Borderlands is the most abysmal creation in the history of our planet 

Ive played borderlands on the switch im a real gamer Also I should’ve included the point in the vid that what made tiny Tina’s inclusion in the games so funny is that she’s the only kid you see and she’s more insane than any of the other adults you talk to mostly so seeing kids in pandora is just like pointless

Not surprised - they casted Kevin Hart, the short comedian, as Roland, the tall and professional soldier. It was doomed from the start

they missed the chance to cell shade everyone with makeup, we've seen that it's possible with cosplayers

don’t worry I know exactly what will fix this a pre-sequel

We found our new, Last Airbender, Dragon Ball Evolution and Artemis Fowl everyone.

I was amazed that at the very least they couldn't even take advantage of the unique art style of the game, but simple cosplayers can nail the style on limited budgets lol.

I turned to my friend in the cinema after the opening narration didn’t even start with “so you want to hear a story” and said there’s no way this is gonna have any saving graces

Fun fact did you know that the developers of Borderlands thought that they were making a Mad Max game until they realised driving mechanics sucked

The first movie to make 40 Bordillion dollars, what a crowning achievement

I'm just glad they didn't try anything with handsome jack because they would've fucked him up so badly

Someone saw the amount of decent to good video game adaptations and said “That doesn’t sit right with me”

With the rise of animated movies band wagoning off of Spider-Verse's art style, you'd THINK they'd go in that direction for a series like Borderlands. Like come on man :/

and to top it all off they even put the vault key upside down 😭

honestly from a movie that advertises itself as being from the producers of uncharted and venom, you can already expect the level of quality at play here

The CEO of Gearbox is having a meltdown on twitter over the reviews lmao

Not only no loot, but they really dont ever interact with any Pandora wildlife. Skags are a staple and we see one(1)

More like BORED-erlands!

Thank god they didnt try and touch Handsome jack

A movie written by the same people who said “hey is this Ava character unlikeable? No she’s not keep her in”

I kinda expected this when they first announced the movie. The games already act like their (mostly) horrendous humor is the main draw, and you just know studio executives will fixate on that instead of the good parts about the franchise.

I just wanted to mention this but Borderlands was not made with Cel shading, it was made with Sobel Shading (Which is very similar outcome but fundamentally different process.)

and dont forget that at the end they just had MOUTHPIECE there as a lackey for the atlas boss guy

Gonna play the first Tales game just to feel something again

Joe Corombe is the guy that enjoys this movie

You mentioned how Blanchett got an Oscar between production of "Borderlands" and its release, but so did Jamie Lee with "EEAAO."

I didn't even realize that person was supposed to be Tannis till you said it 😭

LITTLEBIGPLANET OST IN THE BG 🗣🗣📣❗️❗️❗️

The second I saw that the ppl who funded this movie also worked on dog s*** like morbius and venom. I knew it was going to be crap

I audibly gasped in collective disappointment when they showed Scooter, Ellie, and Moxxie on screen. So disgusted in Randy

I hope Randy Pitchford sees this video’s title

I liked the part where an hour into the movie Tina teleports everyone once and then never again after leaving Kevin Hart to die (I've never played Borderlands)

Besides the point a bit but The Last of Us didn't pick Craig Mazin up as a writer, he's the showrunner of it and spearheaded it after the success of Chernobyl, which he created, wrote and produced.

TFTB is a great example of how to make a narrative-focused adaptation of Borderlands and adding some complexity without sacrificing its uniqueness.

Why the hell would they make Tiny Tina "the chosen one" when Lilith is right there? That's literally what the sirens are in this setting, the 6 chosen ones! If they didn't want to center the plot around the vault huners being greedy treasure hunters like the games, then they should have focused on the sirens more for the movie. They could have included Commandant Steele and fleshed her out more into a proper character and made her a rival to Lilith.

Mortal Kombat: Every actor fitted perfectly into their characters POSTAL: Say what you want about Uwe Boll but he understood what Postal was about (at least the second one). And The Postal Dude actor fits perfectly his character TOMB RAIDER: Angelina Jolie is and will always be the most perfect translation from PS1 era Lara Croft to Live Action. Borderlands: Roland is a (un)funny manlet and Lilith is someone's aunt. Just like the games, right?

Don't worry, the Skibidi Toilet movie will make this look like Raiders of the Lost Ark.

"Turn off your brain, just enjoy it." They just described a parody

Holy shit, when you brought up Kreig as the groot stand in, it made me realize that they ACTUALLY WERE trying to make a piss poor copy paste attempt from Guardians of the galaxy, holy shit.

