Literally at every single point in production they had the opportunity to at the very least make a 6/10 popcorn flick with potential for a cult following later on, but instead they made the worst decisions at every juncture to the point where the movie was completely unsalvageable
I think Kevin Hart contributed to this flopping. 1: Because of his role in all of his movies as “screaming panicking small Kevin”. 2: Clashing with what a character is supposed to be like with an actor that is the complete opposite.
I have as much interest in seeing this movie as the latest Bad Boys movie. Both are dumpster fires to me for different reasons. So unlikely I will see either ever in my lifetime.
Because it had nothing to do with the franchise, was badly written, terribly acted and clearly couldn’t give two hoots about a loyal fan base - awful film
Funny thing is, I dont think the movie needed to be rated R. Not every movie needs to be R to get things done or be good. The problem is the industry today has shifted what the ratings mean to the point that nobody knows what they are doing anymore. Hell. Im not sure I would call Jurassic Park 1 family friendly, but I still saw it as a kid, loved it, and it sold a lot of merch to kids despite how brutal it was. Hell. Even if Borderlands was an R rated movie, you could still market it to kids. There were Chucky, Jason Vorhees, and Freddy Krueger backpacks, lunchboxes, toys, and all types of school merch when I was a kid...I wouldnt say any of those things were family friendly or marketed towards kids. Problem is, everyone in the industry making these movies seems to have forgotten PG-13 can still be brutal, just as long as it doesnt have a bunch of curses and adult stuff. But it can still be violent. Now, PG--13 is basically just kids movies with fighting. Which is what PG used to be, but now PG is practically non-existent. Its just G, PG-13, and R.
Wild how the Take Two CEO said to just give it a chance, like bro unless its free Im not spending $13-17 to waste my time. People been saying this was going to flop for years, and they blissfully ignored all the signs. Howd this movie even spend 30 million on market?! They only really started doing promotions in the last month.
It's free on RU-vid right now I just watched it. It was a couple hours a go that it hit so.. might not have much more time before they take it down or they just don't give a s*** cuz it's terrible
I feel bad for the fans because this basically ensures there won’t be another Borderlands movie (or a potential show) ever again if not for a veeeery long time.
I'd say people are willing to wait for movies because tickets are disgustingly expensive right now. I went to see Deadpool 3 the other day and it was 17 quid per ticket. If you are going to the cinema you want to be sure it's worth that. In high school i went pretty much every week since it cost less than half of that. If we went for a morning screening it was even 50% off.
Find a community cinema somewhere. They tend to be way cheaper. Was going to watch Deadpool 3 but didn't get around to it. Empire Cinema in Holyhead is run by the council and tickets are around a fiver, I think.
On the other hand, when you were in High school, a $50M budget movie was a blockbuster and a $100M an event. An actor being paid $20M would make the headlines of most newspapers... Nowadays $100 is the average blockbuster budget (THIS turd costing around $110M) and RDJ is being reportedly paid around $80M per movie for returning to the MCU.
@werofpm I don't know. If She had better material to work with maybe she could pull it off. What business has the studio to make the movie kid friendly anyway?
I remember seeing the Trailer for this at DP vs WLV and my 1st reaction was "Why would they do this?!", seeing Kevin Hart I already thought Jumanji 2.0
First mistake… casting Kevin Hart because all he can play is Kevin Hart and he’s really annoying. I can only tolerate him in small doses like one tolerates ghost peppers.
The source material is an R-rated game with a metric fukton of violence. The casting was a massive miss outside of Kate Blanchet. And making the movie a PG-13, that easily could've been just a PG rating instead of the HARD R rated movie it was supposed to be is why it's a massive flop.
The characters didn't even act nor resemble the actual characters, Granted the first game IS kinda dry, but the characters can still be used. Bro, I wanted to see Mordecai and Brick, cause that means we'd get to see Bloodwing.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="372">6:12</a> see there's the rub... imagine someone who is passionate about Borderlands source material... and then imagine having to work with that person for 9+ months on a large-scale multi-million dollar production. Of course they weren't willing to let someone passionate about Borderlands onto the set. Of course no one would want that.
