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    Popular media + all star leading cast = extremely likely to be a failed adaptation. I’m sure there are a few exceptions, but an ensemble cast of a half dozen top actors is a sign that they cared more about names. This kind of movie with that kind of cast is just begging for studio interference to create a bland experience that tries to appeal to everyone.

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        I also genuinely do not understand the appeal. But I also don’t understand the appeal of reaction videos on YouTube or network cop dramas, and they are also profoundly popular with stupid people.

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      Because: (Popular media + all star leading cast)*(Fraction of budget and time given to the writing and pre/post production teams)

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    The thing I don’t understand at all is why use Jack Black for Claptrap? I love the guy but they could have just used the voice actor from the game.

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    I hope they know it’s not because we didn’t want a borderlands movie. It could have been good, but they didn’t choose that path.

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      Oh, if you can be sure of one thing it’s that execs will draw the completely wrong conclusions from this.

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      Same with Warcraft, Eragon, Valerian, the new Lara Croft. Sometimes I wonder if engaging with the source material hurts screenwriters or why they avoid it so much.

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        The Warcraft movie was actually really good, not sure why it did poorly in the States. Everywhere else in the world loved it.

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          I actually am in the rest of the world, but I found it only okay. There were good scenes and epic set-pieces but I felt the story was a bit lacking.

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          Just looked it up, and wow you’re right. Only made $47 million in the US? Seemed to be unusually overseas-heavy.

          From Wikipedia:

          Variety reported that the film was generating only moderate interest among U.S. moviegoers, which could possibly hurt its box office performance stateside, with poor reviews and competition from the aforementioned films and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (released the week prior) also affecting its performance.

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      I have a really hard time imagining a good Borderlands movie. It would basically need to be a different franchise like Mad Max.

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        Right? Like I see folks in this thread and elsewhere echoing some of the typical things you hear when Hollywood botches an adaptation. Things like “it would be better if it was faithful to the source material” and other sentiments like that.

        However, in this case, the one aspect of the games that is easily translateable to film (the writing) seems to have aged the absolute worst. Self-referential Internet humor was a bold, unique aesthetic in 2009, but it’s been largely played out the 15 years since the og game released, or at least Borderlands’ take on that style of humor has gotten stale. Maybe the writing was better outside of 2 and Tiny Tina’s (the entries I played the most), but I sort of doubt it.

        I would not want to be tasked with adapting Borderlands. Stick close to the source material, get flamed for writing something juvenile. Diverge from the source material, get accused of not capturing the spirit of the franchise. It’s an impossible situation.

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    Lionsgate is not nearly as big as Universal, Paramount, or Disney and is not as well equipped to handle such a big loss.

    Tiniest violins are playing for them right now

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      A market dominated by very few super corporations, a new smaller company tries to break through and break the oligopoly, but hey, they made a bad decision on a particular product, let’s make fun of them, surely the market is better without those busybodies, Disney would have done better

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        Lionsgates roots go back to 1962, while that’s more recent than Disney or Warner, I hardly think it classifies them as new.

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          Hey? according to wikipedia it was founded in 1997, anyway that’s not the main part of my point

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    Lots of people are going to lose lots of money on Borderlands

    Not me lol.

    But good for them. To make a movie is a big investment and a big bet. To make a videogame adaptation while pissing on the source material while also a bad movie, they deserve this much.

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    The minute I saw it was PG-13 I knew it would be pure shite. Then I saw Kevin Heart is in it and I knew it was would be a flaming piece of shite.

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    Tbh though, the horrible reviews make me want to see it. Before it came out, I was meh about it. I never played the regular borderlands games much, though I lobe tiny tina’s wonderlands. So it was something I would have watched if it was on, but nothing I’d put effort into.

    Now though, it’s at the point where if it’s that bad, I want to see the train wreck.

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      I strongly advise against seeing this movie, not even as a hate-watch. It’s not the kind of “good” bad, it’s just “boring” bad.

      Honestly it’s not even worth pirating.

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        I’ve said this before but I got a free ticket to watch it so I watched it.

        The only movie I’ve ever seen that was worse than that was The adventures of Pluto Nash, and The adventures of Pluto Nash taught me how to recognize what a bad movie was.

        I have posted a full review a while ago here so if you want to read that just scroll through my history and it’s not that far down, I’m not going to repost a 500 word article here.

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          I once got a free ticket to see some movie about a drunk cop or something trying to outsmart teenagers. I still have no idea what it was. I asked for my money back at the end.

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    I enjoyed the first two games and am curious.

    It can’t be worse than the Pre-Sequel, right?

    BL 3 was just… there. It wasn’t BAD it just… “Of all the Borderlands games, 3 was one of them!”