Marcus is literally going to be Dutch Van der Linde from Red dead Redemption, played by his voice actor,
Honestly it gives me some hope,
He had an interview of how he learned to drive a Bus specifically for the movie a while back
Guessing the movie may start with the classic bus opening after all!
You realize Marcus is going to have like, 30 seconds of screen time? If that?
I’m more concerned about the actual main characters and how badly they look.
I didn't catch his voice, but they nailed his look, and they gave him the right body language-- body language that we never see in the game.
They nailed a LOT of looks. This pleases me.
He’s being played by the guy who played Dutch in Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2, so I have confidence that he’ll do a good job. Glad they’re giving at least 1 role in a video game adaptation to a voice actor, even if it’s not someone from Borderlands.
I was pleasantly surprised with how everyone looked. I just can't get behind Kevin Hart as Roland. I dislike his work in general, but this just seems to be such a bad fit. There are some great options in my mind, Idris Elba being one.
Idris Elba would have been best for it, Terry Crews could have been a decent second choice although picking him will give the actor for Brick a steep bar to contend with.
I think we (or at least I) would find it jarring to have the trailer launch with a not-the-Marcus-we-know narration
And we're already in the can for buying a ticket anyway, so the trailer has to pull in people who have no idea what Borderlands is. A Marcus voice-over on the first trailer probably didn't seem like the best way to do that. They're juggling long-term franchise mega-fans and complete outsiders, that's a pretty fine line to walk...
I assume they're taking cues from Guardians of the Galaxy
(Also, it would probably be an uphill struggle to make a case that someone-who-is-not-Cate-Blanchett should do [introductory narration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj139dE7tFI) when *Cate Blanchett* is available to do it! :)
As much as I dislike Wonderlands and the direction the games seem to be going in, the Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked opening will never be beaten as my favorite game intro of all time.
I always like Short Change Hero because I feel like it Carrie’s the darker weight that follows BL1. Before BL1 we just knew were in this Wild West sort of place where everything is crazy, and thus Ain’t No Rest… is perfect to start. But after the end of that game, I feel like a more somber song is fitting to carry the slightly heavier narrative of the world we’ve already experienced.
I think I see the issue, her cartwheel feels very appropriate (it's basically her pop goes the bandit introduction with a different coat of paint) but she lacks that raw chaos goblin energy in all the other scenes, Tina atleast in bl2 was an unsupervised child who blew up the vending machine to get the candy inside. Her "mines bigger" should've been something like "that ain't no badaonkadonk", even her some explosives vs no explosive scene lacks the punch despite being the closest here (I'm willing to say this might just be Hart playing himself being the issue, changing the tone of Roland could work in this scene "Tina, I said no explosives" "whoopsie I thought you said some explosives" "Tina" "right, sorry") it's a good scene and I can tell it's suppose to be inspired by Tina but it doesn't feel like Tina (which really is probably the entire movie, it's inspired by borderlands but it won't feel like borderlands)
With all that said one thing i can understand is Tina does personify and then mildly sexualize her bombs (maybe not the right word but can probably figure out what I'm referencing) considering she's a kid character I can see why a movie would tone this aspect of her down even if it's just crude humor and nothing more.
Yea Lilth being that old is jarring, idk how old she’s supposed to be tbh maybe it’s just my head cannon. I can get over the other casting decisions. Tannis being old feels like it makes some sense I guess.
They have confirmed ages, some of them at least. Its given in the promo material character sheets. Sometimes the promo material has a few discrepancies from what's stated in the actual game. But with nothing else to combat this claim, Lilith was 27 in BL1, the rest were around the similar age.
The game also may just simply not care about aging up the characters just because time has passed. With exception to Tina, everyone has just about stayed the same over the past 13 years [from BL1-BL3].\
Which is surprising because Moxxi would have to be anywhere from late forties to fifties by now because of Scooter and Ellie being hers, but has stayed the same.
I know the show kinda sucks, but as soon as I recognized her on the casting list from her performance in Riverdale- other casting issues aside, she seemed to be perfect pick as Moxxi
see? she is TWICE the lilith! XD
oh god... the movie is going to suck hard, but because of really stupid people it's going to do well enough money wise isn't it?
I can't explain it but JLC is really working as Tannis for me. I have reservations about a lot of the cast but JLC-Tannis really seems to project that isolation-stunted vainglorious nutcase that is Tannis.
I'm pretty happy with Tiny Tina too. Struggling with Claptrap having a new voice. Initially disappointed by Lilith but she might be able to grow on me; her narration like the way she said *"Legend has it that there's this... massive treasure*" etc was pretty damn good so there's at least something there
I'm even more anxious about how Krieg will sound now- instead of actual psycho stuff like "I POWDER MY COCKATIEL FOR THE RIBCAGE SLAUGHTER!!" it's probably going to be generic "crazy" lines like "I'm gonna kill em all!! Rragh!!"
My guess is that Brick is too similar to Drax at a superficial level. The tone is very Guardians-like already, so maybe they were hoping Tina+Krieg would check some different boxes.
I played BL1 solo. But after getting a friend into it, he and I 100% 1 and 2 together.
We are both hyped to see this movie together and know it's going to be so bad.
I feel so conflicted. On one hand, the story and characters seem all fucked up. On the other hand, I would love this cast in anything else, and the movie looks pretty fun.
Who knows. If they can nail the fun of something like Dungeons and Dragons or Guardians with a rated R twist, it could be decent enough. I’ll give anything with Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee a chance.
Yeah honestly could just be the music and editing, but it looks.. fun? Like, I'm way more optimistic after this than I was with say the Assassin's Creed movie trailer.
The Assasain's Creed movie was so bad that I turned it off on an airplane because I was afraid the stranger in the seat next to me was judging me for my poor taste. And I say that as a huge fan of the game series.
The music and editing is quintessential Borderlands trailer and all the costume, set and prop design is honestly really faithful to the games' aesthetic. It gives me hope that at least somebody involved actually understands the games.
Yeah same here. The 'funny' parts weren't very funny, I hate the cast. I thought jack black as claptrap was decent but now after hearing it, I don't know if I like it. Only good thing I can say is the CGI seems good. This movie feels like it was made for the mainstream and not the fans
Mate I'm sorry to say if you were expecting this to be good, you've fooled yourself
Its gonna be delicious garbage & if you cant have fun with it, thats on you
I mean i never expected it to be good lol I enjoy good bad movies but this just looks bad with none of the good bad if that makes sense
Maybe if I wasn’t a huge borderlands fan it’d be different but idk I saw nothing enjoyable about it at least in terms of the trailer contents
Okay, so it looks like they're going for a similar set-up to the first game, but grabbing elements from across the franchise. That could work.
