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Borderlands (2024 Film)

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About

Borderlands is a 2024 adventure comedy film based on the video game series of the same name. The live-action movie stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart and Jack Black as treasure hunters on an off-world planet rumored to hide a massive treasure trove. In February 2024, the first trailer for the film premiered, prompting an influx of reactions and memes around the internet. The film was released in August 2024 and was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews.

History

On May 14th, 2021, Borderlands, a film based on the video game series of the same name, was announced.[1] In June 2021, the main cast of the film was then released, with Cate Blanchett playing Lilith, Kevin Hart playing Roland, Jack Black voicing Claptrap the robot and Jamie Lee Curtis playing Tannis.[2]

On July 20th, 2023, the premiere date for the film was announced, set to release on August 9th, 2024.[3]

On February 20th, 2024, People[4] published the first-look article on the movie teasing images of the main characters. On that day, X[5] / Twitter user @Wario64 posted images from the article, with the post gaining over 2,000 reposts and 16,000 likes in one day (shown below).


Wario64 @Wario64 Borderlands film first look people.com/borderlands-ph... 9:24 AM Feb 20, 2024 2.4M Views :

Later on February 20th, the poster for the film was released on social media,[6] followed by a teaser trailer.[7]

On February 21st, 2024, the first official trailer for Borderlands was released on the Lionsgate Movies YouTube channel, accumulating over 300,000 views in three hours (shown below).[8]



Reception

The movie was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics and audiences. The film debuted on Rotten Tomatoes[12] with a 0% rating based on 10 critic reviews before climbing to a 9% rating with over 100 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film had a 50% audience score with over 500 verified reviews as of August 12th, 2024. On IMDb,[13] the film had a 4.4 average user rating based on over 6,500 reviews.


4 DiscussingFilm ❀ @DiscussingFilm 'BORDERLANDS' debuts with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Read our review: bit.ly/BorderDF Rotten Tomatoes Q Search PANDORA β€’ 9:12 AM ⚫ Aug 8, 2024 13.7M Views β€’ BORDERLANDS Borderlands PG-13, In Theaters Fri Aug 9, 1h 42m, Sci-Fi TRAILER LIST 0% Tomatometer 10 Reviews Lilith (Cate Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly retur... Read More Coming Soon In Theaters Fri Aug 9 RESERVE TICKETS

The $115-million film became a box office bomb, making $8.8 million domestically on the opening weekend.[14]

Online Reactions

Pre-Release

The release of the poster and trailer for Borderlands in February 2024 was followed by numerous posts expressing skepticism about the quality of the upcoming movie, with users citing outdated "millennial writing" associated with the series, Borderlands coming out long enough ago to seem irrelevant and the movie's casting choices (shown below, left and right).[9][10] For example, a post by user @MaxKriegerVG received over 20 reposts and 320 likes on X in one day.


Max krieger @MaxKriegerVG SOON gdc adapting AAA games to film is hilarious because it never can be done quickly enough to keep pace with how disposable games industry trends are. borderlands feels ages old by this point even though it really isn't Wario64 @Wario64 Feb 20 Borderlands film first look people.com/borderlands-ph... 0 11:04 AM. Feb 20, 2024 10.7K Views James @MKUltraMoney The fact that this exists and is coming out in 2024 is so funny. Borderlands hasn't been relevant for a decade and it's only looked back on with contempt. 4 DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm. Feb 20 First poster for the live-action 'BORDERLANDS' movie. In theaters on August 9. CATE KEVIN JACK ARIANA BLANCHETT HART BLACK GREENBLATT B3 FLORIAN JAMIE LEE MUNTEANU AND CURTIS Cultxx CHAOS LOVES COMPANY BORDERLANDS 12:49 PM. Feb 20, 2024 114.1K Views FROM THE PRODUCER OF UNCHARTED, SPIDER-MAN AND VENOM S CIENTO Y GEARBON SOFTWARE AMO PRIESTER Y SE EN STOR EN EL BOTH SIDE PLAN YELEROUTH AND SEE BE COMING SOON :

Other users hyped up Cate Blanchett starring in the film. For example, on February 20th, 2024, X[11] user @emilyorchard made a post that garnered over 270 reposts and 1,300 likes in one day (shown below, right).


ghost @emilysorchard this genre of cate blanchett 9:40 AM Feb 20, 2024 Β· 184.4K Views :

Upon Release

Following the film's premiere on August 9th, 2024, and its initial negative reviews, Borderlands became a viral subject of memes and discussions on social media.

