the Borderlands movie is confounding

[@therealtijuanaman]

Maybe what happened was they meant to copy The Suicide Squad and accidentally copied Suicide Squad

[@jbearclowater]

Best comparison I've heard. This is super accurate.

[@davidwilson4446]

Borderlands is the type of movie that would have been better off being set in the world but featuring an entirely unique cast of incompetent vault hunters rather than trying to insert the game characters

[@maxhocks2006]

That’s what made the first tales so good!!

[@wideface344]

That’s actually what I thought this was lol the characters are so unrecognizable I didn’t realize that was tiny Tina Untill this video

[@sathrielsatanson666]

​@@maxhocks2006yeah, the world is so rich that you could easily make a separate story from the games, with maybe a cameo of the main game cast here and there.

[@toddsonger3732]

Like "doing a Fallout"?

[@MrTragedious986]

I just feel like they picked the wrong director, writer, casting director, and producer for this movie. It’s Fant4stic again.

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

Wring actors too, whoeber decided to cast Kevin Hart as Roland needs to get fired and blacklisted.

[@khalled2419]

@@crimsoneclipse0618that would be the casting director….kevin hart got picked and did what he does. On the casting director to make the appropriate call.

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

@@khalled2419 oh yeah

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

Cast

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

I understand. You can't land Uwe Boll to direct every time.

[@JoaqMan]

Nando, you didn’t need to do this even for us.

[@phillipthompson5937]

It's not worth it to put yourself through this pain

[@burymeinjhenny918]

Agreed

[@CMWinter]

You bring up a good point about Tina AND Claptrap. You don't need both, even the game knew that as they pretty much never interact. Claptrap was the annoying you laugh at and Tina was the annoying you laugh with. Even more so, you always get huge breathers from both characters (less so in Wonderlands) so you don't get overwhelmed.

[@QuiteSincere]

And they let us sit and sympathise with Tina when bad things happen, whereas bad things happening to Claptrap is cathartic, you want something so bad to happen to him he can't be in the rest of your game, whereas Tina you just feel like a parent with an energetic kid, you care about them whenever they aren't actively screeching.

[@omalleycaboose5937]

In borderlands 2 there is also immediately given reason to sympathize with claptrap "this is just my default tone of voice, I'm actually quite depressed"

[@NerdyGamerReacts]

​@@omalleycaboose5937 Plus learning about what happened to, him in the Pre-sequel, Claptrap is actually a pretty tragic character himself. 🙂

[@BossTripp1]

The problems with Tina and Claptrap were pretty minimal. Even though Tina is my all time favorite character, having the story centered around 1 or 2 people is the problem. Tina and Krieg was amazing together and although claptrap doesn’t portray the others as his servants; them making him the opposite and wanting to see Lilith die was kind of entertaining.

[@camerondepotato1005]

Yeah once I saw Kevin Hart as Roland I knew this was gonna be a dumpster fire.

[@stevencooper564]

Same, totally tone deaf on their part. Fuck, I'd have even taken The Rock over Kevin Hart, at least his 'stoic in the face of insanity' would have worked a little better here.

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

“The one black guy we know “

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

Roland was tall dark and handsome

[@SignificantNumberOfBeavers]

I can't think of anyone who could be more opposite of Roland. The only thing they have in common is they're both Black

[@TrueZero2]

For me, I felt that Kevin Hart could have worked. It was Tina that made me realise how bad the movie would be because she’s not an easy character to write on a good day, let alone as part of some people’s introduction to the world.

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

Yeah, let's take the franchise known for having a very distinct and fun art style and let's make it boring old live action. Stupid stupid

[@achrafeamensague318]

This is Hollywood baby 😂

[@Zeik56]

Nowadays you can definitely pull a distinct and vibrant film style that could emulate some of that Borderlands aesthetic even in live-action, but you'd have to actually give a shit and go the extra mile, not just make a cashgrab.