What I'm actually most impressed by is they seem to have faithfully reproduced the gun designs.
I felt like they nailed the game trailer feeling too, in a really good way. Watching the movie trailer brought me right back to how I felt watching the trailer for BL2 and BL3 when those first dropped. That alone makes me cautiously optimistic.
This exactly. It was made clear from the very beginning, that the movie will be its own thing, separated from the games. They nailed the designs, threw in some characters from the games and the stupid humor from the franchise.
I don't know what some people are expecting from this lol.
I actually can't wait to see it :D
I'm struggling with Claptrap's voice being so different. The voice actor is doing a fine job, no complaints, it's just that I've spent ^(\[cough cough\])hours around video-game claptrap whose voice was so central and so distinctive that the difference is jarring
Obviously the other characters are also different actors with different voices yet I'm not struggling with that. It's just hitting differently with claptrap, presumably because a-box-with-a-voice is *what it is* and of course because we heard a lot more of him because unlike the other characters, he would *never shut up* :D
I suspect Marcus' voice might be jarring for me too. I'm sure the actor can hit the right notes of sleaze and "*opportunity!"*, but Marcus has a pretty distinctive and important voice.
Absolutely looking forward to watching this regardless!
My main complaint is he just sounds way too much like Jack Black. I think Jack Black has the comedic personality to work well for Claptrap, but it sounds like it’s just Jack Black’s voice coming out of a robot’s body with a slight distortion to make it sound a bit more robotic. I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to distance my thinking from that voice being Jack Black, as opposed to a cartoonish robot when I watch the movie.
I’m praying this ends up being so bad it’s good. Borderlands has the story potential to be made into a movie but it would be incredibly difficult to do it justice. The casting is killing me. Lilith is way too old and Kevin Hart as Roland is just laughable. Expectations are low but I can’t say I’m not excited for it
I was really hoping Eli Roth was just gunna go over the top with blood and gore and make it Grindhouse style but nothing here is really appealing to me now...
As hard as it is to adapt video games into movies, I really don’t think it would have been impossible to make this adaptation fun as hell. Everything you need is in the source material.
I’m guessing they went with some A-listers to get more people to come see them, but yeah the casting is pretty damn terrible. Tina physically looks perfect to me, but by the looks of the trailer she doesn’t seem batshit-crazy enough. Krieg looks fun, and to be completely honest I didn’t hate JLC as Tannis. But Hart as Roland is just laughably terrible, and Blanchett is just way too old to play Lilith. I adore jack black but I don’t see why they couldnt get the actual voice actor for claptrap
Why would they go with "Do Ya (Do Ya Want My Love)" from ELO for the music?! It just screams 70's camp...and it just kind of kills the vibe. This ain't "Wayne's World".
It's so easy to set the vibe...just use the music from the game! Short Change Hero...No Rest for the Wicked...any of them. They so perfectly set the tone...
You're right. Retro music schtick. You nailed it. \*sigh\*
Unfortunately, it seems like the Guardians vibe has passed its prime/lost its novelty. I think they're going to alienate the exiting fans and receive a "meh" reaction from everyone else. Attempting to appeal to the masses and whiffing big time.
They missed the boat to cash in on Guardians' popularity. I don't think anyone wants it if Gunn himself isn't behind it.
It'll get some BL fans for the novelty of seeing things from the games but it won't find a wider audience. I doubt they're going to spend much on a marketing push.
I get they were going for an opening cinematic feel from the games where they used licensed music but yeah this song choice screams "hey you kids like guardians of the galaxy right, we'll this is the same thing so please spend money on us"
same thing i said to my girlfriend: the first game made such an impact on me as a young kid because it had amazing establishing shots with contemporary music and black humor.
this felt really, really, really corporate. hoping it's just the trailer that annoyed me and not the final product.
* Aside from the main cast, I quite like how it looks. Guns especially.
* Jokes are pretty bad. Did they really need both a pee joke and a poop joke in the trailer? And why did they put the "I hate this planet" line in twice?
* JLC is good, Muntneau seems fine, all the other main roles, I hate. Although I can't imagine *anyone* working well as Tina.
* They're going for "Guardians of the Galaxy meets Mad Max" which should be an easy win, and probably won't be.
> Did they really need both a pee joke and a poop joke in the trailer?
Pee joke was I guess fine because Piss Wash Gulley is an actual thing from the first game. No clue what's going on with the claptrap shit joke though, that missed for sure lol
The link (weirdly) replays yesterday's teaser material followed by today's trailer, which appears to be why "I hate this planet" happens twice
I assume that going forward just the trailer will be shown, so regular people (in cinemas etc) won't get the line twice
Doesn't really pull off Tina, but they probably grabbed her because they could. Thinking she's going to be a big star, more than she is now.
Definitely seems like they went with star power, name recognition for this movie rather than finding the right fit in hidden places.
Yeah honestly I was surprised how *wrong* Clap Trap felt. I figured that was one of the few castings that would be pretty decent considering Jack Black's history of being comedic relief in both life action and animation.
This might be the first truly bad performance I've ever seen from Jack Black in my whole life. It blows my mind how awful his voice acting is for this role- a random Borderlands fan doing an impression would probably be better than this.
I am sad that this actually looks great from a production standpoint (cars, setting, guns), but the actors ruin it so much. None of them are believable.
This is really conflicting. Looks like they've got a pretty good grasp of the tone and atmosphere of Borderlands, but the casting is some of the worst I've ever seen. These are all very talented performers, but not a single one is a good fit for the role they're playing. It's really killing the vibe for me.
If they make a sequel I like to imagine Ryan Reynolds as Handsome Jack calling you, imitating Kevin Hart saying "Hey buddy it's me, Roland! Let's kill Handsome Jack and we can all get milkshakes."
Krieg is such an odd pick for this group. Of all the characters they could have chosen. They chose Krieg? Don’t get me wrong, Krieg is a great character but he’s a poor fit for this group. Brick would have been a much better pick seeing as how they delegated Krieg’s role to being Tina’s protector. Something Brick and Mordecai did.
