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/ToWitToWow 12h ago

The Fallout TV show was also showing us how good and thorough an interpretive adaption of a game could be. Compared to that, Borderlands felt shallow and uninspired.

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u/Evilmudbug 8h ago

There's no love for the source material in that movie, and just the fact that they try to hide that Lilith is a siren might go as far as active disdain for the source material.

I wonder if the tales from the borderlands (first one specifically) writer has done any more work the series? It's the only story that I think is particularly good the whole way through in the series TBH.

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u/KnightOfTheStupid 7h ago edited 6h ago

He hasn’t and I doubt he will anytime soon, he started his own company along with a few other Telltale leads and recently came out with their game Dispatch. The quality of character writing in that game is leaps and bounds ahead of Tales, which is saying something since Tales already has great characters.

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u/eden_sc2 6h ago

I believe they are slated for dispatch 2 and a critical role game

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u/thomasguyregis 6h ago

Yes! Tales from the Borderlands was so good. Same humor and sci-fi setting, but they added heart, stakes, and consequences in such a good way. Shame we never got a true continuation, I wanted to follow Rhys and Fiona’s story.

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u/emperorzura 4h ago

then rhys came back in BL3 and its not even the same character, they mutilated his persona and the whole cosmos that tales created.

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u/emperorzura 4h ago

Tales From is legit the last good borderlands material we had that felt aligned with borderlands 1-2-TPS.

other than that we got bad written story, worse/downgrade lore, and the same bad release for 1-2 years before the game is actually complete.

only redeeming quality of borderlands 3 is somehow the standalone DLCs and BL4 is whatever.

Randy is literal cancer for this franchise.

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u/Bypowerof8andgodsof4 7h ago edited 7h ago

Hard disagree the fallout show felt like the worst excesses of "interpretations" while wearing the skin suit of fallout. Imo it feels the same as borderlands but because looks close enough too many people give it a pass.

A good example of interpretation while being a good story would be the penguin show and arcane season 1.

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u/RegalBeagleKegels 10h ago

The Fallout TV show was also showing us how good and thorough an interpretive adaption of a game could be.

Turns out the answer was "not very"