Drinker's Chasers - Borderlands: One Of The Biggest Flops In Cinema History

[@Jonathan_Collins]

"Give the film a chance" said the CEO who didn't give the source material a chance.

[@liamphibia]

And a producer who has never made any good choices in his career.

[@motherplayer]

"Give it a chance" also means giving them your money that you won't get back, regardless of if you like it or not.

[@chance_ondriezek99]

@@Jonathan_CollinsGive it a chance, so that way you can roast the film on KZbin.

[@patrioticcat5768]

@@liamphibia it's called 'failing upwards' and for some reason in Hollywood it's still a way to move up in the world...or if you're into kids and friends with shady mfs in the industry. Nickelodeon will apparently hire pdf.files after release 🤷‍♂️

[@Aralaas]

"Tell that to the games snapped neck!"

[@chance_ondriezek99]

*Madame Web:* “I will be the worst movie of 2024” *Borderlands:* “Not on my watch!”

[@DerrickMims]

Exactly. At least Madame Web had a couple of women that I find very attractive to look at, in Sydney and Dakota. Borderlands managed to ruin even Cate B, the main reason I went. I don’t know what was happening with her face, but I hated it.

[@rbleaks818]

Rebel Moon 2: Im still here

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

​@@DerrickMims Surgery

[@krewl1252]

kraven: is that a challenge?

[@marcusn.7865]

@@krewl1252 kraven at least looks mildly entertaining IMO. Might watch it when it hits streaming. Borderlands will never get a watch from me

[@zombehnashun]

Whoever called this movie Borderlands: Nursing Home Edition hit the nail on the head.

[@planexshifter]

The vault-hunters come out of retirement for 1 last heist…

[@daveeyes]

Ouch! Heheh

[@nickkoyle3599]

Borderlands: About Dead Borderlands: Afterlife

[@beanthegod]

Grannylands

[@zombehnashun]

@@nickkoyle3599 Borderlands: At Death's Door.

[@Kipper5168]

Three things this film needed: 1 - R rating 2 - Younger and largely unknown cast 3 - Actual plot

[@christopherconard2831]

Writers or a Director that actually knew the game would have been helpful.

[@mattmark94]

and 4) Stick to the source material!

[@davidmahoney3804]

Better director, even an unknown director would be better than Eli Roth. Any 4 year old could write garbage like Hostel.

[@serbanalexandriuc6170]

At least 5-6 years earlier release. Had it been released in 2018 (with a good cast) it would have fared better. I am a hard time Borderlands fun - but then again, that's the only game I played in the last 10 years. It seems the Borderlands hype faded after the pandemics (not in small part due to what the jerk CEO did to his employees then - reason for which I did not even buy Borderlands 3 and I just replay the first 3 ones)

[@chevy9196]

​@christopherconard2831 I believe the they all should have been sat down to play the first 2 games (cause that's what's mainly referenced) and then do something. Actors included

[@Arizona-ex5yt]

This movie was DOA-- one of the most bizarrely cast movies in recent memory. Nobody asked for a 70 year old Jamie lee Curtis's version of Guardians of the Galaxy.

[@lesprentice4816]

And then got a director known for his gory tourture movies to direct this pg 13 movie. But then it would make sense if the movie was originally gory and rated R.

[@professormoriarthus]

when i saw her in the trailer i didnt even realize which character shes supposed to be, then when i found out its tannis (my fav bl char by far) i couldnt believe it

[@WayStedYou]

@@lesprentice4816 based on them saying it looks like they cut scenes they probably fired him when they swapped from an R rating to PG and he dipped

[@armondtanz]

I sometimes play the guitar late night and have the tv on. I remember Halloween part 6458 being on. Started of as ok. I'm not really watching it so I'm distracted. Next thing I look up at these grannies have now got machine guns and wearing dirty vests (always unclean vests???)... my jaw was just open watching these 3 women hunt a murderer armed to the teeth. Welcome to modern movie writing.

[@GideonRavenor712]

IKR? First trailer I saw about this way back when it got announced screamed one word at me: 'confused'. -Mix and match of characters from across multiple games instead of just sticking with one set. -Odd casting choices for multiple characters that reads like a bunch of known-names who didn't have any work at the time and so were just cashing the cheque, combined with other relative nobodies. From Blanchett and JLC being way too old for the roles (and yea, in Blanchett's case being WAY outside her wheelhouse in experience), to Kevin Hart supposed to be playing a straight-man Merc (Though TBF they do nothing with his character or Krieg's) -Way too PG for Borderlands even just on the degree of violence -Obvious Guardians of the Galaxy/Suicide Squad wannabe while doing neither aspect of either concept correct. It made me scratch my head as to what the plan was, and how Pitchford is a lunatic for signing off on it, but then he's more than proven he's a lunatic even just in terms of how he's overseen the games. The fact he's so pissed over this version failing just reaffirms he's a moron to me.

[@xitaris5981]

If they thought Cait Blanchett was young and spry enough to be in an action film, then why didn't they just put her in Rings of Power 😝

[@simonhadley8829]

Right? It's not like they couldn't afford her.

[@trevalyan006]

Ironically, it would have been an improvement in RoP.

[@edselgreaves6503]

She would feel it in her bones. 🤣

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

Ding ding ding ding!

[@dylanpiazza6358]

Shed still be better than that 4 at best, mouse looking woman they got

[@TurtleChad1]

This is what happens when you let people who don't play video games make a show about a video game.