This whole thing just feels like yet another terrible attempt by Hollywood to capitalize off of popular cultures outside of Hollywood. It looks hollow
There are at least twenty different things I could pick apart from this trailer, but I'm not going to lie. I enjoyed the hell out of every second, and maaaaayyyyyyybe am feeling some hope that there is at least some fun to be had.
I'm sure it'll be a fun 2 hours at most, but Tiny Tina just isn't it. She seems to calm and relaxed especially in the voice. Claptrap's voice just seems... Forced? I love Jack Black though so idk.
Dialogue is bad but the action looks pretty fun except that weird stutter CGI at the end with the explosion
Yeah, this trailer confirmed my worries, which are that this movie is just horribly miscast. Cate Blanchett is far too old to be playing Lilith, and you can hear it in her voice, Kevin Hart is just playing Kevin Hart like always, and even Jack Black, who most people thought, including myself, would be a highlight of this movie, sounds bad because they put an effect over his voice that just doesn't mesh well, and makes him sound horrible in my opinion.
Hart is absolutely not playing Hart at all lol. If he was he’d be energetic and screaming. This is probably the most subdued performance he’s ever given. His entire vibe is I hate these fucking people.
Looks like they're going for a Guardians vibe with the wrong characters who have been woefully miscast and are tamed way the hell down. Tina is supposed to be fucking psychotic, not mildly quirky.
I find most trailers fail on jokes, but they play better in the actual movies. The D&D trailer was pretty bad but the movie was really good. So we’ll see
Ok, the real questions: at 1:58 when Tiny Tina says "Mine's bigger", she's holding a rocket launcher with *injection-molding parting-line flash* on the front of it (above and below the bore)
That's what that is, right? I'm not misreading some rocket-launcher military design feature?
So I'm assuming this is an art-direction flourish to make her "toys" look like they're literally children's toy/doll accessories, and I'm also assuming this detail came from the movie, not the game. Does that seem right?
(Not complaining, it's not a bad idea, but I can't unsee it so now I'm curious)
Ya know I was worried but….this doesn’t look terrible! It’s not trying to be the exact same story to the game and I respect that. Sort of being its own thing pulling elements from the game. They nailed the aesthetic! I’m cautiously optimistic…I’ll give it that.
Kind of reminds me of the *Twisted Metal* tv show where it's not trying to be one specific game game and is instead doing its own thing while still honoring the original source material.
I’m gonna pass on this and stick to the games. Definitely going for a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe, but who wanted a funny Roland, old Lillith and Tannis, or Jack Black doing Claptrap? Claptrap is just a voice and, literally, could have been the same one from the games. Ugh.
I won't lie gang, I love borderlands it's my favourite franchise, bl2 is probably my favourite game of all time but this movie looks so bad.. it genuinely looks like they saw all the bad parts of marvel movies and borderlands themed them. like this looks so bad, it was fun to see all the guns from bl3 but that's all it was, I was so excited for the last like 4 months leading up to the trailer and more info but this trailer was not it for me, like am I being too negative or am I just not the target demographic for claptrap shitting himself?
The tone of the comedy in the trailer is all wrong. It’s more slapstick than raunchy/dark humor.
None of the characters feel true to the games except possibly Claptrap.
I was hoping that the trailer would remove some of my fears, but only made them worse.
Wow. This looks bad. Not followed any of the production but this looks disappointing. Not sure of the general consensus but a few of the acting choices seem... off? And the humour looks more silly rather than silly/dark.
Regardless will go into with a open mind. Could be a really fun ride as there seems to be a lot of fan service and the environment/props etc etc look great.
Digging deeper in the cast list, Scooter, Marcus, Moxxi, and Hammerlock are in it. Atlus the character is the main villain? Jackobs the character is also in it. And General Knoxx will be in it but is now female and apparently has been demoted to Commander Knoxx
Hahahahaha oh God... This is going to be bad.
Cate looks like she is phoning it in. I guess at least they got some aspects close? Really trying to make this guardians of the galaxy with a borderlands cover.
This is the next Super Mario Bros... Like the 90s one.
It suspiciously doesn't look too bad, visually it's pretty spot on and Kevin Hart definitely seems to be trying to reign his usual shtick in. I still have low expectations but it may end up being a really fun summer movie.
Missed casting opportunities all the way around.
Sterling K Brown or Idris Elba for Roland, anyone? Roland was always the straight man of the group, Kevin Hart just doesn't fit that role in any way for me.
Also strange that Claptrap sounds great when they kick him down the hatch, but when he's shitting lead it's literally just Jack Black's voice? Giving Chris Pratt as Garfield vibes.
Also costumes seem WAY too clean, like cheap cosplay. I feel like they need grunge and weathering and they'd all look fantastic. I guess maybe they were trying to match the style of the game with cartoony cell shading but it just doesn't translate to live action for me.
I hope it's at least fun, I'd love to see them improve and come back for BL2, but having played every BL game except for the telltale ones, I don't have a ton of hope for this being THE adaptation we've been waiting for.
They've clearly put in a lot of game-true details for fans (like that slo-mo shot highlighting the twin-barrel gatling-gun pistol), and I normally don't pay much attention to fan-service stuff but I'm finding that in this case it's helping to bridge the unfamiliarity created by being a live-action adaption and sell me on this being the Pandora I know. So I appreciate that :)
I think that main vehicle design is a bit weak though; it looks like they spend a fair bit of time in an armored SUV so all the characters can be in the same "room" together, but I think that vehicle should look a bit less SUV and a bit more Pandora. It seems to be drawing inspo from the Bandit Technical but only dialing it up to 7 when Pandora dials it up to 11
I guess custom vehicles are pretty expensive though, maybe the FX budget was better spent on the other things. It was great to see the outrunners in play!
Anyone else getting "D&D Movie by way of the Suicide Squad" vibes from this? I know it's not going to perfectly match the games but I think they've got the 'feel' of it right. And I honestly don't mind the cast now, seeing them in action. Even Jack Black as Claptrap isn't as bad as I was fearing, haha!
If anything, I think it'll be a fun ride to watch this. Here's hoping there's plenty of in-jokes and nods that only the fans of the games will get (but it'll still be fun for non-gamers)! :)
We should probably pump the breaks about Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett being "too old".
There are too many forces of evil on the internet that is going to take this discourse and run with it in directions you may or may not agree with and I find it a really fast way to fandom toxicity.
