Yeah, I’m not sure how I feel about some of the casting as I’m kinda tired of seeing Kevin Hart and Jack Black in everything lately (I’m surprised I didn’t see The Rock in the trailer somewhere, to be honest), but the overall feel of the trailer seems to match the energy that the games had. I’m not saying it’s 1:1 accurate by any means, but the trailer definitely manages to feel like Borderlands. I imagine the writers for the movie didn’t want anybody from the main group to feel like a “downer” character, so Roland’s probably being reworked a bit.

I’m okay with it so far, at least. It’s generally pretty hard to make the “strong, quiet type” very interesting, especially for a movie format where you have limited screen time that has to be shared among a lot of characters. You can make that sort of character interesting, like in No Country For Old Men, but you have to dedicate a lot of time to it, and that’s not easily done with a story that has so many characters with their own stories to tell.

I dunno, I’m just remaining optimistic. I want to like this movie.