BORDERLANDS Is An Awful Adaptation
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- The recently released Borderlands movie by Eli Roth, based on the popular video game series, has finally hit theaters, but unfortunately, it falls victim to the same pitfalls that have plagued many adaptations before it.
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Kevin hart admitting that they went the opposite direction of what the FANS expect of Roland’s portrayal explains the whole movie and he should be ashamed.
“Local vegan restaurant makes controversial decision to secretly serve animal products in their food - states ‘we wanted to move in the opposite direction of what was expected of us!’” /J
@@CaulkMongler You just reminded me of a news story from years ago. An Icelandic meat pie company had secretly been putting vegan faux meat in their product. Customers were not pleased.
@@CaulkMongler that would be a sweet headline. All the time they would be "this plant based burger is so good."
Fool... why you eating anything in burger form if you a vegan?
Ashamed? Yes. Not happy about walking home with another movie pay check? No.
dont give the fans what they want then wounder why the movie fails?
recently a movie came out where they said they wanted to give the fans what they wanted and its doing extreamly well.
Cast needed to be totally different, but then again Randy Pitchford hates the fans and is a creep
Whole script needed to be different too. Randy is having a meltdown on Twitter because of the movie 😂
It's my understanding pitchford melted down after BL2. Notable input from that feminist media contractor baby something or other. This movie comes off as if pitchford had a ton of money and dumped it into a movie. This is 100% ego, hence why none of the star studded cast makes sense, he just picked his favorites, roth too. Bobby lee is probably the feather in the cap of that theory for me. Who hires him to do anything these days? It will always just be bobby lee in the movie, instead of character played by bobby lee. Sadly I think this kills one of the top game franchizes, if wonderland hadn't already done so that is.
Really just seems like he hand picked different things they liked and put them into a movie. Like what about borderlands 2 or 3 movie ? No foresight for the future. Just like how the games are going. Gotta love it.
The cast seems like the studio said, "Jumangi adaptation made money, be like that." Kevin Hart was probably cheaper than than the Rock, or they thought "funnier."
no one likes randy pitchford, so it is ok
I'm convinced that it should be a rule at this point for directors of an adaptation like this to actually be fans of the source material. This "movie" and Fant4stic are perfect examples of what happens when they aren't, while Denis Villeneuve's Dune films give the book the respect it deserves. Such a simple idea, but so many film studios refuse to even acknowledge it, resulting in garbage like this being thrown onto our screens.
Studios don’t care. In fact companies like marvel actively tell directors and actors not to read the comics they are adapting. It’s such a weird approach to adapting stuff
Fallout was pretty good
@@filmcomicsexplainedyou meant to say fox did that with X-Men 😂
"New" material and properties are risky, and nobody in hollywood is willing to take those risks right now. So you get themes and storylines which should be their own stand-alone properties shoehorned into existing properties or adaptations.
So many shows and movies we've been shown recently I know you've asked yourself, I know I've asked myself, why is this here, why didn't they create their own property rather than colonizing the stories and properties that we grew up loving. And its just the industry of today.
@@TheRealBatCaveno it wasn't. It both a bad show and a bad fallout adaptation
I knew the movie was gonna be garbage when I saw Kevin Hart in the trailer
He was miscast as Roland lol
Yep. Probably won't watch this one. It's a shame tho since I like the games
But it's still crazy when a film fails miserably with Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart, Jack Black AND Cate Blanchett
@AlternateMichael plenty of star filled bombs over the years 🤷♂️
Soon as I heard Eli Roth was directing I knew it was one to avoid.
I am CONVINCED Roth did this as a tax write off. There's no way he thought this was a good screen play.
Is this Roth's "Uwe Boll arc?"
@twennysebben I'll believe it when he boxes a bunch of critics back to back and wins.
He knew he miscast this. I like Kevin hart more than most in this comment section but he isn’t a serious actor. Even when he tries to be serious it comes off as comedy. JL Curtis and Cate B are far too old too. Jack black is talented but can’t be serious… I think they could have made this great if it was taken more seriously
Claptrap in the game: Hated by everyone, but ends up being hilarious and loved by fans
Claptrap in the movie: Tries so hard to be funny he ends up being hated by everyone
The key is claptrap in the game is serious which makes him funny. Ironic isn't it.