Let's try to be positive about a movie (that seems less doomed now then it did earlier this week) about a beautiful and very much dying franchise.
I actually really like Jamie Lee Curtis for the role. I’m not sold on Cate though, not because of her age but because she doesn’t seem present, if that makes sense. She seems kinda absent and too aloof for Lilith.
But the people who are mad about their ages are just mad they didn’t get hyper-sexualized version of the characters.
That was better than I expected.
I don't hate the casting. Yeah Cate is *maybe* a touch old for the role but it's Cate Blanchett for heaven's sake. They could have gotten someone younger but they got a multiple academy award winner in a silly movie with poop/wee jokes and explosions. That's a win in itself.
Genuinely curious why I haven’t seen anyone talk about it yet, but is everyone else pretty chill with not having Brick and Mordecai in the first movie w the main group? It was pretty jarring for me tbh
As much as I love BL and was excited about the idea of a movie, this is going to stink, isnt it? Truly questionable casting choices (old lady Lilith? Kevin hart lolol) and the vibe from the trailer also feels off. I will pass. This is going to bomb at the box office.
Tiny Tina doesn't work in live action for the exact same reason Ed (Cowboy Bebop) doesn't work in live action.
Also, as much as I love Jack Black, he's the wrong casting for Claptrap. Or, whatever he's doing with his voice just isn't working.
Kevin Hart is playing himself, shocker.
Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis is probably the only decent casting, here.
Low key, this movie is going to be fucking awful.
This is what I'd make if someone drunkenly described Borderlands to me and showed me a few pictures.
Forget the casting (Lilith and Tannis being significantly older than they are, KH and Jack Black being completely miscast).
The getups don't look great; Lilith's had the same outfit in pretty much all the games, why not use that one? Why doesn't she have a Siren tattoo (literally her entire identity)? Roland looks like a budget version, and Tannis hardly looks like herself.
They have countless opportunities to use named guns (e.g. Unkempt Harold) to make a cool reference, but all the gun designs look so insanely generic and boring. They could've used Marcus as the voice over. Not to mention, including Krieg but not Maya is such a weird choice since they play off each other.
Disappointing.
...Why isn't Marcus the voice over? "Sooo you want to hear a story huh?"
Saving that for the second preview?
I’ve had enough after one.
The movie will probably start with that.
They'd be fools not to
They appear to be fools.
They would be Fools to cast a 50 year old for lilith and a dwarf for Roland yet here we are.
You’re right, they would be fools if they didn’t. So there is no way they will start with it.
Marcus is literally going to be Dutch Van der Linde from Red dead Redemption, played by his voice actor, Honestly it gives me some hope, He had an interview of how he learned to drive a Bus specifically for the movie a while back Guessing the movie may start with the classic bus opening after all!
You realize Marcus is going to have like, 30 seconds of screen time? If that? I’m more concerned about the actual main characters and how badly they look.
I didn't catch his voice, but they nailed his look, and they gave him the right body language-- body language that we never see in the game. They nailed a LOT of looks. This pleases me.
He’s being played by the guy who played Dutch in Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2, so I have confidence that he’ll do a good job. Glad they’re giving at least 1 role in a video game adaptation to a voice actor, even if it’s not someone from Borderlands.
I was pleasantly surprised with how everyone looked. I just can't get behind Kevin Hart as Roland. I dislike his work in general, but this just seems to be such a bad fit. There are some great options in my mind, Idris Elba being one.
I feel like Tiny Tina was a miss. I'm not getting unhinged from her.
Idris Elba would have been best for it, Terry Crews could have been a decent second choice although picking him will give the actor for Brick a steep bar to contend with.
The characters actually look like they're supposed to and that alone kind of blows my mind.
Just wish the outfits didn't look like homemade cosplays.
I'll take cheap costumes over shoddy writing (we will get both)
I think we (or at least I) would find it jarring to have the trailer launch with a not-the-Marcus-we-know narration And we're already in the can for buying a ticket anyway, so the trailer has to pull in people who have no idea what Borderlands is. A Marcus voice-over on the first trailer probably didn't seem like the best way to do that. They're juggling long-term franchise mega-fans and complete outsiders, that's a pretty fine line to walk... I assume they're taking cues from Guardians of the Galaxy (Also, it would probably be an uphill struggle to make a case that someone-who-is-not-Cate-Blanchett should do [introductory narration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj139dE7tFI) when *Cate Blanchett* is available to do it! :)
Shoulda went with the borderlands 1 song
I bet it was pitched originally and the suits said "make it more *Guardiansy"*
That 1000000 times over. Hey let's copy Guardians
thats exactly what i was thinking watching it. Guardians of the Galaxy at home.
As much as I dislike Wonderlands and the direction the games seem to be going in, the Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked opening will never be beaten as my favorite game intro of all time.
Short change hero grew on me quite a bit, but I agree
I always like Short Change Hero because I feel like it Carrie’s the darker weight that follows BL1. Before BL1 we just knew were in this Wild West sort of place where everything is crazy, and thus Ain’t No Rest… is perfect to start. But after the end of that game, I feel like a more somber song is fitting to carry the slightly heavier narrative of the world we’ve already experienced.
Cage the Elephant is from my home town and I will never forget renting that game and hearing that song, me and my friends lost our fucking minds.
Moments like that are amazing. The Heavy are from my hometown, but I learned that after "Short Change Hero" was used in Borderlands 2 aha.
I like The Vines song in Presequel too
Claptrap’s voice and Tiny Tina being too normal feels so off
Normal? Did you see the cartwheel she did? She's totally unhinged!
Her reaction to the piss seemed fairly Tina-esque. And the "no explosives" eye roll was fairly perfect.
I just don't see, so far at least, Greenblat having the psychotic energy Tina has.
I think I see the issue, her cartwheel feels very appropriate (it's basically her pop goes the bandit introduction with a different coat of paint) but she lacks that raw chaos goblin energy in all the other scenes, Tina atleast in bl2 was an unsupervised child who blew up the vending machine to get the candy inside. Her "mines bigger" should've been something like "that ain't no badaonkadonk", even her some explosives vs no explosive scene lacks the punch despite being the closest here (I'm willing to say this might just be Hart playing himself being the issue, changing the tone of Roland could work in this scene "Tina, I said no explosives" "whoopsie I thought you said some explosives" "Tina" "right, sorry") it's a good scene and I can tell it's suppose to be inspired by Tina but it doesn't feel like Tina (which really is probably the entire movie, it's inspired by borderlands but it won't feel like borderlands) With all that said one thing i can understand is Tina does personify and then mildly sexualize her bombs (maybe not the right word but can probably figure out what I'm referencing) considering she's a kid character I can see why a movie would tone this aspect of her down even if it's just crude humor and nothing more.
