I was under the impression that Rotten Tomatoes automatically treats all 0% reviews as Russian bots and keeps them out of the score. I guess they don't apply the same rules to critics.
this is ride to hell retribution of movies and i don't like it anymore when eli roth shit his pants on terrible video game adaptation... please leave this movie alone. go watch deadpool and wolverine instead of this garbage. it's been 20 years since i played borderlands a lot back when i don't have a pc or an xbox 360 because who the fuck cares. borderlands is the GOAT. borderlands movie is the disrespectful director of B RATED MOVIE and i just fucking give up
@@OmegaZyion That's not how RT works. They didn't give it 0/100, they just gave it a negative review. RT just shows how many critics gave it a positive review or not.
Exactly, hell half the stuff in the OG would get the actors canceled for saying or doing the lines from those games today. I had ZERO expectations and don't plan on watching it anyways lol
Only because of poor talent. You can absolutely write or convert more adult stuff and stuff it in a lower rating. South Park or the Simpsons et al do it all the time.
My three strikes went off immediately the second I saw the trailer: 1. An M-rated game turned into PG-13 2. Kevin Hart as Roland 3. Lilith and Tannis being suddenly an extra 30-40 years older
I said a long time ago they should have made kevin heart brick. and then made fun of it and acknowledged that he didnt fit the role as brick. like he was some imposter noone believed was brick. that would have been a funny miscast on purpose. jack black i think would be fine claptrap if edited better. a lot of the casting issues I feel didnt help that their lines just are bad. horrible lines. you cant be a likable character when none of the lines are likable either. :/ but yeah overall casting has tons of issues and everything else did too.
Kevin Hart is trash. He ruins EVERY movie they put him in. If you put him in classic movies like Scarface or even The Godfather he would turn them into unwatchable shit. They should have casted Jason Statham as Roland.
@@taylorsps12 Why? He's the SAME person in every movie. "I'm the short loud annoying Blk guy who yells and argues with everyone for no reason". 🥱. Boring.
This had to be an ageist hire since we weren't allowed to have Charlise Theron back for Furiosa so the director could put his young frog faced gf in instead 😂😂😂😂
People are Handsome Jack blind. The second game was just as obnoxious/annoying as the third, but it had a good somewhat less annoying antagonist. The gunplay in BL3 was the best in the series by a wide margin. Exploration got way better. The looting was improved (for better and worse;) it’s way easier to get legendaries in 3 which on the one hand I can understand that they lose value that way, but on the other, each Legendary is super unique and fun to play around with. The characters are completely fleshed out 100% build centric for the first time in the series, truly rewarding coop play like never before. Say what you will about the mainplot, I’m personally not much of a fan either, but exploring other planets was awesome, and actually being a real vault hunter by opening multiple vaults was really great! All in all, ignoring the main plot, the game is fantastic by all metrics.
Really should have went with cheap, no name actors breaking into studio films.... would save budget and probably gave us 1or2 new up n coming stars.... and could have used that money for actual good writers... maybe get a director with passion and vision for the project.... and just do everything different lol...damn. Borderlands 1 and 2 are some of my favorite games of all time. 2 in particular is probably my top 1 or 2 games period, of all time. I'm sad, but just like I screamed at the end of x-men 3 in a full theater, MULLIGAN!
Why the hell would you make this movie PG-13? This needed to be a dark, Robocop level blood fest. This is a game where you melt people with acid and maniacs kamikaze toward you with bombs. Bring back the R rating!
Yes. This. Blew my fuckin mind. Eli Roth used to be one of my favorites as a writer, director, and even actor. Gore fests like Cabin Fever and Hostel were over the top, and let's not forget his role in Inglorious Basterds as the infamous Bear J3w. Eli Roth, shame on you. This is a blatant zero effort attempt at a cash grab. You have disrespected Borderlands so badly that you will be either remembered for ruining your career with one shit big screen asset flip, or you will be completely memory holed because of this shit. You have managed to completely tank 20 years of respect in less than 20 seconds.
The same reason they cast who they cast, broad appeal. It only makes sense when you think about it. Deadpool and Wolverine targeted a specific audience and that thing was a box office bomb! (eyeroll)
I'm pretty sure The Rock was supposed to be in here. He was probably going to be Krieg. You know it's bad when even HE won't show up to do it, the guy literally does anything
and who the fuck came up with the idea of casting Jack Black as Claptrap? I know Gearbox replaced the original actor but the new guy in Borderlands 3 sounds exactly the same. Why not hire him? So stupid...
I'm fairly sure jessica Nigri who's a popular cosplayer was one of the girls standing next to moxxie. Who unironically has cosplayed mad moxxie in the past and would've been a far better moxxie than the one we got
The minute they made it pg-13 instead of R when it's a very M rated game is when I knew it was going to fail. All the bad casting calls was just the cherry on top.
I mean the games really weren't that mature or dark, they barely swear, blood is minimal and the most dark things in the game are just audio logs. You can have PG 13 more mature shows, PG13 never stopped some of the MCU or other movied from being somewhat mature and dark, they could just cut the swearing and blood that barely exist in the games anyway.
@@Psycorde She's still hot now, but put anyone her age in this kind of role where it supposed to be a young woman and it'll always make them look worse. Imagine Meryl Streep trying to portray Padme
It's unbelievable how genre-blind and source-blind this movie is. It's so painfully clear that nobody in the whole filmmaking process had ever even touched the games.
Considering how long and haphazard production overall was for this, you would think at least that Gearbox or some fans actually had something to do with it for not completely dropping the idea the 3rd time the script was rewritten.
7:20 Fun fact the Moxxi double at the bar was Jessica Nigri. It was probably a reference to how popular her Moxxi cosplay was but man it just makes me think how close we were.
It feels like 90% of films released today are lazy cash grabs. Movies were better when actors feared flops. This feels like rich friends keeping friends rich.
Its all about established ip's and ownership, they know movies will tank its the business model. I think it has to do with laundering money through losses on the books.
So they made a movie targeted towards kids inspired by a game that came out 15 years ago, where most people that actually played it were definitely above 13. You'd think they'd realize the audience wanting to watch this the most would mostly be above 18.
The last game came out in 2019 and BL4's been pretty much announced at this point, you muppet :-) Also, PG-13 isn't really "targeting kids", is it? The movie blows, but at least get the facts right.
@TheMaxDilllion Exactly! Borderlands 2 that he wrote had a great story and characters. Then he leaves, and we get the shit show that was Borderlands 3. He could have turned in a script with an interesting story, characters and heart!
@@TheMaxDilllionso glad burch finally seems to be getting the recognition he deserves. Nowadays he seems very humility (idk how to say it) about his work on bl2 and seems to not be all that proud of it but he genuinely made borderlands 2 borderlands
@@eaglesclaws8 probably tired Joe show/Angryjoe, i've seen him on some angry game reviews an other shorter videos he made....he's tired can see it in his eyes
@@GraeTendoMan I went out and watched this movie with a buddy of mine who was also an enourmous Borderlands fan. When we walked out of the theatre we had almost nothing to say because of how forgettable and painfully uninteresting it was. I don't blame Joe for a second not bringing his A game to this because no one involved in the production of this film did either.
@@blok--head7472if the girls like him, hire him for millions of dollars, don’t worry, we will simplify his character arc so he doesn’t have to develop, because Tom holland is only capable of playing the confident rather perfect character type. It would make sense, Tom was a terrible representation of Spider-Man, who is supposed to have humility, sadness and resentment built into his character, and not to add sarcastic quips and insults. But that’s modern Hollywood for you. It’s easier to buy big actors that just shut their mouths and “act”
THAT was General Knoxx?!?!?! ...the big Atlas Boss from the first game's expansion, "The Secret Armoury of General Knoxx"? Giant Mech-Suit insano? Guns at the ends of all his limbs, General Knoxx? Wow... Im gonna pass on all of this...LOL!
og general knoxx was probably asked to star in this movie. but when he sees the awful state of the movie's development and writing, he said "I'm too old for this", points to a random atlas soldier to replace him, and retires again in the non-canonlands with zombie tk baha and other borderlands characters dissatisfied with the messy state of canon lore
Apparently it's supposed to be his daughter? I was extremely confused as well with the name drop and then just some random girl, as I don't think they even say in the movie. At least they threw some nobody in there for the name instead of disgracing Knoxx himself in this movie.
@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 I definitely like the idea that General Knoxx himself turned down the role. It's the most sensible thing I've heard about this movie.