@@BladeValant546 Yeah because of his programing and the voice he was designed with he always sound happy and joyous, despite being depressed and a tortured soul throughout his life. It really added the charm to his character
Bro, claptrap is still trash. I understand the idea behind claptrap, but I hated that robot in BL2
Yes after about the 2nd game it got a bit obnoxious@@kakkacarmenelectra7229
Claptrap is not. Funny.
honestly feel bad for Tina's actress. Like she seems she did wanna make it work but my god were the dealt cards shitty
She's a decent actress, she was great in Ashoka and Barbie. She could've really shined with a better script.
The problem is that the actors only know about the characters based off what a director told them instead of actually playing the game for themselves to understand the characters, this is a common problem with video game movies it’s either the director knows the game but the actors don’t or the actors know about the game but the director doesn’t
The director is 100% to blame. Actors are trash in the end of the day. They work for money and not integrity. Of course exceptions to the rule exist.
And when that director is Eli Roth, then it is doomed from the start.
People in Hollywood still think that they're the best entertainment medium so they look down on anything other than movies. That's why video game movies will always suck
They don't even need to play the games... that would take far too long. But there's a wealth of info about the Borderlands characters, their backstories, the overall storyline of the games, the character trailers... all things that Gearbox could have provided. But the moment scriptwriters of an adaptation want to do "their own thing" instead of working within the existing material, things are bound to be crap.
@webinatic216 I think Henry Cavil and Edward Norton are the exception. When they like and do a movie they try to stay fateful to the source material.
Kevin Hart is the exact opposite to Roland in the game..... Wtf we're they thinking casting him.
im guessing they thought star power would save their shitty decisions, they clearly didn't play the games.
@@kujo4388because he became a leader. He still had some funny moments/lines. But him being in charge of the Crimson Lance he had to become more stoic and serious.
I wouldn't have even cared if they made him genuinely funny. Like I'm fine with having a funny Roland, who cares, and I'm fine with having stoic Roland. But I'm not fine with having neither.
Couldn't agree more.
@@kujo4388All the characters in Borderlands 1 didn’t have any personality beyond “funny quip after kill” so I don’t know why you’re not addressing that fact.
They used a load of big names for no reason, none of this cast felt right for the characters they were supposed to portray. This film would have done better with a cast of complete unknowns. Half the cast is too old to be playing roles like this.
Thank you.....I was like why are these 60+ year old women cast in a game movie.
@@DesRaven, the only woman who’s 60+ is Jamie Lee Curtis. Blanchett and Gershon and are in their fifties.
@@NirualLmao
And the characters they play are 30..... So his 5 years isn't that off lol @@Nirual
The whole reason they do it is so the general public are magnetized towards a movie with a backstory they know nothing about. Directors/writers are so worried that because your average Joe knows nothing about video games, they won't give the movie a chance. Meanwhile, Fallout had a cast full of unknowns and all sorts of different people loved it.
Two things I want to share:
1. Lilith was referred to as the Firehawk by a cultist group of Psychos in BL2, so her being the Firehawk in the movie makes some sense in that regard.
2. Calling Kevin Hart an Ewok was a bigger burn than anything Lilith could dish out.
She had a cult
I haven't seen the movie but if they didn't make her an absolute OP badass with a cult in the movie what's the point
I remember that being apart of a side quest not in the actual main story
Also, at the end of Borderlands 3, when Lilith uses her powers to fly to the moon Elpis as if she is Superman, her Siren powers (which iconically were mostly centered around fire and teleportation) literally surrounds her with a phoenix-shaped flame aura, Dark Phoenix style. (Yes, Lilith as an NPC in BL2 and BL3 was a damn Mary-Sue. But the movie making her "discover" her Siren powers at age 50+ is brainumbingly dumb.)
Forget the casting and writing. Imagine having a villain like Handsome Jack, one of THE best villains in all of video game history and you decide to not include him in a movie adaption...
I’m guessing they didn’t want to blow their load on the first film and might of mistakenly believed they would get a sequel after this lol.
Theres someone very similiar in movie with same cheesy jokes, clearly inspired by H Jack.
