Tell me you never played a single borderlands game without telling me you never played a borderlands game. You cast Kevin Hart, a known comedian, to play Roland, the most serious character in that game.
To be fair, comedians can do well acting a serious character, the best example being Bryan Cranston as Walter White. It's just that this is Kevin Hart we're talking about
Borderlands megafan here, I thought it was a bad cast at first as well, but kevin hart actually did a pretty good job. Also, im convinced no one actually knows how roland acts, because especially in borderlands 1, which is closer to how this movie takes place as far as roland and lilith goes, he actually sounds a lot more upbeat like kevin hart does. And in the movie, kevin doesnt actually make very many quips during the movie, and is still his stoic self.
It's funny because with how well Deadpool is performing at the box office, being a rated-R movie with excessively gruesome violence, it's literally what should have happened with Borderlands.
That's because it's clear the people behind Deadpool and Wolverine are passionate fans who truly cared to make a great movie. Meanwhile this was seemingly made by corporate drones who were passionate about making money.
I think that's the weird catch 22 with videogame adaptations. Teens are playing these games although technically they shouldn't be based on the rating. So the film studio has to water it down to get the PG-13 rating so they can pull teens into the theater but by doing that they stomp all over the franchise.
And people DO take their kids to see it. I think the fan base for Borderlands is more likely to be of age than the 10 year Olds whose parents bring them to see Deadpool
@@shogunpug4071it definitely wouldn’t but it would at least be somewhat closer to what the game adaptation film should’ve been without restrictions. This is just so disappointing that this video game adaptation was done so badly. Makes the older MK movies look a lot better.
I found it on UA-cam. I've seen far worst Hollywood movies. It was funny. It was fast paced and it is akin to the "B" movies that were a staple in the 1950's, 1960's and the 1970's. This guy above sounds like he was paid to hate on this movie. IT is very watchable.
As a borderlands fan, i can assure you, none of us asked for this movie. We knew it would suck the moment we heard kevin heart was playing Roland and kate blanchett as Lilith.
This movie is randy pitchfords wet dream. None of the fans wanted this, none of the developers wanted this, no one wanted this. Randy Pitchford's ego told him he had to make a movie and he spearheaded the entire thing.
@Cheesepuff8 He genuinely doesn't understand what made the series strong for the first 2 games. He truly believes that the zany kookily cringey humor is what Borderlands is all about. This is why every title after the first Tales is so hellbent on being a "comedy." Randy is not just out of touch with this franchise or its fan base. He's in a completely alternate dimension with it.
@@Spiky-gs3eg I love Kevin. But I knew it was fucked instantly when I see how terrible the casting was and that they didn’t use the claptrap’s og voice. I just knew they were trying to get celebrity points and weird out of balance female power.
From the beginning, like from the first trailers, I could tell the Borderlands movie was going to bomb in theaters. I have never had that happen to me. No one knew what they were doing, the casting except for Jack Black was awful, and the story, I swear, was written by artificial intelligence. The millions spent were for nothing.
The Borderlands film was cast *so* poorly I almost think there’s a conspiracy behind it. There’s no way an act of malevolence isn’t behind this dinosaur turd.
It's not so much malevolence, as much as they just don't care. It's a "video game movie" so it's expected to fail, will probably use it for a tax exemption. Honestly it feels like games overall have kind of surpassed what Hollywood puts out lately. Cuz in a world where the Mario movie breaks all records despite just basically following the game Hollywood needs to understand that they really don't have to deviate that far from the base story and just respect the source material to rack in some serious cash. Like it's going to the point to where if a game movie is at least mediocre it'll still stand head and shoulders above the Sea of slop
I think the only way the casting is "bad" is if they are bad actors. If someone is supposed to be in their 30s or 40s and is played by someone in their 60s(Jamie Lee Curtis) and that character's age isn't integral to the story, then it shouldn't matter. I don't care if the character had a beard in the source material and the actor is clean shaven. The goofs online care, but story is what matters. And it seems like the story is what is truly horrible.
There's a scene in the film where they find a flower blooming underground, and it's a beautiful moment. Then, claptrap stomps on it, grinds it into the dust, and proceeds to ask why everyone's so sensitive. That was actually showing how the directors handled Borderlands
What sucks the most is Borderlands could've made for a great action action comedy movie. But they got some nobody to direct, put in almost no effort anywhere in the film, dragged actors into it who clearly didn't want to be there. And then put it out thinking "Yeah, this'll sell."
@@MichiganJFrog. except it really isn’t selling. This is going down as the biggest box office bomb in history. It’s so bad it’s already going up for sale digitally in a weak attempt to recover money but I doubt many will buy it there either. I’ll watch when it becomes available on an app I already pay for but I won’t be giving any money direct to this movie
I must bring up that the director, Eli Roth, isn't some nobody. He is a director with 20 years of directing experience and a bunch of well received movies. Doesn't excuse this movie however
This movie is just the perfect storm of awful trash: - been in production hell for probably more than a decade - everyone lost interest both in the project and in the IP, Borderlands as a video game franchise is kinda creatively bankrupt - hire a director with a dubious resume - cast a lot of A-list actors that demand Scrooge McDuck levels of cash - be sure all of these actors are well over 50, so they'll be more believable doing stunts at retirement age - totally ignore your source material, even mock it if you dare. - write in the most cringe and ridiculous humor AI can come up with - let chatGPT write everything else since you're there - underpay and overwork your FX artists and proceed to make your movie look like shit - bloat even more the budget with bullshit and reshoots, surpass well over 100M $ - choose the same timeslot as an heavy hitter like deadpool for releasing the movie.
100% so many games to make live action and expand on story. Borderlands was always just a goofy story with goofy Characters, was nothing special. The world aesthetic and gameplay is what made it great which don't translate to a live action movie
This is just like Halo. "Here you go guys, we have all of the story we need, already given to us on a silver platter" *proceeds to throw away source material*
Have you seen the source material? Borderlands has some of the cringiest writing on the planet I have no idea who thought making a Borderlands movie was a good idea
I knew it would suck when the trailer had them go through Piss Wash Gully or something. Borderlands has toilet humor for sure, but never as bad as having an entire zone be just urine geysers.
First I knew of this movie came at 4 am today. Clocked the costume design as Borderlands almost immediately, but the casting alone killed the movie before I knew anything else about it.
I saw the trailer for it at Deadpool didn’t even know it was coming out. A few seconds into it, I could tell it would be trash. Glad I didn’t see it earlier and get excited about it.
Claptrap not being Claptrap is a travesty Kevin Hart being Roland is a travesty Lilith being played by a 60 year old woman is a travesty This whole thing is a travesty
Yeah, it was painfully obvious this movie would be dogshit given the geriatric/vertically-challenged casting choices. Not even Jack Black could salvage his role for Christ's sake
@@gjfk not rlly, was mid a$$ casting & random asf but didn’t by default mean the movie was gonna flop as hard as it did. Plenty of movies have had that kinda questionable casting & ended up being decent which imo is a milestone this day & age. Like will smith as the genie & he did ok, wasn’t terrible wasn’t incredible was just ok
Sometimes I think that in order to make a movie this bad, you need to make it bad on purpose. If you ask a random person on the street to make a movie with this cast, they are bound to make at least a 3-4/10 movie, not a -1/10. That level of terribleness has to be on purpose. Maybe they thought that if it was bad enough, it would gain a cult following or something. If you put a random person in charge, and you just let the actors improvise, you would get such a much better movie.
Some history here - Craig Mazin (The Last of Us, Chernobyl) wrote the original script. Reportedly the script was really good and lots of studios went into a bidding war for it. Once the movie was greenlit and Eli Roth began directing. Apparently he completely butchered the script to his liking. So bad in fact Craig Mazin completely backed out from even having his name attached to the project. It finished primary filming in summer of 2021 and here we are in 2024. The production hell shows with that fact alone. The film was originally R rated and a lot more game accurate and but like I said, had 3 years in the cutting room can change that. In the final stages of reshoots Tim Miller (Deadpool 1) was hired to come in and basically scavenge any of the action to spice it up any amount. Not even that could save it I guess lol.
Borderlands has felt PG-13 for a while now for me, idk what you're talking about. I feel like they've been playing it very safe ever since BL3. It has detailed gore and curse words, sure, but the humor has been really safe and lame. Dated memes and fart jokes, safe-edgy and overall terrible attempts of humor. And I'm not even talking about whatever the fuck is in New Tales yet.
@@forkme3165 welcome to modern Borderlands then, unfortunately we're here. BL2's humor didn't age super well, it's VERY 2012 but at least there are jokes that we still laugh about to this day, and this is true for BL1 as well. BL3 humor was never good and it's somehow even MORE aged than the previous games
Dont know if this was posted, Straight from IMDB "The movie was shot in the summer of 2021 and Eli Roth's first director's cut was reportedly finished in early 2022. However, it was shelved for over two years due to extreme studio interference while the film was in post-production. Appalled by the film's extreme violence, the studio wanted the film to be marketed as a blockbuster and hired Tim Miller to do extensive reshoots on the project. These reshoots ended up comprising so much of the final movie that Steve Jablonsky had to write an entirely new musical score, as the original score by Nathan Barr no longer fit the film." Also "Eli Roth originally shot the movie with a planned hard R-rating, keeping in vein with the original game's M-rating for mature audiences. However, last-minute rewrites, heavy edits, and reshoots from Tim Miller dialed the film back to a PG-13...."
Tim Miller, the guy who co-created the first Deadpool, said “Ryan Reynolds is a control freak” And now, as Deadpool and Wolverine explodes with popularity, Tim Miller got controlled into making a potentially good movie awful. Lmao
Can we talk about how bad the marketing was for this film? I saw ads for it AFTER the movie came out and when I saw Charlie upload this I thought I was tripping balls because I thought the film wasn't out yet.
My friend, a borderlands super fan, found out the movie existed when he went to the cinema a few weeks ago and there was a poster in the cinema. Not one ad
As a huge Tiny Tina fan, like I aimed to be like her when I was young, I knew from the first trailer that everything was gonna suck. I told my partner “I will only watch it for Jack Black” and wouldn’t you know it, he’s the only good part. ALL MY FRIENDS SAID “oh just give it a chance!” WHAT DID I SAY HM? AM I CRAZY NOW??
@@THETWUAN-r3u as of right now I think we’re showing Borderlands around 5ish times a day and I think we’ve maybe sold like 20 tickets to borderland since opening
@@ChimChimsChimney you should run a flash sale for $5 each ticket or for groups of (up to) 4! Surely that would make the cinemas 20% - 40% more attendance and the owners of the cinema might make some money back lol
They lost me at having no handsome Jack. Then pissed me off by having Kreig there if his name is even Kreig in the movie and not having Maya, the ONLY reason Kreig got into contact and works with the vault hunters.
The budget went to the unnecessary cast of A and B list celebrities. For instance why do we need Jack black to do claptrap’s voice? I’m sure the ACTUAL voice of claptrap would have been much more affordable, but for the sake of slapping big names on a screen to sell tickets they blew the budget.