[@liamphibia]

Thank God Detective Pikachu, the Sonic movies, and the Mario movie were treated with love and care by real fans.

[@zombehnashun]

If Uwe Boll made this movie, at least it would've been R-rated.

[@thevgfsg7384]

Don’t forget about Fnaf. That was made for the fans

[@HowToChangeName]

Or thinking borderlands 3 as the best sequel

[@derpherp7432]

@@liamphibia Some of the developers of Sonic Mania came in and did Sonics redesign after the initial backlash, so in that case it was more like the hollywood execs tried to ruin it, but the people who literally made the games came in and saved it

[@BLOODSHO7]

The casting was the biggest reason this failed. Kevin Hart as Roland and jamie Lee Curtis as tannis is ridiculous.

[@AlmarWinfield]

the casting was so bad that i want to argue that lillith was cast even worse than the two you mention. Roland and Lillith are equally terrible casting choices to me. Roland was serious so they pick the most unserious comedian? Lillith was young and sexy, so they pick someone old and wrinkly? Really the only one even remotely ok was tina

[@BLOODSHO7]

@AlmarWinfield yeah lilith was awful too but I'd say not as bad as the other 2

[@AlmarWinfield]

@@BLOODSHO7 The funniest part of all this is for Roland they chose someone who looks like him but not acts like him. For Tannis they chose someone who acts like her but doesnt look like her. For Lillith they chose someone who doesnt act like her and doesn't look like her. That's why I see Lillith as the worst, but yea. I can agree they're all terrible at the end of the day. I feel like the casting director just took the first big name that walked in the door for each of these characters and didn't go any further than that.

[@magisterrleth3129]

There wasn't one good decision made. Even Jack Black. He's the only one who seemed to be trying, but hearing his voice come out of Claptrap is just distracting. The movie would've looked and felt better if the changed nothing about it except replacing every single big name with literally anybody else. But that still wouldn't have fixed it because even the cinematography is bad. For example, they make a short joke about Kevin Hart near the beginning. Tiny Tina says, "did my dad send his shortest soldier to find me?" And Kevin say "No." However, because of the framing of the shot, not once are you able to see that Kevin Hart is short. It would've landed a lot better if they intentionally filmed it so Kev looks big and heroic, and then when they make that joke, cut to a wider shot that shows them both in perspective, and then you see Kevin Hart's Roland is the same size as a girl called Tiny Tina. But they didn't do that, because that would've required someone who was involved in the writing and filming of the movie to care about it. It feels like they had whatever the original script was, and then they fed it to an AI who's only function was to deflate any emotion and riddle the screenplay with incomplete jokes that it is incapable of understanding.

[@NathanCassidy721]

Or maybe, just maybe, Borderlands isn’t as popular as the fans would have you believe. The casting was horrible, but even with a proper casting the wider audience doesn’t hold BL in high regard. The only game that is universally liked is the TellTale game over all the others.

[@tylergoodman3560]

You know it's bad if Madame Web or Morbius is laughing in the background. 🎉

[@zombehnashun]

At least Morbius set it's place in meme culture.

[@HowToChangeName]

Its so bad not even Madame foresee this one

[@JohnDoe-wj7ht]

Good one!

[@maxmazzotti6651]

More like Uwe Boll

[@RobItica-sg2dw]

I like the Morbius movie

[@councilofkarens729]

R.E.D showed how to do older female action star properly. Helen Mirren looks great and kicks ass.

[@wezweasel]

Respect!

[@Mereologist]

One of my favourite movies!

[@wezweasel]

@@Mereologist The sequel was good as well!

[@JamesTobiasStewart]

Truth!

[@chasehedges6775]

@@wezweasel Red 2 was EPIC. Anthony Hopkins was good as well. Neal McDonough was good as the psychotic government agent

[@LordPupazz]

As they said in the great Tropic Thunder: You should never go full Claptrap.

[@xitaris5981]

Mad Moxxi is *_not_* thirty at most. She has two *adult* children. She's a gorgeous cougar who's probably ~40

[@blazernitrox6329]

Honestly that's the most baffling decision of the entire thing. The other characters were cast "for the movie" - the director didn't particularly care what their age was in the games. And that's fine, as long as the casting makes sense for the movie (which they repeatedly point out that _none_ of the characters were well-cast). But then, the _one character_ who by rights should be in her mid to late 20s but is _canonically_ in her 40s... is _even older_ in the movie? Like, if you're casting based purely on how the character is written in the movie, then why WOULDN'T you cast Moxxi as someone younger???

[@thesupreme8062]

Moxxi could be 50 for all we know. I always thought her thing was that she's relatively old but looks 20. That seemed to me the gimmick around her character.

[@KeyOfTwilight777]

Thank you for mentioning this. Movie seems like crap in general, but she's def an older milf. Iirc thats the joke. The cliche southern tryhard cougar.

[@Pixelatedrat]

She also had work done as mentioned in the game and also her kids are results of incest

[@eq4611]

@@thesupreme8062it is. There was even a mission that reveals that she does have kids and is from the hodunks. She hides her identity using her sexy and youthful appearance.

[@StillTheWorst]

As soon as I saw Kevin hart I was out, two grandma's as co-stars didn't increase the interest at all.

[@och70]

WTF The cast's salary was probably higher than the box office total Drinker mentions in the opening of the video. 😆

[@LolliPop2000]

Never go full Claptrap.

