It is comical how bad they missed the mark with this.
- Casting a bunch of 50-60 years olds to play 30 year olds because "muh name value" is dumb. That's not to disrespect Cate Blanchett or Jamie Lee Curtis because they're obviously great actresses but they don't belong in a movie like this.
- Casting unfunny midget Kevin Hart to play Roland, the straight man, stoic gruff military man of the group and then having him act in a way he can't do convincingly (that would imply he could act at all, i know) is like...why, man? Unironically falling back on Hollywood's old "eh f*** it, cast The Rock" move would have been a much better play here because the gruff, stoic guy is all Rocky can do.
- Making something that takes place in a brutal, violent, dystopian hellscape where the law of the land is essentially kill things as brutally as possible PG-13 with basically no violence/blood. And then proceeding to double down on this by featuring Kreig, a literal bloodthirsty psychopath despite that in mind.
- Tiny Tina in general
- Acting like Lilith being a siren is some "woah holy shit really?" moment when the first game explains this to you within 5 minutes of starting it up.
I can't say i'm surprised it was bad, i feel like pretty much everyone expected that. I was not however, expecting a level of bad that puts it in the same breath as other irredeemable trash like Cats and Morbius. Then again Borderlands has a total of one good entry to the point even the IP holder doesn't understand what made people love it. f*** you, Randy Pitchford. Greasy bastard.