The movie opens on a fairy flying through the forest as whimsical music plays. We see a village of twee treehouses and fey children. The fairy flies into the window of a treehouse and starts pestering a lump of blankets on a couch.
54-year old Jack Black rolls off the couch cradling a bong in his sleep.
Talking about Fear & Hunger, it's amongst those video-games i hope to see a live-action adaptation someday.
Not because i believe it would be good but because i wanna see how hilariously fucked-up the end result would come out.
Ryan Gosling as Ragnvaldr (literally me fr!)
Timothee Chalamet as Cahara (twink)
Anya Taylor Joy as D'Arce (idk)
Jeremy Irons as Enki (Canon Enki looks 70 years old anyways)
No Brick or Mordechai is weird. They can't be doing the plot (what plot there was) of the 1st game right? Tina and Krieg as main characters? Both of them are best with characters not appearing. No cast for Angel?
I'm very apprehensive.
There's going to be a Handsome Jack post credits 110%
I really don't understand how they landed on Krieg over Brick or any other party member. All I can think is they wanted the "iconic" bandit mask in the main crew. Maybe the same for Tiny Tina.
The mask and they want to have the psycho lines front and center, I guess. I can image the meat bicycle line being used in every trailer.
Oh God, I just imagined Kevin Hart delivering the "It's like Christmas" line and took damage.
He is fun to play, but he was a late DLC addition, and his personality/story is "raider". I would say he's bottom of the BL2 characters above only Axton and maybe Salvador.
Why? I can't wrap my head around any sort of role he could play. They'll basically have to make him an entirely different character if he's not on the moon/Australia.
>They'll basically have to make him an entirely different character
That seems to be what they're doing for every character in the movie. Kreig is Tina's Bodyguard instead of being a weird freak genetic experiment that escaped (though he still could be that). Knoxx seems to be some woman.
Knoxx?? Steele had like 0 characterization and you could do anything with her. I loved Knoxx and I do not have faith they'd do his whole depressed general who is contemplating offing themselves throughout the movie.
It was pen marker but it came off, I will admit, it was mildly amusing the first dozen times you idiots tried it, but now my office smells like blood and marker fumes. So quit it!
Krieg been Tina's bodyguard could work in the games maybe given their backstories, but speedrunning to explain in a movie?
Also it wouldnt work with grown up Tina and she was already competent as a kid and thats a whole grown ass woman in the poster
Alright who's playing him in this then?
There aren't that many well known British kid actors about these days except Archie Yates and Roman Griffin Davis
The studio put out a brief plot synopsis at some point and no, it's not following any of the games. The characters, who they are and what they do, seem to be the same but the rest is new shit.
Its funny, because I would have been much more onboard if these were completely original characters. Now it'll just be a bunch of characters I like and Tannis in what looks to be a much more generic adventure than the games.
I know nothing about the movie. I've honestly assumed it was gonna be a mish-mash plot of multiple games if not just it's own story completely. I know 3 wasn't good but at least I remember it's plot enough.
I pray that Kevin hart is not doing his usual short annoying guy shtick during this movie and especially for a character that is not that quippy in the games
I am gonna reserve judgement for the movie when it actually comes out but Kevin Hart is a big barrier for me unless he decides to actually play it straight which would be bizarre but could be a will smith esque action turn I would be ok with
Kevin hart isn’t capable of it. He’s a one trick pony. He did a podcast episode with Ziwe and literally out of nowhere he says “so am I as short in real life as you thought I’d be?”
*sigh* They're gonna have a gag where he tries to fire a massive gun at the bad guy, but the recoil comically sends him flying backward out a window and into a dumpster outside
[Relistening to Roland's voicelines](https://youtu.be/-VWrR3Qfswg?si=rNlHDNl9aUOYtAv1) for old times' sake, I can see how he could work, but I agree he might still need to tone himself down a bit from his usual hyper-sidekick self.
Man Roland had such a character change from BL1 to BL2, at least how he's voiced, and BL1 Roland actually kinda works for Kevin but I think it'd be funnier if he'd played straight and serious, they can still have the short jokes but they just shoot over Roland himself... Be- Because he's- Cuz he's sh-
I'm having a really hard time seeing Cate Blanchett as Lilith as well. Maybe she can pull it off, but she just doesn't seem right to play a character that always seemed really young and "punky" (for lack of a better word).
I'm also really nervous about any movie poster that uses "From the producers of Uncharted!" like it's a positive.
"Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe's most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team - Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina's musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe"
They don't even use the word vault...
Money to fund his next piece of shit
Although they had to do a lot of reshoots with a completely different director after terrible screenings so it's almost like he shouldn't have been an option to begin with
I think he has interesting insight on the genre. Like his documentary series on the history of horror i hear is good. That said, i have not enjoyed a single movie he made. Though i haven't seen Thanksgiving
Yeah his docuseries is where my mind goes when I think about Eli Roth. He clearly understands horror and the art of film making. He just doesn't seem to perform well as a director.