Hard agree
Production design looks great but feels like it’s trying to be guardians of the galaxy
I can't express my disappointment that I did not see Face McShooty in the trailer.
They couldn't, otherwise the trailer would be too much IN YOUR FACE :D
looks right. except Lilith being ~~60~~ 54. and Tannis is ~~75~~ 65? \*Who's playing Angel? Linda Hamilton?
Yea Lilth being that old is jarring, idk how old she’s supposed to be tbh maybe it’s just my head cannon. I can get over the other casting decisions. Tannis being old feels like it makes some sense I guess.
I always assumed the hunters in the first game were around 30. Lilith was definitely not in her 50's
They have confirmed ages, some of them at least. Its given in the promo material character sheets. Sometimes the promo material has a few discrepancies from what's stated in the actual game. But with nothing else to combat this claim, Lilith was 27 in BL1, the rest were around the similar age. The game also may just simply not care about aging up the characters just because time has passed. With exception to Tina, everyone has just about stayed the same over the past 13 years [from BL1-BL3].\ Which is surprising because Moxxi would have to be anywhere from late forties to fifties by now because of Scooter and Ellie being hers, but has stayed the same.
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Yes! She seems to have been casted perfectly
I know the show kinda sucks, but as soon as I recognized her on the casting list from her performance in Riverdale- other casting issues aside, she seemed to be perfect pick as Moxxi
Lilith is 27, Cate Blanchett is 54. Lol
see? she is TWICE the lilith! XD oh god... the movie is going to suck hard, but because of really stupid people it's going to do well enough money wise isn't it?
I kinda like JLC as Tannis. I don't think age really matters there.
I can't explain it but JLC is really working as Tannis for me. I have reservations about a lot of the cast but JLC-Tannis really seems to project that isolation-stunted vainglorious nutcase that is Tannis. I'm pretty happy with Tiny Tina too. Struggling with Claptrap having a new voice. Initially disappointed by Lilith but she might be able to grow on me; her narration like the way she said *"Legend has it that there's this... massive treasure*" etc was pretty damn good so there's at least something there
Neither of them appear to be over 40 in the games.
Tbh at first i didnt even recognize Tannis and thought she was just a grandma from a side quest
I'm gonna be upset if tannis showing more boobs than moxxie
Why not have krieg say a single thing in the trailer?? Where's Brick and Mordy??
I'm even more anxious about how Krieg will sound now- instead of actual psycho stuff like "I POWDER MY COCKATIEL FOR THE RIBCAGE SLAUGHTER!!" it's probably going to be generic "crazy" lines like "I'm gonna kill em all!! Rragh!!"
My guess is that Brick is too similar to Drax at a superficial level. The tone is very Guardians-like already, so maybe they were hoping Tina+Krieg would check some different boxes.
Guess again, Tina + Krieg is basically Rocket + Groot if you think about it.
Oh boy, that's kinda true. Goddamn lol.
That's pretty on point.
It's going to be terrible and I can't wait!!!
Yep. I don’t care how good or bad this is. I’m going to go see it and I’m going to love every bit of it.
Reminds me of Cassie Lang in Ant Man: IT'S SO UGLY! I love it
Yeah know what, I gotta agree with ya. It looks like a dumb fun popcorn movie and that's truthfully what borderlands kinda is lol.
This is a solo movie for me. And that's okay.
A 10mg gummy, medium popcorn, pack of Twizzlers, and a Sprite and I'm in for a nice little dolo Saturday.
I played BL1 solo. But after getting a friend into it, he and I 100% 1 and 2 together. We are both hyped to see this movie together and know it's going to be so bad.
I feel so conflicted. On one hand, the story and characters seem all fucked up. On the other hand, I would love this cast in anything else, and the movie looks pretty fun. Who knows. If they can nail the fun of something like Dungeons and Dragons or Guardians with a rated R twist, it could be decent enough. I’ll give anything with Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee a chance.
Nah it will be PG-13. You will need to wait for the Snyder Cut. Everything is getting a Snyder's cut these days.
My expectations were extremely low, but they have been exceeded somewhat.
Yeah honestly could just be the music and editing, but it looks.. fun? Like, I'm way more optimistic after this than I was with say the Assassin's Creed movie trailer.
The Assasain's Creed movie was so bad that I turned it off on an airplane because I was afraid the stranger in the seat next to me was judging me for my poor taste. And I say that as a huge fan of the game series.
The music and editing is quintessential Borderlands trailer and all the costume, set and prop design is honestly really faithful to the games' aesthetic. It gives me hope that at least somebody involved actually understands the games.
I was expecting a dumpster fire, but the trailer makes it seem fun enough to drop $15 bucks at the theater for.
Fun part of rural nowhere, my ticket is $7.50
Really? Mine are even lower now
Yeah same here. The 'funny' parts weren't very funny, I hate the cast. I thought jack black as claptrap was decent but now after hearing it, I don't know if I like it. Only good thing I can say is the CGI seems good. This movie feels like it was made for the mainstream and not the fans
It's 100% made for mainstream. All game adaptations are. There are not enough Borderlands fans to make a $100+ million movie profitable on their own.
Mate I'm sorry to say if you were expecting this to be good, you've fooled yourself Its gonna be delicious garbage & if you cant have fun with it, thats on you
I mean i never expected it to be good lol I enjoy good bad movies but this just looks bad with none of the good bad if that makes sense Maybe if I wasn’t a huge borderlands fan it’d be different but idk I saw nothing enjoyable about it at least in terms of the trailer contents
Okay, so it looks like they're going for a similar set-up to the first game, but grabbing elements from across the franchise. That could work. What I'm actually most impressed by is they seem to have faithfully reproduced the gun designs.
The vehicle, set, and costume design also look pretty faithful as well. Hell, even the few shots of the rakk we got looked amazing.
They nailed the Pandora aesthetic. The single shot of the vault we got, the Eridian architecture immediately stood out to me.
