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
Least we forget the two geriatrics playing Lilith and Tannis and Jack Black actually finding some time to do his job when he's not being a political puppet and advocating for violence.
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.
Thats really that saddest part about a lot of these live action adaptations. Fans with maybe 100 bucks to their name and limited free time can came up with cosplay outfits tht are 100 times better and more faithful to the source than hollywood is able ot muster with teams full of designers and artists with all the budget and time in the world. And as multiple people have said, they just did not pick actors that fit the characters in any sense. No one who was chosen actually fits who they play and its sad.
The art style was famously ripped off of an animated short called Codehunters. And the reason that Borderlands 2 has a legacy is because of how successful Borderlands 2 was, which Gearbox made so successful by embezzling money from Sega that they were supposed to use as the Budget for Aliens: Colonial Marines. When Borderlands as a franchise isn't failing, it's stealing and ripping off.
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
The movie sucks but let’s not start back peddling on the games please especially 2 they are for the most part good games and a shitty movie isn’t gonna stop that
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 :/
The movie was stuck in production hell far before Spider-verse came out. Reconstructing the idea to accomodate that would take not only time and money, but someone who cared, and Randy is so out of touch with reality that he thinks he can get away with anything.
@ULTRAOutdoorsman I hate to break it to you, but Borderlands was hilarious when it came out. Not our fault yer too young to understand peak 10s humor. 😂😂
@ULTRAOutdoorsmanthey mean in terms of his actual character, who is quite interesting. Borderland’s humour aged badly, but that doesn’t take away from the intrinsic aspects of Jack’s character
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
@@AAZ-yu5ss it is but they’re still not great. I love the first two and I’m excited for the third, but these movies are hella campy and I don’t blame anyone who dislikes them
I tried to like the games and just couldn't. The humor was grating, most characters annoyed me, and the leveling system was way too slow. However, if I was a writer or director tasked with adapting the games, I'd never be so petty as to write a hate letter, or poorly adapt them. If I had no choice, I'd surround myself with people who DO like the games to make the best product possible for the fans, even if I'm not one. Or better yet, find a director who DOES like Borderlands.
I mean basically all entertainment executives have utterly terrible taste, its just that most of them already learned to stay off the internet from knuckleheads like him.
@@oddsense When making a movie adaptation of a video game? Not really, no. There’s some room for changing things to a degree, but when it comes to iconic things that fans of the source material will absolutely recognize and want to see, you really should just make it 1 to 1. The vault key should look and work like it does from the video game. Same as how the main cast should have been played by people that look/act more accurately to the characters they’re portraying.
@@taddad2641 Honestly, barely changed anything for me seeing it. I also have a thing I like to believe that they made that post launch because they messed up so bad. My evidence? None other than I distrust the writers and because it would be funny for it to be true.
@ULTRAOutdoorsman these people have been yelling at the clouds about ava for 5 years it's actually impressive how long they can be mad at absolutely nothing Ava is less annoying and better written than bl2 tiny tina, btw. Unless you really like rage comics and are stuck in the 2012s
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.
The first two games actually had semi decent humor at least, but that's basically because it was themed with a "everyone's fucking crazy in these wastelands because it's so harsh" sort of deal. But sadly the newer games kinda dropped the "because it's harsh" part and just made it completely outlandish 'n goofy.
Is the humor of the Borderlands games considered really bad? I remember I thought 1 and 2 were quite funny most of the time, those are the only ones I've played so far. Well I played the spinoff Tales from the Borderlands as well, which I also found funny. I guess humor is one of most subjective things.
@@kyrazz128 i never finished the series but the first few episodes of Tales from the borderlands were actually pretty good. Honestly, it show cases what a good borderland movie WOULD have been in my opinion. It used completely new characters for the most part and a new story but it still used the setting properly. If we had gotten an animated movie made by the team that made those episodes i think it actually would have been a great movie.
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.)