[@tariqblilet8660]

THIS! Like gimme animation what the hell are they doing? 😭 would've loved to see Borderlands celshaded maybe along the lines of xmen 97

[@morgansimpson315]

You’re ending monologue on alternative uses of an hour and half was the funniest thing you’ve done in awhile. Thank you sir. PS you confirmed every note I gathered from the trailer.

[@ellie8272]

I'll never understand why people keep getting hired failure after failure

[@onslaught147]

Because they're all buddies. They don't give roles based on who is the best. They give roles based on who they know. It doesn't matter if you're a terrible writer that keeps churning out failures. If you're friends with the right people you'll get steady work no matter what. Hollywood is corrupt and based on favors, not skill.

[@ellie8272]

@@onslaught147 That's kinda wild to me. I always assumed these guys cared more about profit than anything

[@jaustill237]

​@@ellie8272Depends on where you are in the industry. Keeping your friends employed is a take.

[@MsDaydream3r]

Because they do what they're told (by studios).

[@gudmundur-heimisson]

@@ellie8272 they do care about profits above all else, but they’re also just not very competent, and they want those profits to go to their buddies.

[@timogul]

Movies like this should do a kick-starter of film-tubers, "hey, you want a movie that you can REALLY meme on for a good half hour or so? Back our project."

[@ThatguyP912]

This and Madame Web

[@mr.t107]

People were giving a lot of side eyes at kevin heart's inclusion/ role (myself included) during it's promotion, funnily enough i've heard that his character worked the most in the movie. he's probably the only good thing i've heard about it lol

[@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom]

I only heard Cate Blanchett as the sole positive.

[@pokeman123451]

They were both fucking awful man, i dont know who you have talked to

[@alexiblue6503]

@@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdomhated her for this role. She was to old

[@TheSoulDivided]

I remember the first time I saw the cast and I just thought... why?

[@TheSamkrox]

Man, I wish this movie was animated

[@BadPenny3]

I've long believed if they had the people from Arcane animate a Borderlands movie, that would be at least visually fantastic.

[@dankerbell]

would've at least been nice to look at because this film really has nothing going for it

[@eyantyler]

I'm just appreciating the Summers family having an argument in the background...

[@9pastno0n]

Poor Scott... none of his strategic thinking is getting him out of this one!

[@JoshuaHenelyThornhill]

That message at the end tells you everything about the wreck this movie is. Much respect for the sacrifice Nando !

[@deathsyth8888]

Somehow, Randy Pitchford is to blame for all of this.

[@natagu5794]

I think I read that once that Lilith in the first game was supposed to be in her early 20's, while in the 3rd game she was in her early 30's. So it's really weird that they choose an older actress for her. In Moxxi's case, she's old, she just looks young. She has at least 2 kids in their 20's. So she's atleast 40. Still, weird casting choice for her.

[@JamesThomasJeans]

Borderlands 3 is 7 years after the first. Moxxi is around 52 years old by that point.

[@MCLSD_]

A borderlands expert could NOT explain anything about this movie to you. -a borderlands expert

[@BRPerfections]

It became so clear to me that this movie was in production hell when it was announced many years ago and you kind of hit a point where you realize it should be out by now but it's not. Then another year after that point you finally get a release date.

[@LeBearr]

Nando your videos have honestly been helping me so much with my anxiety because of their long runtime of 30+ minutes help me concentrate on the present moment and helping me fall asleep

[@LUMBEEPHENOM2012]

😂😂😂

[@insertnamehere12]

Actually Gina gershon is about the same age as moxxi She has at least four children and we know that at least 3 of them are adults in their 30s when they're first introduced, it's been at least 10 years since the first game in the timeline so assuming she was 18 when she had her youngest adult child (scooter) that would make her 58 at minimum at the latest point in the timeline This would mean she gave birth to her first two kids when she was underaged Assuming she was legally aged when she had her first child and they were spaced out by a year that would make her about 61 years old, only a year younger than gershon

[@dankerbell]

not only does it seem unlikely she _was_ legally aged, the whole point of her design is that she's supposed to look too young to have kids anyway

[@insertnamehere12]

@@dankerbell well yeah but that would still make her like late fifties lol

[@masakazuishiguro8525]

@@dankerbell That’s not the point of her design at all. She was at first a character that fitted well in a western wasteland setting, but her design became more and more sexual in the later games and started to visually against the lore for no in game explanation.