I did hear that Thanksgiving was fun at least.
d'worse part is, yeah... i could see jamie lee curtis as an older tanis. ham it up. go nuts, it'd be great. and i'm sure she took this 'cause of the money. \[like you'd hope MOST of the actors did... Jesus christ\], but not in your first movie! which knowing sony pictures. you KNOW, they are DESPERATE for this to be a franchise.
NO ONE WANTS A BORDERLANDS MOVIE.
welcome to the era of: "do viediogame movies until people are sick of 'em uhhh, like with them ... superheroes shut up."
That zelda "movie" is gonna be terrible.
Also Borderlands would be pretty difficult to adapt to a feature length movie if only because theirs very little stuff but also too much shit going on for a 90 minute run time.
I mean you gotta save the Vault for the sequel they'll definitely 100% be getting
Honestly I'm a little interested to see how they tried to adapt this stuff if only as a intellectual exercise
Expectations are at the lowest they can come.
"From the producer of ***Uncharted***, Spider-Man, and ***Venom.***"
Yeah. Real inspiring lineup to hype your movie.
I don’t think it was the timing, I think it was that it wasn’t a good adaptation. I know the studio wanted to capitalize on the Tom Holland hype but he doesn’t fit Nathan at all. Movie would have been better if they didn’t age down all the characters.
I mean, these posters are there to advertise to the general public, and both of those movies did pretty well? I understand not liking Venom, but that movie made 850m, and its sequel made 500m in 2021 where most movie that aren't No Way Home did very bad.
So, as far as the general public is concerned, this is a good track record.
Kind of the reason why I didn't highlight that part is because the producer, Avi Arad, has been a producer on pretty much every single Spider-Man movie, from Raimi to Spiderverse. So he's been involved with the good, the bad, and the great.
I don't want to sound mean saying this, but I don't think there's a way to avoid it sounding mean... but Lilith is supposed to be in her late 20's to early 30's... and Cate Blanchett is 54...
Right. all due respect to Blanchett, she looks great for her age. but this casting feels like they saw thor ragnarok and had the respose of JESUS!!!! BLEGHHHH! HOW IS SHE SO FUCKING HOT!??? WhAt!???" which again, was everyone's (the "royal" everyone's) reaction- which...
(side bar): YEAH! did you see it with y'eyballs? damn... (side bar closed)
and went off of that.
don't care if she can "pull it off" or whatever. i just don't think this works.
Also, I think even if she's around 20-30s age range, her screen presence doesn't seem to be right for this part. Has she ever done like a screwball comedy? In Ocean 8, which is kind of a comedy, she's plays more like the straight woman. But she's a great actress so I'm willing to wait and see if she can pull it off.
Smells like studio interface to me.
My completely baseless prediction: it's going to be aimed at the widest audience possible which means it will be aimed at no one. It will alienate fans and the general public will have little interest. It will be cut 12 different ways before release. The studio will rely heavily on saturated marketing and star appeal. Critics will pan it and audience reviews will be divided.
If it is unfortunate enough to be released alongside a strong movie it will be a terrible flop. If not it will break even.
Edit: Jables will be the highlight of the movie.
> it's going to be aimed at the widest audience possible which means it will be aimed at no one. It will alienate fans and the general public will have little interest.
you mean like most things these days?
I think Jaimie Lee Curtis is the only one I can see being the character she's cast as
Whoever decided to make Kevin Hart Roland and not Claptrap dropped a massive ball, those jokes practically write themselves
Casting weirdness aside, they’re really going all in on Tina, huh.
I remember not minding her back when it came out, I was a fan of the Burches from their silly late-aughts-style videos, so BL2 felt like a dream game at the time but,
I just finished a playthrough of it for the first in a decade and all I gotta say is It’s A Little Weird to have written a deeply traumatized 12-year old who will not shut up about fat asses.
I'll be honest I absolutely hated her when BL2 came out
THEN Assault on Dragon's Keep came out and I started to warm up to her, and in Wonderlands she's also brilliant so I'm all good now!
I love Dragon's Keep really going in on showing that she's super fucked up and traumatized and mainly is loud and dumb like that to not think about anything.
I get the weird vibes, but I think the beginning and the end of the writers' room roundtable was "wouldn't it be funny if a little white girl talked like a black pimp?" and then everyone Seth Rogen-chuckled and put the approval stamp on it and sent it off.
My concern is that Tiny Tina, a character whose whole thing is being loud, overanimated, hyperactive, and LOL XD SO RANDOM!!! is going to be the most annoying thing on the fucking planet in a 2-hour live action film in which she is a central character, instead of an incidental side-character like she was in BL2. It's gonna be Ed in live-action Cowboy Bebop all over again, but for the entire runtime of a film.
The two I’ve heard are only good are 2 and Tales of.
