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Post by schma on Jul 26, 2024 20:39:19 GMT -5
I've got no issues with them doing a different take on the story. It's a different medium and as a comic fan I'm used to movie versions being different. This still looks likely to be lame. Admittedly the trailers are not helping this movie but also maybe this ends up being something that ends up with very strong word of mouth after it releases. What gives me the biggest issue is this being PG13 and that is what basically takes the bite out of this movie it likely could have had. Yeah, Borderlands is a crazy violent universe. The PG13 rating was the first red flag.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 27, 2024 2:06:52 GMT -5
I have no emotional investment in Borderlands really, been curious about it but not done more than fiddle, and I still think this movie looks like complete ass. Eli Roth being involved reallllly doesn’t help.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jul 27, 2024 6:06:16 GMT -5
Not a strong release schedule for movies this summer, and I'm trying to get back into the habit of going to the theatre every week or two, so there's a damn good chance I end up going to this. And you can mark me down in the camp of people who haven't played the games and have zero emotional investment in the franchise so we'll see how it goes
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Jul 27, 2024 18:38:33 GMT -5
Wow it's like the trailer went out of its way to make it look as shitty as possible.
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Post by Rave on Jul 27, 2024 22:09:12 GMT -5
I don't mind it being an alternate universe kind of story, but PG-13? I'm having a hard time fathoming how that's even possible for a movie with Eli Roth at the helm.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 8, 2024 4:29:52 GMT -5
Early impressions are calling it the worst movie of the year and given early impressions tend to be the more positive ones, yeah, guessing this is a mess.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Aug 8, 2024 8:12:45 GMT -5
They didn't even bother putting the cast in tons of heavily-shaded makeup with strategic black outlines to try to simulate the cel look.
Come on, even basic cosplayers do that.
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Post by Talent Name on Aug 8, 2024 8:27:58 GMT -5
I don't mind it being an alternate universe kind of story, but PG-13? I'm having a hard time fathoming how that's even possible for a movie with Eli Roth at the helm. Even weirder is two weeks of reshoots with Tim Miller doing them like somehow they had the guy who did Deadpool make it a PG 13 movie too
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Post by PHD-FENDERBAUM on Aug 8, 2024 8:32:54 GMT -5
I don't mind it being an alternate universe kind of story, but PG-13? I'm having a hard time fathoming how that's even possible for a movie with Eli Roth at the helm. Even weirder is two weeks of reshoots with Tim Miller doing them like somehow they had the guy who did Deadpool make it a PG 13 movie too Honesly this is what I am most intrigued by about this just to know what he worked on which will probably end up being the best part of this movie.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 8, 2024 9:53:32 GMT -5
Currently at 4% on Rotten Tomatoes and 33 on Metacritic.
Empire (2/5):
"A botched Guardians wannabe that isn’t half as fun as you’d hope from the punky sci-fi promise of its video-game source material and the presence of Blanchett at the top of the cast list."
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Post by PHD-FENDERBAUM on Aug 8, 2024 10:11:17 GMT -5
I should be hating the whole Guardians rip off label that keeps getting thrown around but I almost wonder if why that is the majority sentiment is why this movie got hit with a PG13 was that if it felt more like Guardians they could try and grab that Guardians fandom that are waiting and clammoring for another Guardians movie and thus appealing to more people in a much quiicker ammount of time knowing it was probably gonna bomb anways.
Because Borderlands isn't really suppose to be Guardians it suppose to be more a sci-fi MadMax.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Aug 8, 2024 10:54:32 GMT -5
How could anything involving Eli Roth be any good.
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Post by PHD-FENDERBAUM on Aug 8, 2024 11:03:53 GMT -5
How could anything involving Eli Roth be any good. Green Inferno I thought was great same with Thanksgiving.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 8, 2024 20:18:55 GMT -5
Early impressions are calling it the worst movie of the year and given early impressions tend to be the more positive ones, yeah, guessing this is a mess. When the one positive review is from Grace f***ing Randolph and even she is basically saying "The movie sucks, I just liked Cate Blanchett" it's got to be awful.
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Post by Rave on Aug 8, 2024 21:23:31 GMT -5
Early impressions are calling it the worst movie of the year and given early impressions tend to be the more positive ones, yeah, guessing this is a mess. When the one positive review is from Grace f***ing Randolph and even she is basically saying "The movie sucks, I just liked Cate Blanchett" it's got to be awful. There's a second positive review up, so it's at 6%. Some of the user reviews look bogus. One says it's "accurate to the games". Dude, it's an alternate universe take that dummies out Brick and Mordecai, accuracy's automatically out the window.
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Post by PHD-FENDERBAUM on Aug 9, 2024 10:32:11 GMT -5
So I got to watch this and well yea it aint good...it aint practically unwatchable like some reviews make it out to be but it is a completely one and done movie.
In short to really summarize this movie. Nothing apart from Lilith and Tina feels remotely fleshed out like there are pieces of a MUCH much better movie in here but the movie that fans would want is abanoned in favor of just moving the movie along.
Like one big issue I had is WHY WAS KRIEG IN THIS MOVIE? he brings and does nothing you literally could have put Brick in his place and nothing would change and actually makes WAY more sense when it comes to an emotional tie to Tina , but again like I said Lilith and Tina to a slightly lesser extent is what this movie is about everyone else is...WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE?.
I love the games so my enjoyment was just catching all the game easter eggs so that should tell you how much attention I was really paying attention to the characters and the whatever plot.
Just wait for this to hit streaming and watch it once if you trip over and just happen to land on it like a landmine.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 10, 2024 0:17:59 GMT -5
Movie only did $1.3 million in Thursday previews so yeah, this is going to be a massive bomb. Studio's probably looking at eating like a $200 million loss on this thing.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Aug 10, 2024 0:48:15 GMT -5
Studio's probably looking at eating like a $200 million loss on this thing. When you take "looter shooter" literally by shooting the loot.
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Post by chrom on Aug 10, 2024 6:43:26 GMT -5
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Aug 11, 2024 2:12:22 GMT -5
At 10% now. Take THAT, people who hate cookies and pooping robots!!
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