EXACTLY! They know kids will watch because of the names. But they have the worst acting skills. You could throw ANYBODY in front of a camera and they will act better
People keep saying this don't know that the original voice actor of Claptrap and Gearbox had a falling out. It's the reason why he didn't return for BL3.
@@samuelonthatop1125 kids are not beating down the door to watch Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis. The casting seemed like a list of people Randy Pitchford thought were cool at some point.
@@samuelonthatop1125 ah, yes, I can almost imagine the sea of kids pounding the doors of the theatres to be the first ones to see Jamie Lee Curtis in this movie. Sure.
The fact they went for a 55 year old woman to play the pink haired, punk, femme fatale will never cease to astound me. Like, I get that Cate Blanchett is attractive, but… come on man, that’s just bad casting from the start. It’s like getting fucking Tom Cruse to play Spider-Man. Like, maybe this could work if it takes place in the future, but don’t have the character dress like he’s in his early 20’s.
@@purple66666I don’t think OP is saying that Blanchett can’t play a femme fatale (she just recently played Hela and fucking ate that shit up), just not *this* femme fatale.
I think at this point Hollywood is genuinely using video game adaptations as a means to launder the budget and get a tax write-off for the movie flopping, there's no other explanation for why they continue to fail relentlessly forever
They even showed a crew member in the official trailer at 00:10 with a black baseball cap and mask and that scene not only was in the trailer but the official release. It’s when they open a manhole and all the crew are looking in. You can see him holding it open where the hinge is. Jesus Christ.
@@collinkeyser6827do you purposely hit the capital key at the beginning of every word? Why? It looks terrible and takes longer to type. I genuinely don’t understand
Just went on a little investigation. It seems like the script was actually great ,written by Craig Mazin, responsible for Chernobyl and The Last Of Us. This was until Eli Roth got involved and made your classic Hollywood changes, so Craig ended up leaving the project. Nothing of this is fully confirmed, but it seems to be the case. Also, all 5 and 4 star reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are from accounts that only reviewed this "movie", basically bots that rate this movie higher so it doesn't look that bad on them. Jeez, just goes to show how disgusting this industry is.
Took two seconds to google and already found two articles stating Craig was never involved. The one I read had Craig stating in an interview that he never wrote a single bit for the film and claims of using a pseudonym for the credits are false too lol. Really was just written by Eli Roth and Joe Crombie only.
@@sourpuss5951 his name was in the official promo and website for a while until it got removed. After that he started claiming that he was not involved in the script in any way. Seems to me he wrote the first script, and when they started changing it he left because he didn't want his name attached to this mess.
They spent the ENTIRE fucking budget on casting A and B list celebrities for the big names to be attached to the film. They made it PG-13 instead of M-rated like the games, and they casted THE WORST people even with the budget. Jack black for Claptrap? Why? The ACTUAL VA for Claptrap would have been much cheaper AND better! Why is everyone so damn old? They look NOTHING even remotely similar to the charaxters! Seriously this shit gets on my nerves because Hollywood ALWAYS shits on our favorite things just to try and make money.
I heard somewhere that even if they wanted the Claptrap voice actor that he doesn’t want to be a part of the games anymore and wasn’t in Borderlands 3. Even if he would though they still would’ve paid Jack Black
I find it weird how everyone is harping on the ONE casting choice that's at least somewhat proper. Claptrap is by far the BEST casting choice this moving makes in regards to it's main cast.
@@huntersuper98 It being the best decision in the movie doesn’t mean much when it’s so ass. They cast fucking Kevin heart as Roland. The reason we’re talking about that as well is because Claptrap’s voice is one of his most important characteristics. We’re not harping on just the voice. If you read the rest of my comment you see I call out the rest of the castings IMMEDIATELY afterward. The entire movie was terrible.
@@thememelord465 Yes, and I was pointing out the weird hyper fixation from people in these comments about the one decent casting. It's clear the focus for you was on claptrap with the other cast as an afterthought. The weird defensive response tells me I'm right on that as well. We all know the movies it terrible. I could tell it was gonna be bad from the first 15 seconds of one of the trailers. I was talking about the bad casting upon looking at them when the trailers released lol. Idk why you're trying to make a point like I'm saying the movie is somehow good. Also the original VA for claptrap is impossible to get because he won't do work for the Borderlands franchise ever again after BL 2.
@@huntersuper98 No my focus was on the casting of the entire movie. I haven’t even seen the movie which is why I threw Jack blacks casting in there in passing since this is my first time hearing of it. Don’t assume shit you clearly have no way of knowing. I said one thing about his casting in passing before moving on to the rest of my comment. You seem to be the one hyper fixated on anything JB related though… Never once made it seem like you said the movie was good. I said that Jacks casting being the “best” isn’t saying much with how the rest were chosen. They don’t need the original VA. Borderlands 3 has a COMPLETELY new guy voicing Claptrap and most people who don’t look into the games or follow the VAs wouldn’t even be able to tell. They just need someone who sounds similar. Could’ve easily paid for that with that 100m budget.
Man, worse than Tarot is actually insane. What a year for bad movies. Every time Charlie says "this is the worst movie of the year" Hollywood claps back with an even worse one just to prove them wrong. I find it mind boggling that Hollywood is burning this much money, surly at some point they have to stop, right?
Considering that it's adapting a fairly popular franchise, it didn't even have to that good to get a pass & apparently, from what people I personally know have told me, the movie didn't even manage that. So that's what would it make it worse than Tarot because nobody cared about that movie. Borderlands has a built in fan base that it seems are going to be mostly disappointed.
That scene with the flashing lights in the tunnel literally gave me a headache. I remember wondering how it turned out for any epileptic that saw the film, as there didn’t seem to be any warning beforehand
So sad. I have such fond memories of going to Walmart with my brothers, realizing the game was on sale for $40 Canadian, each picking up a copy, and then playing it with them + my bf for days going through the story, collecting guns, etc. Fortunately, this movie can't touch that memory.
I didn’t know you could buy Borderlands in Canada? I thought guns were illegal there and under the Trudoh Administration all media depicting firearms were also banned?
@@davemccage7918 you HAVE to be joking if you seriously think any media depicting firearms is banned in canada, sure we cant get them easily but they arent treated as some kind of ultra taboo thing that we arent allowed to know even exists
My favorite part is that when the movie wasn't out randy pitchford was like "this movie is going to be the best movie ever nothing can compare, and im so proud of all my involvement with the movie." Now that its out he's like "we had nothing to do with the movies creation so it being terrible isn't our fault."
Something worth noting, all the actors had to film this ON Location, except Jack Black, he talks about this on an appearance of Conan O'Brien's podcast. He "jokes" about Jaime Lee Curtis being angry that they're all stuck in a desert filming and Jack was just sitting in a cozy recording studio back in L.A.
The craziest part about seeing this movie for me was the fact that LITERALLY EVERYONE (except my friends and I) in my theater ate this movie up. They were laughing at every single little joke in the movie, they were even laughing at shit that wasn’t even jokes. I was more in awe watching the audience than the actual movie.
Probably went to the producer's pocket. Same thing happened to Battlefield Earth. The budget they shot for that movie was like 75 million dollars and only 20 million dollars been used for making the movie.
It's alarming to see such a terrible adaptation that disrespects the potential of the source material. The makers should've done better with this film.
@@VindexSolis I'll give you Borderlands 3, but the other games, despite their jokes, still had serious stakes when it came to it. Borderlands 2 especially. After the deaths of Angel and Roland, things take quite a shift. There's still jokes afterwards, sure, but things were much more serious and grim.
Didnt you know? Thats the trend nowadays. Halo, The Witcher, Cowboy Bebop, Deathnote, (and now Borderlands) etc were all adapted in TV shows/films by people that knew nothing about the IP nor interacted with source material. And to make matters worse, Amazon is apparently working on a Yakuza Like a Dragon TV series where they are casting people who have never played any of the games into all of the character roles and scriptwriters. Just seems to be the trend now I guess
They shouldn't have made a Borderlands movie to begin with. It's a video game franchise that had no place being on the big screen. No movie (no matter how good it could've been if they hired people that actually cared about the games) could've told the story of Borderlands as good or better than the games did.
@@crimsonitacilunarnebula any game that sold really well during the ps3/360 era had talks about being adapted and never went anywhere until the last few years,so id be skeptical about bioshock.
"There's no way 100 million dollars went into this movie somebody needs to investigate" Once again, Randy Pitchford is laughing all the way to the bank while we get served another pile of slop, courtesy of Randal.
The fact that this has a lower rotten tomatoes score than The Emoji Movie, Madame Web, Fant4stic, Josstice League, THE ********* ROOM, Tarot, Expend4bles, Rebel Moon parts 1 and 2, AND Morbius (although it's the movie of all time) is so insane you'd think you just woke up from a coma.
I wished expendables 4 was better especially how barney supposley came back from the dead and used the cheap trope of replacing the body to fake the death
It's really unfortunate because in the future if someone ever wanted to reboot and try again, studio execs will look at the dumpster fire this movie is, see how much money it loses, and it will never see the light of day. When Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Cate Blanchett were announced, we all knew this is what it would be.
Good. Some stories are better told in the medium of games. Borderlands is it's genre, it's just shoot and level up combined. A shooter with classes and rpg stuff. That's it, that's the whole selling point. The story serves purely to be a framework for you to shoot and level up in. That's why people don't like the series as much from the third game on. They tried making it all about learning about the characters and the worldbuilding, with a chosen one story, and it wasn't about the players experience anymore. A PLAYER EXPERIENCE. The story is made as the player shoots. And levels up. That's the real story. Can't make that into a movie.
12:44 "marcus shows up and he's like, 'I'm the bus driver!' And then he's like, 'I'm the guy selling guns!' and then he's like... 'I'm not in the movie ever again"" I'm crying 😭😭
everyonee makes Randy Pitchford to be this villain, last time i checked some if not any accusation that was against him was fake. he isnt whats wrong with Borderlands, thats the people they hire to help with the games, he didnt write the story for 3 or anything.. that was a bbunch of people that were hired and had not a clue what to do. if i remember after the release of 3 and the ratings came in, they got fired
The trailers for this movie kept popping up in the ads for me and I was like "There's no way this is good." They make it sound like the most cringe-inducing yet blandest, most generic action movie ever, especially the one where it says it's the most savage movie of the year or something like that 😂
as someone who has played borderlands ever since I was a 12-year-old, none of us asked for this film nor did I, It just feels like gearbox went corporate sold off The borderlands IP for pennies and let a person who has never played borderlands nor have watched anyone played it Make a movie out of it, It's absolutely disgusting seeing that my teenhood video game have this happen to it.
