Top 10 Worst Things about the Borderlands Movie

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[@devingiles6597]

I just ignore watching that trash.

[@Dad-Says-Jokes]

When your teacher asks “Where’s your homework?” It took a sick day. It had too many problems.

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@Dad-Says-Jokes can you not spam in the comments. Your jokes are not funny

[@michaelcaywood6070]

What about making a video about all the terrible things that he has done and said?

[@paul-ch1vt]

Right!🤘

[@axelanchante3950]

Since the director of this movie said he hasn't played any Borderlands game, I knew Borderlands movie would be trash

[@LeonardoKlotz]

I knew from the moment I saw Avi Arad's name

[@SaMz8point2]

for me it was when he did some interview and he said that "I don't see a game, I see a movie" that's when I knew it's going to be a pile of shit.

[@270MOX]

@@LeonardoKlotz I knew from the moment I saw Avi Arad's name and Lionsgate

[@f1jones544]

I didn't see much of a game all the times I tried playing it too.

[@dolphlundgren2820]

OMG!! Now it makes sense why!! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@3redstreeter256]

“Number 10: The casting. Number 9: Literally everything else.” 😂😂😂 it’s true tho, good lord wtf were they thinking?

[@SiegeTF]

'Fans are rabid, stupid creatures who will collect goddamned bobbleheads by the hundred, so we might as well make a movie.'

[@trunphin]

MONEY MONEY MOOOONAAAY MOOOOONNNAAAAAYY

[@jimfreeman6010]

The casting is so bad, I'm almost glad they didn't bring anything more characters for the game into this movie. They probably cast Brad Williams as brick and Keanu Reeves as mordecai.

[@ICallItAsItIs]

There are tens of millions of people who own a copy of any of the Borderlands games. They would have made bank if they actually catered to the people who play/played the games.

[@EvilSmurf76]

Valid. But a lot of those people have aged or grown as gamers.

[@Slenderslayer351]

It's Hollywood, they don't care about the gaming audience or even care to listen to the source material.

[@fae206]

and then you get all the people who have played a game similar to Borderlands and think huh, I know this is old but I'll give it a try

[@smokedoutmotions_]

Fax

[@gazzaboy84]

Lol I have had the games for years and still haven't played them

[@stephsman51]

The original writer of the script said that the studio changed so much of the script he asked to have his name taken off of it. It was intentionally made terrible.

[@theangrybaby]

Yeah, I don't know who thought Kevin Hart would be perfect for Roland. He's too damn short. Irdis Elba would have been a much better pick.

[@Ironwill902]

Now he would have been perfect!

[@frankieseward8667]

Terry Crews, Wesley Snipes, John David Washington. Anyone could've worked

[@phousefilms]

I could handle him being short...if he played the cahracter straight, as Roland is the one straight man of the group. Also, they chose the more famous character faces(Tina and Claptrap)and removed my favorite 1st game Vault Hunter, Mordecai(don't judge me!)

[@maxmazzotti6651]

Michael Jai White is my pick

[@beautifulmidnight]

Idris Elba is almost always a better pick.

[@636_RunningSolo]

Not casting Dave Bautista as Brick is a fkn crime!

[@sam21462]

Oh yeah, that would have really helped in that poor man's GotG vibe they seemed to be going for.

[@coastiewoody]

He is a lot smaller now, so he wouldn't look as big as brick, but still would have been the best choice.

[@636_RunningSolo]

@@coastiewoody At the time of filming, he was still buff. Look at his new movie "The Killing Game". He's still big there. Now that I think about it, maybe that's why he wasn't in BL.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Studios better learn Fast you can't just put Jack Black or Kevin Hart in something and expect it to be a Smash hit.

[@cetterus]

he's small and black. Only fit to be Angelina's adoption

[@beastmodeforever8674]

​@@cetteruswhat?

[@beautifulmidnight]

@@cetterus….the fuck are you on about?

[@One.Zero.One101]

@@cetterus You're 20 years too late for the edgelord trend.

[@s141jzonboost]

The fact this director has rights to a bioshock movie aswell is terrifying.

[@ncmor3678]

My gawd, another game series they'll ruin. They should just leave it to amazon prime since they did so well with fallout.

[@Rickst3r101]

Plz tell me you are lying

[@s141jzonboost]

Wish I was man, from my research it will be a series on Netflix or something

[@4mobius280]

Would you kindly tell me that’s not true? Please?

[@ArAsDeCos]

Oh no

[@billcox8870]

You should never make a PG-13 movie based on a mature rated video game.

[@victorhernandez8723]

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a prime example!

[@kcmueller8729]

My money is on they thought Borderlands would be the next Jurassic Park and Ready Player One: turning a mature source material (books in my examples) into a semi family friendly movie.

[@billcox8870]

@@victorhernandez8723 that was a stinker of a movie. I enjoyed the first one though

[@sgtGiggsy]

@@kcmueller8729 Yeah, but unlike Jurassic Park or RP1, Borderlands DOES NOT have qualities that can come across as PG13. I can't understand what they were thinking. I mean, it's not the kind of video game title that means ANYTHING to non-hardcore gamers, so it was obvious they can't cash in on the widespread knowledge of the IP. First and foremost if they wanted to make ANY money on it, they should've cater to the fanbase of the game first, and hope that fanbase will hype the product up so much it would attract others too.

[@Afterword.]

Could do it with Halo. Not that the Halo show actually managed to do that.

