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Thread: Borderlands ( August 2024)
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2024-01-28, 11:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Borderlands ( August 2024)
Does anyone have hopes that this won't be hot garbage? It's still a couple months until we start seeing preview trailers, but between the reshoots/director swap (never a good sign), the questionable casting, and video game movies in general still struggling in general with the exception of Sonic, its not looking great. Cate Blanchett is a bit too old to be a good Lilith, Kevin Hart is a bit too short to be a good Roland, and Jack Black is a bit too Jack Black to be a good Claptrap. I can see Jamie Lee Curtis pulling off Tannis, and I don't know enough about the rest of the cast to judge. The only silver lining I can find is that they dodged the auto-fail of directly adapting the game plot, but that's a pretty low bar to cross.
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Trailer dropped. My expectations were apparently lower than I realized because this isn't completely awful. Cate still looks way too old for Lilith though, and the pee gulch joke doesn't instill me with hope on the humor.NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
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Oh, I don't know... I agree with the bit about Lillith, but the humour bar in Borderlands was never exactly highbrow. The rest of it looks quite good, even if Claptrap is a little more useful than usual. I might even be tempted to go to the cinema for this one instead of waiting for the DVD.
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2024-02-21, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Borderlands ( August 2024)
I expected nothing and this is still worse. The casting alone is irredeemably bad* (Kevin Hart as Roland is a literal meme), but nothing else is good either lmao.
*Exception: Jamie Lee Curtis as Tanith is pretty much perfect.Last edited by Rynjin; 2024-02-21 at 05:30 PM.
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2024-02-21, 06:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Borderlands ( August 2024)
I initially had revulsions to the casting choices, but then I watched it again and it somehow makes it funnier. This is Borderlands, a stupid universe about silly people living violent, dumb lives. It's almost deliberately miscast so you're on board with the stupid from scene one. Except the guy playing Krieg. That's spot-on.
Also the movie almost looks like a "family road-trip gone horribly wrong" plot. Roland and Lilith as the parents, Krieg and Tina as the kids, Tanith is the family grandma, and Claptrap is either the pet or the kids' weird friend that got pulled in. Based on this, I'm expecting absolutely nothing but the tone of the games to carry over.Last edited by ArmyOfOptimists; 2024-02-21 at 06:40 PM.
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2024-02-21, 06:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm iffy about Kevin Hart too, but Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jack Black give me hopes that this will achieve Jumanji levels of elevating the source material. (And hey, Kevin Hart was in that too.) So put me in the "optimistic" column. We're in a bit of a video game movie renaissance at present in any event, and this one actually has a decent story.
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2024-02-21, 09:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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This looks like the best effort from writers who got five minutes to look at the Wikipedia page for Borderlans, haha. I'm baffled about certain decisions like this being the group we're following (Lilith and Roland make sense), why Jack Black is voicing Claptrap, and...actually no, the casting as a whole just feels off aside from Krieg who looks the part...but if he doesn't spout violent nonsence while having a sane inner voice, then its...not Krieg. Also, where's Marcus at to tell us a story?
That said the set design and such looks like, turning it into a weird family road-trip style movie...COULD work, there's interesting and funny things you could do with that cast of vault 'hunters', and it's got the right tone of humor, so hopefully its got better quality jokes up its sleeves.Warriors & Wuxia: A community world-building project focused on low-magic wuxia/kung-fu action using ToB.
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If they are going to do Marcus in the trailers, I suspect he will be in the longer one rather than the teaser. This trailer just needs to assure us that the place looks OK (I think it does - I can recognise nearly everything in the backgrounds), and that we have some decent actors who will be able to deliver (and it isn't that bad so far).
I don't think the things that really mire the film (especially bad writing) will show up much at this stage. (If it's bad enough to show up at this stage then you know the film is going abundently dire...)Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
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2024-02-22, 09:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Desperately, desperately needed some better music.
The opening to Borderlands 2 isn't all that great, but that it's set to Short Change Hero makes it one the best game openings ever.
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2024-02-22, 11:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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At least the entire internet seems to be in agreement with me about Idris Elba being a great Roland. Maybe he cost too much money.
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Borderlands is a weird franchise for me. It came out at a time when shooters were utterly dominated by boring realistic military games and also when I was a kid, so I have a lot of nostalgia for it and some actual fondness for it, but I don't actually think it's very good? Certainly not something I'm too eager to revisit.
Even if you can't get Idris, there is no shortage of talented character actors who would do excellent work as no-nonsense military guy playing straight man to a bunch of crazy weirdoes, it would be very easy to cast this role more conventionally. If they didn't want Kevin Hart specifically, they wouldn't have him.
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2024-02-23, 06:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah. The only cast member who seems to be accurately channeling their character in the trailer is Tina. I can totally see "You said minimal explosions!"" coming from her in a game, though "I said no explosions!" would probably be from Mordechai.
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2024-02-23, 08:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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I was thinking about this yesterday. The more I considered it, the more I came to the answer was that the music in the previews sold the hell out of the intended mood, and that Gaige was a legit excellent character design. Easily the best thought out looter shooter character with her talents I've seen who was just an utter joy to play. Her close enough and anarchy stacking was so, so much fun and engaging. Add her mech and you've get a taste of the co-op experience without needing to put the time/energy investment of getting other people to play with you.
Even with the Gaige factor though the writing was very much wearing out it's welcome by the end of 2. Without Gaige, and after seeing those incredibly obnoxious previews, you'd have needed to pay me to play 2.5 and especially 3, and it would have been pretty dang expensive for me to be willing to do so.
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2024-02-23, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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To compound the cast disappointments, no sign of Mr Torgue, though they apparently found the time to cast Jakobs and Atlas.
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"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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Yeah, Brian does bombastic, but I dont think he'd be able to channel Torgue's brand of profane insanity. Plus he's almost 90 years old...but that didn't stop them from casting Cate or Jamie.
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You need Terry Crews.
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2024-02-23, 06:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Borderlands ( August 2024)
Now that would have been good casting, yeah.
Or hell, you could probably CG a ridiculous muscled giant body onto Chris Rager himself and just have The Champ reprise the role.
I'm also a bit surprised they didn't cast Dave Bautista to play Brick...and instead seemed to have just left Brick and Mordecai out entirely.
Well, not too surprised I guess, given the rest of the casting.Last edited by Rynjin; 2024-02-23 at 06:06 PM.
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Yeah, the best you can say about Hulk's film career is So Bad It's Good.
I know he's overused as hell and has basically zero range, but you could use The Rock for Brick. How much range do you really need to play Brick, anyways? He's huge and likes punching everything.NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
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I had zero interest in this when I saw the trailer... And it's pretty much the definition "I expected nothing and I'm still dissppointed".
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