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Why did they cast a 65 year old woman as an action lead?


Is that accurate to the games or something? Even so, why?

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To teach us that geriatric grannies can kick the asses of 6 foot, 200 pound, 30 year old white men just as proficiently as their 25 year old, 98 pound daughters can.

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No, it's not accurate. The women in the games were in their 20s-30s and hot, while Mad Moxxi is older than she looks yet somehow managed to stay hot. But we can't have nice things anymore.

I like Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis, but they're old and past their prime, and even then, a movie like this is not for them.

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A lot of poor casting choices in this. Kevin Hart is supposed to be the military badass? Come on..

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she's not 65

i'd like to watch Monica Bellucci as action lead

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Sadly she looked it, at least in this role, with caked-on makeup and a plastic face. Utterly baffling. Can we not have attractive female leads?

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attractive female leads are all over the place. i've watched a zillion this year

but yeah she was not looking her best in here in borderlands.. actually distracting

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