Borderlands players - what is your opinion about the new movie trailer? (piped.kavin.rocks)

submitted 8 months ago by Kory@lemmy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world

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Apologies that this is not a pure gaming question, but I'd really like to hear people's opinion on the Borderlands movie trailer and especially from people who have played the games. That's why I'm asking here, I hope that's ok.

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

The specific casting bugs me:

Budget Deadshot
Old Nami
Hit Bunny-Girl
Box Wheatley
Extra #1216 from the Mad Max set

It's just... I dunno. Doesn't quite fit the tone from the games. But hey maybe it comes out and is surprisingly funny in it's braindeadness.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 26 points 8 months ago

The casting is insane (and not the good kind).

Why, in the love of God, would you look at Roland, hulking, dour, tough as nails veteran soldier whose main character trait is being completely unflappable, and think "Kevin Hart"?

What were these people smoking?

Also the bits of writing we get in the trailer are just bad. Tina doesn't even manage to feel like a poor imitation of herself. Even with better casting (seriously, you could literally just have Ashley Burch play Tina, you're up-aging the character anyway, what's the harm?), there would still be none of the vibrancy of the scripts from 2 and Pre-sequel. I'm not saying those games had flawless writing, but it was fun, funny, and generally managed to land on the right side of transgressive.

Honestly, the whole thing has this really awkward "We really wanted James Gunn but couldn't afford him" feel to it.