I love how he dropped everything to cover Borderlands just two weeks after it became a notorious bomb, but he still hasn't covered many of this year's _actual_ biggest hits like Dune 2, Inside Out 2, Twisters, or Civil War.
The games are great.... I will probably never watch this movie. I just watch Pitch Meetings and The Drinker. Lol. Haven't watched a new movie in a long time.
Ryan is literally a hero. He watched this movie so we don't have to. He *watched* this movie, let that sink in - actually watched it with his eyes and everything. He paid to sit, probably on his own in an empty theater, and pay attention to the movie. The sacrifices you make for us are remarkable. We salute you!
@@SA80TAGEdamn I didn‘t think someone would bother to upload it xD But how they got HD copies without the movie being on DvD/Blueray? (serious question)
Good god the amount of edglords going "Hue hue I heard it's shit hue hue none of us have watched it because people told me it was shit and I'm cool and think it's shit too!" Cringe as fuck! What's next? Eyeliner and black clothes saying how much people just don't get you all?
@@michaelfiori6700 Nah. It's got the worst writing out of the main 3 games, but the worst in the whole series? You've got Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, the Pre-Sequel, and the *shudders * sequel to Tales From the Borderlands. All are worse than 3, which honestly has some of the best gameplay in the series.
As someone who commented on Gearbox forums years ago regarding this movie's casting decisions with "So who is this movie even going to be for?", seeing a video with a millions views where "who is this movie even for?" is the central point is incredibly satisfying. Thank you.
possibly not i think the original movie was more R rated until they kicked off eli roth and hackjobbed it into a pg-13, but that still doesnt mean it would have been good...
I feel like that description could fit for an absolute ton of tv/movie adaptations. Wheel of Time, Halo, Shannara, Dragonball Evolution, Silent Hill, Double Dragon...
@davidpearson6916 wheel of time was fine. It wasn't great it left out a lot of stuff and didn't get half as deep into background or characterization as the books did but the bar has dropped so far that a mediocre adaptation is a positive outcome lol
I was that boy. I kinda played Borderlands when it was a free monthly game on Xbox live years ago. Then when I saw this trailer I was like "Oh yeah, I remember that" And then I sat there, thinking long and hard about whether or not I cared enough to go see it. I didn't
Same. I worked for 2k at the time, so since the games were free, I figured, "what the hell, I'm bad at shooters, but let's do some casual co-op with friends." I enjoyed BL2, kinda liked BL3, but remember talking shit with friends, not the plot. Vague positive feelings towards the franchise, absolutely. I'd have seen a Borderlands movie if it got a TON of positive buzz, but even then, probably not in theaters.
Me too! I played Borderlands 2 for like 30 minutes 10 years ago. Always knew it was a popular franchise, but never got to dive into it properly. I have no idea what the story is, I just know it's probably fun. I was excited for the movie. Now I'm happy I didn't go watch it, lol.
Yea, I too player that game a little when it was free on Xbox but I also know most video game adaptations are terrible, especially shooters, so I didn't even think about going to see this.
I'm sort of that boy. I never played the game, but find the general setting and art style interesting. That wasn't enough to draw me to the cinema, but I might have gone if the reviews turned out to be amazing.
The problem is not with AI but with actual human execs not asking "who's this movie for". Example is making Star Wars shows for people that never liked star wars at any point during its 45+ years of existence
@@crushingit5128 Not to mention writers are no longer hired based on their skills or competency but rather the color of their skin or who they like to sleep with.
He existed alright.... 15 years ago , when I was but a wee lad!! Back when the franchise was at its peak, I wouldve eaten this shit up probably. I bet it would still be trash, most videogame to moviefilm adaptations are.
The first trailer of borderlands was enough for me to say, "They ruined it, it's trash, and it'll bomb horribly." Now I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong, but luckily for me I'm not and won't need to.
@JSmellerM oh I definitely did. The moment I saw the cast, before even considering the scenes in the trailer itself, I knew without a doubt it wasn't just gonna be bad, but a type of bad that isn't even a guilty pleasure to watch. The characters were all miss matched, all trying to be the "funny" one. None of which were the appropriate age range. Let's face it, it didn't take a lot of convincing to show this was gonna be a massive let down.
@@JSmellerM I watched the first trailer. Was impressed how God awful the trailer was. The casting choices alone made this dead on arrival. I am not at all suprised this didn't break 10 mil. I'm more suprised it made 1mil.
Honestly, just 2 would've been fine. You've got the new vault hunters, the old mentor vault hunters, a fun over the top villain, easy to understand super substance everyone wants, a goal everyone is striving towards. If they straight up just adapted 2 it could've been a solid movie. EDIT: Then again, Pitchford probably didn't want to remind everyone how much they've failed to live up to 2 in the 12 years since it came out.
@@AnneHathawayRules Bringing back Jack would be the worst thing to do. His story finished fine. It would just tarnish whatever character they built for him. They need to make new and interesting characters and villains that are unique and fun. The main reason BL3 was wack was because they tried to copy Jack and split him into 2 twins with half his personality on either twin which completely failed.
You’d think Hollywood would wise up but it’s taking forever. The movie practically writes itself if you play the video games. Why do some people in Hollywood not understand gamers at all? They could go get some gamers together and pay them to get their ideas and feedback. Then take it from there. At least they’d have an idea of what we want to see!
Cannot overstate how important that question is. The movie is for nobody. If you're a fan of the games you won't much like it because it doesn't really revel in the things the game is known for: loot, powers, cartoonish gory violence. If you don't know about the games you'll be baffled because characters and places from the game are paraded in without real introduction, little to no purpose, and then offscreen just as fast. While the games have hours of background dialogue to give the bad guys character (it's very meme humor do I don't want to over praise their writers) but they don't bother with any of that. So it feels like you wandered into a cosplay contest at a con for a show you never watched and the contestants are too shy to actually speak or perform. This movie isn't for anyone.
I haven't seen this "movie" but I think this is the first pitch meeting where Ryan didn't make up ANYthing, he just read reports and listened to people who were involved in the production and put down events EXACTLY as they happened and were laid out! Excellent reporting sir, just excellent!!
I honestly thought is was one of the worst ones I've seen. It felt rushed and not very thought out. He simply regurgitated every joke that every YT video and review has already made. He even looked uncomfortable in the clip.
The bad part of this whole situation is that the big movie studios are going to see video game adaptations as unprofitable because “people just don’t like them” when the whole point is that people STILL don’t like shitty movies!
People have shitty taste…. And people are paying to watch the fiftieth version of Spider-Man… So the studios will keep making infantile movies for their infantile audience.
@@perseus9428 that’s becoming false these days, Borderlands, Joker 2, anything produced by Disney in the last 4 years, people really dislike Hollywood’s new tack they’re taking
Most ppl don't have shitty tastes, they just don't care as much about what they see. Only critics do. It's like going to McDonald's as a food critic and complaining about how bad the food is, while calling ppl that eat there infantile, when they just go there to fill their bellies and avoid having to cook that night, not to enjoy exquisite cuisine. And this movie did terribly, so, you know, that shows ppls tastes are at least good enough to avoid this and things like it.
Thing is, he clearly picked up some of the girls papers from the Meet Cute incident, but not all of his own. It's a common tool to force the characters to meet a second time and actually engage with each other for a meaningful length of time. Structurally, this whole pitch meeting is essentially the 'his' half of things, while whatever will provide exposition about 'her' circumstances would be another scene. Once both are done, one or both of them will be shown realizing they are missing some papers and that the other has them, prompting the reunion. It's pretty classic boilerplate stuff, but it's useful structure.