Took my girlfriend to go see it since she has never played or seen anything borderlands related, she was confused as to why Kate would agree to such a crappy story that she was completely confused almost the whole way though
I saw the trailer for the Borderlands movie when I saw Deadpool & Wolverine yesterday and the trailer made me cringe because it looked like absolute dogshit and terrible CGI
My mind is saying “why in the hell does Hollywood keep screwing up movie adaptations of video games!” They have all the source material at their fingertips and they don’t take advantage of that, they just want to emulate sci-fi movies from the past that did well but now they are taking a nuclear dump on the games that we play and love!
It would be hilarious if Gearbox did a new skin for Lilith, but its an old woman, a midget skin for Roland and a regular guy for Claptrap. Just a regular guy, reading a script
It seriously breaks my heart to see just how bad this turned out. This is one of my favorite franchises and it spawned my favorite game, borderlands 2. They thought getting all these big name actors would help make a good movie, but put no care into bringing the original heart of the franchise. All they cared about was getting star power over getting accurate portrayals of these beloved characters, what a disappointment.
fans of borderlands stories where it has good parts mostly & especially b2 and tales from borderlands would feel feel massively disappointed and insulted. just like fans of dragonballs when they watch dragonball devolution 'live action movie with high school westerner goku" hollywood writers like usual think their own original writings would be much better than their video game source materials' writings i hope the 'geriatriclands' movie dies off quickly, so that they would never get the chance to make a sequel to ruin gaige even further than the nerfed simp uncyberpunkanarchistmetal depressed indecisive alcoholic wokeslave version of gaige in b3 which was written by completely different writer (sam winkler)... b3 gaige is an insulting retconned version that heavily contrasted the og b2 badass happy dorky anarchist cyberpunk vault hunter enthusiastic mechromancer gaige (written by anthony burch). best to just make up our own ideal versions of borderlands movie in our minds. or even better borderlands anime/comic style animation series like cyberpunk edgerunner or arcane series. claptrap in b1.5 claptastic voyage dlc (where he asked players to save the canonically dead tk baha & marian from death) has shown us the way to reject sucky messy disrespectful part of canon lore and make our own headcanons to enjoy the series and give the characters the respect they deserved...
@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 I either need the writers from borderlands 2 or the first tales of borderlands to write the 4th one, can't go through 4 games in a row of god awful slop.
To be fair, they do start the trailer by saying "from the producers of the Uncharted and Venom movies", which is basically another way of saying "expect this movie to be unwatchable garbage".
What do you call it when you have a large trash receptacle and embers ignite into a moderate to large flame? A dumpster fire. I went to see the movie just to confirm how bad I thought it would be and I was correct. Of course the casting was a huge miss! My daughter is 17 and played Borderlands 2 for like 5 hours and saw the trailer and said, “why didn’t they get Terry Crews to play Roland?” I said exactly! Casting was atrocious and Tiny Tina was not unhinged at all which was almost insulting to fans of the game.
I'm honestly getting sick of Hollywood due to having the same twelve actors present in everything. Give someone else a chance, someone who doesn't suck the budget dry simply by being there!
i hope the 'borderlands' movie dies off quickly, so that they would never get the chance to make a sequel to ruin gaige even further than the nerfed simp wokeslave version of gaige in b3 which was written by completely different writer (sam wrinkler) than og b2 badass dorky anarchist cyberpunk mechromancer gaige (written by anthony burch). best to just make up our own versions of borderlands movie in our minds. like how claptrap in b1.5 claptastic voyage ask players to save tk baha+marian and disregard 'canon'.
I just can’t understand who they make these movies for… you mean to tell me they couldn’t hire one gamer who liked the game to get the script/casting right??
That's the thing, they develop these products for "everyone" (literally), sometimes using trends to draw attention, hiring "stars", etc.. the videogame public is inconsequential, the Switch is breaking sales records at 150 million or something, this number compared to billions lol it's another scale entirely. Still, it's a noisy public willing or not, Last of Us and Fallout generated a lot of noise, drawing the "normies", etc.. Maybe other videogame adaptations will try to follow their examples, trying to be more faithful to the source, generating noise on social media and so on, but we will only see this kind of inspired product in 2026~27
Madame Web. Rebel Moon. Borderlands. We already got ourselves contenders for worst movie of the year with these certified in the top 10 of the worst list. I can't wait!
@@4m4n40Arguably a worst film... That's a total of 2 hours added between both Director's Cuts and it added nothing to the narrative. I would have thought they added more background to the main cast but nope, let's keep the round table background exposition as is. Also they ruined the mystique for Jimmy...
Even Face McShooty, a sidequest character you interact with for a minute at best, shows way more charm and ardor in that single minute than this entire movie does.
yea anthony burch's writing of b2 was the standard bar for the series. too bad he left gearbox after b1.5 and the series' story go downhill after that due to sam wrinkler's avalands shenanigans in b3 onwards.
@@c.j.4713 It has a proper arc of a beginning (you meet him) middle (you shoot him in the face) and end (he thanks you). And you're infinitely more fascinated with his vague motivations like "why is he so enthusiastic about being shot in the face?" Does his family need the life insurance money and, as it turns out, "Death By Vault Hunter" qualifies? Or did he watch Hot Fuzz, and wanted to scientifically know if your head will explode when shot? Or is this matter of revenge, as he alone knows the secrets of the Vault, and by shooting him, you lose access to critical information?
facemcshooty is such a honest character. he gives you quest rewards for just shooting him in the face and doesn't demand much of your time except for a few minutes listening to his funny performance. thats much more fulfilling than watching the geriatriclands movie that will suck your soul away down into the abyss if you're a borderlands story fans.
I really dont get this movie. It should have cast young cast 20-30 year olds. And focus on a simple gun blazing action adventure movie like Dredd. Keep it stylize and simple. Keep it light but not deprecating joke, like how Guardian 1 was. Would have done alot better
such a shame considering studios have been working so damn hard the past few years to break the 'bad video game adaptation' curse (Sonic, Fallout, FNAF, TLOU, Detective Pikachu, animation like Arcane, Castlevania, Mario, Edgerunners) 😢 it's like 10 steps back for the genre
Seems this movie goes back to the time when Videogame movies miss the mark so much and "Hollywood" it up. That is, ignore the source material, and alter it to some Hollywood-sided adaptation. They're imitating the wrong source material, just like the "classic" bad movie adaptations.
Taking a 80hrs worth of material and put into an hour and a half film. Borderlands and other rpgs aside from Final fantasy can’t maintain what people loved. Devil May cry would have been a better action comedy, Gears of War, My god thats off the top of my head for better series to adapt.
Working hard? 😂😂😂😂 They just want that quick cash. Remember sequels always receive less and less money to be created. They DON'T care and will never care; only your money.
At what point did anyone in Hollywood proclaim this? What movies fall under this “break the bad game adaptation curse” umbrella? Cause from everything I’ve seen that comes out of Hollywood… making the most money and who cares if it breaks the adaptation between the source material and what we really get is what seems to really be what’s happening. Hollywood is creatively bankrupt and unless it’s a remake or a comic book movie, they don’t really seem like they’re bursting with great ideas… and that includes game adaptations.
Of all the people to put into an action hero role...Jamie Foxx, Keith David, Denzel, Michael B Jordan...you plopped down KEVIN HART. He's barely even good in comedies.
The movie was actually not that bad if you saw it how borderlands started and discarded the part where Lilith wasn't a vault hunter. If not then it wasn't great. The pacing was it's biggest weakness. Unless you knew what they spoke of , the movie was way too fast. Then Tannis......worst portrayal of any movie. The rest was great. Kevin did his best but should have been the Rock.
I knew it the moment i watched the trailer when it dropped. I was COMPLETELY baffled by the casting choices, I was like how can you cast almost every single role wrong. Its like instead of actually finding the right talent they looked at the list of actors that applied and chose the biggest name on the list that would fill the role for whatever they were willing to pay. Like who sits there and goes. "You know who would be the best 22 year old Lilith? 55 Year old Cate Blanchett! " and don't get me started on Tiny Tina
True but this is Eli's first failure. Now question is he wanted it R rated and lions gate forced reshoots for pg13 in a mature bloody game with that hack Tim Miller
Reason to hate this movie #7,543: They left out "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" by Cage the Elephant and instead gave us "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse.