[@thestone30080]

Crazy how they spent $110 million dollars on this film and only made back $18 million dollars so far, what was Eli Roth thinking when he did this trash.

[@kevinsmarts9953]

He left the project before it completed, so probably thinking that the studio and ip owner were making his life hell.

[@amandataylor4478]

Tax write-off and federal money grant.

[@BajanShinobi]

@@kevinsmarts9953 He had no intention of following the games, so he doesn't get a pass.

[@trunphin]

Up to 24 million now. Still not even 25%. And I'm gonna pirate it, so I'm not gonna give them any money

[@kevinsmarts9953]

@@BajanShinobi I'm not saying he's not responsible just that its not all on him. Might have been an OK movie before the studio hacked it apart, might have still been terrible. We'll never know. Either way is was poorly cast and by mixing up the characters never going to make those that did play the games happy.

[@2723Xonk]

The one time they could've used Terry Crews

[@mr44mag]

Has he ever played perpetually serious and socially unaware? Roland was just a black Terminator in BL2 if I remember right.

[@MrTrev80]

@@mr44magHe was serious but he wasn’t the terminator lol.

[@2723Xonk]

@@mr44mag the bar is seriously low for a more serious actor when they're replacing Kevin Hart

[@mr44mag]

@@MrTrev80 "There was this one customer that came to me, he wanted solid colored drapes in a little girl's room. I said 'DON'T DO IT.' You need butterflies, polka dots, balloons" -T-800 series Terminator

[@nickpatterson6099]

Terry crews is almost just as bad a choice as Hart. He's taller yea but way too bulky

[@MacKy-926]

The fact that they got Jack Black to play Claptrap and not Tom Kenny makes me very disappointed.

[@Bahr-im7pn]

I honestly thought Alex Hirsch would've been a good fit for Claptrap. From what I've seen, he reminds me of King Clawthorne in season one of The Owl House.

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

Worst casting choices since the last Airbender

[@persona8439]

Shush... You dont want the Dai Li to hear you. We dont talk about that.

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

@@persona8439 I'm sorry, I couldn't help it

[@sgtGiggsy]

Nah, not just since then. It tops The Last Airbender.

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

@sgtGiggsy no, the cast in the Airbender's acting is way worse

[@phousefilms]

Ten people gesticulating for ten minutes to move one tiny rock.... (Shoots M.Night, flies away) You're welcome...

[@themasa81]

1:45 God i hate you as Lilith.

[@dr.bright6272]

The fact that Tiny Tina is the Borderlands 3 version and Kevin Hart is supposed to be big brooding Roland *he doesn't fit Rolands character at all

[@evancallow4356]

It's an original take

[@maverickpwnage8534]

@@evancallow4356 yeah a bad one.

[@Prkwon]

​@evancallow4356 why does everyone think that way...NO ONE wants an original take do that in the sequels people 🤔

[@JonCollinsMedia]

Tiny Tina needed to be a young girl for it to work properly. Borderlands 3 Tina ain't it.

[@fenarri]

​@@evancallow4356 an "original take" shouldn't have the "original's" name. This was SUPPOSED TO BE Borderlands and what we got was Jumanji and Mad Max's ugly baby

[@wilomica]

NOPE not watching this dumpster fire of a movie. I want to keep my fond memories of Borderlands & Borderlands 2 intact. Thanks for the warning.

[@RayMcElroy50]

This is why I don't watch a movie because of the cast When a movie spends a fortune with a heavy cast, exotic locations, and extravagant costumes It means that very little was spent to make the script

[@jasonmeadors4170]

I can't believe Hollywood has not learned this lesson yet. Actors are no longer what draws people to the movies. Because of the internet and social media, people get their celebrity fix 24hrs a day. No one cares enough about Hollywood actors to sit through a bad movie. For instance, Godzilla minus 1 was one of my favorite movies from the past year and I saw it twice in theatres. I can't name 1 actor or actress from that movie.

[@LeonardoKlotz]

@@jasonmeadors4170 Only Avi Arad keeps this mentality As well as the PG-13 rating

[@sabiant.lawson2909]

How much money does it cost for a pencil and paper? just write down the actor's lines and their actions they have to do for the scenes

[@frankieseward8667]

@@jasonmeadors4170 hollywood still thinks this is the 1990s. It's not.

[@ciravieira6650]

It’s because they don’t have a good script

[@Arkainjel]

As soon as I heard about this movie, I prayed that Dave Bautista would be cast as Brick. And honestly, I'm not even mad at the casting, but rather leaving characters out and the total fumble of the game's plot. This could easily have been a slamdunk. A violent and gory "Rat-Race"-type movie where various factions are exhausting their resources looking for the fabled Eridian Vault, including the Vault Hunter mercenaries receiving subtle hints and messages from an unknown Guardian Angel, cold opening with them all having a reason to go to Pandora and look for the Vault. Then start with the 'Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest For the Wicked' bus scene for the opening credits as an homage to the game. The Vault Hunters selfishly squabble at first in act one but then they come to an understanding and decide to team-up against the corporations for their own fame and glory. Boom, you've got your relatable, anti-capitalism protagonists for the audience to love. Then you put them into dangerous and hilarious situations in act two. The Pandora wildlife seeing them as prey (skags, rakks, spiderants, etc), tribes of Psychos wanting to eat their flesh or make them fight in an arena for sport, and finding the absent-minded Patricia Tannis, who wants to help them find the Vault for science. All while being pursued by the ATLAS corporation's private military, The Crimson Lance. Then comes the climactic third act when "all hope is lost" and they all converge on the Vault where they are forced to open it, only to have the big reveal where (wait for it) the Eridian Vault isn't a cache of ancient alien technology and treasures but a prison built by the Eridians to contain an intergalactic terror known as The Destroyer. It kills dozens and dozens of Psychos and Crimson Lance soldiers mercilessly before the Vault Hunters "Can't let that thing escape" and eventually defeat it. Then in a mid/post credit scene (because every movie needs one nowadays) we see that the Guardian Angel who guided them is actually the daughter of Handsome Jack, who runs the rival corporation Hyperion and orchestrated the whole thing. Boom, set-up for the sequel. With the exception of the Vault Hunters meeting at the beginning (because as player characters they don't actually interact until the second game), that's literally the entire plot of the first Borderlands game. Why is that a difficult script to write?