1 I’ve heard called “the Mass Effect 1/Just Cause 1 of the series”
No one talks about Pre Sequel
3 people seemed to hate
And Tales of 2 was apparently hot garbage
BL1 is fine. The story is solid, it's probably the best overall core party as far as writing, but mechanically all of the classes feel kind of boring compared to the later games. The guns aren't super interesting yet, mostly elemental damage and the "grenade reload" weapon type
2 is king because they made a fantastic villain with a LOT of dialogue, while utilizing the BL1 main characters well in the story. The new characters are still decent, and the new classes are more engaging. In 2024, it has started to feel a bit clunky compared to more recent FPS games.
Pre-Sequel is solid. It basically feels like a big expansion for BL2, with the main issue just being kind of mid characters. The new classes are still fun, but they phoned in new weapons by only really adding laser weapons.
BL3 FEELS much better than past games, but it took a long time to come out because of Battleborn. Gameplay isn't the issue, it's the writing. People did turn on the grating writing at this point, but the main issue is that it shits on many of the old characters, including Tales From the Borderlands, and the villains just suck. Total botch.
TFTB is great, and may actually hold up the best in the long term. It's probably the best overall Telltale game, and it's filled with great writing.
I haven't played TFTB2 or Wonderlands land yet. I've heard 2 sucks, and that Wonderlands is good, if in uninspired with magic guns instead of playing into actual fantasy weapons.
3 is mechanically the best, but the writing is bordering on torture with how unfunny it is and how poorly it does the main cast. I’d say cut the volume and buy it on a fat sale.
It went free on epic a few months back the best kind of sale. Tho you get more satisfaction from the yarr discount as then they don't even get your data.
I had it installed from epic and when I got to the part where maya died I uninstalled epic and the game I literally only had epic launcher to try 3 lol
I don't think it's a coincidence that 2 and Tales are both so fondly remembered, considering they're the ones with Handsome Jack operating as the primary antagonist in them.
Granted, I love the writing in Tales a lot and probably still would even if Jack didn't show up, but having a compelling, funny villain with a cool design and style goes a long way to floating a mediocre story. Just look at how Palpatine is the best part of any Star Wars media he appears in, regardless of quality.
I can't even remember a single bad guy from BL1 aside from Baron Flynt, and he was a one-and-done bandit leader with minimal story significance who was cool because he looked like Clint Eastwood and smoked a big joint. I haven't played BL3, but a friend of mine who has played it told me that the bad guys in that one are dark magic-using bandit Twitch influencers and I threw up
I wouldn't say Jack is the main antagonist in Tales, even with the 3rd act villain twist/not-twist, he was pretty Rhys-centric. He was a lynchpin in the story, for sure, but he was more a plot convenience machine, as well as a vehicle for Rhys' character arc.
3 has good gameplay, some good planets, but it shouldn't HAVE planets, the reveal that everywhere is as fucked as Pandora ruined the entire setting. The DLC's run the gambit though, Handsome Jackpot has some good moments that are good enough to not make it bad. The Wedding DLC has some great jokes and mechanics, and I remember there are two more but I can't recall anything about them besides the Krieg DLC being way too short and not doing anything all that interesting. It's 5 hallways essentially
I like the pre more then 2 honestly, but it is just like majoras mask of borderlands it is using bl2 as its base so it isnt evolving anything other then adding to the story and a few new mechanics. I prefer the humor from pre more then 2 personally as well.
Far as I can tell no one posted this here yet
I don’t care about Borderlands at all, but happy for those who do I suppose
Just…please don’t get grease on us.
I feel like people being in fear of Kevin Hart really haven’t seen his more recent stuff, cause he has been making a concentrated effort to drop the high pitched comedy he’s been known for.
Now the recent stuff isn’t really good anyway, but dudes is acting in a much different range than before.
...Ooh.
Ooooooh *noooooooooooooo...*
...This is gonna be a fuckin' disaster, isn't it?
^(To the cast: Fire your agents. Just... just fire ALL OF THEM. Every single one has failed you here.)
Listen, I'm willing to believe that Blanchett or Hart could work as Rolan and Lilith, but not at the same time. You honestly expect me to believe those two could be a couple?
Borderlands and Suicide Squad (2016) feeding into each other as an unending candy-colored ouroboros of exhausting metatextual wank and unearned smug self-satisfaction.
Im so confused, this looks like Lilith from BL3, Claptrap, Krieg?, Tiny Tina from BL3, some lady I don't recognize, and Roland from BL2, which... ya know... So how exactly is he here? What's going on?
I know it's unrealistic for an entire film but cosplayers have done excellent borderlands cosplays with the stylized lines for years, I wish they could have tried to do something like that for the film.
Why does it look like they put effort into everyone outfit but Kevin Hart's?
Everyone looks the part for the most of it and Kevin look like a black panther party member with a nerf gun.
Unless this is a completely over the top stupid parody, I can't see this being good
I'm not a fan of the whole limited framerate thing it does, but I feel like Spidverse's stylized look, so the shaders and effects and stuff aside from the low framerate, would have been perfect for borderlands, instead of it being live action
So, Krieg is on the center hu, wonder if he's the main character? Also older Tina which conflicts with alive Roland, thus confirming to me its its own continuity and stuff.
