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Passerby6497 ,

Eli Roth

I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. Has Roth made a good movie?

Hexadecimalkink ,

The trailer looked like a wannabe Guardians of the Galaxy clone.

SkyNTP ,

The casting alone is all you need to know to expect an unmitigated disaster.

elgordino ,

Just saw this a few hours ago. If it wasn’t for this post I think I’d have forgotten about it already.

I guess it’s fine, just entirely unremarkable.

Chozo ,

I forgot that they were making this. I just checked the trailer, and it surprisingly doesn't look terrible. As far as video game adaptations go these days, this actually seems pretty true to the source material.

I imagine it'll be one of those movies that's terrible for general audiences, but will probably be well-received among its niche. As a huge fan of the first two Borderlands games, it looks solid and I actually want to watch this.

Don_Dickle OP ,

just downloaded it am very excited to watch it.

mnemonicmonkeys ,

As far as video game adaptations go these days, this actually seems pretty true to the source material.

Uh… What? Look at the casting- Roland should be a straight-man (in comedy terms) but they’ve cast Kevin Hart to tell his typically unfunny cracks. And while I love Kate Blanchett she is not a good fit to play Lilith

Chozo ,

Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about some of the casting as I'm kinda tired of seeing Kevin Hart and Jack Black in everything lately (I'm surprised I didn't see The Rock in the trailer somewhere, to be honest), but the overall feel of the trailer seems to match the energy that the games had. I'm not saying it's 1:1 accurate by any means, but the trailer definitely manages to feel like Borderlands. I imagine the writers for the movie didn't want anybody from the main group to feel like a "downer" character, so Roland's probably being reworked a bit.

I'm okay with it so far, at least. It's generally pretty hard to make the "strong, quiet type" very interesting, especially for a movie format where you have limited screen time that has to be shared among a lot of characters. You can make that sort of character interesting, like in No Country For Old Men, but you have to dedicate a lot of time to it, and that's not easily done with a story that has so many characters with their own stories to tell.

I dunno, I'm just remaining optimistic. I want to like this movie.

Hexadecimalkink ,

Have to disagree. The games and the trailer are very far apart.

NoneYa ,

Duh.

It’s the classic thing that happens to all these movies and TV shows that are written by people who purposely avoid the source material and brag about “we didn’t play the game or read the books” like that somehow is going to make the content better?

jqubed ,
@jqubed@lemmy.world avatar

Offhand I can only think of one movie (and sequels) where “didn’t read the book” made the movie significantly better: The Bourne Identity. Those books really were awful!

Bbbbbbbbbbb ,

The Witcher video games are better than the source and the original author is seething from its success

theatomictruth ,

I thought the 1993 Mario movie was pretty fun

visor841 ,

I think there’s a difference when the source material isn’t great. IIRC Forest Gump is another example.

PoopingCough ,

Also Starship Troopers

thefartographer ,

“I hate that thing that you love, so I convinced someone to pay me a million dollars to shit on it for you. Now pay me for my failures!”

Wistful ,
@Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Looking at Witcher TV series

mnemonicmonkeys ,

Not only that, they probably would have been better off not using the original 4 playable characters since every game comes with a new set. Just make sure the side characters are done well and you keep the same feel as the games and it should have been an easy win

FlashZordon ,
@FlashZordon@lemmy.world avatar

Not surprised. But with some better writing this could’ve been at least somewhat decent. Love the games and there are lots of stories to tell there.

Guntrigger ,

Well that tracks as Eli Roth has never made a good film.

muhyb ,

I bet isn’t worse than Uwe Boll.

5opn0o30 ,

Should I play the game though?

tiredofsametab ,

I resolved to stop paying full price for anything Pitchford and his touch based on a number of factors. I did buy the latest BL game when it was on a big sale and thoroughly hated the main story and various plotholes (seemingly from cuts made by the company/directors rather than the writers). I bought Tiny Tina (again, on sale for over half off) and it was a game with all kinds of bugs that just never got fixed -- it's the first game I didn't immediately roll a new character to replay after beating it. At this point, I'm not sure I would buy anything else they put out.

Dreyns ,

They’re fun especially with friends

objectionist ,

play the trilogy and your faith in the franchise will be restored

bl2 is the best one hands down, you could totally start with that one

Sami ,
@Sami@lemmy.zip avatar

The PreSequel and Wonderlands are both great too

SuspiciousCatThing ,

I really wanted to like Wonderlands, but the intended demographic is apparently younger than me. The drop from M to T seems to have cut the writing down to kindergarten level.

LordGimp ,

Presequel is great, wonderlands is not. Tiny Tina’s dlc in 2 was absolutely perfect and MAYBE should’ve gotten a sequel dlc in 3, but there was never enough content for a stand alone title. Certainly not at a full game price point. I always look back to farcry 3 for the proper way to handle a stand alone dlc installment. Blood dragon was always a smaller spinoff and it worked well in that regards.

Vertelleus ,
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I don’t think Wonderlands had much replay value. Plus the DLCs were garbage, speed run dungeons and new items in the loot pool, no new story. I lost faith in gearbox after that.

Chozo ,

I highly, highly recommend playing BL1 and BL2. They're fantastic games, and wonderfully written. Not all of the humor has aged really well (nothing offensive, just mostly very 2010's-specific humor), but the gameplay still holds up today, IMO. The DLCs for BL2 are particularly good, and among some of the best DLCs I've seen for any game.

nova_ad_vitum ,

BL2 is one of my fav games ever.

Doesntpostmuch ,

They are great, but the unskipable cutscenes kill me.

jjjalljs ,

They are… Okay.

Big random factor in the loot so you can go long stretches without any interesting upgrades if you’re unlucky.

There’s a lot of time wasting - go here, now go back there, now go to this place

Leveling is weird and is a big factor in damage. If you’re too low level you can’t do anything except die. If you’re too high level you can’t lose. Sometimes you do too many side quests or not enough

The games typically start slow. You go a long while before you unlock your cool powers, or even the ability to equip four guns.

The writing is meh except for Handsome Jack. He’s a great villain.

There was a mega bundle of all the games before 3 for like $5. Look for that kind of sale.

Floey ,

Played the first two, cringy and tedious. And this is coming from someone who loves plenty of pulp and grindy games.

BroBot9000 ,
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

The cops should be called on Hollywood for IP abuse. 😂

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