Popular media + all star leading cast = extremely likely to be a failed adaptation. I’m sure there are a few exceptions, but an ensemble cast of a half dozen top actors is a sign that they cared more about names. This kind of movie with that kind of cast is just begging for studio interference to create a bland experience that tries to appeal to everyone.
Please dont refer to kevin hart as a top actor lol he is awful
Because: (Popular media + all star leading cast)*(Fraction of budget and time given to the writing and pre/post production teams)
The thing I don’t understand at all is why use Jack Black for Claptrap? I love the guy but they could have just used the voice actor from the game.
The even advertise the movie with Jack Black here in Germany although in the german dub it’s someone else.
That’s actually really funny.
Why use Chris Pratt for Mario 🤷♂️.
https://www.pcgamer.com/former-claptrap-voice-actor-details-randy-pitchford-assault-allegations/
The OG claptrap wouldn’t have done it anyway.
Well, he would have. If they paid their bills.
They clearly went all in on name recognition.
I had heard the movie was bad so I did not read any of the reviews before watching it and I did not know Jack Black was in it until the credit scene started rolling.
They used enough modulations and filters on his voice to where you can only barely tell that it’s Jack Black.
I actually thought Jack Black did a good job with claptrap. He was just as annoying, which is praise in this case.
It’s what I’m glad Super Mario wasn’t.
Lots of people are going to lose lots of money on Borderlands
Not me lol.
But good for them. To make a movie is a big investment and a big bet. To make a videogame adaptation while pissing on the source material while also a bad movie, they deserve this much.
Lionsgate is not nearly as big as Universal, Paramount, or Disney and is not as well equipped to handle such a big loss.
Tiniest violins are playing for them right now
A market dominated by very few super corporations, a new smaller company tries to break through and break the oligopoly, but hey, they made a bad decision on a particular product, let’s make fun of them, surely the market is better without those busybodies, Disney would have done better
Their business decisions aren’t any of my concern.
As much as I dont like that this is the case, you are correct.
Lionsgates roots go back to 1962, while that’s more recent than Disney or Warner, I hardly think it classifies them as new.
Hey? according to wikipedia it was founded in 1997, anyway that’s not the main part of my point
Oh no
Anyway…
Oh nooo. Just means more debt is available to offset future taxable income.
Good.
Tbh though, the horrible reviews make me want to see it. Before it came out, I was meh about it. I never played the regular borderlands games much, though I lobe tiny tina’s wonderlands. So it was something I would have watched if it was on, but nothing I’d put effort into.
Now though, it’s at the point where if it’s that bad, I want to see the train wreck.
I strongly advise against seeing this movie, not even as a hate-watch. It’s not the kind of “good” bad, it’s just “boring” bad.
Honestly it’s not even worth pirating.
I’ve said this before but I got a free ticket to watch it so I watched it.
The only movie I’ve ever seen that was worse than that was The adventures of Pluto Nash, and The adventures of Pluto Nash taught me how to recognize what a bad movie was.
I have posted a full review a while ago here so if you want to read that just scroll through my history and it’s not that far down, I’m not going to repost a 500 word article here.
I once got a free ticket to see some movie about a drunk cop or something trying to outsmart teenagers. I still have no idea what it was. I asked for my money back at the end.
