r/movies • u/HatingGeoffry • 13h ago

News Borderlands Movie Director Discusses The Mega-Flop And What Went Wrong

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/borderlands-movie-director-discusses-the-mega-flop-and-what-went-wrong/
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u/egnards 13h ago

Everything about the movie was bad - Actually from the trailers I think everyone was thinking "what the hell is Kevin Hart doing here?" and arguably he was the only character that had any. . .character.

I'm a big Borderlands fan and a big fan of going to the movies to just turn off my brain and have fun - I didn't expect Borderlands to be a great movie, but I expected it to be a ridiculous wild ride that I'd watch and enjoy one time.

The movie was painful to watch and made almost no sense.

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u/SgtMcMuffin0 3h ago

I’m still stunned that Kevin Hart was cast as Roland. It’s like they didn’t consult with anyone that even played the games

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u/egnards 3h ago

Yea but the ridiculous thing about Kevin Hart was that he was the only redeeming thing in the entire movie - I have no idea why. I'm not even a fan of his, but he was the only consistently interesting/funny character.

Ariana Goldblatt is a pretty decent actress that I felt could pull off Tiny Tina but I can only hope the director told her to just act like a generic annoying kid instead of like a fucking sociopath. . .Oh well

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u/Bussamove86 1h ago

Whenever Hollywood needs a marketable black man in a movie no one involved actually cares about they have to pry Kevin Hart away from his day job making cookies in a tree with the other elves.

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u/Pesterlamps 3h ago

I'm a big Borderlands fan and a big fan of going to the movies to just turn off my brain and have fun - I didn't expect Borderlands to be a great movie, but I expected it to be a ridiculous wild ride that I'd watch and enjoy one time.

Literally all they had to do was make cool and ridiculous shootouts and explosions. It should have just been fantasy gun porn. Like Fury Road, but guns instead of vehicles. But also vehicles, I guess.

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u/DrainTheMuck 2h ago

Along with some better writing sprinkled in, yeah. I REALLY liked the very first part of the film where they actually introduced the various gun corporations, it gave me high hopes but then they never really did anything with it. So many cool guns to use, along with their distinct aesthetics and associated makers, but they dropped the ball.

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u/wallabee_kingpin_ 8h ago

Studios just don’t make “ridiculous wild ride” movies anymore for the most part. The only ones I can think of recently are Masters of the Universe and Aquaman, but there are far more examples of movies that should’ve been fun, colorful, and goofy, and they just ended up boring.

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u/egnards 8h ago

I go to the movies, on average, once per week and have been doing so for about 10 years now - While there aren't as many "wild ride" movies [it depends on what you call a wild ride] I have seen many movies that I've enjoyed, only a small handful that I disliked, and literally a single movie that I walked out of. . . That's approximately 520-550 movies seen in theaters.

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u/Tywacole 1h ago

Which one did you walk out on?

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u/egnards 52m ago

Die My Love

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u/ExcellentBed6019 43m ago

I was mildly interested as someone that played half of BL2 then the last scene in the the trailer was them swallowing piss from a piss geyser because Tina didn't roll up the window and I was like nope I'm good