Based on the popular looter shooters developed by Gearbox and published by 2K Games, Borderlands was first announced all the way back in 2020. The movie is being directed by Eli Roth and has been in production hell for years now. But finally, our long national nightmare is almost over as Borderlands arrives in theaters on August 9. Sadly, I’m not sure its going to be worth the wait based on a scene released earlier today during IGN Live’s Day 1 showcase.

In the new scene, we see Roland (Kevin Hart), Lilith (Cate Blanchett), Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), Kireg (Florian Munteanu), and Claptrap (voice by Jack Black) in a dark underground facility filled with boxes and not many lights. It’s hard to see what’s happening.

This is supposed to be an action-packed sequence from a major motion picture, but it feels more like a pre-recorded skit from a so-so episode of Saturday Night Live. Enemies get shot and just fall down with no blood or gore, characters move around slowly even though this is meant to be a fast-paced sequence, and all of this is done to generic music that you’ll forget about the moment the scene ends.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Link to the trailer

https://youtu.be/lU_NKNZljoQ

[–] polonius-rex@kbin.run 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"from the producer of uncharted, spider-man and venom"

i feel like i can guess which version of spider-man

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

What's funny is that when the producer is mentioned in trailers I always think "Ok so the director is an unknown person and they're the one who has the most influence so it must not be great..."

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

It's Avi Arad and he was producer of all Spider-Man movies starting with Spider-Man 2 all the way to the Spider-Verse movies, so quite a lot of bad movies, but also some good ones. I wonder why they didn't put Morbius in that list.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Imagine making a Borderlands trailer and not using Cage the Elephant. Like, come on guy. It's right there!

As someone who doesn't really like the writing in Borderlands all that much, this trailer looks worse than that. Like, were Brick and Mordecai replaced with Krieg and Tina because they wanted to get "the fan favorites" in the crew?