Eli Roth made a boom boom. Mike and Jay talks about Borderlands. What a misfire! Odd casting choices. No one want to make. Adult professionals pretend to "ca...
They could have crafted a serviceable plot out of what the games provided…if they cared. It would never be The Last of Us, but the bar is set so low for things now. I would be perfectly fine with well written movies with B list actors. But that’s the problem with these movies, no one cares enough, and all the money gets poured into getting recognizable actors to play parts that they aren’t suited for.
This was my first thought back when they announced the film. I love the Borderlands games, but they’re like 90% proc-gen guns and bullet-sponge enemies, and 10% narrative. Without a dramatically punched up story, this movie was doomed from the start to be a hammy Hollywood version of a “Let’s Play” video.
Borderlands without the gameplay sucks. Who saw that one coming? Everyone.
They could have crafted a serviceable plot out of what the games provided…if they cared. It would never be The Last of Us, but the bar is set so low for things now. I would be perfectly fine with well written movies with B list actors. But that’s the problem with these movies, no one cares enough, and all the money gets poured into getting recognizable actors to play parts that they aren’t suited for.
This was my first thought back when they announced the film. I love the Borderlands games, but they’re like 90% proc-gen guns and bullet-sponge enemies, and 10% narrative. Without a dramatically punched up story, this movie was doomed from the start to be a hammy Hollywood version of a “Let’s Play” video.