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[–] soloner@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I don't think this franchise is good movie material. I remember playing the games and not caring about the story at all. There is no character development or interesting plot, just shooting people and everyone acting eccentric and telling potty jokes. The movie had little substance to go off of.

That's not a diss to the game. It's fine that the game is like that, but they should have recognized it would produce pitfalls for a movie adaptation.

The cast is a whole other issue. Why would they go with Cate blanchet for this?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago

Disagree. It's a quippy action comedy with a unique visual style and plenty of explosions, with just enough minor social critique to keep things from being too brainless, but not enough to actually take a stance on anything, perfect summer blockbuster material.

They just didn't a do good job of....any of that.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It took them like 40 years to make a decent Mario movie, give them time...

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I prefer the one with Mario Mario and Luigi Mario

[–] rekorse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Honestly one of my favorite movies, I still rewatch it like once a year

[–] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

A good writer and director can make a good movie out of anything. This one had neither.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Borderland 2 has excellent characters and story. It just doesn't slap it to your face.

The game hides the serious stuff behind humour. It's part of the universe : everything is so fucked up that people become crazy to overcome it.

It wasn't as good in the first game, but borderland 2 is a masterpiece. And the movie understand nothing of it.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Feel free to have a look at !movies@lemm.ee, a few threads discuss the issues with the movie

[–] ytsedude@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Movie AND live-action adaptation now! 😩

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

The TLA live adaptation is... fine though. It's so stilted it's painful and some other stuff, but Iroh/Zuko stole the show and it did a few interesting things.

There is no movie.

[–] midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago
[–] OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hey what's that covering Zuko's face

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's just a scar, don't be rude

[–] OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I have sullied his honor

[–] Alfons 1 points 1 month ago

I‘m not sure either. Must be some image compression artefacts…

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

There is no movie adaptation in Ba Sing Se

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I just wanted to say... Give bl3 another chance. Yeah the main story is cringe garbage. But man is the game driping with atmosphere, the visuals, sound design, and soundtrack are master class.

You can tell a lot of talented people put their soul into the game, just not the writers lmao.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I dunno how this happens, especially when borderlands 2 was fine.

I get it, writing is hard, I do it some... but still. Sometimes I really stop and think "people were paid to write this for a video game?"

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 1 month ago

By the way he was talking about borderlands im pretty sure our local movie guy has no idea its from a video game.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Also, Avatar needs a video game so bad.

Like I would give my kidney for a BG3/CP2077 scale Avatar game, with the same kind of writing.