Go play the Borderlands shooters. Go watch six-hour gameplay videos of it on YouTube. Go get several chlamydia tests back to back. Every one of those options are far more useful and far, far less painful than this.

Ouch lol

Movie adaptations are Hollywood's equivalent of a tourist trap. Of course it will be crap 95% of the time

Adaptations from a work that originated in another format are difficult to pull off. But that's only part of why most adaptations are bad. Marketing knows that if there's a big franchise name in the title, the movie will turn a profit no matter how bad it is

"insult to gamers and movie lovers"

I've seen this sort of article written every time a franchise is adapted to a series/movie

Holy shit I'm so fucking tired of these. Will we never collectively learn not to fall for marketing stunts like these?

It's not even so bad it's good like the first Mario Brothers was. There's this strange tertiary connection to the source material like someone was explaining the game to a writer who had never played the game and the director had their assistant read them the script. Weird weird choices were made. Like I can't believe Im saying this but, that was the blandest delivery of "I'll lick your spine" I've ever heard.

Yeah... I feel like they wanted to go down we the worst video game adaptation in history and that's a really high... er... low bar.

I didn't have any hope for this because of how much I love the original, but now I somehow have less hope.