I understand not making Tiny Tina like 12, but making everyone else old, too is just crazy to me. They could have saved a ton of money on casting and used it to work on the script and cgi
"broad audience" is a joke if it would compromise the movie. They think going PG-13 will bring in more people because it's not R but they butchered the film and basically came up with nothing
3:20 Cate Blanchett accepted the role because originally the script was written by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl and the last of us series), but when Eli Roth came to direct, he began to rewrite the script to the point that Craig Mazin didn't want his name appeared in the credits of the film.
The fact that Kevin Hart brought the most energy to the film when two of the cast (Tiny Tina, Kreig) are KNOWN for their generally over-the-top violence and bravado when Roland is meant to be the STOIC ONE is baffling.
Was roland actually the stoic one or is this a collective delusion? Its not like the rest of the bl1 playable characters are more silly than roland (maybe besides brick) from what I remember and he would crack jokes too.
@@Metastuuin Bl2 he was portrayed as the stoic badass leader of Sanctuary who occasionally out of a blue moon would crack a joke but mostly stays serious throughout the game.
Don't say this for MCU films, those fanboys will get triggered saying you should spend own money to make the decision for yourself or else you are an idiot who trusts reviewers.
Flat surfaces gave me my most fondest memories playing yugioh with friends in highschool, so im happy Jeremy gives respect to spaces usually taken for granted lol
The moment Kevin Hart was announced as Roland, I knew something wrong is going to happen. Mike Tyson playing himself as Roland would've been a far better choice than Hart to be honest 🤷
Holy shit I didn't know Kevin Hart was playing Roland. That makes as much sense as casting Danny DeVito as Brick... Also I love Cate Blanchett, but she's way too old to play Lilith.
The casting is absolutely hilarious. Hiring people in their mid 50s, 70s and 80s for roles meant for people in their 20s and 30s and a short comedic guy to play a tall straight man. It's just.. bizarre.
From day 1 I had the feeling that Cate Blanchet was in Borderlands with the same energy that Harrison Ford goes into Star Wars movies "Screw that, I'm getting paid".
The writer of "Chernobyl" and "The Last Of Us", Craig Mazin even had to remove his name from the writing credit because he was dissatisfied with the rewrite that Eli Roth did to his original script. He even denied the use of the name "Joe Crombie" which was expected to be pseudonym name because that Crombie guy has no huge credit on IMDB as i searched it. Damn, i feel so bad for Mazin
@@suakeli To be fair, he has had trainwreck movies before Chernobyl such as doing those bad parody and comedy movies but coming off from Chernobyl and The Last Of Us to this, i can understand why he was very dissatisfied
@@suakeli Craig Mazin already had his trainwreck with Scary Movie 4, Superhero Movie, and Identity Thief. Chernobyl and The Last of Us gave his name some credibility so I'm sure he didn't want to ruin it. It doesn't surprise me that he pulled out after reading the new script, I would have done the same thing.
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I feel like you should have known it would suck the moment they revealed a Borderlands movie would be releasing in 2024, years after people realized those games aren’t funny.
Honestly. Give it a shot. I'm a hudge borderlands fan and my grandad who has 8k hours in borderlands 2 on his own also enjoyed it. It was more for the fans These critics' don't know shit
@@eeveemaster8902 Just because you like a movie that critics don't doesn't mean "critics don't know anything". What critics say isn't a law of physics like gravity, they're just giving their opinion on a movie. It's perfectly normal to like things other people don't like.
I think they nailed the aesthetic of Borderlands. But, to make a good Borderlands movie, you also needed the action, the plot, they humor, more guns than you could shake all the sticks in the world at, over-the-top villains, and literally ALL the crazy. Out of 7 things they needed, the got one. Hell, a blind squirrel finds a nut on occasion.
I don't really see how they nailed the aesthetic considering the visual art style of the game is out of a comic book with very strong outlines on everything. This comical style is the entire reason characters and stories could be so crazy and out-of-pocket. It indicated to the player that this game was highly fictional and it wasn't taking itself seriously (in certain ways). Other than that I completely agree with you.
@@joshculpepper7847 I grant you, the exact aesthetic can't be replicated with a live-action movie, but you have to admit, they got the future grunge thing down pretty good.
@@victorcates9330 Shame on us for keeping on falling for videogame movies to begin with. At best, they cut the story and the characters down to shadows of their original forms but manage to make something watchable. At worst, this movie right here. Borderlands was always a bit niche to begin with but has an extremely loyal fanbase. You aren't going to get normies to like it and you aren't going to please fans watering it down.
Fun Fact: This movie was originally gonna written by Craig Mazin (who was the showrunner of HBO’s Chernobyl and TLOU Adaptation) until the rewrites came along and he wanted his name out of the movie
That is not the official reason, officialy Mazin didn't want to take anything away from does that rewritten and changed his script, being very diplomatic. I was reading the Epic Games article about the making off the film. They had worked on the script since 2012, and Mazin cracked the script because he had played the game and figure out the structure of the story.
Because this movie was in development before last of us and Chernobyl. Both critically acclaimed projects. Before that he was known for the hangover movies. Studio probably thought it was more on the line of that at the time. Unfortunately
Cate Blanchett heard Eli Roth was directing this movie and thought, "Oh that's cool. He was great in 'Lie to Me'". "No sweetie, Eli Roth, not Tim Roth." "Shit."
Actually I heard something about either her kids or nephews or something loved the game so she did it. Kind of how Martin Sheen ended up in Spawn... with similar results.
Actually the original script was apparently written by Craig Mazin, before Eli Roth came on and rewrote it. Cate was attached during that time and Mazin left and had his name removed from the project entirely. Which makes this way funnier.
Agreed. I said from the jump that Terry Crews would have been perfect for that part. Kate Blanchet should have only been consider for the voice of clap-trap
The Joel Coen/Cohen type of misunderstanding would not be without precedence. Burt Reynolds agreed to be the lead in a spaghetti westen called Navajo Joe, because Clint Eastwood was praising this director called Sergio to him. He found out pretty much on set that the director isn't the praised Sergio Leone, but Sergio Corbucci (who wasn't a bad director at all, but wasn't Sergio Leone either).