I haven't played that one, but after this dumpster fire of a movie, I might check it out. It's funny because the Fallout and TLOU shows pointed to more people playing the games as a success. This movie is driving people to the games because of how awful it was
@@cornjeebus TFTB has the classic Telltale jank, but if you can get past that, it's ludicrously good... just don't play the second one made by Gearbox.
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)
@@palecaptainwolfkayls8499 yeah I think so but at one point they went to this room with a bunch of crates looking for one of the keys and she found it in the first box she looked in though I don’t know if that counts as her using her powers
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.
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.
Was Morbius actually bad or was it just super memeable? I remember there was the shitty rushed friendship and the mystery that really wasn’t a mystery, but was the rest of it equally bad?
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?
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 >.>
I'm having a feeling that the Skibidi Toilet movie will be better in comparison. Around a 3-5/10 but the slop will have more care into it than the borderlands movie and you will be glued to your screen watching the trainwreck unfold.
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
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.
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.
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
And its funny cus if kept in check, Avi has given us also great things, but just because he is sometimes right doesnt mean they need to give him so much power, I truly hoped after the commercial messy flop that was TASM2 (even tho its always been my second fave spidey movie) they would be like ....HEY maybe we need to rethink decisions, but no, they doubled down.... its kinda horrifyingly beautiful to witness...
This makes me wonder why people haven't tried that formula. Even if there are other big flaws, fandoms seem to love musicals, and catchy songs have meme value that brings in new viewers. It honestly seems like a smart move at this point! ...Unless industry nepotism is so bad that people can't even hire good songwriters anymore.
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.
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.
@kenjispas783 idk, Mauler's review showed that even as it's own thing completely divorced from Fallout, it doesn't hold up, basic shit like Power Armor being able to kick a rock through a brick building but not being able to break through a wood plank is obviously inconsistent even without taking the games into account, or how Lucy straight up shouldn't have come across Maximus trapped in his power armor due to her following the tracker she placed in the head that Thaddius took, or even how the big dramatic reveal of the series, that vault tech nuked the world for profits, comes off like an Austin Powers moment that was played completely seriously. There's also just the various tonal issues, I burst out laughing when Howard said "it's just a fire," like ffs how tf do you not know what a nuke looks like when you're literally a god damn propaganda tool used to sell vaults, and don't give me that "oh he just said that to not panick his daughter" crap when he showed no urgency until after the shockwave hit.
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.
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!"
@@popinmoYeah but what about opportunity or the planet promethea or athenas are "mad max" inspired? It may have started out as a mad max ripoff, but nowadays that only really applies to Pandora
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.
@ULTRAOutdoorsman corridor crew did an interesting graph on vfx shots I think applies to the movie as a whole here. Basically on extreme are the high points. So bad it's good. And so good it's good. But the lowest point in the middle was it's not good, so it's bad. I think there are way worse video game movies that are amazingly bad, and entertaining because of that( mk annihilation, double dragon) but this movie felt so middle of the road, so generic It did a disservice to the insanity of the games. It's a paint by numbers movie, very forgettable.
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.
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!
You know what really got me to say ‘yeah, this is gonna be a shit show’? Roland literally throws a gun at someone. They could so easily have made that a Tediore gun, and have it explode! Its literally right there! They just had to add a corny ass explosion in post so that at least fans could nerd out about if! It’s like, how do you miss that if you’re trying of make a competent movie?
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...
after such successes as The Last of Us, Mario movie and FNAF movie it's so nice of the Borderlands movie to humble us and remind us of our roots. *Never* adapt video games into movies
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 TH-cam. You can discern for yourself the influences Gearbox took from that.
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 😡😤
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.
Actually, the slave labour miners who were forced by Dahl to mine for Eridium weren't "psychotic murderers". They _went insane_ due to chronic Eridium dust poisoning in the mines, and Dahl just left them there to die after the mine was depleted. Later, Hyperion corp started human experiments with injecting people with Eridium slag... notable examples Tiny Tina's parents (who were abducted by bandits and sold to Hyperion and died from the experiments) and later Krieg who was driven insane and mutated from the experiments.
