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Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast

Borderlands

Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast

Venganza Media, Inc.

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film:film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Custodians of the Galaxy

Cate Blanchett steps away from her Oscar bait prestige pictures to go vault hunting with fellow Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis in a s***hole adaptation of Borderlands. Is Barbie tyke Ariana Greenblatt the key to opening up this blockbuster video game franchise to mass movie audiences accustomed to a less filthy Pandora planet? And will funnyman Kevin Hart get short with Jack Black’s wise-cracking robot for stealing all the one-liners? Listen Now to learn if Thanksgiving director Eli Roth has a prayer of making a sequel to this costly Arcade effort.

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0:00.0

So you want to hear a story, huh? What about treasure hunters?

0:08.0

Ha ha! Have I got a story for you? Andura.

0:18.0

Welcome to now playing podcast review of Borderlands.

0:21.0

You come in search of the secret lost vault of Andorra!

0:27.0

Part of now playing's video game movie review series.

0:31.0

How are we going to get through this?

0:34.6

hosted by Arnie, Justin, and Stuart.

0:38.1

You'd better take any help you can get.

0:40.6

This podcast may contain detailed plot spoilers and mild language.

0:45.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:47.0

Well, destiny awaits.

0:50.0

Today we're discussing borderlands starring Kate Blanchit, Kevin Hart, Jack Black,

0:58.2

Edgar Ramirez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Mtenu, Gina Gershahn, and Jamie Lee Curtis, directed by Eli Roth, at least partially.

1:12.0

This is the now playing co-host who never has a premature celebration, Arnie.

1:16.4

Ed Stewart.

1:17.4

And this is Justin.

1:18.6

Hey, I'm going to celebrate.

1:19.8

We have been waiting for three years for this thing to show up. Every year I was like, okay, we got one more in the video game retrospective and we're done. And God knows, this can just kept being kicked down the road.

1:33.5

What is Borderlands and why was it this agony to get it to the screen?

1:38.4

Borderlands is one of the top-selling video game franchises of all time. The first one came out in 2009 and almost immediately that was such a hit they started talking movie around the time

1:54.9

Borderlands too came out in 2012 and this was being done by Avia Rod who you may

2:02.4

remember from our Marvel retrospective series.

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