For example, on August 9th, 2024, X[15] user @JoshuaTookes posted a Died / Born / Welcome Back meme that compared the movie to the 2010 film Avatar: The Last Airlander, another panned adaptation. The post (shown below, left) received over 790 reposts and 9,700 likes in three days. On August 10th, X[16] user @_dpiddy posted a Let's Fight Somewhere Empty meme about the film (shown below, right) that garnered over 1,300 reposts and 12,000 likes in two days.


Died 2010 Born 2024 THE LAST AIRBENDER BORDERLANDS welcome back The Last Airbender LETS FIGHT SOMEWHERE EMPTY.

Various Examples


Sam Sykes @SamSykesSwears I saw Borderlands. dude, we were put on this earth to suffer god is a machine and pain is its fuel this is a movie they show you in hell . . 3:59 PM Aug 10, 2024 369.8K Views ... Opera GX @operagxofficial ... I left my Borderlands movie ticket in the car and someone broke in to leave 3 more WW β€’ 10:43 AM Aug 9, 2024 680.7K Views Arvel @Arvel_Dean Random can of Axe body spray visible in the borderlands movie. It disappears on the next shot so I can only assume this was a production mistake, but was the funniest part of the movie. . 12:14 AM β€’ Aug 10, 2024 823.1K Views .
FORBES INNOVATION > GAMES The Borderlands' Movi Debuts With A 0% On F Tomatoes Paul Tassi Senior Contributor News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. 口 Updated Aug 8, 2024, 12:28pm EDT BORDERLANDS Lilith relu Re 0% Tomato 10 Follow Aug 8, 2024, 09:04am Budget Box office ADD CRITIC REVIEW $110-120 million[2] $1.3 million [3] THE PRODUCER OF UNCHARTED, SPIDER-MAN AND VENOM KEVIN JACK BLACK HART JAMIE LEE FLORIAN MUNTEANU AND CURTIS RDERLANDS ANY NSGATE UWE BOLL RAW USA HOLLANDD @Uwe BollRAWUSA Follow Ha ha. My movies were rated R and made more money than this. Now you wish I Directed NEW S BORDERLANDS MAKES ONLY $8.8M DOMESTICALLY OPENING WEEKEND AGAINST $115M PRODUCTION BUDGET IGN | BORDERLANDS 10:59. 12 Aug 24. 8,217 Views 69 Reposts 7 Quotes 355 Likes 11 Bookmarks Rock solid @ShitpostRock >Borderlands movie >jokes 8 years out of date >no handsome Jack >40-60 year old actors playing 20 year olds >celebrity cameos >no gore or big blood splatters >horrible CGI >120 million dollar budget >4 million dollar profit Who the F--- thought this was a good idea??? 4:02 PM . Aug 11, 2024 674.7K Views

Search Interest

External References

[1] X – @BorderlandsFilm

[2] X – @BorderlandsFilm

[3] X – @BorderlandsFilm

[4] People – Red-Haired Cate Blanchett Teams Up with Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart and More in Borderlands First Look

[5] X – @Wario64

[6] X – @BorderlandsFilm

[7] X – @DiscussingFilm

[8] YouTube – Borderlands (2024) Official Trailer – Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black

[9] X – @MaxKriegerVG

[10] X – @MKUltraMoney

[11] X – @carolsstann

[12] Rotten Tomatoes – Borderlands

[13] IMDb – Borderlands

[14] X – @IGN

[15] X – @operagxofficial

[16] X – @_dpiddy

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I love that this movie is coming out years after Borderlands was relevant. Who is this even for? Borderlands fans are jaded by how bad/mediocre everything post-Borderlands 2 was. Is this gonna be like the Halo TV show where they're hoping everyone who hasn't played the games it's based on will like it?

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Were living in a timeline where Video Game adaptations are becoming successful because they are faithful to the source material, but this movie does not. Its so baffling to see all the actors being seriously miscasted (especially Kevin Hart), tried to be like the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the fact that Randy "Mysterio" Pitchford tried to make a shitty excuse with "O h j u s t g i v e i t a w a t c h !", really says about the movie's quality. Mind you that this is the same guy that tried to defend the suicidal acid bath that was Aliens: Colonial Marines and its controversy. Congratulations to you, Randy "Cobra Commander" Pitchford, you made a fool of yourself once again. No wonder why you were exposed for having NSFW pornograchic images in your USB stick.

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