[@OneDollarWilliam]

Looking forward to the Mikey Neumann review of this movie that is just a title card then two straight hours of Muffled Catawampus.

[@bahamutalchemist]

This right here

[@-Jimini-]

Okay but why did you make the thumbnail so beautiful?

[@munohlow]

Like “what are you asking me for, Kevin Hart??”

[@baneintherain]

Moxxi is in her 50s to 60s based on the game. Gina isn't too far off. Just saiyan.

[@BCWasbrough]

Yeah. In the game, Moxxi has at least two adult children. Casting an older person here totally works.

[@BRPerfections]

Yeah I think the only reason it seems off to some people is that boxing the games definitely looks younger than her age.

[@NerdyGamerReacts]

She's 52 years old in Borderlands 3, yet, I'd totally want to date her, she is gorgeous, her and Captain Scarlett,Lilith, all automatic yes, lol. 🤷🏾‍♂️😆

[@OneDollarWilliam]

I feel like they make a reference somewhere in the games that she uses sci-fi tech to stay looking young (or maybe you have to bring her alien parts for a magic skin cream at some point? It's been a long time since I last played them.) They could have had a canon excuse to de-age Gershon.

[@writingref]

I noticed your spelling of saiyan

[@james.b.mcgill]

Moxxxie is actually only about 10 years younger than Gina Gershon. In the games art design, they don't do a good job of representing that character's age.

[@kjf5212]

I always assumed Moxxxie was way older than she looked. She has two grown adult children.

[@julianxamo7835]

That's kinda the joke I think, she doesn't look like she could be Scooter's and Ellie's mom, but she is

[@AusSP]

I thought the joke was that she used lots of makeup. Her face is practically painted white.

[@mrthewhite2620]

That's kind of s problem though cause no one cares what the number is, they care what you look like and if you cant pass for 30s then it doesn't matter if tech the character is 60 if she looks 30s

[@victorcsavage]

I do think Gina Gershon circa Showgirls is something to base Moxxi off of, so that's not a terrible actress to cast. I haven't seen the movie so I don't know if she changed as an actress and can't fit that vibe, but that was the one casting decision I could see a clear reason for.

[@do0Mbot]

From the director of *_Hostel_* I don't see how this could go wrong!

[@QuiteSincere]

The cast is just buffling both in terms of actors and characters. Kevin Hart as a hyper stoic serious soldier, Jack Black who was beloved up until about 2 weeks ago as the most annoying thing on the planet, Cate Blanchett as a spunky young badass who clearly loves life but wants to burn her problems and Laruie Strodes as a very very OCD mad scientist who has completely snapped in the face of Pandora's apathy and filth. a child. WHY IS THIS EVEN THE PARTY?? WHAT WAS WRONG WITH BRICK AND MORDECAI?? WHY IS TINY TINA THERE AT ALL??

[@thataintfalco7106]

Wdym until about two weeks ago

[@QuiteSincere]

@@thataintfalco7106 He's been pretty dunked on after throwing a bit of a hissy fit and apparently breaking up Tenacious D over Kyle making a joke about the attempted Trump "incident", so people are pretending they never liked him, which while IMO he was a bit of a tool in this instance, is dumb because pretending you never liked someone when they do something bad is really weird, like nobody talented or funny can do bad things.

