Re: The Borderlands movie is as bad as everyone expected

On 8/19/2024 11:14 AM, Xocyll wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
 

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Apparently even Uwe Boll is making fun of it.

 Now that's hilarious.
 

Movies based on video games have long had a reputation for being
low-quality cinema, but in recent years there had been some gradual
improvement. While few (none?) of them were _great_, at least they
weren't unwatchable, something both fans and non-gamers could enjoy.
It seemed like we'd reached some sort of turning point, where
Hollywood and Silicon Valley had come to a sort of accord, both
respecting the other enough to put the effort into producing a movie
that wouldn't get instantly panned.

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  From a review I read, they literally ignored everything from the games
to write a generic script.
 Lilith is a bounty hunter.    WTF?
Not a siren, not a vault hunter, oh and she's been hired to find ...
 ...Tiny Tina who is not an orphan, she's a runaway and Atlas (presumably
of Atlas Corp, is her dad.)   WTF
 Psycho, is not a horde of lunatics, but one named character.     WTF?
 Etc.
 Literally ignored all the source material, bolted on some names from the
games, hired a cast who I assume are in tax arrears, who phoned in their
performances.
 Kinda like a movie I saw back in the 80's - Tarnsman of Gor (based on
the John Norman book)
 Only it wasn't, it was a generic barbarian warlord film that used the
names of a few characters and 2 cities and that was it.
 Wasn't on Gor, didn't have Tarns (Giant hawks they fought on vs other
tarnsmen.)
 It featured a cast of nobody you ever heard of, and I think was made in
Italy.
 But it sounds like Borderlands is worse, with the cast not just phoning
their performances in, they've gone back to smoke signals.
 

The only good thing I've heard is Jamie Lee Curtis apparently tried, and might only be worth watching for free just for her small part.
I'm not going to seek it out, but I'll give it a try if I see it somewhere free.
It can't be worse than Rebel Moon.  No I'll take that back, RM had some style, but that's about all I can say for it. Not enough to bother watching the 2nd part after watching the first and being almost bored to tears.
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-Justisaur
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