Borderlands is the Worst Videogame Movie of All Time | Borderlands Reaction

[@Keyatzin]

Borderlands is exactly the kind of IP that fits a low budget action comedy, with a cast of entirely unknown young actors. Never should have been a big budget cash grab, with a celebrity cast.

[@AjianAja]

Yo, that's such a good point!

[@LostSoulNo301281]

Fans could have done a far better job.

[@billyalarie929]

@@LostSoulNo301281there it is.

[@l0stndamned]

Yep. Or possibly a mini-series so some running jokes and reoccurring characters can be built up. Either way going cheap and making the most of a limited budget would fit the vibe better than summer blockbuster.

[@MrBazBake]

This is what happens when everyone who made your games great hates your CEO for ripping them off and refuses to work with him, but he insists on creative control anyway and you give it to him...😂 No wonder they lost... THE SHOWRUNNER OF THE LAST OF US!!!

[@chriswest6988]

Maybe they intentionally killed the franchise to see if it dropped any good guns.

[@TheWindwall]

Only for it to only be whites and one green

[@unculturedweeb4240]

Hoping for a legendary gun.

[@krodmandoon3479]

Well they've really been grinding because this is the fourth kill in a row, now.

[@coreymartin6363]

​@krodmandoon3479 I was going to say, "Keep farming." No Unkempt Harold here.

[@smeghead765]

This was a great comment.

[@JaffaCakeGecko]

Jane is such a mum - took the kids to the movies during the summer holidays, fell asleep in the cool dark cinema, and found the gun noises too loud

[@slb797]

100% believe she is the mom in the group. I bet she even always makes sure to have a snack in her purse. In fact, didn’t that happen in the behind the scenes of “Literally Everyone Else In The World” None of which is bad. Every dnd group has a parent or two

[@tungzauzage977]

Agreed, thanks to them I can save money by not bothering to watch this rubbish.

[@IESUproductions]

@@slb797 It literally did.

[@JayTohab]

​@@slb797Explains the jokes about her being a murderer tbh

[@azuredragoon2054]

Jane said they were obnoxious. Who knew that Hollywood had equipped everyone with The Bane?

[@jocosesonata]

To misquote Westaway: "You've just seen -Madame Web- Borderlands. You could walk out of the cinema and get beaten up, and you'd be like 'Nice!'"

[@rayquazzenron3853]

Now you've got a nice amount of likes as well

[@jocosesonata]

@@rayquazzenron3853 *_Nice!_*

[@umb0g025]

I like the fact that Jane is in professional presenter mode when Ellen and Andy are in kids who were forced to sit through something terrible by their mum mode.

[@mp5wes]

Until it was revealed she fell asleep 😂

[@Brighton24601]

“It was so bad, Jane fell asleep” “In my defense, I was extremely bored” Well maybe the movie is devoid of comedy, but I had a hearty chuckle at that exchange.

[@billyalarie929]

That was VERY good. Jane is incredibly underrated.

[@williamw2529]

“In my defense, I was extremely bored” This is def an autobiography title if I ever heard one.

[@tyranid05]

I literally fell asleep for 45 minutes in and the only thing i could tell that had visibly progressed was the play bar on the bottom of the screen

[@YaBoiVD]

Andy's deadpan delivery of "this movie f*cking sucks" was hilarious

[@markdowling9020]

A three-letter reaction from the team to the new Borderlands movie: Andy: Grr Ellen: Meh Jane: Zzz

[@Tyr_Magnus]

Perfect summary. 😜😂

[@robstuart8474]

To refine: Ellen: Meh Jane: Zzz Andy: FUU...

[@SHADOWofJUSTiCE]

ugh... my reaction to the trailer and the perfect 3 letter review...

[@francescoluan8174]

Andy is hilarious

[@benjamincarlson6994]

Not every movie needs to be just an "all-star cast." When 90% of the budget just goes to paying like 5 people, that last 10% has to stretch incredibly far on sets, costumes, writers, directing, film crews, support staff, editors, etc etc. This is so top heavy that I'm not surprised it couldn't stand on its own

[@williamglidwell4106]

I agree with what Ellen was saying around 11:00, some adaptations are good because they follow the story, just adjusted for film or tv run times, but then you get really big games where you just can't, and you just set them in the same universe and have a bunch of cameos and easter eggs. I have friends who write fanfiction, and the way they put it is that they don't want to play with the authors toys, they just want to play in his sandbox. Id be interested in an elder scrolls movie or series, for instance, and there is thousands of years and hundreds of in game stories you could follow, without ever touching the main quests and having to hear people moan about canon. In Mass Effect you get barebones about the First Contact War, we know how it started, how it ended, and the occasional anecdote. That is a framework you can start with, that still has plenty of room to move around for the director to take artistic license, as long as they aren't deliberately trying to bone canon. Borderlands is a story about an entire PLANET of treasure hunters, mercenaries, bandits, profiteers, and rogue corporations. All looking for a rumored McGuffin of great value and power, each with their own personal motivation from good to bad, from simple greed to thrill seeking. And the only thing they could think to do in that sandbox, was to play with the creators' toys, and badly at that.

[@samtrue3]

It's why dnd movie worked well they understood the setting and worked with that without having drizzt and minsk being the main character

[@mikoto7693]

That’s the perfect way to describe what I did with fanfic writing when I was younger. I used the universe as a sandbox because the rules were good and pre-defined. For example the Stargate universe. The stargates, the races, the lore. I avoided SG-1 as much as I could because I created my own characters for my SG-3 team. I eventually created my own original universes but yeah that can work.

[@Upstart051]

You put it really well.

[@andyofdeth]

The “Jane fell asleep” reveal in this video had more plot and entertainment than anything featured in the Borderlands movie.

[@jamesabbot-cole6814]

I didn't fall asleep Ok I had a nap Well, I had a big bag of popcorn and fell asleep until the gun went off.

