The casting alone is all you need to know to expect an unmitigated disaster.

Good. I hope that sleaze Pitchford loses a mountainload of money on this. I absolutely hate the guy, he's a liar and a thief. And arguably, depending how you look at it, a pedophile.

As a short reminder: Borderlands was originally meant to look like this. Then, at the MTV Asia Awards 2006, an artist by the name of Ben Hibon premiered a neat-looking animated short by the name of Codehunters. You can see it here. Witchford saw this and wanted to use the artstlye for his new game. He and Ben had a back-and-forth for a while and then, radio silence.

2009 comes around and Pitchfork's new game Borderlands is released. And to say that it looked familiar to Codehunters would be an understatement. Kitschford, being an upstanding and virtuous citizen that he is, straight-up aped Codehunter's style. No discussions or agreements were made with Ben and as such, despite Borderlands becoming hugely profitable, Ben didn't see a cent. And that is why I will always hope for the Borderlands IP to crash and burn. Or, at the very least, for someone to actually pay Ben Hibon for (unknowingly) creating the game's artstyle. Anyway, rant over, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

The trailer looked like a wannabe Guardians of the Galaxy clone.

The cops should be called on Hollywood for IP abuse. 😂

Well that tracks as Eli Roth has never made a good film.

I love the borderlands franchise but there is no chance ill watch the movie. As soon as it said some of the writers from marvel was involved i was out.

Just saw this a few hours ago. If it wasn’t for this post I think I’d have forgotten about it already.

I guess it’s fine, just entirely unremarkable.

Eli Roth

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. Has Roth made a good movie?

Not surprised. But with some better writing this could've been at least somewhat decent. Love the games and there are lots of stories to tell there.

Should I play the game though?

It's been some time since I saw critics and fans so aligned, congrats to the Borderlands movie! lol

The movie feels like it was made after they picked the cast then curated it to the actors instead of the source material. I know everyone seems to like the cast choices but I genuinely think it's the worst line up they could have done. The closet to acceptable would be jack black. I honestly don't get why they wouldn't just do the voice actor for him or find someone who is close to a perfect match.

I've got a home copy to watch tonight for free and I only have that because a friend sent it to me. I don't even wanna pay the electricity to watch it.

I'm sorry but the cast alone is proof they didn't give a fuck about the fans. It's also dumb as fuck how they're "telling their own story" and aren't ballsy enough to go the route fallout did (telling a good story within established canon).

I'm not going to see a movie about borderlands if the established, existing core character cast isn't literally from the game actors. Big celebs can be cool if they're their own unique characters, but core, pre-existing characters should be played from the games.

Should clarify: if you're going to use the main characters in the series, they should be using the actual actors. If you want to make some new characters, then that's fine. If these guys were brand new vault hunters, I'd be far more forgiving.