#it's been 85 years and i wont be back in the fandom bc the movie sparked nothing in me

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ok, movie's over. what can i say, i've arrived with very low expectations and at least they were matched. it's a werid movie. it's like watching the summary of a movie instead of the movie itself. the characters have no connection between eachother. lilith and roland dont speak more than twice (it's implied that roland and fem!general knoxx were in a relationship). they dont bond. nobody bonds on screen and if they did off-screen we're not shown how or why they should. the movie expects you to know they're going to be "found family" because that's its genre so the characters will care no matter the lack of reasons to trust each other or the world they live in. nor the established characters' background.

the movie also doesnt seem to know its audience, because surely it's not for the fans of the games. it's a movie for 10/13 years old (all violence is pg13) who dont kinda get the basis of a plot. but at the same time the humor references adult content. ie roland saying "this was a terrible orgy" or something like that i dont remember verbatim. this movie is THAT forgettable.

there's a 5 minutes long fight scene with psychos that just never ends and doesnt add to the plot not to the action sequence because it wasnt a cool fight. it was just shooting and psychos dying like npcs.

the plot is questionable because i dont think the plot twist at the end works, when we find out oh it's lilith the siren and not tina, it doesnt make sense and it invalidates the plot of the movie up untill that moment. if tina doesnt have powers then why would atlas want her? and if opening the vault doesnt kill the siren (ugh) then tina never needed to be saved. also the whole sub-plot of lilith's mother?? 😖🤢 there's no need for that. it doesnt tell us anything of lilith's backstory (dead mom, we get it) nor to pandora, we dont know how lilith's mother knew tannis or moxxie. we find out nothing from those flashbacks. and i dont really know why AI, the writers believe that if there's a kid drawing something then it's a valuable hint for the truth. the fact that kid lilith drew a girl with fire wings doesnt implies she's the firehawk and if she knew since she was little then why would she let tina be the one opening the vault. if she got her powers after she came back to pandora then when did she got the powers? and also she's canonically not from pandora.

the others were also very forgettable. krieg is boring. roland doesnt do anything that matters and tina is just there. most of the time everyone is just there waiting for the next "plot" point to happen.

we enter the vault but there's meh inside. we get a glimpse of a monster who looks very tame compared to canon and then nothing else because the writers couldnt think of anything to replace the weapons with. like they fucking forgot about world building here. also the inside of the vault sucked. this movie felt so cheap. all scenes seem to be shot in-door. entering the vault should feel like entering a parallel dimention, it should feel epic.

i sincerely think the casting choices were made around cate blanchet, they hired her and found someone old enough to play a tannis who knew her mother, which didnt need to be, they could have been friends anyway. i feel like cate blanchet is in her charlize theron era and wants to join the action genre but started with the wrongest movie ever.

what else can i say? i liked marcus and how they added the bus and all. but i think it's a bit of an overkill to have a voice over expoisition of the world twice in 10 minutes. lilith at the beginning and marcus on the bus. pick one. and honestly marcus' seemed more organic.

the humor didnt work for me. i think i smiled once maybe twice, but never laugh. again i think the target audience its 10 years olds so maybe i just didnt get it.

i really cant be pissed with this movie because i dont think the people who wrote it ever played the game. i dont even think they wrote this movie thinking about borderlands. this is a generic movie that has some names in common with the games. doesnt match the vibes of the games, the humor, the locations.

if they really wanted to make a borderlands movie it should have matched the far west vibes of the games imo. it should have been 2 hours long and written by people who played the games and genuniely enjoyed them. they could have put orignial characters in there too with cameos from the canon characters and have an original story. it didnt need to be the mains from bl1 and if they wanted to have those characters then it should've been them and not some copies that share only names and looks. actually i belive that if those were other characters people would get to the end of the movie much less pissed at the butchering of canon.

on a nicer note, scooter and ellie show up for half a second at the end and that's nice

WAIT!! ALSO DONT WATCH THIS MOVIE IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH FLASHING LIGHTS. THERE'S A FLASHING LIGHT SCENE AROUND MINUTE 57 THAT LASTS FOR AT LEAST 10 seconds

I'm watching borderland, first 10 minutes are ok. I'd say good if they wouldn't have suddenly start shooting each other without reason (lilith on promethea with just some guys who wanted to hire her). and then they decided to take the bold narrative strategy of SHOWING AND TELLING. we see lilith asking for information AND she's voice-overing that she's asking for information.

I'm watching this movie with great love for the franchise and with an open mind. Even tho i didn't like the trailer at all, but i want to give the movie a fair chance. So far the fact that they casted kate blanchet and kevin heart did seem a problem. Even tho roland is a serious guy. But it's only been 11 minutes so far.