[@Jeff-cn9up]

The most entertainment you can get from the movie is game developer Randy Pitchford slowling losing his mind trying to defend it.

[@justinmadair]

It's a little sad that we've fallen so far out of love with the cinema experience. Certainly makes me appreciate the richness of movie life I was able to.

[@garygreen5670]

I've only fallen out of love with new movies. There's still a century of old films out there which I still love watching.

[@cool-guycharlie6380]

The KZbin shorts that recap what movies came out in 1999 make me weep and wish for the old days

[@themagnumtodd]

My dad and I saw Jurassic Park in the theater like 5 times, I still have the cups they handed out. I don’t know anyone who’s been inside a theater in the last few years.

[@johncadden202]

Twisters is fun. There's still a few films worth going the cinema for.

[@roysmith770]

@@cool-guycharlie6380 I sentence you to a showing of Garbage Pail Kids - it will help - trust me.

[@Pink.andahalf]

They waited way too long to try and make a Borderlands movie. Most Borderlands fans have stopped caring about the franchise. That's what happened to me.

[@TheBloopers30]

Yeah. After the Pre-sequal, Borderlands 3 and that NEW tales of the Borderlands game I have just given up. Pre-sequal was aight though but it made me hate Lilith.

[@NathanCassidy721]

That’s what I’ve been telling people. I’ve certainly had angry fanbois arguing with me but they haven’t figured out that most gamers don’t give a toss about BL. More people care about Halo despite all the missteps of the recent games.

[@thesupreme8062]

Thats what happens when your last 3 games were awful ​@NathanCassidy721

[@cool-guycharlie6380]

The structure of every game is exactly the same.

[@NathanCassidy721]

@@thesupreme8062 I'll one-up you. That's what happens when the one game a large majority of people agree is the best in the series wasn't made by Gearbox: Tales of the Borderlands It also doesn't help that other looter-shooters have risen up and improved on the one thing that made BL unique. And they did it without the cringe comedy.

[@russellromig8969]

In Borderlands 1, the first thing Lilith says to us the audience is "sup"... I met alot of 50+ peeps and none of them ever said "sup" to me... Gearbox does not know who their audience is anymore. Randy Strongfork needs to resign!

[@niallrussell7184]

sup

[@andymartinez4268]

Sup

[@-Keith-]

What is up, my fellow young adults?

[@adamlannerd1408]

Greetings fellow young Vault hunters!

[@atomicdancer]

🥣 soup

[@ryanbarker5217]

when more people watch compilation videos of 70's t.v. commercials than see your $120M movie....

[@StreetPreacherr]

The MOST distinctive element of the game is that it features a CELL SHADED graphic style... So why didn't they use an updated 'Waking Life' or 'Scanner Darkly' visual style? At least it might have added some interest.

[@user-if7zm]

Crazy thing is, that might actually have reduced the budget.

[@lordjor96]

I remmember a Netflix ww2 series that used that type of filter, did look good.

[@blackjack059]

Not a bad idea

[@professormoriarthus]

for real, such a wasted opportunity!! but then it contradicts the safe, appeal to everyone method of making this film, it doubt it was even considered in the early stages of conception given how painfully oblivious they are about everything that made bl so popular to begin with

[@StreetPreacherr]

@@blackjack059 Well the idea is out there! And it's probably something that an 'Amateur VFX Artist' could manage to achieve on a 'Home PC'. I bet you could get a 'basic/shitty' result by just running the original Live Action video through some sort of an 'automatic' filter? Maybe someone with skills can produce a 'Rotoscoped Borderlands' Fan Edit when the movie hits home video!

[@danielpearce3112]

If prime gets their way and pushes Cavill aside the exact same thing is going to happen to 40k 😭😭😭

[@RatedMforMatt-ure]

Last I read, the 40K project is scrapped indefinitely and that's a good thing honestly. Amazon wants all this modern audience bullshit like making the God Empror transgender, lgbtq+1029=< representation in the space marine faction, female space Marines, they already got their female custodes rewrite but that was nuclear with the fanbase and 3 weeks later it was stated the project is scrapped.

[@TheJadeJester]

Don’t underestimate GW’s knack for trashing their own IP.

[@blackmendosa]

@@TheJadeJester Everything is canon.

[@TheJadeJester]

@@blackmendosa like that time there were Squats, then there wasn’t, now there is again. Or that time the 13th Black Crusade was stopped at Cadia, with Eldrad Ulthuan leading a boarding party on the Blackstone Fortress possessed by Slaanesh.

[@asmith1711]

Let them, they can't burn money forever, eventually they will accept the audience is after entertainment not propaganda

[@Wafelkowiec]

I love how Greasy Randy is malding over this failure.

[@Mereologist]

He's practically eating his own face.

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

I mean even people who never heard of the vieo game, just seeing the trailer in the theater must've turned off so many people. There was nothing to like about. The trailer itself was already annoying af, and felt like an AI solution to the question "what does corporate annyoing schlock look like?"

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

I’ve never played the game, saw the trailer, decided immediately I wouldn’t bother watching it, even when it’s on TV🤷‍♂️

[@LoganHutson]

Its not AT ALL for people who play the games It’s not AT ALL for people who don’t play the games

[@Schnaubau]

I have a stupid amount of hours in these games and I love them too much to be baited into watching a low-effort Hollywood version with overused actors

[@PaulStewart28]

Same

[@jacksonconstantine5740]

Based. I’m almost done with my new BL2 playthrough, my way of pouring one out for the dying franchise o7

[@russsmith1252]

Jack Black has one character in every film, Jack Black.

