this Borderlands The film was released in theaters 21 days ago and is now available to watch at home via video on demand. This three-week turnaround could be a sign that the film is underperforming at the box office and receiving poor critical reception. Having seen it firsthand, I agree that this isn’t the best example of a video game movie. However, I also saw moments where the movie remixed its source material into something interesting. Whether you’re watching this movie in a movie theater, at home, or not at all, Borderlands Worthy of your respect.
Partly because, let’s be honest, this movie isn’t That Bad. It’s visually impressive, with gorgeous sculpts and action sequences that are actually understandable rather than greasy CG smears. It has a bog-standard found-family/magical MacGuffin plot that manages to say some interesting things about the whole “Chosen One” trope.
Cate Blanchett stars as Lilith, a bounty hunter who travels to the planet Pandora to recover from Roland, an out-of-control Red Gun warrior (Kevin Hart) ) ) and his psychotic accomplice (Kevin Hart) rescue a girl named Tina (Tina Greenblatt) – the movie’s description, not mine – Krieger (Florian Munteanu). Lilith finds Tina willingly following her captors, with the unhelpful help of robot Grandstand (voiced by Jack Black) and the expertise of Dr. Patricia Tanis (Jamie Lee Curtis) Lilith decides to help Tina acquire a powerful artifact to keep it from her obscenely wealthy father, Atlas Corporation CEO Decallian Atlas (Edgar Ramey) Reis) snatched her hand away from her.
“[Borderlands] Not a video game movie.
Pandora is a harsh desert planet ravaged by the vast amounts of waste produced by its human and natural inhabitants. if movie Following the trend currently dominating TV and movies, the Earth will look dark even during the day, and everything will be cast in that sickly orange filter that pops up every time Hollywood trots out a movie set in the desert – looking at you, dune. Instead, the locations and characters are thoughtfully designed—and well-lit, imagine that! — to create a visually pleasing film.
Cate Blanchett blew me away with her brilliant performance as Lilith. With her bright orange hair and dark blue shiny jacket, Blanchett looks like she was ripped straight from the first film. Borderlands game. When Lilith first appeared, I turned to my husband and said this was the most video game-like video game movie I’d ever seen (affectionately!). Everything else, from the other actors to the props and sets, matches the visual energy without seeming cartoonish or fake.
BorderlandsFor better or worse, it eschews some of the typical conventions of making a video game movie. Usually, there are moments in this type of film that pay homage to their ancestors. first person action sequences doom or rainbow road race super mario bros movie I thought about it.
In an interview with founder Randy Pitchford Borderlands As an executive producer on both games and movies, I asked him how he blurs the lines between games and movies. “We didn’t do anything,” Pitchford replied. “I hate that shit.”
According to Pitchford, the movie Easter egg was originally planned for him as a fan of the game, but seeing another video game movie made him change his mind.
“We didn’t do anything. I hate that shit.
“I voiced a character in the game called the Crazy Count, and I spent five hours doing makeup to become the Crazy Count,” he said. Pitchford said he shot scenes for the film but changed his mind after seeing the moment Uncharted When Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland randomly encountered Nolan North, the voice actor who plays Nathan Drake in the game.
“There are two problems with this,” he said. “If you knew who that was, you would be instantly pulled out of the universe. If you didn’t, it would all be meaningless. It was completely illogical to the storyline, so I asked them to remove me from the movie.
According to Pitchford, Borderlands “This is not a video game movie.” Instead, he said, it’s a film that incorporates characters, themes and storylines from the first game, greatly enhanced by Blanchett and Greenblatt’s stellar performances. these contents.
Lilith and Tina get along very well. Neither has a loving family, and both desire one so badly that they will latch on to anyone and anything in their orbit. Tina immediately adopts Craig as her brother/bodyguard. Even though Farce and Lilith hate each other, they still work well together.
The dialogue, however, is less effective. Make no mistake: Borderlands Not funny. Its style of irreverent humor and stream-of-consciousness dialogue was no longer entertaining at the time Borderland story Published 2014. Hearing Kevin Hart deadpan, “This is piss.” Now I’m peeing in the middle of the truck.
The film also doesn’t make the most of its cast. Take Dr. Patricia Tanis, for example. In the movie, she’s just a plot exposition device, but she could have been so much more. Tannis actress Jamie Lee Curtis said she put herself into the role of the reclusive, socially awkward doctor and her attraction to inanimate objects – but it didn’t appear in the final film middle.
“The whole idea of objectivity—the idea of an isolated person falling in love with an inanimate object—I found it to be a fascinating character trait, and it worked for me,” Curtis said. “They cut it all out, I think, because people couldn’t understand it.”
Lilith and Tina are the main driving forces of the film, but the rest of the cast does absolutely nothing until the plot gives them something to shoot, smash, or show. I don’t understand how a movie that features both Jack Black and Kevin Hart – two of the most successful comedians in Hollywood – doesn’t make me laugh. In addition to being miscast as the stoic soldier Roland, Hart is little more than window dressing. The movie gives him a movie-like heroic moment Borderlands 2but since he has no personality other than “there’s piss in my truck,” I don’t care. Meanwhile, Blake’s only direction seems to be to be as annoying as possible. Sure, it’s a good fit for his character, but it’s ultimately a waste of Blake’s multifaceted talents.
Pay $20-$25 to watch Borderlands A hard sell at home, but worth it in the end. for all bad decisions Borderlandsplacing Lilith at the center is by far the smartest move. A character like her – a grumpy, jaded, childless, older woman – wouldn’t be the protagonist of an action movie. In real life, such women are almost invisible. but BorderlandsThe style and storytelling make Lilith stand out from the screen. As long as you work hard, you won’t miss her. Borderlands Despite the poor response, it also earned my respect for what it did for Lilith.