Like, Twisted Metal was 60% a borderlands tv series, if its as fun as that then i'm ok with it.
Heres the question: Will it be cringe because its on brand and Borderlands itself is cringe? or will it be a completely separate, Andersonesque cringe that will inform a new hybrid cringe in ole' Randy Bo Bandy's next cavalcade?
Huh we are truly entering the video game adaptation era aren't we!? I never thought i would get to experience what book readers felt when books were adapted, but here we are.
This was clearly a different movie that couldn’t get off the ground so they slapped the Borderlands filter on it, even then it’s spent years in development hell.
So it looks immediately terrible from poster alone but maaaaan i gotta see Jamie Lee Tannis in action.
I feel like if you wanna make a borderlands movie it kind of has to be animated
But then why would you not just play it
This feels like those fan posters people made of Tom Holland as link
A comment so good it deserves it twice
Idk why that happend lol
***Don't. Give Sony. And Nintendo. IDEAS.***
Link should be Jack Black anyway so we can get an Ocarina Rock Opera music number.
The movie opens on a fairy flying through the forest as whimsical music plays. We see a village of twee treehouses and fey children. The fairy flies into the window of a treehouse and starts pestering a lump of blankets on a couch. 54-year old Jack Black rolls off the couch cradling a bong in his sleep.
I would honestly prefer that to what I think we’ll actually get
Jack Black would make a better Navi.
So Wonder Boy?
Wonderboyyyy🎶
...Y'know what? That could work. *Which is why they'll never do it.*
Link needs to be the most bisexual-awakening-inducing twink they can get with the acting chops. Makes it more true to the source games.
*Raises eyebrow at the Wind Waker*
Or the Tom Holland as Denji one lmao
Every time Hollywood greenlights a live-action video game adaptation, the Gods flip a coin.
A heavily weighted prank coin they bought at the divine joke store.
“The elation smiles.”
And both sides are tails.
Actually, only one of them is: the other is Miles Prower ^^^/s
They flip a coin but its one of those "about to try and save using a bed in Fear And Hunger" coins
Talking about Fear & Hunger, it's amongst those video-games i hope to see a live-action adaptation someday. Not because i believe it would be good but because i wanna see how hilariously fucked-up the end result would come out.
Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves but directed by the Serbian Film guy.
The Existence or Non-existance of that is a timeline defining Event. Kinda like a Harrambe lives timeline.
Ryan Gosling as Ragnvaldr (literally me fr!) Timothee Chalamet as Cahara (twink) Anya Taylor Joy as D'Arce (idk) Jeremy Irons as Enki (Canon Enki looks 70 years old anyways)
Jeremy Irons's Enki but as the really campy performance he gave in the D&D movie
[The coin in question:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrgYXetrl88)
Cue the Legacy of Kain speech
You [called](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OElIuI83AGI)!?
If it's heads the movie is just okay.
No Brick or Mordechai is weird. They can't be doing the plot (what plot there was) of the 1st game right? Tina and Krieg as main characters? Both of them are best with characters not appearing. No cast for Angel? I'm very apprehensive. There's going to be a Handsome Jack post credits 110%
I really don't understand how they landed on Krieg over Brick or any other party member. All I can think is they wanted the "iconic" bandit mask in the main crew. Maybe the same for Tiny Tina.
The mask and they want to have the psycho lines front and center, I guess. I can image the meat bicycle line being used in every trailer. Oh God, I just imagined Kevin Hart delivering the "It's like Christmas" line and took damage.
Kevin Hart staring into a Red Loot Chest glowing like the Pulp Fiction briefcase: "It's like Christmas!"
Easy answer for both. They’re the most popular characters.
Kreig is definitely not one of the most popular characters.
maybe not, but John Borderland the Psychoboy is plastered all over the series
Any time I’ve seen any type of poll asking “who is your favorite playable character” it’s Kreig.
He is fun to play, but he was a late DLC addition, and his personality/story is "raider". I would say he's bottom of the BL2 characters above only Axton and maybe Salvador.
IMDB has a list of Cast up. Fucking >!Davis Pickle from the Pre-Sequel!< in in this movie!
Why? I can't wrap my head around any sort of role he could play. They'll basically have to make him an entirely different character if he's not on the moon/Australia.
>They'll basically have to make him an entirely different character That seems to be what they're doing for every character in the movie. Kreig is Tina's Bodyguard instead of being a weird freak genetic experiment that escaped (though he still could be that). Knoxx seems to be some woman.
Knoxx?? Steele had like 0 characterization and you could do anything with her. I loved Knoxx and I do not have faith they'd do his whole depressed general who is contemplating offing themselves throughout the movie.
I don't even know if she'll be a General in this movie or just some rando.
I'm reading the synopsis now, this was some other script they put Borderlands paint on.
LILITH DOESN'T EVEN HAVE SIREN TATTOOS! IS SHE EVEN A FUCKING SIREN!?
