Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer.
The reception to the Borderlands movie has me almost nostalgic, reminiscing about the days when videogame tie-ins were reliably terrible rather than half-decent. The short version is that people hate it: the longer version is that.
So it's a bit of a mess. But things have now gone from bad to worse, as it turns out the film has even failed to credit key production staff behind one of Borderlands' main characters. Robbie Reid, who goes by the helpful handle"Robbie Reid the Rigger", says he worked on rigging the movie's Claptrap model for five months straight, the process which essentially gives a CG model a skeleton that animators can then manipulate.
Reid goes on to say that this is the first time such a thing has happened to him, so he's"exceptionally lucky", but nevertheless"it just stings that the one to finally break the streak was the last film I worked on at a studio. And for such a significant character too.
The Borderlands movie is an action comedy with a stacked cast: Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Florian Munteanu, and Cate Blanchett, among others. Not that it seems to have helped, with Blanchett even saying she took the role thanks to a"" after doing nothing but gardening. Naturally PC Gamer is on it, and today sent hardy volunteer Joshua Wolens to watch the thing: pop back tomorrow to find out if it really is a load of old claptrap.
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