They could not include every character from a game, its not an serial, its 120 mins movie, imagine shit show with all characters on screen.
But theres a wink for all Jack fans in movie.
Him not being in this movie was actually good.
Seems like they made the movie based on clips and promos they’ve seen
Love the use of that line from TLJ Luke. “Every word of what you just said is wrong”
At least they made it so bad that we won't suffer endless poor sequels/prequels et al.
Kudos for putting it out of its misery to begin with.
I went into that theater with such low expectations, and still got shit on. This sucks. Borderlands has such a strong place in my heart man, it's the first game my dad and I played together! Love the world, the lore, the characters- And they just took one look at it, shat on it, and are now begging people to wade through the shit. What a joke man, a sad sad joke.
"The firehawk" is most likely a reference to liliths bandit name in borderlands 2 due to her siren powers being mainly fire based. So her bandits/cult call her the firehawk.
Finally saw a comment of someone else saying it. Thank you.
Dove into the comments to say this but yeah, it think its more of a nod to BL2 than the gun.
The other issue is that Lilith as the Firehawk wasn't a prophecied event. It was a name the cult just gave her. A cult she started by ACCIDENT.
@@davidstevens9461 the only real "mythos" about the Borderlands universe is that there are always 6, and never more/less than 6 Sirens and their powers are somehow connected to the Eridians and the mineral eridium. But the Eridians themselves are an obscure mystery that only historians and scientists have even heard of. The average person has heard of the Eridians less than we hear about Atlanteans.
If they wanted to dig into a "there's a one" story, they could have centered it more around what the sirens are and once there's more on that what the Eridians are. Instead it's known from the beginning that the descendant of the Eridians would open the vault.
A very blatant "tell me you haven't X without telling me you haven't X" moment. Awkward.
Picking the wrong people to portray the characters was really the main issue.
Tannis isn't 65, Lilith isn't 55, Moxie isn't 62, and as much as we all love Jack Black, he wasn't right for Claptrap. And Kevin Hart is bad for any role.
Moxxi is "old", but according to some characters she's had so much work done that nobody can tell what age she is anymore. She should be looking like something along the lines of an OF model.
Moxxi is old she literally has grown kids in the game. Tannis,Lilith,roland, tiny tina should of been recasted. Jack black could of potentially made clap trap work, but the script probably didnt help.
Tbh if you throw a vocoder on Hart's voice, he sounds way more like Claptrap than Jack Black did 😂
Lilith is dead, she sacraficed herself at end of 3rd game.
Who cares about age, its different timeline but haters forgot about simple fact Roland and Lilith should not be in movie first at all.
I've loved all the games and I loved pretty much Eli Roth has made since cabin fever, so this really is a huge disappointment
They revealed the cast back in 2021, I believe. The moment they revealed Kevin Hart as Roland is the moment I knew this movie was going to bomb. Kevin isn't the serious type. He doesn't fit Roland's character.
Roland wasnt serious is first game at all.
Haters gonna hate, CRITICAL BIATCH !
They started planning the movie in 2015, didn't they? And shooting started in 2020, from what I read.
The movie removing all of Tiny Tina's canon lore backstory -- how years ago Tina and her parents were captured by bandits, sold to Hyperion Corp to become test subjects for Handsome Jack's Eridium slag mutation experiments in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve labs (the same experiments that Krieg later suffered through prior to BL2), an event which led to the deaths of her parents while Tina managed to escape into the Wasteland with the help of a hand grenade her mother had given her, which explains her trauma and her obsession with explosives! -- and instead supplanting it with a story of Tina being the sheltered daughter of a corporate CEO and being totally "special" and the key to the vault...blablabla... not only removes the canon reasons _why_ Tiny Tina is so "quirky" and bloodthirsty and builds explosives and knows the Wasteland, but it also turns her into a Mary-Sue and plot device.
In the games, Tiny Tina is a tragic and borderline insane victim of Handsome Jack. She is perpetually maniacally happy and stuck in a fantasy world she doesn't want to leave... as we see in the Tiny Tina DLC where she uses a TTRPG to deal with Roland's death and breaks down when the others try to tell her Roland isn't alive anymore (as deep down she knows he's dead, she just doesn't want to acknowledge it). She holds tea parties because she is mad as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, but also capable of torturing some bandits she hates to death and blowing up dams to hurt Hyperion. In the games, she is an NPC girl but just as much a coldblooded killer as the other characters.