For anyone wondering it’s currently 6% on Rotten Tomatoes(meaning 6% of people liked it) and Metacritic is a 29 which means the average rating was 29/100. REALLY bad.
@@toodlepop It was so baffling they didn’t bother patching things up with the original claptrap va or just called his current one in for the film. I didn’t even know that was supposed to be Jack Black with how bad and unnatural he sounded.
Someone uploaded a studio quality copy of it on UA-cam, which is the only reason I watched it. At that time, it had been uploaded for only 14 hours and had over 850k views.
When I first heard that Kevin Hart was going to be in this, I thought he was going to be the voice of Claptrap. This was horrible casting to begin with.
It’s even worse. apparently the artist who was in charge of all the rigging and animation for Cl4PTR4P wasn’t credited in the film. That’s grounds for a lawsuit! People deserve to be credited for their work.
And the original voice actor left because they refused to start paying him for his work in 1,2 and I think the Pre-Sequel. Claptrap seems to be cursed.
@@Isnogood12I thought that game was alright. The story was hit or miss for me, but the space gameplay does a lot of the heavy lifting for me. BL3 had fantastic gameplay, but a mediocre story that had many frustrating points. How did this movie make BL3’s story look godly by comparison.
I'm honestly flabbergasted the movie even "kind of look like Borderlands"... After seeing Disparu's video, looking at the interviews... "I want to make a mix of Star Wars, Mad Max, Fifth Element, Barbarella, Escape from New York." Okay, gonna put in Borderlands in there somewhere? And he basically said the same thing in two separate interviews... Watching these PAINFUL interviews, it is no surprise this is what you get... The director almost seem to, with a desperation, not want to acknowledge that a game can be good at telling stories, or be anything other than "a game". Even in a very disregarding, nonchalant, demeaning comment "the game is it's own thing." Disparu hit the nail on the head with this line; "I'm an aaaartist! I make movies, I can only be inspired by other mooooovies!" Seriously, there couldn't have been a single ounce hope for this movie.
not to mention pandoodoos' desert heat+longer daylight hours than earth. random b2 sanctuary npc commenting on b2 hunters' smell: "you smell like cheese"
Live action is just dogshit in general most of the time. There's a reason why shows like Edgerunners and Arcane are superior. Star Wars Clone Wars 2003 and 2008 versions. Video game trailers and shorts have more emotion and depth. Oh they cost too much money to make? Apparently live action movies don't have enough money to pay their CG teams either
Just wait until the next Fantastic movie comes out People keep asking for those movies and they keep failing every single time Just not an interesting comic group
@jamespaul6315 Sonic pokemon and Mario, even if they aren't perfect are still fun and managed to prove that these projects can be done well. Seems that didn't extend to Borderlands lol
They tried to copy the James Gunn superhero movies: Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad and last year's Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves but heavily miscasted, painfully unfunny, and largely unfaithful to the source material.
@@matthewheywood8532 Thats what hes saying hes saying this movie tried to be those movies but fialed right at the starting line by casting the worst actors for the job
It all SCREAMS suits that dont understand anything about the games, but want to cash in on video game adaptations. They probably looked up a bunch of trailers of the games and decided "oh its some happy go lucky Suicide Squad stuff", went with the ol reliable formula and failed miserably.
Casting Cate Blanchet was a huge failure, she tried too much to be cool and sexy. and her lack of charisma with comedy etc was so clear! Tiny Tina was very anoying too, the rest was, well ok
When Joe said this reminds me of the old era of video games movies, I felt that. This feels like a film from the 2000s in all the wrong ways, like that Doom movie from 2005.
The moment you said that made me remember the days of going to blockbuster and looking around at the video games while my mom is looking around at the movies!
Playing all Borderlands games since the first one for thousands of hours and then having this nonsense released after 14~ years is one of the biggest insults I've ever experienced as a fan. Considering I like a lot of the actors involved in this, it was horribly miscast for the sake of publicity. This just puts a big stain on what is otherwise an amazingly fun gaming experience. I'm hoping for Borderlands 4 with all the great gameplay elements from the 3rd, the magic and atmosphere from the 1st and the characters and jokes from the 2nd. A new good Borderlands entry will quickly bury this embarrassment of a film.
Borderlands 3 was rough writing and comedy wise. And with the Tiny Tina spinoff and that other crap game, there is no hope for Borderlands 4, if it even gets made
@@jase276 At least Borderlands 3 had good gameplay and was fun,And felt like Borderlands,Would have been a better story than any of these people who know nothing about games.
Man the second i saw them trying to translate Tina to live action i knew this was gonna fail. I dont think you could translate that character to live action with violating several laws.
Oh... God, no... What next after that? Final Fantasy? Paper Mario? Xenoblade Chronicles? Dragon Quest? Tales of Symphonia? Xenosaga, Chrono Trigger? Mega Man Battle Network? MVC, Ace Attorney? Bayonetta? Street Fighter (again?) The SMT franchise?
@@ReSF91 I gotta go and play Bioshock again sometime, maybe Bioshock 2 or Infinite again, before they quickly ruin it, kill it, and leave its corpse behind in the underwater city of Rapture or the sky city from Bioshock Infinite... for their dogshit movie.
Grace Randolph's review for this is just terrible. She literally talked around everything about the film except if it was good at all. Just licking Cate Blanchetts boots and going "so tasty"
Jamie lee had the nerve to say that Marvel movies were bad like a week ago and she had to apologize for that because she knew she was soon going to star in a trainwreck.
Why the hell would AJ assume the same writing for Borderlands 1 be the same for the movie? Hollywood *DOESN'T CARE ABOUT VIDEOGAMES* unless it's specifically directed/written by someone who actually cares
@@Arcademan09 the director of fallout show is also a fallout fan. Its almost like getting people who like a franchise or are willing to do some reserach makes for a way better product
Uwe is about to crawl out of his triple-sealed box on the Moon and direct even worse game-movie, to show that he is the only one allowed to be The Worst.
Kevin Hart being cast in the movie without The Rock is already a red flag. This film will be a great example of not using A.I. to write the whole dialogue, "Make a script for every hard-core movie character line ever said."
This movie completely ruins the lore and timeline. How is Tannis so old when she's supposed to be in her late 20s or early 30s? Why is Roland alive? And why is Tiny Tina so much older? This film feels like a slap in the face to us fans!
@@Lucios1995 Of course he's alive in the first game, you clueless idiot. It's clear this movie isn't set in the first game since Brick and Mordecai are absent, and Kraig a character from Borderlands 3 is here. Maybe try thinking before you type
@@Lucios1995 Of course he's alive in the first game. It's clear this movie isn't set in the first game since Brick and Mordecai are absent, and krieg a character from Borderlands 2. Maybe try thinking before you type next time.
I know everyone likes Kevin Hart but he is pretty much a seal of “low IQ comedy movie” so as soon as I saw him I knew the film was bad before even a trailer was out
Why does this film feel like they found a couple of locations to record, spent 80% of its budgets on the actors, let them half arse and make up their lines, let them do 1 or 2 takes of each scene and let the VFX guys pretty it up?
I knew this movie would suck as soon as I heard claptrap instead of hiring the original voice actor, 2nd Lilith and Tannis is in her 50’s wtf, 3rd Roland is not a comic relief character i just don’t think Kevin hart can do him justice. I haven’t seen it but I will just to know how bad they fucked up
Pg13 and Kevin Hart were the immediate No-Go signs. Big part of the comedy for me was the wild stuff they said while fighting, meatpiling a bandit with your OP hand cannon, the kamikaze little bandit dudes- can't do anything good that helps portray the brutal day to day on Pandora
I LOVE Cate Blanchett. I wanted Hela to suffocate me in ways you can't talk about on UA-cam. Every time I see her as Lilith it makes my blood boil. What were they THINKING? Also Randy Pitchford is a creep and a jerk, so please anyone thinking of seeing this, don't drive to the theater, sail the seas
For sure. Cate as Lilith's mom for some reason? Sure, why not. Cate starting the movie as an older Lillith remembering her past as the movie starts? Amazing. As the actual character? CGI and movie magic is great these days, but come on
At least Madam Web was unintentionally hilarious while trying to be serious. Borderlands commits the crime of desperately trying to be funny and being unintentionally not funny at all.
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Borderlands started at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. That in itself is an accomplishment.
I was under the impression that Rotten Tomatoes automatically treats all 0% reviews as Russian bots and keeps them out of the score. I guess they don't apply the same rules to critics.