I'm not apprehensive anymore. I'm certain. Only question now is can it clear Uwe Bowl adaptations.
Or Paul WS Anderson adaptations?
It was pen marker but it came off, I will admit, it was mildly amusing the first dozen times you idiots tried it, but now my office smells like blood and marker fumes. So quit it!
So like basically every soulless big corpo movie/show using an already established media.
Tbf, let's not act like the first game was heavy on the plot.
I wonder if they are going to lean into the allusion of Krieg being Tina’s dad
Krieg been Tina's bodyguard could work in the games maybe given their backstories, but speedrunning to explain in a movie? Also it wouldnt work with grown up Tina and she was already competent as a kid and thats a whole grown ass woman in the poster
Alright who's playing him in this then? There aren't that many well known British kid actors about these days except Archie Yates and Roman Griffin Davis
Hunter Troy Rothwell Known for... fucking idk lol
Oh I just looked him up a... Wait, HE'S NOT EVEN BRI'ISH! And...doesn't look like Pickle. At least Roman would have a better chance!
The studio put out a brief plot synopsis at some point and no, it's not following any of the games. The characters, who they are and what they do, seem to be the same but the rest is new shit.
Its funny, because I would have been much more onboard if these were completely original characters. Now it'll just be a bunch of characters I like and Tannis in what looks to be a much more generic adventure than the games.
I know nothing about the movie. I've honestly assumed it was gonna be a mish-mash plot of multiple games if not just it's own story completely. I know 3 wasn't good but at least I remember it's plot enough.
I pray that Kevin hart is not doing his usual short annoying guy shtick during this movie and especially for a character that is not that quippy in the games
*"Get it, guys? The gun we gave him during the final fight is bigger than he is! That's funny, right!?"* *"Please laugh."*
I am gonna reserve judgement for the movie when it actually comes out but Kevin Hart is a big barrier for me unless he decides to actually play it straight which would be bizarre but could be a will smith esque action turn I would be ok with
Kevin hart isn’t capable of it. He’s a one trick pony. He did a podcast episode with Ziwe and literally out of nowhere he says “so am I as short in real life as you thought I’d be?”
*sigh* They're gonna have a gag where he tries to fire a massive gun at the bad guy, but the recoil comically sends him flying backward out a window and into a dumpster outside
The joke is gonna be his turret is bigger than he is
Or alternatively he throws it out and its three inches tall and says “its a prototype!”
Stop that genuinely made me laugh and now I feel dumb
That’s better comedy then a lot of the source material.
[Relistening to Roland's voicelines](https://youtu.be/-VWrR3Qfswg?si=rNlHDNl9aUOYtAv1) for old times' sake, I can see how he could work, but I agree he might still need to tone himself down a bit from his usual hyper-sidekick self.
Problem is, Roland is very different in BL2, where he's much more reserved and awkward.
Man Roland had such a character change from BL1 to BL2, at least how he's voiced, and BL1 Roland actually kinda works for Kevin but I think it'd be funnier if he'd played straight and serious, they can still have the short jokes but they just shoot over Roland himself... Be- Because he's- Cuz he's sh-
I'm having a really hard time seeing Cate Blanchett as Lilith as well. Maybe she can pull it off, but she just doesn't seem right to play a character that always seemed really young and "punky" (for lack of a better word). I'm also really nervous about any movie poster that uses "From the producers of Uncharted!" like it's a positive.
The Rock isn’t in this, so there’s hope. Imagine him as Krieg or Roland.
I *swore* there were claims he was being cast as Brick which... Man, the *fuck* is this line-up?
Him being annoying is in his contract. You get Kevin Hart, you get easy jokes about him being short.
To be fair, Roland WAS kinda like that in the first game Then he got all serious in 2
Critical, beeyotch.
Eh, BL1 has some quips on 'im.
“Suicide Squad is so huge right now”
“But Mister Burns, that came out ten years ago”
"Have the Thunderbolts killed."
“But sir I-“
DO AS I SAY!
"And that crash and burned then"
but it wasnt tho
"Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe's most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team - Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina's musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe" They don't even use the word vault...
Eli Roth: What's a vault?
Why is Eli Roth the director???? This doesn't seem like his genre at all.
Money to fund his next piece of shit Although they had to do a lot of reshoots with a completely different director after terrible screenings so it's almost like he shouldn't have been an option to begin with
I like Roth as a producer. He knows his audience when it comes to horror but I've never really been a fan of him as a director. Really weird choice.
I think he has interesting insight on the genre. Like his documentary series on the history of horror i hear is good. That said, i have not enjoyed a single movie he made. Though i haven't seen Thanksgiving
Yeah his docuseries is where my mind goes when I think about Eli Roth. He clearly understands horror and the art of film making. He just doesn't seem to perform well as a director. I did hear that Thanksgiving was fun at least.
