There's this content creator, Joltzdude139. Does everything Borderlands, with a special focus on the BL2. Super wholesome. Engaging to listen to. Lots of knowledge. Basically a superfan.

Gearbox gave him free tickets.

He FLEW out to see the premiere.

He dropped a review, first half of video no spoilers, and summarized the experience in a couple sentences, which I'll paraphrase:

"It had some good parts! The Claptrap humor was totally on point! I'm probably never going to watch it again though. I was so excited."

That alone told me all I needed to know.

Video Link. Spoiler Free until 13:04.

I never even heard they were making the movie lol. Doubtful I would have gone to see it, but literally not knowing it existed probably didn't help it

It feels like at this point it's all about just shitting on it as much as possible, to bait people into buying it with the mentality of "what's all this hoohaa, was it really that bad", when it shortly releases on streaming platforms.

I mean... I was planning on getting a torrent myself, but there's plenty of people who will still fork out money for it.

It deserves the kicking it got but I do hope this doesn't make the studios too risk-averse.