0% at 14 reviews and it only bumped up because of Grace "wine mom" Randolph
this is ride to hell retribution of movies and i don't like it anymore when eli roth shit his pants on terrible video game adaptation... please leave this movie alone. go watch deadpool and wolverine instead of this garbage. it's been 20 years since i played borderlands a lot back when i don't have a pc or an xbox 360 because who the fuck cares. borderlands is the GOAT. borderlands movie is the disrespectful director of B RATED MOVIE and i just fucking give up
Boycott whichever outlet gives it a positive review
@@OmegaZyion That's not how RT works. They didn't give it 0/100, they just gave it a negative review. RT just shows how many critics gave it a positive review or not.
When the writer of the script asks for their name to get taken off, you KNOW it's gonna be a mega-stinker!
And when you see Avi Arad attached, you know it's gonna be cheap
That’s embarrassing asf
Really man it's so bad even Alan Smithee is saying it's somehow below his name and level
COME AGAIN
Can you link an article about this please?
Taking M rated games and making pg movies fails every single time, it completely ignores your built-in audience.
If one adaptation calls for Deadpool vs Wolverines style violence with the knob turned all the way up its Borderlands.
Catch a riiiiddeee to bad reviews
@@Virtualblueart You just spoke my mind
Exactly, hell half the stuff in the OG would get the actors canceled for saying or doing the lines from those games today.
I had ZERO expectations and don't plan on watching it anyways lol
Only because of poor talent. You can absolutely write or convert more adult stuff and stuff it in a lower rating. South Park or the Simpsons et al do it all the time.
Jim Sterling said it best back in the day:
‘Randy Pitchford is Poison.’
My three strikes went off immediately the second I saw the trailer:
1. An M-rated game turned into PG-13
2. Kevin Hart as Roland
3. Lilith and Tannis being suddenly an extra 30-40 years older
yep. casting sucked. kevin hart as roland? wtf. jaime lee curtis?? wtf.
I said a long time ago they should have made kevin heart brick. and then made fun of it and acknowledged that he didnt fit the role as brick. like he was some imposter noone believed was brick. that would have been a funny miscast on purpose. jack black i think would be fine claptrap if edited better. a lot of the casting issues I feel didnt help that their lines just are bad. horrible lines. you cant be a likable character when none of the lines are likable either. :/ but yeah overall casting has tons of issues and everything else did too.
Kevin Hart is trash. He ruins EVERY movie they put him in. If you put him in classic movies like Scarface or even The Godfather he would turn them into unwatchable shit. They should have casted Jason Statham as Roland.
@@xbigwormx hate all you want but hes a pretty great actor when he gets good lines or gets to do what hes good at.
@@taylorsps12 Why? He's the SAME person in every movie. "I'm the short loud annoying Blk guy who yells and argues with everyone for no reason". 🥱. Boring.
That character in her 20's? Yeah cast a 50 something year old actress
That tall soldier with big muscles ? Cast a midget
This had to be an ageist hire since we weren't allowed to have Charlise Theron back for Furiosa so the director could put his young frog faced gf in instead 😂😂😂😂
@@manynukes11 meanwhile at marvel: that character is supposed to be an old lady? Cast someone in their 30’s to 40’s
@@edgelessspace7180aunt may type beat
@@fairyboy444 All of the Aunt May actors are old.
Who else was looking forward to Joes review more than the actual movie
I clicked this video specifically for Alex to rip it to shreds
As soon as i saw the RT scores i knew this would be a good rant haha
I knew it would be bad just seeing the trailer say it's from the same producers as the uncharted movie
Him and especially Charlie/Moist.
Me.
Borderlands 4: We Apologize for the Movie
Borderlands 3 was trash so I'm never buying one again you already know if they made another game it would have a garbage story like 3
They better also apologize for Borderlands 3 while they’re at it too
they should apologize for BL3. Trash story and same gameplay, nothing really changed.
People are Handsome Jack blind. The second game was just as obnoxious/annoying as the third, but it had a good somewhat less annoying antagonist.
The gunplay in BL3 was the best in the series by a wide margin. Exploration got way better. The looting was improved (for better and worse;) it’s way easier to get legendaries in 3 which on the one hand I can understand that they lose value that way, but on the other, each Legendary is super unique and fun to play around with. The characters are completely fleshed out 100% build centric for the first time in the series, truly rewarding coop play like never before. Say what you will about the mainplot, I’m personally not much of a fan either, but exploring other planets was awesome, and actually being a real vault hunter by opening multiple vaults was really great!
All in all, ignoring the main plot, the game is fantastic by all metrics.
@@SoggywafflecakesNew tales was a nail for the coffin
The casting is mind-bogglingly stupid.
They wasted all their money on the cast.
It’s atrocious 🤣
Really should have went with cheap, no name actors breaking into studio films.... would save budget and probably gave us 1or2 new up n coming stars.... and could have used that money for actual good writers... maybe get a director with passion and vision for the project.... and just do everything different lol...damn. Borderlands 1 and 2 are some of my favorite games of all time. 2 in particular is probably my top 1 or 2 games period, of all time. I'm sad, but just like I screamed at the end of x-men 3 in a full theater, MULLIGAN!
Female casting agent everytime
How do you do fellow kids
Why the hell would you make this movie PG-13? This needed to be a dark, Robocop level blood fest. This is a game where you melt people with acid and maniacs kamikaze toward you with bombs. Bring back the R rating!
and Eli Roth directed it!
Yes. This. Blew my fuckin mind. Eli Roth used to be one of my favorites as a writer, director, and even actor. Gore fests like Cabin Fever and Hostel were over the top, and let's not forget his role in Inglorious Basterds as the infamous Bear J3w.
Eli Roth, shame on you. This is a blatant zero effort attempt at a cash grab. You have disrespected Borderlands so badly that you will be either remembered for ruining your career with one shit big screen asset flip, or you will be completely memory holed because of this shit.
You have managed to completely tank 20 years of respect in less than 20 seconds.
Money reasons
@@Herman_Hedning well, they make 0 money on it lol. So much for that.
The same reason they cast who they cast, broad appeal. It only makes sense when you think about it. Deadpool and Wolverine targeted a specific audience and that thing was a box office bomb! (eyeroll)
Roland was a strong, serious, and determined vault hunter in 1 and 2.
Everything that Kevin Hart is not.
He was also quite tall ...not a midget
John Boyega or Idris Elba would of been better choices
Roland was the shortest character 😂 @@METALIAX
@@riceoawsozm96 Idris Elba for sure
@@riceoawsozm96 Terry Crews would've been my personal choice honestly
Roland being Kevin Hart deserves a 0 on its own.
Man if you seen the movie he deserves an oscar for his least annoying role in a movie I was impressed lol.
This movie was destined for failure when Kevin hart was cast as Roland
Yup I saw that and immediately lost interest.
I only found out about this movie from a movie poster at the movies them I saw Kevin heart and felt nothing.
@@LOSisBEAST2Same tbh.
I'm pretty sure The Rock was supposed to be in here. He was probably going to be Krieg. You know it's bad when even HE won't show up to do it, the guy literally does anything
and who the fuck came up with the idea of casting Jack Black as Claptrap? I know Gearbox replaced the original actor but the new guy in Borderlands 3 sounds exactly the same. Why not hire him? So stupid...
Can’t we treat this movie like the “Last Airbender” movie, just ignore its existence
“There is no live action Borderlands movie in Ba Sing Se”
Just like there's never been a live action dragon ball movie
Or a live action Uncharted movie.
Or a live action Green Lantern.
Pacific Rim never got a sequel
*Correct Madame.*
I saw kevin heart in the trailer and knew this was gonna fucking suck.
Shoulda been Terry Crews
@@stephengross9441 Or Idris Elba.
@@Mr2it3881 That's what i was saying
At this point he's over saturated the market and diluted his brand like the Rock.
@@stephengross9441I agree, I think Terry Crews would make the perfect Roland
I'm fairly sure jessica Nigri who's a popular cosplayer was one of the girls standing next to moxxie. Who unironically has cosplayed mad moxxie in the past and would've been a far better moxxie than the one we got
Literally! Shes a much more compelling and believable Moxxi
No one knows if she can act, she’s just hot
@@Augrills she's been a voice actress too. She's voiced some video game characters in the past
@@Augrills She's been voicing Cinder Falls in RWBY since Season 1.
@@Augrillsyes because the alternative definitely worked...