My father can be an annoying contrarian sometimes so I had to convince him this movie is bad and it's not just "obnoxious gamers mad that they didn't stick to canon."
Good god the amount of edglords going "Hue hue I heard it's shit hue hue none of us have watched it because people told me it was shit and I'm cool and think it's shit too!" Cringe as fuck! What's next? Eyeliner and black clothes saying how much people just don't get you all?
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 mature content 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!"
You know, my younger sister used to play Borderlands like 10 years ago, and I remember having vaguely positive feelings about it at the time, but I never played it. As they began making more movie adaptations of video games some years ago, it was brought up in conversation at one point, and I thought "huh, I wonder if they'll ever make a movie of Borderlands." Flash forward to a few months ago, I saw a trailer for the first time, and had some familiarity with the characters. I didn't even question the casting choices since they seemed "in the ballpark" of what I could remember. I'd considered going to see it, but then I read all the reviews saying how terrible it was. But now I realize that all along, it was written exactly for people like me! Maybe I should buy a ticket. Thank you, Ryan.
I never played Borderlands, nor watched this movie. But I still feel compelled to give my condolences to the fans of this franchise. Especially since Eli Roth was in the director's chair.
Change too many things to satisfy fans of the series, reference too many things to make sense to anyone else, make inexplicable casting choices, and use the intern's first draft for the plot. That's apparently how you make a vaguely movie-like thing.
5:19 BAHAHAHAHA! My 8yo went and saw it with his mom and loved it. He doesn't actually know anything about the story. He just recognizes a game he watched his brothers play when he was a kid. Your description of the "doesn't know" aspect is soooo spot on!
To be honest, the best thing any actor can hope for if they are in this movie, is a quick death. Then they don't have to keep shooting scenes! They also naturally hope that their death is on screen so that they can hopefully never be brought back for the sequel that definitely shouldn't happen, but just might.
"So fans of the game won't be surprised, and non-fans won't know what that's about?" Literally my reaction in the Warcraft movie when Durotan dramatically faces the camera and names his son "Go'el." Non-fans won't know who Go'el is, and why that scene seemed so dramatic, and fans already KNEW what Durotan was going to name his son.
or when they made Benedict Cumberbatch's character be Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness. Not a huge twist, pissed off fans and meant nothing to non-fans.
For me and movies that have scenes like that the key is how they play it. If it’s played like a big twist “holy shit” surprise moment, then it’s bad. Because fans won’t be surprised and non fan viewers will be like “huh?” But if you play it as like a big moment we knew would happen and here’s that cool scene, then fans can think it’s a cool scene and casual viewers can go okay im a lil confused but it was cool
@@simonlyall With the difference that JJ Abrahams felt compelled to lie unprompted and state that "No, he is not Khan, he is someone else!"" before the movie came out, confirming that indeed, it was Khan.
@@AzraelTheManHandler as someone who's never read or watched the old Dune movies, "confused but felt like the scene was cool" sums up my experience of Dune. As a nerd I could tell when the fanservice moments were happening but I had no idea what it was.
This seems back to the older pitches where Ryan really showed how much he didn’t like the movie. And the Mr. Cast bit was excellent. Annndddd the whole explanation of who the movie is for was priceless
Their entire plan was to get there before him so he couldn't use Tina to get in. Which I'm only just now, typing this, realizing they could have accomplished by just... shooting Tina. Since besides Lilith, they all expected her to die anyway. Whatever, I still had fun watching it.
From the plot standpoint why cant just write that the bad guy angry by the rescue mission failure and try to change himself into pandora guy to be the 3rd key, kinda convenient, but we can make excuse that it have chance of failure and the guy are afraid to risk it previously
"it's for a little boy who's a fan of borderlands, and he always wondered why there's no movies. But he's not such a fan that Knows all the stuff because he'd be mad about all the weird decisions we're making" What an accurate description of Randy Pitchford.
Yeah, I knew Pitchford must be involved when I started hearing about the movie and all the various choices they made. I was just classic Randy he destroys everything he touches other than that one franchise.
it’s me, he literally described me😂 if i hadn’t seen the trailers i genuinely might’ve bought a ticket purely based on my vague familiarity and positive memory of borderlands😂 i barely played it, my brother played it and i just thought it was cool lol
As someone who's only seen my big brother play Borderlands a couple of times but thought it looked really cool; that guy is me, I'm that little boy this was made for. I mean I still didn't buy a ticket but the thought is appreciated
Hahahaha, I felt the same way! Played Borderlands 1 with my brothers once forever ago and remember having a good time but never went back to it afterwards so was actually intrigued by the movie and originally planned to watch it when it left theaters (cause let's not go crazy, certainly wasn't $20 excited about it lol)
I’m a HUGE fan of Borderlands. My favorite game series EVER. Lemme tell you, I spent my entire time watching the movie going”that’s wrong, THATS wrong, why the HELL are psychos just STANDING there?” I’m pretty sure this is the same feeling of pain and betrayal that Dragon Ball fans felt when “Dragon Ball Evolution” came out
@@Psychedelicpourhousebecause I, being a self proclaimed Borderlands mega fan, wanted to see with my own two eyes if it truly was “that bad” I wanted to see if there was ANYTHING redeeming about it.
"Hey, do you know about the animated robot?" "You mean the one that already was casted for the games, 10 years ago?" "Yeah, that one, let's cast jack black for it!"
Having seen both borderlands and this I can confirm I am that "boy" someone who had played less than 10 hours of borderlands total but was willing to go to the cinema to see a film about it and came away thinking "that was fine I guess"
@@evancombs5159 An artist wants to evoke emotion. regardless of which one, make people care enough to feel something. when you fail to make me care, you fail
It has like a 10% on rotten tomatoes. Which I don't really get. There are much worse movies out there to set the floor way lower. I think it's somewhere in the 50-60% range of it's okay I guess if you're bored enough. Speaking as a person who doesn't know or care anything about the games.
That Mr. Cast joke was simultaneously the greatest thing on Earth and the most dad jokes of all dad jokes and I don't know what level of exhaustion I should have.
“So fans of the game won’t be surprised, and non-fans of the game won’t know what that’s about?” That is some great writing that shows the producers really knew who this movie was made for… 😂
Ryan was wrong though. Nostalgia-bait like this is for millennials to watch with their kids. The fact that they have kids means that they're not hardcore fans.
@@ErebosGR I'm a hardcore Borderlands fan, born during the transition from Gen-X to Millennial. I have kids. I've played the games _with my children._ I will never watch this movie with them, nor suggest they watch it.
I don't think I've ever seen a Pitch Meeting video that focused on a movie and/or TV show that was recently released, and it didn't have a "Spoilers" bumper before the meeting.
I'm loving the "who is this for?" bit that's become recurring. Velma and Borderlands both have never heard of this thing called a "target audience" and clearly they're both written by people who don't get how to make a fun, appealing show.
@Road_to_Dawn that wasn't even sarcasm. I know how that feels. Most nerds that had their fave IP turned into a, not just a bad movie but a soul less movie at that knows how you feel. At least universally, we have better VGM.