[@aripocki]

@@thataintfalco7106 More accurately, Jack Black put the Tenacious D tour on hold. He didn't break up with Kyle, they're still friends. Jack's public reason is he feared for the safety of his team based on backlash to Kyle's joke. His reaction may be overblown, but considering what people do for what they believe in this country, it's not impossible. The truth is probably more along the lines of him not wanting to draw more attention to Tenacious D until it all blows over (and possibly an outside force, e.g. their label, put some pressure on them).

[@certainstrength]

Nando, man, don’t remind me that I have cleaning to do. Of course I have cleaning to do. What the hell man.

[@T--------]

I'm here to forget my real life responsibilities dammit❗

[@certainstrength]

@@T-------- exactly!

[@WapGeneius]

I am one of the biggest fans of the Borderlands games. I have played every game to completion multiple times, I actually know most of the lore of the games I even read a couple of the comics. Ooh and I have a Tiny Tina card game. Having done all of that I begged for this movie to never be made. Because if you're adapting something into a movie and you look at the source material and in it you see the word Poop Train brought up many many times you should abandon the project.

[@BCWasbrough]

Agreed. Borderlands is so full of cultural references that translating it to it's own movie felt redundant.

[@Reevnar]

As a huge fan of the Borderlands series, putting hundreds of hours across all three games, this movie was a complete abomination. They got nothing right, not one single thing. Honestly, Borderlands should be an animated series, like Castlevania or Arcane. Go balls to the wall with the over-the-top nature of the series.

[@SlugRiot]

Randy Pitchford’s biggest trick: how to make $120m disappear

[@_surreal99]

It seems like there are fundamentally unserious people in these positions.

[@DuskyPredator]

The big confusing thing is why they didn't do Angel, and by proxy Jack.

[@dankerbell]

they put way too many characters in the movie and couldn't even choose the right ones

[@UzzyT.]

That end ramble was great.

[@FallofCyber]

Lilith is one of my favorite characters in Borderlands, maybe up there in any media. This really isn't Lilith, I mean the costume is on point, but she's too damn Cynical. The cast of the original Borderlands game works, Roland is the Straight man with the strongest conscious. Brick is the muscle with the heart of gold. Mordecai is the reluctant drunk cynic. Finally Lilith is young, reckless, and overconfident. Lilith in the movie is a washed up version of the character, undefined by a childhood of discrimination because of her status as a siren. Overconfident in herself not because she has power and she knows it, but because she doesn't really give a shit what happens. For god sakes she's a vault hunter who couldn't give a damn about the vault or her place as one of only 6 sirens in existence. Lilith in the movie is Mordecai, but Mordecai works because he is a smaller part of a larger team, he's the realist, not the main character. Lilith as a character works much stronger as main character because she is fun to watch. Her abilities are unique, and so is her disposition. There is not doubt in my mind this movie could have worked, but when you disregard what came before just to pull upon tropes and characters from your future story you show that you aren't confident in the franchise you've spent 15 years building. Tina is another thing, she is quite possibly the most poignant, relatable, and heartfelt character in the series. She is instantly endeared to the player by both her relationship to Roland and Brick, and her backstory. Which is played for laughs yes, but is indeed heartfelt and interesting. She is character a who is flanked by trauma, insecurities, and walls upon walls. All hidden behind a broken mental state. She is not a brat who cannot handle herself, constantly touting herself as a chosen one and special. If Tiny in the games had any clue that she might be a siren she would laugh it off because she is too insecure to see herself as worthy. Why is Tina even in this movie? Because she is recognizable, and popular.

[@timothybarnett1006]

TBF it looks _exactly_ like I would expect a movie announced in 2015, one year after _Guardian of the Galaxy_ and a year before _Suicide Squad,_ produced by Avi Arad that took until now to actually get released to look like...

[@Omsmitten]

I feel like if the movie had just been rated R, it could've been MUCH better.