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.
@Themoonishereagain real good. Similar to the og film, but it's not like it needs to be citizen Kane in order to be fun. also I think it lowkey made me transition into a country music fan.
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.
As a obsessed Borderlands fan who got drunk while watching this movie illegally with friends. I can agree with the intro. I was mad by the end of it. I'd also own them on Switch if I didnt buy a Steam Deck.
dude when I heard they'd make a movie, I had that gut feeling now, with every minute I watch this video, everything I feared comes to life to hell with it
Borderlands is the kind of franchise that should be a slam dunk hit when translated into a movie if only because of the big explosive fun the games offer. How they missed completely missed the point of that with Borderlands The Movie coming off as Great Value brand Guardians of the Galaxy is a bigger travesty than even the writing of Borderlands 3 and New Tales from the Borderlands combined.
@@randomguy6679well I disagree a lot with that I can see where you’re coming from, the characters were obnoxious, the first half was somewhat slow and the killer reveal was obviously.
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
g a m e r
Borderlands on Switch is a good port though. Play Mortal Kombat One on there then we can talk about real gaming
Sameee!!!
me: *cries in telltales' tales from borderlands
Same here
Not surprised - they casted Kevin Hart, the short comedian, as Roland, the tall and professional soldier.
It was doomed from the start
Yeah, and that's saying a lot because he was good in the Jumanji movies.
But you're right, him being in this movie was a MASSIVE red flag.
lets not forget casting 60-70 year olds to play people that are in their 20s
The rock would've been my generic pick for roland personally.
Least we forget the two geriatrics playing Lilith and Tannis and Jack Black actually finding some time to do his job when he's not being a political puppet and advocating for violence.
All they had to do was cast much cheaper people that actually resembled the characters, and use weapons from the in-game universe
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 really really hoped part of the reason the movie was taking so long was because they were rotoscoping it.
Same like
If they atleast di that
I wouldnt have minded the live action oart but nah
The difference is one had love for the source material.
Thats really that saddest part about a lot of these live action adaptations. Fans with maybe 100 bucks to their name and limited free time can came up with cosplay outfits tht are 100 times better and more faithful to the source than hollywood is able ot muster with teams full of designers and artists with all the budget and time in the world. And as multiple people have said, they just did not pick actors that fit the characters in any sense. No one who was chosen actually fits who they play and its sad.
The art style was famously ripped off of an animated short called Codehunters. And the reason that Borderlands 2 has a legacy is because of how successful Borderlands 2 was, which Gearbox made so successful by embezzling money from Sega that they were supposed to use as the Budget for Aliens: Colonial Marines. When Borderlands as a franchise isn't failing, it's stealing and ripping off.
they missed the chance to cell shade everyone with makeup, we've seen that it's possible with cosplayers
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the cosplayers who showed up to the premier looked 1000x better than the movie
No need for make-up, you can just apply an overlay filter on the movie scene in post, like the games do.
There's a difference tho. Cosplayers actually love and care for the source material
@@TF2CrunchyFrog Or, you know, they could put a little effort and artistry into it just for the satisfaction of doing something unique.
don’t worry I know exactly what will fix this
a pre-sequel
Hold on let this guy cook
Nice ok KO tails pfp!!(I think)
I actually liked pre-sequel 😭
absolutely not borderlands 2 plot would go crazy best borderlands game plot
pre-sequel is goated
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
literally how can you fuck that one up
It doesn't start with marcus??? One fucking job
Condolences to you for actually giving money to this movie
@@hmx8694can't know if it's bad if nobody goes to see how bad it is
@@skrrrtsusman3450 I mean a lot of people knew it was gonna be bad from the trailers and casting and such
We found our new, Last Airbender, Dragon Ball Evolution and Artemis Fowl everyone.
im still complely lost how last air bender turned out the way it did.