Yeah you gotta love with "Street Fighter", a low budget video game movie and Raul Julia absolutely going for an Oscar, giving it ten thousand percent. It may have just been a Tuesday for him, but it's lasted a lifetime for us all.
That Bison quote is maybe one of the most profound quotes out of any movie ever, and it's in Street Fighter. Like, that quote applies to all of life. You lost your mother on that day? You got married on that day? Your child was born on that day? For me, it was a Tuesday. And it applies to everyone, forever, at some point in their life.
Funny how some of the best quotes come from the weirdest places. Spy Kids Two: “Maybe god stays in Heaven, because he fears his creation.” Pokemon the First Movie: “We wanted to create the most powerful being...and we succeeded.” Tripping the Rift: “Careful who you step on on your way to the top. They'll be there when you fall back down.” American Dad: “Once drawn, this sword cannot be resheathed until it's tasted blood.”
I reckon The Last Starfighter had plenty of those: "It takes more than a scepter to rule, Xur. Even on Rylos." And especially, "What do we do?" "We die." Some of the coldest, bravest and most awesome last words delivered by a villain.
Apparently, the original script was actually pretty good but after your favorite director got a hold of it the original script writer wanted nothing to do with it. The person who is credited with writing the movie doesn't even exist because he didn't want his name on it.
You mean Craig Mazin. Yeah, lets fire the guy that made Chernobyl and The Last of Us and give it to the dude that gave us the Deathwish remake, "Knock Knock" and Hostel II instead. 😂
If you never saw Monkey Man and have Peacock, you should watch that this weekend. Favorite movie of the year for me personally so far, followed by Dune Part 2.
What's crazy is I liked the Deadpool movie too, but if you think about it, it has the same premise as the multiverse of madness, and that movie was arguably the worst disney Marvel has put out.
Unrelated to the movie. But man, I used to watch your videos ALL the time when I was 18-19 and I just saw you on my feed and man, it’s so cool to see you still keeping up with it. Good for you and thank you.
it was the comedy of truth. i saw it yesterday and literally i was the third person in the theater. i knew it was a bad sign when i got on the regal app and it only had 2 showings for the entire DAY. a 545 and a 9 pm.. that was it.
What was weird for me, was seeing a preview for the movie before Inside Out 2. I realized then that either someone was messing up what should be previewed before a kids movie, or they had massively edited the film so it would barely resemble the game.
Yeah not surprised on this one, the trailers were awful from the start. If Borderlands is gonna get a good movie, it needs to be animated, it needs to be R-rated, and it needs to be made by people that know the source material, its highs and lows.
Yea I kind of agree on both counts. The style of the game was animated, not hyperrealism. And there is so much more you can do with animation for less money. I mean the game was basically an animated Mad Max. Dumbing it down in the ratings was not helpful. It needs to have an edge. But saying all that, an R rated, animated, humorous Mad Max style movie might be a hard sell, coming off of Furiosa.
Kate Blanchette is 55, playing a hot looking 22yr old character.. And Kevin Hart is a short, skinny, comic relief person who's playing someone who's originally tall, muscular, and always serious..
I'm not gonna defend this piece of trash movie, but Roland is definitely *not* always serious. BL1 Roland is stereotype funny black man, which Hart is great for. But for height, build, and personality, Terry Crews would've been the actual perfect casting.
SO about that security deposit when I moved and had Displates hanging....There are over a dozen cigarette PACK sizes patches where the paint is missing from the walls in my apartment. The displate does not leave a tiny whole, that is true. It leaves massively large square damaged area where both the paint and first layer of drywall have torn off when you remove the giant magnet that was glued to your wall.
yea that's a really misleading promotion for the product. Strong adhesives always have a chance to pull off the paint at the very least. There really is no perfect solution for hanging anything on the walls unless you're ready to fix it.
See this is why I basically never trust anything promoted on RUclips lol. I'm always left wondering if the content creators even use what they promote.
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: Last Dance * Legend of Zelda * Naruto As long Arad lives, there's no hope
5:55 In their defense, it is a lot easier to make an audience care / get to know the hero, when there is only one hero / superhero. Ensemble cast movies have the challenge of introducing each character and making the audience fall in love with them within 2 hours. GOTG vol 1 had the advantage of being sci-fi, action, adventure, comedy. You felt the characters were real and saw Peter Quill's backstory. No set-up, no payoff with the audience.
I've always thought that Bill Murray just made up that reason, because he still showed up for the sequel when he didn't need to, and he did Ghostbusters 2016 and Quantumania. I think the Garfield job just paid well and was relatively easy, being a voice role. It's similar to how Ghostbusters 2016 was basically a cameo where he sat down most of the time, and Quantumania paid him Disney money for a pretty minor role.
It's nice to know that for all the changes, the universe remains consistent. With all of the GOOD videogame movies/TV recently, i was thinking the universal constant had shifted. But with the reviews of this release, it has confirmed the universe will always comeback to constant.
@@thelaughingrouge Casting director got nothing to do with the movie rating. The guy power is even minimal with the casting choices, once the bigger guy at the studio is intervering. The blame squarely on the studio execs as usual.
@@nupe19865318 I wouldn't go that far. Marcus was on point Tina nailed the role. An older Lilith was played perfectly. Knoxx and the hole crimson lace was neet. You really underestimate how good it was because you went in already hateing
I personally think this would’ve been better casting: Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Lilith Idris Elba or Terry Crews as Roland Dave Bautista as Brick Sharlto Copley as Mordecai Jake Gyllenhaal as Axton Karen Fukuhara as Maya Danny Trejo as Salvador Mackenyu as Zero Timothy Olyphant as Zane Briana Hildebrand as Moze Sophia Ali as Amara Tom Hardy as FL4K David Eddings as Claptrap McKenna Grace as Tiny Tina Walton Goggins as Scooter Melissa McCarthy as Ellie Rachel Weisz as Moxxi Hayley Atwell as Tannis Matthew McConaughey as Dr. Zed Luis Guzman as Marcus Kincaid Simon Pegg as Sir Hammerlock Warren Kole as Handsome Jack
I cannot *wait* for the postmortems to start coming out for this. In post-production for *three years,* and with multiple rounds of reshoots with multiple directors? The BTS story is going to be vastly more interesting than the actual movie.