[@InsanityIsOurNature]

Would’ve made a better tv show, something that can take the story slower and add all the elements the movie missed. Like twisted metals approach that would’ve been much better.

[@charliepeck82]

When's the release date?

[@bloodlust9984]

Robert Downey Jr. should have played a black man who played Roland.

[@nickpatterson6099]

That would have ironically been way better lol

[@ludonymous526]

Not that idiocy, man.

[@intotheoblivion3938]

He would've swallowed the whole budget 💀💀

[@ludonymous526]

@@intotheoblivion3938 Exactly. That for one.

[@eduardodiaz9942]

"I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!"

[@w0llib]

There's only 2 things wrong with the movie. 1. The casting of all characters 2. The fact that this bs, that's not even based on the source material, was even allowed to be made

[@Fl0k5ser]

Number one should've been hiring Eli Roth as writer and director as he was the one who started this whole mess in the first place

[@eetdarichmarx7423]

That's my #1!

[@rjthegreatyt9139]

Eli Roth isn't a terrible director....when he's in his element. He's responsible for a lot of gory horror films such as the hostel franchise and the green inferno. Eli Roth and PG-13 don't mix well. If they didn't try to make things " kid friendly" I think he could have maybe done a good job.

[@victorhernandez8723]

Why didn’t they choose James Gunn to direct the Borderlands movies?

[@270MOX]

I'd like to blame producers (ejem... Avi Arad...)

[@MLGRDR]

@@victorhernandez8723they might as well have if they were trying to replicate GoTG

[@BrianWalters-ei7sd]

The Director: [has never played a single Borderlands game] Me: "Why the f**k did you want to make a movie about something you know NOTHING about?" 🤦‍♂️

[@rexlumontad5644]

0:15 Definitely the casting being the red flags in Borderlands movie as some like Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis are too old to play as young female characters, Kevin Hart didn't even try act differently and Jack Black sounded like he took too much weed lately.

[@thatonedude]

How I feel about the one piece live action

[@kevinp.1899]

It's a fucking cartoon video game who gives a shif about age? Cate killed it. An she looked great doing it

[@petersulewski]

@@kevinp.1899 cate looks great for her age but if she "killed it" Borderlands wouldn't be such a terrible movie

[@exhippie503ommp2]

One can never do enough WEED!

[@bluepower1177]

He “took” too much weed? Did he do alcohol as well 😂

[@grimshock6983]

Fallout, Mario, Sonic, Arcane, Last Of Us. The scales had to be balanced

[@Lluc06]

balancing shit with more shit on the other side of the scale? sheesh,

[@firdanharbima6997]

​@@Lluc06 yeah golden shit with more worth than your entire ancestry

[@Slayde.Wilson]

Idris Elba as Roland would've been a better pick instead of Kevin Hart.

[@CollinMcLean]

Or maybe Winston Duke

[@evancallow4356]

I think you missed the point of the movie

[@billcox8870]

I was thinking of Michael Jai White but I like your casting idea better

[@whitewolf3051]

evancallow, you missed the point of this being an adaptation. If you’re not going stick to the characters, lore, storyline, or anything from the source material, you might as well not bother. Even the early Jurassic Park movies, which are heavily altered still stick as much as possible to the books. If the JP movies didn’t do that and went with the old generic dino movies from the 30’s to 60’s plot, those would’ve failed as well.

[@MrTrev80]

@@evancallow4356 Actually I think you miss the point. People are tired of Hollywood screwing up video game movies.

[@golgol4903]

THANK YOU for mentioning Tina. i don't see people complain nearly enough about her character simply not being even remotly close to the original. Tina in the games is probably the biggest psycho in the universe.

[@maxmazzotti6651]

Are we sure Uwe Boll didn't direct this?

[@victorhernandez8723]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@TheLeky98]

The movie would probably be better if he did

[@alnu8355]

I think the change of that German Tax Law he was allegedly exploiting derailed his career at making video game movies.

[@Grimrapings]

Funnily he said in twitter "I bet you wish I'd directed it, now"

[@jasonrichardson4448]

Eli and Boll are literally the same director.

[@thelethalcreator2077]

The game version of Tina sounds way better than the movie garbage. I won't even waste my time on this movie

[@BranniganCarter]

I’d have cast Terry Crews or Idris Elba as Roland. Kevin Hart was categorically incorrect for this role.

[@petersulewski]

agreed. Hart is closer to a Clap Trap voice over than Roland any day of the week

[@InsanityIsOurNature]

Terry crews, would’ve been great! Love him

[@medigoomnis]

I feel like WatchMojo took the kid gloves off recently...or the pandergloves or something. I love it!

