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  • Yeah I don’t think originally being announced in 2015 had anything to do with it. It failed because it was so obviously a soulless cash grab product of a focus group driven production machine banking literally all of its success not on its own merit but on the Borderlands name alone. I don’t give a shit about Borderlands but even I could tell not an ounce of effort was put into making a Borderlands movie and it was purely just a coat of paint to slap on another movie with Kevin Hart yelling all the time and Jack Black making diarrhea jokes.

    And with that type of execution they managed to completely miss the fans of the game (which wasn’t the big pool they thought it was) by making it nothing like it yet also missing mainstream audiences by making it a video game movie. It’s honestly impressive how ill advised every single decision was, and case studies should be written on this in the future.

    Or to quote RedLetterMedia, it’s the cinematic equivalent of Homer Simpson’s Makeup Shotgun.