[@Mornington.Crescent]

Loving the fact that we got nearly halfway through proceedings before it was mentioned 😂

[@williamw2529]

That's a harsh review

[@danieldundon6]

I can always trust Andy to say what he feels with no sugar coating

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

''Unfortunately'' :P LOL

[@sr20shane]

Ellen being so politically correct and worrying so much about offending people that she couldn't even give a coherent and honest review, if you cant even give your own personal view on the movie you shouldn't even be there for the review, even if people see Andy's reaction and review as abrasive or rude at least he's being honest but the majority of people agree with him on this movie!

[@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt]

​@@sr20shane you've not watched much of either channel have you lol

[@sr20shane]

@@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt i watch both channels but the fact she couldnt give her review of the movie suggests she's too worried about how it will be perceived and only opened up a bit more when Andy took the heat off it and tore into the movie!

[@wizardchap9724]

Mom can’t cook came early

[@wavion2]

"I ate a big bag of popcorn and fell asleep" is actually a pretty good one-line review.

[@akmal94ibrahim]

Same like Kojima's "I saw Madame Webb at the cinema" without giving any opinions of the movie

[@SirStanleytheStumbler]

"It was a great sleep and I awoke feeling like I missed nothing"

[@Fanthomas1742]

I did the same during avatar 2

[@lisah-p8474]

19:24 Jane: "Maybe the screenwriter hasn't played the game." I THINK THAT'S A GIVEN

[@mainboysmusic6985]

I like how we've got: Ellen the Angel - trying to give it that benefit of the doubt / Jane the Reasoner - trying to apply logic to this dumpster fire / Andy the Devil - condemning its very being

[@yufi305]

🤣🤣

[@micahsmith2066]

This is one of the most miscast movies I have ever seen. It's a celebrity cameo presented as a movie. It's a PG 13 rated movie of an M rated game. The props look neat but the CGI looks horrible.

[@JeskidoYT]

A reverse deadpool, since they went from pg13 to rated R

[@Enkijamenk]

It’s a movie adaptation of a game series with virtually no plot _to_ adapt that peaked in popularity a decade ago. Hard stop. I can’t fathom what they were thinking in the first place. Out of all the games to make into a movie, Borderlands?!

[@micahsmith2066]

@@Enkijamenk To be fair, they did start producing it a good while ago and it had development trouble. So at the time it probably wasn't do bad.

[@micahsmith2066]

@@JeskidoYT Indeed. It's like the Disney lightsaber problem.

[@michaelmann7816]

​@@Enkijamenk I'd put money on the logic being "well, the game's got lots of shooting and explosions, and witty one-liners, and people like shooting and explosions and witty one-liners, right?" Same sort of logic that lead to movies of Street Fighter (2) and Mortal Kombat, which regardless of your opinion on them have pretty much the default fighting game level of story (ie the bare minimum needed to explain why a sumo wrestler and a US Army guy are punching one another in the middle of a Chinese street.)

[@MrMBinder]

"I ate all the snacks and fell asleep" Jane was my spirit animal all along.

[@akmal94ibrahim]

The mom of the group

[@socalledchaosaus]

yeah indeed

[@jonbaxter2254]

I too eat food and nap quite often

[@williamw2529]

Grandma Jane sounds fun

[@mattball8622]

I think it speaks volumes that I've heard Andy tear into dozens of D-Coms and none of them have earned the level of vitriol he's showing here. It's impressive, really.

[@NotApplicable2874]

Really - I am reminded of how comparatively kind he was to Phantom of the Megaplex lol

[@zanite8650]

You can tell he enjoyed watching most of them, even if they were ridiculous.

[@tyrannicpuppy]

Andy is almost as upset by the Borderlands movie as he was by Mike in Ghost Mode. Almost.

[@SinaMorovati]

I mean the budget and expectations are part of it, as well.

[@mattball8622]

@@NotApplicable2874 hooray for Hollywood!

[@Gamer3427]

This is yet another example of how getting "big names" means absolutely nothing if the script and direction are bad. Particularly when a lot of those names don't fit the roles. If you're so aware that the actress playing a character doesn't fit for that character that you have to make multiple references to her being too old, then get someone who's a better fit. This whole movie feels like a case where they got the cast first, then tried to write the whole thing around that, and their only info about the source material was a few screenshots and spending five minutes browsing the wiki.

[@GirGasm]

I kept bringing up the lack of Siren anything in the trailers. To the point of Liliths tattoos which would still be seen on her chest being completely absent. And knowing they tried making her being a Siren the surprise at the end is outrageously stupid. What were they actually thinking with this? They could have done so much better with even a fraction of effort to the already established universe from anyone involved.

[@yufi305]

listen, I haven't seen it nor have I played the games, but even I understand that taking a well-known character trait for anything and turning it into a plot twist for a famous titled movie adaptation of a book or game, where the majority of people who more likely to see it are the fans of that book or game and know the characters inside and out is a bad Idea.😅

[@nathanpeterson1431]

0:36 Jane: Ellen, What did you think of Borderlands? Ellen: I- When we came out Jane; Say it! Andy: This movie fucking sucked.

[@natsune09]

What gets me is that this movie was released despite them knowing it was bad, and yet WB doesn't release 'Coyote vs Acme' despite positive reviews from test audiences.

[@NameRealperson]

Tax writeoff maths must've worked out differently

[@natsune09]

@@NameRealperson Sad, but most likely true

[@MrBazBake]

WB is trying to write off taxes, Lionsgate is trying to get something in theaters so they don't get sued by the actors who signed on for points.

[@Nostripe361]

With his bad their theater showings have been you’d think expect them to put something good out

[@kdjets]

Hey, whatever is profitable right? The tax write-off for that film was better for the bottom line so... That's business for you. It's completely awful 😔 would love to see that canceled film.

[@eyantyler]

In our screening - which was pretty full - there was *zero* response from the audience. No laughs, no movement, no idle conversation, nothing. It was actually kinda creepy.

[@Martial_Autist]

Such is the power of true boredom. More than a few were probably gritting their teeth and regretting whatever life choices ended up putting them in that room that day. x'D

[@kukuhimanputraraharja8084]

fans of borderlands stories where it has good parts mostly & especially b2 and tales from borderlands would feel feel massively disappointed and insulted. just like fans of dragonballs when they watch dragonball devolution 'live action movie with high school westerner goku" hollywood writers like usual think their own original writings would be much better than their video game source materials' writings i hope the 'geriatriclands' movie dies off quickly, so that they would never get the chance to make a sequel to ruin gaige even further than the nerfed simp uncyberpunkanarchistmetal depressed indecisive alcoholic wokeslave version of gaige in b3 which was written by completely different writer (sam winkler)... b3 gaige is an insulting retconned version that heavily contrasted the og b2 badass happy dorky anarchist cyberpunk vault hunter enthusiastic mechromancer gaige (written by anthony burch). best to just make up our own ideal versions of borderlands movie in our minds. or even better borderlands anime/comic style animation series like cyberpunk edgerunner or arcane series. claptrap in b1.5 claptastic voyage dlc (where he asked players to save the canonically dead tk baha & marian from death) has shown us the way to reject sucky messy disrespectful part of canon lore and make our own headcanons to enjoy the series and give the characters the respect they deserved...

[@Mysticgamer]

Half of them fell asleep and the other half didn't want to wake them.

[@hannarchy6554]

I feel like the formula for Claptrap is: Step 1: Claptrap is REALLY annoying Step 2: Something comically violent or humiliating happens to him that you enjoy Step 3: Claptrap is fine afterwards so you don't have to feel bad that he got hurt/humiliated. I don't think it works as well when you sub "Claptrap is REALLY annoying" with "Claptrap is an asshole"

[@hackercow211]

Also, CL4P-TP was depressing as hell in the Handsome Jack saga. There were times where you did want to root for him just as much as you'd want to punt that annoying little glorified doorknob

[@anvior45]

I think that the people who made Deadpool, or the One Piece live action could have made a good Borderlands movie. The entire cast could have been good, but not widely known actors: Saving money for other things, like awesome wacky guns. Also it should have been rated R.

[@Arjay404]

Going the Deadpool approach instead of the Guardians approach actually makes a lot more sense for Borderlands. They both have this childish funny/not funny humor to it and being able to go crazy with the violence would fit perfectly. Just imagine a cold open for the movie where a group of psycho's get blown to bits by a grenade with crazy effects in the same style of Deadpool blowing himself up on those red barrels.

[@thundercookie3214]

I know that Jamie Lee Curtis was supposed to appear in the Netflix adaption of One Piece and they couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts. And now I hate the movie even more because for some reason I feel that she was made to perform in this when instead she could have been a badass doctor training a reindeer...

[@SomewhatSlightlyBored]

The guy who directed the first Deadpool directed the reshoots for this movie.

[@Arjay404]

@@SomewhatSlightlyBored Sure, but he was hamstrung by the direction they had already taken and mostly the movie they had already made. Reshoot can help a movie, but they can't undo a movie. Also big difference is Deadpool was rated R, just like this should have been.

[@sirpr3ce855]

@@thundercookie3214 she as Kureha would have been a great casting decision, the complete opposite of her playing tannis who is like, what, in her early/mid 30s even during the BL3? like even if the film would have been good i found the overall casting choices of this movie so extremely odd...

[@omnicatalyst]

2:43 jack black not having fun is one hell of an indictment

[@Tabbyclaw]

The image Andy painted of the entire audience grimly watching the mid-credits scene and then trudging out of the theater sounds funnier than anything in the film itself.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

I missed the mid credits scene

[@SomewhatSlightlyBored]

@@PanAndScanBuddy who could blame you?

[@yufi305]

It definately is a funny image, and I'll just have to take your word for it cause I didn't watch the film at all.

[@arndnaj]

As Mike once said, to paraphrase, they're not even angry, it's worse, they're disappointed.

[@toratio8547]

Except Andy. Andy is angry, for sure.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

@toratio8547 I'd say "furiously disappointed".

[@shocalremix]

Look without even watching it. The movie was gonna be horrible the moment the actor for Tiny Tina publicly said she didn't give a shit about the game or the fans, but wanted to give a good performance for who she thought the character was. Which wasn't TIna. She willingly chose to not do any research.

[@anvior45]

Someone like Chloe Graze Moretz in her Kick-Ass age would have been a lot better.

[@sirpr3ce855]

especially what a flawed logic she wants a good performance but doesnt want to perform like the character she impersonates? like if you are an actor but you arent acting the way the character would act isnt that essentially a playbook example of bad acting?

[@Rakshiir]

I mean, they also changed Tina a lot it seems. Honestly, Tina was a character that felt like you needed protection from her, since she was such a chaotic character throwing around explosions. And now she is a character that they need to protect in a way? But I do agree that you need someone who understands the character and appeal to play her. Thats something I had to give the Wednesday show. Ortega did respect the character and tried to do her justice - seemingly against the will of some others connected to the show, which is insane to think about it. If you want to try to put the finger on the thing that the movie failed to do: Understanding. Nobody connected to it seems to understand or respect what Borderlands was, why it had appeal, and because of that they misscast most characters, writing doesn't fit the tone of the good games in the franchise, and moving it to PG13 also was a big disservice because you could not include gore or the humor. Even if they nailed the action part of the movie it would have been a rough sell - but they didn't even manage to do it anyway.

[@matthewevans107]

Walter Goggins said the save thing about Fallout and he’s nominated for awards because of it. It’s not necessarily a bad thing.

[@shocalremix]

@@matthewevans107 not a pre established character or story. Fallout did an original in the setting. He just had to play a badass ghoul and act well.

[@marcosdheleno]

13:10 that could work. imagine the scene in the middle of a firefight, against dozens of people shooting at them, and everyone but 1 person is shooting and then they notice one of them is back there, just checking guns, and shooting at a wall before picking another to try. that could be a funny bit about the min maxing in the game. and as a one off, it would be a weird way to show how the diverse the guns are. but the movie would need to be smartly written to pull it off.

[@nemilyk]

...I'm now aching for the Pitch Meeting breakdown of this XD. "So, you have a Borderlands movie for me?" "No sir, I don't!"

[@mikesb113]

I think it'll be super easy, barely an inconvenience 😅

[@ghostderazgriz]

More like "So you have money for me?" "Yes sir I do! This one has Jack black in it!" "As a loveable animated character with jack black charm?" "You know it!" "Wow, wow, wow!... wow"

[@stevenharper9108]

I assume screenwriter guy is going to just throw the script in the trash and write a new one on a napkin during the pitch.

[@Ektalon]

“But I do have a fistful of unconnected ideas we can slap the name on!”

[@coyoteone6197]

"So what about this Roland, what's his deal?" "Well he's this big serious soldier guy. So I figure we could get Kevin Hart." "Kevin Hart the famously small comic actor?" "Yeah yeah yeah." "Sounds great!"

[@Minecraftian55]

Honestly, I think Borderlands would have been better as an animated movie/show, since the comic book aesthetic and cartoon violence are staples of Borderlands. As for the story, the first Tales from the Borderlands proves you can tell a wacky and goofy but meaningful and impactful story within the Borderlands universe. It could have been similar to Arcane and even used the voice actors from the games.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

That was exactly what I was thinking when I heard it would be live action. I thought, "Why?"

[@Mach1048]

Yeah, hand it over to Studio Trigger. We've seen what they did with Cyberpunk Edgerunners.

[@FunGameGirl97]

It would have been awesome if we got an arcane style animated show/movie instead, and it actually be rated R 🙄

[@TessaOswin]

I mean one of the most recognisable thing about borderland for someone who hasn’t played it is the art style

[@RainWelsh]

It’s wild to me that with all the acclaim Arcane and Edgerunners got, studios are apparently still dead-set on the idea of animation being second class, or a last resort if they can’t make live action work.

[@Cohult]

They got a director known for NOT making comedies, the execs insisted it achieve at worst a PG13 rating ('cause rated R movies can't possibly fill theaters *cough* Deadpool & Wolverine *cough*), and apparently there wasn't a single laugh in the test preview but they decided that wasn't a problem.

[@jamesabbot-cole6814]

The most damning part I felt was Andy's description of what happened during the mid credits scene.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

Not known for comedy? But there's a scene where a car flies through the air and everybody inside yells, "Oh shiiiiii..!!!" That's funny, right? Right?

[@cooltrainervaultboy-39]

How much y'all are willing to bet they're going to blame Deadpool and Wolverine for this movie's terrible performance?

[@littlefurnace]

Lmao, I haven't played any borderlands games so the only part of it I really know about is when that guy asks you to shoot him in the head and it's funny. That is such an indicator for the tone of the games, how would anyone think this is anything other than a recipe for an R rated comedy??

[@jamesabbot-cole6814]

@@littlefurnace That's the quest where the bloke want's to off himself and tries to get you to do it for him. The first 2 aren't bad, the 3rd one falls a bit flat. Though the humour is quite particular it's not as bad as the jokes from "Funny" hollywood movies and tends to have at least some thought put into them.

[@TheRealMEEDABEE]

I work at a theater and I have to wait outside of the auditorium until the Claptrap mid-credit scene's over every time I go in to clean up for the next showing - after the two generous chances I've given to listen to it, it makes me irrationally angry, and I'm simply grateful that so few people are going to see it so that I can get done cleaning before the rest of the credits are over

[@MiloTheHermit]

Maybe they can fix it in a sequel by having Handsom Jack show the movie as a smear campaign against vault hunters

[@streetbaron2734]

Nah, they would need to redo this whole things with a new set of casts that virtually makes the first movie non cannon because anything with Kevin hart sucks, this movie is not a movie that should have jack black in it, he was good as bowser, just don’t see him good as claptrap

[@Deano3225]

Jane and Ellen really didn't hold back, but I would like to hear what Andy thought.

[@mirusasaki]

Andy cannot hold his disappoinment and I'm happy that he didn't sugarcoat it.

[@Rusty84CV]

I'm sure he plays it up a bit for the camera

[@GeneCash]

@@Rusty84CV Not really.... I hope if a movie fucking sucks, Andy will say "that movie fucking sucked". That's the sort of raw honesty I expect.

[@travisrolison9646]

Im guessing they didnt get sponsored by the film. I mean some games like the star wars game coming out look terrible and they didn't roast it, among some others they played or showed in the past

[@GhengisJohn]

The problem is they misread the title and thought it said "BoredomLands".

[@jessea4438]

I feel like an animated Borderlands movie would have absolutely slapped. The stylized animation used in Spider-Verse, Arcane, and TMNT has become so popular as of late, and it would ABSOLUTLY compliment the video game's art style. This would have been a no-brainer, but instead, we got actors that don't resemble the characters at all, shotty effects that often look cheap, and an absolutely uninspired visual direction. That's not even to mention all of the other glairing issues with the movie.

[@thalandor46]

I remember seeing Jack Black as Claptrap in the first trailer, and immediately thinking "Oh, they do not understand Borderlands" and lost any fleeting interest I had in the movie. Glad to hear that this assessment was spot on.

[@Upstart051]

Director got the cliff notes and thinks actually playing the games first is beneath him

[@zanite8650]

Somewhere, Uwe Boll is unsettled and he doesn't know why.

