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‘Just a complete mess’: Initial impressions of the Borderlands movie are mostly negative [VGC] (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] You_are_dust@lemm.ee 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The casting choices are really questionable here. Looks like the casting was done to bring in a generic movie going audience that watches movies based on the cast, but this was only going to succeed by appealing to the actual fan base. Jack Black and Kevin Hart don't need to be in every movie. I'm surprised Chris Pratt isn't in this honestly.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jack Black is quite fitting with the role but he isn't the only funni guy around, can even hire the OG VA for claptrap since they just need the voice.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably a good idea not to hire the original voice actor for claptrap... 😅

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Umm, why?

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

This ^

I have no doubt that Eddings wouldn't want to have anything to do with anything remotely close to Pitchford after that kind of treatment. If he did, that's a toxic as fuck environment to create.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 12 points 2 months ago

maybe he would be if he hadn't landed Mario

[–] rockkicker@kbin.run 28 points 2 months ago

guys it has ZERO percent on rotten tomatoes

how can you NOT be excited for this film

[–] BlackLaZoR@kbin.run 20 points 2 months ago

If from poster alone you can tell they failed to capture characters, you know it's bad

[–] Spitfire@pawb.social 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m not surprised. I knew this was going to be bad from the first trailer. This movie had trouble being made for a while, being shot in 2021 then had re-shoots in 2023 from another director I believe.

Also didn’t a writer want their name removed from the credits?

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Not just any writer: Craig Mazin of Chernobyl and The Last of Us fame.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

The only thing you need to know is that Randy Pitchford was involved. This guarantees it’s going to be a shitshow.

[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 10 points 2 months ago

This movie's development was a mess and it had weird casting, it was basically destined to fail

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This was doomed from the gecko.

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I could care less

[–] itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I went to Rotten Tomatoes to read the reviews. Had me cracking up with how negative they were. Lol

[–] BlackLaZoR@kbin.run 3 points 2 months ago

They dished out a huge flop - there's no way this will pay the production cost

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Spoon bad it's good?