[@danjonmills]

He needs to f##k off, now. His time has passed.

[@Scantronimus466]

See also: Kevin Hart.

[@Cynsham]

Kevin Hart and the Rock too

[@WrestlingMV69]

PG-13 has become a death brand for movies

[@jessekoepp3928]

While Deadpool becomes the highest grossing rated R film in history lol. Like a wise man once said: Hollywood is filled with rich, stupid people.

[@BoomstickFTW]

For movies that have super violent source material especially.

[@StreetPreacherr]

Weren't ALL of the MCU movies rated PG-13?

[@termingyou]

It's the rating and not the casting, writing, or directing?

[@gnarwhal7562]

It really depends on whether the movie was designed to be PG-13 from the start, or if the studio mandated that an R-rated film be cut down to PG-13 to "make more money". The Dark Knight Trilogy for example, was intentionally made to be accessible to younger viewers while still retaining its mature elements because Christopher Nolan always wanted to see movies like that when he was a kid; (and the movies are beloved to this day). Whereas something like Venom, which was originally intended to be R-rated and was cut down to PG-13, suffers greatly as a result. That drop in quality is quite evident in There Will Be Carnage specifically

[@ytucharliesierra]

It's probably Jamie lee curtis and Kate Blanchett that ate up most of the budget.

[@EvilDoresh]

Good or them, at least.

[@Klaaism]

To be fair they are phenomenal actors.

[@jamescarr1265]

They’re definitely great actresses but the casting is bizarre.

[@jakeviolet2195]

The problem Hollywood has is no new young talent. They are like a baseball team with no recruitment department whose players keep getting older and slower. I recently saw a movie where 70 year old Liam Neeson played hardboiled detective Phillip Marlowe (who was in his thirties in the books.) And another where Ian McKellen played an aging Sherlock Holmes. Watching Deniro, Pacino and Pesci playing geriatric gangsters in The Irishmen was excruciating. It's sad and creepy.

[@donut3946]

Let’s not make it worse, lol

[@givemorexp]

There is definitely young talent there but they won't give them a chance. Everyone knows that in last decade 'movie stars' kind of died and name itself won't be enough to attract people to cinema. It's all about characters and comic book universes. So they keep casting old actors with some sort of name recognition instead complete unknowns.

[@rwalker0130]

music is the same way. and politics.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

Film making is risk. Bean counters try to minimize the risk by making sequels and casting actors that made money in the past. Unfortunately, zero risk tends to be boring as hell.

[@Jan-v2m9o]

Jenna Ortega? Chloe Grace Moretz? Anya Taylor-Joy? Vanessa Kirby? Milly Alcock? Ella Purnell? Maisie Williams? Hailee Steinfeld? Millie Bobby Brown? Sadie Sink? Zendaya? Saiorse Ronan? And these are just the actresses.

[@maxbrazil3712]

I really like Cate Blanchett, but video game action movies? "Crystal Skull" should have been a warning.

[@chasehedges6775]

Crystal Skull was terrible.

[@blakesimmons5130]

No, Krieg. Its not you. Eli Roth is the conductor of the poop train.

[@SondreSolvang]

120 million that is the budget of Dune, DUNE!

[@DrTeeth66]

...or _TEN_ Godzilla Minus Ones

[@ramarwint3919]

And then another 40 mill or so for marketing

[@theemperorofmankind3739]

@@ramarwint3919 And even with that making 160 million at the box office would not make them break even. As distributor and move theaters also take a cut. I would not be surprised if at the box office they would have needed to make 200+ million to just break even.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

A film adaptation of 'Pong' would have more appeal

[@GeoffryGifari]

I heard there's an adaptation for Tetris

[@chindleymuffin]

​@@GeoffryGifari it was more about the guy who created the game and what happened to him rather than the game itself. It's an Apple TV movie and worth a watch.

[@Jonathan_Collins]

Their biggest mistake was having Kevin Hart as roland and two 60 year olds as Lilith and Tanis why tf does Tanis look like she has grandkids.

[@Aralaas]

@@EdenMB-w3x "Fewer."- Stannis Baratheon, Lord of Dragonstone, Lord Paramount of the Stormlands, Lord of Storm's End, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm

[@jonsnow2555]

​@@Aralaas Stannis wishes he was as cool as me

[@TheMustangAce]

Bonefarts. We're calling this film Bonerfarts now.

[@rogerborg]

I quite like _Wasteland Gilfs._

[@kazamakell]

I got that reference!

[@Redlife666]

I still use that when I'm gaming to describe things I don't know That looks like a Bonerfart

[@EvilDoresh]

Moar like _Boaringlands_

[@IBriefcase]

A better reference than anything in the film.

[@MariusWales]

Apparently, producer Tim Miller took over directing reshoots because of Eli Roth's commitment to Thanksgiving... And it shows.😔

[@davidsummer8631]

For a person who doesn't play computer games this is the first time I have heard of the name Borderlands so if they where trying to reach out to non Gamers they certainly didn't reach me

[@rogerwagner6940]

They weren't trying to reach me, and I finished the first game. This is a twitter movie made for twitter gamers.

[@DarthEvilicus]

It was horribly miscast. I can’t think of a single actor that accurately portrayed their video game counterpart

[@phillmac3951]

Maybe the guy who drove the bus

[@jacksonconstantine5740]

@@phillmac3951Marcus. Yeah he was okay. That’s about it though.

