The Borderlands Movie is Borderline Unwatchable

[@PossumReviews]

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[@flexsealman7096]

(Answer to question) To prove he wasn't chicken. 🤦I'll slap myself now, thanks.

[@ManWithAMask_]

Why did the duck cross the road? To subscribe to Possum Reviews!

[@jeffpark6040]

The duck crossing the road is in fact an chicken. Just adintafying as an duck

[@Ramdileo_sys]

At 10:15 .. you can see the crew member arms reaching to hold the manhole cover open 🤦‍♀​🤦‍♀​

[@TheCollapse410]

The last of us should have been the EASIEST win a company ever had. But even that was ruined. O n play borderlands 2. Only good one. And it is GOOOOD.

[@blizzardregulus]

Trust me, Possum, if you played the first two Borderlands games, the movie would only piss you off even more.

[@lazyyog7203]

I've played all 3 and this movie still hurt me worse than the third one

[@realdragon]

Why? I didn't play any borderline

[@JubileeCaptcha]

@@itspooop Not only that, claptrap is not made to be a joke for audience, more a joke for the cast, they missed the entire point.

[@NoahGooder]

yep, they screwed it up so bad it almost gives the uwe boll movies a run for thier money.

[@mrminecraftcubeable]

@@realdragon it basically has nothing to do with the games outside of references

[@Anijah2001]

The borderlands movie is basically unwatchable for both parties. Fans won't like it because it disgraced the lore, and movies fans won't like it because it doesn't make sense.

[@JubileeCaptcha]

I love how it depends on you understanding the games to have any clue of what's happening, but then you see the games and understand that THIS IS NOT ACCORDING TO THE GAME HISTORY SO WHAT'S THE POINT?

[@BenjiXAddictX4Ever]

I hate how people isolate both audiences with these trash adaptations.

[@Gruntman1234]

So it's The Last Airbender of video game adaptations? Sounds about right.

[@hansjuker8296]

Sounds like every other video game movie.

[@balazsvarga1823]

​@@Gruntman1234Way less faithful than the Last Airbender movie.

[@mahtimonni97]

All of the characters look like average-to-competent cosplayers. That isn't meant to be a compliment.

[@cynicalperson161]

Damn 😂

[@barret-xiii]

Which is doubly funny because, in BL2, at the point where Lilith is captured and takes the place of Angel as the Siren-powered AI guidance thing, she then appears to the player as the same kind of looping hologram footage of a live actor in costume. They hired professional cosplayer Yasemin Arslan to record the live footage bits, because her Lilith costume was so good.

[@Lyth13]

That’s an insult to Cosplayers

[@moxiemaxie3543]

It doesn't look natural lol

[@Z3333RO]

You rarely see grannies in cosplay though.

[@Lucario4thewin]

"Why did the duck cross the road?" To see why the goblin turned on the stove.

[@chasehatchett4756]

beat me to it 😂

[@kbbrown8154]

@@chasehatchett4756 For a hot minute I thought I was original. Alas, I was not.

[@superploc]

Uh, don´t must be the chicken?

[@jakefrost7404]

Damn. Beat me to it.

[@shmurblurr1459]

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

[@LowEndPCGamer100]

the most baffling thing to me is why they would superimpose an old womans face onto a 20 something year old's body.

[@hehexd5317]

ok so the grandma doesn't have those cracking tits, I was getting confused and worried about my sanity

[@sagrawolf]

Lilith is in her early twenties but they chose to use a nearly 60 year old woman and the rest of the cast is 20 years older than they should be

[@KudoRedfox]

DEI

[@FantaMedSocker]

And Kevin Hart as Brick....

[@SiriusSphynx]

​@@KudoRedfox Not everything is that reason. Some are, but not everything. That's either a false flag statement or you need to lighten up. You start crying wolf about that and people will stop listening. Unless of course that's what you're trying to do. Hence a false flag statement.

[@stenny1274]

I work at a pretty busy cinema and on opening day Borderlands got less people than a reshowing of the Garfield movie.

[@Scornfull]

Holy fuck LOL

[@spicylizards4714]

Garfield movie SWEEPS🔥

[@candycommander]

Garfield movie doesn't chit all over the fans so that's believable.

[@VinnyTheRed]

I love Garfield

[@OpoOnTheGo]

She garf on my field until I hate Mondays

[@DanealVolkaner]

I really don't understand what was so hard about adapting the plot of the first borderlands game. You literally could have just wrote an Indiana Jones esque adventure movie where the the vault hunters look for the vault key and open the vault at the end.