[@fletchersanderson8611]

Actually the pitch at 12:30 is basically just Borderlands 2, and imo that story is way more adaptable than Borderlands 1. It actually has a charismatic villain and it would let you cast all the OG characters with the big names and cast Zer0, Maya, etc. with younger, less expensive stars.

[@wJermell0]

"There's chores you gotta do" He says as I'm midway through cleaning the bathroom

[@bryansannicolas]

Aren't Madam Web and Borderlands produced by Avi Arad? Kraven the Hunter is next and I heard Avi will produce a live action Naruto.

[@antarchy1]

I heard the director is doing Legend of Zelda. Sad day.

[@ProjektTaku]

I don't even want to imagine how live action Naruto will turn out.

[@mojomogul]

Avi Arad is just Uwe Boll with better ROI

[@repulser93]

@@antarchy1 Nah, he’s just producer. The director is the guy who just did Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

[@mdstevens0612]

He's had a mixed career, his name is attached to some of Sony's best and most critically acclaimed projects and a majority of the worst. Seems he's only as good as the people he works with, and he doesn't always get a decent director, cast and crew.

[@tomkrajewski6209]

John Hamm as live action Peter B. Parker! I can dig it 😂

[@ДимчоДимов-ж7е]

John Hamm as Spider-Ham

[@robbiealixsantos]

He’d be known as the handsome spider man who would never have his mask on a la Deadpool 3 lol

[@KathrinThalhammer]

I literally just watched this in the cinema 2 hours ago (it came out in my country yesterday) - and I SWEAR I saw a different cut from the one you're talking about. They're just committed to being as messy as possible...

[@boriskravchenko454]

Mad Moxxi is actually 50+ in the games, Scooter and Ellie are her children. it's always been ambiguous exactly how old, but Gina Gershon is actually fairly close to her in-game character's age compared to the other characters and actors, it's at least more forgivable due to the ambiguity.

[@Daveycooks]

Not nando lecturing me about chores right as I start sorting my laundry 😢

[@benjaminmichaud8511]

it feels like the making of this movie was a Bojack Horseman subplot

[@drudee7344]

Randy doesn’t want you to call your grandma, go see Borderlands instead 14:11

[@SaiyanHeretic]

The thing that baffles me is why *these* characters? Claptrap and Tiny Tina are strong flavors that quickly wear out their welcome, which is why they were only bit parts in the games (and being given bigger roles later was symptomatic of the issues the franchise developed over time). What is Kreig doing here? His literal introduction in B2 was about how he fell in love with Maya at first sight. This group already had a big dumb muscle man: Brick! The lack of Mordecai and Bloodwing is criminal, utter disrespect. And one last thing... *[ S P O I L E R S ]* Lilith not even having her Siren powers until Act 3 really hampers the action throughout the movie. Roland is the guns guy, Mordecai is sneaky, Brick punches, and Lilith has crazy space magic - that's what makes them distinct from each other! There's no logical reason to change this about her, because being a firebrand is both her character class and personality archetype. Instead, Lilith in the movie is just kinda dour and she uses guns like everybody else. Boring! How does Hollywood keep fucking these video game adaptations up? It's so easy! Borderlands is Mad Max in space: everybody is insane, including the good guys. Resident Evil is a bunch of cops trapped in a house, getting killed by zombies and death traps (the corporate conspiracy is such a small part of the first game). Assassin's Creed is historical action/espionage, so basically 007 in the past - and most fans would thank you for cutting out all the stuff relating to the Animus and genetic memory, an overwrought framing device which has been the #1 albatross around the neck of this franchise since the beginning.

[@soltandvinegar]

Nando I must say, your hair is looking fabulous, even if this movie isn’t

[@MartialArtsFilmFreak]

This movie directed by Timo Tjahjanto would have been amazing.

[@drudee7344]

Actually that actress for moxxi is appropriately aged. 11:41 In borderlands 2 she’s like in her late 50s and has two adult children (who we see at the end of the movie)

[@gumstain7755]

As a borderlands expert that DID watch this movie. Even the references they snuck in were not very standout or funny or memorable so even though they do some stuff for fans of the actual games, it still doesn’t do enough to make the movie less of a slog.

