They lost me the second they announced the cast. It’s like the people making the movie never once opened up a single one of the games.
Kevin Hart as Roland is just infuriating. It shows they had no intention of treating the IP with any level of respect and they just wanted a campy action comedy with famous actors.
Who even likes Kevin Hart and goes to see a movie because of him. Been so confused about how he seems to be in everything, but don’t know who likes him.
Seriously. I can see an interesting movie trailer but the instant Hart pops on screen I immediately lose all interest.
He is not funny in movies. HE HAS ONE CHARACTER THAT YELLS CONSTANTLY.
I heard it perfectly from a friend. It’s because he’s “inoffensive to old white people”
Exactly the same response to how they cast Roland in The Dark Tower. Apparently Roland is a cursed name now.
You mean Idris Elba isn’t good casting for a character described as a “honky mufuh” with “bombardier blue” eyes?
I like watching Idris but he ain’t no Roland Deschain.
The color of Idris Elba’s skin and eyes had absolutely fuck all to do with why that movie was fucking awful.
Bad videogame movie adaptations are back on the menu, boys!
Apparently so, I’ll admit the story in the first game wasn’t the most gripping, but if they could make a decent movie following it, then the sequel would be a guaranteed success. Instead no, they pulled characters from all over the place completely disregarding the established lore looking for a quick cash grab throwing enough star power to hopefully draw in people who didn’t play the games. Incredibly disappointing.
Street Fighter the movie is honestly one of the best things ever put to film. It’s just so bad and campy, it manages to circle back to ‘fucking awesome’. I can’t help but watch it when it’s on somewhere.
Because the casting made it clear they aren’t even trying to make a true adaptation is the games, so they aren’t courting any Borderlands fans.
And everyone else is asking why they made this trashy, lame mad Max ripoff.
And it’s not really appropriate for kids, so you can’t even use it to make little Timmy shut up for 2 hours.
And there isn’t a new game coming out (afaik) so no brand synergy.
They haven’t given a single person a single reason to watch it except ‘Kevin Hart is allegedly funny, right?’
Probably because this is the first time I’ve ever heard about it. And probably the first time most of us have heard about it. Just like you probably didn’t know they are making a BioShock movie.
Where were they announcing and advertising this? The fucking moon?
This has been advertised just normally and talked about (hated on) here on Lemmy and everywhere else for several months now. You surely must just have been unlucky (or lucky) to have missed all of that till now. The trailer on YouTube from 5 months ago has 14 million views with 82k dislikes and 67k likes.
There’s been a couple terrible trailers. If you use an ad blocker, don’t have cable, and happened to miss the social media posts around when the trailers dropped, then there you go. Happens to me more and more these days.
Good, people who doesn’t know the IP shouldn’t even touch it. Too bad Randy isn’t the one losing money though.
