It fascinates me how absolutely nothing works in this movie. Plot is boring, characters are not likeable, jokes are not funny, it´s not like the games at all, action scenes are uninteresting... it's like some twisted form of modern art when you want to be bad at everything.
in a weird way it's like, just true enough to the source material, to draw attention to to what a spineless imitation of the source material it winds up being. It has all the most basic story beats from the games, but rearranged in a way that makes no sense with anything even remotely edgy or funny stripped out and replaced with the safest possible alternative. That's frankly the worst possible thing they could have done. They sanitized it for 'general audiences' while leaving it completely incomprehensible to 'general audiences'. Why did they replace Handsome Jack with the most generic villain imaginable, yet with the same motives as Handsome Jack? You're just drawing attention to what's missing without giving anything of quality in return. it's all just so bizarre. Every creative choice behind this movie is less maddening and more frankly baffling.... instead of getting mad, you just legitimately want to ask "why?"
The creator of Borderlands and the original Clap Trap voice actor had some kind of falling out, so having him reprise the role was never really an option. Krieg, the big psycho guy, was a character that was introduced later on as DLC, and had basically nothing to do with the game's narrative. Which makes it even more confusing that they put him in the movie rather than including one or both of the other protagonists, Brick and Mordecai.
And he was a DLC character from the SECOND game. Not sure why he'd even be in the first movie or Tina for that matter.. And he's her... Protector? The fuck is going on?
Krieg has a lot of connections to the main villain of BL2, Handsome Jack. And also to Maya, the playable Siren character of BL2. The problem is, the Borderlands movie went some characters from BL1 and then stuck Krieg from BL2 in there without any of the other BL2 characters or BL2 plot.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog Ah, I never played as Krieg. I barely even remember anything about Handsome Jack as a character, aside from his actions in the second game. I played about a third of the Pre-Sequel back on Xbox 360 and remember nothing of its plot, but I know it fleshed his out his backstory a bit.
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 * 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
Truth, I saw it and think it was just okay, but nothing very interesting to keep it going for more in this series, so nice review and I hope to see more from you my friend, lol! 💯
In all honesty I never find Claptrap from the games annoying. I get a laugh or two from his antics and learned a thing or two about the lore. I can easily ignore his claptrapping and carry on with the shooting and looting. However, movie Claprtrap voiced by an actor that I find off putting for some unknown reason? Yeah, I'll keep my distance. The only Claptrap-like character that did annoy me to hell is the hero car AI in Rage 2. She is so insufferable that I usually ditched her for the lesser powerful NPC cars lying around the wasteland. Cortana is a close second since she keeps looking down on Master Chief in the first game and functioned nothing more than a glorified door opener. Really, she can access the sensors in the suit and tells us that enemies are coming but not display the vital information like numbers, types and location to our visors? The silent sensors in space simulators are far more helpful in battle than her.
The movie's script writers completely mangled and rewrote all the characters' backstories (esp. egregiously with Lilith the Siren and Tiny Tina) and reduced their personalities to the barest minimum (like making Claptrap 100% annoying and nothing else), while the humour was kindergarden-level "jokes" about pee and a robot pooping bullets. (groan) Gone are Krieg's sane inner voice, his "Psycho poetry", or his Siren-like powers he gained from being subjected to brutal human experiments with Eridium slag by Hyperion Corporation. Oh, and Krieg's devoted love to Maya the Siren who isn't even in the movie. Heck, Krieg's cinematic character trailer for his BL2 DLC, titled "A Meat Bicycle Built for Two" is still one of the greatest character introduction trailers along with the Team Fortress 2 Meet the Team trailers! Tina Tina's entire backstory completely rewritten to fit the plot. In the games her backstory was that she and her parents were captured by raiders and sold to Hyperion as slaves. Gone are her dead parents who died due to the same human experimentation by Hyperion that Krieg underwent (which in the games happened years before the bounty hunter who became Krieg even arrived on Pandora), with Tina only being able to escape into the Wastelands with the help of a grenade her mother had given her... which in the games is the reason Tiny Tina is homicidally insane but obsessed with explosives! Not to mention the miscasting: Casting a 1.65m comedian as the 1.85m tall calm, charismatic soldier Roland (and omitting his iconic high-tech turret). Casting two female leads _taller_ than the Roland actor, and also each 30-40 years too old for their characters. Having Lilith "the Firehawk" not have her Siren powers for most of the movie, nor her iconic blue Siren tattoos. Worse, the idiocy of making Lilith a secret "descendant of the Eridians", when in the games the Eridians weren't human but aliens who went extinct. Making the antagonist just some corporate guy (CEO of Atlas Corp), but not delving into the dystopian corporate wars of the Borderlands universe. Featuring the Eridian vaults, and the monster inside a vault, but not delving into the fact revealed in the games that _all_ the vault on various planets are basically not treasure vaults (as greedy people thought) but _massive prisons for Lovecraftian monstrosities,_ with the planet Pandora and its moon Elpis being the largest such prisons for the worst monsters in the galaxy. Finally, adapting an R-rated Looter Shooter video game franchise that is _all about guns_ into a movie where... the characters hardly use any of the myriad of different guns of the games.