[@supershadey09]

To quote the maker of the movie, Eli Roth, from interviews, "If fans of the games are looking for that sort of experience, they can play the games." The guy also listed movies he was "inspired" by such as Fifth Element, Star Wars, and Mad Max, but nowhere in the list of inspiration material were any of the Borderlands games.

[@DanealVolkaner]

@supershadey09 realistically, I think if any fan had a modest budget and cast, they could make a better video game adaptation

[@RTheren]

That'd require creativity though, and actual work.

[@armandolimon7465]

Sounds like the plot line of a Geraldo Rivera opening up Al Capone's vault. This move is like Rivera and Capone's vault. An empty, dead movie.

[@SmolPotatowo]

@@supershadey09 I don't get why people can't just make a new IP instead of trying to change old ones. I mean I know it's name recognition but it hardly ever actually works so why bother?

[@Wingnutfessional]

you know it's bad when the king of bad movies, Uwe Boll himself, comes out of retirement to clown on it.

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

King of bad *video game movies*, no less.

[@chrisspiker5422]

I'll die on the hill that postal wasn't that bad.

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

@@chrisspiker5422 I think a lot of people agree that was his least bad movie though.

[@weiwu1442]

@@chrisspiker5422postal was probably the most accurate video game movie if anything

[@wannabehistorian371]

Wait he did?

[@skyalexander8361]

"Why did the duck cross the road?" I don't know, but I'm 9 beers deep behind the wheel, so I hope he looks both ways.

[@nickshows1059]

Why did the duck cross the road? Because he wanted to buy some quack!

[@RipRLeeErmey]

No it was to see why the goblin turned on the stove

[@nickshows1059]

@@RipRLeeErmey The goblin was waiting for the duck to get back with the quack. They're both quack addicts.

[@harkbelial]

Boooooooooo🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

[@elmono6299]

Damn that's a good one. 😅

[@CuntreeMylz]

@@RipRLeeErmey to cook the quack

[@blakethebadger1]

Mr. Possum, as a long time fan, I'd like to say, when you say you have found trash, I've never watched the movie afterwards and disagreed. Not even once. Thank you for your service.

[@superploc]

I doubted one time and watched the movie. And I regretted for it. Nevermore since then I disagreeded of him.

[@carlblaskovich2812]

Eh, I liked the five nights at freddy's movie, but I completely understand his criticisms even though I disagree.

[@Mitsoxfan]

That makes you a masochist lol

[@legio1942]

@@superploc Oh, come on, you can't just drop that and not tell us which movie it was...

[@superploc]

@@legio1942 _Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny_ . As a long time IJ fan, I don´t believed when so many told me how awful this movie is, even the Possum. At last them said the same about _Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ , and I think this movie good. No in the levels of the other three, but I think good, and with a very honorable end for our dear Doctor Jones. Well, I was deadly wrong. Now I thnk I´ll never remove of my mnd this stupid car chase or how Jones is reduced to a whimpering sour idiot old man in this movie.

[@triplefreeerror]

The reason claptrap can be annoying in the game is because you can punch, kick, and shoot him for some measure of relief. A very real example of the medium difference issue you mentioned

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

I’m guessing the movie doesn’t even have a scene where a vault hunter shoots him with a cannon, does it?

[@favoritemustard3542]

If one were to translate this to the theater, it'd be the last showing bc the screen's shredded. So there's a plus lol

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

Rhys also mocks Claptrap in Tales From the Borderlands further proving on why video game films are a terrible idea.

[@TheHipisterDeer]

Exactly the movie doesn't even have this, so you never have a way of making him shut the hell up in the actual movie.

[@livingwiththebriscoes7198]

Is crazy how corporate greed ruined a franchise about how corporate greed ruins everything

[@McDanklestank]

"Free of any fandom bias" bro the fans are the ones who hate this movie the most

[@folkloreofbeing]

You missed the point.

[@erikhawthorne1143]

bias includes negative, not just positive

[@socialmediaaccount404]

the duck crossed the road to avoid watching Boarder lands

[@bwilliams463]

"'Annoying' is not a personality." If that isn't on a shirt yet, it should be.

[@OoTZOMMMoO]

It is claptrap's personality in the games though. But it was well executed, he was supposed to annoy the player AND the NPCs

[@DarkestVampire92]

Everyone harps on about Lilith being old, but everyone then ignored that Roland looks like a damn taxi driver, not an ultra veteran soldier with 400 pounds of muscle.

[@gustavolourenco5709]

People comment on him too. Her example is what got more attention.

[@Syphaxis]

Rest assured, I rip on the casting of Kevin Hart as Roland whenever this movie comes up in public conversation, interspersed with boisterous laughter.