Gearbox has fucked every ip it's had its grubby hands on into the dirt especially since randy pitchfart got more handsy with the ips dude just makes them put in his fetishes and le smart writing twists
Exactly. I've played Borderlands since I was THREE and it sucks seeing Gearbox go down this seemingly corporate rabbit hole. The original games from b1 to pre-sequel and b2 were FANTASTIC but they started to go down this road where B3 just kinda felt off. It's like they're caring less and less about what they do with the franchise and trying to make it cater towards the modern audience instead of continuing what they have done in the past. With this movie, it seems like the leaders of Gearbox are just handing this shit off like its nothing and it breaks my heart seeing my favorite franchise crumble like this. I can only hope that with the next Borderlands project they are working on will do better (and hopefully much better than this garbage fire of a film).
@@AllHailTheRamenEmperor Then why even make it If it's not about the game? That is the equivalent of making a hamburger, removing the beef patty and replacing it with a chicken patty
I work at a theatre and opening day this movie sold 190 tickets total. For reference, IF came out several months ago and filled a theatre more than Borderlands did.
Theater employee here too, literally nobody is watching it in my place lol. Only had maybe 10 people tops go in per showing, half were older people who have no idea what Borderlands is and took a chance. Doubt they enjoyed it lol
This movie was completed in 2021, Eli Roth was either fired or quit after filming, They brought Tim Miller to try and save it, and it's so bad the writer asked to have their name removed from the credits. The writer that is named in the credits is a made up name, so they had something in the written by section. Everyone knew this movie was DOA.
@@kai8618 So wait, you mean to tell me that a popular game franchise, with a good following, somehow got greenlit for a movie, and it was ruined by persistent studio notes!? I am shocked. Flabbergasted.
@@fcon2123 Like, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but the first script was from the person who made the live action "The Last of Us" show, which is why it showed promise in the beginning...but then...changes happened. So yeah, studio meddling really turned this into shit
The moment they revealed Kevin Heart as Roland everyone knew it was going to be one of those movies that relies purely on Star power and Brand recognition to sell tickets, no one expected it to be good
How hard is it to find 100+ religious/dedicated players, rounds them up and ask them what wants and needs they have of a movie adaptation? Like genuinely so frustrating how many of these are going to flop..
Because its not made for them, or for any average audience. The point for this slop isn't even to fill seats in a theater or sales. It's just to pay people in the industry and ruin one more thing. Why it's being ruined well there are a variety of reasons that would get this comment "shushed" lmao.
Fun fact the movie wrapped shooting at the end of 2019. Half of the movie was completely reshot for PG-13 because gearbox and Randy pitchford wanted to market it to a wider audience. Worked out fucking great as we can se
Its usually for the audiences in china, it used to be that hollywood would edit out blood and other violent things so they can release their movies there. But it cost more time in post production,now they just skip that by shooting it for all audiences.
I am a fan of borderlands, my wife is a gamer, and her mother is a movie watcher. As we all watched the movie, we could agree it was as good as around spy kids level of film. Which makes this more of a family friendly movie. It certainly is not worse than monster hunter. As a borderlands fan, the lore pretty much held solid for the most part. So the reviews that are trashing it so hard on rotten tomatoes isn't even considering the level of movies that have previously been reviewed, even recently, like monster hunter. It's not a great movie, but it's not a bad movie.
I love Cate Blanchett, she's one of my favorite actresses. She was one of the worst choices possible to play Lilith. Not only is she nearly three times the age of Lilith in the first game but her persona might as well be the polar opposite of how Lilith is in the games.
I love Cate Blanchett. I really do. She's great. But the character she's supposed to be playing is like 20-30 years younger than her. And _why_ is Kevin Hart in it???
Because in movies this bad the only way to pull some people in is the "oh I like Kevin heart" angle. I told my mum not to watch morbius but she likes Jarrod letto so she watched it, she also likes Kevin heart and cate blanchett so I bet if I ask her next week she will have gone and seen it.
I know so many devs who work on the game.. (we play D&D) they didn’t want the movie at all.. complained all the time that they never bothered to ask for help.. except for jack black he reached out often.
Best way I can describe the film is that the writer had a fever dream after watching a video essay made by a 12 year old that watched their sibling play half of one of the games
I really am wondering what is going on with studios and most big budget movies now a days. Movies that are being made for a quarter of the price are the ones that people want to see. They have dedicated people behind their projects that the audience picks up on & wants to support. People are dumb but not dumb enough to be tricked as many times into seeing BIG BUGDET IPs that are stripped of their original appeal & magic. Expensive movies use to mean something back in the day. Now Hollywood has watered down as much as anything else it beats into the ground when ONE movie breaks through the mainstream. Everyone follows nobody leads...except for a few directors/actors here & there that have the reputation or establishment. rant done lol
First we waited for borderlands 3 forever and when it finally comes out its completely ruined. And now they spit us fans in the face by making fun of the entire franchise with THIS? Im so pissed off.
The movie was a massive letdown, especially considering how much I loved the Borderlands games. It's regrettable to see such iconic source material treated poorly.
@@1WEareBUFO1 True but this should have been the easist thing to adopt; take the barebones store of the first game, replace the forgettable villain with Handsome Jack, be violent and bloody. That's really it--the games were practically modeled off Mad Max and action movies in general, so this should have been simple.
I went to pirate it, and turned it off as soon as they didnt have Markus narrating it, and that General Knoxx was now Commander Knoxx, and genderswapped for no reason
I love reading botted/bought reviews. They're magical. Lululemon reviews are a great place to find 100% identical reviews right in a row and some real basic ones that just say ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ great product!
I went with my friends to watch this movie on the release day, and after the movie my card declined when trying to get dinner. I was somehow less distraught by the fact that i was now broke, but more that i used the last money in my bank account to watch this movie.
Oh I figured *for sure* this story was going the direction of "So my bank called me about a fraudulent charge. Turns out they saw a ticket for Borderlands in the billing statement and immediately flagged my card as stolen" 😂
Ouch... that's so shitty I literally felt your pain for a solid minute... I'm sorry borthor... It's like hearing a friend talk about blowing 20 grand in Vegas.. I'm here if you need anything...
I hate to break it to you people, but I called this at the very announcement of the movie; live-action movies trying to interpret in their own style the work of other animated products, almost NEVER works out. Plus, look at the cast, I'm not saying they're not great actors, but this lineup is a fucking joke and nowhere close to what people would need to fill in the roles of the extremely diverse and unique characters of the Borderlands game series.
What's sad is all the actors signed on for the original script, which was really good. But they ended up butchering the original material so badly, one of the OG writers on there was so embarrassed that he asked for his credit to be removed because they went so far from the original. Thank Randy pitchford for what it is now. That's why everyone on there looked bored, because they ARE bored....
Detective Pikachu, Sonic and Mario have spent the last few years trying to prove that you can have good video game movies after the previous decades failed to ever reach higher than "bad but a hint of enjoyability?". This movie seems to have tried to stomp out any progress made. Sadly, the trailers seem to have Minecraft join the dark side as well...
As someone who never played the Borderlands games, this movie was an absolute disaster. Just pure generic slop, and very juvenile especially for a movie based of a M rated game. Edit: Ik this movie is a 12+, but why would you make a movie based of a M rated game? It’s like making a PG-13/12+ movie based of Doom.
Because the game was only rated M because of all the dismemberment and gore. That's not why most people play borderlands though, I think most of us come for the jokes and the unicorn that poops diamonds
you paid for this movie after seeing the trailers and not having played the game??? do you just like throwing money at people that don't deserve it? could I interest you in my venmo?
This movie makes me want to skin my own tattoo sleeve off my arm. My tattoo sleeve is 100% borderlands dedicated. I've got over 13000 hours into BL2. So here's some facts on the movie for everyone (SPOILERS): Arianna Greenblatt based her performance off Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn because she had never heard of the games or the character. They changed Tiny Tinas origins so, so badly. In the games, her parents are brutally murdered in front of her eyes turning her insane. I'm the movie, she's a lab grown daughter to Atlas and has the power to open the vault. Not the vault key, Tiny Tina. Jaime Lee Curtis made Tannis have Autism instead of being virtually insane from receiving ancient knowledge she wasn't supposed to after being in isolation for a long ass time. The actors who were in this movie playing characters from the games never bothered to contact their respective voice actor except for Benjamin Byron Davis and Jack Black. Benjamin is already a voice actor, voicing and doing all the mocap for Dutch from Red Dead 2 and Jack Black was already vouched for by David Eddings. Eli Roth was fired after a bad screen test, and they got Tim Miller for reshoots. However they only gave Tim Miller 2 weeks to redo the entire movie, like what the actual hell???? So that means whatever they shot for the movie was already trash before getting reshoots done. None of the cast knew what they were doing when they got offered their roles, and they've all stated as much in several interviews. No one tried out for any role except for Cate Blanchett, they were all offered/given. Meaning the casting director just really didn't give a fuck. When asked about what they did to stay true to the games, Kevin Hart stated that he had never heard of the games prior and after getting offered the role, went to UA-cam to KINDA watch and understand the story. Saying he was bringing Roland's soldier attitude from the games... In the movie, they goto a XXX club with ZERO GRAPHIC IMAGERY WHATSOEVER. Lilith was made a siren at the end of the movie instead of her whole fucking Life. Randy was claiming that this movie is on par with the Fallout TV Show, the Super Mario Bros movie, and other well made video game adaptations. He wants to make a whole Borderlands cinematic universe. They even made a "help line" for people to text their opinions about the movie, which is not going to bode well at all... They completely failed to list Claptrap's puppet handler and one of Claptrap's CG artists in the credits of the film, which doesn't feel legal for some reason. David Eddings, Claptrap's original voice actor was heavily involved with the production of the movie until his mysterious departure in 2022. He even vouched for Jack Blacks performance as Claptrap, asking us to give him a shot. However, after getting removed from the movie, he basically refused to comment on it or just give your basic "Yeah it's borderlands and it exists" type of statement. Around the same time he was removed from the movie, Randy Pitchford subsequently left the gaming side of Gearbox to the become the CEO of the new Movie and TV side of Gearbox. A singular stunt coordinator said that Eli Roth filmed "a lot more" blood and gore than what was shown before the "suits" interfered. But the thing is, is that the "suits" and higher ups have no say on what a movie's rating is. It's all from audiences and critics doing screen tests. It's based on movie content, local standards for ratings, and audience ratings. So that means that whatever Roth and Miller filmed was already worth a PG-13 rating. The suits can interfere with production and what is filmed, but they can't actually affect ratings. So there was no chance of this movie becoming R rated and actually being decent. The reason why Gearbox didn't bring David Eddings in for the voice of Claptrap is because 1) they're anti union and 2) had creative differences with him (I.e. mysteriously removing him from the movie as he isn't credited anywhere). David Eddings is a part of the Voice Actors union. He was supposed to get paid for all his work in Borderlands 3, insisted on getting his paycheck, and all of sudden "they couldn't afford him anymore" without paying him a single cent. The exact same thing happened with Troy Baker and Rhys Strongfork from Tales From The Borderlands. Which is why neither of them returned for Borderlands 3 or are going to for future Borderlands project. Craig Mazin, writer of The Last of Us, fought so hard to have his name removed from the project entirely. He knew it was bad, he didn't wanna be tied to it. He wrote a screenplay back in 2020, some aspects of it were used in this film which is why he fought so hard to have his name removed. I've been heavily following the production of the movie since it first got announced
Lmao, I agree with everything you said, the first and immediate reason why I knew the movie was going to be bad when I heard Randy pitchfork was becoming the CEO. After his reaction to the reviews of borderlands 3 I have zero faith in him lol. It's wild that Jack black was the best thing about this film lol, I like Jack black but I heard he was claptrap of all characters I was like why not just have the actual voice actor, do the voice acting roles.