I have not seen the movie, but as soon as I saw Kevin Hart was in the movie I knew I was not going to the theater to watch it. Kevin Hart is a good actor but his skills do not work in the Borderlands universe.
I’m not surprised to this film flopped and probably the same for Harold and the Purple Crayon. After seeing the trailer, it looks like it strays far from the original source material just like this one here.
I 100% agree with the point that TV is a better home for game adaptations like this. The strength of Borderlands, as with so many open-world games, is in its world-building and the diversity of its characters, definitely something that would have suited long-form storytelling. Plus the production values never needed to be IMAX-worthy, in my opinion. Cheap photography and special effects would have suited the feel of the games down to the ground.
I started watching this to see if there would be a mention of Brick or Mordecai who were availible in the first game that would have made better additions than Krieg and Paige two characters that weren't even available till a DLC for Borderlands 2.
The funny thing was there was one scene, the bloodshot hideout fight, that was really good and the psychos looked wicked, but that whole part felt like a different movie
It's difficult to have a story driven movie without major cuts to the source material in general much less with video games. Finding a balance between world building and not copying existing stories is not easy and nearly impossible in 2 hours. Borderlands was mindless fun BUT I've played the first few games and could see where it was going really early on. I agree completely about wasting big names for it vs people who've heard of it or at least wanted to be there. I hope Cate Blanchett got a large salary vs a percentage of the box's office.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="374">6:14</a> that seems to be one of medias biggest problems right now. Halo tv and the game series, the witcher, cowboy bebop, I think death note,the show runners are adamant about hiring people who hasnt looked at the source material to inject their own ideas. Henry Cavill is one of the few ones who stood up to it and he left
I was so excited about this movie specially since it had my favorite character Kraig in it But seriously, you took the one true bloody psychopath and made him completely tame with no blood at all. One day I hope they learned to actually make movies that are based off of video games the right way at least they did twisted metal correctly.
They need to get a recent release game that is lite on plot that they can expand on. Repeat EXPAND ON, not replace, retool, rework, etc. Helldivers 2 comes to mind. And if it needs to be older go for a Subnautica. The issue with almost every game you adapt is going to be CGI budget though and Hollyweird is just going to have to man up and shoot for the moon with something.
I find it completely hilarious when the suits try to force that pg-13 rating just to try and get that teen money, only to get way less than they would have if they stuck with an R rating. I hope people lost jobs over this.
I have to appreciate how, aside from obvious reshoots, this movie's basically everything they did to Sonic in his live action movies, but people only started complaining with the Knuckles TV show lmao.
any time a movie is released in August it's probably not going to be good. That's the month studios drop their disappointments that they were hoping for summer blockbuster status
that's the thing, alot of the adaptations in Japan are actually cannon in universe expanding on the story and not some multi-verse fanfiction esque version of it like they do here in the US
@@drunclecookie216 idk if canonicity is the main factor, after all Pokémon was the longest running animated video game adaptation series but Ash is only supposed to be the Gen I protagonist, I think it’s the medium
@@AzureRook Pokemon was kind of the exception. it didn't even follow it's own rules, like it sometimes ignored type advantages like when Pikachu was electrocuting the rock types. but it was also geared towards little kids. I'm talking the more mature stuff like Resident Evil. The Japanese anime movies are done much better than the US live action movies that stray very far from the source material and just seem like fan fictions on every attempt
@@Peasham I’d be happy with middling quality, live-action adaptations seem to be mostly awful w/ only a couple occasional good ones like Fallout/The Last of Us
If you want video game movies to be good then have Frank Miller make a comic of the game story and then have someone competent adapt the story to the screen. Sin City and 300 are amazing movies with formula's that would work excellent for most video games movies, especially FPS games.