[@billcox8870]

Cate Blanchett is 55. The character of Lilith was 22 in Borderlands 2 and early thirties in Borderlands 3. In Borderlands 2 Tiny Tina with the bunny ears was 10 years old. Edit: I was mistaken about Tina's age. She was 13 and not 10.

[@kevinp.1899]

Cate killed it tho its a cartoon video game who gives a shit about age? & she looked great doing it. Tina actor still looked young the way she was dressed with the bunny ears & all

[@billcox8870]

@kevinp.1899 I guess you haven't played any of the Borderlands game. It is cell shaded. It is also quite bloody and violent. The Tina on the screen is nothing like the Tina from Borderlands 2. The director was inspired by a different movies but knew nothing about the games. That's not a good start. If you enjoyed it, good for you. Most people did not. If you want the fans of the games to enjoy the movie, draw your inspiration from the games and be faithful to the source material. Make sure you're casting resembles the characters from the games in terms of appearance, abilities and their on-screen performances.

[@johnnyk3950]

If you're going to try to correct, do it right. tiny tina is thirteen years old, not ten

[@kevinp.1899]

@billcox8870 played them all I guess it's violent but it's cartoon violence so the blood isn't really significant or noteworthy

[@kevinp.1899]

@johnnyk3950 who gives a shit? Lmao it dosnt have to or need to be a 1 to 1 adaption it would be to cringy can u imagine if they called her tiny tina in the whole movie it just sounds dumb

[@grimshock6983]

Remember when Fallout games were selling like crazy when the tv show came out? Let that motivate studios to play a better hand in their adaptations

[@trinaq]

I feel sorry for actors like Cate Blanchett, Ariana Greenblatt, Jack Black, Gina Gershon and Jamie Lee Curtis, amongst others, whose talents are being wasted in this abomination.

[@TheAzulon]

Nah, actors are grown-ups. They can read the script and realize that the movie sucks and not take the role. Specially people like Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis, who have enough weight in the business to refuse roles and face no consequences. They chose to take the roles, do the bare minimum and cash their checks. Good ridance for them

[@JonCollinsMedia]

I don't feel sorry for any rich people

[@ImmanentGodBlues]

You feel sorry for people who get millions of dollars to say some dumb shit in front of a green/blue wall? Why is that?

[@paul-ch1vt]

As far as cast goes Cate Blanchett was my main reason for watching the movie. I always thought she was hot.

[@LevelsAndGear]

uh, they all got paid plenty. No need to feel sorry for them.

[@dartvade1955]

Black washed it with Kevin as a tough guy is the biggest joke 🤣

[@hectorfrausto9705]

#1 should be No Handsome Jack, he's arguably the most important character to the franchise, its crazy to leave him out of the film

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

They could’ve even gotten Matthew McConaughey to play him! It would’ve been perfect!

[@BiZZaroJ0E]

Handsome Jack is a Borderlands 2 character not a Borderlands 1 character. Same mistake as Krieg & Tina. Handsome Jack would've shined so brightly in the sequel after the world, story and characters would've properly been established in the 1st one... but movie 1 was done so improperly😩

[@Reddest1000]

It would be better if it was animated. But now i know why everyone hate this movie Edit: Also if the movie was better. I think the makers of the Borderlands movie should've played the video games first and they will make Borderlands movie better. But nope, they just made their dumb decision

[@wafflebrothel7712]

When a movie is made from a game. I think it should be a requirement for producers to play through the game themselves. Then watch a dozen let’s plays a on the KZbin.

[@EzxApache]

Hold up krieg a throwaway??? Mans got a whole dlc 3:05

[@SovirinKing]

I had to pause and give myself a moment. Don't do Krieg Dirty like that!

[@spencerklein5520]

Yet another victim of the dreaded "Video game movie curse."

[@LeonardoKlotz]

There was never a curse Making a video game requires ambition And Avi Arad is one of those people that only cares about using the movie as an excuse to sell merchandise

[@batmanbud2]

​@@LeonardoKlotz kick him out of the Zelda movie.

[@runescape14767]

Bro it's not a curse they don't play the games and decide let's make a movie it's stupid

[@MRU79]

Its wrong to say curse , this was a bad mistake from day one. Yes i was few one who said i wont say anything till we see the end product but cmon just looking a trailer i said no way i gonna watch this. How could u get the lore so wrong in every way. Like guardians this could have worked well as well had they followed the sequence of the movies and to randy u just wanted access in hollywood or what u thought u would be like next kevin fiege i mean u never cared about ur own game lore what made it tick with fans. I mean my list is endless this was no way movie game curse they just didnt plan and executed right.u know they are tons of Borderlands content creator they would have given u the best insights like they already interact with u u know them u could have just run a simple test screen with them.

[@spencerklein5520]

@@MRU79 🤓

[@maurenovick]

I saw Deadpool and Wolverine twice and this movie zero times. I call that a win in my book.

[@rexlumontad5644]

It says a lot when even Rotten Tomatoes didn't shill for Borderlands movie being so terrible.

[@5FtOfRage]

Rotten Tomatoes can't be trusted because the rating system is all over the place

[@nickpatterson6099]

Lol I was thinking that about WatchMojo

[@crystaljon]

Nah, what REALLY say a lot is IGN dunking on this film. That is not a common occurrence.

[@beautifulmidnight]

Given that RT doesn’t recommend movies, that doesn’t say much at all.