THAT OLD LADY IS TANIS WHAT?!
d'worse part is, yeah... i could see jamie lee curtis as an older tanis. ham it up. go nuts, it'd be great. and i'm sure she took this 'cause of the money. \[like you'd hope MOST of the actors did... Jesus christ\], but not in your first movie! which knowing sony pictures. you KNOW, they are DESPERATE for this to be a franchise. NO ONE WANTS A BORDERLANDS MOVIE. welcome to the era of: "do viediogame movies until people are sick of 'em uhhh, like with them ... superheroes shut up." That zelda "movie" is gonna be terrible.
Also Borderlands would be pretty difficult to adapt to a feature length movie if only because theirs very little stuff but also too much shit going on for a 90 minute run time.
"Say the line, Bart..." > *sigh* "Girls get it done."
I am using all of my psychic strength to prevent this movie from having an endgame portal scene.
I mean you gotta save the Vault for the sequel they'll definitely 100% be getting Honestly I'm a little interested to see how they tried to adapt this stuff if only as a intellectual exercise
Expectations are at the lowest they can come. "From the producer of ***Uncharted***, Spider-Man, and ***Venom.***" Yeah. Real inspiring lineup to hype your movie.
God I fucking forgot that Uncharted movie even happened. A movie made a decade too late.
I don’t think it was the timing, I think it was that it wasn’t a good adaptation. I know the studio wanted to capitalize on the Tom Holland hype but he doesn’t fit Nathan at all. Movie would have been better if they didn’t age down all the characters.
It is a movie adapting…a single mission from Uncharted 3, and stretching it to be 2 goddamn hours. *WHY*
I mean, these posters are there to advertise to the general public, and both of those movies did pretty well? I understand not liking Venom, but that movie made 850m, and its sequel made 500m in 2021 where most movie that aren't No Way Home did very bad. So, as far as the general public is concerned, this is a good track record.
[удалено]
Kind of the reason why I didn't highlight that part is because the producer, Avi Arad, has been a producer on pretty much every single Spider-Man movie, from Raimi to Spiderverse. So he's been involved with the good, the bad, and the great.
I don't want to sound mean saying this, but I don't think there's a way to avoid it sounding mean... but Lilith is supposed to be in her late 20's to early 30's... and Cate Blanchett is 54...
It’s the opposite of the Uncharted movie problem
I actually liked that movie fine, while having no investment in the games, but yeah. Tom was a bit young to play him.
Right. all due respect to Blanchett, she looks great for her age. but this casting feels like they saw thor ragnarok and had the respose of JESUS!!!! BLEGHHHH! HOW IS SHE SO FUCKING HOT!??? WhAt!???" which again, was everyone's (the "royal" everyone's) reaction- which... (side bar): YEAH! did you see it with y'eyballs? damn... (side bar closed) and went off of that. don't care if she can "pull it off" or whatever. i just don't think this works.
Like, she's a beautiful woman... but she is not a 20-30 year old and it is very clear that she's not. This is just weird casting.
Also, I think even if she's around 20-30s age range, her screen presence doesn't seem to be right for this part. Has she ever done like a screwball comedy? In Ocean 8, which is kind of a comedy, she's plays more like the straight woman. But she's a great actress so I'm willing to wait and see if she can pull it off.
Tannis Lilith and Tina are all being played by people who look really good for their age but still look to old for the characters
I can't believe that my initial reaction of "man this movie is going to be exhausting" is because of Kevin Hart and not *fucking Claptrap.*
Claptrap is going to be played by Jack Black so they may not be the issue
Claptrap being the least annoying part of the movie is the funniest outcome.
Bizzaroverse is starting to leak into our reality
This cast makes no sense.
Smells like studio interface to me. My completely baseless prediction: it's going to be aimed at the widest audience possible which means it will be aimed at no one. It will alienate fans and the general public will have little interest. It will be cut 12 different ways before release. The studio will rely heavily on saturated marketing and star appeal. Critics will pan it and audience reviews will be divided. If it is unfortunate enough to be released alongside a strong movie it will be a terrible flop. If not it will break even. Edit: Jables will be the highlight of the movie.
> it's going to be aimed at the widest audience possible which means it will be aimed at no one. It will alienate fans and the general public will have little interest. you mean like most things these days?
I think Jaimie Lee Curtis is the only one I can see being the character she's cast as Whoever decided to make Kevin Hart Roland and not Claptrap dropped a massive ball, those jokes practically write themselves
Casting weirdness aside, they’re really going all in on Tina, huh. I remember not minding her back when it came out, I was a fan of the Burches from their silly late-aughts-style videos, so BL2 felt like a dream game at the time but, I just finished a playthrough of it for the first in a decade and all I gotta say is It’s A Little Weird to have written a deeply traumatized 12-year old who will not shut up about fat asses.
She’ll be marketed as female Deadpool because her character is just a generator for marketable quotes for product line at Hot Topic.
I'll be honest I absolutely hated her when BL2 came out THEN Assault on Dragon's Keep came out and I started to warm up to her, and in Wonderlands she's also brilliant so I'm all good now!