[@2nd3rd1st]

Jon Hamm as Spider-Man is actually a thing, he's called Spider-Ham...

[@drudee7344]

Yikes.. I woulda cut that part out 😳 10:55 who edited your video? The same people that edited borderlands?! Hehehehe plz don’t block me Randy 🙏🏼

[@repulser93]

Get Movies with Mikey to comment on this - he was integral to the earlier games, after all.

[@OneDollarWilliam]

That would just be cruel. Imagine having to watch the characters and world you created reduced to this.

[@actualratgirl6672]

this reminds me of Duke Nukem Forever, where it would have been perfectly ok if it was released a decade earlier, when it was supposed to

[@killingjokebatman9700]

Thank you for the content you make , keep up the great work

[@jakestavinsky3480]

For context, im a HUGE borderlands fan. Ok so when i heard about the plot synopsis, my bar was lowered to the ground. Like as in went from legit comedy to like, so bad its good thing. Watch it with besties and had to pause it cause i was so FLOORED with the ideas they decided to go with. Spoilers ahead 1) If they wanted to keep to the plot to the games, vaguely, they couldve just done the plot of Borderlands 1. NOTHING happens in 1. You kill bandits, get vault key, repeat 3 times then get vault key stolen by Atlas and go fight them at end of game. There is SO much wiggle room with that. 2) they went to a weird bizarre alternate reality of a mix of 1 and 2. Tina Tina is both Tina AND Angel. The Atlas CEO is supposed to be himself AND Hamdsome Jack. Tina is JUST the orphaned kid of some demo experts in the games, not some weird atlas clone? 3) Its genuinely weird cause they got some things absolutely spot on. The cars are 1-1 in the game, Tinas rocket launcher and the Atlas ARs are EXACTLY like they are in borderlands 3, lots of random location names are lore accurate- which confuses me. They got these weird details perfect but completely butcher like the MAIN plot points of the characters. 4) I would argue that the movie is ACTIVELY worse if you know the source material. If you dont, its just kinda meh, boring? If you do like our watchparty, we had to stop the movie for 2 minutes straight to be in stunned silence. 5) On a positive note, and im really scraping the barrel here, the costume design was kinda fire? I was in love with the krieg costume tweaks. Side note: i dont mind the Tannis and Moxxi castings. Tannis is primarily a researcher who is bad with people and you dont really lose that with aging her up, in fact makes more sense than trying to explain her in game lore of having ptsd mixed with eridium (which isnt even in the movie) poisoning And moxxi is actually around 40 ish (she has grown children that you see for like 2 seconds in the moxie)

[@BrandonOfJapan]

I sadsturbated during this whole film, alone, in a theatre only to myself. Only to be kicked out and arrested for public indecency because the cinema cameras caught me. This film is that bad.

[@levienochs1038]

Nando calling me out to clean

[@Louis-wx1fo]

I'll definitely do my chores ive been putting instead of watching this lol

[@julianxamo7835]

Imagine getting a Movies with Mikey of this one

[@blueegg4198]

Thanks for the advice Nando, I really felt that

[@AvaElaineHartwellBagley]

Aw Nando, man, you ok? "Call those people instead." We are here for you

[@gregc8831]

The most hilarious outro but also soooo correct. I unfortunately saw this movie.

[@TheJasonaut]

I didn't really think about it, but totally good point about people being weirdly too old for the roles. I understand getting whatever 'big' names you can get, but they might have been better off just getting some random 20 year olds from that aren't mainstream stars than this, idk.

[@Louis_Varga]

I just got home from seeing Borderlands. It's not the worst movie I've seen but it wasn't great either.

[@electricVGC]

I will probably not engage with this movie again and it took me until now to watch your take on it. Truly a film.