Fun fact Jack Black said in his recent podcast with Conan that he prerecorded all his lines and wasn't present at all at the location of the shooting which was reportedly hated by the cast. So he actually was the only person that wanted to be there :D
Genuinely sick of hollywood blowing budgets on overused actors thinking it’ll sell tickets instead of actually making good films
Same here’s my hot take, Kevin hart is the most bland boring person with the most scripted humor
@@Somedude72I would agree except Dwayne Johnson exists
Very true, although the Mario movie was pretty good with it
Best part is that the're friends
@@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingyeh, no
Tell me you never played a single borderlands game without telling me you never played a borderlands game. You cast Kevin Hart, a known comedian, to play Roland, the most serious character in that game.
To be fair, comedians can do well acting a serious character, the best example being Bryan Cranston as Walter White. It's just that this is Kevin Hart we're talking about
This wasn't a good role for him.
Borderlands megafan here, I thought it was a bad cast at first as well, but kevin hart actually did a pretty good job. Also, im convinced no one actually knows how roland acts, because especially in borderlands 1, which is closer to how this movie takes place as far as roland and lilith goes, he actually sounds a lot more upbeat like kevin hart does. And in the movie, kevin doesnt actually make very many quips during the movie, and is still his stoic self.
@@strawberryskaven7809true but kevin hart’s high pitched voice just doesn’t cut it for roland
@@StarhiveartYou are THE borderlands fan
It's funny because with how well Deadpool is performing at the box office, being a rated-R movie with excessively gruesome violence, it's literally what should have happened with Borderlands.
That's because it's clear the people behind Deadpool and Wolverine are passionate fans who truly cared to make a great movie. Meanwhile this was seemingly made by corporate drones who were passionate about making money.
I think that's the weird catch 22 with videogame adaptations. Teens are playing these games although technically they shouldn't be based on the rating. So the film studio has to water it down to get the PG-13 rating so they can pull teens into the theater but by doing that they stomp all over the franchise.
The Borderlands movie being more gorey would not make it better
And people DO take their kids to see it. I think the fan base for Borderlands is more likely to be of age than the 10 year Olds whose parents bring them to see Deadpool
@@shogunpug4071it definitely wouldn’t but it would at least be somewhat closer to what the game adaptation film should’ve been without restrictions.
This is just so disappointing that this video game adaptation was done so badly. Makes the older MK movies look a lot better.
I remember seeing a comment saying “I can’t find a pirated version of this movie.” Which is pretty impressive
fortunately, i found one which is good so I don't have to pay for this dogwater movie
Bro I won't even bother pirating this dumpster fire
@@beastmaster6943if I pirated this thing I’d ask for a refund
Already a 1080p out on yt decided to watch cause hey if its free ill check it out and its just HORRIBLE!!!
I found it on UA-cam. I've seen far worst Hollywood movies. It was funny. It was fast paced and it is akin to the "B" movies that were a staple in the 1950's, 1960's and the 1970's. This guy above sounds like he was paid to hate on this movie. IT is very watchable.
As a borderlands fan, i can assure you, none of us asked for this movie. We knew it would suck the moment we heard kevin heart was playing Roland and kate blanchett as Lilith.
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Yeah...
I'll pretend like this never happened.
This movie is randy pitchfords wet dream. None of the fans wanted this, none of the developers wanted this, no one wanted this. Randy Pitchford's ego told him he had to make a movie and he spearheaded the entire thing.
as a borderlands fan we were definitely asking for a movie.
The film being PG-13 despite the games being M rated was already a red flag to begin with, and I'm expecting this film to win multiple Razzies.
I heard Eli Roth was furious about that rating change. He should've left and save his reputation
@@acajou299this statement could be applied to the past several Eli Roth projects 😂
I can’t believe Randy Pitchford worked so much on this, does he know nothing about his own games?
I wonder what the original cut from 2022 when Eli was finished with the Actual movie looks like with a hard R rating..
@Cheesepuff8 He genuinely doesn't understand what made the series strong for the first 2 games. He truly believes that the zany kookily cringey humor is what Borderlands is all about. This is why every title after the first Tales is so hellbent on being a "comedy." Randy is not just out of touch with this franchise or its fan base. He's in a completely alternate dimension with it.
me and my friends paid $63 to see the movie
we found a $50 bill on our way out. god was apologizing to us
😂 I luv that
Was the $13 a handling charge?
Why did it cost so much? $63 sounds insane to me.
@@stewartmullings1552 It was about $15 per ticket, and there were 4 of us.
Bro how many friends you got. I swear I got 5 tickets for the movie for $25 and like 35 in total with the food.
I love Cate Blanchett, but I cannot for the life of me understand why they chose her to play Lilith, a character who's like in her 20s.
My guess is that some clueless executive decided to shoehorn her into the flick and didn't bother to check anything about the character's backgrounds.
they miscast
Hell naw man, 100 million budget and they forgot to pay IGN
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ragebait replies are wild
I think they actually DID pay them so that it would be 3/10 Stars and not less :D (EDIT: wrote 3/5 before, am not familiar with IGN :D )
lol one of the first comments ive laughed at in a long time on social media
@@TescoFR They are called bots
"This was made to be watched on a second monitor" will go down as the most damning insult for a movie I've ever heard
Real
I don't think you can come up with a worse insult to a movie honestly. That's grade-A Razzie speak.
A second monitor while playing Elden Ring.
And the script should be used as toilet paper.
Damn savage
It was fucked the moment they casted Roland a tall buff dude…. Kevin fucking Hart
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Lol yea but at least kevin usually puts his all into it
Honestly, Terry Crews, or even Dwayne would have been a better choice
@@Spiky-gs3eg I love Kevin. But I knew it was fucked instantly when I see how terrible the casting was and that they didn’t use the claptrap’s og voice. I just knew they were trying to get celebrity points and weird out of balance female power.
I work at a movie theater and by GOD there’s nobody in the borderlands showings
Thank god. I’m pretty sure the opening weekend was like 5 people and they all left disappointed. Can’t believe this garbage slop exists
Good.
It was an easy payday for select celebrities and producers. What’s worse is gearbox to my knowledge is proud of the collaboration
When Me And My Mom Saw It (On $8 Movie Day) There Was Only 1 Other Person In The Movie With Us.
From the beginning, like from the first trailers, I could tell the Borderlands movie was going to bomb in theaters. I have never had that happen to me. No one knew what they were doing, the casting except for Jack Black was awful, and the story, I swear, was written by artificial intelligence. The millions spent were for nothing.
What we learned: a bunch of big names doesn't equal a good movie
Y'mean learned again.
No, they havent learnt. This movies just the jumanji sequel issue all over again.
They haven't learned shit they're gonna keep doing this even after the actors are dead thanks to AI
Indeed. Remember the Doom movie featuring The Rock?
I thought we learned that with Foodfight
The Borderlands film was cast *so* poorly I almost think there’s a conspiracy behind it. There’s no way an act of malevolence isn’t behind this dinosaur turd.
It's not so much malevolence, as much as they just don't care. It's a "video game movie" so it's expected to fail, will probably use it for a tax exemption. Honestly it feels like games overall have kind of surpassed what Hollywood puts out lately. Cuz in a world where the Mario movie breaks all records despite just basically following the game Hollywood needs to understand that they really don't have to deviate that far from the base story and just respect the source material to rack in some serious cash. Like it's going to the point to where if a game movie is at least mediocre it'll still stand head and shoulders above the Sea of slop
I think the only way the casting is "bad" is if they are bad actors. If someone is supposed to be in their 30s or 40s and is played by someone in their 60s(Jamie Lee Curtis) and that character's age isn't integral to the story, then it shouldn't matter. I don't care if the character had a beard in the source material and the actor is clean shaven. The goofs online care, but story is what matters. And it seems like the story is what is truly horrible.
more woke talking points and charlie would have said this is a box office smash
@@eddyray-yb6ig no it's just that the movie was ass
@@zacziggaroti don’t think you know how taxes work or have ever paid them in your life
There's a scene in the film where they find a flower blooming underground, and it's a beautiful moment. Then, claptrap stomps on it, grinds it into the dust, and proceeds to ask why everyone's so sensitive. That was actually showing how the directors handled Borderlands
That flower represents the Borderlands source material, Claptrap represents the directors feelings for it.. haha
tbf that is a very claptrap thing to do
@@baydenwithoos1718ya was gonna say this is very borderlands so a weird thing to criticize.
It’s not just the movie that’s getting stomped on either 😔
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What sucks the most is Borderlands could've made for a great action action comedy movie. But they got some nobody to direct, put in almost no effort anywhere in the film, dragged actors into it who clearly didn't want to be there. And then put it out thinking "Yeah, this'll sell."
It’s not the directors fault the studio didn’t like his good version of the movie and then hired a new director to redo it and make it shit
It will sell because the people paying to watch this slop will watch anything. Blame your peers
@@MichiganJFrog. except it really isn’t selling. This is going down as the biggest box office bomb in history. It’s so bad it’s already going up for sale digitally in a weak attempt to recover money but I doubt many will buy it there either. I’ll watch when it becomes available on an app I already pay for but I won’t be giving any money direct to this movie
At best, it could have been Guardians of the Galaxy innate desert. At worst.... well that's what we got
I must bring up that the director, Eli Roth, isn't some nobody. He is a director with 20 years of directing experience and a bunch of well received movies. Doesn't excuse this movie however
This movie is just the perfect storm of awful trash:
- been in production hell for probably more than a decade
- everyone lost interest both in the project and in the IP, Borderlands as a video game franchise is kinda creatively bankrupt
- hire a director with a dubious resume
- cast a lot of A-list actors that demand Scrooge McDuck levels of cash
- be sure all of these actors are well over 50, so they'll be more believable doing stunts at retirement age
- totally ignore your source material, even mock it if you dare.
- write in the most cringe and ridiculous humor AI can come up with
- let chatGPT write everything else since you're there
- underpay and overwork your FX artists and proceed to make your movie look like shit
- bloat even more the budget with bullshit and reshoots, surpass well over 100M $
- choose the same timeslot as an heavy hitter like deadpool for releasing the movie.
Actual prompt-
"Funny one liners for film very funny please"
You literally remained me that this movie was announced in 2015
this movie HAS to be a tax write off, no way this thing is intended to be enjoyed by anyone.