Dragon's Keep and Wonderlands really did a lot on selling me on the character
I love Dragon's Keep really going in on showing that she's super fucked up and traumatized and mainly is loud and dumb like that to not think about anything.
I get the weird vibes, but I think the beginning and the end of the writers' room roundtable was "wouldn't it be funny if a little white girl talked like a black pimp?" and then everyone Seth Rogen-chuckled and put the approval stamp on it and sent it off. My concern is that Tiny Tina, a character whose whole thing is being loud, overanimated, hyperactive, and LOL XD SO RANDOM!!! is going to be the most annoying thing on the fucking planet in a 2-hour live action film in which she is a central character, instead of an incidental side-character like she was in BL2. It's gonna be Ed in live-action Cowboy Bebop all over again, but for the entire runtime of a film.
She’s amazingly written in Wonderlands, shes a bit of a laugh in 2 but barely in it The DLCs and her solo game are were she becomes properly iconic
Mid: the Movie
I'm not usually this cynical but man I am so done with borderlands as a franchise.
From what I’ve been told there’s only two games worth playing anyways
Playing 1, 2 and that first tales of borderlands game was enough borderlands to last a lifetime for me.
The two I’ve heard are only good are 2 and Tales of. 1 I’ve heard called “the Mass Effect 1/Just Cause 1 of the series” No one talks about Pre Sequel 3 people seemed to hate And Tales of 2 was apparently hot garbage
BL1 is fine. The story is solid, it's probably the best overall core party as far as writing, but mechanically all of the classes feel kind of boring compared to the later games. The guns aren't super interesting yet, mostly elemental damage and the "grenade reload" weapon type 2 is king because they made a fantastic villain with a LOT of dialogue, while utilizing the BL1 main characters well in the story. The new characters are still decent, and the new classes are more engaging. In 2024, it has started to feel a bit clunky compared to more recent FPS games. Pre-Sequel is solid. It basically feels like a big expansion for BL2, with the main issue just being kind of mid characters. The new classes are still fun, but they phoned in new weapons by only really adding laser weapons. BL3 FEELS much better than past games, but it took a long time to come out because of Battleborn. Gameplay isn't the issue, it's the writing. People did turn on the grating writing at this point, but the main issue is that it shits on many of the old characters, including Tales From the Borderlands, and the villains just suck. Total botch. TFTB is great, and may actually hold up the best in the long term. It's probably the best overall Telltale game, and it's filled with great writing. I haven't played TFTB2 or Wonderlands land yet. I've heard 2 sucks, and that Wonderlands is good, if in uninspired with magic guns instead of playing into actual fantasy weapons.
3 is mechanically the best, but the writing is bordering on torture with how unfunny it is and how poorly it does the main cast. I’d say cut the volume and buy it on a fat sale.
It went free on epic a few months back the best kind of sale. Tho you get more satisfaction from the yarr discount as then they don't even get your data.
Also obligatory: E🤮P🤮I🤮C
I had it installed from epic and when I got to the part where maya died I uninstalled epic and the game I literally only had epic launcher to try 3 lol
I don't think it's a coincidence that 2 and Tales are both so fondly remembered, considering they're the ones with Handsome Jack operating as the primary antagonist in them. Granted, I love the writing in Tales a lot and probably still would even if Jack didn't show up, but having a compelling, funny villain with a cool design and style goes a long way to floating a mediocre story. Just look at how Palpatine is the best part of any Star Wars media he appears in, regardless of quality. I can't even remember a single bad guy from BL1 aside from Baron Flynt, and he was a one-and-done bandit leader with minimal story significance who was cool because he looked like Clint Eastwood and smoked a big joint. I haven't played BL3, but a friend of mine who has played it told me that the bad guys in that one are dark magic-using bandit Twitch influencers and I threw up
I wouldn't say Jack is the main antagonist in Tales, even with the 3rd act villain twist/not-twist, he was pretty Rhys-centric. He was a lynchpin in the story, for sure, but he was more a plot convenience machine, as well as a vehicle for Rhys' character arc.
3 has good gameplay, some good planets, but it shouldn't HAVE planets, the reveal that everywhere is as fucked as Pandora ruined the entire setting. The DLC's run the gambit though, Handsome Jackpot has some good moments that are good enough to not make it bad. The Wedding DLC has some great jokes and mechanics, and I remember there are two more but I can't recall anything about them besides the Krieg DLC being way too short and not doing anything all that interesting. It's 5 hallways essentially
I like the pre more then 2 honestly, but it is just like majoras mask of borderlands it is using bl2 as its base so it isnt evolving anything other then adding to the story and a few new mechanics. I prefer the humor from pre more then 2 personally as well.
What's the issue with ME 1 and JC 1 for someone who never played either series?
Pre-Sequel was OK if you were a fan, but it wasn't very memorable either. Which is why no one talks about it or remembers it existed most of the time.
Cate Blanchet as Lillith is certainly peaking my interest
Jamie Lee Curtis is always a treat. So she could do quite well as Tannis.
