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Go play the Borderlands shooters. Go watch six-hour gameplay videos of it on YouTube. Go get several chlamydia tests back to back. Every one of those options are far more useful and far, far less painful than this.
Ouch lol
The entire review was more brutal than a cannibal corpse concert. Like, my feelings hurt, and I wasn't even interested in the movie, much less involved in it.
Movie adaptations are Hollywood's equivalent of a tourist trap. Of course it will be crap 95% of the time
Adaptations from a work that originated in another format are difficult to pull off. But that's only part of why most adaptations are bad. Marketing knows that if there's a big franchise name in the title, the movie will turn a profit no matter how bad it is
"insult to gamers and movie lovers"
I've seen this sort of article written every time a franchise is adapted to a series/movie
Holy shit I'm so fucking tired of these. Will we never collectively learn not to fall for marketing stunts like these?
It's not even so bad it's good like the first Mario Brothers was. There's this strange tertiary connection to the source material like someone was explaining the game to a writer who had never played the game and the director had their assistant read them the script. Weird weird choices were made. Like I can't believe Im saying this but, that was the blandest delivery of "I'll lick your spine" I've ever heard.
Do you think they wanted a TV show and were forced to slim it down to a movie? I only saw the trailer but it seemed completely unfocused.
That's a really good observation. I don't think a longer movie would've helped but if they could've explored the characters more in a season? I think that would've been much better, also slimming the scale down to just a few missions and boss fight I think would've been much better. I remember some of those mid to late game areas lasting me an hour and a half and being very cinematic.
Yeah... I feel like they wanted to go down we the worst video game adaptation in history and that's a really high... er... low bar.
It's honestly impressive how low Uwe Boll can go.
It helps when the whole thing is just a ruse to profit off a tax loophole in German law. Once that loophole was closed, Boll was done.
I didn't have any hope for this because of how much I love the original, but now I somehow have less hope.