I'll do you one better. When they announced the cast before filming I already knew the movie would be awful. I still haven't even bothered to watch the trailer. I own All the games except for tales and they still couldn't get me to care enough to watch the trailer and yet I showed up to watch this pitch meeting because I knew it would actually deliver good acting, writing, and production values.
How to improve quality of videogame adaptation to the screen: 1- get writers from videogames for the movie script. 2- actors and directors need to AT LEAST have played the videos game. If they like it - bonus points. 3 - stick to the story of the game , if millions of copies of the game were sold, it means something.
None of these are necessary but I think the first two points are helpful. The third, nah you can do something original, most fans will prefer extended lore over an adaptation, the fallout show was pretty okay in doing this despite its flaws
I'd like to argue that point 3 is not a good idea. If anything, the best video game adaptations to different mediums are when they forgo as much as possible of the games plot. The Fallout show has been named. I'd add the Cyberpunk 2077 Anime. And the Castlevania show (tho, tbf, the Castlevania it's based on has only the thinnest veil of a plot to begin with). This can also be done the other way around mind you. See f.e. Space Marine (2011). Tho, tbf, Warhammer 40k lends itself very well to telling new stories. Imo the best adaptation of anything to a different medium is when they keep the world. The overarching "feeling" of it. The fantasy of it. And then build a new story that fits into that universe. 9/10 times if they try to retell the story that has been told they stumble and fail.
There's some Pitch Meetings where I think "do I want to watch this movie before the Pitch Meeting spoils it?" but this one only took me about 2 seconds to decide "no, I do not." ...I don't think I'm ever going to watch this movie 😅
the first trailer made it clear for me that it was a bad idea. Kevin Hart as Roland and just the characterization of Claptrap and Tiny Tina along with the fact that they were mixing the heroes from Game 1 and 2 made it obvious. However i didnt know how bad the plot actually was. Gods i dont think a single person who worked on this movie actually knew what Borderlands was!
My major question is did ANY of the writers OR the Directors, or ANY of the cast members ever play the games? Because the canon of the games was 100%TOTALLY ignored for the movie.
The crazy thing is, BL is so shallow, it could have been easily made into a fun, if low brow movie. I knew when the music was wrong in the trailer that it was going to be bad. I didn't think it would be this bad, but obviously was going to fail.
It's the same problem with the Halo show! Worse with the Halo show though, there was virtually no one who even did SCI-FI, let alone be fans of the game. I'm convinced that it wasn't even a Mass Effect show, as some speculate, it was an original IP ripping off The Expanse and Dune that the execs had zero confidence in.
Funny how these things get messed up. Like why not recruit a handful of hardcore fans, or the original writers. Most people would be happy even if the story was the same as the games as long as it was performed well.
THAT BOY DOES EXIST! You described my 12 year olds relationship to Borderlands perfectly and thought the movie was a little fun and over-hated! ...now I thought it was a total mess, BUT THAT BOY DID FIND IT TO BE PASSABLE FOR TWO HOURS!
"Making this legally a movie." Why do I feel like so much of Hollywood's output lately is using legal definitions in order to call their work "movies"?
I used to be an avid gamer but everything in this video hits home with me. The last new games I really enjoyed were “stray” and “it takes two” on ps5. Reason I enjoyed them? My son is now 9 and we sat and enjoyed them all the way through together.
This big, strong man came up to Producer Guy, tears in his eyes, and said "Sir, we have to make a Borderlands movie. Many people are saying it's an excellent movie, best movie ever made."
Silence of the lambs, have you ever seen that movie? The late great Hannibal lector wants to have you for dinner...it's true. He done the voice over for the Grinch movie can you believe that? The Grinch is like Kamala trying to steal your merry Christmas, I saved merry Christmas by the way, they wanted to change it to happy holidays. A great guy came up to me, big white beard and red coat, tears in his eyes and told me, sir, you saved Christmas.
David Eddings the VA for claptrap was assaulted in an elevator by Randy Pitchford in 2017 and has refused to work on any future projects without his portion of the $12M royalty fund Randy Pitchford stole aswell as an apology
@@phillipfry8141 fair, but short sighted as the main audience would presumably be people who have played the games. while I'm unlikely to see the movie given it's bad press, having Jack black voice as Claptrap really doesn't help.
My 15 year old son really wanted to see this movie. The announcement got him excited to do a playthrough of all the games together which was an enjoyable experience, but the absolute train wreck of a movie we got at least gave us a good laugh. Now we can watch the pitch meeting and laugh again, to keep from crying lol
Borderlands to date has grossed $14,500,000. Average US ticket price is $10. 1.45 million people watched. This video has half of that in less than 20 hours. Amazing.
Friends, to put this in perspective, Borderlands made $8.6 million dollars opening weekend and only $2.4 million the following weekend. The budget was $115 million. Flop is an understatement.
The funny thing is that Argylle, also from this year, probably lost more money than it so not even the biggest bomb of the year. As for historically, after adjusting Pluto Nash for inflation it still did less than Borderlands opening weekend despite costing over 100m in the 80s (90s? Cant remember and not worthy a google search to confirm)
A movie is considered a flop when they make barely enough money to cover the cost or a little more than that. I don't even know what to call sinking 104 million USD so far.
@@Sorain1 I’ve been doing a little research. There’s certainly movies that lost more money, like “The Marvels” and “John Carter,” but in terms of lowest gross income percentage, “Zyzzyx Road” made $30 off a $1.2 million budget (0.0025% return), but it was intentional to do the bare minimum to meet contractual obligations. The next movie is “The Adventures of Pluto Nash,” which had star-studded cast, its budget was approximately $100 million, but it only made 7.1 million worldwide (7.1% return). They didn’t have “Borderlands” on any of these lists since it is so new and still in theaters, but the numbers so far indicate that it will definitely be one of the worst flops of all time, definitely top 5, maybe even higher; at least in terms of gross income percentage.
2:58 " you are trying to make me walk and chew gum at the same time and I won't stand for it" The most subtle and the best joke of the video 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@elianas1121it's bcuz of the time stamps, when we are watching the video, and the reach the point on a time stamp, that comment will appear, so it is not the top comment
He didn’t even put a spoiler warning cause no one saw the movie😂😂
Normally, I have never seen the movie.
This time, I have never even seen the title.
I love how he dropped everything to cover Borderlands just two weeks after it became a notorious bomb, but he still hasn't covered many of this year's _actual_ biggest hits like Dune 2, Inside Out 2, Twisters, or Civil War.
😂😂😂😂
@@benabramowitz18 it could be screen rant tells him which one to do, or he only chooses movies he can make good jokes for, which is completely fair
Or ever will
More people will be here to watch this Pitch Meeting than the actual movie itself.
i saw the casting and knew what it would be immediately
It's already at 23K views. So yeah... can confirm!
honestly ? this might be one time that's ACTUALLY true
Getting more viewers than the Borderlands movie, would you say it is, perhaps, super easy? Maybe not even much in the way of an inconvenience?
Pretty sure more people already are.
The fact that he doesn’t even bother with telling us that there’s spoilers at the beginning really tells us the quality of the movie
Because even when you know the story, it still doesn't make much sense.
No one to spoil it for. That boy doesn't exist
You can’t spoil something that’s already rotten. 😂
The games are great.... I will probably never watch this movie. I just watch Pitch Meetings and The Drinker. Lol. Haven't watched a new movie in a long time.
Don't need to spoiler warning a movie that nobody has any desire to see, lol
"Very exciting!"
"Maybe."