The minute they made it pg-13 instead of R when it's a very M rated game is when I knew it was going to fail. All the bad casting calls was just the cherry on top.
exactly
I mean the games really weren't that mature or dark, they barely swear, blood is minimal and the most dark things in the game are just audio logs.
You can have PG 13 more mature shows, PG13 never stopped some of the MCU or other movied from being somewhat mature and dark, they could just cut the swearing and blood that barely exist in the games anyway.
Eli Roth as director and it's PG 13...
@@ben-manvibing162 he didnt realize gamers are old farts , lol
Lets be honest the games sucked
Cate Blanchett would have been perfect as Lilith... 25 years ago.
She was still hot in Ragnarok, no idea what happened. Hit the wall?
@@Psycorde Ragnarok was filmed in 2016 when she was 47, so she definitely aged in the 8 years between then and this movie.
@@Psycorde She's still hot now, but put anyone her age in this kind of role where it supposed to be a young woman and it'll always make them look worse. Imagine Meryl Streep trying to portray Padme
Nobody is saying she doesnt look great for her age, but she definitely doesnt look like she is anywhere near Lilith's age.
@@ramiking745 This movie was filmed in 2021. Only 5 years, not 8.
It's unbelievable how genre-blind and source-blind this movie is. It's so painfully clear that nobody in the whole filmmaking process had ever even touched the games.
Considering how long and haphazard production overall was for this, you would think at least that Gearbox or some fans actually had something to do with it for not completely dropping the idea the 3rd time the script was rewritten.
Reminds me of Disney Star Wars
@@strobolazer4082Reminds me of any video game movie still I'll watch it mainly because most movies these pass few years have been meh.
Games are for kids /s
Old people will never take gaming serious...
7:20 Fun fact the Moxxi double at the bar was Jessica Nigri. It was probably a reference to how popular her Moxxi cosplay was but man it just makes me think how close we were.
It feels like 90% of films released today are lazy cash grabs. Movies were better when actors feared flops. This feels like rich friends keeping friends rich.
Ha!.. the new live action GI Joe movies, cash grab!!
Yeah because that totally didn’t exist back then either
There's been tons of cash ins over the years.
Its all about established ip's and ownership, they know movies will tank its the business model. I think it has to do with laundering money through losses on the books.
They really need to get good writers..
So they made a movie targeted towards kids inspired by a game that came out 15 years ago, where most people that actually played it were definitely above 13. You'd think they'd realize the audience wanting to watch this the most would mostly be above 18.
The last game came out in 2019 and BL4's been pretty much announced at this point, you muppet :-) Also, PG-13 isn't really "targeting kids", is it? The movie blows, but at least get the facts right.
I see you
Don’t forget that this was the target audience, while they made their main protagonist and face of the movie 55 years old.
Randy Pitchford is a level desinger. He should never be allowed to even sneeze in the general direction of a script.
Pay Anthony Burch whatever he wants.
@TheMaxDilllion Exactly! Borderlands 2 that he wrote had a great story and characters. Then he leaves, and we get the shit show that was Borderlands 3. He could have turned in a script with an interesting story, characters and heart!
He shit all over Duke Nukem Forever
@@michaelgoodwin80Yeah that was the problem with DNF. The writing. Jesus Christ shut up.
@@TheMaxDilllionso glad burch finally seems to be getting the recognition he deserves. Nowadays he seems very humility (idk how to say it) about his work on bl2 and seems to not be all that proud of it but he genuinely made borderlands 2 borderlands
A movie about a game that has nothing to do with the game and ruins everything. Shocking.
The fact that Joe didn't even get mad in this video tells you how boring the movie is😮
Yup. We can't even get a classic
"You done Fucked It Up!!!" anymore?
Angry Joe now Low Energy Joe.
Medicated joe show?
@@eaglesclaws8 probably tired Joe show/Angryjoe, i've seen him on some angry game reviews an other shorter videos he made....he's tired can see it in his eyes
Maybe we need a _Hangover Joe Show_ . How’s that sound?
@@GraeTendoMan I went out and watched this movie with a buddy of mine who was also an enourmous Borderlands fan. When we walked out of the theatre we had almost nothing to say because of how forgettable and painfully uninteresting it was. I don't blame Joe for a second not bringing his A game to this because no one involved in the production of this film did either.
It’s impressive how badly they fucked this up, they couldn’t even get the CASTING right on top of all the other fuck ups with the story
The casting for borderlands was somehow worse than the live action Ghost In The Shell casting. How the fuck does that happen.
Its literally Uncharted Movie all over again...
Nathan Drake? Lets get little boy Tom Holland. Genius casting...
@@blok--head7472if the girls like him, hire him for millions of dollars, don’t worry, we will simplify his character arc so he doesn’t have to develop, because Tom holland is only capable of playing the confident rather perfect character type. It would make sense, Tom was a terrible representation of Spider-Man, who is supposed to have humility, sadness and resentment built into his character, and not to add sarcastic quips and insults. But that’s modern Hollywood for you. It’s easier to buy big actors that just shut their mouths and “act”
@@blok--head7472lol I was thinking the same thing
THAT was General Knoxx?!?!?!
...the big Atlas Boss from the first game's expansion, "The Secret Armoury of General Knoxx"? Giant Mech-Suit insano? Guns at the ends of all his limbs, General Knoxx?
Wow...
Im gonna pass on all of this...LOL!
og general knoxx was probably asked to star in this movie. but when he sees the awful state of the movie's development and writing, he said "I'm too old for this", points to a random atlas soldier to replace him, and retires again in the non-canonlands with zombie tk baha and other borderlands characters dissatisfied with the messy state of canon lore
Apparently it's supposed to be his daughter? I was extremely confused as well with the name drop and then just some random girl, as I don't think they even say in the movie. At least they threw some nobody in there for the name instead of disgracing Knoxx himself in this movie.
@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 I definitely like the idea that General Knoxx himself turned down the role. It's the most sensible thing I've heard about this movie.
It’s such a nothing character it genuinely doesn’t matter. Not to mention OG Knox is just too good for this movie
Took my girlfriend to go see it since she has never played or seen anything borderlands related, she was confused as to why Kate would agree to such a crappy story that she was completely confused almost the whole way though
Ima keep it real I think no one thought this shit was gonna be good
Not a shred of hype for this brown filter slogfest, I'm bored just looking at the environment
Going by the trailer it just looks really corny. It just looks like it's filled with Marvel humor.
@@rascoehunter3608 the whole “I just threw up in my mouth” joke that was in the trailer. How are movies in 2024 still using this “joke”
The trailer just looked like a desperate attempt at making it feel like a Guardians of the Galaxy movie and drawing people in based on that alone.
I saw the trailer for the Borderlands movie when I saw Deadpool & Wolverine yesterday and the trailer made me cringe because it looked like absolute dogshit and terrible CGI
Also the movie just comes off as really try hard. It just looks like they are trying too hard to be cool and zany.
Same, also not funny.
I was thinking the same What a shame. 😒
Nice of Hollywood to bring back “video game movies are trash” rule. Anyone really surprised?
one movie doesn't ruin the momentum. Chill with the fear-mongering, daddy-o.
@@Abrakadabro666How many good ones we got lately?
@@Abrakadabro666what momentum ?
Don’t get me wrong I just don’t remember there being any progress in that department.
nah
The Sonic and Mario movies were good though
My mind is saying “why in the hell does Hollywood keep screwing up movie adaptations of video games!” They have all the source material at their fingertips and they don’t take advantage of that, they just want to emulate sci-fi movies from the past that did well but now they are taking a nuclear dump on the games that we play and love!
It would be hilarious if Gearbox did a new skin for Lilith, but its an old woman, a midget skin for Roland and a regular guy for Claptrap. Just a regular guy, reading a script
No.
Please do not give those douchebags any ideas. You know the skins will be MTAs. I hate microtransactions. MTAs can sit and spin.
I would pay for those skins
and brick and mordicai skins that make them invisible
Nah, they're not that self-aware enough to do that.
It seriously breaks my heart to see just how bad this turned out. This is one of my favorite franchises and it spawned my favorite game, borderlands 2. They thought getting all these big name actors would help make a good movie, but put no care into bringing the original heart of the franchise. All they cared about was getting star power over getting accurate portrayals of these beloved characters, what a disappointment.
