‘Honest Trailers’ Take on One of the Most Baffling Movie Projects in Some Time

By Petr Navovy | Videos | September 27, 2024 |

I feel like calling something, ‘The most baffling movie project’ is really saying something. Really, really saying something. Considering the mountains upon mountains of unjustifiable, irredeemable guff that gets spewed out by this cursed industry, it takes a lot to float to the top of the pile.

Enter, the Borderlands movie.

Pretty much the definition of, ‘Who asked for this?’, the Borderlands movie has been a deserved failure at the box office, but that doesn’t change the fact that it came into existence in the first place. Nor does it go any way towards explaining the thought process behind its casting, construction, and intent (I know there is an actual answer to all that, and that it is, ‘Somebody thought it would make them money’, but still, often those things manage to align a little bit with reality and sense at least).

I’ve said it a billion times before but I’ll say it again: There is absolutely no need for adaptations to be overly faithful to every single element of the original—aesthetic or otherwise. You can do what you want with the source material as long as what you do is good. One of the best new TV shows of recent years, Netflix’s Arcane, was an adaptation of the video game, League of Legends, for god’s sake! It did what it wanted with the source material, because its main purpose was to tell a good story.

But Borderlands? Borderlands! Who can explain Borderlands? I certainly can’t. That is a power beyond my scope. Perhaps the people over at ‘Honest Trailers’ can succeed, past the frontier where human thought frays and starts to disintegrate. Let’s see: