It blows my mind that we're still getting uninspired shitty adaptations after Fallout, The Last of Us, honestly even stuff like Sonic and Mario showed suits that people will praise any adaptation as long as it shows them what they know.
Realistically, celebrities get about 8 movies to perform in their career before my brain is unable to see them as some sort of new character. Kevin Harts comedy stopped carrying his horrible acting about 5 movies ago.
It depends on the actor. When you have an actor, like Gary Oldman for example, that really transform into its role, they can play in an infinite number of movies and they won't get boring.
But actors, like The Rock or Kevin Hart, that just play themselves over and over again get tiring fast.
It is amazing how out of touch someone can be with reality.
Also, classic blaming the guy that just left. Maybe he contributed to some of the issues, but I guarantee there was a mountain of other issues unrelated to this guy.
Most of the execs never tried their hands on a game including this one. They genuinely have no idea about the industry and thought they had a hit game on their hands based on a trailer or something. It‘s truly baffling yet so typical.
What's funny is that when the producer is mentioned in trailers I always think "Ok so the director is an unknown person and they're the one who has the most influence so it must not be great..."
.....they ruined Roland and Tina, JB, though I love him, is a terrible choice for Claptrap, not really butthurt about the lack of guns (are they supposed to just have a billion guns in every shot or something?), Curtis doesn't give me Tanniss vibes either, though....man, why is Krieg so quiet? Fuck..
are they supposed to just have a billion guns in every shot or something
a variety of different gun designs would at least be something to look at as the main characters expressionlessly shoot towards their off-screen enemies
are they supposed to just have a billion guns in every shot or something?
Fucking. Yes.
I mean, not every shot, but the variety of firearms should absolutely be a big part of every action scene at least. It's Borderlands, and that was it's original claim to fame: countless combinations of procedurally generated guns.
Have your prop department whip them up as different parts that they can stick together, like how the games do it. Firing effects can be added in post.
I had already resigned this movie to the shit bin just because they cast a comedian for the role of the only character in the games that was a serious straight man (as in the comedy trope) instead of someone more suitable like Idris Elba.
Then again, maybe they wanted someone else but Hart was the only one who accepted to work on this turd.
I'd honestly have been interested if Kevin Hart just did Roland instead of being Kevin Hart.
Based on that clip I can't say he's not, it's not like Roland never gives any snark, but I can say Hart is a weird choice for the role by his typecasting. But, hey, maybe he'll break free with this?
I mean Borderlands 1 Roland is pretty different from the guy allergic to smiling we all know from Borderlands 2.
I guess Handsome Jack changes comedians into Idris Elba.
I think we're past this now, we've had a number of good (or at the very least enjoyable) adaptations now, Sonic, Mario, Pikachu. Werewolves Within was really good though no one has heard of the game. And of course TV has been knocking it out of the park, Last of Us, Fallout, Cyberpunk, Castlevania, League of Legends, hell I'd even throw in Twisted Metal. Even stuff about people who play games like Gran Turismo and Players were really good. We also have things that considered bad at the time are being reclaimed like Mortal Kombat
Borderlands is (by the looks of it) just an IP dump which isn't exclusive to video games.
The clip doesn't make any sense. Cate Blanchett is shooting people standing up, then she's suddenly inside of a box? When does she gets in the box, why is she suddenly in that box? She doesn't get out of the box either. She's teleported from there box to somewhere else. But now she has a flamethrower.
Yeah I had the exact same confusion, so I watched it again and she gets tackled into the box, then stands up from inside it.
If this was all in one continuous shot, it would probably be kind of funny. Quite why directors are still making the exact mistakes called out by a 9 minute youtube video 9 years ago is beyond me.
So it looks like bad editing is another thing to get excited about.
Honestly to God, while I get wanting to play an updated version of games you love, I played through the original trilogy off of gog a few months ago, and they have stood up remarkably well. I can't help but see all of this as a bit silly.
I was fine with what they originally showed. Yes, it wasn’t the prettiest game out there, but if it was modernized enough then I really didn’t care about the graphics that much.
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