Is this movie on the same level as...
CATS????? (The Movie of course, not the musical)
Darn you, I'd forgotten that Artemis Foul existed 😂
Holy fuck I hadn’t thought about Artemis fowl in yeeeaaarrrsssss 😂😂😂 such a great book series
Dude how is it even possible how bad the Artemis fowl movie is
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 movie sucks but let’s not start back peddling on the games please especially 2 they are for the most part good games and a shitty movie isn’t gonna stop that
@@daquaviousbingleton9763 the driving still sucked.
The driving in 1 sucked ass, rest if it was great.@@daquaviousbingleton9763
@@daquaviousbingleton9763 yeah but the driving is easily the worst part of the game tbf cough cough general knoxx
@@daquaviousbingleton9763 I don’t think they were saying that as a way of backpedaling the games. Don’t know how you got that
The first movie to make 40 Bordillion dollars, what a crowning achievement
So history does repeat it self.
Enough to buy a real butt stallion
@@danieltodorov7753yes
I liked it when Roland said "it's rollin time!" and rolled all over the place
It's Border time
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 :/
Cinematic game adaptations should never be live action because they fundamentally undermine any series' artstyle
@@gabbie07 Every Disney "remake" and Netflix adaptation.
I suppose they chose live action because it is "cheaper" to make than animation.
The movie was stuck in production hell far before Spider-verse came out. Reconstructing the idea to accomodate that would take not only time and money, but someone who cared, and Randy is so out of touch with reality that he thinks he can get away with anything.
@@SammEater They had Cate Blanchett money.
They definitely had the means to hire an animation studio.
I'm just glad they didn't try anything with handsome jack because they would've fucked him up so badly
He probably would've been played by James Earl Jones.
Yup. So instead we got Bob Atlas.
@ULTRAOutdoorsman go hating somewhere else.
@ULTRAOutdoorsman I hate to break it to you, but Borderlands was hilarious when it came out. Not our fault yer too young to understand peak 10s humor. 😂😂
@ULTRAOutdoorsmanthey mean in terms of his actual character, who is quite interesting. Borderland’s humour aged badly, but that doesn’t take away from the intrinsic aspects of Jack’s character
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
Except venom was popular enough to get 3 movies
@@BillSkarsgardRuinedMyLife still crazy to me that its been so successful lol
@@BillSkarsgardRuinedMyLife sure popular but it's still a very bad very corporate yucky movie so your point doesn't stand here. Just play the games.
@@BillSkarsgardRuinedMyLife Isn’t Venom one of those “Ironically loved” movies?
@@AAZ-yu5ss it is but they’re still not great. I love the first two and I’m excited for the third, but these movies are hella campy and I don’t blame anyone who dislikes them
Someone saw the amount of decent to good video game adaptations and said “That doesn’t sit right with me”
It sounds like this movie is where most of the bad parts about video game adaptations went.
What would that amount be?
this def better than most video game movies tho
I tried to like the games and just couldn't. The humor was grating, most characters annoyed me, and the leveling system was way too slow.
However, if I was a writer or director tasked with adapting the games, I'd never be so petty as to write a hate letter, or poorly adapt them. If I had no choice, I'd surround myself with people who DO like the games to make the best product possible for the fans, even if I'm not one. Or better yet, find a director who DOES like Borderlands.
@ULTRAOutdoorsman "decent" when all three are great.
Not only no loot, but they really dont ever interact with any Pandora wildlife. Skags are a staple and we see one(1)
The CEO of Gearbox is having a meltdown on twitter over the reviews lmao
I mean basically all entertainment executives have utterly terrible taste, its just that most of them already learned to stay off the internet from knuckleheads like him.
Good
Glad
Deserved.
Good
and to top it all off they even put the vault key upside down 😭
Holy fuck they actually did. What a garbage movie
oh my goodness
they're not allowed to be different?