[@conradaster3764]

Kate B. And Jamie LC said it was supposed to be animated when they signed on.

[@Apophis1010]

Thats absolutely what should have happened

[@Djordje_Jovanovic]

Eli Roth: My video game movie is a critical & commercial failure! Uwe Boll: 1st time?

[@zombehnashun]

At least Uwe Boll's movies were R-rated. Also plenty of his movies are great for those who enjoy watching So Bad It's Good movies.

[@twotail612]

I've heard that Uwe Boll is a wizard with a budget. That's why he kept getting work. Despite not being able to write or direct.

[@NathanCassidy721]

At least Uwe was honest when it came to how he felt about Video Games. Look up the scene from Postal with him in it if you want a clue. Also unlike Eli, Uwe is very passionate about films and knows his craft. He’s just absolutely terrible at it.

[@NorthernSeaWitch]

Uwe Boll is just a money laundering thug. His movies have to be R rated. If take out the gore, it's a 10-minute flip book.

[@rufusjustrufus8213]

​@@NorthernSeaWitch Yeah, I don't get the attraction either. Man spent his whole film career pulling a Seagal.

[@liamphibia]

Borderlands is another prime example of believing casting A-list stars will automatically make a hit feature film without giving any thought if these stars are right for the roles. Oh, and pissing off gamers too.

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

What A listers are in it?🤷‍♂️

[@DrakeOola]

@@Jabber-ig3iw cate blandshit

[@dadocta5168]

Another case of ruining a franchise might be a bloody stupid thing to do.

[@brianpembrook9164]

The way I hear it the third game did that already.

[@DonkeyDanny]

​@@brianpembrook9164the gameplay itself was solid but the story was meh and it had to follow up borderlands 2 which had a great story and villain

[@HowToChangeName]

Ruining a franchise? Its dead for so long since 3rd game

[@TheBloopers30]

@@DonkeyDanny Gameplay was good but not enough considering the gap between the two games, the maps were also worse than in Borderlands 2. The story had some potential but should've focused more on the less annoying sibling(the brother) who is a lot more interesting with him being the only male siren. Instead we got to go to boring places with uninteresting characters like the first vault hunter who was made into a midget joke just for the laughs. They made Lilith into a walking plank of wood and is overall unlikable after the ending of Borderlands 2 and the pre-sequal yet the choose to make her the real hero of the story. Eva is the worst and Maya got shafted. The brother got shafted and forgotten the moment he died. The sister is annoying and cringe. Hammerlock's whole story was about him being into guys. Tiny Tina is overused and have very much been flanderized. The final boss is an absolute joke. The Diablo-like gameplay rotation that was a key part of Borderlans 2's endgame was just gone. They made Axton into a joke even though they didn't have the balls to have him show up in the game. Salvador and Gaige who? What a disappointment of a game.

[@fortniteclipz2902]

@@DonkeyDannyit wasn’t the gameplay is ass

[@ad-sd-vids5332]

Borderlands is this year’s Artemis Fowl

[@chasehedges6775]

💯💯💯

[@chasehedges6775]

One of the worst films films of 2020 being compared to one of the worst films of 2024 is TIGHT!👍

[@africanpenguin3282]

I just remember seeing the trailer and being so confused at the appearance of Cate blanchett and even more so Jamie Lee Curtis? Like why the hell is the cast look a they pulled them from a golden girls remake? Bummer that the did seen to have a perfect Krieg

[@Pyrrho_]

How hard up is Cate Blanchett financially that she agreed to this?

[@Lovicide]

I think she said in an interview that she considers herself "middle class". Her and a ton of celebrities are extremely out of touch.

[@NikoRoulias]

Shes neglected and lonely obviously. Trying to drown herself in work instead of enjoying the little things. Old men and women things looking back too much.

[@zombehnashun]

She has hit the Wall.

[@darkdawnbringer]

Cate blankcheck has become Cate bouncedcheck...

[@NikoRoulias]

@@zombehnashun umm the wall is 30...shes on graveyard shift

[@nick_the_padbreaker]

Moxxi in the game has an adult son-Scooter, the mechanic. So she is definitely not in her 30s.

[@razter6678]

Catch-a-Riiiiide!

[@NorthernSeaWitch]

If you have a kid in your early teens, then you could have a grown kid when you're in your 30s. Ick factor aside.

[@xaviormchorney6959]

​@@NorthernSeaWitchConsidering the clan she came from... That could definitely be the case

[@GideonRavenor712]

I believe it's implied she had kids young, but yea she looks a lot younger than she actually is.

[@trymv1578]

Moxxie has 5 kids and is theorized to be in her early 50s.

[@rpunktdpunkt5738]

Moxxi is not supposed to be 30. Her children are in their 30s. She just looks way younger.

[@zombehnashun]

Wait, she's that old in the games?!

[@Dkoolkai]

​@@zombehnashun Scooter and Ellie are Moxxie's kids, so yeah, she's most likely 50s

[@rpunktdpunkt5738]

@@zombehnashun Yes, Scooter and Ellie are her children.

[@adrenjones9301]

She does wear 2 inches of Make-Up.