[@FlyingCircles]

Oh no no no, Kevin Hart is definitely another huge miscasting. And they managed to mess up Tiny Tina, too. Instead of making her come across as genuinely unhinged like her actual character, she just comes across as a normal person ACTING unhinged to get attention a la "LoLoL I'm So RaNdOmMmMmM"

[@rocoe9019]

Kevin heart has been miscast in every single thing he's done!!! But it's to be expected considering there aren't any movies where a stepped on dog turd is a character in a movie!

[@PerfectTangent]

So...the goblin *intentionally* turned on the stove?

[@harkbelial]

We will never know

[@wxles]

dear god…..

[@Suskord42O]

When I heard Atlas were the villains, all I thought was, " No wonder they won so easily because Atlas tech sucks balls "

[@TheAdarkerglow]

The long and short of the game really is, "There's a vault (probably) on Pandora, and everybody wants what's inside". In the game, the chick from Atlas did in fact show up and die to the Vault monster, but the key was just a physical key, and the monster did drop good loot. I do not know why they chose to have characters from the second game, rather than the full cast of the first, nor do I know why they seem to have intentionally miscast every character, but those are certainly decisions they made.

[@allnightfright619]

Why did the duck cross the road? Well after the heist, "the Duck" and "the Road" had about $800 million in diamonds. As we all know, greed is a sinister mistress, and began whispering in "the Duck's" ear. Now he didn't know it, but at the same time, greed was whispering her seductive song into "the Road's" ear as well. It was just lucky happenstance that "the Duck" crossed "the Road" before "the Road" could cross "the Duck," or so "the Duck" has to tell himself. You see, "the Duck" and "the Road" were life long friends, and had been through a lot together. Telling himself that "the Road" was planning to cross him by killing him and stealing the diamonds for himself, is the only shield "the Duck" has to keep guilt at bay. We all know, much like greed, guilt is a torturous mistress....

[@Ramsey276one]

Nice one, fella! XD

[@KDizzy6]

This man wins. 🏆

[@rcarfang2]

Deep lore!!!

[@supereldinho]

The casting itself ought to be classified as a crime against humanity. Kevin Hart as a stoic, serious tough guy? 65-year old Jamie Lee Curtis as a socially inept, Whedon-esque scientist in her mid-30s? Cue Steve Buscemi's "how do you do fellow kids?". 55-year old Cate Blanchett as an adventurous gal in her early 20's? The fact she still managed to turn in the only genuinely good performance in this movie, despite being ill-fit for the role and being held back by an abysmal script, speaks volumes about her acting abilities. God bless her, she deserved so much better. Oh but they couldn't find a better pick to voice Claptrap. Jack Black nailed the role perfectly, and I sure as hell don't mean that in a good way...

[@TheTrueEmrys]

Casually glazing Cate Blanchett LMAO shes absolutely trash in this movie..

[@ggs7916]

Cate Blanchett was paid millons for make this movie don't worry for her

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

Also, Roland is tall, and they cast someone short.

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

@@MegamanXfan21xx , Iron Man is 6 feet in a comics, yet Disney got RDJ to play him despite RDJ being 5'2.

[@miskov1213]

Borderline unwatchable.

[@TheTrueEmrys]

Daaamn did he still this for his title LOL

[@thelibyanplzcomeback]

@@TheTrueEmrys Did the title change?

[@yosefyonin6824]

it lands you on the border of madness

[@TheGoldenPlatoon757]

lol

[@therealblackout3659]

"Why did the duck cross the road?" Because The borderlands movies sucks..

[@angel_exe24]

Fyi for teb people who don't know. Tiny Tina is just a demolition girl. Her role in bl2 is to blow up a train so your character can go in and grab the thing they're looking for. She was experimented on but with eridium not because she's an alien clone. She's not that deep either like tahts pretty much all she does. Edit: Forgot to mention because everyone else reminded me, she does get more fleshed out in her dlc "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep". She had a father daughter relationship with Roland before he dies and DND campaign is just her trying to move on from his death. She comes back in 3 but again, it's a minor role where she helps you. I haven't played Tiny Tina's wonderland so I can't say anything about that.

[@Paul-nn9oj]

too late, I watched the movie & now I dont want to know the real story.

[@chesterstevens8870]

Well to be fair, she DID get some development in Assault on Dragon Keep. But it was moreso to accentuate her relationship with Roland, not really building on her own lore.

[@SatanLiterally]

Her secondary function is to bait R34 artists.

[@shawklan27]

​@@SatanLiterally despite her being a child....