The first line in the trailer told me everything i need to know about this movie. "Legend has it that there's this hidden treasure hidden in some secret vault" in the most disinterested tone possible. Hated it before i even could skip the ad
@@HarmonicWave To be fair, most people old enough to have seen Worf, didn't have closed captioning and thus his spelling may not have been high on the knowledge list. After you misspell it for 30 years, it might be hard to change. I've always known it was Worf but I can imagine how some people didn't pay attention during credits. Also, I'm old enough to have gone through Phonics and spelling so Worf is the natural way to spell that pronunciation.
If memory serves, this movie was shot mid-pandemic after flying halfway around the world to Budapest. So I'm not surprised everybody looked miserable. (Although you would hope they could act around it.)
Favorite - Mario, fun action pieces, interesting casting, and an unexpected story that just works Least Favorite - Mario, wonky action, bizarre casting, and an odd story that just doesn't work
@@Book_Of_Essence I think both are supposed to be the 90s Mario movie, just pointing out that the things that make that movie great are also the things that somehow make it terrible at the same time.
I’m hate how much the “Handsome Jack” humor of 2 has taken over the entire Borderlands series. Jack was lightning in a bottle and you can’t recreate that
Jack was an annoying af character with zero substance. Honestly that makes up the majority of the borderlands lore. Sub par characters in a sub par, cartoonist bs. I could have more fun with myself in a broom closet.
Agreed... He was so much of a lighting in a bottle character that even trying to replay Borderlands 2 was already too much to have to listen to him twice... Then they doubled down on trying to recreate that style with Borderlands 3...
@@RRRRRRRRR33 The first movie is your typical kids film where a cartoon character comes to the real world but with a superhero twist, okay at best. The second movie however, though corny with some of the human characters, is the one they wanted to make, being more faithful to the game’s characters and has heart. I’d argue 2 is genuinely a good time.
@@ascendingarscente idk... it's hard to judge because Sonic fans are passionate (for better or worse... more for the worse), but if you enjoyed the fanservice with "heart", that's nice. I am not a big fan of the character and I only watched the Jim Carrey scenes (thanks youtube), but I give you this, if Hollywood ever produces a Donkey Kong movie (hopefully full CGi), most likely I will enjoy it no matter what because I am a huge fan of DK
Borderlands 2 is probably my favourite game of all time - definitely the most played. I knew when this movie was announced it would be a disaster- it’s not a franchise that can really be done justice in live action or another medium rather than game.
Casting Kevin Hart as a character that was 50% the size of a man called 'brick'... I don't care about size accuracy that much but how does the poster child for 'short and angry about it' play such a character?? And that's the tip of the iceberg of easily foreseen failures of this thing. Love the rating though, and love shows like this where I can safely learn about these failures without having to witness them myself.
Craig Mazin (creator of Chernobyl and did a pass at Dune 2) wrote the initial draft, sure that’s what brought Blanchett on (he’s since had his name removed from the project)
The Zelda movie is going to be shit too, don’t get your hopes up. They’ll probably make Link into a quipping “funny” character that modern movies seem to love so much
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Making borderlands not rated r is baffling
I understand not making Tiny Tina like 12, but making everyone else old, too is just crazy to me.
They could have saved a ton of money on casting and used it to work on the script and cgi
@@RealCaptainAwesome yeah why cast lilith- who’s in her 20s or 30s- as a 50 year old? No sense.
Its borderlands a crime.
Maybe we'll get the "R rated director's cut" as a desperate attempt to make someone watch it on streaming.
"broad audience" is a joke if it would compromise the movie.
They think going PG-13 will bring in more people because it's not R but they butchered the film and basically came up with nothing
Guardians of the suicide squad: Honour among Jumanji should be the movies titled.
Wow
Those 3 movies are good
@@leecameron9226 Pretty sure It's not the original Jumanji he's talking about
Edit: not THE suicide squad either.
@@leecameron9226you mean 4?
....Beyond Thunderdome.
Tiny Roland, Normal Tina, Grandma Lilith, Great Grandma Tannis, Silent Uncle Krieg
"How to make a dog shit movie of a game"
3:20 Cate Blanchett accepted the role because originally the script was written by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl and the last of us series), but when Eli Roth came to direct, he began to rewrite the script to the point that Craig Mazin didn't want his name appeared in the credits of the film.
Craig Mazin has denied that he has EVER been involved in writing this. That tell you something?
@@ChrisOnStage2which is strange, because he deffo was.
Ugh this explains so much and I hate it
If I had the opportunity to direct something written by Craig Mazin, I wouldn't TOUCH the script.
What does this tell us about Eli Roth?
@@darianharman9193 you can thank Tarantino for tricking the world into thinking Eli Roth is a good director.
The fact that Kevin Hart brought the most energy to the film when two of the cast (Tiny Tina, Kreig) are KNOWN for their generally over-the-top violence and bravado when Roland is meant to be the STOIC ONE is baffling.
The fact that Kevin Hart brought the most energy makes it the worst movie ever made.
Was roland actually the stoic one or is this a collective delusion? Its not like the rest of the bl1 playable characters are more silly than roland (maybe besides brick) from what I remember and he would crack jokes too.
@@Metastuuin Bl2 he was portrayed as the stoic badass leader of Sanctuary who occasionally out of a blue moon would crack a joke but mostly stays serious throughout the game.
It's bad casting is what that is
In the first game Roland seemed to be more of a playful jokey person but I guess the burden of leadership changes people.
“Uwe Boll days”……shivers…
Postal movie flashbacks...