[@xU7fr1cx]

i think jamie lee curtis should've played moxxi, obviously with the filters they were putting cate through it'd be more plausible

[@zombiedodge1426]

There are many different kinds of flop, and this one kind of reminds me of The Bonfire of the Vanities: based on an established property, well-known director, excellent but terribly miscast performers, and a script that deviated so far from the original material it was barely recognizable. The thing is, at least Bonfire *looks* good. It has some of the most beautiful shots I’ve ever seen, thanks more to second unit director Eric Schwab than Brian De Palma. (The book about this mess, The Devil’s Candy, is a must-read.) Borderlands doesn’t even have that going for it.

[@MrS-pe6sd]

Fun fact: back in the day they used to use a very thin layer of Vaseline on the lens of the camera to achieve that same blurry effect. It would defocus the camera just enough to take out wrinkles and fine lines on older actors and actresses.

[@dorrianstone7264]

Still waiting for the Pitch Meeting channel to do Borderlands. Acoylte was hilarious. Hopefully theyll work in the dog shitting inspiration. lol

[@niallrussell7184]

I wonder if he'll reference his dog taking a shit.

[@NathanCassidy721]

While there are a million mistakes made with it, the movie can’t escape one simple truth: Borderlands is not a popular franchise. For the non-gamers and the younger gamers in the audience, the last time Borderlands was a hit was 2012 when Borderlands 2 came out. And even then it was a divisive game due to the “comedy” in it. And while it had a bit of a resurgence with BL 3 and has its hardcore fans, it says a lot to me that the one game in the franchise with the most love for it is “Tales of the Borderlands”. A game that wasn’t even made by the main developer (Gearbox). There was a time for this movie and it was a very narrow window that they missed completely.

[@chasehedges6775]

THIS💯😊

[@daimonien]

Dont think this movie had any window..

[@NathanCassidy721]

@@daimonien Yes there was. If this movie didn't wind up in development hell I could see 2015 being a good window for a Borderlands movie. It would be an uphill battle as it's still a video game movie but Borderlands was still reasonably well-remembered.

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

yeah, this is exactly why I was confused they made a boarderlands movie. I was like oh yeah, I remember playing that game with an old buddy like 10 years ago or so. It was just another of the many many first person shoooters he was into. It wasn't bad but not something I'd ever want to watch a movie about.

[@NathanCassidy721]

@@endrankluvsda4loko172 Borderlands more or less created the Looter Shooter genre. Diablo but with Guns was a relative novelty back then along with its unique artstyle and “comedy”. However, many other games have come out since then that do what Borderlands does with way better gunplay, graphics, and sto- okay maybe not story but certainly much more interesting lore. The only thing I can say for sure is the playable characters are actually characters.

[@MichaelNNY]

The thought process for hiring older women for young women roles is this: Virtue Signaling. "Older women are often passed over for womens roles in movies, so we are gonna hire some older women for these parts to correct that injustice. Even if it hurts the movie." REPRESENTATION!!!!

[@phillipshrader5726]

"Never go full Claptrap"

[@jeffreyjameson6174]

Make more movies people don't care about and also hire inappropriate overly costing actors to fill them. Pretend people care about the IP you want them to care about - the IP they stopped caring about years ago. DOA is hollywood's MO. I keep repeating this - this is the cast for the parody movie of the borderlands movie. Hollywood is braindead.

[@MrBentham]

Any movie Kevin Hart, The Rock, Jack Black or Pedro Pascal are involved with is a pass for me.

[@kennethellingsen5902]

The managed to find the smallest man in Hollywood to play the big, bad soldier...

[@hatuletoh]

Poor old Tim Miller. After Terminator: Dark Flop he wa lamenting that no one in Hollywood would return his calls, and I'm pretty sure being the second choice director for a historic failure isn't going to help that situation.

[@crazyralph6386]

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer male feminist 😂

[@danjonmills]

Lol that guy thought he was responsible for Deadpool's success.

[@UserMcPerson]

16:34 to be fair Moxxi is supposed to be in her 50’s in the game, but that’s sort of the joke

[@thesupreme8062]

It's literally a meme. You meet her, she looks 20. And you keep discovering her to be older and older. Could've been done in the movie.

[@UserMcPerson]

@@thesupreme8062 totally agree

[@crowhaven895]

You are right about most of it, but Moxxi is in her 50s. She has had 4 husband's and 2 kids who are around their 30s, Scooter and Ellie.

[@hcook1023]

Its so weird to think of how hard it is to mess up many of these IPs but Hollyeood almost always manages to

[@rickyeska1]

I think they have to make these movies of ips they own every 50vyears or so to keep the copyrights

[@hcook1023]

​@@rickyeska1These aren't Mickey Mouse even Mario isn't 40 years old yet

[@wilhelminawill9495]

We're truly in the era of constant record breaking, and mostly the undesirable sort. Constant record breaks with the weather and temperatures, constant record breaks with box office flops...

[@skylx0812]

Blanchett played screen legend Katherine Hepburn in a film. Hepburn once used her role in The Lion In Winter to vent her grief over losing Spencer Tracy to a DUI accident. She took the role because she needed to work or go crazy. Now days it was covid that drove Blanchett to take the role in this terrible thing or go stir crazy during the lockdowns.

[@mikie1466]

They all know communism is coming. Hollywood is in a huge cash grab rn.

[@skottmcg]

Spencer Tracy died from a heart attack in his home so you're wrong about that

[@milesnicholas5973]

He died at home suddenly in the kitchen.

[@maxmazzotti6651]

You know is bad when Uwe Boll is laughing in the background

[@Batman12810]

Kevin Hart is at the Eddie Murphy Beverly Hills Cop 3 phase of his career where he doesn't want o be the joke. Didn't work for Eddie at the time either.

