Unsurprisingly, the Borderlands Movie Has Completely Bombed

I feel like they could've made a Borderlands movie pretty good if it was done right, which is obvious.

This series absolutely did not need a movie! Should’ve been a straight-to-streaming film from Uwe Boll.

You guys really said Tannis, Tiny Tina, Kreig, and claptrap were some of the most vanilla personalities in gaming? Okay.

But yeah one of the most egregious examples of poor casting that comes to mind.

@TicklefistCP they are vanilla, literally cut and paste

Knew as soon as the casting was released this was gonna be a flop

I think an animated/CGI film would have done better.

I'm surprised they didn't put Handsome Jack in it, or Mordecai and his pigeon or whatever. Maybe they were holding them back for a sequel. Good luck with that

When I saw the cast, I lost interest. Not fit for the Borderlands universe (IMO). Also, the rating gave too many red flags.

Yay. 😁

Hopefully this teaches Hollywood to make innovative original content.

@Deadlyblack

This is Hollywood…

They can hardly do anything right…

Glad I turned down a lead role in this now

@EchoRange Then backing that statement up with a comparison or two should be easy.

All of Kevin Hart's movies are bombs

I'm not yet watch the movie and maybe it deserves to flop. But it's just sad how nowadays people didn't watch a lot of good movies at the theatre either.

I remember how people didn't watch Karl Urban Dredd and the movie got flop which means it closed any chance for a sequel

There's also recent good movies like The Fall Guy, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and Furiosa who didn't do well at box office.

I wonder if Netflix, Disney+, and all the movies / tv subscription service responsible for these results. Like why watch a movie at theatre when you already subs to Netflix and these movies will come to your Tv in the next 2-3 months?

Wow, total miscasting, a complete lack of Handsome Jack, and making it PG-13?

Can’t imagine how it failed so completely.

@jeff19023 glances at the two latest Jumanji movies

Well. Not ALL of them.

I guess the chances of a sequel aren't great...

Am I the only one that enjoyed this film for what it was? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Good. Genocide supporters deserve the worst

Completely deserved. Hopefully the proper heads roll… who am I kidding? That never happens 🫠

Between this and Harold and the Purple Crayon, I just don’t think the public are ready for this level of artistic genius.

I'm looking forwards to seeing this. I really like the borderlands franchise as it just ticks the bad b-movie sci-fi aficionado in me. I'll put this movie up with my star crash and battle beyond the stars type cheesy space movies. At least I'll have something to laugh at while you miserable lot are crying about what should have been. 😝

@Waa-Laa I'll be watching soon so I'll let you know but I like crappy movies that don't take themselves seriously.

@PuppetMaster

Why go to the cinema? Listen to kids on their phones, people eating full meals, chewing crunching, people going to the toilet. Talking etc etc. (manners are much lower these days) not to mention how much tickets have gone up here.

When I can sit at home, watch it when it’s most convenient to us, pause if needed and so on and I’m already paying for the subscription.

That’s not to say I don’t enjoy the cinema, it’s just more of a hassle these days

@PsBoxSwitchOwner

Never really put my thoughts down about this, but why not.

For me the two biggest turn-offs to going to the cinema nowadays are the easily distracted kids/teenagers on their phones/chatting and the fact that I have a pretty decent movie viewing setup at home. Add to this that the wait from cinema to home availability is near minimal and the price and why would I go?

The first can be largely mitigated by going during school hours if your job allows (mine does), but watching a film on my 65" OLED with a decent home sound system isn't like watching a 19-21" CRT with tinny speakers from across the room used to be in 2003. My home setup isn't that as diminished an experience as a cinema auditorium once I'm immersed.

Lifestyle habits change, and cinemas are on the way out, at least for me.

Watched it on Saturday, such a bad film.

I feel like Borderlands would do great as a 18+ with blood, gore and swearing like the games.

Plus it’d be nice if they cast people correctly, Lilith (Cate Blanchett) and Tannis (Jamie Lee) were shockingly bad casts.

The fact a Borderlands film went for a PG-13 rating says a lot.

Eli Roth is hit and miss as a director. Like others said maybe if he went for an older age rating it could of worked better.

Yep, the cast is pretty bad but that age rating is the big killer here, how can a Borderlands movie be PG-13 (smh). As has been pointed out, an animated film could have been excellent!

It couldn’t be any worse than the games hahah

No interest in ever watching it.

I am, however, watching Alien: Romulus in the theatre Wednesday. In this brand new venue (just look at those comfy seats!):

@Northern_munkey This is why I and my daughter went to see it, even with the wonky casting (for my opinion, most of the female cast were all put in as older than their character should be, Tanis, Lilith, Moxie). It was just the b-movie, sci-fi romp that I was expecting. It DID hit the Borderlands vibes, and the story really made as much sense as any of the Borderlands game stories do. Would I pay to see it again? Probably not. Am I upset and angry that I paid the one time to see it? Definitely not. We enjoyed it, and I'll probably pick it up when it comes out to add to my own b-rate movie collection (things like this, Super Mario Bros, Big Trouble in Little China, Buckaroo Bonzai, etc. I absolutely love to make a bucket of popcorn at home and watch).

Spoiler alert...it’s a fun movie. Solid 7/10. Like the Fallout series, it’s great to be in this world for a couple hours. I have hundreds of hours in the games and if you enjoyed the games, chances are good you will enjoy the movie. I think the problem is if you have no knowledge of the games it may be a tougher sell. I think that is the problem with the critics, it’s just too weird. Only let down was the music. It’s so amazing in the games, but here it is done by a different composer I think and it does not have the same vibe. Otherwise I had fun! If you enjoyed the games, movie is worth a chance. If you have not played the games or bounced off them, maybe skip or wait for home video

One of the movies I'll watch, like "Madam Web", just so I can enjoy the Honest Trailer. 😂

I'm expecting a sequel called "The Borderlands". 😎

Bad source material makes for a bad movie. More breaking news at 11.

My friend just offered me a choice between punching myself in the face and listening to Vanilla Ice's To the Extreme album start to finish, or seeing the Borderlands movie with them.

Turns out it's not a bad album.

The Super Mario Bros movie had Dennis Hopper and Bob Hoskins. Great actors can't save a horrible script and direction.

@jrt87 For me it was when they started serving food in all the theaters. Popcorn was a tradition, nachos ok. But if I have to smell meals because modern efficiency culture says if dinner and a move is great, they doing them simultaneously is better says no.

Beyond that we went from small theateres in neighborhood shopping centers decades ago to multiplexes only periodically, to then tearing them down and having only one within an 40+ minute travel distance. I'm not traveling 40 minutes to sit in a room with 200 people eating and texting to watch the same exact film I can watch comfortably alone months later. I won't be back to theaters probably ever. And by the amount of them they've torn down and replaced with car lots, office buildings, and pharmacies, I'm guessing most other people aren't either. Haven't heard anyone say they've gone to the movies in at least 15 years.

@somnambulance Dune 2 and Civil War say hello

I've seen the movie, it is absolutely atrocious. There's a small percentage of pre teen boys that might find it mildly entertaining, a waste of money and time.

A production budget of $100m for a film of a niche brand like this is insane.

I must have DVD bargain bin is what the Borderlands movies looks like at least in my opinion.

I was dragged along to this on Sunday on a 3rd date, I have not messaged him back since then. It was rotten.

I will watch it someday, if just only out of curiosity. I play and love the games, maybe this movie can be included with Borderlands 4 in 2025 or whenever it is released.