[@splatman7300]

Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time

[@RevanAlaire]

Boll just made a statement, claiming he could have done a better job. 🤣

[@ethanlappin]

To paraphrase Yahtzee: let's gather round a barrel and shoot some fucking fish

[@JasonRobards2]

Is there a Yahtzee movie too???

[@ethanlappin]

@@JasonRobards2 Yahtzee Crowshaw, the guy who does the Zero Punctuation (now 'Totally Ramblomatic'( reviews, that's the line he used when reviewing ride to hell retribution

[@davidmcgill1000]

@@JasonRobards2 Probably a better movie than this.

[@come_on_munster]

Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee

[@ethanlappin]

@@come_on_munster this movie definitely suffering from that 😂

[@cmdrvimes72]

When I went to see Deadpool and Wolverine I saw a lot of trailers for movies I am genuinely excited for (Alien: Romulus and Beetlejuice 2 for example) but when I saw the newest trailer for Borderlands I lost even more faith than the miniscule amount I'd had before that point. The depiction of Tiny Tina alone told me no one with any sense of the games was behind the creative force of this film. Anthony wrote her based on Ash which is why she is such a perfect fit, and to see her turned into someone who freaks out when gloop hits her is just sad. Tina is a chaos gremlin, Roland goes from cocky kid to honorable leader, Claptrap just wants friends but is woefully incompatible with people; these traits are why we love them. (Especially Roland in BL2, they took the least favorite character to play as in BL1 and made him someone who everyone was sad to lose by the end.) I had no plans to see this movie and will definitely be staying away from it.

[@jamesabbot-cole6814]

That's a good point. Alien: Romulus, Ergh those Facehuggers still creep me out. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Looks quite interesting and has vibes of the first one. Borderlands, no one seems interested, Claptrap is a bit meh, Tiny Tina looks Tame? Unenergetic? and Kevin Hart sticks out like a sore thumb for some reason.

[@cooltrainervaultboy-39]

My little brother and I just exchanged looks like, "Ew. That movie looks so bad!"

[@nataliebateman1151]

"And we've seen Borderlands." "Unfortunately." Cracked me up so hard XD

[@braynjohnson4302]

15:49 to be honest Kevin Hart has almost never played anything BUT Kevin Hart. He’s loud and obnoxious and rarely funny

[@r.coburn3344]

I have a friend who's kinda like Kevin Hart, and I think that's my favorite form of Kevin Hart. The dollar store version who's a real g

[@danielarosindo]

30 seconds in and Andy is already cussing ..this is gonna be good 😂😂😂

[@azyrael96]

18 even. love the vibes of this new format

[@lock376]

He's really bringing the mom cant cook vibes,

[@lonewolf-4lfe399]

Gotta watch AJ's reaction

[@petesidtech4adventures415]

Please have more podcast-like discussions like that, this one was great! :)

[@MsCunningLinguistic]

Seconded! Absolutely love this format and the podcast vibe!

[@STS-qi1qy]

~Roast of the Weekend, Roast of the Weekend, Roast of the Weeeeekend!~

[@marhawkman303]

YES!!! good song. :D

[@OppaiShaddy]

"I'm a new kind of film critic" Correct. You actually say when something sucks.

[@entririhunter]

Borderlands 1 & 2 had some great gameplay and gunplay and a satisfying loot system. I've never thought of them and been like "Man, the plot was so good. I want to just watch all the characters for almost 2 hours." This movie was just a stupid idea from the get-go.

[@ripamoramee14]

this should've been an easy slam dunk R rated guardians of the galaxy with the crew just fighting their way to get the vault treasure. A bloody thrill ride by Eli but of course the studio came in and did half the movie themselves (always a great idea)

[@DracoBoros]

As soon as I heard they made the film pg-13 I knew it had no chance lol. Also, hot take probably but tiny Tina has always been my least favorite character and I see her as a main reason for the fall of the game series in general because the moneybags keep forcing her into borderlands media/ creating clones of her because she’s “popular”. I felt like they made borderlands 3 with her character trope in mind specifically for a lot of characters design philosophy, so when I saw her being forced into this film too I also knew it was doomed.

[@RevanAlaire]

I lost all faith in this adaptation the moment I learned Eli Roth was the director.

[@Treeeboy]

The casting choices were so weird for this film, everyone seemed just like 10-20 years too old for the role, Kevin Heart playing Roland, the straight man character, is just bizarre as a choice. Least now I know that I don't need to see the film ever, so thanks for that folks!

[@Paulafan5]

Tiny Tina looks horribly miscast. Cate Blanchett is a little old, but she's an amazing actress so I'd give that one a pass.

[@VeRG1L_47]

​@@Paulafan5i haven't seen this movie. Never had the intention too. But i think it's more of the director's fault than the actor's.

[@gonzotolkien]

@@VeRG1L_47 Casting is more than just the director's choice (most times). Roth isn't listed as a producer or casting. He probably gave suggestions though. Regardless, Roth did write the film. That probably doomed the movie before they even started filming, even if it was perfectly cast. I can tell just from the plot and lines in the trailer the film isn't a faithful adaptation.

[@aishaali9771]

I love that Jane and Andy have the same colour scheme for their clothes just in reverse

[@saintmuerte13]

I didn't even notice

[@shawnsg]

I can't stop looking now.

[@daltonschane7443]

You guys know about what Randy Pitchford did to the original voice actor of clap trap? Dudes name was David Eddings, and Randy bullied him constantly. Ending with Randy attacking David in a hotel, then firing him. David apparently asked if he could voice clap trap again, to which Randy said sure but that they wouldn'tpay him. That's why clap traps voice changes in the commander Lilith dlc.

[@Mediados]

You knew it was going to be shit when you look at the cast list. The only person who fit the role in theory is Jack Black, all the others were just SO far away from their characters.