@@Makepvzglobal i mean to be honest, postal did have some pretty funny jokes. edgy, but still pretty funny.
Movies like this are why I'm grateful youtube critics are a thing.
this movie didnt have to be live action in the first place
Yeah but enjoying watching people shit on things is kinda weird sometimes
@@jaughnekow This movie didn't have to be.... i think we can stop here.
Don't say this for MCU films, those fanboys will get triggered saying you should spend own money to make the decision for yourself or else you are an idiot who trusts reviewers.
@@brbaic9364 Well... to each their kink... Oh! You didn't mean that literally?
“To say the jokes fall flat in this movie is to besmirch flat surfaces, I apologise for that” is one of the greatest lines in a film review ever
Flat surfaces gave me my most fondest memories playing yugioh with friends in highschool, so im happy Jeremy gives respect to spaces usually taken for granted lol
Yeah, that line is going in my quotes file.
A review featuring the proper application of the word "besmirch" warrants an upvote.
Flat surfaces have their uses, this movie can’t compete with that.
@@FOXZILLA5734Hayabusa Knight + Axe of Despair, babyyyy
I hate how studios are afraid of giving a movie an R rating..
Especially after superhero movies lately have proved you can be a blockbuster hit with an R rating
The moment Kevin Hart was announced as Roland, I knew something wrong is going to happen. Mike Tyson playing himself as Roland would've been a far better choice than Hart to be honest 🤷
I really wanna hear Mike Tyson shout "It's like Christmas!"
That would make it infinitely better.
Yeah, Roland is supposed to be a super serious soldier guy. Kevin Hart is the exact opposite.
Holy shit I didn't know Kevin Hart was playing Roland. That makes as much sense as casting Danny DeVito as Brick...
Also I love Cate Blanchett, but she's way too old to play Lilith.
As a rule of thumb anything with Keven is a B grade movie. Kat Williams didn't call him a sellout for no reason.
Correct !! Mike just being himself would have been great
The casting is absolutely hilarious. Hiring people in their mid 50s, 70s and 80s for roles meant for people in their 20s and 30s and a short comedic guy to play a tall straight man. It's just.. bizarre.
Nailed it
Actually that could work if it was used smart as an angle. You know?
I understand and agree with your point, however, the oldest person they cast is only 65
@@josefstalin9678 Sush, dont let them not roll on their ageism.
So in your eyes it all wouldve been fine with younger actors? That is what is holding the movie back? Really?
Shot as r rated now confirmed by one of the stunt guys, they had heads exploding, feet cut off the works- release the r rated cut!
I feel like the tag line "inspired by a screenshot of Borderlands" is needed
Except even that may be a lie.
Perhaps they viewed the screenshot on a monitor that wasn't even plugged into AC power.
From day 1 I had the feeling that Cate Blanchet was in Borderlands with the same energy that Harrison Ford goes into Star Wars movies "Screw that, I'm getting paid".
The writer of "Chernobyl" and "The Last Of Us", Craig Mazin even had to remove his name from the writing credit because he was dissatisfied with the rewrite that Eli Roth did to his original script. He even denied the use of the name "Joe Crombie" which was expected to be pseudonym name because that Crombie guy has no huge credit on IMDB as i searched it. Damn, i feel so bad for Mazin
Sheesh, imagine going from Chernobyl to this trainwreck
@@suakeli To be fair, he has had trainwreck movies before Chernobyl such as doing those bad parody and comedy movies but coming off from Chernobyl and The Last Of Us to this, i can understand why he was very dissatisfied
@@suakeli Craig Mazin already had his trainwreck with Scary Movie 4, Superhero Movie, and Identity Thief. Chernobyl and The Last of Us gave his name some credibility so I'm sure he didn't want to ruin it. It doesn't surprise me that he pulled out after reading the new script, I would have done the same thing.
@@suakelihe still got his check tho 🤷♂️
@@josephagundez5336 if he wrote the Japanese speaking joke in scary movie 4 he is officially a real one
"Dollar store Suicide Squad" Holy shit seeing this as a semi-compliment is wild.
Guardians Of The Suicide Squad.
Not even the good suicide squadd. Its a dollar store David Ayer suicide squad movie.
@@Kamunchu f*cking ew goddam
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you forget about Critical Drinker?
Borderlands holds a special place in my heart. I know this movie would suck just based on the casting.
Now that special place in your heart is the exact spot where a coronary artery is desperately begging for a bypass.
I feel like you should have known it would suck the moment they revealed a Borderlands movie would be releasing in 2024, years after people realized those games aren’t funny.
Honestly. Give it a shot. I'm a hudge borderlands fan and my grandad who has 8k hours in borderlands 2 on his own also enjoyed it. It was more for the fans
These critics' don't know shit
@@eeveemaster8902nah it's a bad movie. You and grandad have shit taste
@@eeveemaster8902 Just because you like a movie that critics don't doesn't mean "critics don't know anything". What critics say isn't a law of physics like gravity, they're just giving their opinion on a movie. It's perfectly normal to like things other people don't like.
The minute I saw the casting in that trailer, I had already wrote this off. My instincts have served me well.
I just read the same comments from other people it's like your instincts aren't very original
What are weird comment. His instincts don't need to be original they just need to be correct and they were. Lighten up @@ORomeo-h4y
Nice
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Wow, it's almost like a good portion of humanity is capable of reasonable judgement based upon life experience.
Truly, this is a bad thing.
I think they nailed the aesthetic of Borderlands. But, to make a good Borderlands movie, you also needed the action, the plot, they humor, more guns than you could shake all the sticks in the world at, over-the-top villains, and literally ALL the crazy. Out of 7 things they needed, the got one. Hell, a blind squirrel finds a nut on occasion.
I don't really see how they nailed the aesthetic considering the visual art style of the game is out of a comic book with very strong outlines on everything. This comical style is the entire reason characters and stories could be so crazy and out-of-pocket. It indicated to the player that this game was highly fictional and it wasn't taking itself seriously (in certain ways). Other than that I completely agree with you.