@@oddsense When making a movie adaptation of a video game? Not really, no. There’s some room for changing things to a degree, but when it comes to iconic things that fans of the source material will absolutely recognize and want to see, you really should just make it 1 to 1. The vault key should look and work like it does from the video game. Same as how the main cast should have been played by people that look/act more accurately to the characters they’re portraying.
@@oddsenseas if they didnt do that for like, *the entire movie*
A movie written by the same people who said “hey is this Ava character unlikeable? No she’s not keep her in”
“Let’s write a story about Sirens where any Siren present could vastly change events and then forget the player can pick a Siren!”
be fair if they didn't cut out/added that funeral scene and let her cook for a bit from her mistakes, then she'd be bearable.
@@taddad2641 Honestly, barely changed anything for me seeing it. I also have a thing I like to believe that they made that post launch because they messed up so bad. My evidence? None other than I distrust the writers and because it would be funny for it to be true.
@@taddad2641 they’d have make it so she didn’t inherit Sanctuary as well. I think that was the cringiest part for me personally.
@ULTRAOutdoorsman these people have been yelling at the clouds about ava for 5 years it's actually impressive how long they can be mad at absolutely nothing
Ava is less annoying and better written than bl2 tiny tina, btw. Unless you really like rage comics and are stuck in the 2012s
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.
really, after 2 and pre sequel they fumbled so bad (i will not talk about the tales from the borderlands because i've never played tho)
The first two games actually had semi decent humor at least, but that's basically because it was themed with a "everyone's fucking crazy in these wastelands because it's so harsh" sort of deal. But sadly the newer games kinda dropped the "because it's harsh" part and just made it completely outlandish 'n goofy.
Is the humor of the Borderlands games considered really bad? I remember I thought 1 and 2 were quite funny most of the time, those are the only ones I've played so far. Well I played the spinoff Tales from the Borderlands as well, which I also found funny.
I guess humor is one of most subjective things.
@@EarthboundX imo humor in 1 and especially 2 are very good, then everything after was super cringey pandering humor.
@@kyrazz128 i never finished the series but the first few episodes of Tales from the borderlands were actually pretty good. Honestly, it show cases what a good borderland movie WOULD have been in my opinion. It used completely new characters for the most part and a new story but it still used the setting properly. If we had gotten an animated movie made by the team that made those episodes i think it actually would have been a great movie.
More like BORED-erlands!
Norm MacDonald would be proud.
What is this?... some kind of Borderlands???
i actually almost fell asleep TWICE during that abomination
More like Bordercrashed.
Got 'em!!!
Thank god they didnt try and touch Handsome jack
@ULTRAOutdoorsman
i wanna touch handsome jack
@@dangerousdays2052no one was offended stop trying to be edgy
@@kateanderly2995 Everything I said was true, cope harder Karen. 😭😭
Ryan Reynolds’s is born to play handsome jack
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.)
Interesting
XIII is a good example of shell shading for those unaware.
@@scrittle underrated game. The PS2 version, not that horrendous remake
@@scrittle See also Wind Waker (which doesn't have outlines making the misconception more confusing), Killer7 and No More Heroes
*pushes up glasses*
Joe Corombe is the guy that enjoys this movie
Joe "ayy" Carumba
That’s the new alan smithee
and dont forget that at the end they just had MOUTHPIECE there as a lackey for the atlas boss guy
that was supposed to be krom form the first game
I audibly gasped in collective disappointment when they showed Scooter, Ellie, and Moxxie on screen. So disgusted in Randy
TFTB is a great example of how to make a narrative-focused adaptation of Borderlands and adding some complexity without sacrificing its uniqueness.
Gonna play the first Tales game just to feel something again
I haven't played that one, but after this dumpster fire of a movie, I might check it out. It's funny because the Fallout and TLOU shows pointed to more people playing the games as a success.
This movie is driving people to the games because of how awful it was
@@cornjeebus TFTB has the classic Telltale jank, but if you can get past that, it's ludicrously good... just don't play the second one made by Gearbox.