*chef's kiss* Perfection.
This bit absolutely had me 😂
Ryan is literally a hero. He watched this movie so we don't have to. He *watched* this movie, let that sink in - actually watched it with his eyes and everything. He paid to sit, probably on his own in an empty theater, and pay attention to the movie. The sacrifices you make for us are remarkable. We salute you!
pirate streaming sites are still a thing bro. There was HD copy of this out pretty quick.
And probably multiple times to get this Pitch Meeting right. 🫡
@@SA80TAGE It's so shitty nobody even wants to watch it for free lol
@@SA80TAGEdamn I didn‘t think someone would bother to upload it xD But how they got HD copies without the movie being on DvD/Blueray? (serious question)
Good god the amount of edglords going
"Hue hue I heard it's shit hue hue none of us have watched it because people told me it was shit and I'm cool and think it's shit too!"
Cringe as fuck!
What's next? Eyeliner and black clothes saying how much people just don't get you all?
I'm one of Cate's biggest fans, but getting her to play a young bounty hunter is like getting Anthony Hopkins to play a ninja.
More like "Kate Blanched"
I don't know who that lady is but her Botox face creeps me right the hell out.
Good thing they though about that so made her say "I'm too old for this shit" 3 or 4 times in the movie to justify the age
don't encourage disney to do that plz.
You mean "Hannibal Goe To Japan?" Its not bad, the sword fight with Ian McKellen was pretty good.
Well she was the only good thing about this movie. But that's like saying that olympic swimmer sure beat all those kids in that race.
"Oh they probably shouldn't be heading there" lol. This pitch meeting seems pretty accurate.
To be fair, the same plot hole exists in Borderlands 3. So at least that part is faithful to the source material.
@@_Stormfatherthe worst game in the series. Ahh the borderlands 3.... such trash.
@@michaelfiori6700 New Tales from the Borderlands would like to have a word with you...
@@michaelfiori6700 Nah. It's got the worst writing out of the main 3 games, but the worst in the whole series? You've got Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, the Pre-Sequel, and the *shudders * sequel to Tales From the Borderlands. All are worse than 3, which honestly has some of the best gameplay in the series.
@@_Stormfather Pre Sequel isn't even that bad really. To me the only bad thing about it was the gravity crap.
As someone who commented on Gearbox forums years ago regarding this movie's casting decisions with "So who is this movie even going to be for?", seeing a video with a millions views where "who is this movie even for?" is the central point is incredibly satisfying. Thank you.
I imagine this is EXACTLY how the pitch went
For Avi Arad, all that matters is selling merchandise
You say this when the video is only one minute old
possibly not i think the original movie was more R rated until they kicked off eli roth and hackjobbed it into a pg-13, but that still doesnt mean it would have been good...
Especially the part with the cast!
He forgot Randy Pitchford asking people if they have seen the movie and their opinions don’t matter.
My heart rejoices for that little boy out there with vague, positive feelings towards Borderlands
1 was decently fun. 2 less so, but still ok. After that it went downhill REAL fast.
Bravo sir, bravo 👏🏼
I feel like that description could fit for an absolute ton of tv/movie adaptations. Wheel of Time, Halo, Shannara, Dragonball Evolution, Silent Hill, Double Dragon...
@davidpearson6916 wheel of time was fine. It wasn't great it left out a lot of stuff and didn't get half as deep into background or characterization as the books did but the bar has dropped so far that a mediocre adaptation is a positive outcome lol
Broom Boy!
I was that boy. I kinda played Borderlands when it was a free monthly game on Xbox live years ago. Then when I saw this trailer I was like "Oh yeah, I remember that" And then I sat there, thinking long and hard about whether or not I cared enough to go see it.
I didn't
Same. I worked for 2k at the time, so since the games were free, I figured, "what the hell, I'm bad at shooters, but let's do some casual co-op with friends." I enjoyed BL2, kinda liked BL3, but remember talking shit with friends, not the plot. Vague positive feelings towards the franchise, absolutely.
I'd have seen a Borderlands movie if it got a TON of positive buzz, but even then, probably not in theaters.
Wow! Script writer Guy was right!
Me too! I played Borderlands 2 for like 30 minutes 10 years ago. Always knew it was a popular franchise, but never got to dive into it properly. I have no idea what the story is, I just know it's probably fun.
I was excited for the movie. Now I'm happy I didn't go watch it, lol.
Yea, I too player that game a little when it was free on Xbox but I also know most video game adaptations are terrible, especially shooters, so I didn't even think about going to see this.
I'm sort of that boy. I never played the game, but find the general setting and art style interesting. That wasn't enough to draw me to the cinema, but I might have gone if the reviews turned out to be amazing.
"I'm not sure that boy exists." Congratulations, you've just pinpointed literally every Hollywood studio's biggest problem for the last 5-10 years.
It's what happens when you rely on AI to write scripts instead of actual writers.
The problem is not with AI but with actual human execs not asking "who's this movie for".
Example is making Star Wars shows for people that never liked star wars at any point during its 45+ years of existence
That boy did exist problem is he grew up into Randy Pitchford.
@@crushingit5128 Not to mention writers are no longer hired based on their skills or competency but rather the color of their skin or who they like to sleep with.
He existed alright.... 15 years ago , when I was but a wee lad!! Back when the franchise was at its peak, I wouldve eaten this shit up probably. I bet it would still be trash, most videogame to moviefilm adaptations are.
The first trailer of borderlands was enough for me to say, "They ruined it, it's trash, and it'll bomb horribly." Now I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong, but luckily for me I'm not and won't need to.
You were wrong though because I bet you never thought it would bomb that horribly.
@JSmellerM oh I definitely did. The moment I saw the cast, before even considering the scenes in the trailer itself, I knew without a doubt it wasn't just gonna be bad, but a type of bad that isn't even a guilty pleasure to watch. The characters were all miss matched, all trying to be the "funny" one. None of which were the appropriate age range. Let's face it, it didn't take a lot of convincing to show this was gonna be a massive let down.
Not having to deal with the consequences of your preconcieved notions is tight
@@JSmellerM Given the casting choices, none of us had to think it would bomb that horribly, we knew.
@@JSmellerM I watched the first trailer. Was impressed how God awful the trailer was. The casting choices alone made this dead on arrival. I am not at all suprised this didn't break 10 mil. I'm more suprised it made 1mil.
That Mr. Cast joke was impeccable. Great job as always, Ryan.
😂😂😂
hope mr. cast will return in future videos, each time on a different part of the body
Reminds me of the "little misleading" joke from his Madame Web pitch meeting, which made me throw my head back in laughter hahaha
Well he IS about to be a dad, got train those dad jokes
@@teslaromans1023 He's a dad already
that "isn't that little mis-cast" "no it's actually a little Mr. cast" is now my favorite pitch meeting joke
Along with his collar half hanging out 😂
“Puns are all that matter in this world.”
-‘The Bee Movie’ Pitch
they could've hired lesser known younger AND cheaper actors... and made a far smaller loss.
It has a little moustache!
Nah, the first version of the joke from Madame Web was true perfection!
“This is an area, and they’re going to go through it.” This single line is better than the entire movie.