Womp womp
only heart they brought into it was Kevin Heart
fans of borderlands stories where it has good parts mostly & especially b2 and tales from borderlands would feel feel massively disappointed and insulted. just like fans of dragonballs when they watch dragonball devolution 'live action movie with high school westerner goku"
hollywood writers like usual think their own original writings would be much better than their video game source materials' writings
i hope the 'geriatriclands' movie dies off quickly, so that they would never get the chance to make a sequel to ruin gaige even further than the nerfed simp uncyberpunkanarchistmetal depressed indecisive alcoholic wokeslave version of gaige in b3 which was written by completely different writer (sam winkler)... b3 gaige is an insulting retconned version that heavily contrasted the og b2 badass happy dorky anarchist cyberpunk vault hunter enthusiastic mechromancer gaige (written by anthony burch).
best to just make up our own ideal versions of borderlands movie in our minds. or even better borderlands anime/comic style animation series like cyberpunk edgerunner or arcane series. claptrap in b1.5 claptastic voyage dlc (where he asked players to save the canonically dead tk baha & marian from death) has shown us the way to reject sucky messy disrespectful part of canon lore and make our own headcanons to enjoy the series and give the characters the respect they deserved...
@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 I either need the writers from borderlands 2 or the first tales of borderlands to write the 4th one, can't go through 4 games in a row of god awful slop.
@@b.3724fat losers say womp womp because its how you walk
To be fair, they do start the trailer by saying "from the producers of the Uncharted and Venom movies", which is basically another way of saying "expect this movie to be unwatchable garbage".
@@confusciouspuff1013 venom wasnt that bad. Far from perfect but better than this
@@DShy96venom 2 was kinda disappointing.
@@DShy96 Venom blows ass, all 3
@@jase276 the 3rd not even out 😂
@@jase276 That's like, your opinion. Do what you will
What do you call it when you have a large trash receptacle and embers ignite into a moderate to large flame? A dumpster fire. I went to see the movie just to confirm how bad I thought it would be and I was correct. Of course the casting was a huge miss! My daughter is 17 and played Borderlands 2 for like 5 hours and saw the trailer and said, “why didn’t they get Terry Crews to play Roland?” I said exactly! Casting was atrocious and Tiny Tina was not unhinged at all which was almost insulting to fans of the game.
I'm honestly getting sick of Hollywood due to having the same twelve actors present in everything. Give someone else a chance, someone who doesn't suck the budget dry simply by being there!
They lack creativity .. something this new era lack
Im just happy that Mordecai, Axton, Brick, Gage and Handsome Jack were spared.
And Zer0
@@Gwilherm I liked playing Zer0 with his haiku, anime influence and strangely alien/cyborg vibe a lot.
What about Maya
i hope the 'borderlands' movie dies off quickly, so that they would never get the chance to make a sequel to ruin gaige even further than the nerfed simp wokeslave version of gaige in b3 which was written by completely different writer (sam wrinkler) than og b2 badass dorky anarchist cyberpunk mechromancer gaige (written by anthony burch).
best to just make up our own versions of borderlands movie in our minds. like how claptrap in b1.5 claptastic voyage ask players to save tk baha+marian and disregard 'canon'.
And Mr Torgue
I just can’t understand who they make these movies for… you mean to tell me they couldn’t hire one gamer who liked the game to get the script/casting right??
These companies don't even listen to feedback from the creator of the IP.
The crazy part is that the script is literally already done for them. Borderlands 2 is a DECADE OLD, the work is already done for them
@@jase276 It's crazy to still get an F even after copying your smart friends work.
They make these for the 2%
That's the thing, they develop these products for "everyone" (literally), sometimes using trends to draw attention, hiring "stars", etc.. the videogame public is inconsequential, the Switch is breaking sales records at 150 million or something, this number compared to billions lol it's another scale entirely. Still, it's a noisy public willing or not, Last of Us and Fallout generated a lot of noise, drawing the "normies", etc.. Maybe other videogame adaptations will try to follow their examples, trying to be more faithful to the source, generating noise on social media and so on, but we will only see this kind of inspired product in 2026~27
Borderlands movie is the next Dragonball Evolution everyone is going to pretend it does not exist
Madame Web. Rebel Moon. Borderlands. We already got ourselves contenders for worst movie of the year with these certified in the top 10 of the worst list. I can't wait!
it's awesome
@@CharltonHowardyeah it went from a bad film, to a bad film with more scenes
If the rumors are true we might add Joker 2 to the list.
@@4m4n40Arguably a worst film... That's a total of 2 hours added between both Director's Cuts and it added nothing to the narrative. I would have thought they added more background to the main cast but nope, let's keep the round table background exposition as is.
Also they ruined the mystique for Jimmy...
Don't Forget Megamind vs the Doom Syndicate.
I miss the OG Tales From The Borderlands by Telltale Games :(
Good thing you can go and play that right now if you really wanted
Hmm, it's on sale
@population-_-420That's because S1 was Telltale, S2 was Gearbox
Such a damn shame it never had a proper follow up
I miss Telltale. I'm still waiting for Wolf Among Us season 2. Hoping it's as good as the first.
Even Face McShooty, a sidequest character you interact with for a minute at best, shows way more charm and ardor in that single minute than this entire movie does.
yea anthony burch's writing of b2 was the standard bar for the series. too bad he left gearbox after b1.5 and the series' story go downhill after that due to sam wrinkler's avalands shenanigans in b3 onwards.
@@c.j.4713 It has a proper arc of a beginning (you meet him) middle (you shoot him in the face) and end (he thanks you). And you're infinitely more fascinated with his vague motivations like "why is he so enthusiastic about being shot in the face?" Does his family need the life insurance money and, as it turns out, "Death By Vault Hunter" qualifies? Or did he watch Hot Fuzz, and wanted to scientifically know if your head will explode when shot? Or is this matter of revenge, as he alone knows the secrets of the Vault, and by shooting him, you lose access to critical information?
[BANG] "THANK YOU!"
facemcshooty is such a honest character. he gives you quest rewards for just shooting him in the face and doesn't demand much of your time except for a few minutes listening to his funny performance.
thats much more fulfilling than watching the geriatriclands movie that will suck your soul away down into the abyss if you're a borderlands story fans.
I really dont get this movie. It should have cast young cast 20-30 year olds. And focus on a simple gun blazing action adventure movie like Dredd. Keep it stylize and simple. Keep it light but not deprecating joke, like how Guardian 1 was.
Would have done alot better
such a shame considering studios have been working so damn hard the past few years to break the 'bad video game adaptation' curse (Sonic, Fallout, FNAF, TLOU, Detective Pikachu, animation like Arcane, Castlevania, Mario, Edgerunners) 😢 it's like 10 steps back for the genre
Seems this movie goes back to the time when Videogame movies miss the mark so much and "Hollywood" it up. That is, ignore the source material, and alter it to some Hollywood-sided adaptation. They're imitating the wrong source material, just like the "classic" bad movie adaptations.
Taking a 80hrs worth of material and put into an hour and a half film. Borderlands and other rpgs aside from Final fantasy can’t maintain what people loved. Devil May cry would have been a better action comedy, Gears of War, My god thats off the top of my head for better series to adapt.
Working hard? 😂😂😂😂 They just want that quick cash. Remember sequels always receive less and less money to be created. They DON'T care and will never care; only your money.
At what point did anyone in Hollywood proclaim this? What movies fall under this “break the bad game adaptation curse” umbrella? Cause from everything I’ve seen that comes out of Hollywood… making the most money and who cares if it breaks the adaptation between the source material and what we really get is what seems to really be what’s happening.
Hollywood is creatively bankrupt and unless it’s a remake or a comic book movie, they don’t really seem like they’re bursting with great ideas… and that includes game adaptations.
Why is FNAF there? The movie was mid at best.
Of all the people to put into an action hero role...Jamie Foxx, Keith David, Denzel, Michael B Jordan...you plopped down KEVIN HART. He's barely even good in comedies.
Nah, Terry Crews would have been way more suited to the role. If the writing was there for it.
Mike Colter from Luke Cage TV show. Yayha Abdul Mateen 2 who plays Black Manta in Aquaman.
Too old man cmon how many 50 uear olds you need?@@jackkain7141
He can be good but this was awful
Michael Jai White would’ve been fucking gold for Roland
This movie is literally just Randy Pitchford’s way of getting past covid regulations and getting to hang with celebrities.
Would not surprise me in the slightest, really.
And they only hang with him because they get paid for it.
The movie was actually not that bad if you saw it how borderlands started and discarded the part where Lilith wasn't a vault hunter. If not then it wasn't great.
