I never played many of the Borderlands video games. I know I played some of the first, but that was about it. But the first trailer for the new Borderlands movie is out and it looks pretty fun! It looks heavily influenced by Guardians of the Galaxy, but I don’t see anything wrong with that.

Yeah, just looks like a wacky, silly, explodey good time. The cast looks great. The action looks great. The humor is pretty solid. Obviously it won’t be as good as what James Gunn himself could have done with the project, but there are far worse directors and movies to mimic. Let us hope they can pull off what they’re going for.

Borderlands comes to theaters on Aug. 9.

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