well…a lot of things went wrong. it was released when the franchise itself was dying. I’m sorry but Borderlands was last good with the second one and maybe the Tales series. It’s a dark humor style game and they removed all the dark humor from the movie. characters that were nothing like their in game counterparts. a movie that was trying to be a “family friendly” flick based on a game series that isn’t family friendly. It’s like trying to make a Bioshock film and turning it into a Pixar movie. doesn’t make sense. Also you cast Kevin Hart who is instantly going to turn off just about everyone as I don’t know a single person that has ever said “ooooh a new Kevin Hart film! i have to go see it!” I swear that dude is only famous cause he clearly owns a handful of souls in hollywood and is an agent of Lucifer.
The borderlands series kinda fell off a cliff when they forgot that it, at its core, was a big fuck-you to corpo bullshit. Literally was supposed to be a Mad Max style game. Its been dulled down to fart jokes and edgy humour and trying to capitalize on references and trends, with a shiny package and guns.
Katt Williams has made the point many times, that Hart was effectively engineered by Hollywood to be their perfect choice for every comedic sidekick role. He’s a corporate commodity and nothing more
Let me spare you the click and summarize that “article”
The big bad ebul studio fucked up Borderlands and my next movie is Ice Cream Man. Ironically he is right, but in the wrong way. The primary fuck up the studio made was hiring Roth in the first place.
He is not the guy to make 120 million dollar summer tent pole movies. His lane is off beat horror flicks.
Also the cast was all wrong.
Cate Blanchet is great and totally wrong for this type of role.
Keven Hart… UMM WTF why does this shitstain keep getting work?
Jack Black is also great and totally wrong for this type of role.
Casting director needs to be blacklisted from Hollywood. Couldn’t have done a worse job
I didn’t see it because fuck Pitchford and TakeTwo. Also, Claptrap’s voice is all wrong from what I remember of the trailer.
They were never going to get the original VA for Claptrap for the movie. But I agree, the original Claptrap is just too good.
The movie sucked because it was poorly written and featured Kevin Hart.
It’s not just poorly written, it’s poorly cast, directed, shot, and edited.
Continuity between shots is abysmal, rapid cut away for a second or two meaning no gravity is given to anything, action scenes completely unplanned to the point nothing seems to connect and no one seems to be aiming the right directions (spatial continuity), Kevin Hart cast as the straight guy, reshoots to remove an R rating with actors aging and from scene to scene, dialogue quips dubbed in, a plot lacking character narrative and development, actors looking bored and likely given no direction or motivation to connect with their character, quotes from the games the actors have no context for and deliver boringly, opening with dull narration, dull narration in the middle, dull narration at the end…
I could go on. Crap writing can be saved if the thing is decent to look at (e.g. the Avatar series) or cut well (e.g. Quantum of Solace) but Borderlands had nothing redeeming about it.
They were never going to get the original VA for claptrap
Surely they would have been cheaper than Jack Black.
…Then again, JB might do a gig for an 1/8th of weed considering what he’s been in over the years. 🤔
It’s less a “money” thing and more a “Randy Pitchford fucked him over hard and he now wants nothing to do with anything with the name Borderlands on it” thing.
Ahhh. God damn Randy.