You mentioned how Blanchett got an Oscar between production of "Borderlands" and its release, but so did Jamie Lee with "EEAAO."
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)
I think it was Lilith who teleported, since that’s the power she had at the end of the movie
@@spencerboyce6227
I want to ask a logical question about a movie I haven’t seen, but everything I’ve heard of it doesn’t sound logical.
@@palecaptainwolfkayls8499 fire away
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Was the teleport the first time she used Siren powers? (Assuming this was Lilith and not Tina)
@@palecaptainwolfkayls8499 yeah I think so but at one point they went to this room with a bunch of crates looking for one of the keys and she found it in the first box she looked in though I don’t know if that counts as her using her powers
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.
That'd have required effort and actually playing the games from the writers/producer's part. Cookie cutter action-adventure plot will have to do.
It's so funny that Commandant Steele, arguably one of the most boring villains of the series, would've been perfect for this movie, is incredible.
Lillith is actually the chosen one but the movie doesn't reveal it until the 3rd act
I didn't even realize that person was supposed to be Tannis till you said it 😭
I thought it was hammerlocks sister from the pre-sequel for a minute there.
@@bananananananabatman8999naur don't insult aurelia like that
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.
@ULTRAOutdoorsman to be fair - the Soviet Union? Cringe.
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
Yea Avi Arad attached to anything is never a good sign.
we don't like venom haters around these parts
But Venom is good 😢
Was Morbius actually bad or was it just super memeable? I remember there was the shitty rushed friendship and the mystery that really wasn’t a mystery, but was the rest of it equally bad?
Venom hate will not be tolerated ❌️
"Turn off your brain, just enjoy it."
They just described a parody
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?
I hope Randy Pitchford sees this video’s title
He's too busy having a meltdown on twitter
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 >.>
This movie is literally irredeemable, doesn’t matter if there’s a “other cut” or some shit, the cast alone damned this movie
Don't worry, the Skibidi Toilet movie will make this look like Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Skibidi toilet is peak, sending a reeducation van to your location...
I'm having a feeling that the Skibidi Toilet movie will be better in comparison. Around a 3-5/10 but the slop will have more care into it than the borderlands movie and you will be glued to your screen watching the trainwreck unfold.
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
#IBlameAviArad
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
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.
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.
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
Someone needs to get rid of him. In legal OR illegal methods…..
And its funny cus if kept in check, Avi has given us also great things, but just because he is sometimes right doesnt mean they need to give him so much power, I truly hoped after the commercial messy flop that was TASM2 (even tho its always been my second fave spidey movie) they would be like ....HEY maybe we need to rethink decisions, but no, they doubled down.... its kinda horrifyingly beautiful to witness...
@@CommanderLexaa Spider-Man was nothing without Laura Ziskin
* Madame Web
@@Memelord2020 Funny enough, he wasn't even involved with this one
But they did keep the writers from Morbius
At this point they should have just made it into a musical or something bc that would at least be interesting
just have it be a pov of krieg and boom musicals are allowed
This makes me wonder why people haven't tried that formula.
Even if there are other big flaws, fandoms seem to love musicals, and catchy songs have meme value that brings in new viewers. It honestly seems like a smart move at this point! ...Unless industry nepotism is so bad that people can't even hire good songwriters anymore.
LITTLEBIGPLANET OST IN THE BG 🗣🗣📣❗️❗️❗️
FR
Hyped as hell, such a good OST
YESS the lbp music immediately triggered my nostalgia, the ost is so good
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.
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.
Well... A good/bad movie. I don't think it's exactly fair to describe the tank girl movie as actually good
It's the basic plot of borderlands 1, with characters from borderlands 2, and the writing quality of borderlands 3.
This is the Dragon Ball Evolution of Borderlands
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
With every Fallout show there must be a Borderlands, it’s just the universe balancing out
The Fallout show was also hot garbage, albeit for different reasons, that shit straight up pulled a Star Wars Sequel Trilogy to the West Coast games.