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

@@SatanLiterally Sure hope you're talking about her adult self from BL3.

[@pastyspudsone1191]

As an avid borderlands player who hasn't watched the movie, I can just tell based on the few clips I've seen that it's done terribly

[@2x_Rey]

Give it a watch I wouldn’t pay to see it but it’s everything a borderlands game is everyone’s mad because casting and everything isn’t a 1 to 1 locations and items look borderlandish to me I’m watching it right now just don’t think your going to get a irl version of the game for a hour 30

[@zerotsubasa5499]

Wait wait wait......the one with bunny ears was suposta be TINY TINA!? she's a freaking kid in the games. What the hell. Like little kid. ... no wonder this movie failed

[@narrgamedesigner2747]

Yeah I was like pooh a borderlands movie, saw tiny Tina and was like nope. This is kind of garbage by the end of the trailer.

[@PazuzuDeamon4horsemen]

They got tiny tina wrong. Her story is that Raiders broken into her home and killed her parents, and Rollin saved her from becoming a raider slave.

[@chaosinc.382]

More accurately, Raiders kidnapped her family, sold them to Hyperion who experimented on them, then Roland saved Tina after she escaped through her parents' sacrifice.

[@PazuzuDeamon4horsemen]

@chaosinc.382 Yes, correct. Thanks for the help. I just dump it down for people.

[@astralshore]

“Why did the duck cross the road?” “To prove to the possum it could be done.”

[@ahampel22]

The duck crossed the road to ask the guy at the lemonade stand if he had any grapes.

[@FokiHun]

Why did the duck cross the road? To quack open a cold one.

[@DelinquentChibi]

So, for those comment surfing who haven't played the games, here's a rundown on Tiny Tina: Tiny Tina is an insane 13-year-old(at the time of BL2) demolitions expert who was experimented on when she was younger using Eridium (this mysterious purple stuff that flows below Pandora's crust, that's a whole other rabbit hole) not because of aliens or clones, but because Handsome Jack(the main antagonist of BL2) was like "hey, why not? I'm the hero and these helpless people are just bandits, let's see what this Eridium stuff does!" Tina's parents died horribly in the experiments, but Tina escaped because her father had her hide a "rock" (actually a grenade) on her person so she could escape. Fast forward until the events of BL2. Her whole home(the inside of a mountain, which she probably blew up) is wired with mines and rockets everywhere, she's got two stuffed bunnies wired to massive warheads she calls "badonkadonks" she's got a lazy eye, and she's quite manic. Roland and her met some years ago, and he admits that she's saved his butt more times than he can count, the two have an adoptive father-daughter relationship. As for the main story, she helps you blow up a train containing a power core and a boss fight(but Handsome Jack's propaganda states the train was full of orphans and puppies, which I wouldn't put past him to do so as he wanted you to take that core and knew you would be blowing up the train.) She's not a genetic clone, or an alien, or anything. She's just a traumatized, barely-held-together, insane child with a knack for explosives. Some other details about the games: Atlas was a corporation, not a person. The main BL1 antagonists employed by Atlas Corp as part of their mercs the Crimson Lance were the (theorized to be a possible siren) Commandant Steele (you don't actually get to fight her because The Destroyer impales her as a surprise gift for opening the Vault) and in the DLC, the CL antagonist is General Knoxx; a grizzled old dude who is armed to the absolute teeth and then some, hates everything and everyone, and is most likely HIGHLY depressed. Roland is physically tall and jacked ex-Lance merc, and is a natural leader. He's a *VERY* serious person, and pretty imposing. He's also completely clean shaved, muscular as HELL, and Kevin Hart playing him is an absolute insult. Krieg doesn't show up until the BL2 character DLC, and is a psycho with split-personality. His OG personality tries his best to keep the new one from hurting as many innocents as possible. Instead of Krieg they should've had Brick, the Berserker. He likes his hammer, punching things, and hitting things with his hammer. He's not the smartest, but he's huge, hugely strong, and fiercely protective of his friends and the things he loves (like his puppy, which Handsome Jack murdered). He's also got more of a sense of humor than Roland. Sometimes. ClapTrap(CL4P-TP) despite being annoying is actually THE most sardonic, sarcastic, and depressed character in the games (after the events of certain in-universe events, he's left as the last of his whole product line in existence, which has him pretty bummed out to say the least.) He's forced to sound cheery and optimistic because that's what his programming says, but believe me he is everything BUT happy. Tannis is a brilliant scientist originally hired by Dahl Corp., but over the course of her work went insane, and now spends her time talking to her best friend Clyde the ceiling chair, when she's not conducting research on the ancient Eridian civilization. No, the chair doesn't physically exist. Also, she believes bacon to be for "sycophants and products of incest". Moxxie is the mother of Scooter and Ellie, and while she's known for being VERY promiscuous(her ex-husband count is in the double digits, she dated Jack at some point, married the merchant Marcus, also dated drunk prodigy sniper Mordecai, she has no actively with uploads her nudes to the public ECHOnet, and half of Pandora has either had sex with her or wants to have sex with her, women included) her "classy bordello girl" aesthetic is a front as an "F-you" to her redneck clan family(which is stereotypically very incestuous), she hides a strong redneck accent and is a whiz with robotics and mechanics, much like her kids. She looks younger than she is, and used to run death arenas for her hand in marriage until her ex-bf Handsome Jack shut her biz down. Marcus is the epitome of a greedy salesmen. Literally, he had all of his competition on Pandora killed, he sells to everyone and WILL NOT GIVE REFUNDS, EVER. Not as long as he's sober, at least. Don't ask for one, you'll get shot. Hopefully these details help put into perspective how badly the movie fucked everyone up.

