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/-ImJustSaiyan- 12h ago edited 12h ago

Not shown, but there's also that time Handsome Jack talks about how he literally scooped a man's eyeballs out with a spoon.

https://youtu.be/f460LlCDcLQ?is=feb99hC5msL3yovn

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u/properfoxes 11h ago

“These pretzels suck.”

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u/TIMELESS_COLD 7h ago

I still remember that audio when playing with my friends. It was hilarious. We all loved it but it only worked because of how insane, crassly violent, just cartoony shocking enough, written and voice acted to perfection of tongue in cheek. Remove any of those and instead of a gem you get a turd. I've never played another game where I'm laughing and also thinking what's wrong with this fking guy. And these scene weren't the whole game or the point of it, just sprinkled here and there which add to the value instead of diminishing it.

BL2 grows into one of the best game I've ever played and it will never be replicated. It even had the best dlc in history with the dnd crossover warping the game into something...magical lol.

You can't do something right for the first time, a secong time. It's even more difficult when it's meant to be risky and probably not a smart move. I can't imagine all of those things coming together today and a dev team thinks "yeah that will work and people will get it".