In the movie she's just a (clone)girl who blows bandits up for no reason and is hyper and quirky and for no discernible reason is totally fine with running around with some Vault Hunters instead of wanting to return to her very much alive father. Huh?
They really casted grandmas as young chicks. I'm sad for Lilith and Tannis.
Wonder how the actors feel after making this film...
@@BigJ2006 They don't care, they will count their green paper. If they even cared little they wouldn't accept the role.
Yea I saw Tanner and was like...holy shit...is this decades after the games lol
Tannis... Lol
I think Anthony Mackie should have been Roland
I will never understand this cycle, and ive been preaching it for years.
Ip: *becomes successful*
Hollywood, much later: *pays to use IP, to make successful movie or tv show*
Director: *ignored everything that made IP successful, focused on 'their' story instead*
Movie: *flops horribly, audience tells hollywood exactly what went wrong.*
Hollywood, shocked: "Why do adaptations always do so poorly?!?!?! We did everything right, i guess people arent interested" *cancels new projects*
Seeing how bad this turned out has convinced me the games were successful IN SPITE of Randy Pitchford, not because of him
Trailer: "From the Producer of Uncharted, Spider-Man and Venom..."
(Realizes it's Avi Arad...)
Me: "Oh, man. Oh, god. Oh, god! Oh, man!"
It's crazy when a film fails miserably with Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart, Jack Black AND Cate Blanchett
It makes sense it would fail when the product should be an R rated action comedy. No one listed seems like they would fit that role.
Star power wont save a shitty script / disconnected executives that never touch any of the games.
Shows you how important good casting is.
@@ohnosmoarlulcatz I honestly think they have all the acting chops necessary for a movie like Borderlands to actually work - which goes to show the *entirety* of the failure falls on the script and the directing. They’re all A-list actors (with the exception possibly being Kevin Hart). Tina would’ve done fine being carried by the rest of the cast.
@@ohnosmoarlulcatz would a R rating help the casting or the writing?
They could done away with plot armor by saying they had shields...like in the game...which helps block bullets ...
Fallout, Arcane, Cyberpunk 2077 Edge Runners, Last Of Us are some of the best adoptions ever because of one thing they did right....Respect the original source material.
I think the biggest thing is other than The Last of Us, everything else listed isn't an adaptation, but a completely original story with mostly original characters. The Borderlands movie was trying to redo already established characters and their well established stories and character dynamics and unless they're willing to adapt it as close as possible like The Last of Us, it's always going to yield a bad adaptation
@@wiiink its not redo, its different timeline with Roland and Lilith alive
I actually thought the latest Mortal Kombat movie was acceptable for a video game movie.
I mean, I really had low expectations to begin with. Who thinks that it would have some great story?
Can't remember the main characters name or face really, but I remember thinking if I had powers and was thrown into a life and death situation... I would want powers that made me absorb attacks too. Plot armor manifiest.
I also enjoyed Scorp, and Sub Zero fighting. I grew up as a kid with the orignal movies releasing so maybe a little nostalgia helped.
@@wiiink Arcane added depth and heart, Fallout is lore friendly, Cyberpunk was lore friendly and extremely accurate to the world, so much so that you can find places in the anime in game. Last of Us was a good adaptation, because they stuck with the story. This is an example of a director who wants to make his own movie on the back of a popular ip. You can tell he knows very little about it, all the interviews with the cast show they had no respect for the source material or the fans. You can't take a popular videogame and backstab the fans. It doesn't work. Cyberpunk Edgerunners was a Serenade to the fans, it brought a dying game back to life, that's how good it was and it wasn't even an adaptation of the story, it was a story within the world that existed alongside the one in the game. It added depth to the background. They could have done that here. Told a story with different characters in the same Universe along one of the other worlds or even on Pandora and worked with the developers of the game to show off new lore. Maybe have some cameos of old characters to get people excited and give people a reason to talk, have Hansom Jack come in and mess shit up at the very end, leading into another movie that would make fans go crazy over speculation. That way they could have their 90 year old actors with zero knowledge of the game because it doesn't ruin those characters for the fans. There's plenty they could have done. But now it's done and that is what it is.