[@Tyr_Magnus]

Three of the nicest most positive people on youtube and they can barely find a nice thing to say about the movie... This thing was doomed from the start. And now we'll probably never get a good Borderlands movie. Just frikkin stick to the source material!!!

[@johnplaysgames3120]

I remember thinking that Hollywood had learned that lesson after they hired a mega-fan of Lord of the Rings to make the movie adaptation and it became a classic series of beloved movies that made billions of dollars. Then more terrible, cash-grabby adaptations of various fantasy IPs came out and I realized that, nah, they still haven't put 2 and 2 together. More recently, when "Last of Us" and "Fallout" absolutely slayed by sticking faithfully to the source material, I thought, "Oh, now they'll recognize the pattern and understand that appealing to the IP's core audience is worthwhile." And yet here we are again. Tbh, though, I'm not terribly surprised. I've worked with dumb, cash-grabby producers and I know their egocentrism and stupidity knows no bounds. I once worked as a designer on a game adaptation of "The Fantastic Four" and sat in meetings with producers who'd never read a single issue of the F4 comics and said things to us like, "Stretchy powers are stupid. Let's give Reed Richards twin AK-47s." One of the producers was so clueless about the IP that she kept referring to Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) as "she." At one point, we had one of the actual writers of the comics writing the game's story for us -- a big score that the team was very excited about -- but then the wife of the head or our studio decided she wanted to try her hand at writing, so they fired the Marvel writer and let our studio head's wife (who had no writing experience) try to write the story instead. I quit shortly after that. And good thing too; when the game finally came out about two years later, late and far over budget, the reviews were terrible (as they should've been) and the studio, after making a couple more terrible games, shut down.

[@MsCunningLinguistic]

Yeah, like. Oxboxtra don't really do clickbait titles at all, so I KNEW this movie was gonna be a fucking mess. Yikes.

[@aliensliveinme]

To be fair, aimlessly wandering around mediocre gun fights while little to nothing really happens pretty much matches what I remember playing borderlands 1 to be like 15 years ago. Anyone with any sense would have just ignored BL1 and adapted the story from BL2 for use on the screen IMO.

[@anthonybowman3423]

I don't think you NEED to stick to source material to make a good adaptation. I think actually that's an important lessons that has made a lot of recent adaptations so much better. Don't worry about the material. Worry about the themes, the feelings it invokes, the vibes it puts off. If watching your movie makes me feel the same way the game does, then it did a good job. I don't CARE if it follows the same plot. Especially in a game like borderlands, which is not about it's plot. Especially the first game. It was a game defined by fun lovable characters doing crazy over the top bullshit with reckless abandon in a world with no value for the lives of anyone, yourself included. And NONE of that came across in this movie. If they'd stuck more closely to the plot but still didn't convey any of that, the movie would still be miserable.

[@cooltrainervaultboy-39]

​@@anthonybowman3423While I get what you are saying, and the least they could do was stick as close to the source material without taking too many creative libraries. If not that, then maybe focus on a new original group of Vault Hunters, and have it set roughly within the same continuity of the games. The games pretty much established that level of flexibility, so fans wouldn't question it too much.

[@LunaJLane]

I don't think anyone involved in this movie had any clue what the game is about and none of them seemed to care. It was all just mailed in and boring.

[@seang5815]

I've never played the games, but even I understand that Tiny Tina is not a child that needs to be protected. That's like the next batman movie, revolving around keeping Robin safe at all times.

[@tomassoejakto]

I expected Jack Black to have SOME idea what Borderlands is about, since he has a pseudo-gaming channel, after all. Turns out that's not the case. I guess he has a channel just to stay relevant and the movie is just another payday for him and for the rest of the cast.

[@Amaritudine]

​@@tomassoejaktoIn fairness to Mr Black, he likely had little or no influence over Claptrap's dialogue or antics. Caring about the source material is one thing; getting to re-write someone else's adaptation of that material is something else entirely.

[@anthonybowman3423]

@@Amaritudine I expect a couple of the actors knew the game well enough to know how dirty the movie was doing it, and that's WHY their performances felt stale.

[@cooltrainervaultboy-39]

​@@anthonybowman3423We'd probably hear reports of the actor(s) being difficult to work with on set, because they wanted to be faithful to the character and/or source material. But because the writers like to human centipede themselves to huff their own undistilled farts, they wouldn't let that happen. So given we how we haven't heard anything, and shoot, not even a press interview, I highly doubt there was anyone who played the games, and was passionate to speak up.

[@mischiefwargaming]

I was not expecting the 'Jane fell asleep' plot twist!

[@MojosGarden]

You guys mesh well as film critics. Andy is brutally honest, Ellen tries to find a nice way to explain why the movie sucked, and Jane is halfway between both extremes. Great review, guys! I enjoyed the format 👍

[@Victorina]

Andy's intro is exactly how I want reviews, snappy, succint, to the point xD

[@sneaksyranger]

Andy: "I would like to see Claptrap!" Borderlands Movie: "We have Jack Black Claptrap at home."

[@oldvlognewtricks]

Craptrap

[@Datboi_23]

JackTrap

[@billyalarie929]

Bars

[@ryanlftwflex]

Had. RIP Trashbot

[@KapiteinKrentebol]

Claptrap always was a Spongebob ripoff.

[@DigimonTamerfreak]

Jane "I had a little nap" Douglass"

[@arachnid_agrajag]

RIP Purple Sofa 💜

[@BogeyTheBear]

Oh. That's an actual brick wall. First two videos made me think they were sitting at green screen and had a stock Zoom background of a wall and lamp keyed in.

[@SylFoss]

@@BogeyTheBear Nope, this one's immune to Luke's arrows in case he is planning an attack. Anyone remember which SotW that was? (Just the arrow. No attack.. yet)

[@stuartmorley6894]

He won't attack. He's fallen down a Dark Souls hole and can't get out.

