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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Borderlands movie is as bad as everyone expected
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:06:34 -0700
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On 8/19/2024 11:14 AM, Xocyll wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
> 
>>
>> Apparently even Uwe Boll is making fun of it.
> 
> Now that's hilarious.
> 
>> Movies based on video games have long had a reputation for being
>> low-quality cinema, but in recent years there had been some gradual
>> improvement. While few (none?) of them were _great_, at least they
>> weren't unwatchable, something both fans and non-gamers could enjoy.
>> It seemed like we'd reached some sort of turning point, where
>> Hollywood and Silicon Valley had come to a sort of accord, both
>> respecting the other enough to put the effort into producing a movie
>> that wouldn't get instantly panned.
> <snip>
> 
>  From a review I read, they literally ignored everything from the games
> to write a generic script.
> 
> Lilith is a bounty hunter.    WTF?
> Not a siren, not a vault hunter, oh and she's been hired to find ...
> 
> ...Tiny Tina who is not an orphan, she's a runaway and Atlas (presumably
> of Atlas Corp, is her dad.)   WTF
> 
> Psycho, is not a horde of lunatics, but one named character.     WTF?
> 
> Etc.
> 
> Literally ignored all the source material, bolted on some names from the
> games, hired a cast who I assume are in tax arrears, who phoned in their
> performances.
> 
> Kinda like a movie I saw back in the 80's - Tarnsman of Gor (based on
> the John Norman book)
> 
> Only it wasn't, it was a generic barbarian warlord film that used the
> names of a few characters and 2 cities and that was it.
> 
> Wasn't on Gor, didn't have Tarns (Giant hawks they fought on vs other
> tarnsmen.)
> 
> It featured a cast of nobody you ever heard of, and I think was made in
> Italy.
> 
> But it sounds like Borderlands is worse, with the cast not just phoning
> their performances in, they've gone back to smoke signals.
> 

The only good thing I've heard is Jamie Lee Curtis apparently tried, and 
might only be worth watching for free just for her small part.

I'm not going to seek it out, but I'll give it a try if I see it 
somewhere free.

It can't be worse than Rebel Moon.  No I'll take that back, RM had some 
style, but that's about all I can say for it. Not enough to bother 
watching the 2nd part after watching the first and being almost bored to 
tears.

-- 
-Justisaur

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