A masterpiece of a shit Storm. At this point u almost have to respect it. To have such a high commitment to be ASS
100% so many games to make live action and expand on story. Borderlands was always just a goofy story with goofy Characters, was nothing special. The world aesthetic and gameplay is what made it great which don't translate to a live action movie
This is just like Halo. "Here you go guys, we have all of the story we need, already given to us on a silver platter" *proceeds to throw away source material*
It's pretty bad when Charlie and the guys have more fun roasting the movie than watching it
This has always perplexed me so much. The source material IS RIGHT THERE and yet is forgotten 90% of the time
Edit: Not forgotten, ignored
Have you seen the source material? Borderlands has some of the cringiest writing on the planet
I have no idea who thought making a Borderlands movie was a good idea
@@Britbaby961 It's not even forgotten, it's usually purposely thrown aside by people that have disdain for it. Which is much worse.
@@jac6548The dialogue is bad but the lore is actually solid, it would be so easy to riff off of it but they failed miserably
It was obvious from the trailer, it looked God awful. Shot entirely in a green box with the softest focus I've ever seen
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I knew it would suck when the trailer had them go through Piss Wash Gully or something. Borderlands has toilet humor for sure, but never as bad as having an entire zone be just urine geysers.
First I knew of this movie came at 4 am today. Clocked the costume design as Borderlands almost immediately, but the casting alone killed the movie before I knew anything else about it.
I saw the trailer for it at Deadpool didn’t even know it was coming out. A few seconds into it, I could tell it would be trash. Glad I didn’t see it earlier and get excited about it.
"They need to be investigated for money laundering"
Literally described every Disney movie of last two years
Claptrap not being Claptrap is a travesty
Kevin Hart being Roland is a travesty
Lilith being played by a 60 year old woman is a travesty
This whole thing is a travesty
Lance Reddick (God rest his soul) would have been a perfect casting for Roland in my opinion. Their vibes just match.
Jack Black as Claptrap was a decent casting given the role.
Everything else was hot garbage.
It's a voice acting role, why not just fucking hire the actual voice actor for fucks sake.@@vintagestealth8802
The lead female from Kong vs Godzilla 2 would have been an amazing Lilith 😢
As much as I love Jack Black, he just doesn’t fit as Claptrap.
Worst show: Velma
Worst movie: borderlands
Valid
no way
Never saw Rampage or Street Fighter then.
preach fuck velma
Velma seems better and better every day lol
The casting choices alone was enough to cement this movie as dogshit.
For real, stop putting famous dudes in movies and cast original actors for once it's not that hard
That’s dramatic asf lmao, but yeah ended up being dog sh anyway so not like it matters
@@ThatInternetGuy420 The casting wasn't a red flag to you?
Yeah, it was painfully obvious this movie would be dogshit given the geriatric/vertically-challenged casting choices. Not even Jack Black could salvage his role for Christ's sake
@@gjfk not rlly, was mid a$$ casting & random asf but didn’t by default mean the movie was gonna flop as hard as it did. Plenty of movies have had that kinda questionable casting & ended up being decent which imo is a milestone this day & age. Like will smith as the genie & he did ok, wasn’t terrible wasn’t incredible was just ok
Sometimes I think that in order to make a movie this bad, you need to make it bad on purpose.
If you ask a random person on the street to make a movie with this cast, they are bound to make at least a 3-4/10 movie, not a -1/10. That level of terribleness has to be on purpose. Maybe they thought that if it was bad enough, it would gain a cult following or something.
If you put a random person in charge, and you just let the actors improvise, you would get such a much better movie.
Some history here -
Craig Mazin (The Last of Us, Chernobyl) wrote the original script. Reportedly the script was really good and lots of studios went into a bidding war for it. Once the movie was greenlit and Eli Roth began directing. Apparently he completely butchered the script to his liking. So bad in fact Craig Mazin completely backed out from even having his name attached to the project.
It finished primary filming in summer of 2021 and here we are in 2024. The production hell shows with that fact alone.
The film was originally R rated and a lot more game accurate and but like I said, had 3 years in the cutting room can change that.
In the final stages of reshoots Tim Miller (Deadpool 1) was hired to come in and basically scavenge any of the action to spice it up any amount. Not even that could save it I guess lol.
Bro
That would explain alot
Give us the Craig Maxin cut. Fuck the cut, give me the meat as a whole.
Noone asked nor cares
Literally
Nice share man thanks
Having 3 directors and taking 5 years to make is never a good sign lol
So i know Eli Roth and Tim Miller were on it. Who was the third?
@drumline17 which is sad cuz Eli Roth is a good director
tell that to the "upcoming" blade movie too 🤣🤣🤣
@@hannahbanana.6585That was legit my first thought too, atp I don't think Blade is ever coming out 😭
I look forward to the inevitable "What Happened?" episode on this, if nothing else.
Borderlands physically can not be Borderlands with a PG-13 rating. It isn't possible.
Right? And how insulting to kids under 13 they must think they're completely brainless. Looks like they bet on the wrong pony.
Imagine watching this as a 14 year old, looking up where it came from and finding out that you're not even supposed to play it.
Borderlands has felt PG-13 for a while now for me, idk what you're talking about. I feel like they've been playing it very safe ever since BL3.
It has detailed gore and curse words, sure, but the humor has been really safe and lame. Dated memes and fart jokes, safe-edgy and overall terrible attempts of humor. And I'm not even talking about whatever the fuck is in New Tales yet.
@@Rosa_0000 I never played past Borderlands 2, so I wouldn't know
@@forkme3165 welcome to modern Borderlands then, unfortunately we're here.
BL2's humor didn't age super well, it's VERY 2012 but at least there are jokes that we still laugh about to this day, and this is true for BL1 as well. BL3 humor was never good and it's somehow even MORE aged than the previous games
My theory is this is Eli Roth's ultimate horror movie in which he tortures the audience instead of the characters.
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Which is funny because he didn't even finish the whole movie and was reshot by a different director
Dont know if this was posted, Straight from IMDB
"The movie was shot in the summer of 2021 and Eli Roth's first director's cut was reportedly finished in early 2022. However, it was shelved for over two years due to extreme studio interference while the film was in post-production. Appalled by the film's extreme violence, the studio wanted the film to be marketed as a blockbuster and hired Tim Miller to do extensive reshoots on the project. These reshoots ended up comprising so much of the final movie that Steve Jablonsky had to write an entirely new musical score, as the original score by Nathan Barr no longer fit the film." Also "Eli Roth originally shot the movie with a planned hard R-rating, keeping in vein with the original game's M-rating for mature audiences. However, last-minute rewrites, heavy edits, and reshoots from Tim Miller dialed the film back to a PG-13...."
If the eli Roth cut ever sees the light of day, I will watch the fuck out of that
So, the original movie was supposed to be good, and it was thrown out because it was "too violent"?!
Dude they cucked Eli Roth? They deserved for this movie to bomb.
So they wanted to reap parents of their money...classic greedy behavior
Tim Miller, the guy who co-created the first Deadpool, said “Ryan Reynolds is a control freak”
And now, as Deadpool and Wolverine explodes with popularity, Tim Miller got controlled into making a potentially good movie awful. Lmao
Can we talk about how bad the marketing was for this film? I saw ads for it AFTER the movie came out and when I saw Charlie upload this I thought I was tripping balls because I thought the film wasn't out yet.
Same
even the marketing team wasn’t proud of it
Not even most borderland fans asked for this.
My friend, a borderlands super fan, found out the movie existed when he went to the cinema a few weeks ago and there was a poster in the cinema. Not one ad
Same lmao
As a veteran... Can confirm that this movie is a war crime. this movie would break Geneva Conventions.
It’s the new CIA torture method
Veteran of what, ball sucking ?
As a huge Tiny Tina fan, like I aimed to be like her when I was young, I knew from the first trailer that everything was gonna suck. I told my partner “I will only watch it for Jack Black” and wouldn’t you know it, he’s the only good part.
ALL MY FRIENDS SAID “oh just give it a chance!” WHAT DID I SAY HM? AM I CRAZY NOW??
Seriously! She was hilarious and fearless in the games, in the movie she kind of felt like a Gen Z bratty kid who didn't want to be there.
@@vkinkinalso she is voiced by Ashly Burch who also voiced miss pauling from tf2 and molly mcgee
She was great on Boss Baby 2 and the Show
They turned her into Ava from BL3.
I work at a movie theater and on opening day we only sold 3 tickets for the first showing
How many showings do you have per day? In Australia most cinemas are only showing 3 per day. Which is nothing basically
That’s 3 too many.
@@THETWUAN-r3u as of right now I think we’re showing Borderlands around 5ish times a day and I think we’ve maybe sold like 20 tickets to borderland since opening
@@ChimChimsChimney you should run a flash sale for $5 each ticket or for groups of (up to) 4! Surely that would make the cinemas 20% - 40% more attendance and the owners of the cinema might make some money back lol
thats crazy I want to go just for a private theatre lmao
They lost me at having no handsome Jack. Then pissed me off by having Kreig there if his name is even Kreig in the movie and not having Maya, the ONLY reason Kreig got into contact and works with the vault hunters.
Who was the antagonist if there was no handsom jack?
@@ashkiller14 borderlands 1 villain was knox
@@nightmarextreme4371 Only in the DLC. And they don't actually use him either.
I could see no Handsome Jack if it was strictly based on 1 and they wanted to set him up for a sequel... but they brought in elements from 2.
@@nightmarextreme4371 Borderlands 1 villain was Commandente Steele
The budget went to the unnecessary cast of A and B list celebrities. For instance why do we need Jack black to do claptrap’s voice? I’m sure the ACTUAL voice of claptrap would have been much more affordable, but for the sake of slapping big names on a screen to sell tickets they blew the budget.
Yeah, Jack Black just doesn’t fit for a little guy like Claptrap. I admire his work, and I’m sure he put in effort, but he just doesn’t fit Claptrap.
EXACTLY! They know kids will watch because of the names. But they have the worst acting skills. You could throw ANYBODY in front of a camera and they will act better
People keep saying this don't know that the original voice actor of Claptrap and Gearbox had a falling out. It's the reason why he didn't return for BL3.
@@samuelonthatop1125 kids are not beating down the door to watch Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis.
The casting seemed like a list of people Randy Pitchford thought were cool at some point.
@@samuelonthatop1125 ah, yes, I can almost imagine the sea of kids pounding the doors of the theatres to be the first ones to see Jamie Lee Curtis in this movie. Sure.
The fact they went for a 55 year old woman to play the pink haired, punk, femme fatale will never cease to astound me.
Like, I get that Cate Blanchett is attractive, but… come on man, that’s just bad casting from the start.
It’s like getting fucking Tom Cruse to play Spider-Man. Like, maybe this could work if it takes place in the future, but don’t have the character dress like he’s in his early 20’s.
I disagree with this. Sorry but if you ever kept up with her modeling career you wouldn't be saying that. And old women can still be femme fatale
I would rather say that her character does not represent the one in the game and her outfit reflects that.