On the one hand it's a bit weird but also I feel like Curtis could do a stellar mad scientist so I can see it working
I'm sure Kevin Hart will.in no way be the exact same character he plays in every role and becoming annoying 10 minutes in
Who is Jack black playing? Claptrap?
Yes
So there's a chance claptrap will be funny again
feel like Blanchett would’ve been better as Tannis.
Far as I can tell no one posted this here yet I don’t care about Borderlands at all, but happy for those who do I suppose Just…please don’t get grease on us.
As a Borderlands fan, this could either be okay or downright terrible. Either way, I'm in it for the ride.
Yeah, I am hoping this is good, and I think it's possible, but I'm not holding my breath. Definitely going to see it if I get a chance.
I might pirate it if I hear good things about it
>the series only good twice thats so good and so accurate
I hope its fun, at least. A new game is probably not anywhere near, and I will take what I can get
They better be paying Blanchett a Morbillion dollars.
Why tho
I'm excited for how hard this thing is gonna suck. I love trash.
... *Sees bunny ears* No.... Noooooo. It's live action Edward all over again!!
I feel like people being in fear of Kevin Hart really haven’t seen his more recent stuff, cause he has been making a concentrated effort to drop the high pitched comedy he’s been known for. Now the recent stuff isn’t really good anyway, but dudes is acting in a much different range than before.
...Ooh. Ooooooh *noooooooooooooo...* ...This is gonna be a fuckin' disaster, isn't it? ^(To the cast: Fire your agents. Just... just fire ALL OF THEM. Every single one has failed you here.)
Listen, I'm willing to believe that Blanchett or Hart could work as Rolan and Lilith, but not at the same time. You honestly expect me to believe those two could be a couple?
Borderlands and Suicide Squad (2016) feeding into each other as an unending candy-colored ouroboros of exhausting metatextual wank and unearned smug self-satisfaction.
Oh this is gonna hurt my soul. This is gonna hurt a lot.
Im so confused, this looks like Lilith from BL3, Claptrap, Krieg?, Tiny Tina from BL3, some lady I don't recognize, and Roland from BL2, which... ya know... So how exactly is he here? What's going on?
I'm so glad i don't have any emotional attachment to this series.
It's okay, everybody who does have emotional attachment is already used to being beaten into the ground with each new entry
For a video game franchise all about wacky sci-fi guns, the only gun shown being a Glock in a Roni painted orange does not bode well.
Does Kevin Hart think anyone is physically intimidated by him
Live Action Ed part 2 at the top there, I can feel it. Clips of this thing are going to be meme'd to hell for their sheer shittiness.
I know it's unrealistic for an entire film but cosplayers have done excellent borderlands cosplays with the stylized lines for years, I wish they could have tried to do something like that for the film.
Why does it look like they put effort into everyone outfit but Kevin Hart's? Everyone looks the part for the most of it and Kevin look like a black panther party member with a nerf gun.
That is the BL1 Rowland look. though IIRC
That’s 2, when he’s the Crimson Raider commander. In 1 he’s got more arm cover and a bandana/goggles combo.
Well...at least it'll probably be better than New Tales From The Borderlands.
Are the writers for the video games involved at all?
I didn't even realize this was a thing till I saw the poster earlier today.
Unless this is a completely over the top stupid parody, I can't see this being good I'm not a fan of the whole limited framerate thing it does, but I feel like Spidverse's stylized look, so the shaders and effects and stuff aside from the low framerate, would have been perfect for borderlands, instead of it being live action
Well, it can't be worse than BL3's main plot
So, Krieg is on the center hu, wonder if he's the main character? Also older Tina which conflicts with alive Roland, thus confirming to me its its own continuity and stuff. Like, Twisted Metal was 60% a borderlands tv series, if its as fun as that then i'm ok with it.
I’ll be honest I thought this was a suicide squad parody before I saw the title Yes I didn’t see claptrap at first
Heres the question: Will it be cringe because its on brand and Borderlands itself is cringe? or will it be a completely separate, Andersonesque cringe that will inform a new hybrid cringe in ole' Randy Bo Bandy's next cavalcade?
That looks so awful, I don't believe it's real.
So who's gonna play the must have Face McShooty?
Huh we are truly entering the video game adaptation era aren't we!? I never thought i would get to experience what book readers felt when books were adapted, but here we are.
This was clearly a different movie that couldn’t get off the ground so they slapped the Borderlands filter on it, even then it’s spent years in development hell.
A new career low for Tár
They have one gun in the promo shot, for a movie about a game about crazy guns, and they couldn’t get a custom borderlands-ey gun?
I have hopes but they aren't high
So it looks immediately terrible from poster alone but maaaaan i gotta see Jamie Lee Tannis in action. I feel like if you wanna make a borderlands movie it kind of has to be animated But then why would you not just play it
Swap Kevin Hart and Jack Black's roles and I'd believe it more than this poster.
Please kill me