They could have just released all the cutscenes from Borderlands 1, 2, and 3 in theaters, and it would've done a better job at the box office
Maybe not 3, but the pre sequel and part 2's stories were fucking FIRE
Honestly, just 2 would've been fine. You've got the new vault hunters, the old mentor vault hunters, a fun over the top villain, easy to understand super substance everyone wants, a goal everyone is striving towards. If they straight up just adapted 2 it could've been a solid movie. EDIT: Then again, Pitchford probably didn't want to remind everyone how much they've failed to live up to 2 in the 12 years since it came out.
@@flux_casey LITERALLY all he has to do is bring back Jack. But he won't because he's a stubborn fool.
@@AnneHathawayRules
Bringing back Jack would be the worst thing to do. His story finished fine. It would just tarnish whatever character they built for him.
They need to make new and interesting characters and villains that are unique and fun. The main reason BL3 was wack was because they tried to copy Jack and split him into 2 twins with half his personality on either twin which completely failed.
You’d think Hollywood would wise up but it’s taking forever. The movie practically writes itself if you play the video games. Why do some people in Hollywood not understand gamers at all? They could go get some gamers together and pay them to get their ideas and feedback. Then take it from there. At least they’d have an idea of what we want to see!
"oh"
"Which is a big twist"
"Oh.. OOOOOHHHHH!"
"That's better"
Ryan just gets better with his skit 😂😂
this needs to be recurring!
Probably thats how modern movie should be enjoyed, have a text to cue you on how to react
"I feel nothing"
Agreed. Should be recurring
"Who is this movie for...?"
I thought he was going to say "For me" like he didn't in a different pitch. Very emotional moment. That was a twist🥹
I thought it was gonna be for investors, but I guess that only works if the stock price actually goes up
The movie is for sure. It sure is a movie.
It's actually for Randy Pitchford's mom, cause she doesn't play his video games.
Considering the quotes from Eli Roth, "For me" would have been a perfect answer.
Cannot overstate how important that question is. The movie is for nobody. If you're a fan of the games you won't much like it because it doesn't really revel in the things the game is known for: loot, powers, cartoonish gory violence. If you don't know about the games you'll be baffled because characters and places from the game are paraded in without real introduction, little to no purpose, and then offscreen just as fast. While the games have hours of background dialogue to give the bad guys character (it's very meme humor do I don't want to over praise their writers) but they don't bother with any of that. So it feels like you wandered into a cosplay contest at a con for a show you never watched and the contestants are too shy to actually speak or perform.
This movie isn't for anyone.
I haven't seen this "movie" but I think this is the first pitch meeting where Ryan didn't make up ANYthing, he just read reports and listened to people who were involved in the production and put down events EXACTLY as they happened and were laid out! Excellent reporting sir, just excellent!!
I love when Ryan’s absolute *disdain* for a movie comes searing through.
The worse the movie, the better the Pitch Meeting 👍.
Yeah it is like angryjoe review of bad games
So... does that mean that Ryan is secretly paying the screenwriters to sabotage their movies for the sake of his pitch meeting videos?
🤣
Nice amount of likes
Great pitch meetings are tight!
@@winterlightstudios4340 No, they're doing that quite well on their own.
This pitch meeting has already had more views than all showings of Borderlands Worldwide.
It's pretty close, give it another hour.
If producer guy notices, we might get a Pitch Meeting movie in another decade.
14523320 dollar at $10 dollars each ticket... 1.4M people... My guess it this ptich is going to be performing better than the movie in viewers 😂😂
@@djAstraimWell that’s where you’re wrong 😂
Free vs paid, long vs short
This is one of Ryan’s best pitch meetings. The miscast. The meet cute. The boy who is vaguely into Borderlands. So many solid bits. *chef’s kiss*
ngl, I heard "meat cube" initially, and was very confused about the bit at first
I honestly thought is was one of the worst ones I've seen. It felt rushed and not very thought out. He simply regurgitated every joke that every YT video and review has already made. He even looked uncomfortable in the clip.
Actually it's a Mr cast, see he put a little mustache on it
@@jimthar17so who is this comment for?
Kevin Hart as Roland might be one of the worst cast picks I've ever seen, the decision itself is almost comical.
The bad part of this whole situation is that the big movie studios are going to see video game adaptations as unprofitable because “people just don’t like them” when the whole point is that people STILL don’t like shitty movies!
People have shitty taste…. And people are paying to watch the fiftieth version of Spider-Man… So the studios will keep making infantile movies for their infantile audience.
@@perseus9428 that’s becoming false these days, Borderlands, Joker 2, anything produced by Disney in the last 4 years, people really dislike Hollywood’s new tack they’re taking
Most ppl don't have shitty tastes, they just don't care as much about what they see. Only critics do. It's like going to McDonald's as a food critic and complaining about how bad the food is, while calling ppl that eat there infantile, when they just go there to fill their bellies and avoid having to cook that night, not to enjoy exquisite cuisine. And this movie did terribly, so, you know, that shows ppls tastes are at least good enough to avoid this and things like it.
"So they're going to encounter several obstacles along the way - which will happen! - legally making this a movie." 😂😂😂
Checking boxes is TIGHT!
legally
That stack of paper actually seems kinda thick given the movie content.
So you're saying the movie DID have a content?
Thing is, he clearly picked up some of the girls papers from the Meet Cute incident, but not all of his own. It's a common tool to force the characters to meet a second time and actually engage with each other for a meaningful length of time. Structurally, this whole pitch meeting is essentially the 'his' half of things, while whatever will provide exposition about 'her' circumstances would be another scene. Once both are done, one or both of them will be shown realizing they are missing some papers and that the other has them, prompting the reunion. It's pretty classic boilerplate stuff, but it's useful structure.
and he never said if he picked up the girl
@@sirius4k Yes. It had precisely one content.
@@Sorain1 Shut up.
I love how he didn’t even bother putting a spoilers tag, he knows no one wants to see this movie.
They could have just released this sketch, it would have made more money. Or at the very least made SOME money.
My father can be an annoying contrarian sometimes so I had to convince him this movie is bad and it's not just "obnoxious gamers mad that they didn't stick to canon."
He can’t spoil it further..
Good god the amount of edglords going
"Hue hue I heard it's shit hue hue none of us have watched it because people told me it was shit and I'm cool and think it's shit too!"
Cringe as fuck!
What's next? Eyeliner and black clothes saying how much people just don't get you all?
@@CrizzyEyes did he like the warcraft movie?
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 mature content 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!"
As the pitch got going, I was thinking, "oh, those are very comedic cast choices Ryan made.... wait ... what ... they're the actual cast members?"
When reality becomes satire
Sadly, yes.
60's is not even MILF, that is GILF fetish. No kinkshame but be professional.
You know, my younger sister used to play Borderlands like 10 years ago, and I remember having vaguely positive feelings about it at the time, but I never played it. As they began making more movie adaptations of video games some years ago, it was brought up in conversation at one point, and I thought "huh, I wonder if they'll ever make a movie of Borderlands." Flash forward to a few months ago, I saw a trailer for the first time, and had some familiarity with the characters. I didn't even question the casting choices since they seemed "in the ballpark" of what I could remember. I'd considered going to see it, but then I read all the reviews saying how terrible it was.
But now I realize that all along, it was written exactly for people like me! Maybe I should buy a ticket. Thank you, Ryan.
I guess if nobody gets gender swapped, "ballpark" still counts?
@@SnifferSock Tbf I guess you can say “they’re in the ballpark, but every single character other than Tina is 30-40 years older than they should be”
I went and saw it. Not having ever played Borderlands. I thought it was a fun, dumb, movie that I really didn't need to think too hard about.
