Borderlands film director blames flop on Zoom and Covid
Borderlands film director blames flop on Zoom and Covid
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Borderlands film director blames flop on Zoom and Covid
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But it was actually poorly written, scored, acted and overall a poor adaptation.
But Covid.
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And Zoom. Don’t forget Zoom. That’s a big one. Zoom. It killed my dad. Heartbreaking really.
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What a shame covid happened. It would have won an Oscar if not for covid.
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sure… not the fact that the film was terrible.
it was COVID.
sure bro.
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I don't disagree, but the headline is a bit misleading. The director is saying that COVID and Zoom affected his ability to properly plan out the movie.
"I think none of us, none of us anticipated how complicated things were gonna be with Covid. Not just in terms of what we're shooting, but then you have to do pick-up shots or reshoots and you have six people that are all on different sets and every one of those sets is getting shut down because the cities have opened up, and now there's a Covid outbreak and it was just like... we couldn't prep in a room together, I couldn't be with my stunt people, I couldn't do pre-vis, everyone's spread all over the place.
"You can't prep a movie on that scale over Zoom and I think we all thought we could pull it off and we got our asses handed to us a bit."
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Still sounds like shifting the blame instead of taking responsibility for creating a bad movie. Had they met in person instead of zoom, I really don't see how that would have changed anything.
The whole film just stank of people working on it at all levels who had zero first-hand experience with the game.
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I don't doubt that those additional challenges didn't help anything, but that movie sounded like it had already gone wrong by the time they finished casting.
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It was badly conceived, planned, cast, executed and then undermined by studio interference. It failed at every single level and I don't think Covid can take the blame.
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I say it was the casting director's fault, nobody wanted a jokey short Roland. Take polls or read forums on who fans want to see and try your hardest to fill the role close to what the fans want.
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Fallout, the last of us? Stuck close to the games' source material and respected current and new fans.
Halo and borderlands both ignored current fans and diverted from the source material.
Could there be a correlation? Oh, no just covid
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Nah you could've casted golden girls to a good script and director and it would've been a good film.
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No, the movie sucked.
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen was right there...
And you cast Kevin Hart instead.
You are the reason the movie failed.
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I probably played the games more than most of the audience and wouldn't have wasted money on it. The IP is terrible apart from being the first lootbox shooter. Annoying characters, boring plot, a flat setting- it's probably the video game I'd least want to see made into a film.
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I'd agree if it weren't for Tales from the Borderlands (the Telltale game). They took the franchise and turned it into a genuinely fun story with an interesting world.
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That I haven't played. The main three games were just gun slot machines for me.
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I watched all of Madame Web. I couldn't get through 20 minutes of Borderlands.
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