[@stuartbagley2586]

I actually had fun with this movie. I think they should have made a few changes: Use Brick instead of Krieg. Switch Tina and Lilith as characters Have Mordekai and Brick break Lilith out of Prison Have Roland be in the Lilith role as the bounty hunter trying to rescue her Still, divorced from the game, I had a good time.

[@sathrielsatanson666]

Well, one of the most often seen comments under the initial trailer outside of casting being bad was that it was an oldtimers cast, most people 30 years toonold for the role. Weird.

[@DumahAtreides]

Was lol at the alternative ideas to watching Borderlands

[@Levyathyn]

I genuinely thought there was going to be a fake out, where we got these big name actors doing these roles and then a few minutes in it's revealed that that's all the story being told by someone like, I don't know, Marcus or something, who was joking around, making a few things up, and exaggerating... Making Roland short for fun for example, that kind of thing. And then I assumed it was going to be a different cast or different characters entirely, a bait and switch like how The Suicide Squad did it. Sucks to be wrong. I wonder what other miscasting choices they would have made? Tom Cruise as Brick?

[@DuskyPredator]

Comparing to the games, they certainly could have gone more stylised. I am talking freeze frame character subtitles, extreme special effects, and of course ridiculous and varied guns.

[@aaronkelly1762]

11:36 To be fair with Moxie, she actually is an older character in the games. She just looks much younger than she actually is, inspite of being a mother whose kids have both grown up.

[@masenguerra7835]

Felt like a PG 13 spy kids movie I am not a fan of borderlands just because I’m not a fan of the gameplay and sometimes the writing is just a bit cringe. In fact I’ve only played an hour total. But this really felt wonky with all the effects and dialogue where I was sitting there and said “this is spy kids 3D.”

[@stevencooper564]

I got a 360 when I was in high school, and the first one was the first game I actually played online with friends and I definitely have a soft spot for them, but I totally understand them not being your flavor. The writing, personally, feels like a really tight time capsule of it's time. Yeah it's occasionally cringe, but that's what was funny and cool, but luckily we mostly know better now.

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

Idiocracy is Spy Kids for "adults". It could work, sort of, because it has worked, sort of, as in it HAS its own cringe audience. Olderlands could have worked if they wnet for "hip for the kids" humor but fully utilized Jamie Lee Curtis, make it sound like it mocks its audience... if that audience was Kotaku staff (middle aged cat ladies). Cast Terry Crews instead of Kevin Hart. Make it like Prisoners of the Ghostland or Mandy. Or Maggie.

[@serenityq26]

i never heard of borderlands til this movie came out. im not a gamer. i know nothing about the game lore so i cant hate on it. i just see a fun silly campy movie with a shirtless hot dude, kevin hart and female lead! IM THERE!

[@spiderbug7615]

@@serenityq26 you could do so much better than this hot mess girl

[@PuellaRider]

Let's please not accidentally summon a Spider-Man Reign movie with John Hamm

[@TwelveGoats]

I think the feeling of the games can definitely work. Pandora is a planet where everyone has given up. It's what is left after several corporations have scarred and perverted the surface and it's inhabitants. The Vault Hunters aren't necessarily nice people. They like murder and money. And maybe they find a way to better themselves along the way. This movie needed a Suicide Squad vibe that transitioned to a more Guardians feel. The humor can work if used at the right moments or if it's just tweaked a bit. But practically everything/everyone attached to this project was wrong.

[@PabloMcFlyFTW]

Madam web was fun to talk about as a train wreck. Borderlands is competently made, but makes so many weird decisions it's not going to be remembered a year from now

[@supermario2100]

I think this movie could've worked, but just about everything went wrong. Studio interference, the wrong writer, the wrong director, the wrong characters, questionable casting, etc. Also you definitely need Claptrap in a Borderlands movie lol.

[@robertkenny1201]

We'll my desire to see a Metroid Movie ever made someday just went straight down the toilet.