Having played 4 Borderlands games, I think this one is a hard pass. The worst thing is that is someone actually makes a proper movie / t.v. series in about decade it will suffer the same fate as Dredd 3D with Karl Urban at the wheel.
Honestly one of the worst parts of this movie were the additions of Krieg and Tiny Tina. Like them simply BEING PRESENT already completely destroys their actual tragic backstories. Neither of which had even occurred yet at the time of the first game if not very shortly after in the case of Tina. But Krieg? No. He was a victim of Hyperion experimentation he should not exist as a psycho yet. At all. And this is only scratching the surface.
I am a huge Borderlands fan. The first two games and the pre-sequel are some of my favorite games. 3 was a major letdown and the movie was a slap in the face for the real fans. Talk about making an entire fanbase hate you, well you did it. Is there an Academy award for that?
F’n A.
And the GOLDEN RASPBERRY goes to... Randy Pitchford, for his toxic-narcissitic ego, and hubris, for his comments on the "Borederblands" movie
No offense at all, I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I cannot understand how people liked pre-sequel at all. I've NEVER been able to enjoy it. I think the gameplay of 3 is much better, the borderlands 1.5 certainly had the better story lol
The fact that the actress for TT didn't even play BL2 to get an idea of who Tina is will never sit right with me. SHES NOT HARLEY QUINN AS A KID
Lillith is actually called the firehawk in the games aswell, its not just a pistol. Not that that fact somehow saves the movie lol
It's garbage?
Wow who could have seen that coming?
Stop letting narcissist directors, hire half baked actors based on fame and not talent.
Both Cate Blanchett and Jamie-Lee Curtis are the biggest talents on board, but they were given little to nothing to work with.
I'd rather watch a 24-hour Madame Web marathon than rewatch Borderlands again.
I was thinking about how much more enjoyable madame web was compared to this
Boarderlands needed to be a series 10-12 hour long episodes. No stars, get new blood to be molded, or not, into stars. Each episode should be following a new set of vault hunters. An anthology of stories on pandora.
Eli Roth has literally never made a good movie, having him as the director was an L from the start
But he's close with Tarantino so studio executives keep giving him chances.
I mean it was completely a focus group movie too they looked at bl1-2 and just put popular characters in there.
Rather attempt to adapt the first game and obviously write it better they went lazy.
The weird combination of cast choices would've alone put me off the movie.
Wait. Lilith literally was the "Firehawk" in the game. A Moniker given to her by the Psychos that worship her. So technically that is accurate.
Arianna Greenblatt was a wasted casting. She could've been a great Tina if she'd been given some better direction and a better script. She's a good actress but this movie completely wasted her.
Why isn't Jim Foronda voicing clap trap?
That’s a great question
cause Jack Black is a more marketable name :')
@@AnymMusic also a great excuse to meet jack black...Hollywood is ripe with abuse of that nature.
I heard something like; the new studio director had a falling out with him or something along those lines or a long twitter dispute..
Can someone stop Roth from making movies? he's turning into Uwe Boll. He changed all the charachters to pastisches of themselves, the story to fast and the furious meets fant-four-stic, and the backstories to hot garbage.
Genuinely can't understand the mentality of going against the fans' expectations.
Like... They're DEFINITELY the people who want to see it do well. Do it FOR them, not in spite of them.
Eli Roths style works great for a solid b horror film, I’m a fan, but an adaptation of a sci fi game?? Yeah I really do not get why they thought his style would work… even as a fan I knew it was a bad choice 😭
Every now & then I think to myself, "It would be awesome if Mass Effect was made into a movie" then I see adaptations like this and I'm like, "You know what, nvm."
Why didn't they get Ashley Burch who was the VA of Tiny Tina to play Tiny Tina since she also played Aloy. That would have been a slam dunk.
Somehow, Florian Munteanu, who played Ivan Drago's huge son Viktor Drago in Creed 2 and Creed 3, was not huge in this movie as Krieg.