[@ablosch2452]

Tiny Tina also got her own spinoff game called Tiny Tina’s Wonderland. I guess the filmmakers saw that and figured if she had her own game about her, then she should be the central character.

[@CooperDooper38]

"I can review this movie without any fandom bias" I'm going to assume you mean negative bias, because the fans absolutely hated this from the moment the casting was revealed. Also the duck crossed the road to get away from Claptrap.

[@BenjiXAddictX4Ever]

Casting will always be one of the top signs an adaptation will flop. If they can't get the characters appearance right then there is no hope.

[@kota2373]

Something that should be repeated like a gospel: Movies adapted from video games aren't bad because the source material is inherently hard to adapt or "there's nothing to adapt" (the excuse that brainlets like the hack who wrote Doctor Strange and a bunch of mid generic "teen pop" horror movies used to defend his other hack friends). The fact is that most of the time the clueless execs put these projects in the hands of hacks who think they're so hot shit for working on TV and the movies, so they think they know better and leave their stink all over the project, then when it fails they always blame it on the material or the "fans not accepting their oh-so-original vision" instead of accepting that they just suck at film making and storytelling. Actually I think adapting video games with little to no plot is WAY easier than say a book or a TV series, having a plot skeleton of "A, B, and C" acts like a structure that you can write a bunch of cool stuff to fill in the gaps of plot and characterization to compensate for the loss of gameplay, but yeah, that's if you're not a lazy hack and at least try to understand what you're working with, which the recent success of some game adaptions has proven. What I'm trying to say is: The duck crossed the road because Eli Roth sucks and his only accomplishment is being Tarantino's friend.

[@Samfry523]

I don't understand how it can be so hard to get a portrayal of a video game into a movie.

[@BenjiXAddictX4Ever]

Same reason why they can't do a book, either.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Because they don't get actual fans or the original creators to work on it. Sonic and Mario turned out okay because those were made by actually passionate people.

[@Pokesatsu96]

3:22 because someone pointed it out on tik tok im pointing it out for yall. when the lid opens if you look at the top of the screen you can clearly see through the big gap that one of the film crew is holding it open for the characters.

[@NoahSylva-u3n]

Oh my god I noticed that, that is so funny.

[@MrMe917]

I'm usually one to miss details, but that was so obvious I took for granted it was actually one of the characters

[@chaosinc.382]

... no way. *looks* NO WAY. 😂😂😂😂

[@zacharytrich8084]

I knew possum was gonna pop up when he smelt this trash

[@gignation8551]

They made a pg movie about a M rated game to bring in more people while disgracing the fan base that inevitably led to everyone hating it. I knew it was ass when I saw the cast then pg rating.

[@Paul-nn9oj]

I knew the target audience wasnt meant to be 12yo girls

[@gignation8551]

@@Paul-nn9oj 😆😭 right

[@studhouser6969]

to be fair the "fanbase" has chosen borderlands of all things so they kind of deserve to be disgraced

[@gignation8551]

@@studhouser6969 mad Max saga did well, if they did that well they could've done borderland just as well. Especially if they took what made the fans like it in the first place. Don't blame this on fans 🤣.

[@sebforce1165]

4:50 "DIRECTOR, BODERLANDS" yeah that uh, that sums it up pretty well.

[@favoritemustard3542]

When you miss a typo that bad, it does not BODE well for sure!

[@deraltevomwanderndenberge6291]

The soup analogy sums up most modern art. 'No, you don't get it, it's meant to be ugly!'