Exactly then taines is like 30 years older too
@@purple66666I don’t think OP is saying that Blanchett can’t play a femme fatale (she just recently played Hela and fucking ate that shit up), just not *this* femme fatale.
@@jonathanlopezsanchez4343Eh, tannis being older could have worked. People don't really get more sane as they age
I think at this point Hollywood is genuinely using video game adaptations as a means to launder the budget and get a tax write-off for the movie flopping, there's no other explanation for why they continue to fail relentlessly forever
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Sonic movie is hard idc
@@YozYFGA-d1gur vids suck lol
Nah nah nah
they're running out of film franchises to remake/readapt so they're gonna start using gaming franchies 😂
The bastardization of my childhood has never looked so grim
Bruh 🤛🏻😭
Wild
Your childhood? You are very lucky you are not a boomer or Gen X'er.
As a halo fan, i'm right there with you 🤝
my man you could have been hit harder, i had got to watch dragonball evolution when it came out
I like what someone else had commented somewhere “They tried making a movie for everyone and ended up with a movie for no one”
Common Hollywood fuck up.
The first 2 words of that sentence are already wrong.
They even showed a crew member in the official trailer at 00:10 with a black baseball cap and mask and that scene not only was in the trailer but the official release. It’s when they open a manhole and all the crew are looking in. You can see him holding it open where the hinge is. Jesus Christ.
Randy Pitchford Was Even Joking It Was Brick But He Got Cut From The Rest Of The Film.
@@collinkeyser6827do you purposely hit the capital key at the beginning of every word? Why? It looks terrible and takes longer to type. I genuinely don’t understand
@@shulker7442 unjustified crash out, but I honestly thought the same thing lol
Just went on a little investigation. It seems like the script was actually great ,written by Craig Mazin, responsible for Chernobyl and The Last Of Us. This was until Eli Roth got involved and made your classic Hollywood changes, so Craig ended up leaving the project. Nothing of this is fully confirmed, but it seems to be the case.
Also, all 5 and 4 star reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are from accounts that only reviewed this "movie", basically bots that rate this movie higher so it doesn't look that bad on them. Jeez, just goes to show how disgusting this industry is.
Took two seconds to google and already found two articles stating Craig was never involved. The one I read had Craig stating in an interview that he never wrote a single bit for the film and claims of using a pseudonym for the credits are false too lol. Really was just written by Eli Roth and Joe Crombie only.
@@sourpuss5951joe crumble doesn’t even exist
@@sourpuss5951 his name was in the official promo and website for a while until it got removed. After that he started claiming that he was not involved in the script in any way. Seems to me he wrote the first script, and when they started changing it he left because he didn't want his name attached to this mess.
" responsible for Chernobyl and The Last Of Us" should have been a clue...
nah eli roth had a cut finished and then the studio ripped it apart so bad they had to make a whole new soundtrack
They spent the ENTIRE fucking budget on casting A and B list celebrities for the big names to be attached to the film. They made it PG-13 instead of M-rated like the games, and they casted THE WORST people even with the budget. Jack black for Claptrap? Why? The ACTUAL VA for Claptrap would have been much cheaper AND better! Why is everyone so damn old? They look NOTHING even remotely similar to the charaxters! Seriously this shit gets on my nerves because Hollywood ALWAYS shits on our favorite things just to try and make money.
I heard somewhere that even if they wanted the Claptrap voice actor that he doesn’t want to be a part of the games anymore and wasn’t in Borderlands 3. Even if he would though they still would’ve paid Jack Black
I find it weird how everyone is harping on the ONE casting choice that's at least somewhat proper. Claptrap is by far the BEST casting choice this moving makes in regards to it's main cast.
@@huntersuper98 It being the best decision in the movie doesn’t mean much when it’s so ass. They cast fucking Kevin heart as Roland. The reason we’re talking about that as well is because Claptrap’s voice is one of his most important characteristics. We’re not harping on just the voice. If you read the rest of my comment you see I call out the rest of the castings IMMEDIATELY afterward. The entire movie was terrible.
@@thememelord465 Yes, and I was pointing out the weird hyper fixation from people in these comments about the one decent casting. It's clear the focus for you was on claptrap with the other cast as an afterthought. The weird defensive response tells me I'm right on that as well.
We all know the movies it terrible. I could tell it was gonna be bad from the first 15 seconds of one of the trailers. I was talking about the bad casting upon looking at them when the trailers released lol. Idk why you're trying to make a point like I'm saying the movie is somehow good.
Also the original VA for claptrap is impossible to get because he won't do work for the Borderlands franchise ever again after BL 2.
@@huntersuper98 No my focus was on the casting of the entire movie. I haven’t even seen the movie which is why I threw Jack blacks casting in there in passing since this is my first time hearing of it. Don’t assume shit you clearly have no way of knowing. I said one thing about his casting in passing before moving on to the rest of my comment. You seem to be the one hyper fixated on anything JB related though…
Never once made it seem like you said the movie was good. I said that Jacks casting being the “best” isn’t saying much with how the rest were chosen.
They don’t need the original VA. Borderlands 3 has a COMPLETELY new guy voicing Claptrap and most people who don’t look into the games or follow the VAs wouldn’t even be able to tell. They just need someone who sounds similar. Could’ve easily paid for that with that 100m budget.
Man, worse than Tarot is actually insane. What a year for bad movies. Every time Charlie says "this is the worst movie of the year" Hollywood claps back with an even worse one just to prove them wrong. I find it mind boggling that Hollywood is burning this much money, surly at some point they have to stop, right?
Not just movies, but literaly the entire entertaiment industry. And media is still defending most of it
Considering that it's adapting a fairly popular franchise, it didn't even have to that good to get a pass & apparently, from what people I personally know have told me, the movie didn't even manage that. So that's what would it make it worse than Tarot because nobody cared about that movie. Borderlands has a built in fan base that it seems are going to be mostly disappointed.
@@ashleybrooke2087 I'm more more under the impression that it was worse because it was just boring while tarot was only bad.
It's a tax write-off. They do this on purpose to shift money around. look up 'hollywood accounting'
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That scene with the flashing lights in the tunnel literally gave me a headache. I remember wondering how it turned out for any epileptic that saw the film, as there didn’t seem to be any warning beforehand
Everyone knew it would be unbelievably horrid, but the fact that they didn’t cast Idris Elba as Roland was painful from the beginning.
Honestly, they really should of
Idris elba or even denzel washington. You need someone with the stoic vibe, kevin hart has to be the absolute worst possible choice
@@BlakossDenzel is overrated
Oh that would’ve been good, he was great in Suicide Squad 2, also should’ve had Glenn Howerton as Handsome Jack
@@revemb4653 not more overrated than kevin hart
So sad. I have such fond memories of going to Walmart with my brothers, realizing the game was on sale for $40 Canadian, each picking up a copy, and then playing it with them + my bf for days going through the story, collecting guns, etc. Fortunately, this movie can't touch that memory.
Luckily this movie isn’t able to change how the game feels to me. Unless kevin hart thanos snaps my brother from my brain then imma be happy
It’s was made by woke leftists…what do you expect. And the radical leftist jack black is in it
Right on! Memories like that truly are beautiful and last ❤️
I didn’t know you could buy Borderlands in Canada? I thought guns were illegal there and under the Trudoh Administration all media depicting firearms were also banned?
@@davemccage7918 you HAVE to be joking if you seriously think any media depicting firearms is banned in canada, sure we cant get them easily but they arent treated as some kind of ultra taboo thing that we arent allowed to know even exists
"A movie made to be watched on a second monitor" might be the harshest criticism of a film I've ever heard, and it's well deserved.
My favorite part is that when the movie wasn't out randy pitchford was like "this movie is going to be the best movie ever nothing can compare, and im so proud of all my involvement with the movie." Now that its out he's like "we had nothing to do with the movies creation so it being terrible isn't our fault."
Something worth noting, all the actors had to film this ON Location, except Jack Black, he talks about this on an appearance of Conan O'Brien's podcast. He "jokes" about Jaime Lee Curtis being angry that they're all stuck in a desert filming and Jack was just sitting in a cozy recording studio back in L.A.
We have Guardians of the Galaxy at home.
A retirement home.
Damn bro, this goes too hard. Calm dooooown bro, fr
This is what happens when you get an R-Rated horror film director to make a PG-13 action movie based on a Rated M looter shooter game franchise.
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I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be rated R initially, but was dulled down to pg-13 in the hope it would make something back.
Apparently according to someone who worked on it that it was shot as a R but edited to be PG-13
The craziest part about seeing this movie for me was the fact that LITERALLY EVERYONE (except my friends and I) in my theater ate this movie up. They were laughing at every single little joke in the movie, they were even laughing at shit that wasn’t even jokes. I was more in awe watching the audience than the actual movie.
How Many People Were In The Theatre?! Most Showings To This Are Bare With Only 2-3 People Seeing Ii.
@@collinkeyser6827 it was like three groups of grown ass adults
Most of that 100mil budget probably went to the star studded cast.
That's exactly where most of the budget went
The remaining budget went into marketing cause I've seen this shit be advertised all over TV
Probably went to the producer's pocket. Same thing happened to Battlefield Earth. The budget they shot for that movie was like 75 million dollars and only 20 million dollars been used for making the movie.
It's alarming to see such a terrible adaptation that disrespects the potential of the source material. The makers should've done better with this film.
What fucking potential, Borderlands comedy and writing was always god awful, the only funny dialogue they ever had was improvised by the actor
@@VindexSolis I'll give you Borderlands 3, but the other games, despite their jokes, still had serious stakes when it came to it. Borderlands 2 especially. After the deaths of Angel and Roland, things take quite a shift. There's still jokes afterwards, sure, but things were much more serious and grim.
Borderlands 1 was very serious and dark....
Didnt you know? Thats the trend nowadays.
Halo, The Witcher, Cowboy Bebop, Deathnote, (and now Borderlands) etc were all adapted in TV shows/films by people that knew nothing about the IP nor interacted with source material.
And to make matters worse, Amazon is apparently working on a Yakuza Like a Dragon TV series where they are casting people who have never played any of the games into all of the character roles and scriptwriters.
Just seems to be the trend now I guess
They shouldn't have made a Borderlands movie to begin with. It's a video game franchise that had no place being on the big screen. No movie (no matter how good it could've been if they hired people that actually cared about the games) could've told the story of Borderlands as good or better than the games did.
nine years. almost a whole decade for this movie, and they messed it up so, so, so bad…
You forgot to put several other so's
Nine years?!
@Joseph_14144 shut up
@@crimsonitacilunarnebula any game that sold really well during the ps3/360 era had talks about being adapted and never went anywhere until the last few years,so id be skeptical about bioshock.
Sad. @@Tannerj50
Us borderline fans do not agree with this movie, this is like a direct slap in the face. This is like Halo TV series level being spit on right now
"There's no way 100 million dollars went into this movie somebody needs to investigate"
Once again, Randy Pitchford is laughing all the way to the bank while we get served another pile of slop, courtesy of Randal.