[@whimsical.turtle]

@@SylFoss "Luke's Archery Challenge: Ellen's Forbidden West Quiz" just rewatched that one today haha

[@RevanAlaire]

A weird American man eloped with it.

[@cisero_thedragjester]

As soon as I heard that Anthony Burch (the lead writer for Borderlands 2) wasn’t gonna be involved, I knew it was dead in the water. He just posted a tweet saying “lol” and everyone knew he had just seen the film. Idk why original creators aren’t included more in the production process. Like all the good adaptations they gave examples of all had the original creators involved. It’s just the classic problem of the big heads not getting that things are good for a reason.

[@unculturedweeb4240]

They completely failed to make fun of the blatant nepotism of the Atlas corporation.

[@nannerb9]

Somewhere deep in the offices of Lionsgate, a voice whispers... "Air it"

[@Joe90h]

Is the Lionsgate equivalent of Mickey Mouse actually Norm Of The North?

[@wizardchap9724]

That comment just made my day as a mom can’t cook fan

[@Liamhodsii]

Not even non-DCOMs are safe from the wrath of Andy

[@sufjams]

I love Mom Can't Cook, it introduced me to Kermode and Mayo which is a fine podcast.

[@mar_speedman]

@@sufjams Um... I'm not sure that was Luke and Andy's intention behind their podcast xD

[@Hyperdisk]

I'm a fish boy

[@mar_speedman]

@@Hyperdisk Huh, would you look at that. I just so happen to be a leprechaun

[@oeurydice]

@@Hyperdisk do you skate for team x-blade?!!

[@kevinmegannety1163]

A Marcus opening narration to give exposition at the start followed by a stylised intro with music works as opening credits would transplant so well from game to film but its obvious no fan worked on this.

[@andrewneedham3281]

"So, you want to see a movie?"

[@MagiTycho]

​@@andrewneedham3281 and any actual BL fan just read that in Marcus's voice.

[@AGrumpyPanda]

@@MagiTycho I wouldn't even call myself a BL fan and *I* read that in Marcus' voice.

[@doctorsam9200]

22:20 Strangely enough, the movie did make me want to play BL2 again. Not because I loved the movie, but because I wanted to listen to a Borderlands story that was actually enjoyable and had good character writing

[@ExcellentU]

It's funny, I just so happened to be playing Borderlands 3 at the time when the first trailer for this film dropped. And my immediate reaction was: "Oh, the people who made this film have completely misunderstood the tone and humor of these games and these characters. This is not a Borderlands movie, this is a different movie wearing a poorly-fitted Borderlands costume." And then I promptly returned to playing Borderlands 3 and never looked back.

[@MelchVagquest]

Ellen's example about the most recent Tomb Raider could also apply to the Uncharted movie. They crammed storylines and themes from every game in the series to create an ungodly amalgamation

[@Uninspiredradio]

I forgot the Uncharted movie existed!

[@Nammjahtan]

@@Uninspiredradio I feel like that's an appropriate review of that movie.

[@bugwandis]

@@Uninspiredradio Same, and I watched it in the cinema.

[@DerDudelino]

Hollywood typically doesn't understand why a game works so well and they don't care enough to listen to its creators. Nathan Drake as a character is so iconic, because he is essentially a muscular Indiana Jones that looks like an action hero that makes a lot of bad decisions that his girlfriend needs to fix which creates funny drama. What's even more important: He looks like a guy, who can do the stunts he does - because he has this physique and it works. When Tom Holland does these stunts and has these fight scenes in the Uncharted movie, it feels weird, because he looks like a teenager. And he behaves like a kid. He doesn't even know how to flirt to a girl and comes over super innocent - that doesn't fit Nathan Drake, who always had a side-chick before he settled for Elena. Uncharted was also a little bit of a bizarre movie, because Mark Wahlberg plays Sully, but looks more like Nathan Drake which confused the hell outta me :D

[@1989crazymofo2]

0:16 Loved Andy's reaction to the movie 😂😂😂😂

[@williamw2529]

Very blunt hooo wee

[@AvatAR42420]

Yes, I know the actors were all big names, but I found the casting to be quite off. Most of the casting choices feel like actors picked for their popularity rather than how well they fit the role. The trailer alone was enough to make me realize I did not want to watch it.

[@claretravels783]

What I wish more people would acknowledge, is that "all star cast" does not = good film. Hollywood is really desperate to make us think so, and it's practically all they make these days. But tbh when I see yet another trailer for an unoriginal ip made into a "wacky comedy action adventure!" with an "all star cast!" my brain just shuts off. I cannot think of anything I'm less interested in 🙃

[@KahranRamsus]

Randy Pitchford is probably just going to gaslight the Borderlands fans, saying they just 'didn't get it.' There's no way he didn't think this was his magnum opus or something.

[@uRstoopid]

He is already doing that on twitter lmao, called it

[@jaggin7561]

Yeah thats many CEOs formula those who arent tough enough to protect their brand just their paycheck. The best thing to do is reward those who have a backbone and would make sure to do everything for the fans best interest. This movie should have never happened at all in this way.

[@wilbo_baggins]

Well you have take 2 ceo saying give it a chance lol

[@Boyzby]

Does anyone actually care what he says? I don't know how anyone could attempt to gaslight people who don't trust you.

[@pjsell]

Andy’s immediate reaction says it all. He is all of us

[@rottenavocado7647]

I'm not disappointed because I already got my ideal Borderlands movie. It's made by Telltale Games and it's both awesome and memorable.

