with a new set. Just make sure the side characters are done well and you keep the same feel as the games and it should have been an easy win
I think the Halo show could’ve been much more interesting too if they focused on someone not the main character of the games.
But no, gotta keep the most recognizable character
Only if they read anything about the games or books. Leaving master chief out doesn’t fix the active contempt for the source material.
I would have fully supported a movie with Mister Torgue running around having adventures. Of course he would be played by John Cena in a mullet.
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The casting alone is all you need to know to expect an unmitigated disaster.
Kevin Hart as Roland is genuinely one of the worst castings I’ve ever seen.
Well, there is the rock for any roll that isn’t a literal rock.
The cops should be called on Hollywood for IP abuse. 😂
The trailer looked like a wannabe Guardians of the Galaxy clone.
Good. I hope that sleaze Pitchford loses a mountainload of money on this. I absolutely hate the guy, he’s a liar and a thief. And arguably, depending how you look at it, a pedophile.
As a short reminder: Borderlands was originally meant to look like this. Then, at the MTV Asia Awards 2006, an artist by the name of Ben Hibon premiered a neat-looking animated short by the name of Codehunters. You can see it here. Witchford saw this and wanted to use the artstlye for his new game. He and Ben had a back-and-forth for a while and then, radio silence.
2009 comes around and Pitchfork’s new game Borderlands is released. And to say that it looked familiar to Codehunters would be an understatement. Kitschford, being an upstanding and virtuous citizen that he is, straight-up aped Codehunter’s style. No discussions or agreements were made with Ben and as such, despite Borderlands becoming hugely profitable, Ben didn’t see a cent. And that is why I will always hope for the Borderlands IP to crash and burn. Or, at the very least, for someone to actually pay Ben Hibon for (unknowingly) creating the game’s artstyle. Anyway, rant over, thanks for coming to my TED talk.
You forgot that he also assaulted Claptrap’s original VA because he asked for past royalties to come back after the team begged him to.
Nah, I didn’t forget. It’s just that Pitchford’s list of screw-ups is so extensive that if I wanted to list of each and every one, we’d be here all day.
I love the borderlands franchise but there is no chance ill watch the movie. As soon as it said some of the writers from marvel was involved i was out.
It might become a cult terrible movie. I think thats its only hope.
Ill watch it at some point, but I wont be paying.
As if borderlands is some peak fiction.
Eli Roth
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. Has Roth made a good movie?
I kind of like Hostel.
Nah, I saw that piece of shit in theaters and still wish I would have walked out. I know what he was going for, but like every other roth movie I’ve seen (doubly for anything he’s written), it’s just not well done outside of the cinematography. And frankly, well shot porno and gore scenes don’t make for a compelling movie on their own.
Should I play the game though?
play the trilogy and your faith in the franchise will be restored
bl2 is the best one hands down, you could totally start with that one
Play BL2. I didn’t really bother with 1. BL2 is such a great game, probably sunk more hours into it over the years than any other. Lots of replayability with different characters, TVHM and UVHM, DLCs etc.
They’re fun especially with friends
Played the first two, cringy and tedious. And this is coming from someone who loves plenty of pulp and grindy games.
Not surprised. But with some better writing this could’ve been at least somewhat decent. Love the games and there are lots of stories to tell there.
It’s been some time since I saw critics and fans so aligned, congrats to the Borderlands movie! lol
The movie feels like it was made after they picked the cast then curated it to the actors instead of the source material. I know everyone seems to like the cast choices but I genuinely think it’s the worst line up they could have done. The closet to acceptable would be jack black. I honestly don’t get why they wouldn’t just do the voice actor for him or find someone who is close to a perfect match.
I’ve got a home copy to watch tonight for free and I only have that because a friend sent it to me. I don’t even wanna pay the electricity to watch it.
I never saw a single comment, be it from friends or online, praising the casting lmao.
Who likes the casting choices? I think I’ve only heard criticism on the casting.
I’m sorry but the cast alone is proof they didn’t give a fuck about the fans. It’s also dumb as fuck how they’re “telling their own story” and aren’t ballsy enough to go the route fallout did (telling a good story within established canon).
I’m not going to see a movie about borderlands if the established, existing core character cast isn’t literally from the game actors. Big celebs can be cool if they’re their own unique characters, but core, pre-existing characters should be played from the games.
Should clarify: if you’re going to use the main characters in the series, they should be using the actual actors. If you want to make some new characters, then that’s fine. If these guys were brand new vault hunters, I’d be far more forgiving.
Joltzdude thought the movie was pretty bad, with few good moments. He’s one of the most wholesome people I’ve ever run across, and a massive Borderlands nerd. So while I normally try to make my own decisions on these things, I am willing to bet it was pretty bad.
well its impossible that it could be worse than the games so im sure the borderland fan will like it give it some time
