WarCraft movie is getting slaughtered by critics

[Calax]

Fimmel is completely unlikeable in the movie. And I get the comparison - like I said in the movie thread, the orc half seems like a modern, grand and sweeping fantasy story while the human half looks like 80's sword and sorcery stuff. It's an uneven movie, I'd think it was worth about 60% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Realistically, if you're going to do a warcraft movie "right" it needs to be two movies. One for the Horde, the other for the Alliance. Otherwise you're looking at the Avengers... where Avengers 2 is happening between cuts. Admittedly I haven't seen this movie, but the few complaints I've looked at so far (been out of touch for a week) have been that it's jam packed.

 

It does help that Robert Kazinsky (Doomhammer) plays WoW religiously (He raids on an Orc Death Knight), at least it helps with my view for the movie. The big thing we've always seen is that in a lot of these "property" movies, either it's somebody who really loves the property who makes something to celebrate that property... or they're just doing a job and the property is stuck on there for the sake of money (Deadpool vs Xmen Origins Wolverine)

Edited June 5, 2016 by Calax

[Blarghagh]

Director Duncan Jones is also a hardcore fan. But yeah, it's extremely jam packed. Scenes that are supposed to have an emotional core are bogged down with exposition.

 

@Barti: You're right, but I actually didn't mean it as in "this would get a 6 out of 10 from me" but more like movies like this generally get 60% on Rotten Tomatoes. There's something else at work here, possibly that weird dislike critics have of anything video games.

[Longknife]

Well, as Overwatch was mentioned - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-05-27-is-blizzard-scrubbing-the-internet-of-overwatch-porn

 

 

 

lolwhy though?

 

It seems like free publicity. Granted it's free publicity in a strange manner, but it's still publicity. The only explanation I can think of is that their target demographic does involve people under 13 to some degree, so they don't want parents coming across OW porn and thinking "yeah can't have my kid playing that."

[Hurlshort]

I'm curious if Disney does the same.  I'd imagine they do.

[Calax]

I'm curious if Disney does the same.  I'd imagine they do.

I think, as long as it's confined to it's own corner of the internet, they (and others) ignore it. If it gets to rampant they come down on it.

 

I mean, Esurance had to change their mascot because there was just so many metric tons of porn created from Erin Esurance (with really really really bad puns)

[Malcador]

Sounds like typical Horde bias at play.

[Blarghagh]

It's a trademark law thing. You have to act like you defend your trademark otherwise you might lose it. The Overwatch porno specifically targeted is those that took assets like models, animations, textures etc. straight out of the game. If Blizzard allowed that, someone could use that in a case as to why they would be allowed to use those assets in pretty much anything because Blizzard didn't treat it like a company trademark and let someone run amok with them. Now Blizzard has cases on record where they defended their trademark, even if futile.

 

As for Disney, Disney is well-known for bringing lawsuits to things like kindergartens if they have Mickey Mouse murals. Disney is insanely aggressive about this stuff. Much moreso than Blizzard, a company that leaves private WoW servers alone until they start advertising that they have 100'000 members like idiots.

Edited June 5, 2016 by TrueNeutral
*trademark not copyright

[ShadySands]

I really like Blizzard as a company even though I don't play any of their games. During my first deployment in Iraq some people in my platoon who were diehard WoW addicts contacted Blizzard about pausing their subs or something until they got back. Blizzard asked for our unit mailing address and about a month or so later we got a package in the mail with a bunch of stuff and whatever was the newest WoW expansion and an awesome letter that detailed how to create a private server while stating they don't condone private servers and how they are forbidden. I don't know who signed off on that but the company has a lot of good will from me for that.

Edited June 5, 2016 by ShadySands

[Valsuelm]

I really like Blizzard as a company even though I don't play any of their games. During my first deployment in Iraq some people in my platoon who were diehard WoW addicts contacted Blizzard about pausing their subs until they got back. Blizzard asked for our unit mailing address and about a month or so later we got a package in the mail with a bunch of stuff and whatever was the newest WoW expansion and an awesome letter that detailed how to create a private server while stating they don't condone private servers and how they are forbidden. I don't know who signed off on that but the company has a lot of good will from me for that.