Apparently they CGI’d his muscles in this film lol
@@filmcomicsexplained Good God, I didn't think that it could be that bad!
@29:15
ELI: I didn't want to make a movie that was depressing and this kind of a film that was absent of hope. I wanted a movie that you just feel great at the end of it.
ME: Dude, you've made so many horror movies in case you've forgotten.
Edgar Ramirez isn't wrong with what he said but in order to make something exist as its own stand-alone entry in a franchise you still need to understand and respect the material in order to be inspired by rather than overlooked because "I know better".
Just buy Tales of the Borderlands and call it a day.
Whoever thought Kevin heart as Roland was the way needs to be fired lmao
Imo Borderlands really tried too hard to make this adaptation into something “artistic” when if they just stuck to the roots of it, it really would’ve paid itself off multiple times.
I hate it for all the people that put so much work into this movie... Like the Innocents that had no clue
Kevin Hart as Roland only works as an SNL skit.
Honestly, I didn't even know that Borderlands was getting a movie adaptation until I saw it advertised on boxes of frozen White Castle sliders at my local supermarket.
That said, I immediately thought "Oh, that's gonna be terrible, isn't it?" and I feel sorry for Borderlands fans that I was right about that...
Wait wait wait so tiny tina was a father,so they just completly altered the backstory,she didnt see her parents die helping her run away whats the point then
Fire Hawk was her title in the second game but never suggested that was some title handed down.
When I first heard about this movie, I went on Twitter and told the studio to reconsider and just delete the movie. They didn't listen.
It's probably important to mention they could have used Claptrap's original VO... had randy not been such an absolute asshule we know him to be... not that he would have saved the movie though.
God, I dreaded this movie.
Eli Roth makes a bad movie?
In other news. Water: wet.
Also, Netflix Castlevania was great as well!
I went to see it even though I knew it would be awful. Me and my brother still play 1 and 2 about once a year. I still cannot believe how they butchered the story and the casting! Seeing tannis that old made me cringe. Also why didn't they have the monster from the vault be a boss fight? I was looking forward to atleast seeing the crazy enemy design on the big screen and all they showed was a tentacle. No final boss fight 😢 also anybody who has played the games know lillith being a siren and its not some twist. None of the characters used their action skills at all like Roland's turret and NOT ONCE did they kill an enemy and take a better gun. Which. Is. The. Whole. Point!
Eli Roth doing doublespeak.
The moment I saw the trailer, I knew it would be garbage. It looks like a Guardians of the Galaxy rip-off mixed in Suicide Squad. It was a dumpster fire from a mile away.
I saw this on other video but someone said "The director used a lot movies as references but forgot to use Borderlands as the main one"
The firehawk is not just a gun, lillith is literally known as the firehawk since borderlands 2 onwards, that part was actually totally lore accurate. (the movie is still hot garbage though)
Didn’t realize this was a movie coming out. Probably would be better as 30 minute short TV episodes. Remove A list stars.
That IS NOT CLAP TRAP AT ALL! Clap Trap's voice and personality are NOT right. The real Clap Trap would never say bucko. This clap trap's voice is too soft. The real clap trap's voice is shrill & grates on your nerves. The real clap trap is annoying like being followed by & continuously "Talked At" by a cheerleader on speed. This movies has problems because people who made it never played the game from beginning to end. A true Borderlands movie would be rated R because Pandora was \ is an uncivilized deviant Wild West type hell hole. This movie got Borderlands GUNS Wrong. Only thing this Borderlands movie nailed 100% was Marcus. Tiny Tina was too low energy, Tannis & Lilth were old ladies. The whole movie sucked!
They didn't understood the games, they tried to make it more story driven without having a good story. They should've made it like John Wick, on Pandora, changing crazy guns every other kill. Fast paced, miniboss with OP guns at end of every scene. Story, vault hunt with Borderlands 1 twist. I'm impressed how Hollywood fails to follow straight recipes.
Wow, Kevin Hart really went "Im so excited to portray this character as the complete opposite of the character in the game."
An actor will do what a script and director want.
@@Prockski But he was excited about it. He didn't see a problem with it.
Idris Elba - Roland
Claptrap video game voice actor for claptrap.
Karen Gillan - Lilith
Vin Diesel - Brick (who should have been in the movie)
Gina Carano - Moxie
Natalie Portman - Patricia Tannis
My god this list took 30 seconds and it’s a million times better than what we got..
I love the total BS that roth said. Went through hours of the game and comprehensive lore. He took it all and threw it in the trash. Everything in this is just awful. Im glad this came out so i dont have to spend money on this.
Kate blanchet has a bit of tired face all the time it’s annoying
Here is the sad part. Jack Black HAS TO LOVE Borderlands. He's a gamer, this game is right up his alley. So he most likely signed on because he LOVES Borderlands. It had to be hard to do this movie
Sure. but you know what the good book says... for the love of money...
25:00 in 1 it was a repeater pistol, in 2 it became Lilith’s alias from then on. Even in 3, the antagonists mockingly call her “Firehawk”
I found an article that talked about a leaked draft of the script half a decade or so ago. That sounded so abysmal I was sure it would turn out exactly like this, and didn't bother keeping up with it. And every little bit of info on it that somehow drifted by me just kept reinforcing that decision...
The only positive thing is that they didn't rush out a new game to release alongside the movie. I hope they'll take their time to make BL4 a worthy entry in the franchise, even if it takes the better part of a decade again.
Could have saved us 33 minutes and said “Kevin Hart is in it”. Roll credits
Randy should show us more magic tricks to distract the masses from this travesty of a movie
Game 1: Ain't no rest for the wicked
Game 2: This ain't no place for a hero
Movie: We're the good guys
6:42 it’s not wrong, but this is not what the movie did 🤦♂️ it’s a shame honestly
did they just ask Chat GPT to write a borderlands movie script?
Also it is odd that they took a group of sub 35 year old game characters and cast nearly all post 40 year old actors....
Then there is Eli Roth who has never done an action blockbuster movie. Why would a studio hire him for a project like this... it is literally not something he has ever done... He make gross out horror movies.... not action films... Sure he did a childern's book adaptation but he didn't write it. Seriously who thought it was a good idea of him to do this?
The soundtrack was definitely the highlight. The story was convoluted and so much felt forced.
The idea to somehow make a M rated series a PG-13 rated film reminds me of that Mr. Frog episode from Smiling Friends:
Executives (meddling and making the official movie less violent than the popular source material): "Great! People are going to love this! It`s like Borderlands, but without the senseless and violent crap. We truly saved the film!"
Executives (reacting after the toned-down version is released): "What`s going on? Why don`t they like it? We spent over 100 million dollars on this."
AVI ARAD has ruined so far...
* Borderlands
* Daredevil (2003)
* The Punisher (2004)
* Elektra (2005)
* Fantastic Four (2005)
* X-Men: The Last Stand
* Spider-Man 3
* Bratz (2007)
* Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
* The Amazing Spider-Man 2
* Ghost in the Shell (2017)
* Venom: Let There Be Carnage
* Uncharted (2022)
* Morbius
And now he's gonna ruin...
* Kraven the Hunter
* Venom: The Last Dance
* Legend of Zelda
* Naruto
As long Arad lives, there's no hope
Actually, in Borderlands 2 Lilith was actually referred to as the Firehawk because her being a Siren. It's actually one of the main parts of Borderlands lore. The movie should have been Rated-R.
The fact that it made 8 frickin million dollars is insaaaaaane!!!
I know they didn't make a return but damn .......there are 8 milkion dollars worth of idiots out there
I think its because some people avoid movie trailers and wind up paying for it.
I swear, Hollywood constantly is giving the finger to established fanbases the last decade or so. At this point “subversion of expectations” has become code to “crap film” and/or “were trying to irritate fans of the world were adapting.”
I puts me off when directors say “in a way you’ve never seen before” it’s like a red flag for me.
The story, its right there. You know what would have been sick? After killing the Crimsin Lance, they find a.... CHEST! And it's glowing orange and purple and you see it reflected in thier face. Then, instead of b Lilith...Tyrene'ing her Siren powers, she could drop them down the legendary weapons/shields (and one purple for clap trap, a spike shield). Then they would make a game connection as well as a plausible way of them taking out what is actually considered a very small force by the games standards. Maybe they even have their gadgets? Instead of relying on the most inaccurate depiction of a vault. The second Lilith decided to stop hiding her powers and open the vault, she should have phases hinted Tina as a vault monster gave him the "Commondante Steele" treatment.
The fact Eli said he wanted to tell his own story pisses me off even more; that's like dad saying "we're going to the water park" but then you end up sitting in the corner of the bar, throwing darts for free, and you get a beer spilled on you.
A movie about General Knox having to deal with the incompetence of the Admirals son would’ve been much better.
Lilith was called Firehawk in the second game. Basically Roland was leadingbthe more sane elements of Pandora and a Cult started around Lilith that called her the Firehawk. They decided to use that to control or keep an eye on the more psychotic people of Pandora.
I just don’t understand how Cate Blanchett went from her majestical performance as Galadriel to whatever this was supposed to be.
The portrayal of Roland have been contentious ever since the FIRST trailer dropped NO one in the Borderlands Community looked at it and went "Yeah that's him" Everyone went all "What? WHAT THE F is that?" And hearing the actor go "What the *fans* think it should be" Be in that condescending tone is just Aggravating in the ekstreme since a Borderland movie only have ONE crowd to draw on and that is the FANS as it relies HEAVILY on them and when you then sit talking like he do you are not going to make money.. While none of the characters in the movie actually looks ANYTHING like the main characters Roland is by WORST as someone I know said "The only characters acting as they should and looking as they should are minior background characters.
Also Tiny Tina's backstory in the movie just WHAT THE F?"
"Tina and her parents were sold to Hyperion to become test subjects for Jack's slag mutation experiments, an event which led to the deaths of her parents. She escaped their fate using a grenade that she had hidden in her dress at her mother's insistence, and once she was free of Hyperion's reach she vowed revenge on the man that had sold her family: Flesh-Stick." This is her OFFICAL backstory as showned and told in the games.
The Firehawk is Lilith's alias in Borderlands 2. The player hears about The Firehawk and when you finally find her, the reveal is it's Lilith from the first game.
Spoiler ahead I don’t like the fact that Lilith doesn’t get her powers until the end of the movie we’ve all played the games. She should already be a siren Kevin Hart playing as Roland doesn’t have his turret and Tina is a clone that is just unforgivable and furthermore, the story oh my God, the story failed miserably. None of the motivations of the characters are real, none of them react to what they did in the game and furthermore, why is Atlas a bad guy that shouldn’t be the primary it should be about the monster and the bandits and we only get one clip of the vault monster we don’t even get to see a big dramatic combat with it and the vault looks more like borderlands three style vaults, which is not bad but the problem is it has nothing to do with the story at all and don’t even get me started on the ending.
I don't think the excuse of Borderlands being difficult to adapt in a linear fashion is valid because of how well Tales From the Borderlands did it. It's basically a movie in itself and it's better than anything the movie writers could have come up with. If they were going to properly write a movie for Borderlands they should have made it focused on new characters like the Fallout show or Cyberpunk Edgerunners, or adapted it from the start of Handsome Jack's rise and adapted presequel which was good overall imo but they could have actually streamlined the story with good writers
Firehawk is Lilith's bandit callsign. You start Borderlands 2 by hunting down the Firehawk. Turns out to be Lilith.
She was called the Firehawk in Borderlands 2 (the best one)
Firehawk is the name Lilith gets in Borderlands 2 that makes the bandits think she is a god, not just a pistol.
There was stuff to expand on in Borderlands that could have been interesting. General Knoxx reveals the Crimson Lance has so much nepotism it has a 5 year old admiral. Paige's backstory shows Hyperion planets are a utopia&dystopia. The Torgue corporation has a explosion obsessed, larger than life wrestler for a CEO, but is only a figurehead for PR reasons, shareholders wiring his voice box with a profanity beeper.
I would argue Fallout should be in that category of quality adaptations. The creators really brought to life the world of Fallout, even if some story elements fall short. Besides these few outliers… it’s a shame that studios are continuing to make hollow adaptations for money
The Borderlands franchise won’t be able to crawl out of the dumpster until they fire Randy “Hide the USB” Pitchford