[@democracy_enjoyer]

shoutout to the guy that ate the banana on the wall

[@DetrimenttoSociety]

“Claptrap doesn’t do anything useful and is just along for the ride while the vault hunters ignore him” At least the movie got claptrap right.

[@ERBaruin]

I havent seen the movie, but i agree that no actor matches their character at all. And when i saw those actors in character, and noticed they looked like cosplayers i knew it was going to be bad. I was waiting for your review, its kind of lame they didnt give you more material to work with, i would love to hear a 50 min review of you destroying them

[@wilhelmschmidt7240]

3:57 I just watched this with my wife recently and the one thing I picked out was when the actors were doing action scenes they did the awful "push the bullet with the gun" move... Kate Blanchett actually did it better than the others. She surprisingly made her character look like she actually knew what she was doing compared to the others and I didn't mind her in the role.

[@alexwingace]

Yeah literally nothing you described is anywhere close to what happens in the game. You were spot on when you said this was a movie for nobody. Casual viewers see a half-assed awful movie. Fans of the series see a half-assed awful movie that butchered the entire plot of the games and proved the producers were just looking for a quick check and didn't understand anything about the games.

[@yokorose]

Why did the duck cross the road, to get away from Randy Pitchford showing it a magic show.

[@heylookitsbilly8407]

It's Randy Bitchford get it right

[@steel8231]

The director actively despised videogames, he goes on and on about being inspired by basically every 70s-90s sci-fi movie but refuses to say if he even looked past the first paragraph of Borderlands' Wikipedia page. Yes, the big twist of the games is that the Vault is actually a prison,the characters are intentionally paper thin, and the 3 times they tried to make an actual story they had 2 flops and a good Telltale game.

[@pmdmakesmecri2]

Hmm! Spicy take!

[@Mikazuchireborn]

Well I attempted to check out Doom with Marvel writing, but it's been buried by news of Robert Downey Jr.'s return to Marvel as Dr. Doom. Kinda ironic actually.

[@IMPRESSIONISTS91]

Hey Borderlands game fan here. The movie has nothing but the names in common with the game. The game actually has plot Specifically 2 which has really good writing imo. The movie literally made up majority of the plot and the characters acts really nothing like their game counterparts even Claptrap was a little funny in the games. Tiny tina literally saw her parents die killed the person who did it. Lilith always had her powers and knew of them, Roland is a soldier who has a portable turret, Krieg isnt even supposed to be there, and even so, Krieg spouts nonsense the whole time cause he a psycho.Patricia Tannis isnt that important and should be a side character. Its easy to make a game adaptation by taking one of the stories from borderlands and just make that into a movie. Borderlands 2 is perfect for that by far. Handsome Jack being the villain is a great . The dialog and story getting to the vault before he does is amazing. Honestly seeing it in action would be awesome. But somebody wants to make it like thwy the ones who came up with it which leads to disappointment and doomed to be a failure.

[@11seconds26]

Claptrap made the duck cross the road.. WC duck the bullets 😂😂😂

[@COI-O3]

Jack black was eviscerated and stuffed into the claptrap

[@GOBLIN_MENACE]

10:35 because the movie was on his side

[@deathbb703]

Who we kidding the biggest flaw this movie had was the awful casting. Everyone was miscast. This movie was built around their shitty cast and the game was pretty much ignored.

[@kingbash6466]

Lilith looking so old in this film really is emblematic of how tired and out-of-touch the Borderlands franchise and its brand of humor has gotten over the years.

[@BadMarriageKawagoe]

This Possum has truly mastered the art of finding garbage. Although, I guess you don't really need to look that hard these days...

[@greyofpta5305]

"Why did the duck cross the road?" It was glued to the chicken.

[@mcblaggart8565]

Why did the duck cross the road? To prove he wasn't chicken.

[@mcblaggart8565]

Ah, The Magic Voyage. I'd forgotten it was called that. I seem to remember the babbling being a problem, but ~5-year-old me thought there were some redeeming qualities. But ~8-year-old me couldn't remember what they were and thought it was disappointing when re-watching it. So, watch it when you're younger than 8.

[@Burnouts3s3-z2v]

Actually, the Warcraft director was a HUGE fan of the source material to the point where it hindered the movie. His fandom got in the way of the movie.

[@zerotsubasa5499]

Personally, as a fan of the original warcraft titles, I thought the movie was really good and was happy to see that it DIDNT lean into the WOW lore that killed the franchise (for me). But alas most went in expecting WOW and got a story they didn't realize was a precursor. This is what happens when you retcon all your old source material for the new bs.