If you don't wanna compare it to GoG, compare it to The Suicicde Squad (the 2nd good one), or one of the Deadpool movies. Borderlands made me so sad. It coulda be so good. It needed a higher rating for a start, but more importantly it needed to focus on the characters. There was just so little character arcs or even character interactions. It feels like Roland got about 2 lines. Everyone was so badly written too. I went to see it with me uncle (who I used to co-op play the games with), and he was like "I can't tell if the acting was just bad for if the writing sucked" and I was like bro it's Kate Blanchett and Jamie Lee, it wasn't the acting, they were given NOTHING to work with. It was just bland action scenes broken up occasionally by limited bad script and just... nothing. There was nothing. Set pieces were good and most the costumes were too, at least. And as a huge fan of the games, I genuinely don't mind that they changed the characters and story around. Chnages like that CAN work if the movie is solid by itself. Its the fact the movie was bad AND nothing even really followed any of the games that made it extra trash. Just an added insult at that point. Again, not mad, just disappointed because it coulda been really really good in the right hands. The potential was there.
The thing about Borderlands is that it's not good because of the characters or plot; It's good because the game-play is a non-stop murder-bus, of escalating insanity. If you wanted to make a Borderlands movie, that actually captured the essence of Borderands, you would trash everything except the universe it took place in, the lore of that universe, and the "murder-bus" feel I was talking about before. If you wanted to make a good film, following the plot of one of the games, I think that would be completely possible; I just also think that you would have to abandon all the craziest stuff, and I struggle to think of a reason to watch such a movie, when the games already exist.
See, I don't agree. For me the plot and the characters were a huge part of the first few games. Especially 2, and yes, even 3. Borderlands can work very well being orientated around plots and characters, Tales from the Borderlands showed that much. Plus a lot of the DLCs end up being pretty plot/character orientated. The movie could have been much more faithful to the games, while still having limited amount of action. I think things like new Suicide Squad and something like Deadpool v Wolverine show perfect examples of character heavy movies that are interspersed with some very awesome and gory action sequences. You don't need constant murder and mayhem to make a good Borderlands movie imo, you need to focus on what made the characters memorable and why that matters.
I really wanna find critique of this movie by someone who is familiar with the games, there could be much more substantial criticism. I feel like no one, including the writers of this movie, 'get' the characters at all. I wanna hear from someone who does and can explain what the movie got wrong in comparison to what the game got right, and how it could actually be translated well onto the big screen.
That's a good point. With the algorithm pushing Borderlands content so hard, I still haven't seen a review of the movie from the perspective of a fan of the games.
@@jraptaHey now. Claptrap is supposed to be annoying, but also slightly endearing. He's a joke of a character, but it's almost charming how pathetic and delusional he is. Like how he thinks he's some genius mastermind and we're his loyal minions. Or when he throws a big pizza party and absolutely no one shows up. But the people making the movie thought the character would work if he just yelled constantly, I guess. Shit, it apparently works with the Minions...
It fascinates me how absolutely nothing works in this movie. Plot is boring, characters are not likeable, jokes are not funny, it´s not like the games at all, action scenes are uninteresting... it's like some twisted form of modern art when you want to be bad at everything.
in a weird way it's like, just true enough to the source material, to draw attention to to what a spineless imitation of the source material it winds up being. It has all the most basic story beats from the games, but rearranged in a way that makes no sense with anything even remotely edgy or funny stripped out and replaced with the safest possible alternative.
That's frankly the worst possible thing they could have done. They sanitized it for 'general audiences' while leaving it completely incomprehensible to 'general audiences'. Why did they replace Handsome Jack with the most generic villain imaginable, yet with the same motives as Handsome Jack? You're just drawing attention to what's missing without giving anything of quality in return.
it's all just so bizarre. Every creative choice behind this movie is less maddening and more frankly baffling.... instead of getting mad, you just legitimately want to ask "why?"