30 million went to Kevin hart
@nrdsgtbck101 Randy Pitchford is so greasy there is a prize for catching him at the state fair.
The fact that this has a lower rotten tomatoes score than The Emoji Movie, Madame Web, Fant4stic, Josstice League, THE ********* ROOM, Tarot, Expend4bles, Rebel Moon parts 1 and 2, AND Morbius (although it's the movie of all time) is so insane you'd think you just woke up from a coma.
😅
I wished expendables 4 was better especially how barney supposley came back from the dead and used the cheap trope of replacing the body to fake the death
@@mulletmayhem3812 That fake out death was so dumb, especially with how the body was flipping off people.
This is approaching Fant4stic levels of incompetence.
Man I appreciate the morbius meme (I miss this simple times)
It's really unfortunate because in the future if someone ever wanted to reboot and try again, studio execs will look at the dumpster fire this movie is, see how much money it loses, and it will never see the light of day.
When Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Cate Blanchett were announced, we all knew this is what it would be.
and Bobby Lee
And Jack Black for fucking Claptrap.
Good. Some stories are better told in the medium of games. Borderlands is it's genre, it's just shoot and level up combined. A shooter with classes and rpg stuff. That's it, that's the whole selling point. The story serves purely to be a framework for you to shoot and level up in.
That's why people don't like the series as much from the third game on. They tried making it all about learning about the characters and the worldbuilding, with a chosen one story, and it wasn't about the players experience anymore. A PLAYER EXPERIENCE. The story is made as the player shoots. And levels up. That's the real story. Can't make that into a movie.
Naaah, it only took 40 years before they made a 2nd Mario Bros movie!
let's be honest you can tell it's cash grab when jack black is hired just because he's fan favourite, and there isn't any substance to the story
12:44 "marcus shows up and he's like, 'I'm the bus driver!' And then he's like, 'I'm the guy selling guns!' and then he's like... 'I'm not in the movie ever again"" I'm crying 😭😭
Of course they didn't credit the animators because if there's one thing Hollywood and Gaming has in common.
While I agree, maybe this one time the animators did not want their name on it. I wouldn't.
@@vellathewenchworking on a $110m movie with Kevin hart is quite an item for your resume, even if the movie wasn't good
@vellathewench that's dumb
@@OneUp-18 Is it? Or are you? I wouldn't want my name attached to this disaster.
@@XBeamChannelthis aged like milk
Randy Pitchford is the worst thing to ever happen to gearbox. Borderlands will never be the same until they remove that living piece of trash.
Worst? Have you seen Randy's magic tricks?
Dude straight up throttled the original voice actor for claptrap in a verbal dispute...
What I keep saying and people keep getting slapped around by mediocrity and then are surprised.
everyonee makes Randy Pitchford to be this villain, last time i checked some if not any accusation that was against him was fake.
he isnt whats wrong with Borderlands, thats the people they hire to help with the games, he didnt write the story for 3 or anything.. that was a bbunch of people that were hired and had not a clue what to do. if i remember after the release of 3 and the ratings came in, they got fired
@Tu57hthe just did lol & he clearly ain’t wrong
The trailers for this movie kept popping up in the ads for me and I was like "There's no way this is good." They make it sound like the most cringe-inducing yet blandest, most generic action movie ever, especially the one where it says it's the most savage movie of the year or something like that 😂
dont talk about mr b
Your hotel room conversation about it clowning on it was 100% bettwr than the movie
as someone who has played borderlands ever since I was a 12-year-old, none of us asked for this film nor did I, It just feels like gearbox went corporate sold off The borderlands IP for pennies and let a person who has never played borderlands nor have watched anyone played it Make a movie out of it, It's absolutely disgusting seeing that my teenhood video game have this happen to it.
Gearbox has fucked every ip it's had its grubby hands on into the dirt especially since randy pitchfart got more handsy with the ips dude just makes them put in his fetishes and le smart writing twists
Exactly. I've played Borderlands since I was THREE and it sucks seeing Gearbox go down this seemingly corporate rabbit hole. The original games from b1 to pre-sequel and b2 were FANTASTIC but they started to go down this road where B3 just kinda felt off. It's like they're caring less and less about what they do with the franchise and trying to make it cater towards the modern audience instead of continuing what they have done in the past. With this movie, it seems like the leaders of Gearbox are just handing this shit off like its nothing and it breaks my heart seeing my favorite franchise crumble like this. I can only hope that with the next Borderlands project they are working on will do better (and hopefully much better than this garbage fire of a film).
The movie has nothing to do with the game.
@@AllHailTheRamenEmperor Then why even make it If it's not about the game? That is the equivalent of making a hamburger, removing the beef patty and replacing it with a chicken patty
I work at a theatre and opening day this movie sold 190 tickets total. For reference, IF came out several months ago and filled a theatre more than Borderlands did.
wat if
was IF that bad too lol
@@bigvideoenergy i think he means 'currently still selling more daily tickets' compared to a movie that came out this weekend lol
@@jessesteeltown oh right
Theater employee here too, literally nobody is watching it in my place lol. Only had maybe 10 people tops go in per showing, half were older people who have no idea what Borderlands is and took a chance. Doubt they enjoyed it lol
This movie was completed in 2021, Eli Roth was either fired or quit after filming, They brought Tim Miller to try and save it, and it's so bad the writer asked to have their name removed from the credits. The writer that is named in the credits is a made up name, so they had something in the written by section. Everyone knew this movie was DOA.
Apparently, the script was good and then Eli Roth ruined it
@BaranoffIsaac From what I heard, the first drafts were actually good and showed promise then the changes happened and what we got was...this.
@@kai8618 So wait, you mean to tell me that a popular game franchise, with a good following, somehow got greenlit for a movie, and it was ruined by persistent studio notes!? I am shocked. Flabbergasted.
@@fcon2123 Like, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but the first script was from the person who made the live action "The Last of Us" show, which is why it showed promise in the beginning...but then...changes happened. So yeah, studio meddling really turned this into shit
okay but that camera recording the recap discussion is so good like everybody’s skin looking hella smooth and radiant
The moment they revealed Kevin Heart as Roland everyone knew it was going to be one of those movies that relies purely on Star power and Brand recognition to sell tickets, no one expected it to be good
I only played part 2 and when I saw that casting, I knew the movie would suck
Kevin Hart seriously bugs me now, he is THE default lazy casting choice for every awful comedy. And the sad part is he isn't even FUNNY anymore
That and Eli Roth as director told me everything I needed to know
@@madduxnagel6935he's like the male Melissa McCarthy, him and her are in like 2 movies a year it feels like
@@madduxnagel6935 ...was he ever? Like really think about it
How hard is it to find 100+ religious/dedicated players, rounds them up and ask them what wants and needs they have of a movie adaptation? Like genuinely so frustrating how many of these are going to flop..
They don’t even have to go that far. All they have to do is go on UA-cam and watch like 10 hrs of commentaries, lore, and reaction videos. 😂
They didn’t do that because none of the fan base wanted this movie and that’s not the answer the director wanted
@@_nuclearnoodle_5757 Nah, that's not what Randy Pitchford wanted. He's been trying to push this movie for a decade
Because its not made for them, or for any average audience. The point for this slop isn't even to fill seats in a theater or sales. It's just to pay people in the industry and ruin one more thing. Why it's being ruined well there are a variety of reasons that would get this comment "shushed" lmao.
@@pokeman5000 Nah this is pure incompetence. Trust me... 😭
Fun fact the movie wrapped shooting at the end of 2019. Half of the movie was completely reshot for PG-13 because gearbox and Randy pitchford wanted to market it to a wider audience. Worked out fucking great as we can se
"Guys we know this games fanbase is predominantly adults but lets make this movie kid friendly okay?"
Looks like Randy's grease seeped into another project and ruined it.
“Greasy bastard”
Its usually for the audiences in china, it used to be that hollywood would edit out blood and other violent things so they can release their movies there. But it cost more time in post production,now they just skip that by shooting it for all audiences.
Trying to earn some esg points with their tax write off.
I am a fan of borderlands, my wife is a gamer, and her mother is a movie watcher. As we all watched the movie, we could agree it was as good as around spy kids level of film. Which makes this more of a family friendly movie. It certainly is not worse than monster hunter. As a borderlands fan, the lore pretty much held solid for the most part. So the reviews that are trashing it so hard on rotten tomatoes isn't even considering the level of movies that have previously been reviewed, even recently, like monster hunter. It's not a great movie, but it's not a bad movie.
I love Cate Blanchett, she's one of my favorite actresses. She was one of the worst choices possible to play Lilith. Not only is she nearly three times the age of Lilith in the first game but her persona might as well be the polar opposite of how Lilith is in the games.
You know she's a fraud, right? Her "poor upbringing" by her Texan advertising executive dad and her property developer mum that she harps on about 😂
but she does kind of look lik her..especially the nose..i feel lik if they added her lipstick she wouldve look mor lik her..herurmm
why the fuck do they not do animation. borderlands is literally perfect for it. just look at edgerunners
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It would literally be perfect.
My God... IT'S REPLY BOT HELL!!!!!
@@Z2Obsidion hey, a human! fair thee well traveller
I love Cate Blanchett. I really do. She's great. But the character she's supposed to be playing is like 20-30 years younger than her. And _why_ is Kevin Hart in it???
Cate*
Because in movies this bad the only way to pull some people in is the "oh I like Kevin heart" angle. I told my mum not to watch morbius but she likes Jarrod letto so she watched it, she also likes Kevin heart and cate blanchett so I bet if I ask her next week she will have gone and seen it.
The fact the last movie I saw her in before this was tar is the biggest whiplash I’ve ever seen
I watched it for free on UA-cam and I still feel like I need a refund.
They honestly should have just created their own vault hunters and own unique story, instead we got borderlands 3 writing but if a 5 year old wrote it
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So just borderlands 3 then
@@YozYFGA-d1gdude you can’t even spell
_"GEARBOX!"_
I know so many devs who work on the game.. (we play D&D) they didn’t want the movie at all.. complained all the time that they never bothered to ask for help.. except for jack black he reached out often.
Once again Jack Black W
Best way I can describe the film is that the writer had a fever dream after watching a video essay made by a 12 year old that watched their sibling play half of one of the games
Underrated comment. this is a perfect desciption
I really am wondering what is going on with studios and most big budget movies now a days. Movies that are being made for a quarter of the price are the ones that people want to see. They have dedicated people behind their projects that the audience picks up on & wants to support. People are dumb but not dumb enough to be tricked as many times into seeing BIG BUGDET IPs that are stripped of their original appeal & magic. Expensive movies use to mean something back in the day. Now Hollywood has watered down as much as anything else it beats into the ground when ONE movie breaks through the mainstream. Everyone follows nobody leads...except for a few directors/actors here & there that have the reputation or establishment. rant done lol
YOU RIGHT MAN
How this movie stripped out original appeal and magic of borderlands ?
