Borderlands trailer fails to instill blockbuster confidence

[m3diapers]

I bet the director is a MILF person, but the casting seems too MILFy even for me, a late 30s guy

 

[Nobina]

I don't remember watching any one of these game to film adaptations, probably for the better.

 

[toooooot]

The most common comment I hear is that the girl is too old.
I mean come on, imagine a 40 yo man playing Peter Pen.
This is wrong regarding how the actress pleased the director.

 

[loki1944]

Borderlands 3 performance is still such a stuttering micro-mess to this day that Iwill never again buy another Borderlands title. I'm taling consisten hitching and stuttering with multiple CPUs and GPUs tried;
1.i7 13700KF/32GB DDR 6200/1TB 660P M.2. SSF/RX 7900XT
2. i7 10700KF@5.129Ghz/32GB GB DDR4 3200/800GB 750 PCIE SSD/ RTX 3080Ti
3. i9 10920X/32GB GB DDR4 3200/1.6TB DC 3600
PCIE SSD/RTX 3080
4. i7 6850K@4.2 Ghz/32GB GB DDR4 3200/240GB ROG RAIDR PCIE SSD/RTX 2080Ti
5. i7 5930K@4.8Ghz/32GB GB DDR4 3200/400GB 750 PCIE SSD/RTX 2080

Never seen such shoddy optimization other than Watchdogs Legion.

 

[Cal Jeffrey]

They're not even really showing a villian, which is really astonishing. Why Handsome Jack isn't in this is wild.

Oh. OH! And I didn't even mention some of the other characters such as, Charles Babalola as Hammerlock (huh?), Edgar Ramírez as Atlas (what??), and Cheyenne Jackson as Jakobs (really?). None of this makes any sense to me and I'm trying to be fair.

 

[Cal Jeffrey]

I bet the director is a MILF person, but the casting seems too MILFy even for me, a late 30s guy

More like GILF. Jamie Lee Curtis is three generations old. She's just sporting a ton of makeup. So is Blanchette. Lilith looks like the makeup artist used a putty knife to apply the makeup. She looks plastic. Also, where are the Siren tats, and how come her eye color is completely wrong? Okay. Okay, now I AM nitpicking. lol This one is worth streaming if you are bored, but definitely not one I would spend $20 at the theater to watch.

 

[yukka]

To be clear, I like all the actors in this movie that I have seen so far. I have been entertained by films they have all been in. Every last one of them. And I will be amused again. This is meant to be a Borderlands film and it looks like they have changed a load of stuff that didn't need changing. Handsome Jack would be a good start.

 

[Watzupken]

May be too preliminary to determine if this movie failed at this point, but so far, I have yet to see a game turned movie successful. The story for Borderland itself is quite bad to even have a movie for it. Games of late especially have no story, just focusing on graphics.

 

[Adhmuz]

I can't for the life of me understand why they didn't get the David Eddings for CL4P-TR. Tiny Tina being a main character is just weird, I'm personally not a fan of this character in the franchise and strongly believe less is more, however, the toned down version in the movie might be acceptable, but I doubt it if you get stuck with her for the entire movie. The casting is just all over the place and makes little to no sense, old actors playing young characters and vice versa, unless these are the best they could get as most people just said no thanks due to how video games movie adaptations usually don't go over very well.

The BL hype train has left the building after BL3's colossal mess on release, not to mention the aggravatingly annoying antagonists, frustrating missions, and the Epic Games exclusivity which I refused to endorse, even once it made its way to Steam, the game still didn't run great, that was with months of time to fix it...

This movie is too late, poorly cast, and ultimately going to miss the mark.

 

[yukka]

May be too preliminary to determine if this movie failed at this point, but so far, I have yet to see a game turned movie successful. The story for Borderland itself is quite bad to even have a movie for it. Games of late especially have no story, just focusing on graphics.

The newest Super Mario film is a masterpiece.

 

[return]

The last borderlands game was so crap, written by Twitter rejects, and they even bragged about it.

 

[Cal Jeffrey]

I can't for the life of me understand why they didn't get the David Eddings for CL4P-TR.

This^^

 

[RandomWAN]

Uve Boll forever. I mean, movies based on games never work. Even If they sell some tickets out of curiosity, They are reviewed negatively, and are "meh" at best. Please, give Me examples to the contrary?

I would argue none of his worked except for "Postal". I think that nailed the feel of the game.

 

[Gezzer]

I don't really trust trailers and avoid them as much as I can due to the fact they're part of the hype train. They're devised to increase interest, but can be so deceiving that what they represent is nothing like the finished product. Often it's snippets that end up being linked by boring lackluster story that has nothing in common with the trailer. Or a small taste of a great ride to come. Always one or the other I've found.

OTOH I'm less inclined to dismiss a good film/series because it goes against cannon or established lore. For example I'm enjoying Halo. Sure it's totally divorced from the game/s, but the stories engaging enough for me. And I don't get butt hurt over the fact we see him without his helmet. For example Hart as Roland? Isn't he a bit small? But he could still pull it off, I guess.

So I'll wait and see on Borderlands. If the biggest detractors are harping about it not being Borderlands, and everyone else is saying it's a fun flic, I'll over look it's short comings. I mean there's only ever been one really bad Mario film right? Making a Borderlands movie that bad should be impossible, except for the fact it's hollywood. So unless there's a giant spider construct in it I'll give it a chance.

 

[nugnamnivek]

If we could stop hating EVERYTHING that might be fun before we see it that would be great....Thanks.

 

[CMP01]

It's a nope for me, various reasons some of which mentioned above... but certainly re actually bothering to leave the house and paying to see it.

I can wait until it's streaming here or there, where this whole new increasing advert thing (which I dislike a lot as imo I'm already paying to have none) might serve as a welcome break to steady myself for more or a good point to turn off. Put it this way, I held off on the D&D and Warcraft movies cos I thought they'd be ok, not great, maybe fun etc... and eventually found them to be about that. This one though I have less faith in at the outset.

 

[Athlonite]

I enjoyed the game but this pile of steamy trash will be a hard nope from me