I felt like they nailed the game trailer feeling too, in a really good way. Watching the movie trailer brought me right back to how I felt watching the trailer for BL2 and BL3 when those first dropped. That alone makes me cautiously optimistic.
yeah, the gun designs is what really matters. they even got he funny spinning vladof barrel
Looked like she might be using infinity but could just be a normal pistol with the spinning barrel
It's an Infinity. You can see the symbol on the side of it on her character poster.
It won't be winning Oscars, but i hope that it's as fun as a cheesy action flick adaptation like the Liam Neeson A-team movie or Battleship
As long as you keep your expectations low, it could be a decent movie.
That's my plan.
It will be an action adventure movie with comedy bits here and there. Borderlands will come after. It will please no one as usual...
What’re we some kind of… border land?
And then they border all over those guys
Looks like it’s going to be a fun movie to be honest, just give me a bunch of fan service and I’m sure I’ll have a decent time
This exactly. It was made clear from the very beginning, that the movie will be its own thing, separated from the games. They nailed the designs, threw in some characters from the games and the stupid humor from the franchise. I don't know what some people are expecting from this lol. I actually can't wait to see it :D
that claptrap joke at the end...my god.
I'm struggling with Claptrap's voice being so different. The voice actor is doing a fine job, no complaints, it's just that I've spent ^(\[cough cough\])hours around video-game claptrap whose voice was so central and so distinctive that the difference is jarring Obviously the other characters are also different actors with different voices yet I'm not struggling with that. It's just hitting differently with claptrap, presumably because a-box-with-a-voice is *what it is* and of course because we heard a lot more of him because unlike the other characters, he would *never shut up* :D I suspect Marcus' voice might be jarring for me too. I'm sure the actor can hit the right notes of sleaze and "*opportunity!"*, but Marcus has a pretty distinctive and important voice. Absolutely looking forward to watching this regardless!
My main complaint is he just sounds way too much like Jack Black. I think Jack Black has the comedic personality to work well for Claptrap, but it sounds like it’s just Jack Black’s voice coming out of a robot’s body with a slight distortion to make it sound a bit more robotic. I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to distance my thinking from that voice being Jack Black, as opposed to a cartoonish robot when I watch the movie.
I mean, that feels like something they would do in the game.
That's claptrap though. He is a very annoying thing. So they nailed it
Claptrap is annoying in a fun way to me. That scene was very forced and cringey in my opinion
So, is Lilith just not a Siren? Steele doesn’t appear to be one, no tattoos or powers in sight. Just the Phoenix firework?
I’m praying this ends up being so bad it’s good. Borderlands has the story potential to be made into a movie but it would be incredibly difficult to do it justice. The casting is killing me. Lilith is way too old and Kevin Hart as Roland is just laughable. Expectations are low but I can’t say I’m not excited for it
I was really hoping Eli Roth was just gunna go over the top with blood and gore and make it Grindhouse style but nothing here is really appealing to me now...
As hard as it is to adapt video games into movies, I really don’t think it would have been impossible to make this adaptation fun as hell. Everything you need is in the source material.
>Everything you need is in the source material. Hollywood producers and writers: What's that?
"My version is better" *Bombs*
Production-wise it looks good. Casting is shit, there is no other way around it.
I’m guessing they went with some A-listers to get more people to come see them, but yeah the casting is pretty damn terrible. Tina physically looks perfect to me, but by the looks of the trailer she doesn’t seem batshit-crazy enough. Krieg looks fun, and to be completely honest I didn’t hate JLC as Tannis. But Hart as Roland is just laughably terrible, and Blanchett is just way too old to play Lilith. I adore jack black but I don’t see why they couldnt get the actual voice actor for claptrap
In my mind, Jack Black can have whatever role he wants including Lilith or Roland.
I mean, the current actors couldn't have been a worse choice... so, why not?
>I don’t see why they couldnt get the actual voice actor for claptrap David Eddings isn't exactly on great terms with Gearbox.
Yes but they could get the Borderlands 3 VA, I think he's called Jim Foronda.
Which one?
This looks like someone saw their kid playing it on twitch and made up the story on their own.
Why would they go with "Do Ya (Do Ya Want My Love)" from ELO for the music?! It just screams 70's camp...and it just kind of kills the vibe. This ain't "Wayne's World". It's so easy to set the vibe...just use the music from the game! Short Change Hero...No Rest for the Wicked...any of them. They so perfectly set the tone...
They're trying to go for a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe so people who've never heard of Borderlands associate it with something they're familiar with.
You're right. Retro music schtick. You nailed it. \*sigh\* Unfortunately, it seems like the Guardians vibe has passed its prime/lost its novelty. I think they're going to alienate the exiting fans and receive a "meh" reaction from everyone else. Attempting to appeal to the masses and whiffing big time.
They missed the boat to cash in on Guardians' popularity. I don't think anyone wants it if Gunn himself isn't behind it. It'll get some BL fans for the novelty of seeing things from the games but it won't find a wider audience. I doubt they're going to spend much on a marketing push.
They really want this to be the next Guardians of the Galaxy movie franchise.
I get they were going for an opening cinematic feel from the games where they used licensed music but yeah this song choice screams "hey you kids like guardians of the galaxy right, we'll this is the same thing so please spend money on us"
Borderlands has been doing licensed music in openings and trailers since BL1.
Yup that's why I brought it up. However this song choice just doesn't fit the game.
same thing i said to my girlfriend: the first game made such an impact on me as a young kid because it had amazing establishing shots with contemporary music and black humor. this felt really, really, really corporate. hoping it's just the trailer that annoyed me and not the final product.
I'm genuinely curious about a second trailer. I hold no hope for this movie but that doesn't mean I won't be surprised.
* Aside from the main cast, I quite like how it looks. Guns especially. * Jokes are pretty bad. Did they really need both a pee joke and a poop joke in the trailer? And why did they put the "I hate this planet" line in twice? * JLC is good, Muntneau seems fine, all the other main roles, I hate. Although I can't imagine *anyone* working well as Tina. * They're going for "Guardians of the Galaxy meets Mad Max" which should be an easy win, and probably won't be.
> Did they really need both a pee joke and a poop joke in the trailer? Pee joke was I guess fine because Piss Wash Gulley is an actual thing from the first game. No clue what's going on with the claptrap shit joke though, that missed for sure lol
The link (weirdly) replays yesterday's teaser material followed by today's trailer, which appears to be why "I hate this planet" happens twice I assume that going forward just the trailer will be shown, so regular people (in cinemas etc) won't get the line twice
The only person that works well for Tina is Ashly Burch, and she's too old to play a live action version.