@@Slender_Man_186no, at most a bad adaptation but as a show it was fine
@kenjispas783 idk, Mauler's review showed that even as it's own thing completely divorced from Fallout, it doesn't hold up, basic shit like Power Armor being able to kick a rock through a brick building but not being able to break through a wood plank is obviously inconsistent even without taking the games into account, or how Lucy straight up shouldn't have come across Maximus trapped in his power armor due to her following the tracker she placed in the head that Thaddius took, or even how the big dramatic reveal of the series, that vault tech nuked the world for profits, comes off like an Austin Powers moment that was played completely seriously. There's also just the various tonal issues, I burst out laughing when Howard said "it's just a fire," like ffs how tf do you not know what a nuke looks like when you're literally a god damn propaganda tool used to sell vaults, and don't give me that "oh he just said that to not panick his daughter" crap when he showed no urgency until after the shockwave hit.
The fallout show is better at borderlands than it is at fallout ( or being a good show that makes sense with itself)
@UraniumPlutonium235 The fallout show is better than the Last of Us, and you can't argue that.
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.
No. I think I would have been even more pissed if I had the memory of Borderlands fresh in my mind and not something I played 12 years ago.
This video made me more nostalgic for Littlebigplanet than it made me think about Borderlands
Don’t forget about Pickle.. he’s a kid in the games. Just him and Tina though, no other kids 9:50
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!"
i think something people also forget is borderlands isnt even sci fi its madmax apocalypse with sci fi/fantasy elements
Well you did just say that it has si-fi in it
@@rockfish7777 Yea what he's saying is giving me "Star Wars isn't sci-fi, it's a space opera!" as if space operas aren't a subset of sci-fi
@@GyroCannon the game was ment to be a madmax rippoff thats why the first game is very madmad like
@@rockfish7777 borderlands originally is a madmax copy so
@@popinmoYeah but what about opportunity or the planet promethea or athenas are "mad max" inspired? It may have started out as a mad max ripoff, but nowadays that only really applies to Pandora
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.
They should've gone the A Scanner Darkly route. Film it.then animate over the footage.
Or _Sin City._
@ULTRAOutdoorsman corridor crew did an interesting graph on vfx shots I think applies to the movie as a whole here. Basically on extreme are the high points. So bad it's good. And so good it's good. But the lowest point in the middle was it's not good, so it's bad. I think there are way worse video game movies that are amazingly bad, and entertaining because of that( mk annihilation, double dragon) but this movie felt so middle of the road, so generic It did a disservice to the insanity of the games. It's a paint by numbers movie, very forgettable.
This film would have been better if it was animated, but Hollywood hates animation.
I actually believe that Craig Mazin wrote a good script, considering he wrote Chernobyl and TLOU. Eli Roth definitely just wrote on it with crayons.
I knew this was gonna suck the second I saw
“From the producer of uncharted”
What a horrible waste of money.
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.
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!
You know what really got me to say ‘yeah, this is gonna be a shit show’? Roland literally throws a gun at someone. They could so easily have made that a Tediore gun, and have it explode! Its literally right there! They just had to add a corny ass explosion in post so that at least fans could nerd out about if! It’s like, how do you miss that if you’re trying of make a competent movie?
Incredible. The opportunity to make a Fury Road meets Pirates of the Caribbean and they completely blew it. I am losing hope every day.
Pretty sure Oppenheimer said that same thing
Well, his creation was just another weapon used to help end an already-unspeakably-brutal war, so it made sense in its context.
This… does not.
Elderly Lilith makes me sad. And you're right, it's not Cate's fault. She didn't deserve being associated with this film.
She accepted the role, took the payment, and also traveled to epsteins Island several times, so you can STEU about her being blames about anything.
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...
I hadn’t seen anything from the movie, and when the clip with Clap Traps voice I physically recoiled from my screen.