[@R3TR0J4N]

IGN after glazing on it 😂

[@danielcobia7818]

@5:31 Correction on the Tiny Tina backstory from the games: Flesh-Stick (Bandit) captured and SOLD Tiny Tina's family to Hyperion (Handsome Jack) who were the ones that put her parents through eridium experiments that resulted in their deaths. Tiny Tina escaped because she used a grenade her mother had made her hide in her dress. The audio log of that event is heartbreaking in BL2.

[@EricJGaming]

The movie should be rated R and been on Netflix, such a disastrous adaptation

[@nickpatterson6099]

Why Netflix? If anything Prime is the least likely to screw up

[@alnu8355]

Why do people default to Netflix on these hypothetical things?

[@alexzhao9868]

@@alnu8355Netflix has made some great adaptations in the form of Arcane, Castlevania, and Edgerunners. The shows and movies that do suck are the Anime and cartoon adaptations (except for One Piece from what I heard)

[@AngryShark105]

I feel bad for this movie And the writing for the characters It feels off specially the main protagonist

[@Choalith_Ikanthe]

Knew this movie was going to be trash the moment they cast Jack Black as Claptrap. That one move telegraphed every shortcoming of the movie as a whole; A complete lack of concern for the characters or writing, the willingness to throw Big Names onto the screen just because they appear popular, a total misunderstanding of the movie's style and substance, and an utter lack of balls. The mismatch of that one role, the disconnect the producers had, was the worst I'd seen since someone thought wrapping a piece of Rebar around The Rock's arm could make him into The Cyberdemon from DooM.

[@batmanbud2]

I guarantee Black was casted because of Bowser and "Peaches."

[@donovanboykins1995]

@@batmanbud2 A shame, because he handled Bowser really well. He wouldn't gotten an award from the Kids Choice Awards without that role!

[@kevinp.1899]

Jack black was fucking awesome as claptrap their litterally couldn't be a more perfect person to do it

[@kevinp.1899]

Jack black was one of the best things about this movie which wasn't even bad it was entertaining & fun

[@EsteemedReptile]

​@@kevinp.1899You have horrendous taste.

[@Yukiba]

Tiny Tina's parents DIDN'T get killed by bandits, they were sold to Hyperion (by Fleshstick) and were experimented on before ultimately being killed. Tiny Tina watched them die and THAT'S what caused her to have her current personality. I wish someone (like an actor) loved the game enough to do what Ryan Reynolds did and have it remade. Borderlands 1 and 2 are incredible and would make for an AMAZING tv series.

[@analidiatomaz5462]

LEGEND OF ZELDA will only stand a chance if Wes Ball works as a producer It's the only way he can save it from Avi Arad

[@joelugalde8843]

It also has to be Shigero Miyamoto as produce to approve and sell the movie to prevent another Rocky Morton & Annabelle Jenkel disaster

[@ripparoofulgens8624]

Didn’t Avi Arad produce Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?

[@ripparoofulgens8624]

Wes Ball is the director.

[@analidiatomaz5462]

@@ripparoofulgens8624 Wes Ball also produced Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes That's why Spiderverse work, because it had Phil Lord and Chirs Miller. They're the only ones that cared about quality. Zelda can have this chance if they give the keys to Wes Ball

[@DennzylONE]

"Do you know the Source material?!" "No, Not at all..." "Perfect!! You got the job!" Thats hollywood right there.

[@CuRSe-gw3rx]

You know it’s bad when WatchMojo is making a top 10 worst things about a movie they are so generous but hey, let’s all enjoy the chaos that has happened from Pandora

[@americansupervillain4595]

"Mine's bigger" is overused to the point it's become lame and is now considered low effort writing, but that seems to be the level of writing throughout the movie.

[@BigDaddyJinx]

Um...which is the exact level of writing for the actual game itself, so your point is.................................? You make it sound like the Borderlands game read like The Iliad. The game catered to the lowest common denominator, and so did the movie.

[@americansupervillain4595]

@@BigDaddyJinx Where in my comment did I compare Borderlands to the Iliad? Did it not cross your mind that I may have felt the same way when it came to the writing of Borderlands the game, but I did not say anything about that in my comment because I wanted to keep my remarks to the subject of the video which was the movie Borderlands and not the game?

[@americansupervillain4595]

@@BigDaddyJinx Seriously, what made you think my comment was comparing the writing in Borderlands to the Iliad? Please answer, I really want to know.

[@victorhernandez8723]

This isn’t Pandora! This is Pander-a!

[@RainbowFluffy77]

No, is Pandemic lol

[@KhaosRox]

It's just a shame that another game adaptation has been sacrificed just to remove everything that makes the original material so charming. Aside from the costumes, there's nothing Borderlands about it.

[@Animeguy300]

It's a good thing I didn't watch this movie 👎 it got a 9% on rotten tomatoes

[@KevinKlineisawesome]

Same here. It has good casting, and I never realized till closer to release that it was based on the video games, which was what actually caused me to draw myself away from wanting to go see it

[@Jerbear-XXxx-es8ql]

I haven't watch it yet, but if a hardcore player made anime version Borderlands like how a hardcore player made anime version of Tekken and Castlevania

[@gothblueberry5047]

I didn't watch it either I want to should I, is it really that bad.

