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Weird casting, none of them make sense except Jack Black.
Even Jack Black as claptrap is just really bizarre casting. I will definitely not get over kevin hart’s casting though. They hired a short comedian to play the role of the serious military guy character.
Hart’s been apparently trying to shake off the comedian persona.
Then he should stop being in comedies.
And start being a good actor.
Cate Blanchett for Lilith, but no lines spoken to showcase her personality. Tina except she’s a Zoomer girl boss that occasionally lapses into the actual Tina in the most superficial ways, Roland but comedy, and the psycho as a main character when you have gunzerker and commando.
This just feels like another quick cash in on an IP that they believed they could turn into pulp action content.
Couldn’t make it through the trailer. I loved the first 3 (1, PS, 2). BL3 was shit and Gearbox got more and more shitty. Not something I’m going to watch.
FFS this looks like the worst casting job ever. Each actor is good but completely wrong for the role with the exception, maybe, of Jack Black. This looks like the studio is fishing for a tax write off by making a bomb.
Even Jack black is a weird choice. It’s frickin Claptrap, the one role where you could just take the voice actor from the game and not fuck up the casting. Whole thing looks like shit. Hard pass. Don’t need a family road trip Borderlands movie.
There are multiple voice actors and Gearbox allegedly fucked over the first.
Ashly Burch could’ve easily reprised her role as Tiny Tina as well. We know she can act well enough from her role in Mythic Quest.
So, this is what a 2 year delay worth of studio interference, poor audience testing, and aimlessly hopeful reshoots gets us. The only thing surprising is that it’s not a WB product about to be shelved.
This is what happens when someone who has never played Borderlands derives their script from watching teen streamers playing the game. Expectedly awful.
Is Borderlands the godfather now? Who cares? Borderlands story is trash, it’s characters are one dimensional. This is like when people complained that they’d mess up twisted metal, as if we were speaking about an adaptation of the old man and the sea. It’s Borderlands, and if the movie is a solid 7, it’s as good as the game.
I don’t think anyone here is saying the movie will be bad for not getting the Borderlands story right. I think they’re saying it looks bad because it looks like a passionless by the numbers cash grab banking on nerd pandering and brand recognition. Especially because this was the type of game that never needed to be made into a movie. I mean, the trailer has Kevin Hart yelling stuff and ends with a diarrhea joke. Nuff said.
The lack of overly vulgar dialogue in the trailer really solidified my lack of expectations. Not that I really need that level of vulgarity to enjoy a movie but I mean, is it really borderland without it?
The entire cast seems off. And how is cage the elephant not the theme still?
Not nearly guardians of the galaxy enough for them
It stinks!
You just reminded me of this reference. (But yes it looks like it’s going to be horrible)
Never having played Borderlands… is the game actually this unapologetically stupid? I chuckled at a few bits in the trailer, but I felt bad for doing it.
The humor in the games is definitely “stupid” but not as cringe as this movie looks.
No, it’s exactly as cringe as this movie looks. There’s a horse called Butt-Stallion in the games.
Yeah but in context it’s actually pretty hilarious. Handsome Jack’s monologues made borderlands 2 for me. Such a great villain.
