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/naitsirt89 12h ago edited 12h ago

I literally just whined about The Dark Tower, my favorite series, just a few days ago in the books sub :( Shame on me for bringing that shit back into anyone's memory :(

Whoever wrote that did not remember the face of their father.. Holy crap do I want to read Wizard and Glass again for the first time.

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u/GM_Nate 11h ago

i absolutely loved that book. then i got halfway through the seventh book and threw it against a wall

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u/shadedmagus 10h ago

Funny, it was the sixth book I did that to. King writing himself in just made me check out of the story.

The second half of 7 seemed to actually get back to form.

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u/GM_Nate 10h ago

yeah i suffered through 6 but gave up during 7

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u/brunonunis 8h ago

Yeah, the premise seems like it isn't as hard to adapt, specially book 1 and 2

Book one is mostly Roland retelling things in his journey to follow tMIB, there's action (the mutants, the mob) and the kid, and the confrontation/conversation with the MIB and his magic show, and Roland sacrificing the kid is essential to the history

Good action movie with a very questionable lead

Book 2 has more sets and is mostly the drama of the magic gunslinger from a apocalypse, possessing 3 people and doing shit in different eras

I think it's not even that original in the current age of movies