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‘Just a complete mess’: Initial impressions of the Borderlands movie are mostly negative [VGC] (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The casting choices are really questionable here. Looks like the casting was done to bring in a generic movie going audience that watches movies based on the cast, but this was only going to succeed by appealing to the actual fan base. Jack Black and Kevin Hart don't need to be in every movie. I'm surprised Chris Pratt isn't in this honestly.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jack Black is quite fitting with the role but he isn't the only funni guy around, can even hire the OG VA for claptrap since they just need the voice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably a good idea not to hire the original voice actor for claptrap... 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Umm, why?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This ^

I have no doubt that Eddings wouldn't want to have anything to do with anything remotely close to Pitchford after that kind of treatment. If he did, that's a toxic as fuck environment to create.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

maybe he would be if he hadn't landed Mario

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

guys it has ZERO percent on rotten tomatoes

how can you NOT be excited for this film

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

If from poster alone you can tell they failed to capture characters, you know it's bad

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m not surprised. I knew this was going to be bad from the first trailer. This movie had trouble being made for a while, being shot in 2021 then had re-shoots in 2023 from another director I believe.

Also didn’t a writer want their name removed from the credits?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Not just any writer: Craig Mazin of Chernobyl and The Last of Us fame.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

This movie's development was a mess and it had weird casting, it was basically destined to fail

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The only thing you need to know is that Randy Pitchford was involved. This guarantees it’s going to be a shitshow.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was doomed from the gecko.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I could care less

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went to Rotten Tomatoes to read the reviews. Had me cracking up with how negative they were. Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They dished out a huge flop - there's no way this will pay the production cost

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Spoon bad it's good?