[@vanillabatcave5677]

Elaborate.

[@zerotsubasa5499]

@vanillabatcave5677 ops talking about how the story was written using only the original warcraft games story. It excluded anything from world of warcraft, which is what most wow fans though it was going to be, considering it was at wow's height of popularity.

[@armandoreyes1029]

I personally loved the movie, they stick to the story of the RTS series instead of the MMO, I was really hoping to see at least a sequel or a mini series, oh well...

[@zerotsubasa5499]

@armandoreyes1029 I was soo hoping they'd at least make it to beyond the dark portal just to see it play out on screen

[@sgt.tackleberry8752]

When you said that Claptrap doesn't do anything useful and is just along for the ride, it struck me that the same coule be said of Jack Black.

[@Soul93Taker]

Damn this is some fresh grabage

[@Hisseefits]

Why did the duck cross the road? To see if the goblin fried or baked the chicken. I mean he did turn on the stove but that could have been for something else. Rice perhaps?

[@Termina2018]

"SCANNING SCANNING SCANNING~"

[@Dr_Wrong]

The Duck identifies as a chicken..

[@lewismartin3430]

The claptrap stuff is pretty accurate to the game.

[@lewismartin3430]

@@louiepooh1510 never said it was good. Just accurate

[@seige8621]

Does he always poo out bullets?​@@lewismartin3430

[@arealhumanbean3058]

I mean, typically Claptrap shows up at the beginning and then is relegated to mop around the hub area, so you can ignore him if you want to Except in Pre-Sequel because he is a protagonist, but even then he is quite a capable fighter so he is at least tolerable

[@theplan-m6c]

Video game shows work much better than video game movies. Also, video games can do both amazing gameplay and amazing storytelling. Also, the gameplay of the last of us was great, played it recently and if we're strictly talking gameplay, then still holds up. But even if you don't agree with the last of us take, there's other examples of great gameplay and story.

[@aztec_man9774]

Why did the duck cross the road? to make the joke intentionally unfunny so he doesn't get slapped.

[@Big_Boney]

"Why'd the duck cross the road?" To get some quackers.

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

Last time I told a chef in the restaurant the food tastes like nuclear diarrhea smells, he first went "Sacré Bleu" on me, and then full "You dare? You DAAARE? IN MY HOUSE???", which was kinda funny

[@procow2274]

Duck crossed the road to get to the lemonade stand obviously

[@coyoteone6197]

Why did the duck cross the road? Because the Chicken Union went out on strike.

[@richardidgaf8002]

Claptrap is supposed to piss you off, but they somehow made him twice as insufferable.

[@OrthwormJEB]

The moment the trailer showed us two actors playing characters that are 20-30 years younger than them and the PG-13 rating, that right there is a red flag on this movie being ass.

[@gokublackkai1033]

Why did the duck cross the road? To commit suicide by roadkill after watching the Borderlands Movie

[@amadeusagripino6862]

That DOOM 2016 and DOOM Eternal by Joss Whedon thread you did is simply legendary

[@avacornthelastponybender8583]

Because the Chicken owed him money

[@Ramdileo_sys]

At 10:15 .. you can see the crew member arms reaching to hold the manhole cover open 🤦‍♀​🤦‍♀​

[@beauwalker9820]

6:52 That post thread on a similar Doom is hilarious, and really sums how bad and overplayed self aware dialogue is nowadays. Everything can't be "Guardians of the Galaxy," and even it had some dignity and agency. In regards to your F-Zero remark, ironically it probably would make a good movie, as characters like Captain Falcon have actually had backstories, and such, but as you said they'd have to do more then race. Plus it has so many characters it'd be difficult to fit them in a single movie. There was an unsuccessful anime about F-ZERO that was actually pretty good even though it changed some characters personalities, and backstories around a bit, and focused on a new character who isn't the fan favorite Captain Falcon. (Falcon doesn't do much until later in the series.)

[@galloe8933]

The duck crossed the road because it was banging the chicken. I think somehow that was the best I know, but I also know it may have come from Triumph the insult comic dog from waaay back in the day.

[@MagusLay]

Much like how Warcraft movie should have just been Arthas' story from Warcraft 3, Borderlands movie should have been Borderlands 2 and revolved around Handsome Jack delusionally believing he's the good guy while everyone gets screwed trying to rectify his evil villainy.