15 years ago, I would never imagine my favorite video game would become the worst movie in recent memory.
#IBlameAviArad
The casting was just bizarre... lets get famous people and all will be well!
The creator of Borderlands and the original Clap Trap voice actor had some kind of falling out, so having him reprise the role was never really an option. Krieg, the big psycho guy, was a character that was introduced later on as DLC, and had basically nothing to do with the game's narrative. Which makes it even more confusing that they put him in the movie rather than including one or both of the other protagonists, Brick and Mordecai.
And he was a DLC character from the SECOND game. Not sure why he'd even be in the first movie or Tina for that matter.. And he's her... Protector? The fuck is going on?
Krieg has a lot of connections to the main villain of BL2, Handsome Jack. And also to Maya, the playable Siren character of BL2.
The problem is, the Borderlands movie went some characters from BL1 and then stuck Krieg from BL2 in there without any of the other BL2 characters or BL2 plot.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog Ah, I never played as Krieg. I barely even remember anything about Handsome Jack as a character, aside from his actions in the second game. I played about a third of the Pre-Sequel back on Xbox 360 and remember nothing of its plot, but I know it fleshed his out his backstory a bit.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog Krieg was still a DLC Character and not part of the Original stuff.
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
* 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
There’s a Zelda movie coming?
More LOATHSOME than the Loathsome Dung-Eater
Truth, I saw it and think it was just okay, but nothing very interesting to keep it going for more in this series, so nice review and I hope to see more from you my friend, lol! 💯
In all honesty I never find Claptrap from the games annoying. I get a laugh or two from his antics and learned a thing or two about the lore. I can easily ignore his claptrapping and carry on with the shooting and looting. However, movie Claprtrap voiced by an actor that I find off putting for some unknown reason? Yeah, I'll keep my distance.
The only Claptrap-like character that did annoy me to hell is the hero car AI in Rage 2. She is so insufferable that I usually ditched her for the lesser powerful NPC cars lying around the wasteland. Cortana is a close second since she keeps looking down on Master Chief in the first game and functioned nothing more than a glorified door opener. Really, she can access the sensors in the suit and tells us that enemies are coming but not display the vital information like numbers, types and location to our visors? The silent sensors in space simulators are far more helpful in battle than her.
Whole movie sounds like an AI written script
#IBlameAviArad
It's like they literally replaced a good writer with an AI. 😑
Tbf claptrap being rage bait is very true to the original source. I hate that robot. I haven’t seen the film.
I love your channel! You deserve way more followers dude
The movie's script writers completely mangled and rewrote all the characters' backstories (esp. egregiously with Lilith the Siren and Tiny Tina) and reduced their personalities to the barest minimum (like making Claptrap 100% annoying and nothing else), while the humour was kindergarden-level "jokes" about pee and a robot pooping bullets. (groan)
Gone are Krieg's sane inner voice, his "Psycho poetry", or his Siren-like powers he gained from being subjected to brutal human experiments with Eridium slag by Hyperion Corporation. Oh, and Krieg's devoted love to Maya the Siren who isn't even in the movie. Heck, Krieg's cinematic character trailer for his BL2 DLC, titled "A Meat Bicycle Built for Two" is still one of the greatest character introduction trailers along with the Team Fortress 2 Meet the Team trailers!
Tina Tina's entire backstory completely rewritten to fit the plot. In the games her backstory was that she and her parents were captured by raiders and sold to Hyperion as slaves. Gone are her dead parents who died due to the same human experimentation by Hyperion that Krieg underwent (which in the games happened years before the bounty hunter who became Krieg even arrived on Pandora), with Tina only being able to escape into the Wastelands with the help of a grenade her mother had given her... which in the games is the reason Tiny Tina is homicidally insane but obsessed with explosives!
Not to mention the miscasting: Casting a 1.65m comedian as the 1.85m tall calm, charismatic soldier Roland (and omitting his iconic high-tech turret).
Casting two female leads _taller_ than the Roland actor, and also each 30-40 years too old for their characters.
Having Lilith "the Firehawk" not have her Siren powers for most of the movie, nor her iconic blue Siren tattoos. Worse, the idiocy of making Lilith a secret "descendant of the Eridians", when in the games the Eridians weren't human but aliens who went extinct.
Making the antagonist just some corporate guy (CEO of Atlas Corp), but not delving into the dystopian corporate wars of the Borderlands universe.
