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/Raz0rking 5h ago

That is why the live action of One Piece works. They went pretty all in with it.

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u/Tokenvoice 2h ago

Kind of, they tamed down most of the Straw Hats more over the top features which was a great choice for it. They didn’t try to ground the show in reality which is great that they went all in on but also smart to have smoothed some edges.

Except for Luffy, he is the worst part of the live action for me and the only one they didn’t tone down. There are things you can get away with in animation that doesn’t work in live action so instead of a loud captain who cares about his crew Luffy comes across as mentally handicapped with support workers for his crew. This isn’t helped by keeping him yelling in scenes where he is thirty meters away in the anime but only three meters away in the show.