[@MemoristCed]

Nope, nope, nope, we can't have stories about how taking moral shortcuts results in the well-meaning becoming even bigger monsters than the monsters they set out to fight. Or at least, they can't become the villains. No. That is against the Narrative. Everyone must be primed to believe that it is better to surrender to despair, take the easy way out, and sacrifice inconvenient principles for immediate results. Otherwise, they might not help the elites load all their neighbors onto the cattle cars "for the greater good"...

[@carolprice1389]

People need to keep in mind that 90% of all movies based on games don't work and are a big waste of money and time and effort!!!

[@HyJyncks]

Why did the duck cross the road? The existential dread he suffered from gaining self-awareness caused him to play in traffic.

[@gokigenyou9524]

”Why did the duck cross the road?” - Because the voices told him to

[@factualhat3018]

"Why did the duck cross the road" Because the industrial revolution and its consequences have been disastrous for mankind

[@MrClawt]

The duck crossed the road to turn on the stove for the goblin.

[@silvalinan4077]

At this point Hollywood is just trolling. It’s not even about money anymore.

[@michaelgibson413]

Why did the duck cross the road? HELP THERE ARE BUGS IN MY SKIN HELP ME PLEASE OH MY GOD NO PLEASE AAHHHHHH

[@savagex378]

Why did the duck cross the road? To prove that he wasn't a chicken! ...I'll see myself out

[@papayer]

7:33 why does gramma have cleavage 🤢

[@BlackRavenRiot]

Granmum?! That is Jamie Lee Curtis! Put some respect on her chest....I mean name.

[@kingtiger3390]

Because she's playing a character that's, like, in her 30's.

[@Arza2Ozark]

@@kingtiger3390but being acted by a 70 yo with a nice cleavage

[@matthewzablocki5310]

Cause JLC if still looks dam good for her age.

[@rickdollings7382]

Because she paid for it.

[@Schlachthaus999]

The Magic Voyage... You unlocked a memory I've been trying to retrieve from 25 years ago.

[@vanillabatcave5677]

1:06 I just realized I want an F-Zero movie on the style of Speed Racer.

[@SenderBender63]

Form what I know about F-zero (which albeit isn’t much) it does have some story and lore with the games and it’s characters so a movie could work, I mean they aren’t exactly doing a whole lot else with the IP so why not

[@vanillabatcave5677]

@@SenderBender63 Only played F-Zero GX and it did have a story and world building in a previous grand prix and character info screens, so yeah a movie would be pretty cool and would have solid bases.

[@ZephyrusAsmodeus]

It's been a fat minute since I played Borderlands 1 or 2, but that actually sounds somewhat similar to the first game, but bastardized with the popular elements of the series, namely Lilith and Tiny Tina, Tina wasnt even in the first game, but was a popular character because 13 year old explosive experts are funny i guess. Lilith, I remember was actually a pretty serious character with a pretty intense story in the first game, i dont remember her being any sort of sarcastic and goofy at all, in fact, i remember the goofy nonsensical aspect of borderlands was more a secondary thing to some fairly compelling character arcs, especially regarding Lilith and Handsome Jack. It sounds like they just grabbed a bunch of things from the game series and Mad Lib'd a story out of them.

[@JGregory32]

"Why did the duck cross the road?" To get away from the Chicken.

[@philbaker7781]

Claptrap went from being hated by the in universe characters and loved by the fans, to being hated by everyone.

[@dean_l33]

120 seconds 131 views... absolute peak

[@SiriusSphynx]

Just say 2 minutes like a normal person

[@dean_l33]

@@SiriusSphynx Never

[@s3.14dervision]

What happens when you turn a video game into a Golden Girls reunion? You get the Borderlands movie! 🤣🤣🤣👵👵

[@shadowleon659]

When Monster Hunter with Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa is a better video game movie than you, you know you've screwed up. And I'd rather rewatch Monster Hunter with Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa than ever watching this shite.

[@whoeverest_the_whateverest]

Duck crossed the road because he bought it and now it should be removed from the shopping list

[@awsome1010101]

If you want the whole story of the first game, erase Tiny Tina from the movie entirely, only have Claptrap in the first scene, make Dahl a siren (only 6 in the universe at any given time and all female), and make everybody's motivation for opening the vault the fact that they think it's filled with ancient technology and weapons more advanced than what they have and other fabulous prizes. There you go, the whole story of the first game, which isn't as good as the second, but that game was only the quality it was because Gearbox gutted the budgets of other games they were working on at the time, namely Alien: Colonial Marines. If you don't know, when that game came out it was probably worse than Duke Nukem Forever, which is impressive to say the least.

[@Dio.]

Billy Crystal had the, "He's behind me, isn't he." Joke fifty years ago and now some idiot uses it. 😒