@@joshculpepper7847 I grant you, the exact aesthetic can't be replicated with a live-action movie, but you have to admit, they got the future grunge thing down pretty good.
They couldn't even make the trailer look fun.
Yup I guess we can just watch Tank girl again 🤭
@@victorcates9330 Shame on us for keeping on falling for videogame movies to begin with. At best, they cut the story and the characters down to shadows of their original forms but manage to make something watchable. At worst, this movie right here. Borderlands was always a bit niche to begin with but has an extremely loyal fanbase. You aren't going to get normies to like it and you aren't going to please fans watering it down.
Fun Fact: This movie was originally gonna written by Craig Mazin (who was the showrunner of HBO’s Chernobyl and TLOU Adaptation) until the rewrites came along and he wanted his name out of the movie
I'm curious if the talent signed on before or after the rewrites...
That is not the official reason, officialy Mazin didn't want to take anything away from does that rewritten and changed his script, being very diplomatic.
I was reading the Epic Games article about the making off the film. They had worked on the script since 2012, and Mazin cracked the script because he had played the game and figure out the structure of the story.
@@rodgerlang884 I've heard before tbh
@@ghosface353Why couldn’t they just let him have all of the creative freedom in the writing?
Because this movie was in development before last of us and Chernobyl. Both critically acclaimed projects. Before that he was known for the hangover movies. Studio probably thought it was more on the line of that at the time. Unfortunately
Cate Blanchett heard Eli Roth was directing this movie and thought, "Oh that's cool. He was great in 'Lie to Me'".
"No sweetie, Eli Roth, not Tim Roth."
"Shit."
Well, they worked together before in The House with a Clock in Its Walls which that was an okay movie
Actually I heard something about either her kids or nephews or something loved the game so she did it. Kind of how Martin Sheen ended up in Spawn... with similar results.
Actually the original script was apparently written by Craig Mazin, before Eli Roth came on and rewrote it. Cate was attached during that time and Mazin left and had his name removed from the project entirely. Which makes this way funnier.
Lie to me was such a great show, a shame it didnt got more seasons
@@nimz8521 Interesting
They got an R-rated movie director to direct the adaptation of an R-Rated video game and made it PG-13? Make it make sense.
Nobody is surprised that it didn't turn out good. 😂
I didn't even know this movie existed till now.
😂
I wish this movie never existed.
Hopefully one day we can get a hyper violent, ANIMATED Borderlands movie
Came here to say this… I mean, who’s shocked?
kate blanchet as lillith is the weirdest casting choice ever
I like her...but why?
You could say the same for most of the characters.
@@MrJoe1928 *Cate
Kevin Hart as Roland too
Kevin Hart as Roland makes her casting seem almost reasonable. This move is some sort of rotten fever dream nobody asked for.
For Roland, I would've chosen Terry Crews as a apt height and bulk for that Roland role
He is muscular in the video game.
Whoever did the casting in this movie needs to be Cast out of Hollywood.
😅
All should be younger and crazier dialogue
They watched too much step mom contents
@@nicknevco215 My thoughts exactly, should have cast younger way younger.
Fr this is boomer borderlands. Why are they all so old?
Borderlands not having violence and gore is like Star wars not having proper lightsabers. . .. . Oh wait. .
Ironic in that was their best Disney sw movie after all these years: Rogue One
@@squaresided Four words
Darth Vader hallway scene
@@squaresidedthat’s debatable
@@terrypennington2519 four seconds* of the film but ya good stuff
Not only that, but an ELI ROTH Borderlands movie with no blood or violence. Insane.
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@Jasper-Holland grow up, he's giving you free content and you're complaining about skipping a single minute.
@@DarkSpaceStudios the audacity of these people man
@@plvto1 They want literally everything hand delivered to them for free. 😅
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Thank you
Thank god I have Revanced and it auto skips ads and promos
it starts at 0:00 why be rude?
@@taylorransen7401 look good on Jeremy for getting his bag but I wanna watch a review
5:02 "The longest 90 minutes I have felt in the cinema......in EONS."______Jeremy Jahns BORDERLANDS!
When they announced Kevin Hart as "Roland" instead of Terry Crews and Kate as Lilith was the moment I was convinced this will be a flop show.
That, none of the main main characters like Maya(my favorite) and that it wasn't R rated.
Agreed. I said from the jump that Terry Crews would have been perfect for that part. Kate Blanchet should have only been consider for the voice of clap-trap
Terry Crews could be both serious and fun, he would be way better.
Terry crews is one of the only muscle guys who can be serious and funny at the same time. Unless you cast wrestlers from the late 90s.
@@DudeMan-199Nah, I'd have her as Baroness Hemerlock in a Pre-Sequel film. 😏
The Coen vs Cohen was so damn funny and I genuinely didn’t notice that
Christ this movie could have been a black screen with the DVD logo bouncing around and it'd be so much more fun
They could have just showed the game trailers back to back for 90 minutes on loop and I'd have been 1000x more likely to go see it
The Joel Coen/Cohen type of misunderstanding would not be without precedence. Burt Reynolds agreed to be the lead in a spaghetti westen called Navajo Joe, because Clint Eastwood was praising this director called Sergio to him. He found out pretty much on set that the director isn't the praised Sergio Leone, but Sergio Corbucci (who wasn't a bad director at all, but wasn't Sergio Leone either).
People are calling BS on Bill's story saying he knew what he signed up for. He even did the sequel
@@radrobd123Pretty common to have a sequel obligation built into the original contract.
@@radrobd123 I think he was just having a laugh really, especially as doing Garfield was a joke in his Zombie land cameo.
Yeah you gotta love with "Street Fighter", a low budget video game movie and Raul Julia absolutely going for an Oscar, giving it ten thousand percent. It may have just been a Tuesday for him, but it's lasted a lifetime for us all.