[@Space_Noise]

Exactly

[@twilightgeneral777]

100% Agreed

[@nairocamilo]

Amazing characters

[@cameronhermann9400]

That “unfortunately” at the beginning made me excited for what was to come. Also, I love your new office. Looks great

[@emotionalsupportviking]

This was delightful and a very enjoyable watch. Being less tied to gameplay/game structure and in a longer format really suits you all well and lets your 'improv ability' shine. More of this from to time, thank you :)

[@roguepotato5389]

Lilith is supposed to be 22 in the first game, according to screen rant

[@Isaygoodday5]

Wow I've been saying that Lilith looks twice as old as she should be, but I guess it's closer to three times

[@baydiac]

Here I thought I was being judgemental. "Cate Blanchett? Isn't she a little old to be Lilith? I'm 25 and I thought Lilith was younger than me... maybe it's just the way women are animated in video games and it was totally ambiguous. My bad. Now I feel guilty for being annoyed they didn't choose some young starlet to play her, I'm reinforcing Hollywood beauty standards..." Legitimately, all of that was running through my head when I saw the trailers. All of it. I felt bad & felt bad for feeling bad. But no, just turns out I was right and it was a colossal miscast. Wtf was going on with her wig, anyway? That's not even close to what it looks like when someone dyes their hair red. It reminds me of the most recent Descendants movie. Same wig quality as a children's film. Seriously.

[@alexteichner9988]

You know it's bad when the CEO of the parent company begs people to go see the movie. Edit: it's worse than Randy Pitchford... It's the head of Take-Two Interactive

[@Garthdon]

And the Gearbox CEO who made the movie, Greasy Randy Pitchford, is no where to be found.

[@adamcammack3534]

Sounds like Randy Pitchford alright ( Might not be him but he'll probably say something stupid about it soon )

[@uRstoopid]

@@Garthdon He is retweeting all the tweets talking good about the movie, which are mostly bot accounts and a couple of sellouts shilling for him. And the mean comments about the movie get blocked immediately. He blocked one of the OG borderlands youtuber for saying the movie was bad lmao

[@Hellwyck]

How can it be worse than Smarmy Pitchfork?

[@jaggin7561]

He can buy up the theaters himself. He should've been begging Lionsgate to hire better people and actually made sure the movie was accurate at best. From what I've seen out of the gameplay and researched from sites, it wasn't hard to adapt this correctly at all. His excuse about movies anf games being separate wasn't about it being a challenge, it was about him thinking he was better.

[@deigning]

'pissed off by something that doesn't work' andy is a thousand percent my favorite andy

[@oxfanblink4115]

Especially involving a cat and a ball with wobbly controls he hates 😂🤣😂🤣🤣Or Death Stranding: Director’s Cut 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@lukekebell3146]

My expectations died the second Kevin Hart was announced as Roland

[@solidshake12]

Feels like they found a random cast list from 30 years ago and just decided to go with it.

[@viktorreaper9748]

Jane:hello! Ellen: waves and smiles. Andy:(deadpan) F**kin movie sucks. Is it any wonder we love you guys and your content so much?

[@jeremypalmer5695]

Things that were missing: Where was Rowan's turret? No reference to the corporation or their various guns. Was waiting the whole movie for someone to shoot an elemental Maliwan. It's a movie aimed at the same young generation that would go see Mario, yet it's a property that was PG 13 that came out several years ago.

[@aeloswindrunner]

Andy coming out of the gate turned up to 11 and somehow only went up from there xD

[@npiper]

7:03 Just a bit of rose tinting going on with your memories there chum. Borderlands 2 was vibrant and colorful... compared to the 2010 era next-gen beige and grime but it still had the characteristic dinge and muting of the era.

[@clockworkmonsters8590]

If you're going for horror, my best suggestion would be to base it on the Borderlands 3 DLC Love and Tentacles. It's set on a Lovecraftian planet with possession and stuff

[@natluvvy]

I love the brutal honesty. There is no need to pull punches when something is so obviously a soulless cash grab that everyone anticipated as soon as they dropped the trailer

[@badbones777]

It's peak Randy Pitchford to hire Eli Roth (not noted for his aversion to gore) to direct a film of game that is kind of violent (albeit in a very over the top silly way but still) and decide it needs to be a family film. I suppose we're just lucky he didn't accidentally upload that one film he left on that hard drive in medieval times. It's the kind of walking car crash move he'd do.

[@alexkaen1701]

The trailers looked like the studio had pics from the game, and basic wiki descriptions for the characters, and not one person who actually played the games.

[@TheGlideIsHere]

I adore any time I get to hear these folks just drop opinion pieces in long form. The group energy is fantastic and everyone had good thoughts to contribute.

[@fuzzyotterpaws4395]

I agree with Ellen in the fact that I've never hated a movie, just never really acknowledged it after. I see it and that's it but don't really think much about it like she said😂

[@jesssealey6552]

Andy's swear jar funds alone could fund the new studio improvements and fixes lol

[@Amaritudine]

Jane's comment about "cargo cult" adaptation is absolute gold, and needs to be taken to heart by the entertainment industry in general.

[@raikensmasher]

timestamp?

[@Amaritudine]

@@raikensmasher 26:30 to 27.00 or so. It's a small part of the bigger discussion, but the cargo cult analogy is just so apt.

[@AliceTheTulpa]

More banter oriented stuff that isn't just a stream gives some of us that can't catch the livestreams or maybe don't consume long for content a chance to experience live fun banter. We love you guys for your friendship and conversational wit. 🖤✨️🖤✨️🖤

[@madalice5134]

Making Tiny Tina just a kid who needs to be protected is a crime against her character. I'm so glad I never thought this would be any good and didn't waste my hard earned money.

[@IAmAlwaysJohn]

Borderlands the movie is like someone who spent a lot of time being in the room on their phone, half paying attention while someone else played borderlands wrote a borderlands movie.

[@Fools3rrand]

This movie is a throwback to the early 00's comic/videogame movie. Jane nailed the point I was feeling, after so much media proving that adaptations can be done and feel spectacular this shitshow feels particularly egregious.

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

Makes me treasure the Castlevania series even more...