Apologies that this is not a pure gaming question, but I'd really like to hear people's opinion on the Borderlands movie trailer and especially from people who have played the games. That's why I'm asking here, I hope that's ok.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The casting is insane (and not the good kind).

Why, in the love of God, would you look at Roland, hulking, dour, tough as nails veteran soldier whose main character trait is being completely unflappable, and think "Kevin Hart"?

What were these people smoking?

Also the bits of writing we get in the trailer are just bad. Tina doesn't even manage to feel like a poor imitation of herself. Even with better casting (seriously, you could literally just have Ashley Burch play Tina, you're up-aging the character anyway, what's the harm?), there would still be none of the vibrancy of the scripts from 2 and Pre-sequel. I'm not saying those games had flawless writing, but it was fun, funny, and generally managed to land on the right side of transgressive.

Honestly, the whole thing has this really awkward "We really wanted James Gunn but couldn't afford him" feel to it.

[–] Dukeofdummies@kbin.social 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh it's easy, they just googled "Roland voice lines" and he sounds like a perfect role for Kevin heart.

Could he pull off the borderlands 2 Roland intro? I don't think so, but I've been surprised before.

What really has me saddened is the whole pisswater gully bit. Tiny Tina is a native of pandora, Roland and Lilith are not (to my knowledge). So if anything, the roles should have been entirely reversed because:

It makes more sense.
It's way funnier.

Which means they're messing with backstory of the characters to match... nothing. Because it doesn't seem to make the writing better, and it differs from the original. It would also match Tiny Tina's character so much better and mitigate the annoying whiny child part of the character that is just SHINING through this trailer.

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that whiny child part bugged me a lot. It doesn't fit Tina at all.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Oh, yeah, they completely failed to get what makes Tina an interesting character. She's constantly putting up this mask of being the toughest, meanest badass who's seen it all and done it all (all of which is an attempt to hide the fact that she's a scared, traumatized child).

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Why, in the love of God, would you look at Roland, hulking, dour, tough as nails veteran soldier whose main character trait is being completely unflappable, and think "Kevin Hart"?

My theory is that the original casting was supposed to be The Rock, and then after that didn't work out, some casting person was like "The Rock and Kevin Hart often work together on stuff right? Maybe we can just use him instead". Dwayne Johnson would have basically been straight out of Central Casting for Roland.

[–] speck@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it comes off like an amalgamation of Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy for 12 year olds