That Bison quote is maybe one of the most profound quotes out of any movie ever, and it's in Street Fighter. Like, that quote applies to all of life. You lost your mother on that day? You got married on that day? Your child was born on that day? For me, it was a Tuesday. And it applies to everyone, forever, at some point in their life.
Funny how some of the best quotes come from the weirdest places.
Spy Kids Two: “Maybe god stays in Heaven, because he fears his creation.”
Pokemon the First Movie: “We wanted to create the most powerful being...and we succeeded.”
Tripping the Rift: “Careful who you step on on your way to the top. They'll be there when you fall back down.”
American Dad: “Once drawn, this sword cannot be resheathed until it's tasted blood.”
@@darksideofevil13 Shark Boy and Lava Girl: "For every man who dreams of the light bulb, another man dreams of the atom bomb."
@@sixgunshauna3486 I was trying to remember that quote lol.
I reckon The Last Starfighter had plenty of those: "It takes more than a scepter to rule, Xur. Even on Rylos." And especially, "What do we do?" "We die." Some of the coldest, bravest and most awesome last words delivered by a villain.
I love how some of the most profound lines in movie history came from some of the goofiest movies ever made. It's somehow amazing.
Apparently, the original script was actually pretty good but after your favorite director got a hold of it the original script writer wanted nothing to do with it. The person who is credited with writing the movie doesn't even exist because he didn't want his name on it.
You mean Craig Mazin. Yeah, lets fire the guy that made Chernobyl and The Last of Us and give it to the dude that gave us the Deathwish remake, "Knock Knock" and Hostel II instead. 😂
@@Peer165 But he also shot "Hostel", "Cabin Fever" and "Thanksgiving". Bloody but funny movies.
Jeremy is such an OG. His longevity and objectivity is to be admired.
Supreme facts.
Best thing I can say about this movie is I'm looking forward to the Pitch Meeting for it.
100%
Is it gonna be hard to create a Pitch meeting for this movie?
@@im3phirebird81 No. Its gonna be easy. Barelly an inconvinience.
@@djAstraim*SUPER easy! 😜
Oh Really?
Looks like I’m watching Deadpool & Wolverine again this weekend!
So instead of seeing one bad movie you're going to see another one?
Exactly what I’m doing
@@Rusty84CVAtleast with Deadpool 3 the actors fit the character they play on the movie... Then here you have... Kevin Hart.
If you never saw Monkey Man and have Peacock, you should watch that this weekend. Favorite movie of the year for me personally so far, followed by Dune Part 2.
What's crazy is I liked the Deadpool movie too, but if you think about it, it has the same premise as the multiverse of madness, and that movie was arguably the worst disney Marvel has put out.
"I'm trying to bring reason to madness here" got you a subscriber
Who came up with Eli Roth as the director for this movie? Where the hell was Robert Rodriguez? That would have been a gift wrapped opportunity.
Oh man, if Robert Rodriguez had been the director, I would’ve GLADLY watched it even if it had the same cast.
Like a Bantha
Nah man not Robert Rodriguez , we needed takashi miike
Right? Dude that wud be awesome!!
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No it doesn't
Thank you
@@InquisitorKryptman yes it does
Thank you
Displates are fire let him cook
Unrelated to the movie. But man, I used to watch your videos ALL the time when I was 18-19 and I just saw you on my feed and man, it’s so cool to see you still keeping up with it. Good for you and thank you.
Ironically Jeremy’s “3 audience members” joke of describing how unfunny the movie was is probably funnier than anything in the movie
it was the comedy of truth. i saw it yesterday and literally i was the third person in the theater. i knew it was a bad sign when i got on the regal app and it only had 2 showings for the entire DAY. a 545 and a 9 pm.. that was it.
What was weird for me, was seeing a preview for the movie before Inside Out 2. I realized then that either someone was messing up what should be previewed before a kids movie, or they had massively edited the film so it would barely resemble the game.
Yeah not surprised on this one, the trailers were awful from the start. If Borderlands is gonna get a good movie, it needs to be animated, it needs to be R-rated, and it needs to be made by people that know the source material, its highs and lows.
We hardly get any theatrical animated movies rated R these days... The only one we've had so far was Sausage Party.💀💀💀
Yea I kind of agree on both counts. The style of the game was animated, not hyperrealism. And there is so much more you can do with animation for less money. I mean the game was basically an animated Mad Max. Dumbing it down in the ratings was not helpful. It needs to have an edge.
But saying all that, an R rated, animated, humorous Mad Max style movie might be a hard sell, coming off of Furiosa.
Randy pitchdord is the EP... randy vernell oversaw the writing. 😂 you had THE borderlands people behind it
Jeremy's reviews are always gold !
Kate Blanchette is 55, playing a hot looking 22yr old character.. And Kevin Hart is a short, skinny, comic relief person who's playing someone who's originally tall, muscular, and always serious..
They couldn't get a single natural redhead so they didn't have to use an absolute dog shit wig?
Jamie Lee Curtis biggest age gap to her character I hear. Not a fan of the games. The Andriod bot thing was suppose to be charming & snarky.😅😅😅😅
I'm not gonna defend this piece of trash movie, but Roland is definitely *not* always serious. BL1 Roland is stereotype funny black man, which Hart is great for. But for height, build, and personality, Terry Crews would've been the actual perfect casting.
Trust, right casting prob can’t save the movie either it comes down to script
Kate is still hot, but yeah...
SO about that security deposit when I moved and had Displates hanging....There are over a dozen cigarette PACK sizes patches where the paint is missing from the walls in my apartment. The displate does not leave a tiny whole, that is true. It leaves massively large square damaged area where both the paint and first layer of drywall have torn off when you remove the giant magnet that was glued to your wall.
yea that's a really misleading promotion for the product. Strong adhesives always have a chance to pull off the paint at the very least. There really is no perfect solution for hanging anything on the walls unless you're ready to fix it.
Well that god I haven't got one then 😅
See this is why I basically never trust anything promoted on RUclips lol. I'm always left wondering if the content creators even use what they promote.
I’ve found command strips to be way better and less damaging to my walls - would recommend!
