• @[email protected]
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    455 months ago

    I get the feeling this is going to be so ass.

    If they’d have announced this movie pre Borderlands 3 I might’ve had a bit of hope.

    • @[email protected]
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      125 months ago

      I thought it was a streaming show lol.
      It looks like some suit said “Remember that bad Suicide Squad movie? Let’s do that again!”

      • @CluckN
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        65 months ago

        I feel like studios try to pitch Tv shows to streaming services and when that fails they just cram the script down into a single movie.

      • @BluesF
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        25 months ago

        The second one was much better, in their defence

  • @[email protected]
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    215 months ago

    They’ve genderswapped Knoxx and had to create a man named Atlas to be the face of the corporation? what the hell are they even adapting? just an original story using names we know?

    • @[email protected]
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      85 months ago

      I was talking about this to my girlfriend when the first trailer dropped. Honestly they should have done an original story and named the movie borderlands 4. Make it cannon to the games and it would have fit perfectly with how absurd borderlands is. That way you can craft a bespoke story that fits in movie for instead of having to worry about adaptation.

    • @RGB3x3
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      15 months ago

      Didn’t genderswap Knoxx… Apparently that’s his daughter.

      Which is somehow worse.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        Did he… have a daughter? I remember him being a very burnt out lonely man full of ennui, I guess in my head that meant he never had kids or married

        Also that means this canonically takes place after Borderlands 1, but Atlas still has a presence on Pandora?

    • @Wolfwood1
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      35 months ago

      You can throw in the mix the Dark Tower movie with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Oh god, how bad that one was…

    • @ChicoSuave
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      35 months ago

      Gina Gershon is fantastic. She’s legit the best part of Showgirls. She played such a fun evil foil to the psychopathic Nomi.

  • @RGB3x3
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    145 months ago

    The biggest problem about the casting is it feels like they chose people who are 20 years older than the characters they’re supposed to portray. And then you have Kevin Hart and Jack Black… Just, who is making these horrible casting decisions?

    • @[email protected]
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      85 months ago

      I’m not worried about jack black but I am about Kevin. I don’t think Kevin has the chops to pull of that character.

  • Beefy-Tootz
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    135 months ago

    I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, this is going to be hot garbage on an August afternoon. I’m convinced this is going to be as closely related to the source material as the Wanted movie was.

  • @Kachilde
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    115 months ago

    That’s a lot of characters with a wide range of relevance to the Borderlands story. From Moxxi, all the way to… Atlas?

    Can’t wait to see Borderlands bosses Krom and Knoxx on the big screen looking nothing like their in game counterparts.

    And don’t even get me started on my main man Larry! Ooh! All the fun times I remember with… Larry…

    • @Dud
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      25 months ago

      The entire movie is actually just an ARG for the Let’s Find Larry game.

  • 🍔🍔🍔
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    85 months ago

    everyone complaining about, like, fidelity to the source material, lol? the writing in these games is hot garbage that is only tolerable because it’s stapled to a dopamine generator. the best thing they could possibly do is throw as much of it out as possible while still keeping enough of the IP to chisel a budget out of some feckless executive producer. just call jack black Mr Borderland and let him shoot a rocket out of a bus

    • THCDenton
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      25 months ago

      I really did like borderland’s world building. IRL respawning. Human made megastructures on a cosmic scale, Mad max style raiders. But yeah the writing is raw ass.

  • Tiger Jerusalem
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    55 months ago

    Ah yes. Netflix’s Guardians of the Galaxy.