Or Jack Black. I love him, but this dumb Hollywood trend of hiring Jack for anything comical is absurd.
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rbesfe@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The fact they chose Kevin Hart to play Roland shows how little they care about the games themselves
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Supposedly he met the creators at a party after the first game came out and asked to play claptrap. I don’t have a source to share with you, but if that’s true then I’m fine with it.
But yeah, most of this movie looks very bad.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s all IP baby. They think we are the unwashed masses with no taste or critical thinking and just consume whatever they excrete.
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Close, but they genuinely think video games are a lesser medium than movies. So of course they don’t take this movie, or out standards seriously.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I think some game developers think like this too, that’s why they try to turn their games into movies, either directly or by making their games more “cinematic”.
sukhmel@programming.dev 6 months ago
In my opinion, not all cinematic games are trying to be movies, some do it right and preserve the essence of what game is, about others we probably not hear too much except for how bad they turn out to be
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 6 months ago
At least it’s not still just Uwe Boll making adaptations.
sukhmel@programming.dev 6 months ago
At the same time movies based on a recognized intellectual property tend to omit crucial pieces of character and world building, because come on, the audience is supposed to know that.
And this is how they often produce garbage that is impossible to understand if you are not in the know, and impossible to watch if you are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
My personal theory is that they wanted The Rock (who would be straight out of central casting for Roland) but he declined and so some exec was like “okay, just use KH instead, they both work together on a lot of the same movies”
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or Cate Blanchett. Like if me and my friends were dream casting this movie one of us would say Cate Blanchett as a joke and we’d all laugh and move on. Don’t get me wrong, she’s one of my favorite actresses, you can Tar and feather me all day. Reminds me of the show Barry, the character Sally is on a press circuit and someone throws the question at her “Who should play the next Spiderman” and confused by the question she says Ben Mendelson
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Looks wise Hayley Williams is great for Lilith, don’t think she acts but there has to be a ginger actress other that Karen Gillian interested
polonius-rex@kbin.run 6 months ago
anya-taylor joy so that it all comes full circle to mad max
swayevenly@lemm.ee 6 months ago
But then noone will watch it
Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 months ago
She could rock a Lilith.
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Me and my sister have a running joke casting for a movie of the Uncharted games, I’m pretty sure Danny DeVito was Sully and Mel Gibson was Elena. I’d rather watch something that stupid than something as uninspired as this.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
That sally example is such a good pull lol
herrvogel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I see what you did there