@@darksideofevil13they definitely don’t 😭
You brought honour to your review with that Gowron clip.
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: Last Dance
* Legend of Zelda
* Naruto
As long Arad lives, there's no hope
Is this the same Avi Arad that worked on the 90's Spiderman cartoon?
And the Metal Gear Solid movie too
@@Keanotix The same that also got it canceled
I kinda liked Punisher 04. It wasn't great but it had some fun moments.
Also Spider-verse movies, Iron Man, Spider-man Tom Holland movies, Spiderman Tobey Macguire movies. Not a complete loss.
They should put this on the poster: "A movie so bad, it makes 2019's Cats watchable".
😵
I'd rather watch "Madame Webb" again!
@@ChrisOnStage2
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id rather watch cats and dogs
4:43 As a physicist I can confirm. This movie felt like it was 5 hours. It felt like torture. 30 min felt like 2 hours wow I was amazed!
5:44 Bored? Oh, come ON Jeremy! Perfect pun opportunity there!
Bored... er, lands.
Boredlands uh huh lol.
"Long story shart" 1:33
Thanks
He slipped that in so well
5:55 In their defense, it is a lot easier to make an audience care / get to know the hero, when there is only one hero / superhero. Ensemble cast movies have the challenge of introducing each character and making the audience fall in love with them within 2 hours. GOTG vol 1 had the advantage of being sci-fi, action, adventure, comedy. You felt the characters were real and saw Peter Quill's backstory. No set-up, no payoff with the audience.
Another Bill Murray/Garfield reason for why they took this role could've been similar to his reason being "drugs cost money"
I've always thought that Bill Murray just made up that reason, because he still showed up for the sequel when he didn't need to, and he did Ghostbusters 2016 and Quantumania.
I think the Garfield job just paid well and was relatively easy, being a voice role. It's similar to how Ghostbusters 2016 was basically a cameo where he sat down most of the time, and Quantumania paid him Disney money for a pretty minor role.
@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 yeah it was most likely a joke, but still it's an actual reason actors have had in the past
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917I like to think that quote was the perfect mixture of truth and humor.
Could have gotten a third movie if it wasn’t for that damn zombie apocalypse
Playing Borderlands 1 and 2 back to back with friends is one of my greatest gaming memories (Ignore everything else in the Borderlands franchise).
Tales from the Borderlands is better than good! Just don’t pick up New Tales
@@Optilex42 Pre-Sequel is also great too, but other than that, yeah I agree.
Borderlands 3 is the best gameplay wise. Not necessarily the story though, but I don’t really play borderlands for the story.
@@josephfreitag568 They lost me with the "they/them" robot.
It's nice to know that for all the changes, the universe remains consistent.
With all of the GOOD videogame movies/TV recently, i was thinking the universal constant had shifted. But with the reviews of this release, it has confirmed the universe will always comeback to constant.
A PG-13 movie about borderlands starring Kevin hart…. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA
Literally no one but the casting director.
Kevin Hart was the only good thing.
@@thelaughingrouge Casting director got nothing to do with the movie rating. The guy power is even minimal with the casting choices, once the bigger guy at the studio is intervering. The blame squarely on the studio execs as usual.
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I wouldn't go that far.
Marcus was on point
Tina nailed the role.
An older Lilith was played perfectly.
Knoxx and the hole crimson lace was neet.
You really underestimate how good it was because you went in already hateing
Avi Arad is the one that still keeps with the same old mentality
That's why we never got an R-Rated Venom movie
I personally think this would’ve been better casting:
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Lilith
Idris Elba or Terry Crews as Roland
Dave Bautista as Brick
Sharlto Copley as Mordecai
Jake Gyllenhaal as Axton
Karen Fukuhara as Maya
Danny Trejo as Salvador
Mackenyu as Zero
Timothy Olyphant as Zane
Briana Hildebrand as Moze
Sophia Ali as Amara
Tom Hardy as FL4K
David Eddings as Claptrap
McKenna Grace as Tiny Tina
Walton Goggins as Scooter
Melissa McCarthy as Ellie
Rachel Weisz as Moxxi
Hayley Atwell as Tannis
Matthew McConaughey as Dr. Zed
Luis Guzman as Marcus Kincaid
Simon Pegg as Sir Hammerlock
Warren Kole as Handsome Jack
So..the cast of SS
@@emergencyfood7660better than this cast lol 😅😆
Danny Trejo should be in every movie....even if just an extra
Nice watch Jeremy! Omega Seamster Diver 300 James Bond edition in Titanium! This man has good taste! 😁
Another thing Hollywood should do is don't be afraid to go rated R. R rated movies can and do make big money.
Typical Hollywood taking great source material and completely fking it up for no reason
Hollyweird knows what you like better than you do . Well thats the arrogance on display here.
Is it great source material tho
@@incognitomode24 where were you when the original borderlands game came out on ps3?
"great" is a stretch from robot poop joke simulator
@@em1ownerify playing anything else
waiting on the Eli roth directors cut edition. gonna be awesome
As soon as it was announced Kevin Hart was playing Roland, I knew this would be a disaster
I cannot *wait* for the postmortems to start coming out for this. In post-production for *three years,* and with multiple rounds of reshoots with multiple directors? The BTS story is going to be vastly more interesting than the actual movie.
You hit the nail on the head. Ty for honesty
Thank you for making the Uwe Boll reference. I likened what happened here to his movies as well... And I am a fan of the Borderlands games.
The first line in the trailer told me everything i need to know about this movie. "Legend has it that there's this hidden treasure hidden in some secret vault" in the most disinterested tone possible. Hated it before i even could skip the ad
And not even narrated by Marcus. If you don't know who that is, he's a crazy-ass Russian weapons dealer that also does the start/end narration.
The best JJ review ever!!!
Gowron? 😭❤️ My 2nd favorite Klingon (behind Warf). Gowron's eyes could pierce thru your soul. 🫣👀
yes...he is looking at you...
"Warf" is your favorite? Is that Worf's forgotten cousin?