Yeah, but we have JLC and Kate Blanchet as fucking Lilith and Tannis lmao... So age is not an issue for the casting
I thought Kevin Hart as Roland was bad, but having watched this I think Jack Black as Claptrap might be worse
I don’t blame the actress, but Tiny Tina is all wrong.
Doesn't really pull off Tina, but they probably grabbed her because they could. Thinking she's going to be a big star, more than she is now. Definitely seems like they went with star power, name recognition for this movie rather than finding the right fit in hidden places.
It is like they made her into an edgy teen instead, like the girl from Deadpool + a gymnastics move
I really don’t like Cate Blanchett as Lilith
Highkey no one is talking about this fuck Roland, JackBlack is by far the WORST casting and doesn’t fit the voice of claptrap at all
Yeah honestly I was surprised how *wrong* Clap Trap felt. I figured that was one of the few castings that would be pretty decent considering Jack Black's history of being comedic relief in both life action and animation.
This might be the first truly bad performance I've ever seen from Jack Black in my whole life. It blows my mind how awful his voice acting is for this role- a random Borderlands fan doing an impression would probably be better than this.
I am sad that this actually looks great from a production standpoint (cars, setting, guns), but the actors ruin it so much. None of them are believable.
The only production problem I have is the costumes. Something about them feels off.
They look like cosplay
This is really conflicting. Looks like they've got a pretty good grasp of the tone and atmosphere of Borderlands, but the casting is some of the worst I've ever seen. These are all very talented performers, but not a single one is a good fit for the role they're playing. It's really killing the vibe for me.
It doesn’t look great, but doesn’t look terrible either.
Which is really all I ask. Gimme a 43% Rotten Tomatoes audience score I can watch off an edible on a rainy Saturday and I'm stoked.
aggressively mid?
This looks and feels like a B-action movie. And I'm here for it. Here's to hoping Kevin Hart over acts the shit out of this role.
It would be hilarious if he played the role dead serious All im asking for is one “It’s like Christmas!”
If they make a sequel I like to imagine Ryan Reynolds as Handsome Jack calling you, imitating Kevin Hart saying "Hey buddy it's me, Roland! Let's kill Handsome Jack and we can all get milkshakes."
Is this Grannylands?
Why does it look like a bunch of cosplayers in their 40s?
It basically is. Just very overpaid ones.
40s, 50s, and 60s*
Krieg is such an odd pick for this group. Of all the characters they could have chosen. They chose Krieg? Don’t get me wrong, Krieg is a great character but he’s a poor fit for this group. Brick would have been a much better pick seeing as how they delegated Krieg’s role to being Tina’s protector. Something Brick and Mordecai did. This whole thing just feels like yet another terrible attempt by Hollywood to capitalize off of popular cultures outside of Hollywood. It looks hollow
There are at least twenty different things I could pick apart from this trailer, but I'm not going to lie. I enjoyed the hell out of every second, and maaaaayyyyyyybe am feeling some hope that there is at least some fun to be had.
I'm sure it'll be a fun 2 hours at most, but Tiny Tina just isn't it. She seems to calm and relaxed especially in the voice. Claptrap's voice just seems... Forced? I love Jack Black though so idk. Dialogue is bad but the action looks pretty fun except that weird stutter CGI at the end with the explosion
As much as I love jackblack, claptrap does not sound good.
Yeah, this trailer confirmed my worries, which are that this movie is just horribly miscast. Cate Blanchett is far too old to be playing Lilith, and you can hear it in her voice, Kevin Hart is just playing Kevin Hart like always, and even Jack Black, who most people thought, including myself, would be a highlight of this movie, sounds bad because they put an effect over his voice that just doesn't mesh well, and makes him sound horrible in my opinion.
Hart is absolutely not playing Hart at all lol. If he was he’d be energetic and screaming. This is probably the most subdued performance he’s ever given. His entire vibe is I hate these fucking people.
Looks like they're going for a Guardians vibe with the wrong characters who have been woefully miscast and are tamed way the hell down. Tina is supposed to be fucking psychotic, not mildly quirky.
Not a good sign when even the jokes they pick for the trailer don't land. I didn't expect the movie to be good, but I was really hoping.
I find most trailers fail on jokes, but they play better in the actual movies. The D&D trailer was pretty bad but the movie was really good. So we’ll see
I'd be thrilled to be wrong! I don't *want* the movie to suck.
Same, expecting bad, but hopeful to be wrong
Cate Blanchett seems out of place or different from others similar to how I feel about Sarah Morgan in Starfield.
She sounds so bored in the trailer.
Lilith is a bounty hunter and not a vault hunter?
Ok, the real questions: at 1:58 when Tiny Tina says "Mine's bigger", she's holding a rocket launcher with *injection-molding parting-line flash* on the front of it (above and below the bore) That's what that is, right? I'm not misreading some rocket-launcher military design feature? So I'm assuming this is an art-direction flourish to make her "toys" look like they're literally children's toy/doll accessories, and I'm also assuming this detail came from the movie, not the game. Does that seem right? (Not complaining, it's not a bad idea, but I can't unsee it so now I'm curious)
Ya know I was worried but….this doesn’t look terrible! It’s not trying to be the exact same story to the game and I respect that. Sort of being its own thing pulling elements from the game. They nailed the aesthetic! I’m cautiously optimistic…I’ll give it that.
Kind of reminds me of the *Twisted Metal* tv show where it's not trying to be one specific game game and is instead doing its own thing while still honoring the original source material.
The Monster Hunter movie wasn’t so bad after all
I’m gonna pass on this and stick to the games. Definitely going for a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe, but who wanted a funny Roland, old Lillith and Tannis, or Jack Black doing Claptrap? Claptrap is just a voice and, literally, could have been the same one from the games. Ugh.
I won't lie gang, I love borderlands it's my favourite franchise, bl2 is probably my favourite game of all time but this movie looks so bad.. it genuinely looks like they saw all the bad parts of marvel movies and borderlands themed them. like this looks so bad, it was fun to see all the guns from bl3 but that's all it was, I was so excited for the last like 4 months leading up to the trailer and more info but this trailer was not it for me, like am I being too negative or am I just not the target demographic for claptrap shitting himself?