[@youngfortune3961]

It was dog shit

[@youngfortune3961]

@@gothblueberry5047bro o played all 3 games this move was straight up disrespectful to the game

[@MarvNARK]

Number 1 should have been: If the potheads who thought to make this into a live-action film tried to actually make it like Borderlands instead of some knockoff Guardians of the Galaxy/Suicide Squad 2 combo, the movie would have at least been up there with Jean-Claude Van Damme's Street Fighter and Robert Patrick's Double Dragon as "Video Game-based live-action movies that are barely anything like the games, but still with a charm to them because the actors are trying to give solid performances and/or the guy playing the bad guy is having a blast." Which would have actually made it come closer to cracking the glass to $10 million bucks

[@barney7822]

No matter how cool people think Kraven the Hunter looks It will suffer the same fate this movie had Both went through reshoots

[@270MOX]

Reshoots aren't that bad. Reshoots with a different director, or reshoots where the new director does all the work, those are the real red flags

[@stonewal316]

So did 70% of movies you loved

[@LeonardoKlotz]

​@@stonewal316But this one has Avi Arad

[@kevinsmarts9953]

Kraven's issue is that its one of Sony's Spiderman adjacent movies trying to turn a villain into an anti-hero. The Venom movies were OK and had fun moments but the rest are trash.

[@thedeepfriar745]

Krieg a throwaway DLC. How dare you! That character really encapsulates the entire dual sided chaotic nature of the series! While yes there is Krieg’s psycho man side, but there’s also the tragic nature of The Small man in Krieg’s head. He’s so damaged like everything in the series

[@Z-Strike026]

Funny new drinking game! Take a shot every time someone says, "Pandora is a shithole."

[@kcmueller8729]

I'm waiting for the DVD, before I attempt this.

[@20eyesmisfit]

@@kcmueller8729 Pirate it, not worth your money.

[@litobrigante1413]

Welp, Randy Pitchford is gonna block WatchMojo on Twitter now

[@codyhiginbotham6616]

As a writer & filmmaker, based on all the things they did wrong, I’m already imagining a better and more faithful adaptation

[@mmca9323]

Tiny Tina, and her dlc for bl2 is video game perfection, it's so sad that they wasted a wonderful story in lieu of "attracting new fans".

[@CollinMcLean]

Two words... Kevin Hart... Stop putting him in movies! The man is the black Rob Schneider...

[@victorhernandez8723]

Ouch! That was kind of harsh!

[@CollinMcLean]

@@victorhernandez8723 It is harsh but is it inaccurate?

[@victorhernandez8723]

@@CollinMcLean Maybe not.

[@nickpatterson6099]

​@@CollinMcLeaneh, Rob Schneider coulda been a better Roland

[@jsmashrumble419]

@@nickpatterson6099 i mean hes already done brown face, he'd probably happily do blackface

[@getgoodgames2892]

If I was to make the first Borderlands Movie I would use all the source material and cast it as so. Roland: Anthony Mackie Lilith: Jennifer Lawrence Mordecai: Pedro Pascal Brick: Dwayne Johnson, Claptrap (Voice): The original voice actor, David Eddings Dr. Patricia Tannis: Aubrey Plaza Marcus Kincaid: David Harbour Scooter: Jeremy Davies Mad Moxxi: Katey Sagal Commandant Steele: Florence pugh Sledge: Dave Bautista Krom: Walton Goggins Nine-Toes: Giovanni Ribisi

[@alessandrajackson3768]

Tbh the biggest failure was having Eli Roth direct. Every time he doesn’t direct a gory horror movie….it’s absolute trash. Just look up Knock Knock

[@Ange1ofD4rkness]

The Casting. That literally is what had many of us axing the movie from the start. When Roland was cast as Kevin Hart, a lot of us knew it was going to be a disaster

[@eetdarichmarx7423]

#1. It's directed by Eli Roth... an absolutely despicable human being.

[@RayMcElroy50]

He wasn't even around during the reshoots

[@victorhernandez8723]

Are we sure Uwe Boll hasn’t somehow infiltrated the production unnoticed and sabotaged the movie?

[@nickpatterson6099]

I mean I'm pissed too he didn't take it seriously at all but why is he despicable? Did he SA someone I didn't hear?

[@jdyico]

Dude probably killed his directing career with this dud. So it couldn't have happened to a better choice of guy.

[@cruelangel_94]

From what I understand most of the movie isnt even his since a majority of it was reshoot by a different guy.

[@tvctaswegia497]

Best short review with every point hitting home. I don't know what the point of this movie even is unless it's throwing millions of dollars in a dumpster snd setting it on fire. Every post in every forum on this gives good solid advice and they would only have had to spend an hour online researching what Borderlands is to be able to make a decent transkation to film. Every executive involved in this should be fired for incompetence and arrogance.

[@PrincipalSkinner3190]

The fact audiences have it rated as a 52% proves they cannot be trusted when it comes to reviews.

[@iaincrawford8004]

No, i haven't seen this trashfest and i never will It's very telling that when Joltzdude did a review of this movie, he was asked the question " Do you think this movie is fan pandering or do you think it was written with people who had never heard of Borderlands in mind?" and his answer was "Neither" As the saying goes "If you try to please everyone, you wind up pleasing no-one" which is a perfect description of this garbage

[@faerow]

Becky Lynch would have made a much more believable Lilith

[@landonletterman831]

Krieg truly is the conductor of the poop train. I also love how everything he says in game is technically accurate, though crazy as a loon. When he shouts that at Maya, he's actually trying to impress her, calling the entire world crap and saying he's the boss of it, lol.

[@TheConjuration_metal]

Jack Black as Claptrap would probably be the worst thing.

