Action-Adventure Borderlands - The Movie

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Borderlands director acknowledges there’s going to be "similarities" to Guardians of the Galaxy, but audiences will "see that it’s different"

Exclusive: Eli Roth talks to Total Film about *those* Guardians of the Galaxy comparisons

www.gamesradar.com

 

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[AVEITWITHJAMON]

You can guarantee there will be an r rated cut on the home release.

 

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[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I wonder/hope will Lilith gain her powers here?. There were indications in the trailer she would.

 

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Apparently this is supposed to be the popcorn bucket for the Borderlands movie next month:

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Hearing really awful things about this from DanielRPK.

 

[Zantera]

As a fan of the games it sucks they seemingly dropped the ball so hard with this one. Feels like it should have been an easy thing as well, like try and go for a Guardians of the Galaxy tone and make a light hearted adventure.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

As a fan of the games it sucks they seemingly dropped the ball so hard with this one. Feels like it should have been an easy thing as well, like try and go for a Guardians of the Galaxy tone and make a light hearted adventure.

It's all Av Arad's fault. This, tone-wise should've been GOTG with Deadpool's R-rated sense of humor. But instead they watered everything down. I'm not blaming Eli Roth for any of this. He saw reason and bailed to make a much better movie. Arad is either too greedy or too stupid to throw in any towels.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Avi Arad being attached to this reminds me that he is also attached as a producer to the movie rights to Mass Effect. I dread to see what that movie is going to be if it ever gets made (and its been in development for a long time, so it won't be any time soon thankfully).

 

[Zantera]

Avi Arad being attached to this reminds me that he is also attached as a producer to the movie rights to Mass Effect. I dread to see what that movie is going to be if it ever gets made (and its been in development for a long time, so it won't be any time soon thankfully).

As someone who holds the Mass Effect trilogy as my favorite game(s) ever, I really really hope nothing comes from this until Avi Arad has passed away if that's true. How did he even get his claws into all these IPs? I know he's had his claws in Spidey and some Marvel stuff for decades but if that's not worse enough now there's also Borderlands and ME.

 

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[Deck Rickard]

As someone who holds the Mass Effect trilogy as my favorite game(s) ever, I really really hope nothing comes from this until Avi Arad has passed away if that's true. How did he even get his claws into all these IPs? I know he's had his claws in Spidey and some Marvel stuff for decades but if that's not worse enough now there's also Borderlands and ME.

Zelda too.

 

[Zantera]

Zelda too.

"How about we make Link fight Venom?!"

 

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[Deck Rickard]

That new trailer is just… weird. Half of it is stuff we’ve already seen. And it’s like they were weirdly trying to hide the fact they were using the same song?

Also, we all laughed a bit at how the first trailer seemed to be trying to emulate Guardians of the Galaxy. But when that “Worst Planet Ever” graphic came up, it made me feel like this trailer was trying to emulate Suicide Squad. That’s… a choice.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Really fuming at this right now. Ignoring the stupid PG-13 rating (this should've been R), I'm not happy about them trying to make Tiny Tina essential to the Vault plotline. Tina never had anything to do with the Vaults nor was she THAT important to any of the main storylines. She was a supporting character from the second game who got popular because people thought she was funny. Trying to crowbar her into the plot of the first is a mistake. And I like her in the games. But she doesn't act the part here at all. Too watered-down.

This BS is why I'm glad Eli Roth bailed in post to go make Thanksgiving. He ultimately saw sense and realized this wasn't working. Hence why he hasn't really said anything about this movie.

 

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A final Borderlands film trailer is giving fans one last opportunity to dunk on it before it comes out: 'The first movie in 20 years to go straight to VHS'

Let's just say it's not turning the mood around.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Zantera]

I'm seeing it in the cinema with the gf but our expectations are definitely low. It's just that we played the Borderlands games together and there's a fondness for the franchise and a morbid curiosity to see it in film form. I would say the overall timing around this feels weird, not just the casting. This really should have come out 10 years ago building on the Borderlands 2 hype. Instead this is coming out 5 years after Borderlands 3 (which was a bit more mixed among fans) and the only reason I would imagine Tina seems to get a meaty role in this is because Tiny Tina was the most recent game in the franchise and they might want to cash in on that?

It does feel like this needed to be made probably before Guardians of the Galaxy but at the very least before Suicide Squad.

 

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[Deck Rickard]

(Sigh)

I guess after the highs of Fallout, The Last of Us, the Sonic movies and Super Mario Bros., it was time for another video game adaptation to bomb hard.

 

[Kane52630]

Well they did a sh** job marketing the movie. They barely even played the trailer in theaters.

I guess it was a mistake putting it out anywhere near D&W.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Well they did a sh** job marketing the movie. They barely even played the trailer in theaters.

I guess it was a mistake putting it out anywhere near D&W.

Unless they were intentionally burying it.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

This is another video game adaptation which had a lot of the right ingredients to be good and it sounds like they bungled it totally. Shame as the games are good and the story isn't too complex or anything to be adapted.