One thing that stuck out to me in the trailer is that it looked like none of the actors were interested or willing to put any energy into their acting... Even though BL is extremely hammy and they could have been as over the top as they wanted. Anyway, I'm just glad they didn't drag my girl Maya into this, she already suffered enough (from writing) in BL3 >.>

7:37 don’t forget they included mouthpiece and cosmetic heads as disguises from borderlands 3 for some odd reason. So it’s a hodgepodge of all three games

This movie is literally irredeemable, doesn’t matter if there’s a “other cut” or some shit, the cast alone damned this movie

With every Fallout show there must be a Borderlands, it’s just the universe balancing out

At this point they should have just made it into a musical or something bc that would at least be interesting

AVI ARAD has ruined so far... * Borderlands * Daredevil (2003) * The Punisher (2004) * Elektra (2005) * Fantastic Four (2005) * X-Men: The Last Stand * Spider-Man 3 * Bratz (2007) * Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance * The Amazing Spider-Man 2 * Ghost in the Shell (2017) * Venom: Let There Be Carnage * Uncharted (2022) * Morbius And now he's gonna ruin... * Kraven the Hunter * Venom: The Last Dance * Legend of Zelda * Naruto As long Arad lives, there's no hope

A key thing with borderlands (as a BL2 player), is that yes, Hyperion has their grubby corporation hands everywhere; yes, Handsome Jack actively hates your guts; and yes, you do fight Hyperion and Handsome Jack... but the plot isn't about you vs Hyperion. You're just in search for the vault, and Hyperion just keeps getting in the damn way. You could replace them with any other sort of faction (idk, invading alien empire) and the story would be the damn same. This is why the games don't bother themselves with worldbuilding, storytelling, etc. You get what you see, because you're just passing. Sometimes there'll be a bit of info but even the inhabitants don't seem to care that much - they're too damn busy trying to survive the crapsack world. It's such a goddamn simple setting to play with, all you need to do is stick to the characters' motives and that's it. You don't need to explain shit cause nobody in the setting would care to explain shit, and the characters wouldn't care about it anyways.

putting kevin hart a comedian in the movie is like man we don't know funny but kevin hart does so if we put him in it'll be funny

i think something people also forget is borderlands isnt even sci fi its madmax apocalypse with sci fi/fantasy elements

What a horrible waste of money.

This video made me more nostalgic for Littlebigplanet than it made me think about Borderlands

I knew this was gonna suck the second I saw “From the producer of uncharted”

What we could of gotten "So... You want to hear a story, eh? One about treasure hunters? Haha, have I got a story for you!" What we did get "its borderlanding time!"

Pretty sure Oppenheimer said that same thing

There are no children on Pandora, they are only Tinks/Midgets depending on the game you play

Don’t forget about Pickle.. he’s a kid in the games. Just him and Tina though, no other kids 9:50

I'm glad i went to see twisters instead

This movie was a bland story that I felt came out too late and should have been released when people actually had interest in this franchise. Also, the very few people that were next to me fell asleep halfway, and honestly, I couldn't blame them.

10:17 Shouldn't they have hired the actual voice actor for Claptrap? Like why we gotta hire the most popular people in the US to act? Like my goodness...

1:53 Some may remember Borderlands, Gearbox and their CEO Randy Pitchford were accused of ripping the cel shaded art style wholesale from a short film called Code Hunters, commissioned by MTV in 2006 and released the month after Borderlands in November 2009. Ben Hibbon (Write and director of Code Hunters said in an interview with the now defunct 'Gather Your Party' '"I was contacted by Gearbox prior to the re-design of the game - in 2008" ""They asked me if I would be interested to direct/design some cut-scenes for them. We exchanged a few emails but the project didn’t materialize in the end. I didn’t think much of it at the time - until I saw the final game in 2009." and finally "To be absolutely clear, I have never created or designed anything for Gearbox or Borderlands. Gearbox saw my work and decided to reproduce it - make it their own - without my help or my consent." I hope that this does not go forgotten in the future.

Borderlands’ gameplay literally spoon fed them interesting concepts and easy jokes. Guns that you throw? Guns with crazy gimmicks? Grenades that do wild shit? Yeah let’s just use a generic Dahl SMG and have the ONE and only NameDrop being the infinity and THEN not even mention the fact is has infinite ammo!!!! Actually, nobody EVER reloads in this film. Not once. Seriously, (don’t) go look!

There are so many things they should have done (like use claptrap's actual VA), but the biggest thing they needed was a BL2 intro-like vibe. The Heavy playing over a train robbery is forever in my head. Why didn't they just consult the fucking game writers 😡😤

They should've gone the A Scanner Darkly route. Film it.then animate over the footage.

Joe crombie is probably a little reference at Joe Abercrombie, a huge fantasy author right now

Jack black discarded his corporeal flesh to become the first man-made-machine, truly, a first in filmmaking. now THAT is dedocation

Roland looks like "the black guy who will die first" Tina looks like a cosplayer Krieg don't fighting his intrusive thoughts every 3 minutes and !?RUNS AWAY FROM BANDITS!? and BL3 mask sucks! Claptrap sounds like he want you to catch the blu hedgehog

The main reason Gearbox gave the game a cel shaded look, was because they were worried the game would be passed off as a RAGE knock-off. But, if you want to see a GOOD Borderlands movie, go watch Tank Girl.

Incredible. The opportunity to make a Fury Road meets Pirates of the Caribbean and they completely blew it. I am losing hope every day.