The Little Big Planet music just slapped me in the face with nostalgia.
after such successes as The Last of Us, Mario movie and FNAF movie it's so nice of the Borderlands movie to humble us and remind us of our roots. *Never* adapt video games into movies
Now this guy is a gamer? And a film man? What can't Mr. 24 frames of nick do?
We finally learned how to make good video game adaptations!
Borderlands: hold my skag
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 TH-cam. You can discern for yourself the influences Gearbox took from that.
@ULTRAOutdoorsman"borned"...
4:02 Apparently it was originally directed by someone else competent with sci fi movies before they were kicked out
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 😡😤
I'm sure they did consult the game writers...
Of A New Tales from the Borderlands.
Joe crombie is probably a little reference at Joe Abercrombie, a huge fantasy author right now
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.
Actually, the slave labour miners who were forced by Dahl to mine for Eridium weren't "psychotic murderers". They _went insane_ due to chronic Eridium dust poisoning in the mines, and Dahl just left them there to die after the mine was depleted. Later, Hyperion corp started human experiments with injecting people with Eridium slag... notable examples Tiny Tina's parents (who were abducted by bandits and sold to Hyperion and died from the experiments) and later Krieg who was driven insane and mutated from the experiments.
Claims boarderlands doesn’t have an anti corporate message but also claims he’s a fan.
@@AlexBarbu Hyperion did nothing wrong.
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.
I saw this earlier with a friend and we were the only two people in the theater, what a trainwreck of a movie lmao.
Great review! Keep up the good work!
GOD no wonder the Last of Us show sucked so hard too, the guy that wrote this wrote that, holy shit.
I'm glad i went to see twisters instead
How was it? Cause I'm thinking of checking it out in the future.
@Themoonishereagain real good. Similar to the og film, but it's not like it needs to be citizen Kane in order to be fun. also I think it lowkey made me transition into a country music fan.
@@alanulm8979 OK thanx ❤️
There are no children on Pandora, they are only Tinks/Midgets depending on the game you play
Children don't last on Pandora. Tiny Tina is the only one alive thanks to insane luck and total apathy to murder by explosives.
In the words of Max0r: "It didn't release, it fucking escaped!"
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.
Glad to see you back making reviews
Jack black discarded his corporeal flesh to become the first man-made-machine, truly, a first in filmmaking. now THAT is dedocation
As a obsessed Borderlands fan who got drunk while watching this movie illegally with friends. I can agree with the intro. I was mad by the end of it. I'd also own them on Switch if I didnt buy a Steam Deck.
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!?! 😭
Don't worry if the Dark Souls show is real that might get them back to the top
Last of Us has terrible casting too.
At least there should be a good "What Happened" episode. Matt McMuscles is probably getting started already
I really hope 2k hasn’t done anything to gta 6 or I will cry
dude
when I heard they'd make a movie, I had that gut feeling
now, with every minute I watch this video, everything I feared comes to life
to hell with it
that little big planet ost made me go back to simpler times
Oh yeah, big time
SHOW ME JOE CROMBIE
LittleBig Planet in the background 🥹
honestly, the art style of Arcane would've been perfect for a Borderlands movie
Borderlands is the kind of franchise that should be a slam dunk hit when translated into a movie if only because of the big explosive fun the games offer.
How they missed completely missed the point of that with Borderlands The Movie coming off as Great Value brand Guardians of the Galaxy is a bigger travesty than even the writing of Borderlands 3 and New Tales from the Borderlands combined.
Gotta love borderlands 1 quests, "kill 8 bandits"
3:57 He made thanksgiving, one of my favorite holiday horror films 😡
That movie was mid
@@randomguy6679well I disagree a lot with that I can see where you’re coming from, the characters were obnoxious, the first half was somewhat slow and the killer reveal was obviously.
@@JohnnyCarver2024OC And you still think it’s good after all of that?
@@randomguy6679 those are all my flaws with movie, I can see why you don’t like it but I really enjoy it for what it is
That movie sucked