Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by
now.
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >>Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of
video games.
Xocyll
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate
Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of
video games.
Xocyll
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
On 2/27/2024 2:46 AM, Xocyll wrote:
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate
Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of
video games.
Xocyll
It's Eli Roth writing/directing, but looking at his directorial resume,
I don't see anything warranting much more hope than Uwe Boll. More
hope, yes, but not much more. It can't possibly be Uwe Boll bad can it?
On 2/27/2024 7:52 AM, Justisaur wrote:
On 2/27/2024 2:46 AM, Xocyll wrote:Eli Roth is a horror film maker. I've never played Borderlands so I
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate
Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting >>>> what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now. >>>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of
video games.
Xocyll
It's Eli Roth writing/directing, but looking at his directorial resume,
I don't see anything warranting much more hope than Uwe Boll. More
hope, yes, but not much more. It can't possibly be Uwe Boll bad can it?
have no idea how much "horror" it is.
On 2024-02-27, Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 2/27/2024 7:52 AM, Justisaur wrote:
On 2/27/2024 2:46 AM, Xocyll wrote:Eli Roth is a horror film maker. I've never played Borderlands so I
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the >>>> porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >>>>> Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting >>>>> what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now. >>>>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of
video games.
Xocyll
It's Eli Roth writing/directing, but looking at his directorial resume,
I don't see anything warranting much more hope than Uwe Boll. More
hope, yes, but not much more. It can't possibly be Uwe Boll bad can it? >>>
have no idea how much "horror" it is.
The real horror will be the quality! /probably/
On 2/27/2024 10:05 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
On 2024-02-27, Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 2/27/2024 7:52 AM, Justisaur wrote:
On 2/27/2024 2:46 AM, Xocyll wrote:Eli Roth is a horror film maker. I've never played Borderlands so I
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the >>>>> porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >>>>>> Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting >>>>>> what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now. >>>>>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of >>>>> video games.
Xocyll
It's Eli Roth writing/directing, but looking at his directorial resume, >>>> I don't see anything warranting much more hope than Uwe Boll. More
hope, yes, but not much more. It can't possibly be Uwe Boll bad can it? >>>>
have no idea how much "horror" it is.
Not much. It's Mad Max, with over the top powers and guns mixed with
D&D. Probably the closest horror would be The Hills Have Eyes.
The real horror will be the quality! /probably/
I think that's a given based on the trailer and reactions I've seen elsewhere. I seriously doubt it will get a theatrical release, and even
if it does, probably won't make it past the first weekend.
The budget is 100 Million, which seems insanely high given the narrow
appeal and 'director's' previous movies. All I can think is Lionsgate
needs a tax write off (Shades of Boll.)
On 2/27/2024 10:05 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
On 2024-02-27, Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 2/27/2024 7:52 AM, Justisaur wrote:
On 2/27/2024 2:46 AM, Xocyll wrote:Eli Roth is a horror film maker. I've never played Borderlands so I
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the >>>>> porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >>>>>> Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it
interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by >>>>>> now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of >>>>> video games.
Xocyll
It's Eli Roth writing/directing, but looking at his directorial resume, >>>> I don't see anything warranting much more hope than Uwe Boll. More
hope, yes, but not much more. It can't possibly be Uwe Boll bad can
it?
have no idea how much "horror" it is.
Not much. It's Mad Max, with over the top powers and guns mixed with
D&D. Probably the closest horror would be The Hills Have Eyes.
The real horror will be the quality! /probably/
I think that's a given based on the trailer and reactions I've seen elsewhere. I seriously doubt it will get a theatrical release, and even
if it does, probably won't make it past the first weekend.
The budget is 100 Million, which seems insanely high given the narrow
appeal and 'director's' previous movies. All I can think is Lionsgate
needs a tax write off (Shades of Boll.)
On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:07:53 +0100, kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >>Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
Ehn.
I have played the games (and don't really care for them; they're fine,
but not to my taste), but I don't have much faith in this show.
Not the trailers doesn't look interesting. I can see what the
producers are going for; a sort of cross between "Guardians of the
Galaxy" and "Suicide Squad", with a dash of "Kingsmen" for color and a
squirt of "Mad Max" for setting. The rogues-as-heroes genre is always
a popular genre, after all.
But whether the IP has the popularity to carry the movie seems very...
iffy to me. The style this movie is aping is getting a bit long in the
tooth (it was novel with "Guardians of the Galaxy") and the crude
humor (which featured so heavily in the "Suicide Squad" movies) never
really captured that big of an audience. And there's only so far you
can drag out the "hahaha all the heroes are assholes to one another"
cliche before it becomes tired and old hat.
If the movie were associated with a better-known IP, it /might/ have a
better chance of drawing out the fad... but its using a license only a
tiny percentage of people have ever heard of or cares about.
Still... it COULD work. Thank god they decided to go with a movie
instead of making it a TV series. The genre is endurable for two
hours, but stretched out over ten hours would be painful.
