On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:27:30 -0000 (UTC), in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ross Ridge wrote:

>Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Oh, okay. Black is doing voiceover work. Much better choice as well.
>
>Jack Black as Claptrap is the only casting choice I disagree with.
>I don't have anything against Black, but I'd have much prefered they
>just use same voice actor from the games.
>
>Not that it really matters. I'm not a big fan of movies anyways so will
>probably never bother watching it. At worst I'll just have to put up
>with some ads on TV with a weird sounding Claptrap.

Agreed. The better choice was not having to look at him mug.

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On 3/1/2024 12:26 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:
>
>> Eli Roth is a horror film maker. I've never played Borderlands so I
>> have no idea how much "horror" it is.
>
> Not really horror at all, it's what they call a looter shooter. So,
> shoot a lot of enemies, collect loot, rinse and repeat. What plot there
> is pretty much went down the toilet in the second game already. Well,
> unless you feel bad writing is horror in itself. In fact, Borderlands 3
> has a somewhat horror flavored theme in the Guns, Love, and Tentacles
> DLC.
>
> I don't think I've seen any Uwe Boll movies. But the "movie based on
> game" formula has been something like "take some things from the game,
> add some weird stuff that alienates people who like the game." End
> result, an unpopular movie.
>
Same formula Hollywood applies to books.

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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:

> Same formula Hollywood applies to books.

Sure. I remember Ursula Le Guin lamenting how her Earthsea books were
converted to "a general MacMagic TV show" or something like that.

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the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the
signs say:

>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:
>
>> Same formula Hollywood applies to books.
>
>Sure. I remember Ursula Le Guin lamenting how her Earthsea books were
>converted to "a general MacMagic TV show" or something like that.

She didn't get the worst hatchet job, I think that "honor" goes to John
Norman and "Tarnsman of Gor".

I had the misfortune of seeing this in the late 80s, absolutely generic
swords and sorcery type fight the big bad guy movie with the names of
the lead characters and city-states bolted on.

For fucks sake, it didn't have any Tarns (giant hawks rode into battle -
think like the giant eagles in LOTR that rescue Gandalf and the guys
from the Orcs.) Only with steel-shod claws.

Tarnsman without tarns, sigh.

Xocyll