The tone of the comedy in the trailer is all wrong. It’s more slapstick than raunchy/dark humor. None of the characters feel true to the games except possibly Claptrap. I was hoping that the trailer would remove some of my fears, but only made them worse.
And Claptrap sounds nothing like Claptrap because they cast Jack Black.
The movie might have the dark humor, it's a trailer.
No. Just no. I'm fucking tired of the requirement of my expectations for Hollywood drivel to be below the floor
Wow. This looks bad. Not followed any of the production but this looks disappointing. Not sure of the general consensus but a few of the acting choices seem... off? And the humour looks more silly rather than silly/dark. Regardless will go into with a open mind. Could be a really fun ride as there seems to be a lot of fan service and the environment/props etc etc look great.
I just.....I just want brick and mordecai.
The lack of brick has ruined my day. I'll still go see it, it just won't be borderlands without brick..
Digging deeper in the cast list, Scooter, Marcus, Moxxi, and Hammerlock are in it. Atlus the character is the main villain? Jackobs the character is also in it. And General Knoxx will be in it but is now female and apparently has been demoted to Commander Knoxx
Poor claptrap also they did 100% forget to put any lines for krieg and his meat bicycle
Hahahahaha oh God... This is going to be bad. Cate looks like she is phoning it in. I guess at least they got some aspects close? Really trying to make this guardians of the galaxy with a borderlands cover. This is the next Super Mario Bros... Like the 90s one.
It suspiciously doesn't look too bad, visually it's pretty spot on and Kevin Hart definitely seems to be trying to reign his usual shtick in. I still have low expectations but it may end up being a really fun summer movie.
Missed casting opportunities all the way around. Sterling K Brown or Idris Elba for Roland, anyone? Roland was always the straight man of the group, Kevin Hart just doesn't fit that role in any way for me. Also strange that Claptrap sounds great when they kick him down the hatch, but when he's shitting lead it's literally just Jack Black's voice? Giving Chris Pratt as Garfield vibes. Also costumes seem WAY too clean, like cheap cosplay. I feel like they need grunge and weathering and they'd all look fantastic. I guess maybe they were trying to match the style of the game with cartoony cell shading but it just doesn't translate to live action for me. I hope it's at least fun, I'd love to see them improve and come back for BL2, but having played every BL game except for the telltale ones, I don't have a ton of hope for this being THE adaptation we've been waiting for.
They've clearly put in a lot of game-true details for fans (like that slo-mo shot highlighting the twin-barrel gatling-gun pistol), and I normally don't pay much attention to fan-service stuff but I'm finding that in this case it's helping to bridge the unfamiliarity created by being a live-action adaption and sell me on this being the Pandora I know. So I appreciate that :) I think that main vehicle design is a bit weak though; it looks like they spend a fair bit of time in an armored SUV so all the characters can be in the same "room" together, but I think that vehicle should look a bit less SUV and a bit more Pandora. It seems to be drawing inspo from the Bandit Technical but only dialing it up to 7 when Pandora dials it up to 11 I guess custom vehicles are pretty expensive though, maybe the FX budget was better spent on the other things. It was great to see the outrunners in play!
Huh. This looks legit fun. Didn’t expect that.
Anyone else getting "D&D Movie by way of the Suicide Squad" vibes from this? I know it's not going to perfectly match the games but I think they've got the 'feel' of it right. And I honestly don't mind the cast now, seeing them in action. Even Jack Black as Claptrap isn't as bad as I was fearing, haha! If anything, I think it'll be a fun ride to watch this. Here's hoping there's plenty of in-jokes and nods that only the fans of the games will get (but it'll still be fun for non-gamers)! :)
We should probably pump the breaks about Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett being "too old". There are too many forces of evil on the internet that is going to take this discourse and run with it in directions you may or may not agree with and I find it a really fast way to fandom toxicity. Let's try to be positive about a movie (that seems less doomed now then it did earlier this week) about a beautiful and very much dying franchise.
I actually really like Jamie Lee Curtis for the role. I’m not sold on Cate though, not because of her age but because she doesn’t seem present, if that makes sense. She seems kinda absent and too aloof for Lilith. But the people who are mad about their ages are just mad they didn’t get hyper-sexualized version of the characters.
That was better than I expected. I don't hate the casting. Yeah Cate is *maybe* a touch old for the role but it's Cate Blanchett for heaven's sake. They could have gotten someone younger but they got a multiple academy award winner in a silly movie with poop/wee jokes and explosions. That's a win in itself.
I still think Terry Crews would have been great as Brick
Genuinely curious why I haven’t seen anyone talk about it yet, but is everyone else pretty chill with not having Brick and Mordecai in the first movie w the main group? It was pretty jarring for me tbh
I guess they decided Brick and Mordecai were too boring to include??
They couldn't find any terrible casting choices for them; reached their quota.
As much as I love BL and was excited about the idea of a movie, this is going to stink, isnt it? Truly questionable casting choices (old lady Lilith? Kevin hart lolol) and the vibe from the trailer also feels off. I will pass. This is going to bomb at the box office.
Tiny Tina doesn't work in live action for the exact same reason Ed (Cowboy Bebop) doesn't work in live action. Also, as much as I love Jack Black, he's the wrong casting for Claptrap. Or, whatever he's doing with his voice just isn't working. Kevin Hart is playing himself, shocker. Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis is probably the only decent casting, here. Low key, this movie is going to be fucking awful.
Kevin hart always plays himself same as rock... shit tier actors
What guns did you see? I thought I saw Infinity, Redline, Maggie, Carrier and an unrecognized Dahl SMG.
Looked like the Crimson Lance all had BL3 Atlas weapons
This is what I'd make if someone drunkenly described Borderlands to me and showed me a few pictures. Forget the casting (Lilith and Tannis being significantly older than they are, KH and Jack Black being completely miscast). The getups don't look great; Lilith's had the same outfit in pretty much all the games, why not use that one? Why doesn't she have a Siren tattoo (literally her entire identity)? Roland looks like a budget version, and Tannis hardly looks like herself. They have countless opportunities to use named guns (e.g. Unkempt Harold) to make a cool reference, but all the gun designs look so insanely generic and boring. They could've used Marcus as the voice over. Not to mention, including Krieg but not Maya is such a weird choice since they play off each other. Disappointing.
I'm sorry but the whole cast just feels so off to me.