It’ll be fine for whoever hasn’t played through the games but kinda seems like they hacked up the source material and shat into its dying carcass.

Kevin Hart is playing Roland who’s 5’11". Lilith is 22 being played by Cate Blanchette who’s in her 50’s. I guess Jamie Lee Curtis fits the aesthetic of Tannis but in the trailer doesn’t exhibit the same mannerisms. And then claptrap is voiced by Jack Black but has a filter on to sound more like the goober anyways. Maybe it’s the ) or just really anything else. They could’ve followed other wacky vault hunters on other planets and could’ve had them interact with the main cast of 1 2 and 3, depending on when they wanted to set the story. Idk it just seems like a lack of creativity in all departments involved in the making of the movie. I might pirate it tho just to see how bad it really is.

It’s just slop but it always happens to the Vidya Game movies.

It’s gonna be exactly as good as the games are

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They should just give up and remove 99% of cutscene and dialogue in bl4,

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BL4: only pew pews

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lol

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31 points

How are they gonna make a movie about looking at the stats of ten million slightly different algorithmically generated guns?

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I lol’d. Uhhh. They have a throwaway gag of testing a battalions worth of guns and only finding four worth keeping? And like keeping like one or two that are under leveled but still unique enough to keep around and starred so you don’t accidentally throw them away? I feel like BL would work waaay better as an anime though especially given that its cell shaded and already has a cartoony feel to it.

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27 points

Borderlands has a story?

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This one time a person played Borderlands and said “wow this game is fucking terrible”

That’s the story

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I mean …. do you really need to ask if a movie adaptation of a video game is going to suck or not?

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I mean Fallout was fucking great imo, but definitely an exception to that rule

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Fallout is kinda interesting in that the games did a great job establishing a setting but the specific stories that take place aren’t really integral to it’s fallout-ness

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so strongly disagree lol but i’m glad you were able to get more out of it than me

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But they don’t have too though it’s just always disappointing. Why must you always do this capitalism? !

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It’s a genuine shock that Mortal Kombat movies don’t do better. You literally just need to rip off a Kung Fu flick and change some names.

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Yep. Yeeeep. Like the inspo for cage is van damme and he was in Bloodsport. It’s sooo close. I guess directors see it’s a video game adaptation and just half ass it.

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Lilith is 22 being played by Cate Blanchette who’s in her 50’s.

How much of this character being 22 is because gamers riot if they cannot masturbate to the women on the games, instead of being young being part of the narrative of the character?

Never played the game btw.

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She’s quippy but still professional I guess? Like it’s not my coomer brain talking (haven’t had that happen at all yet here, or as far as I’m aware). You just have a stiff older lady trying to play a young badass with magic powers and she’s not giving that same chill and relaxed but could fuck you up energy.

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Lilith is a cliched sort of grindhouse/action movie heroine: a sarcastic, sadistic badass who’s believably athletic. There are probably some 50-something actresses who can pull that off, but Cate Blanchette bringing “someone’s mom, going through a mid-life crisis” energy is just such a bad choice.

Grabbing big name actors that they could get and who weren’t busy, regardless of what the role needed was such a bad, quintessentially Hollywood choice. They should have gotten literal nobodies and made a schlocky grindhouse b-movie out of it, not good but like fun bad spectacle slop instead of a baffling “how did this even get made?” make-work project for some random big name actors.

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The casting choices being way out of line with the source material is a giant red flag. It’s not a meaningless nitpick like when a characters race is changed (and their race never informed the character). It’s that the vibes of the characters do not fit the actors and the trailer doesn’t show them modifying themselves to fit their roles. Roland especially, he is a straightman, the opposite of Kevin Hart.

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