[@kevinp.1899]

Nope it was the best he & Cate killed it

[@BerraRazuke1]

@@kevinp.1899 bro here autistically trying to say it was a good movie. Killed is true tho.

[@97Crazysteve]

​@@kevinp.1899 Dude, you're in like every thread defending this awful movie. That's a lot of coping over a $20 movie ticket.

[@carfo]

i got a really cool Claptrap popcorn bucket. that was the only highlight of my experience

[@KidultNPlay]

The worst thing about this movie is that it was made. Should've just made it into a TV show, like Fallout. Which is 10 times better.

[@allisondavis6543]

Fallout made snappy smart choices to be set AFTER the games. So they have the freedom and didn't piss off the fans

[@alnu8355]

Adult Animated Film or 2-6 episode mini series straight to streaming would have done Borderlands better. Reaches it's target audience better, voice acting probably commands a smaller fee than oscar winning actress casting, etc. Also, the primary cast should have been Brick, Mordeccai, Lilith, Roland, and Claptrap. No Handsome Jack, or any Borderlands 2 characters except maybe minor cameos. If the hypothetical animated version succeded, then maybe start pre production on a sequal.

[@allisondavis6543]

@@alnu8355 and have siren tattoos

[@alnu8355]

@@allisondavis6543 exactly. Easy enough to animate.

[@AHnnssy]

The ONLY reason Fallout didnt follow in the demise of other video game shows/movies is because they did their OWN thing. They didnt take a character from any of the games and make their own story out of it. They plajn simply started fresh, even a different Vault thats not 111, 76, 101.

[@Josh-qd9uj]

Idris Elba - Roland Claptrap video game voice actor for claptrap. Karen Gillan - Lilith Vin Diesel - Brick (who should have been in the movie) Gina Carano - Moxie Natalie Portman - Patricia Tannis My god this list took 30 seconds and it’s a million times better than what we got..

[@Ziplock9000]

Gina Carano & Natalie Portman don't seem like a good fit.

[@vigi1antvort3x41]

"Tickets on Sale Now." Claptrap: "Everybody run!"

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

I never played the _Borderlands_ games, but the movie is on a different level of critical and audience hate. I’m glad I didn’t see it.

[@cetterus]

Because Borderlands2 is a gem of a game. Interesting, bloody and hilarious.

[@jaydee886]

"No Brick without Mordekey?" But they gave us Krieg wirhout Maya.... That's a No-Go, too

[@jalacia3851]

Not every video game was meant to be turned into a movie

[@cetterus]

Borderlands had great potential.

[@jalacia3851]

@@cetterus well I did like the video game myself

[@BigDaddyJinx]

Borderlands was a movie that started out as a game, if you want the truth. It was meant for a big screen. The problem was that they failed in the execution. A movie that should've been a license to print money ended up dying in agony.

[@jalacia3851]

@@BigDaddyJinx oh I didn't know that. I will look it up.

[@petersulewski]

Borderlands could easily be a movie. but it'd honestly translate way better as animated.

[@cgraham6]

Seems to me the only reason Jamie Lee Curtis got cast as Tannis is because she matches the character's look so well. Yes, Jack Black is an established voice actor and well-known, but fans would have been happier had they cast Mikey Neumann, the game's voice actor. Why does Hollywood insist on recasting iconic voices when they could just go with the real deal?

[@20eyesmisfit]

Let's hope Netflix doesn't screw up the Bioshock legacy. Really want the movie to do the franchise justice.

[@alnu8355]

Netflix is REAL hit or miss.

[@R3TR0J4N]

My expectations are low. win-win if it exceeds those n

[@enilenis]

Eli Roth was always known as a B-grade director, making campy films where no one appears to be invested in what they're doing. He's fine as an actor, but directing projects? He hasn't had a single good one, so why would this be any different? And who wanted all these retirement age actors in the same film? Is that a vanity project of some 90 year old producer? It's just a very strange film. Very strange. Almost anyone else could've done it better. Why Eli Roth? Who suddenly entrusted him this much money on something he wasn't going to be good at? I'm confused.

[@demosneokleous4877]

Number 1: It exists

[@giuseppeianniello1998]

The movie is a mess, but Cate Blanchett’s performance was the only good thing about it. It’s really cool seeing her in a role like this and you can tell that she had a blast while making it. Keep in mind that I’ve never played any of the games

[@keynanmartinez]

I really pray this doesn't affect Borderlands 4.

[@harusoji3646]

lol they took 150 Mil Dollar and wasted it on this movie and u think this will not effect the game? 🧐😅

[@nickpatterson6099]

It's not like BL3 was amazing....

[@petersulewski]

@@nickpatterson6099 Borderlands 3 was a pretty great shooter even if the plot didn't live up to Borderlands 2

[@harusoji3646]

@@petersulewski I think the stupid story really brought the game down. I mean, every time you start again, my ears bleed when I have to listen to even one sentence from the Calypso twins, and you have to wait several minutes each time for them to finish talking so you can carry on playing, that ruins the gaming experience. also the balance is completly broken in this game when u get 1 weapon of the 40 weapon how was scaled for mayhem 10 u are op and 1 shot evrything and u dont need to refarm other weapon. and the weapons are so stron when u get a lvl 20 hellwalker you can carry on till lvl 40 or + with this tihng ther is no challöenge at all. this is so stupid. every borderlands title has is issue but i like to play the older ones wich arent so extremly anoying and broken over bl3.