[@MrMagic8000]

Moxxi isn't supposed to be 30. Her kids are around that age. She is over 50 in the games. The point is that she just looks way younger so they should have cast a younger actress imo.

[@-Keith-]

I didn't play borderlands 2 or 3, but from what I remember of borderlands 1, vaults didn't require any special "descendant of an ancient race" to open, they just required all the keys that were hidden away. The military megacorp that was trying to open the vault had already successfully opened a vault on a different world - which had a bunch of super advanced alien technology that gave them a massive advantage against everybody else in the universe. So they wanted to also open the vault on Pandora because they believed it would have more alien tech, but the Pandora vault was just meant to be a prison for a potentially universe-ending lovecraftian entity instead of an arms cache. Lilith had nothing to do with the plot specifically beyond just being a playable character who was a vault hunter alongside Roland Mordecai and Brick. So unless I'm missing something, the movie plot has little to do with the established game lore beyond sharing names and locations. And I could be wrong, but I don't even think Lilith and Patricia Tannis had any prior relation in the games.

[@Robo-xk4jm]

the movie took parts of the plot of 1 took characters from 2 and made their own thing with it. each vault just needs a vault key with eridium & a siren to charge. and after the 1st game lilith is a npc thats part of the story and way better then there then this, tina is just a traumatized 13 yr old girl with a psychotic & explosive coping mechanism not the chosen one lmao. and krieg is just a DLC character from 2 with funny voice lines and an interesting playstyle that was added after the main game was completed. i definitely recommend playing 2 handsome jack is what made these games so popular ig we should be glad they didnt try anything with him. 3 has good gameplay but thats a game where the story should be ignored at all points of the playthrough, been a while since ive ever seen one thats only seen 1

[@MarshallOC9]

If you swap the cost and the income you have something resembling Godzilla Minus One.

[@OuchXXI]

Grandmalands, what the fuck were they thinking?

[@AkamoriArt]

I have only played the first Borderlands. But I guarantee I could make a movie that looks more like Borderlands than these people did.

[@georgebailey98]

I've always thought that the Ultima games could be made into a film series, probably including Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny, Ultima VI: The False Prophet and Ultima VII: The Black Gate.

[@kyon813]

I agree, but I don't know how much audiences would cotton to a story entirely about introspection and spiritual awakening like Ultima 4 these days. Plus, how would you adapt U4 into a conventional narrative? The whole game is about exploring Britannia, occasionally dungeon delving and fighting groups of random monsters, but mostly investigating towns to find the runes/shrines/mantras/everything else needed to become the Avatar. It was only meant to be a video game

[@HanleiHess]

Definitely one of your best videos so far!

[@MichaelNNY]

Anything with Snarky Jay is going to be worth it.

[@heartysquid]

When I first saw the trailer I saw Kate Blanchett and I said "Uh oh". Then I said Kevin Hart and I literally said "OH FUCK NO". he's an alright actor but he is not fucking right for Roland and I knew the tone would be murdered.

[@toastyanon8902]

Every day I wake up and I thank God that I am not Anthony Burch

[@Saltybuher]

Tbh my problem with the film is even if you watch the advert you see nothing but irritating characters and zero depth. These are all people you would go out of your way to avoid.

[@shawnsmith2006]

Jack Black doesn't sound like Claptrap, and Claptrap's voice is pretty iconic. So you have to listen to someone even more annoying then the game's version, that doesn't even sound like the real character. No one is going to care about Jack Black's "name" anymore, so they should have used a real voice actor. It would have been better and they probably could have lowered the budget.

[@thegeneralmitch]

TBF, most of Borderlands budget was probably some sort of money laundering operation. 😂

[@Weazel1]

Never go full Claptrap

[@gsigs]

Getting serious "G-man" from Half-Life vibes from Drinker.

[@Tako101]

I still think Madame Web still had more cinema sins than Borderlands. It is very close though. I try to see everything I can, and I rarely feel like I’ve wasted my time, this movie did that.

[@LazarheaD]

I knew it would be bad, but damn.

[@bapo22]

Borderlands: The Reboot. Movie starts with a Marcus narration and an intro like A New Hope with a ship piloted by Roland being chased by an Atlas ship. Roland stole an ancient Eridian artifact from Atlas. His ship gets shot down and crashes on Pandora. Lilith, who's already a Siren, sees this from Sanctuary, as does a group of Psychos. Atlas soldiers arrive at the crash site and have a shootout with Roland, who gets hit. Psychos arrive and slaughter the soldiers, taking all the gear and artifact. They're too dumb to know what gear is good and toss everything to a Loot Midget, who returns to camp. As the Psychos are about to kill Roland, Lilith arrives and saves him; "Sup." Roland passes out and is taken to Sanctuary. He gets patched up and meets Tannis, Claptrap, Moxxi, and Krieg, who was found wondering the wastelands alone; bad Psychos always traveled in groups. Brick and Mordecai can be added here. Roland explains the situation and the group, minus Tannis and Moxxi, gear up with weapons and shields and head for the Psychos camp. They defeat the Psychos, loot good gear, and recover the artifact. Returning to Sanctuary, they encounter Tiny Tina, who forms a bond with Roland. At Sanctuary, Tannis studies the artifact and discovers that it's a key to open a Vault on Pandora, which is currently guarded by Hyperion forces. Atlas attacks Sanctuary and captures Tiny Tina. Without enough soldiers to fight Hyperion, Atlas forces the heroes to work with him. They successfully defeat Hyperion and open the Vault. Inside the Vault, a monster appears and kills Atlas and his remaining soldiers, with Roland saving Tiny Tina. The heroes defeat the monster, Eridium starts appearing on the planet, and they return to Sanctuary for a happy ending. In the mid-credit scene, more Vaults have appeared on Pandora and the heroes look to the skies as more Vault Hunters enter the atmosphere. Post-credit scene has Helios entering Pandora space like the Death Star. Cast: Samara Weaving as Lilith, Aldis Hodge as Roland, Jessica Henwick as Tannis, Alisha Weir as Tiny Tina, Nathan Jones as Krieg, Megan Fox as Mad Moxxi, Jacob Scipio as Mordecai, and Florian Munteanu as Brick.

