Based on the popular looter shooters developed by Gearbox and published by 2K Games, Borderlands was first announced all the way back in 2020. The movie is being directed by Eli Roth and has been in production hell for years now. But finally, our long national nightmare is almost over as Borderlands arrives in theaters on August 9. Sadly, I’m not sure its going to be worth the wait based on a scene released earlier today during IGN Live’s Day 1 showcase.

In the new scene, we see Roland (Kevin Hart), Lilith (Cate Blanchett), Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), Kireg (Florian Munteanu), and Claptrap (voice by Jack Black) in a dark underground facility filled with boxes and not many lights. It’s hard to see what’s happening.

This is supposed to be an action-packed sequence from a major motion picture, but it feels more like a pre-recorded skit from a so-so episode of Saturday Night Live. Enemies get shot and just fall down with no blood or gore, characters move around slowly even though this is meant to be a fast-paced sequence, and all of this is done to generic music that you’ll forget about the moment the scene ends.

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Hollywood always fucks up movies based on games. I'm not expecting much from this movie.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think we're past this now, we've had a number of good (or at the very least enjoyable) adaptations now, Sonic, Mario, Pikachu. Werewolves Within was really good though no one has heard of the game. And of course TV has been knocking it out of the park, Last of Us, Fallout, Cyberpunk, Castlevania, League of Legends, hell I'd even throw in Twisted Metal. Even stuff about people who play games like Gran Turismo and Players were really good. We also have things that considered bad at the time are being reclaimed like Mortal Kombat

Borderlands is (by the looks of it) just an IP dump which isn't exclusive to video games.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

They should've hired Uwe Boll as a director, at least they would've had an excuse then

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

There are exceptions

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Had a drunken discussion about this last month. Basically there's less than 10 decent game adaptations ever. I remember the first mortal kombat, first 2 resident evils, tomb raider... A few others. But yeah.