[@poofedeblanc9315]

It gives me great happiness to know this garbage fire did so poorly. Sorry not sorry. As soon as I saw Kevin Hart was Roland immediately I knew this was going to be stupid I mean he's like a foot shorter than him. Just why.

[@rexlumontad5644]

They're gonna blame us for not watching their crappy Borderlands movie on theaters.

[@LeonardoKlotz]

But no one blames Avi Arad

[@lawtubeclips9670]

Tinas parents were experimented on by hyperion (I think) not just slaughtered by bandits/psychos. They get captured and sold by one but ultimately it was slag/eridium experiments that did them in, same thing with kreig expect he mutated and is now a psycho

[@evancallow4356]

Ok first off THEY SAID IT WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF THE GAMES second it was a good balance of original with just enough call backs to remind you that this is borderlands. 3rd there is nothing they could have done with this movie to make the diehard fans of the games happy.

[@RevDrTarr]

I'm a huge fan of the games and I thought it was fine. Not the greatest movie, but good enough. I bet most of the people here in the comments haven't even seen it.

[@evancallow4356]

@@RevDrTarr thank you

[@kevinp.1899]

Movie was pretty good tbh hardcore gamers basement dwellers ruin everything again

[@Gringorilla]

Man, I had to scroll way too far to find like-minded people. I actually loved this movie, having played the games to death. And my friend who never played them also enjoyed it a lot.

[@petersulewski]

nothing they could have done? cmon bro don't lie to yourself or others. the casting was terrible and script was really bad. having a decent script and a cast that at least gives a semblance of the games vibes wouldve gone a long way. Kevin Hart was an absolutely baffling casting choice.

[@Bman32x]

What’s shocking to me is that they learned literally nothing from The Last of Us on Max that was nearly a shot for shot remake, was universally praised. Just imagine sticking to the source material for an IP as the reason why it’s popular to begin with is maybe the same reason what might make it work in movies or streaming series too… EH HALO?! I would dunk on 20th Century Fox too but they don’t exist anymore because of this same attitude of having directors who arrogantly didn’t play the games or read the comics.

[@jamh666init]

Samuel L Jackson would’ve been a better Roland

[@Glenn_1358]

Sorry, but tiny Tina's parents wasnt killed by Psicos, was killed by Iridian experimentation done by Handsome jack as test subjects. Why she hate psicos/bandits? because one of them was who sold them to the experimentation. I quote "Flesh-Stick is a psycho known to have engaged in human-trafficking, selling people to serve as test subjects in Hyperion's slag experiments. Two of his victims were Tiny Tina's parents."

[@JakeTheLateCreates]

The movie being pg-13 is heinous. I can honestly see what they were thinking of with the casting, they just latched onto aspects of the characters that either weren’t important or didn’t make sense.

[@sutai1s72]

In the theater, before the movie there was an ad going over the cast by WatchMojo advertising the movie and the channel. Not sure if anyone else saw it, but it makes this videos existence a lot funnier.

[@bwahaduuude]

Kevin hart as Roland is just baffling. Roland is a stoic, tall, jacked, (purposefully)unfunny dude that doesn’t talk unless he’s saying something necessary and has no capacity/tolerance for joking around to the point where he actually dislikes jokes. He wasn’t directed to be Roland, he was casted as kevin hart. Also tannis is about 40 years younger in the game. Shit is the dumbest. Who’s watching this movie?, because it’s not the fans of borderlands and I don’t see what about it would draw in the general public

[@kevinsmarts9953]

They could have got away with a more serious actor who wasn't the right physique, the problem was that he wasn't played/directed/written to be Roland. Even with Hart if he had Roland lines and direction he might have been able to pull it off. Same with Tannis, her age isn't important (except for some extremely rare sexual references from her that catch you out in the games) but she wasn't that character in the movie.

[@exittragedy1436]

I saw it, still kinda mad about it, here's the casting choices I would've liked to see: Margot Robbie as Lillith Idris Elba as Roland Dave Bautista as Brick (switch him in for Krieg)

[@kevinsmarts9953]

Elba is too old at 51.

[@exittragedy1436]

@@kevinsmarts9953 Lillith is supposed to be 22 in BL1, she looks 60 in the movie whereas Roland is actually supposed to be an experienced war vet - not the same

[@kevinsmarts9953]

@@exittragedy1436 Roland is 7 years older than Lilith so he should be 29. Can't expect a 50 year old to play 30 believably.

[@daytonpannell]

Alternate casting choices... Brick - easy, David Bautista Lillith - ScarJo? Jenn Lawrence? Roland - Will Smith / Michael B Jordan / Jamie Foxx Tiny Tina - no clue, her character would be the most difficult to match vs the game. Claptrap - Love jack but Jim Foronda did his voice in BL3. Feel like they tossed Jack in the mix to have another big name. Tanis - JLC is okay. Always felt like Tanis was older than what her character model looked like

[@andreamaral9725]

Tina is perfectly cast

[@daytonpannell]

@andreamaral9725 sure the actress is okay, but HOW she portrayed Tina is not.

[@THE_BIG-BAD-WOLF_93]

It’s very noticeable that none of the actors wanted to in the dessert on set 😆

[@sergiolobos_Akd]

They actually tried to make it a pg 13? Well thats what you got boy...

[@lostkeystudios]

10. the script 9. clap trap 8. the directors 7. costume design 6. casting manager 5. tanin character 4. lilith character 3. tina character 2. roland character 1. THE ENTIRE MOVIE!

[@Greasonn]

Has WatchMojo ever been this savage? Holy hell 😂😂😂