The pacing was it's biggest weakness. Unless you knew what they spoke of , the movie was way too fast. Then Tannis......worst portrayal of any movie. The rest was great. Kevin did his best but should have been the Rock.
Nah, this film never had a chance. The humor of borderlands does NOT translate to live action AT ALL. So cringe
And it’s not just that, but they couldn’t even get the casting or characters right at all. It fails even as a movie, not just a borderlands movie
It's kinda how I feel about the comedy of Fallout. I know alot of people liked that show but I didn't. The dialogue and humor felt cringe
It's not really that. It's more that they don't know how to write well
@@maskedman5657 Cringy only to children.
@maskedman5657 You smoking something cause Fallout wasn't cringe
I knew it the moment i watched the trailer when it dropped. I was COMPLETELY baffled by the casting choices, I was like how can you cast almost every single role wrong. Its like instead of actually finding the right talent they looked at the list of actors that applied and chose the biggest name on the list that would fill the role for whatever they were willing to pay. Like who sits there and goes. "You know who would be the best 22 year old Lilith? 55 Year old Cate Blanchett! " and don't get me started on Tiny Tina
Eli Roth is like Zak Snyder. They had one or two hits and everything else is either really bad or underwhelming.
True but this is Eli's first failure. Now question is he wanted it R rated and lions gate forced reshoots for pg13 in a mature bloody game with that hack Tim Miller
@@robszostak4997 Pretty sure u forgot morbius exists, lucky guy.
Eli Roth waaaay worse than Snyder, and i don't find Snyder a good director.
- Shut it off, Randy! SHUT IT OFF!!! 😡
- It will stabilize, it's under control! 👍
Reason to hate this movie #7,543:
They left out "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" by Cage the Elephant and instead gave us "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse.
Wow… seriously? Completely delusional and detached elitist Hollywood pricks
Not even Knights of Cydonia. Borderlands is a space western FFS.
Well, this Cage song sucks. The Heavy was better in Borderlands 2
I mean Supermassive is a good song too
@@niksobilstop having opinions
For anyone wondering it’s currently 6% on Rotten Tomatoes(meaning 6% of people liked it) and Metacritic is a 29 which means the average rating was 29/100. REALLY bad.
Only ai bots gave it positive reviews
And the actors themselves
only good reviews are from cate blanchett diehards who can't accept she was in such a shitty movie
The funniest part is that AngryJoe's claptrap voice from the Borderlands 2 review sounded better than the claptrap in this film 😂
it's like they forgot that there is a voice actor for claptrap already out there.
@@toodlepop It was so baffling they didn’t bother patching things up with the original claptrap va or just called his current one in for the film. I didn’t even know that was supposed to be Jack Black with how bad and unnatural he sounded.
@@ramiking745 jack black was "talented enough", but mostly, he ticks all the weirdo boxes.
Someone uploaded a studio quality copy of it on UA-cam, which is the only reason I watched it. At that time, it had been uploaded for only 14 hours and had over 850k views.
When I first heard that Kevin Hart was going to be in this, I thought he was going to be the voice of Claptrap. This was horrible casting to begin with.
That would have made sense.
Anyone remember that time Randy Pitchford just like, lost a USB stick full of porn at a kid's birthday party?
Squirt porn even. he considered it art. I have no idea how he thought it would sound any better.
Wait what?????
Midevil times but yes magic porn usb
Yep he had a usb with like terrabytes of cam model porn on it lol@@JoshuaJacobs83
Doesn’t sound bad
It’s even worse. apparently the artist who was in charge of all the rigging and animation for Cl4PTR4P wasn’t credited in the film. That’s grounds for a lawsuit! People deserve to be credited for their work.
And the original voice actor left because they refused to start paying him for his work in 1,2 and I think the Pre-Sequel.
Claptrap seems to be cursed.
@@Virtualblueartthe pre sequal clap is the same voice actor as one and two. Its the last borderlands game where claptrap is funny
@@user45563 Incidentally the last good BL game...
@@Isnogood12I thought that game was alright. The story was hit or miss for me, but the space gameplay does a lot of the heavy lifting for me. BL3 had fantastic gameplay, but a mediocre story that had many frustrating points. How did this movie make BL3’s story look godly by comparison.
@@ramiking745 It's kinda like the SW sequel trilogy. It's so bad it made the prequels look good.
I'm honestly flabbergasted the movie even "kind of look like Borderlands"...
After seeing Disparu's video, looking at the interviews...
"I want to make a mix of Star Wars, Mad Max, Fifth Element, Barbarella, Escape from New York."
Okay, gonna put in Borderlands in there somewhere?
And he basically said the same thing in two separate interviews...
Watching these PAINFUL interviews, it is no surprise this is what you get...
The director almost seem to, with a desperation, not want to acknowledge that a game can be good at telling stories, or be anything other than "a game".
Even in a very disregarding, nonchalant, demeaning comment "the game is it's own thing."
Disparu hit the nail on the head with this line;
"I'm an aaaartist! I make movies, I can only be inspired by other mooooovies!"
Seriously, there couldn't have been a single ounce hope for this movie.
One problem with this movie i have is how insanely clean everyone is. Pandora doesnt have showers.
not to mention pandoodoos' desert heat+longer daylight hours than earth.
random b2 sanctuary npc commenting on b2 hunters' smell: "you smell like cheese"
Every time a video game with a beloved story and characters is given a live action adaptation, the gods flip a coin.
I don't think the odds are that good.
Was going to say the same thing. More like you need a nat 20@Edax_Royeaux
If only the odds were that good… more like pick a number between 1 and 50 and if you get it right, it’s a good movie.
Live action is just dogshit in general most of the time. There's a reason why shows like Edgerunners and Arcane are superior. Star Wars Clone Wars 2003 and 2008 versions. Video game trailers and shorts have more emotion and depth. Oh they cost too much money to make? Apparently live action movies don't have enough money to pay their CG teams either
Yeah with a weighted coin. Unfortunate.
Damn thought we’d never see a rotten tomato meter lower than fant4stic in 2024
Check out the travolta film Gotti. It’s even worse
Master of Disguise was 1% when I last saw it.
Probably the only reason why they made this was to blaspheme Gods name. Shameful
Just wait until the next Fantastic movie comes out People keep asking for those movies and they keep failing every single time Just not an interesting comic group
Was it Fant4stic and not F4ntastic? I genuinely don't remember lmao
This need a Take a Turn base Speech, Big Joe keep on interrupting by the time other make their points.
Once I saw the tagline “From the producer of Venom” I knew this movie was doom.
True
To be honest Venom wasn't half bad.
And uncharted. Seriously, the producer needs to back off from a game adaptation after this. Oh wait, he's going to produce Legend of Zelda 😢😢
@@mohdamerulaidilbinrazisahm7317 Oh shit, for real? Someone needs to fucking stop this guy
Oh boy, lol insane how these Venom movies were successful, strong Fast and Furious "vibes", sometimes trash becomes popular for whatever reason
Hopefully it bombs because i can't stand lazy live action adaptions and I cant stand Eli Roth
Oh it will. It's probably only going last 2 - 3 weeks. Then pulled out of theaters by next month.
it wouldnt even matter
We're back to shitty Videogame movies again.
Which good ones have we had lol
@jamespaul6315
Sonic pokemon and Mario, even if they aren't perfect are still fun and managed to prove that these projects can be done well. Seems that didn't extend to Borderlands lol
@@kaof1958 last of us was mid and a series
@@jamespaul6315 Sonic 🤣
@@jamespaul6315 sure bro
"This is peaked cinema" - Randy "Hide the USB" Pitchford
They tried to copy the James Gunn superhero movies: Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad and last year's Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves but heavily miscasted, painfully unfunny, and largely unfaithful to the source material.
That movie is actually really good what are you talking about ?
So pretty much like every other movie, Hollywood has been producing that every other beta cuckold loves, but the beta cuckold didn’t love this one
@@matthewheywood8532 Thats what hes saying hes saying this movie tried to be those movies but fialed right at the starting line by casting the worst actors for the job
@@gman2570 oh ok 👍 thanks
It all SCREAMS suits that dont understand anything about the games, but want to cash in on video game adaptations. They probably looked up a bunch of trailers of the games and decided "oh its some happy go lucky Suicide Squad stuff", went with the ol reliable formula and failed miserably.