First we waited for borderlands 3 forever and when it finally comes out its completely ruined. And now they spit us fans in the face by making fun of the entire franchise with THIS? Im so pissed off.
BL4 needs to have a completely new writing team after 3. The gameplay, art, music, sound design, etc. was super solid, but the writing was atrocious
@tyrone687 The gameplay is good yes, but the writing was so cringe.
@tyrone687 story is beyond trash though. Bl2 had fantastic gameplay and a phenomenal story
We gotta accept our beloved franchise is pretty much dead. There hasn't been a good bl media since tales.
@@tyrone687 I agree with you on that but most players only do one playthrough and care mostly about the plot and that part of bl3 sucked
The movie was a massive letdown, especially considering how much I loved the Borderlands games. It's regrettable to see such iconic source material treated poorly.
Video games adapted into other media are 99% pure cringe
Just watch "Alice in Borderland" instead, it's a better borderlands 😏
@@1WEareBUFO1 True but this should have been the easist thing to adopt; take the barebones store of the first game, replace the forgettable villain with Handsome Jack, be violent and bloody. That's really it--the games were practically modeled off Mad Max and action movies in general, so this should have been simple.
It's as if Hollywood doesn't know how to write good video game to movie adaptations. Weird, huh?
No way. After 35 crappy video game movie adaptations, I really really thought they would get it right this time!
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After so many good adaptations recently, one sucks and you write this. Are you commenting from 2015 or what?
They have to add "the message" and not use any of the source material outside of iconic character names.
@@rjante2236Not movies, but Last of Us and Fallout.
I went to pirate it, and turned it off as soon as they didnt have Markus narrating it, and that General Knoxx was now Commander Knoxx, and genderswapped for no reason
There was one critic that gave the movie 100% and said: "I enjoyed it" and that's it, not even explaining why.
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Must be a bot
Sounds like a bot
bleep boop.
I love reading botted/bought reviews. They're magical. Lululemon reviews are a great place to find 100% identical reviews right in a row and some real basic ones that just say ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ great product!
The creator of the movie probably only did the tutorial in Borderlands and said holy shit imma make this into a movie
@Solitaire-enjoyerthey should’ve just added Mario with a Glock and he just says random funny stuff and during serious things he just gandam styles
I went with my friends to watch this movie on the release day, and after the movie my card declined when trying to get dinner. I was somehow less distraught by the fact that i was now broke, but more that i used the last money in my bank account to watch this movie.
GET OUT@Joseph_14144
Oh I figured *for sure* this story was going the direction of "So my bank called me about a fraudulent charge. Turns out they saw a ticket for Borderlands in the billing statement and immediately flagged my card as stolen" 😂
Ouch... that's so shitty I literally felt your pain for a solid minute... I'm sorry borthor... It's like hearing a friend talk about blowing 20 grand in Vegas.. I'm here if you need anything...
Hey I'll be praying for you brother 🙏✝️
I hate to break it to you people, but I called this at the very announcement of the movie; live-action movies trying to interpret in their own style the work of other animated products, almost NEVER works out. Plus, look at the cast, I'm not saying they're not great actors, but this lineup is a fucking joke and nowhere close to what people would need to fill in the roles of the extremely diverse and unique characters of the Borderlands game series.
What's sad is all the actors signed on for the original script, which was really good. But they ended up butchering the original material so badly, one of the OG writers on there was so embarrassed that he asked for his credit to be removed because they went so far from the original. Thank Randy pitchford for what it is now. That's why everyone on there looked bored, because they ARE bored....
Damnit Randy
I forgot that they were even making a Borderlands movie, there was little to no marketing
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Yea only heard of it in the theatre as a trailer
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I stopped caring when I saw the stoic tall buff serious leader (Roland) was fucking Kevin Hart and Lilith was made to look ultra old.
And it was a good choice to not market it
Why does Lilith look like her Siren power is menopause
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Detective Pikachu, Sonic and Mario have spent the last few years trying to prove that you can have good video game movies after the previous decades failed to ever reach higher than "bad but a hint of enjoyability?". This movie seems to have tried to stomp out any progress made. Sadly, the trailers seem to have Minecraft join the dark side as well...
As someone who never played the Borderlands games, this movie was an absolute disaster. Just pure generic slop, and very juvenile especially for a movie based of a M rated game.
Edit: Ik this movie is a 12+, but why would you make a movie based of a M rated game? It’s like making a PG-13/12+ movie based of Doom.
Now imagine the pain of someone that loves this Franchise for the last 10+ years.....
It's the capitalism. PG-13 is meant to reach a larger audience.
@@therealNguniEmperor Mortal Kombat 1995 worked as a pg-13 movie.
Because the game was only rated M because of all the dismemberment and gore. That's not why most people play borderlands though, I think most of us come for the jokes and the unicorn that poops diamonds
you paid for this movie after seeing the trailers and not having played the game??? do you just like throwing money at people that don't deserve it? could I interest you in my venmo?
Went to the movie theater with my brother and my girlfriend afraid that there was not gonna be any seat, turns out every seat was open😭
I need to reserve seats at my theater seeing release night have 5 seats booked made me look up the score being like 4 on imbd
My personal rule: if the movie has Kevin Hart, it's bad. No offence to him, I personally like the guy, but every movie I've seen him in is bad.
I'm not a big fan of him, but Jumanji is good.
Jumanji was kinda funny. and that movie he did Will Ferrell was decent
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie: 😐
Except for Captain Underpants. His voice work was solid
Totally agree.
Kevin Hart as Roland was the biggest red flag besides the casting for Lilith..
The film has so far grossed $4 million against a $120 million budget 😭
Well It's Now Moving To Streaming 😄
This movie makes me want to skin my own tattoo sleeve off my arm. My tattoo sleeve is 100% borderlands dedicated. I've got over 13000 hours into BL2. So here's some facts on the movie for everyone (SPOILERS):
Arianna Greenblatt based her performance off Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn because she had never heard of the games or the character.
They changed Tiny Tinas origins so, so badly. In the games, her parents are brutally murdered in front of her eyes turning her insane. I'm the movie, she's a lab grown daughter to Atlas and has the power to open the vault. Not the vault key, Tiny Tina.
Jaime Lee Curtis made Tannis have Autism instead of being virtually insane from receiving ancient knowledge she wasn't supposed to after being in isolation for a long ass time.
The actors who were in this movie playing characters from the games never bothered to contact their respective voice actor except for Benjamin Byron Davis and Jack Black. Benjamin is already a voice actor, voicing and doing all the mocap for Dutch from Red Dead 2 and Jack Black was already vouched for by David Eddings.
Eli Roth was fired after a bad screen test, and they got Tim Miller for reshoots. However they only gave Tim Miller 2 weeks to redo the entire movie, like what the actual hell???? So that means whatever they shot for the movie was already trash before getting reshoots done.
None of the cast knew what they were doing when they got offered their roles, and they've all stated as much in several interviews. No one tried out for any role except for Cate Blanchett, they were all offered/given. Meaning the casting director just really didn't give a fuck.
When asked about what they did to stay true to the games, Kevin Hart stated that he had never heard of the games prior and after getting offered the role, went to UA-cam to KINDA watch and understand the story. Saying he was bringing Roland's soldier attitude from the games...
In the movie, they goto a XXX club with ZERO GRAPHIC IMAGERY WHATSOEVER. Lilith was made a siren at the end of the movie instead of her whole fucking Life.
Randy was claiming that this movie is on par with the Fallout TV Show, the Super Mario Bros movie, and other well made video game adaptations. He wants to make a whole Borderlands cinematic universe. They even made a "help line" for people to text their opinions about the movie, which is not going to bode well at all...
They completely failed to list Claptrap's puppet handler and one of Claptrap's CG artists in the credits of the film, which doesn't feel legal for some reason.
David Eddings, Claptrap's original voice actor was heavily involved with the production of the movie until his mysterious departure in 2022. He even vouched for Jack Blacks performance as Claptrap, asking us to give him a shot. However, after getting removed from the movie, he basically refused to comment on it or just give your basic "Yeah it's borderlands and it exists" type of statement. Around the same time he was removed from the movie, Randy Pitchford subsequently left the gaming side of Gearbox to the become the CEO of the new Movie and TV side of Gearbox.
A singular stunt coordinator said that Eli Roth filmed "a lot more" blood and gore than what was shown before the "suits" interfered. But the thing is, is that the "suits" and higher ups have no say on what a movie's rating is. It's all from audiences and critics doing screen tests. It's based on movie content, local standards for ratings, and audience ratings. So that means that whatever Roth and Miller filmed was already worth a PG-13 rating. The suits can interfere with production and what is filmed, but they can't actually affect ratings. So there was no chance of this movie becoming R rated and actually being decent.
The reason why Gearbox didn't bring David Eddings in for the voice of Claptrap is because 1) they're anti union and 2) had creative differences with him (I.e. mysteriously removing him from the movie as he isn't credited anywhere). David Eddings is a part of the Voice Actors union. He was supposed to get paid for all his work in Borderlands 3, insisted on getting his paycheck, and all of sudden "they couldn't afford him anymore" without paying him a single cent. The exact same thing happened with Troy Baker and Rhys Strongfork from Tales From The Borderlands. Which is why neither of them returned for Borderlands 3 or are going to for future Borderlands project.
Craig Mazin, writer of The Last of Us, fought so hard to have his name removed from the project entirely. He knew it was bad, he didn't wanna be tied to it. He wrote a screenplay back in 2020, some aspects of it were used in this film which is why he fought so hard to have his name removed.
I've been heavily following the production of the movie since it first got announced
Pitchford not being involved in the games is an absolute win. The man's greed is on par with Bobby Cotick
We thank you for your dedication to the movie's production.
And sincerely send you our condolences for this travesty.
Lmao, I agree with everything you said, the first and immediate reason why I knew the movie was going to be bad when I heard Randy pitchfork was becoming the CEO. After his reaction to the reviews of borderlands 3 I have zero faith in him lol.
It's wild that Jack black was the best thing about this film lol, I like Jack black but I heard he was claptrap of all characters I was like why not just have the actual voice actor, do the voice acting roles.
1,300 hours or 13,000 hours 😨, either way thats gotta blow to have that much dedication and for this to flop so hard
thank you for your service!
Fun fact Jack Black said in his recent podcast with Conan that he prerecorded all his lines and wasn't present at all at the location of the shooting which was reportedly hated by the cast. So he actually was the only person that wanted to be there :D
dont talk about mr baest
Jack Black prerecorded all his lines and wasn't present, but he was the only person who wanted to be there? I don't understand?
@@FrazzaJ2000I’m confused too
I guess since he was just a VA, and no physical character was needed, for a robot they just didn’t need him around and just needed his voice.
@@FrazzaJ2000 he was complaining about not being at the location when he said he wasnt present at all
The Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy movie that SpongeBob SquarePants made in that one episode was a far better put together project than this movie.