Comment on Borderlands film director blames flop on Zoom and Covid

deadkennedy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Kevin Hart as Roland. There’s no possible way it is good with that fact alone and meeting via zoom doesn’t affect that

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      • SoloCritical@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This is the one that got me, I don’t actually mind Kevin Hart but casting him as ROLAND of all people….?? Whatever the casting director was smoking, I want some of that. I swear these moviemakers don’t even know what Borderlands is… fucking Jack Black as claptrap… smh gtfoh.

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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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    • scintilla@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Kevin heart for the person that is supposed to be the straight man. Literally can not think of a worse casting choice.

      Most of the othetones are questionable to but that’s the one that really stood out to me as someone who actually enjoyed the first to games humor when they came out.

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