@@Zlittlepenguin or 30 to 40 inches shorter than they should be.
@@SnifferSock They've been geriatric swapped instead.
I never played Borderlands, nor watched this movie. But I still feel compelled to give my condolences to the fans of this franchise. Especially since Eli Roth was in the director's chair.
I have a feeling that it wasn't him that caused this mess given that he basically was responsible for like 25% of it.
Avi Arad was the problem, not Roth
Yeah, as a fan of the series, seeing it done that dirty hurts. XD
@@Zombiesnyder13 Yes. But Roth is a meh director.
@Shapershift he's spectacular for horror....... but grossly incompetent for action.
This is one of the first pitch meetings I’ve watched where I could feel actual rage simmering beneath the surface of Ryan’s performances.
I'm sorry you had to watch this Ryan
It was super easy barely an inconvenience?
I watch most of the movies I'm uninterested in through Pitch Meetings. So I'm thankful he did.
God only knows how much therapy he has to get now because of it.
@@alexbayswood4847 It was tragically difficult and extremely inconvenient for him, for certain.
I feel bad for anyone that had to watch this movie and Ghostbusters 2016.. 🙏🙏⚰️⚰️
Change too many things to satisfy fans of the series, reference too many things to make sense to anyone else, make inexplicable casting choices, and use the intern's first draft for the plot. That's apparently how you make a vaguely movie-like thing.
We need a pitch meeting that starts off with Producer Guy saying, "So you have a vaguely movie-like thing for me?"
Oh and be sure to vigorously stroke Randy Pitchford’s… ego
@@SrCarpiNo, of course not sir!
And by that do you mean you have something much better?
That is a thing I could have meant.
Okay then!
Do all that is TIGHT
5:19 BAHAHAHAHA!
My 8yo went and saw it with his mom and loved it.
He doesn't actually know anything about the story. He just recognizes a game he watched his brothers play when he was a kid.
Your description of the "doesn't know" aspect is soooo spot on!
"...when he was a kid..."
He's 8. He's STILL a kid 😂
@@davet319Unless it's a cat.
@@davet319 you never know. He may be working in diamond mine by now
We found him! The one person in existence this movie was made for
is your 8 year old an adult now or something?
6:03 I could listen to a whole album of this
"There are worst ways to spend 30 seconds of screen time" is probably the motto of all scriptwriters/editors in current Hollywood
To be honest, the best thing any actor can hope for if they are in this movie, is a quick death. Then they don't have to keep shooting scenes! They also naturally hope that their death is on screen so that they can hopefully never be brought back for the sequel that definitely shouldn't happen, but just might.
Worse.
"So fans of the game won't be surprised, and non-fans won't know what that's about?"
Literally my reaction in the Warcraft movie when Durotan dramatically faces the camera and names his son "Go'el." Non-fans won't know who Go'el is, and why that scene seemed so dramatic, and fans already KNEW what Durotan was going to name his son.
or when they made Benedict Cumberbatch's character be Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness. Not a huge twist, pissed off fans and meant nothing to non-fans.
@@simonlyall you're supposed to be impressed because it's the thing you know.
For me and movies that have scenes like that the key is how they play it. If it’s played like a big twist “holy shit” surprise moment, then it’s bad. Because fans won’t be surprised and non fan viewers will be like “huh?” But if you play it as like a big moment we knew would happen and here’s that cool scene, then fans can think it’s a cool scene and casual viewers can go okay im a lil confused but it was cool
@@simonlyall With the difference that JJ Abrahams felt compelled to lie unprompted and state that "No, he is not Khan, he is someone else!"" before the movie came out, confirming that indeed, it was Khan.
@@AzraelTheManHandler as someone who's never read or watched the old Dune movies, "confused but felt like the scene was cool" sums up my experience of Dune. As a nerd I could tell when the fanservice moments were happening but I had no idea what it was.
This seems back to the older pitches where Ryan really showed how much he didn’t like the movie. And the Mr. Cast bit was excellent. Annndddd the whole explanation of who the movie is for was priceless
Spot on. The end was brilliant.
"We need a young red head for Lilith"
"Old Australian elf?"
"Perfect"
Even Writer Guy realizes at 3:47 that the premise of this movie makes no sense.
Their entire plan was to get there before him so he couldn't use Tina to get in. Which I'm only just now, typing this, realizing they could have accomplished by just... shooting Tina. Since besides Lilith, they all expected her to die anyway. Whatever, I still had fun watching it.
From the plot standpoint why cant just write that the bad guy angry by the rescue mission failure and try to change himself into pandora guy to be the 3rd key, kinda convenient, but we can make excuse that it have chance of failure and the guy are afraid to risk it previously
This movie should be illegal, but unfortunately it meets all the legal requirements.
@@theotakux5959 Also, if they go there to open the gate, won't Tina be sacrificed all the same ?!
if only he wouldn't have lost all his papers
The “mister cast” thing was brilliant. You always come up with the best wordplay. And that end speech was the best punchline.
Sequel to the "a little misleading" joke from the Madame Web pitch meeting.
"it's for a little boy who's a fan of borderlands, and he always wondered why there's no movies. But he's not such a fan that Knows all the stuff because he'd be mad about all the weird decisions we're making"
What an accurate description of Randy Pitchford.
Yeah, I knew Pitchford must be involved when I started hearing about the movie and all the various choices they made. I was just classic Randy he destroys everything he touches other than that one franchise.
it’s me, he literally described me😂 if i hadn’t seen the trailers i genuinely might’ve bought a ticket purely based on my vague familiarity and positive memory of borderlands😂 i barely played it, my brother played it and i just thought it was cool lol
@@jjcoola998 That dude is mental!
The thing is, I'm not sure that boy exists
"Greasy, slimy, oily Randy fucking Pitchford" CV-11
I loved all the cameos in this movie: Jonah Hill as Superman, Robert Downey Jr as Sgt. Lincoln Osiris and Judi Dench as Dante Hicks.
"Can we just miscast everyone with expensive actors?"
"Sure, I dont' see why why not! There's no way this movie could bomb!"
As someone who's only seen my big brother play Borderlands a couple of times but thought it looked really cool; that guy is me, I'm that little boy this was made for.
I mean I still didn't buy a ticket but the thought is appreciated
Hahahaha, I felt the same way! Played Borderlands 1 with my brothers once forever ago and remember having a good time but never went back to it afterwards so was actually intrigued by the movie and originally planned to watch it when it left theaters (cause let's not go crazy, certainly wasn't $20 excited about it lol)
I’m a HUGE fan of Borderlands. My favorite game series EVER.
Lemme tell you, I spent my entire time watching the movie going”that’s wrong, THATS wrong, why the HELL are psychos just STANDING there?”
I’m pretty sure this is the same feeling of pain and betrayal that Dragon Ball fans felt when “Dragon Ball Evolution” came out
Sorry, we used the Dragonballs and wished that movie out of existence
Why would you not look at reviews or anything before though... everyone knew all of this without paying to see it
@@Psychedelicpourhousebecause I, being a self proclaimed Borderlands mega fan, wanted to see with my own two eyes if it truly was “that bad”
I wanted to see if there was ANYTHING redeeming about it.
@@moridin3336 A wise use of their power to be sure.
@@jomahawk7488 but you can do that later for free without rewarding them and encouraging more garbage to be made
Alright, it's official. More people watched this pitch meeting than the movie❤
Ryan put more effort and passion in that speech at the end than anyone did in the actual movie.
"oh."
"Which is a BIG twist."
"OOooOOOOoOooOOOoooh!!"
😆😅🤣😂
"Hey, do you know about the animated robot?"
"You mean the one that already was casted for the games, 10 years ago?"
"Yeah, that one, let's cast jack black for it!"
Considering that David Eddings said he’ll never work with Randy Pitchford, they didn’t really have a choice but to recast.
The past tense of "cast" is cast...
@@Vsmit00 yeah randy kinda fucked that up in 2017
The bigger question is how do you make Jack Black not funny?
@@Pseudowolf The answer is The Mandalorian Season 3, with Gulliver's Travels being a close second.
Having seen both borderlands and this I can confirm I am that "boy" someone who had played less than 10 hours of borderlands total but was willing to go to the cinema to see a film about it and came away thinking "that was fine I guess"
The absolute worst insult to a creative!
Be mad, be something. If it didnt make you feel at all, they fucked the goose
Was this how you found out you're an NPC?
@@StratRev323 no, only the hacks would rather you be mad than mildly entertained.
@@evancombs5159 An artist wants to evoke emotion. regardless of which one, make people care enough to feel something. when you fail to make me care, you fail
It has like a 10% on rotten tomatoes. Which I don't really get. There are much worse movies out there to set the floor way lower. I think it's somewhere in the 50-60% range of it's okay I guess if you're bored enough. Speaking as a person who doesn't know or care anything about the games.
That Mr. Cast joke was simultaneously the greatest thing on Earth and the most dad jokes of all dad jokes and I don't know what level of exhaustion I should have.
It was better than the movie.
“So fans of the game won’t be surprised, and non-fans of the game won’t know what that’s about?”
That is some great writing that shows the producers really knew who this movie was made for… 😂
Star Trek Into Darkness and Spectre would be proud (yes I know those weren't games but the point still stands).
better writing than the film itself. I nominate this for an Oscar!
yup
Ryan was wrong though.
Nostalgia-bait like this is for millennials to watch with their kids.
The fact that they have kids means that they're not hardcore fans.
@@ErebosGR I'm a hardcore Borderlands fan, born during the transition from Gen-X to Millennial. I have kids. I've played the games _with my children._ I will never watch this movie with them, nor suggest they watch it.
This movie is like when you order Guardians of the Galaxy from Temu.
ROTFL.
That is the perfect summary. Bravo.
More like if you order the Temu version of Guardians of the Galaxy off of Wish.
See that's what you get when you buy something with a close enough title.
@@KahranRamsus or if you order the temu version of Guardians of the galaxy off of wish but find a copy at the dollar store
0:59 - I love the, _'hey, shut up so....'_ 😂 gets me everytime
I don't think I've ever seen a Pitch Meeting video that focused on a movie and/or TV show that was recently released, and it didn't have a "Spoilers" bumper before the meeting.
Cats
I'm loving the "who is this for?" bit that's become recurring. Velma and Borderlands both have never heard of this thing called a "target audience" and clearly they're both written by people who don't get how to make a fun, appealing show.
I laughed so hard I cried at the line delivery at 5:49
For the people who loved this game series, I'm sorry for your loss
**looking at my collection of Borderlands games on the shelf**
Yeah… **sigh**
@Road_to_Dawn that wasn't even sarcasm. I know how that feels. Most nerds that had their fave IP turned into a, not just a bad movie but a soul less movie at that knows how you feel. At least universally, we have better VGM.
@@aaroncarroll2417 We’re in this together 🤝
The "barely an inconvenience" line is always perfectly delivered
It must be pretty difficult to always deliver that line perfectly.
@@Onmur Not at all. truth is that´s super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
I can't be the only one who does the head tilt at the same time!
You’re not! 😁
YeahYeahYeah! And also………wow
This Pitch Meeting is so spot on with the casting issues. When I saw the casting of the movie in the trailer, it pissed me off.
I'll do you one better. When they announced the cast before filming I already knew the movie would be awful. I still haven't even bothered to watch the trailer. I own All the games except for tales and they still couldn't get me to care enough to watch the trailer and yet I showed up to watch this pitch meeting because I knew it would actually deliver good acting, writing, and production values.
The first Tales was good. If you played 3 you deserve to reward yourself with some good storytelling. lol
Same. Saw the cast and knew for a fact it would be horrible. It's such an easy "Tolda ya" moment, not even worth bragging about.
How to improve quality of videogame adaptation to the screen: 1- get writers from videogames for the movie script. 2- actors and directors need to AT LEAST have played the videos game. If they like it - bonus points.
3 - stick to the story of the game , if millions of copies of the game were sold, it means something.
The story in Borderlands is bad though.
None of these are necessary but I think the first two points are helpful. The third, nah you can do something original, most fans will prefer extended lore over an adaptation, the fallout show was pretty okay in doing this despite its flaws
The thing that actually matters most is understanding the characters. Yk, not equating Roland with Kevin fucking Hart.
@@Parker-- yeah but its still part of a good game, dont fix what aint broke
I'd like to argue that point 3 is not a good idea.
If anything, the best video game adaptations to different mediums are when they forgo as much as possible of the games plot. The Fallout show has been named. I'd add the Cyberpunk 2077 Anime. And the Castlevania show (tho, tbf, the Castlevania it's based on has only the thinnest veil of a plot to begin with). This can also be done the other way around mind you. See f.e. Space Marine (2011). Tho, tbf, Warhammer 40k lends itself very well to telling new stories.
Imo the best adaptation of anything to a different medium is when they keep the world. The overarching "feeling" of it. The fantasy of it. And then build a new story that fits into that universe. 9/10 times if they try to retell the story that has been told they stumble and fail.
I love that he actually looks down at the cast while making the "Miss-cast" joke 🤣The "VERY CUTE" sent me
There's some Pitch Meetings where I think "do I want to watch this movie before the Pitch Meeting spoils it?" but this one only took me about 2 seconds to decide "no, I do not." ...I don't think I'm ever going to watch this movie 😅
the first trailer made it clear for me that it was a bad idea. Kevin Hart as Roland and just the characterization of Claptrap and Tiny Tina along with the fact that they were mixing the heroes from Game 1 and 2 made it obvious.
However i didnt know how bad the plot actually was. Gods i dont think a single person who worked on this movie actually knew what Borderlands was!
yup, I'm avoiding the deadpool and wolverine one but clicked this one immediately
Literally me, moments ago
@@hIGH_aND_mIGHTY me too lmao
“Who is this movie for?” That about sums it up right there.
You two are literally my favorite channels
alright that cast joke.....*chef's kiss*
"So they're gonna encounter several obstacles along the way, which will happen, legally making this a movie."
...As a writer, I felt that.
Gave me Morbius vibes which definitely was also a movie.
Yeesh
My major question is did ANY of the writers OR the Directors, or ANY of the cast members ever play the games? Because the canon of the games was 100%TOTALLY ignored for the movie.
The crazy thing is, BL is so shallow, it could have been easily made into a fun, if low brow movie. I knew when the music was wrong in the trailer that it was going to be bad. I didn't think it would be this bad, but obviously was going to fail.
Nope, they legit through out the source material and wanted to do their own thing in their own image…
Even the CEO bragged about it
It's the same problem with the Halo show! Worse with the Halo show though, there was virtually no one who even did SCI-FI, let alone be fans of the game. I'm convinced that it wasn't even a Mass Effect show, as some speculate, it was an original IP ripping off The Expanse and Dune that the execs had zero confidence in.
@@null6634yeah but not that shallow
Funny how these things get messed up. Like why not recruit a handful of hardcore fans, or the original writers. Most people would be happy even if the story was the same as the games as long as it was performed well.
The slideshow made me tear up with all the memories of the thing I just watched. Beautiful.
lol pitch guy saying “they probably shouldn’t go there”to the script is just the best.
THAT BOY DOES EXIST! You described my 12 year olds relationship to Borderlands perfectly and thought the movie was a little fun and over-hated!
...now I thought it was a total mess, BUT THAT BOY DID FIND IT TO BE PASSABLE FOR TWO HOURS!
Hey Sean 👋🏽
We got one!
The legends are true
That's autism...
@@bickhamproductions Hello!
"Making this legally a movie."
Why do I feel like so much of Hollywood's output lately is using legal definitions in order to call their work "movies"?
Because a lot of it is money laundering. The music industry and organized crime have been doing that shit since the 40s.
Because if they didn't, they would be called political attack ads and might get regulated.
@@lareolanKFPpolitical attack ad against fun
I used to be an avid gamer but everything in this video hits home with me. The last new games I really enjoyed were “stray” and “it takes two” on ps5. Reason I enjoyed them? My son is now 9 and we sat and enjoyed them all the way through together.
".... legally making this a movie".
2:56 He won’t stand for “walking and chewing gum at the same time”
Ryan’s got layers
Well of course he won't stand for it, he'd be walking.
This big, strong man came up to Producer Guy, tears in his eyes, and said "Sir, we have to make a Borderlands movie. Many people are saying it's an excellent movie, best movie ever made."
Big man, strong man, very serious, never cried in his life, not even as a baby - "Sounds like Kevin Hart to me!"
Are you suggesting Trump green lit this ablazed garbage can?
I can’t possibly tell who this character is supposed to be.
Silence of the lambs, have you ever seen that movie? The late great Hannibal lector wants to have you for dinner...it's true. He done the voice over for the Grinch movie can you believe that? The Grinch is like Kamala trying to steal your merry Christmas, I saved merry Christmas by the way, they wanted to change it to happy holidays. A great guy came up to me, big white beard and red coat, tears in his eyes and told me, sir, you saved Christmas.
@@WeeleyTube Wow wow wow wow... wow.
The slow music camera zoom was great
Imagine waiting 15 years for them to make a game adaptation for a movie and this is what you get.
i suspect it was just a movie to keep the rights
@@tommerker8063 It was a $150 million ad for borderlands 4
I owe those corpse party movies an apology
Best prank ever
Been happening more than ya think lately. I don't care too much about borderlands but I understand the feeling with Halo lol
what I don't understand is claptrap is a robot. there's already a great voice actor for him from the games, why hire Jack black
because the thought process is "people know Jack Black, which will sell tickets!"
David Eddings the VA for claptrap was assaulted in an elevator by Randy Pitchford in 2017 and has refused to work on any future projects without his portion of the $12M royalty fund Randy Pitchford stole aswell as an apology
@@phillipfry8141 fair, but short sighted as the main audience would presumably be people who have played the games. while I'm unlikely to see the movie given it's bad press, having Jack black voice as Claptrap really doesn't help.
Jack Black and claptrap rhyme though! It's 2 single syllable words with an ahhhh sound.
You could never be a Hollywood producer.
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The sad part is that Jack Black was probably the least bad casting choice theu made for the movie
0:58 the speedy “hey…shut up!!” is my #1 recurring line from pitch meetings…all-timer 😂
Better than super easy barely and inconvenience?
My 15 year old son really wanted to see this movie. The announcement got him excited to do a playthrough of all the games together which was an enjoyable experience, but the absolute train wreck of a movie we got at least gave us a good laugh. Now we can watch the pitch meeting and laugh again, to keep from crying lol
That was definitely one of the movies of all time
Worst
Your comment will get the most likes in the thread I reckon 👍
I have certainly written a reply comment.
There was certainly a movie of some sort in that movie. I think.
Words AND stuff
0:19 - I really, really like that quote, even though it just plays on the same age-old truth that's endlessly given new phrasing. 👍
5:09 I totally thought the movie was gonna be for the cute girl he bumped into who made him spill all his papers.
Ryan has been on fire lately like I can’t believe how consistently great every single pitch meeting has been.
Borderlands to date has grossed $14,500,000. Average US ticket price is $10. 1.45 million people watched. This video has half of that in less than 20 hours. Amazing.
Producer Guy: So you have a video game cashgrab adaptation for me?
Screenwriter Guy: Yes sir I do.
That would imply they made money 😂
I cant belive Pitch Meeting secretly filmed the actual pitch for the movie and then released it.
I can't believe how constantly on point this guy keeps these videos. It's like Southpark
More people will probably see this pitch meeting than the actual movie😂
Friends, to put this in perspective, Borderlands made $8.6 million dollars opening weekend and only $2.4 million the following weekend.
The budget was $115 million.
Flop is an understatement.
I have to wonder if that sets a record, it's surely in top 5 worst preforming films released, right?
The funny thing is that Argylle, also from this year, probably lost more money than it so not even the biggest bomb of the year.
As for historically, after adjusting Pluto Nash for inflation it still did less than Borderlands opening weekend despite costing over 100m in the 80s (90s? Cant remember and not worthy a google search to confirm)
A movie is considered a flop when they make barely enough money to cover the cost or a little more than that.
I don't even know what to call sinking 104 million USD so far.
@@Sorain1 I’ve been doing a little research. There’s certainly movies that lost more money, like “The Marvels” and “John Carter,” but in terms of lowest gross income percentage, “Zyzzyx Road” made $30 off a $1.2 million budget (0.0025% return), but it was intentional to do the bare minimum to meet contractual obligations.
The next movie is “The Adventures of Pluto Nash,” which had star-studded cast, its budget was approximately $100 million, but it only made 7.1 million worldwide (7.1% return).
They didn’t have “Borderlands” on any of these lists since it is so new and still in theaters, but the numbers so far indicate that it will definitely be one of the worst flops of all time, definitely top 5, maybe even higher; at least in terms of gross income percentage.
i wonder how much more the actual games made. LOL
I almost lost it in the break room when that “little boy” monologue played.
They could have just announced Borderlands 4 and saved 100 million dollars
2:58
" you are trying to make me walk and chew gum at the same time and I won't stand for it"
The most subtle and the best joke of the video
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Even the Pitch Meeting was painful. So I can only imagine Ryan's pain when he went to actually see this thing...
You know it’s funnier when he doesn’t put a “spoiler warning” at the beginning
Why would he need to? Box office shows essentially no one cared and those who did surely saw it by now.
“Wasn’t that game popular…. 10 years ago”
Some guy on his way to beat borderlands with only the bane while playing with his feet
0:01 They changed the topcomment algorithm and therefor you see this totally irrelevant comment.
Lmao. We should do this in every video until RUclips sees how stupid this is 😂
Is it because you tagged the start of the video? I wonder why RUclips thought that should be top comment?
Getting on top of the comments section is super easy barely an inconvenience
@@elianas1121it's bcuz of the time stamps, when we are watching the video, and the reach the point on a time stamp, that comment will appear, so it is not the top comment
Would yall stop this dumb sh!t dam