I have been to see many movies this year and kept seeing the trailer to this and I was like, uh…what? No. Don’t wannna see this. Nope. I really enjoyed Twisters though and I thought that that did well. I found it confusing how you didn’t mention Twisters as 1. It came in as one of the top 10 highest grossing 2024 movies 2. It makes your case perfectly - spectacle event filled movie part of a bigger franchise that made a lot of money
Its PG-13 because of multiple rewrites and Tim miller was hired to direct extensive reshoots if an R rated cut comes out itll probably be more enjoyable except i cant say shit because i havent even seen the movie and i had such high hopes for it because i love the games so much
Oof. Looks like the Netflix adaptation of Cowboy Bebop but in brighter colors. It’s sad to see films like this being made where the filmmakers have no appreciation for the source material.
The actors gave it their all, and their performances are surprisingly commendable, but feels like it was written by someone who didn't understand the story, produced by someone who wanted more profit than substance, and knowingly shunted to fans who were dreading it.
havent seen the movie yet, but honestly was hoping for it to be good, but the changes had me sceptical at best. Out of all the casting I don't think Kevin Hart was a smart choice for Roland.
Since when is Lil a Gunzerker? And why's she twirling guns that aren't BL3-style lever-action Jakobs guns? And why does Roland throw a gun if it's not a Tediore? <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="197">3:17</a> Imagine this: Dwayne "The Brick" Johnson. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="601">10:01</a> Low-G Man movie, when? <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="764">12:44</a> Ackchyually, it's "Cliff's Notes," not "Cliff Notes."
The trailer was one of those: see the trailer and you've seen the movie since it has the best parts of it in it. I've never played Borderlands, and that trailer did NOTHING to make me want to even try it out.
And that is the main reason why I hate this movie. Such an amazing franchise is now going to have gamers miss out because of this fucking running joke embarrassment know as a "film"
The way the movie industry has continued to disappoint when it comes to game adaptations. From the announcement I wasn’t interested Cus I had a feeling it would be bad. I tried to act like this didn’t exist. **(Big borderlands fan)**
It looks like it was filmed at a bi-yearly Borderlands-Con, everything looks cheap, it has no weight, the casting was terrible. The entire film is a spit in the face to fans. Just like every other movie released the past 4 years.
i think one of the main reasons was simply, no one wanted it, no one asked for it. who tf thought this was something we wanted over a Borderlands 4, probably Dandy Randy Bitchferd
I was looking at my phone more than this movie. That alone should say something, Too much studio interference, With the exception of Black and Blanchet casting was "meh" to just bad, totally ignored much of the source material and Borderlands is known for its gore and violence. It had absolutely ZERO business being a PG13 movie. This was marketed to teenagers that laugh at fart jokes and it shows, especially in the first half of the movie. I havent seen a video game adaptation this bad since Resident Evil Afterlife.
Making it "family friendly" or "a kids movie", is likely going to backfire spectacularly. It's only appeal would be to little kids. So let's say a kid got their folks to take them to see this and all they saw was neutered/generic violence on the level of an episode of Power Rangers from the mid 90s. Well, it's based on a game, so why not get the kid the game and keep the fun going...? Moxxi's paper-thinly veiled dirty jokes alone, much less severing limbs and halving torsos from one end of the galaxy to the other, is going to have a number of parents not familiar with the franchise and basing their conception solely on the movie, crying foul pretty loud.
I get so sick of studios buying rights to something popular, then, instead of making something that fits in to and honors that world, they just make whatever cheap and easy garbage they want, and slap the name on the project. That's basically what this tripe is.
I’ve never played any Borderlands games, but aren’t they bloody and violent? Why would you make a kids movie off this, especially since those kids probably have never heard of it? One more thing I don’t understand about movies/tv choices these days
I just don't get casting someone who is 20 years older than Lilith ever got to be. I agree NEARLY everyone was miss cast. But Jack Black seemed to be trying to pull this heaping pile together. And Whats-her-name as Tiny Tina seemed an okay choice as well. But there is only so much one can do with a shit script.
Looks like he didn’t even see those movies yet, if at all. It’s possible that him the first live action Mario movie, the Uwe Boll adaptations and this one are the only live action adaptation of video fames.