Featuring the Eridian vaults, and the monster inside a vault, but not delving into the fact revealed in the games that _all_ the vault on various planets are basically not treasure vaults (as greedy people thought) but _massive prisons for Lovecraftian monstrosities,_ with the planet Pandora and its moon Elpis being the largest such prisons for the worst monsters in the galaxy.
Finally, adapting an R-rated Looter Shooter video game franchise that is _all about guns_ into a movie where... the characters hardly use any of the myriad of different guns of the games.
If you don't wanna compare it to GoG, compare it to The Suicicde Squad (the 2nd good one), or one of the Deadpool movies. Borderlands made me so sad. It coulda be so good. It needed a higher rating for a start, but more importantly it needed to focus on the characters. There was just so little character arcs or even character interactions. It feels like Roland got about 2 lines. Everyone was so badly written too. I went to see it with me uncle (who I used to co-op play the games with), and he was like "I can't tell if the acting was just bad for if the writing sucked" and I was like bro it's Kate Blanchett and Jamie Lee, it wasn't the acting, they were given NOTHING to work with.
It was just bland action scenes broken up occasionally by limited bad script and just... nothing. There was nothing. Set pieces were good and most the costumes were too, at least. And as a huge fan of the games, I genuinely don't mind that they changed the characters and story around. Chnages like that CAN work if the movie is solid by itself. Its the fact the movie was bad AND nothing even really followed any of the games that made it extra trash. Just an added insult at that point. Again, not mad, just disappointed because it coulda been really really good in the right hands. The potential was there.
The thing about Borderlands is that it's not good because of the characters or plot; It's good because the game-play is a non-stop murder-bus, of escalating insanity. If you wanted to make a Borderlands movie, that actually captured the essence of Borderands, you would trash everything except the universe it took place in, the lore of that universe, and the "murder-bus" feel I was talking about before. If you wanted to make a good film, following the plot of one of the games, I think that would be completely possible; I just also think that you would have to abandon all the craziest stuff, and I struggle to think of a reason to watch such a movie, when the games already exist.
See, I don't agree. For me the plot and the characters were a huge part of the first few games. Especially 2, and yes, even 3. Borderlands can work very well being orientated around plots and characters, Tales from the Borderlands showed that much. Plus a lot of the DLCs end up being pretty plot/character orientated.
The movie could have been much more faithful to the games, while still having limited amount of action. I think things like new Suicide Squad and something like Deadpool v Wolverine show perfect examples of character heavy movies that are interspersed with some very awesome and gory action sequences. You don't need constant murder and mayhem to make a good Borderlands movie imo, you need to focus on what made the characters memorable and why that matters.
They should've also gone for Lilith/Tannis just for shits and giggles
5:50 yeah she is also way too old to be Lilith. Pretty much everyone was terribly miscast, Terry cruz as Ronald makes more sense than Kevin heart lol.
She was excellent in Love and Monsters
I really wanna find critique of this movie by someone who is familiar with the games, there could be much more substantial criticism. I feel like no one, including the writers of this movie, 'get' the characters at all. I wanna hear from someone who does and can explain what the movie got wrong in comparison to what the game got right, and how it could actually be translated well onto the big screen.
I mean, this guy 'got' Claptrap
That's a good point. With the algorithm pushing Borderlands content so hard, I still haven't seen a review of the movie from the perspective of a fan of the games.
@@jraptaHey now. Claptrap is supposed to be annoying, but also slightly endearing. He's a joke of a character, but it's almost charming how pathetic and delusional he is. Like how he thinks he's some genius mastermind and we're his loyal minions. Or when he throws a big pizza party and absolutely no one shows up. But the people making the movie thought the character would work if he just yelled constantly, I guess. Shit, it apparently works with the Minions...
@5:23 I'm not sure you can be skewered by an axe.
I personally don’t get the hate against Kevin Heart, I like his work!
I don’t think he is bad under the right direction. He’s a funny guy
cate blanchett one if the best actresses right now? eeeeh i disagree on that specific point
I couldn't name a single movie Kate Blanched has been in aside from Borderlands. As far as I can tell she's one of the worst actresses ever
Galadriel simps punching air rn
@@zym6687 oh, is she the chick from Rings of Power?
I always get her and Tilda Swinton confused. Spent the longest time thinking Cate Blanchett was in Narnia, they look the same.
I liked her as hela in thor Ragnarok, it might be because she was sexy as hell as that character though
@@Sue_Me_Toono the original trilogy, the good one
Good review, ya got a new subscriber outta me
Big up for all my nine fingers Abercrombie boys out there!