Still, if I were to go and see it, though, it would be based on the
appeal of the movie and not because it's "Borderlands". Honestly, I
think the producers would have been better off just making their own
thing (that just happened to be weirdly similar to the games) and not >actually paying for the license. Because I don't think that franchise
has quite the draw they're hoping for.
On 2/27/2024 2:46 AM, Xocyll wrote:
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate
Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of
video games.
Xocyll
It's Eli Roth writing/directing, but looking at his directorial resume,
I don't see anything warranting much more hope than Uwe Boll. More
hope, yes, but not much more. It can't possibly be Uwe Boll bad can it?
The movie looks horrible. I usually like Jack Black, but the Claptrap
(who he voices) scenes are horrendous. Kate Blanchett looks to be
miscast, and unfortunately looks like the best thing about the movie.
I may watch it when it comes to streaming if if shows up on one of the >channels I get, probably not though.
On 2024-02-27, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >>>Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting >>>what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of
video games.
Xocyll
Oh, isn't that the guy who made the Postal movie?
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:07:53 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
kyonshi wrote:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >>Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
I see Kevin Hart, not Jack Black. Much better choice.
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> writes:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate
Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting
what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by
now.
I'm not that hopeful and the trailer didn't look like much but I think
I'll probably check it out.
The biggest problem I think is that Borderlands shat itself.
Borderlands was good, BL2 and all the rest were shit, instead of the >protagonist being a greedy self centered treasure hunter, suddenly you'd >morphed into a superhero here to save everyone, for no fucking reason >whatsoever.
Why the fuck did "Vault Hunter" change from treasure hunter to >Paladin-Superhero? while the villains go from actual semi realistic
ones to the megatard who names a pony "butt stallion"?
Who the fuck believes that retard could take over an interstellar >corporation?
So wait... you played Borderlands games for the story and the character >development?
On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:59:42 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:
So wait... you played Borderlands games for the story and the character >>development?
I don't think I have ever played any video game for the story or
character development. But certainly not Borderlands.
Oh, okay. Black is doing voiceover work. Much better choice as well.
On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:41:40 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The >>Augury is good, the signs say:
On 2024-02-27, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the >>>> porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Found out today there's a Borderlands movie coming up, starring Cate >>>>>Blanchett, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis of all people.
I actually haven't played the series at all, but I find it interesting >>>>>what sort of cast they managed to get for a video game adaption by now. >>>>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_NKNZljoQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/
So Uwe Boll is back?
...but they killed the Tax Credit for making shite movie versions of
video games.
Xocyll
Oh, isn't that the guy who made the Postal movie?
I have not seen all of his movies.
I know he did a house of the dead movie, a dungeon siege movie and a >>bloodrayne movie.
Are Uwe Boll movies that bad?
The first of his movies I saw was - unwittingly - "Dungeon Siege". I
picked it up, all innocent and unknowing, wondering how they made a
movie from a game so light on plot and setting. (Mostly by inventing
stuff whole cloth). It was not well acted, filmed, written, or
directed. At the end, I noticed the name "Uwe Boll", who already by
then had gotten himself something of a reputation. "Ah," I said. "That >explains much."
But being a sucker for punishment, I then went out and looked for more
of his movies. "Dungeon Siege" was bad, but not in the
'so-bad-its-good way', or the 'they didn't give me anywhere near the
money needed to film this' or even the 'I'm an inexperienced director
who is trying his best' way. It was just... 'I don't care' bad. Were
the rest of his movies the same?
Eli Roth is a horror film maker. I've never played Borderlands so I
have no idea how much "horror" it is.
Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
Oh, okay. Black is doing voiceover work. Much better choice as well.
Jack Black as Claptrap is the only casting choice I disagree with.
I don't have anything against Black, but I'd have much prefered they
just use same voice actor from the games.
Not that it really matters. I'm not a big fan of movies anyways so will >probably never bother watching it. At worst I'll just have to put up
with some ads on TV with a weird sounding Claptrap.
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:
Eli Roth is a horror film maker. I've never played Borderlands so I
have no idea how much "horror" it is.
Not really horror at all, it's what they call a looter shooter. So,
shoot a lot of enemies, collect loot, rinse and repeat. What plot there
is pretty much went down the toilet in the second game already. Well,
unless you feel bad writing is horror in itself. In fact, Borderlands 3
has a somewhat horror flavored theme in the Guns, Love, and Tentacles
DLC.
I don't think I've seen any Uwe Boll movies. But the "movie based on
game" formula has been something like "take some things from the game,
add some weird stuff that alienates people who like the game." End
result, an unpopular movie.
Same formula Hollywood applies to books.
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:
Same formula Hollywood applies to books.
Sure. I remember Ursula Le Guin lamenting how her Earthsea books were >converted to "a general MacMagic TV show" or something like that.
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