Ahh yes the best part of borderlands is the story, writing and cutscenes

To be fair-ish, I think certain parts of the Borderlands story, writing, and worldbuilding can be pretty solid, when it isn't trying to be stupid.

Being totally honest however, even within the same game the writing can be anywhere to "good-ish sci-fi" to "juvenile gamer. Hell sometimes in the same questline it can oscillate between good and gamer.

Ok is the film at least retaining the original iconic cell shaded animation? Nope it’s live action.

BRO! I THOUGHT THE SAME THING! I lived in a cave for awhile and I heard they were doing a Borderlands movie. For the longest time I thought it was going to be like one of those by the numbers "Illumination" style animated films, when I heard the casting I thought they were gonna the voices. Nope. I was so wrong and dumb.

Nobody is even hamming it up :(

Agreed. You think with such "insane mayhem™" you'd could just be silly and goof it up but it doesn't seems to strike a tone. Maybe it's just the editing of the trailer? I have found movie trailers editing to be worse and worse these days, they either don't tell you anything or just seem to hit all the high notes of the film.

Which is bizarre since the only memorable things from the game were the good design/voice acting for Handsome Jack, Tiny Tina, and Claptrap.

I'd throw in Ellie and her brother Scooter into memorable good design/voice acting , but yes totally agreed with your overall sentiment.

The entire cast is baffling to be honest

Blanchett has had a great career and i think she has a great career still to come! I do however think this is a bit of an odd role pick for her, though I could see on paper this being a fun cast to work with.