Other Joe: 2
Alex: 3
Angry Joe: 2
Alex is into older ladies confirmed
Average rating if all three....is a 1
Doing gods work
@@Psycorde that's one way of saying MILF hunter
@@Psycorde Who isn't?
Randy "USB Stick" Pitchford must have a thing for older women.
Randy likes the "human auctions" Jamie lee participated in.
I thought it was the exact opposite
At last he isnt p3do like the rest...
Yeah his thing is that he wants them to birth young girls 💀
Randy “Magic Trick” Pitchford
Casting Cate Blanchet was a huge failure, she tried too much to be cool and sexy. and her lack of charisma with comedy etc was so clear! Tiny Tina was very anoying too, the rest was, well ok
When Joe said this reminds me of the old era of video games movies, I felt that. This feels like a film from the 2000s in all the wrong ways, like that Doom movie from 2005.
The moment you said that made me remember the days of going to blockbuster and looking around at the video games while my mom is looking around at the movies!
And even Doom 2005 was decent to watch with funny moments..
0:24 ALEX reconsidering his entire life
😂
Playing all Borderlands games since the first one for thousands of hours and then having this nonsense released after 14~ years is one of the biggest insults I've ever experienced as a fan. Considering I like a lot of the actors involved in this, it was horribly miscast for the sake of publicity. This just puts a big stain on what is otherwise an amazingly fun gaming experience. I'm hoping for Borderlands 4 with all the great gameplay elements from the 3rd, the magic and atmosphere from the 1st and the characters and jokes from the 2nd. A new good Borderlands entry will quickly bury this embarrassment of a film.
I have no hope for the franchise anymore.
Borderlands 3 was rough writing and comedy wise. And with the Tiny Tina spinoff and that other crap game, there is no hope for Borderlands 4, if it even gets made
@@jase276 At least Borderlands 3 had good gameplay and was fun,And felt like Borderlands,Would have been a better story than any of these people who know nothing about games.
BL3 writing was awful, got no trust they will maka a good BL game anymore - even when gameplay was good
Man the second i saw them trying to translate Tina to live action i knew this was gonna fail. I dont think you could translate that character to live action with violating several laws.
The moment I saw Kevin Hart cast as Roland I knew this would be horrible
Remember. . . . Next up is Bioshock.
Oh... God, no... What next after that? Final Fantasy? Paper Mario? Xenoblade Chronicles? Dragon Quest? Tales of Symphonia? Xenosaga, Chrono Trigger? Mega Man Battle Network? MVC, Ace Attorney? Bayonetta? Street Fighter (again?) The SMT franchise?
You’re gonna get OLD Elizabeth lol
@@FlightX101veeeeeerrrrryyyyy old 😂😂😂
Oh god no..
@@ReSF91 I gotta go and play Bioshock again sometime, maybe Bioshock 2 or Infinite again, before they quickly ruin it, kill it, and leave its corpse behind in the underwater city of Rapture or the sky city from Bioshock Infinite... for their dogshit movie.
Grace Randolph's review for this is just terrible.
She literally talked around everything about the film except if it was good at all.
Just licking Cate Blanchetts boots and going "so tasty"
It's like the makers of this movie never really play any of the boarderlands games.
The actress that played Nebula in Gurdians of the Galaxy would've been perfect.
No change in actors would have made this better.
I knew this was gonna be a POS when they cast an elderly lady as Lilith. "Is this Borderlands or Sex in the City?"
You're an ageist
Cate Blanchet's a great actress, but no acting talent can save an actress from a mediocre script and truly bad casting...
I thought it was a Golden Girls reboot.
@@Chas-OTEyup its script.
Gonna go the way of the HITMAN, Assassin’s Creed, and Max Payne movies I see.
except worse
Hitman with Timothy Olyphant is decently tolerable.
@@davidalmodovar5317ye the sequel tho oof
This looks way worse than any other with Kevin Hart goofing around
I still wonder how they managed to fuck up a Max Payne movie.
The actress was way too old for the role. It was creepy to watch.
It's Kevin hart fault he's horrible actor and horrible comedian
Jamie lee had the nerve to say that Marvel movies were bad like a week ago and she had to apologize for that because she knew she was soon going to star in a trainwreck.
😂
She wasn't wrong. Even if she broke one of her glass walls, throwing that rock.
She has more good movies under her belt than the MCU so I'd say she's still good.
Most of them sucks so she's right
@@jimboh.2654 I don't care of the objectivity of whether they're bad or not, the point is that it was hypocritical at maximum level.
Why the hell would AJ assume the same writing for Borderlands 1 be the same for the movie? Hollywood *DOESN'T CARE ABOUT VIDEOGAMES* unless it's specifically directed/written by someone who actually cares
Probably explains why the Fallout TV show was pretty good, since Bethesda's direct input was used in its production.
@@Exilninja at least the lead actress in the TV series movie looked into the series and played the games to prepare
@@Arcademan09 the director of fallout show is also a fallout fan. Its almost like getting people who like a franchise or are willing to do some reserach makes for a way better product
And here I thought we finally left the Uwe Boll era of bad video game movies. My mistake lol
I was thinking about Uwe when I heard what an awful movie this was.
At least Uwe Boll movies are funny to watch. This movie is just boring from start to finish.
@@VanBan_07 Krieg was good, Marcus was good, everything else was trash.
Uwe is about to crawl out of his triple-sealed box on the Moon and direct even worse game-movie, to show that he is the only one allowed to be The Worst.
Kevin Hart being cast in the movie without The Rock is already a red flag.
This film will be a great example of not using A.I. to write the whole dialogue, "Make a script for every hard-core movie character line ever said."
This movie completely ruins the lore and timeline. How is Tannis so old when she's supposed to be in her late 20s or early 30s? Why is Roland alive? And why is Tiny Tina so much older? This film feels like a slap in the face to us fans!
because hollywood writers like usual think their own original writings would be much better than their video game source materials' writings.
Tiny Tina is a baby compared to these other actresses. suprised they didn't cast a 40 year old for her
Roland is alive in the first game dude
@@Lucios1995 Of course he's alive in the first game, you clueless idiot. It's clear this movie isn't set in the first game since Brick and Mordecai are absent, and Kraig a character from Borderlands 3 is here. Maybe try thinking before you type
@@Lucios1995 Of course he's alive in the first game. It's clear this movie isn't set in the first game since Brick and Mordecai are absent, and krieg a character from Borderlands 2. Maybe try thinking before you type next time.
For the record, Randy Pitchford said do "whatever you want" to Eli Roth
Garbage movie. It's just borderlands in name only.
Reminds me a lot of Monster Hunter.
I know everyone likes Kevin Hart but he is pretty much a seal of “low IQ comedy movie” so as soon as I saw him I knew the film was bad before even a trailer was out
I hope whoever the casting director was for this, never finds work again. Major fumble of the brand.
Why does this film feel like they found a couple of locations to record, spent 80% of its budgets on the actors, let them half arse and make up their lines, let them do 1 or 2 takes of each scene and let the VFX guys pretty it up?
I knew this movie would suck as soon as I heard claptrap instead of hiring the original voice actor, 2nd Lilith and Tannis is in her 50’s wtf, 3rd Roland is not a comic relief character i just don’t think Kevin hart can do him justice. I haven’t seen it but I will just to know how bad they fucked up
Pg13 and Kevin Hart were the immediate No-Go signs. Big part of the comedy for me was the wild stuff they said while fighting, meatpiling a bandit with your OP hand cannon, the kamikaze little bandit dudes- can't do anything good that helps portray the brutal day to day on Pandora
I LOVE Cate Blanchett. I wanted Hela to suffocate me in ways you can't talk about on UA-cam. Every time I see her as Lilith it makes my blood boil. What were they THINKING?
Also Randy Pitchford is a creep and a jerk, so please anyone thinking of seeing this, don't drive to the theater, sail the seas
For sure. Cate as Lilith's mom for some reason? Sure, why not. Cate starting the movie as an older Lillith remembering her past as the movie starts? Amazing. As the actual character? CGI and movie magic is great these days, but come on
She looked so good in that body suit, and that helm was legit fearsome.
This and Madame Web will be exhibits on what not to do with your movies in future filmmaking courses.
At least Madam Web was unintentionally hilarious while trying to be serious. Borderlands commits the crime of desperately trying to be funny and being unintentionally not funny at all.
Cate Blanchett might have made a good Lilith... 30 years ago.
This Movie is worse than Ghostbuster 2016