@@HarmonicWave To be fair, most people old enough to have seen Worf, didn't have closed captioning and thus his spelling may not have been high on the knowledge list. After you misspell it for 30 years, it might be hard to change.
I've always known it was Worf but I can imagine how some people didn't pay attention during credits. Also, I'm old enough to have gone through Phonics and spelling so Worf is the natural way to spell that pronunciation.
5:32 cate has been using that 'there's something about mary' hair gel
If memory serves, this movie was shot mid-pandemic after flying halfway around the world to Budapest. So I'm not surprised everybody looked miserable. (Although you would hope they could act around it.)
Favorite - Mario, fun action pieces, interesting casting, and an unexpected story that just works
Least Favorite - Mario, wonky action, bizarre casting, and an odd story that just doesn't work
Is the top one the original live action Mario and the bottom one the Minions studio Mario?
@@Book_Of_Essence I think both are supposed to be the 90s Mario movie, just pointing out that the things that make that movie great are also the things that somehow make it terrible at the same time.
I’m hate how much the “Handsome Jack” humor of 2 has taken over the entire Borderlands series. Jack was lightning in a bottle and you can’t recreate that
Writing wise he was the only enjoyable part of 2 for me. Everything else was way, waaaay too oversaturated than it needed to be. Especially Tiny Tina
@@rashodmasters4299 Sorry that you get a headache just walking around your bedroom.
Jack was an annoying af character with zero substance. Honestly that makes up the majority of the borderlands lore. Sub par characters in a sub par, cartoonist bs. I could have more fun with myself in a broom closet.
Agreed... He was so much of a lighting in a bottle character that even trying to replay Borderlands 2 was already too much to have to listen to him twice... Then they doubled down on trying to recreate that style with Borderlands 3...
@@nimbusflamel8844 your life must be fun
That Gowron clip was so perfect… legendary!!!
This should be rated R
for Rtard
We live in a strange time when Sonic The Hedgehog of all franchises, has one of the few genuinely good live action video game adaptations.
It's not good, c'mon now lol talking about low standards
I still can't get over that Olive Garden is featured prominently in a Sonic movie.
@@RRRRRRRRR33 The first movie is your typical kids film where a cartoon character comes to the real world but with a superhero twist, okay at best. The second movie however, though corny with some of the human characters, is the one they wanted to make, being more faithful to the game’s characters and has heart. I’d argue 2 is genuinely a good time.
@@ascendingarscente idk... it's hard to judge because Sonic fans are passionate (for better or worse... more for the worse), but if you enjoyed the fanservice with "heart", that's nice. I am not a big fan of the character and I only watched the Jim Carrey scenes (thanks youtube), but I give you this, if Hollywood ever produces a Donkey Kong movie (hopefully full CGi), most likely I will enjoy it no matter what because I am a huge fan of DK
Ok mate, Magnus the Red, ST.... respect. Oh the review was good too.
Someone I worked with 3 years ago mentioned this film the 1st time it was confirmed to happen. He was so excited for it, too 😅
Borderlands 2 is probably my favourite game of all time - definitely the most played. I knew when this movie was announced it would be a disaster- it’s not a franchise that can really be done justice in live action or another medium rather than game.
I agree on Bl2 being the best. As for not being able to bring it to live action... they made everything look right except the cast.
It’s like they saw the bonerfart monsters in 2 and went “Okay these rewrites need to all be based off that.”
Hostel was probably Eli Roths best film
Me in the game: letting heads explode with sniper rifle
Movie: PG13 boiiiiis
Movie Director: " I'm the conductor of the POOP TRAIN! "
Jans, Jesse Grant, Critical Drinker....thank you all😢❤
Watching from Nigeria, and your content's awesome
I see Jeremy is still on the wagon after The Acolyte. Good for you sir!
Borderlands 2 was my entire childhood…. Where did this movie come from?!?! What is happening?!??
I still use that Gowron quote to this very day..! pleasant surprise to see it here.. good job sir!
Eli Roth making Borderlands, should have been an R Rated movie! Would be gory and funny!
I'll never watch this movie, but I definitely will watch Jeremy review it.
Yup, same
I love the reviews but the roast, cherry on top. Lmfaoh great review funny as fck 😂😂
Loved the Gowron drop. Nice touch!
Not gonna lie, it's a pleasant surprise seeing Jeremy actually wearing his uniform to talk about a POS instead of his loungewear.
I was glad he kept the whisky bottle out of it. For a while there, I was really worried about his liver. 😄
@Old_Scot Reserved for things we TRULY care about that then disappoint us.
Like Star Wars
Well done review. I am a HUGE Borderlands fan and I can confirm that there was not ONE chuckle from anyone in the entire theater.
Casting Kevin Hart as a character that was 50% the size of a man called 'brick'... I don't care about size accuracy that much but how does the poster child for 'short and angry about it' play such a character?? And that's the tip of the iceberg of easily foreseen failures of this thing. Love the rating though, and love shows like this where I can safely learn about these failures without having to witness them myself.
KH is Roland. Brick and Mordecai are just absent from the movie.
@@GuiItyUniverse Actually I think Kevin Hart is a third the size of Brick 😂🤣😂
Hart should've been Claptrap. Then he could've done practical effects like the OG trilogy of Star Wars R2-D2
The Gowron cut 😂
Craig Mazin (creator of Chernobyl and did a pass at Dune 2) wrote the initial draft, sure that’s what brought Blanchett on (he’s since had his name removed from the project)
LEGEND OF ZELDA will only stand a chance if Wes Ball works as a producer
It's the only way he can save it from AVI ARAD
That's how SPIDER-VERSE worked
Someone's gonna read that and hire Uwe Boll as producer.
The Zelda movie is going to be shit too, don’t get your hopes up. They’ll probably make Link into a quipping “funny” character that modern movies seem to love so much
With Nintendo standing behind them menacingly and holding a Master Sword the entire time, hopefully he (and Sony) will behave.
@@dilwitchspahlin4761 well EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME princess!