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Calling it now. Next Borderlands game is going to have some referential jokes about this train wreck that are meant to be funny self-deprecation but will actually be transparent attempts as covering up how much Randy Pritchford is malding about this.
I'm honestly surprised we aren't seeing more public meltdown from him. Can only imagine what's happening behind closed doors.
Was he heavily involved in the film's production? I'm not very familiar with how this movie was made, but a lot of the stuff I've heard about it gives me the sense that his style didn't influence it very much (weird casting, lame jokes, etc.)
Street Fighter in 1994 is $99m, and adjusted to inflation it would be $210m, while Super Mario Bros 1993 is $38.9m, today would be $84.7m. Rub it on Randy's face, hope it leave a mark.
Street Fighter is a masterpiece
Hollywood budgets are insane these days.
I watched Godzilla -1. That movie was fucking boss, and apparently its budget was only $15 million. That's less than they spent removing the CGI buttholes from Cats.
Forgive my ignorance, but did they make CGI buttholes, then remove them before it premiered?
#releasethebuttholecut
There was a rumor to that effect, yes. But I think it was mostly a meme π
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/cats-butthole-cut-vfx-editor
βWe went to call our supervisor, and weβre like, βThereβs a f--king a--hole in there! Thereβs buttholes!ββ
Curious as well π
Uwe Boll has entered the chat.
Uwe Boll is schlock you know your getting schlock, shclock is fun
I actually liked his take on Postal.
Was it great cinema? No... but since Postal doesn't take itself too serious, it kind of worked out.
Postal might be the only one he did well. But I think by the point he made that one he had learned something about his own abilities and even ripped himself a new one in one scene of the movie.
It should also be noted that he's a PoS in general. However, my conscience is clear, because I pirated the movie.
I didn't even realize there was an Assassin's Creed movie.
Must have blinked and missed it.
I saw it in theaters with a friend who was really into the assassins creed games. It was pretty disappointing. Michael Fassbender is the lead though, I think he did a good job
After I made the comment I looked it up and realized I have actually seen it and that is how forgettable it is.
This is the kind of thing that ruins careers and maybe even production companies. Of course, Eli Roth will never be given a big budget to direct again and in the cast of the film, more than one will drop significantly in their next works.
in the cast of the film, more than one will drop significantly in their next works.
Kevin Hart. There's a feeling already thst we are getting too much Jack Black on our screens but Kevin Hart was a lead and his part just fell flat. JLC is a legend at this point and Cate Blanchett is getting there, they can both coast through a stinker or two with all the accumulated good will. But Hart...
I had no idea that Roth directed this movie. Like who thought that getting a cheesy splatter film director was a great decision? Honestly they got what they deserved with this mess.
Is it yet another one of those "our adaptation has barely anything to do with the actual games and that is good!" kinda tone-deaf deals?
I watched it so you dont have to. It is not just a bad Borderlands movie, it's an utterly terrible movie period. CGI is bad, characters are ill-conceived, the story is a mess, editing is a mess, everything is a mess. I liked the end-credits though.
Abd I say this as not being a fan of Borderlands. I played the first one for a total of a few hours and somewhat liked it but never got invested into it. Someone who is invested into it would of courses mention that it is an utterly terrible adaptation.
The number one reason I had no interest in it was they replaced Claptraps voice with jack fucking black. Ultimate slap in the face to any fan. Everything else was terrible, but that was the worst to me. Pure Hollywood. "We'll just throw in what we think gamers like and call it a day!"
Slightly off-topic: might be alone in this, but I actually really enjoyed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It's nice, self-contained, has some fun action, some cool scenes, and it turned me on to Jake Gyllenhaal and I've liked his work ever since. It's Generic and schlocky but it's better than the usual videogame movie garbo.
It fits nicely into that B-movie slot IMO.
It's a not awful swashbuckler and few of those are made these days.
Wait, there is a Wing Commander movie?!? How did I not know that...
Because it's not very good and we all made a pact never to speak of it again. A pact now broken!
I will watch it and curse you twice
I never even saw any marketing for it.
That's because they seem to have realised it was going to flop hard and cut back on the marketing - it's usually similar to the budget but they only spent $31M which is very low for a film of this size.
Am I the only one who enjoyed the Hitman movie? I haven't seen it in a long time, and I never played the games.
The one with Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kurylenko in it? It was fine, had a few good action sequences in it. Managed to both not be much of an adaptation of the game, but also trying to be enough of an adaptation that it frequently makes very little sense. Probably have been better if they'd cut loose a little more, had some more fun with it. Gets a completely OK / 10 from me.
Right, I forgot there was a second one. I meant the one with Timothy Olyphant.
I never realized any of those were movies.
The FNAF movie is actually not that bad. It surely isn't masterpiece, but its good movie and also understandable for someone who barely knows anything about fnaf.
Still waiting for a Duke Nukem movie
Here's an idea: Maybe stop making films no one asked for?
Even fans of the franchise didn't really want this. How do you translate a looter shooter into a watchable 2 hour film?
I really enjoy playing Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, 15 minutes at a time on my Steam Deck. I'm not sure I need to see some forced deep cinematic character development extrapolated from it. There's not that much to it.
How do you translate borderlands into a watchable film?
It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake.
Deadpoolesque humour, Mad Maxy aesthetics with Idocracy-like characters and frequent Wick tier violence.
Ok, how tf did I miss this many gaming-related movies?
And, should I be glad I did or not?
Bcs imho Borderlands is a solid rpg movie with a basic story imagined by a nice, productive dm (not the best as far as dms or rpg movies go, but like a reliable standard).
Ok, how tf did I miss this many gaming-related movies?
There's a lot - I have a list that's incomplete but has 86 films on it, Vulture ranked all video game films back in 2016 and there is, obviously, a Wikipedia page for them.
That list is for bad adaptations that made more money than Borderlands, so it leaves out all Us Boll's tax scam movies that are pretty universally awful (I had to bump Alone in the Dark's rating up, so I could rate the sequel lower than it).
And, even with that criteria, it misses out:
IMHO, the list in the OP are actually fairly decent, with the exception of Warcraft, Need for Speed and Assassin's Creed. (Not because they are bad but because I never saw them.
If you spend MILLIONS of dollars for marketing anything, you're a cunt
I donβt think the movie was that bad. Sure was predictable, but it was fun.