Claims boarderlands doesn’t have an anti corporate message but also claims he’s a fan.

GOD no wonder the Last of Us show sucked so hard too, the guy that wrote this wrote that, holy shit.

I’m glad that Brick and Mordecai weren’t in this. They were my favourites to play as in the first game, and enjoyed their buddy routine in 2 and 3. Glad they didn’t have to get stained by being in this.

It's the basic plot of borderlands 1, with characters from borderlands 2, and the writing quality of borderlands 3.

Since this is a film channel, it is very important to note that Borderlands' art style change was controversial when it was found out that it was based on Ben Hibon's short film that they admitted to having a major influence and contacting but gave no credits to. That short film is Codehunters and you can even still watch it here in RU-vid. You can discern for yourself the influences Gearbox took from that.

The only reason I could see anybody even remotely enjoying the movie is if you've *NEVER* heard of Borderlands.

The base setting of Borderlands is steeped in a background of dystopian hyper space capitalism but one of the aspects of the games that makes the character writing compelling is that the characters you play as aren't paragons of morality fighting for justice or whatever, they're treasure hunters fighting mostly for their own greed and self-aggrandizement. Fighting the corporations only happens because they want the same prize you're after, but otherwise you couldn't care less. Hell, the whole reason Pandora as a planet is packed to the gills with psychotic murderers is because Dahl used it as a prison slave labor mining colony where it sent all of the psychotic murderers to die to the wildlife while mining for raw materials. throwing the idea of the main cast being treasure hunters first and fighting corporations second out the window is probably the biggest self-inflicted failure the writing of the movie could have possibly done.

Now this guy is a gamer? And a film man? What can't Mr. 24 frames of nick do?

Gotta love borderlands 1 quests, "kill 8 bandits"

Once the Cast was revealed I knew the movie could only be bad, but even though my expectations were low oh boy did they manage to disappoint me

I hadn’t seen anything from the movie, and when the clip with Clap Traps voice I physically recoiled from my screen.

We were on a roll with good video game adaptations like Mario, Sonic, and Last of Us, now we're back at the bottom. WTF are they doin!?! 😭

The Little Big Planet music just slapped me in the face with nostalgia.

4:02 Apparently it was originally directed by someone else competent with sci fi movies before they were kicked out

02:54 2 years ago??? Oh nah 😂💀

Ill be honest, Borderlands would do much better with an adult animated TV show.

I really hope 2k hasn’t done anything to gta 6 or I will cry

Unfortunately I was never able to play the Borderlands series, but when I heard the Gardens theme from LBP around 7:00, I think I can understand more how much people loved Borderlands the way I loved LBP, and how rightfully disappointed people are in the movie.

Borderlands because it's production was outsourced to mexico

There are exactly TWO consistent images of Joe crombie

I saw this earlier with a friend and we were the only two people in the theater, what a trainwreck of a movie lmao.

We finally learned how to make good video game adaptations! Borderlands: hold my skag

LittleBig Planet in the background 🥹

honestly, the art style of Arcane would've been perfect for a Borderlands movie

Borderlands doesn’t even have that great of a story and it’s not popular right now. Such a bad choice for a video game movie right now

At least there should be a good "What Happened" episode. Matt McMuscles is probably getting started already

The fact that this movie has a lack of you know, HANDSOME JACK THE MAIN VILLAIN OF THE SERIES WHO IS UTTERLY BRILLIANT is an actual warcrime

Honestly, at it's peak, Borderlands used to have pretty good writing. Was it a RDR2? No. But what it did have was well written humor and extremely memorable and iconic characters, some of which actually had depth and were genuinely compelling. It knew when to take itself seriously and when not to, and even if some of the jokes didn't age well, the older games are still a thoroughly enjoyable experience from a story standpoint. The story part of these games was never anything mind blowing, but it used to be genuinely good enough for people to actually care about it and its characters. So it really hurts to see how everything that came out of this franchise in the last decade or so seemingly tries to disregard that. Borderlands 3's writing was atrocious, New Tales was somehow even worse, and you'd have trouble finding a character from the old games that they brought back which hasn't been completely butchered by now. The new characters were almost exclusively forgettable, and it constantly undermined what little sincerity it had left with bad jokes that did not land. This movie is just the latest (and so far worst) piece of garbage on this trash heap, and it genuinely feels like Gearbox either does not give a dang about the franchise anymore, or fundamentally doesn't understand what made us fall in love with it in the first place. And the worst part is that I'm pretty sure it's both. And that just makes me sad, man.

Weird take. A borderlands movie needs to 1. Look like Arcane 2. Act like THE Suicide Squad by James Gunn 3. Has to stick with one game. When you try to combine all ideas, you get...well...Borderlands 3.

If borderlands is the most abysmal creation you've ever witnessed you must live under a rock

that little big planet ost made me go back to simpler times

When they released promotion art with roland holding a normal-ass iphone 14 i knew it was gonna be a special film

3:57 He made thanksgiving, one of my favorite holiday horror films 😡

In the words of Max0r: "It didn't release, it fucking escaped!"