[@parisolivarious]

“Count as high as you can for an hour and a half.” 😂😂😂 holy shit

[@alistairetheblu]

5:30 It goes a bit deeper than that. Yes, it's a pseudonym and it's one he's used before but apparently he's been asked about it and insists it's not him. So this guy really doesn't want his name attached. Understandably.

[@TrappyJenkins]

That shirt looks great on you

[@eddli1991]

The ending and life advice 😂😂😂 preach

[@drudee7344]

They actually didn’t explain it, I saw it with my parents and they were lost so I told them it “was like wifi” 2:58

[@cameronblifting3685]

I just saw it last night and can’t shake the feeling that it was 90% written as a fully unrelated project until some exec went “Hey! We can make this into one of those uhhh video game things, right?”. So many strange decisions make it feel very far from Borderlands, like the lack of powers/class abilities (which would have been a fun and easy way to give each character a unique power signature) and the random mix of characters. I know it’s not that simple, but I was left wishing that they had 1:1 ripped the plot of BL1 or BL2 rather than the baffling mix of story elements that we ended up getting.

[@centrevezgaming4862]

And Randy Pitchford is now blocking everyone who criticizes the movie over on Twitter.

[@TheImpostenator]

LMAOO

[@theplantpapi6330]

2025 Peter Pan ft. Samuel L Jackson as Peter. Judy Denche as Wendy and Tom Holland as Hook.

[@capnandy462]

I read a script for this movie like six years ago and it wasn’t half-bad. It is very much not the same script that they eventually turned into this movie.

[@james.b.mcgill]

I just realized that this movie comes out the first year that there's an Oscar for casting director. If the Golden Raspberry Awards adds the same category then this movie is a shoe in. For a Razzy I mean.

[@godspeedrebirth]

If I only knew Jamie Lee Curtis from this, I’d be surprised she has an Oscar

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

Legacy artists usually end up terrible at their craft 😂 too many years resting on their laurels

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

Had I not played Borderlands 2 I wouldn't know what a "sycophant" is. It's for example, a person who takes a beloved actress of dozens of populist low-brow movies, and drags her down to the level of OSCARS of all things.

[@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom]

To be honest, she didn't deserve that Oscar either.

[@godspeedrebirth]

@@sboinkthelegday3892 nah, I’m just saying that she was miscast in the role and probably given horrible direction and editing because I’m pretty sure she’s a good actress.

[@Iscannon]

Absolutely devastating final thoughts there

[@Death_Knight97]

Tiny Tina is actually 13 years old bomb expert.

[@maxborchardt7563]

I feel bad for the costume and props department, they did some pretty solid work but it was for naught

[@danlee9788]

I think they picked a good actress for Moxxi, her kids Scooter & Ellie are already adults in the games, Moxxi only starts to look the age you'd expect from that in BL3.

[@blurg2712]

There is something very "none of this matters, we're just shuffling money around to keep from paying taxes on it" about modern blockbusters like this. Studios have always been about Money-First, but these modern power people are so open about it that it makes it hard to suspend my disbelief.

[@SignificantNumberOfBeavers]

As someone who recently got into Borderlands, just watching the trailer made me sad.

[@86dp27]

John Hamm as MCU uncle Ben!

[@Sonderin]

Because "leadership" makes everyone lazy by being cheap and lazy themselves, and it gets worse over time. Everyone's taking as much as possible with the least effort possible. Take, take back, take again, take back more... It builds in magnitudes until we fall with no style at all. Must stop doing what we're told - that is the key to everything.

[@tariqblilet8660]

This film feels like a Dragon Ball Evolution type adaptation, but it isn't generating the same uproar because the fan base has either immediately checked out of the film or is unaware its even out

[@Narrative_Ink]

I didn't even know it was going to come out

[@orangetuxedoman]

If you feel the need to do a follow up on this I'd watch it, but only if you want to put yourself through that, but don't feel the need.