[@PracticalTacticalFedeli]

Kate Beckinsale would’ve been a proper choice

[@mrwomby5007]

I’m pretty sure that the portable toilet that Lilith used to get to Pandora didn’t have FTL capability.

[@strambino1]

Watching my dog shit inspired me to come up with this movie! Great job Eli Roth… Great job

[@TrenchMan93]

Eli clearly took his check and made thanksgiving instead. Least he held back the movie enough to make a good movie for once.

[@hcook1023]

It's so weird to think of the mid 2000's where nothing was above comedy and ridicule

[@chasehedges6775]

Mid 2000s were pretty good years, imo

[@hcook1023]

@@chasehedges6775 I still remember the Spoof movies but it will be a long time if ever they come back Although they made the Super Hero Movie I to a multi part franchise universe by accident (aka pure incompetence)

[@maximfyodorovich4489]

R.E.D. is one of the best movies about old retired assassins and the romance between Ivan and Victoria was the sweetest

[@TRBN420]

WHAT?! MAD MOXXIE IS 50 Y.O. or something.. even in the games she was old except of the pre sequel.... get your facts right...

[@phantomspaceman]

The teleport dialogue line was from the first game. Gearbox is known for their amazing writing.

[@StreetPreacherr]

They should have done a live action version of 'Brothers In Arms'! Imagine how awesome it would be to follow the adventures of a close knit Company of soldiers during WWII? And maybe even have it focus on a division of Paratroopers, since airborne soldiers are the coolest!

[@justinschnoor9459]

Imagine if they had made everything and everyone look cell-shaded like the game. It would've at least been interesting to see. Also, where are Lilith's Siren markings, or is that some end of movie bullshittery?

[@StreetPreacherr]

That's what I've been saying! The 'Cell shaded' look was the most distinctive aspect of the game, and then they completely ignore it when making the movie? Other than the visual style, isn't Borderlands just another fairly generic Post Apocalyptic 'shooter'?

[@zacar0ni]

It's such a waste of potential. In the hands of a competent and passionate team this could have looked so cool.

[@xaviormchorney6959]

​@@StreetPreacherrNo, it fall more under the "looter shooter" category (people often compare it to destiny). Its also less post apocalyptic and more corporate dystopia.

[@bradhaines3142]

​@@StreetPreacherrthe story for 1 was pretty basic, but 2 was one of the best stories in any game ever. thing is they tried to make the movie as a 'prequel' but also ignored the entire timeline of every other game so they could use the most popular characters

[@_Just_John]

17:48 - "Best actress for the job." - They said that about the actress who portrayed Anne Boleyn. Yea, sure.

[@JohnDoe-wj7ht]

Is Kate Blanchet becoming the female Steven Seagal now?

[@laurapalmer7120]

Cate worked on Eli Roth’s The House Clock movie. He probably asked her and she felt awkward saying no.

[@jonathanbaker4361]

Sorry Drinker, Moxxi is Scooter and Ellie's mom. She is at least 40. And she hides her age through clown layers of make up. Speaking of Scooter, where the fuck?!

[@camuir1213]

It’s nice to know the Drinker can also hate things not made by Disney.

[@ggt47]

This could have been a good film but it's basically just Borderlands in name only.

[@chasehedges6775]

….Maybe

[@gadrielvanorion9872]

tina was literally aged up by at least 5-8 years folks in bl1 shes like maybe 8

[@futseb]

There are money people who see video game adaptation as the next good trick to be in. But they don't know them. They still think it's for kid. Or is it that an adaptation must necessarily aim a wider audience of the game because you know, 10 million is a good figure as game sales goes, but not so much as movie tickets count goes, especially when everything on theaters cost over $100 Millions. So big money people wanted to have an adaptation of Borderlands, but PG 13. They wanted to cast renowned actresses in it, to get respectability, and to have the two parents and the three kids all buying a ticket to that movie. Well... it didn't work. At all... Video games, up until the early 2010's, have accomplished this miracle to be wide spread niche content. Bringing edginess to a new level and new audiences. Problem is that the new scale of VG industry and Movie industry can't allow them to be niche or edgy anymore. Ye gamers out there reading this, how would you adapt Bioshock, but PG 13, and a way to turn it into a family show for all the family to watch ? You see the problem !

[@FreakyFriday4Phaggs]

Instead of Turning kids into slugs, we turn them into Magic Frog princesses

[@MorganFreemansFavoriteFreckle]

I left the theater to take a phone call, when I returned to my seat I was pleasantly surprised to find the credits rolling