46 points

I get the feeling this is going to be so ass.

If they’d have announced this movie pre Borderlands 3 I might’ve had a bit of hope.

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I thought it was a streaming show lol.
It looks like some suit said “Remember that bad Suicide Squad movie? Let’s do that again!”

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I feel like studios try to pitch Tv shows to streaming services and when that fails they just cram the script down into a single movie.

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2 points

The second one was much better, in their defence

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22 points

They’ve genderswapped Knoxx and had to create a man named Atlas to be the face of the corporation? what the hell are they even adapting? just an original story using names we know?

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I was talking about this to my girlfriend when the first trailer dropped. Honestly they should have done an original story and named the movie borderlands 4. Make it cannon to the games and it would have fit perfectly with how absurd borderlands is. That way you can craft a bespoke story that fits in movie for instead of having to worry about adaptation.

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Didn’t genderswap Knoxx… Apparently that’s his daughter.

Which is somehow worse.

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Did he… have a daughter? I remember him being a very burnt out lonely man full of ennui, I guess in my head that meant he never had kids or married

Also that means this canonically takes place after Borderlands 1, but Atlas still has a presence on Pandora?

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You can throw in the mix the Dark Tower movie with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Oh god, how bad that one was…

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The biggest problem about the casting is it feels like they chose people who are 20 years older than the characters they’re supposed to portray. And then you have Kevin Hart and Jack Black… Just, who is making these horrible casting decisions?

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I’m not worried about jack black but I am about Kevin. I don’t think Kevin has the chops to pull of that character.

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Ok… so the movie looks like it will be… something.

But Gina Gershon fits at least. She was hilarious as Emilina Saffron in Psych

https://youtu.be/c40a4kLU0hI

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Gina Gershon is fantastic. She’s legit the best part of Showgirls. She played such a fun evil foil to the psychopathic Nomi.

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