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….
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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.
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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.
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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.
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