Borderlands is the Worst Videogame Movie of All Time | Borderlands Reaction

We went and saw Borderlands. Turns out we haven't quite escaped bad video game movies... Oxboxers Jane and Andy join Ellen in the new studio to talk about how and why it missed the mark (in our humble opinion, and apparently everyone else's).

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[Keyatzin]

Borderlands is exactly the kind of IP that fits a low budget action comedy, with a cast of entirely unknown young actors. Never should have been a big budget cash grab, with a celebrity cast.

[chriswest]

Maybe they intentionally killed the franchise to see if it dropped any good guns.

[YaBoiVD]

Andy's deadpan delivery of "this movie f*cking sucks" was hilarious

[jocosesonata]

To misquote Westaway: "You've just seen -Madame Web- Borderlands. You could walk out of the cinema and get beaten up, and you'd be like 'Nice!'"

[JaffaCakeGecko]

Jane is such a mum - took the kids to the movies during the summer holidays, fell asleep in the cool dark cinema, and found the gun noises too loud

[Brighton]

“It was so bad, Jane fell asleep”
“In my defense, I was extremely bored”

Well maybe the movie is devoid of comedy, but I had a hearty chuckle at that exchange.

[umbg]

I like the fact that Jane is in professional presenter mode when Ellen and Andy are in kids who were forced to sit through something terrible by their mum mode.

[benjamincarlson]

Not every movie needs to be just an "all-star cast." When 90% of the budget just goes to paying like 5 people, that last 10% has to stretch incredibly far on sets, costumes, writers, directing, film crews, support staff, editors, etc etc. This is so top heavy that I'm not surprised it couldn't stand on its own

[andyofdeth]

The “Jane fell asleep” reveal in this video had more plot and entertainment than anything featured in the Borderlands movie.

[danieldundon]

I can always trust Andy to say what he feels with no sugar coating

[lisah-p]

19:24 Jane: "Maybe the screenwriter hasn't played the game." I THINK THAT'S A GIVEN

[williamglidwell]

I agree with what Ellen was saying around 11:00, some adaptations are good because they follow the story, just adjusted for film or tv run times, but then you get really big games where you just can't, and you just set them in the same universe and have a bunch of cameos and easter eggs. I have friends who write fanfiction, and the way they put it is that they don't want to play with the authors toys, they just want to play in his sandbox. Id be interested in an elder scrolls movie or series, for instance, and there is thousands of years and hundreds of in game stories you could follow, without ever touching the main quests and having to hear people moan about canon. In Mass Effect you get barebones about the First Contact War, we know how it started, how it ended, and the occasional anecdote. That is a framework you can start with, that still has plenty of room to move around for the director to take artistic license, as long as they aren't deliberately trying to bone canon. Borderlands is a story about an entire PLANET of treasure hunters, mercenaries, bandits, profiteers, and rogue corporations. All looking for a rumored McGuffin of great value and power, each with their own personal motivation from good to bad, from simple greed to thrill seeking. And the only thing they could think to do in that sandbox, was to play with the creators' toys, and badly at that.

[wavion]

"I ate a big bag of popcorn and fell asleep" is actually a pretty good one-line review.

[markdowling]

A three-letter reaction from the team to the new Borderlands movie:
Andy: Grr
Ellen: Meh
Jane: Zzz

[Gamer]

This is yet another example of how getting "big names" means absolutely nothing if the script and direction are bad. Particularly when a lot of those names don't fit the roles. If you're so aware that the actress playing a character doesn't fit for that character that you have to make multiple references to her being too old, then get someone who's a better fit.

This whole movie feels like a case where they got the cast first, then tried to write the whole thing around that, and their only info about the source material was a few screenshots and spending five minutes browsing the wiki.

[mainboysmusic]

I like how we've got: Ellen the Angel - trying to give it that benefit of the doubt / Jane the Reasoner - trying to apply logic to this dumpster fire / Andy the Devil - condemning its very being

[MrMBinder]

"I ate all the snacks and fell asleep"

Jane was my spirit animal all along.

[mattball]

I think it speaks volumes that I've heard Andy tear into dozens of D-Coms and none of them have earned the level of vitriol he's showing here. It's impressive, really.

[anvior]

I think that the people who made Deadpool, or the One Piece live action could have made a good Borderlands movie. The entire cast could have been good, but not widely known actors: Saving money for other things, like awesome wacky guns. Also it should have been rated R.

[ExcellentU]

It's funny, I just so happened to be playing Borderlands 3 at the time when the first trailer for this film dropped. And my immediate reaction was:
"Oh, the people who made this film have completely misunderstood the tone and humor of these games and these characters. This is not a Borderlands movie, this is a different movie wearing a poorly-fitted Borderlands costume."
And then I promptly returned to playing Borderlands 3 and never looked back.