 

Nice.

 

....and this confirms a suspicion I've long had that Blizzard themselves are indirectly if not directly behind the private servers out there.

[kirottu]

 

I really like Blizzard as a company even though I don't play any of their games. During my first deployment in Iraq some people in my platoon who were diehard WoW addicts contacted Blizzard about pausing their subs until they got back. Blizzard asked for our unit mailing address and about a month or so later we got a package in the mail with a bunch of stuff and whatever was the newest WoW expansion and an awesome letter that detailed how to create a private server while stating they don't condone private servers and how they are forbidden. I don't know who signed off on that but the company has a lot of good will from me for that.

 

Nice.

 

....and this confirms a suspicion I've long had that Blizzard themselves are indirectly if not directly behind the war on Iraq.

 

Fixed that for you.

[Longknife]

 

I'm curious if Disney does the same.  I'd imagine they do.

I think, as long as it's confined to it's own corner of the internet, they (and others) ignore it. If it gets to rampant they come down on it.

 

I mean, Esurance had to change their mascot because there was just so many metric tons of porn created from Erin Esurance (with really really really bad puns)

 

 

Which btw, I'd love to know who these people are that watched Esurance commercials and were like "yknow what? I really wanna jack off to this."

[Calax]

Sounds like typical Horde bias at play.

With the way the story is written, the Alliance is basically the "Evil Empire" at this point, while the Horde are the scrappy underdogs... somehow.

[Malcador]

 

 

Sounds like typical Horde bias at play.

With the way the story is written, the Alliance is basically the "Evil Empire" at this point, while the Horde are the scrappy underdogs... somehow.

In the movie ? In the game...eh. They worked hard at this noble savage thing. Still laugh at the internment camps used as a dig against the Alliance when dealing with genocidal invader.

[Valsuelm]

 

 

I really like Blizzard as a company even though I don't play any of their games. During my first deployment in Iraq some people in my platoon who were diehard WoW addicts contacted Blizzard about pausing their subs until they got back. Blizzard asked for our unit mailing address and about a month or so later we got a package in the mail with a bunch of stuff and whatever was the newest WoW expansion and an awesome letter that detailed how to create a private server while stating they don't condone private servers and how they are forbidden. I don't know who signed off on that but the company has a lot of good will from me for that.

 

Nice.

 

....and this confirms a suspicion I've long had that Blizzard themselves are indirectly if not directly behind the war on Iraq.

 

Fixed that for you.

 

 

If you think that's fixing, you're broken yourself.

[Gromnir]

am not a fan of blizzard games.  we did play starcraft for many hours.  even so, am not recalling the last time we played any blizzard game.  that being said, we were surprised approving o' the aesthetic choice blizzard went with for wow.  photorealistic, particular back in 2004, were resulting in rather fugly games... at least from our pov.  blizzard instead went with a more colorful and cartoony look.  ridiculous over-sized weapons and armour is typical turnoffs for Gromnir, but given that the entire aesthetic o' the game were a sorta a warhammer-as-reimagined-by-hanna-barbera, we didn't see room for much compliant.  the thing is, that same aesthetic doesn't set well with us for live-action. as we said, the look o' wow is decidedly cartoony.  live-action and cartoony is rare complimentary... save for perhaps the bakshi lotr?

 

*shrug*

 

haven't seen warcraft, nor do we plan to.  even so, what scenes we have seen from the warcraft movie via trailers and youtube snippets look fundamental wrong to us.  have a live-action movie trying to nevertheless capture wow aesthetic is resulting in a kinda frankenstein abomination.  

 

HA! Good Fun!

[Calax]

 

 

Sounds like typical Horde bias at play.

With the way the story is written, the Alliance is basically the "Evil Empire" at this point, while the Horde are the scrappy underdogs... somehow.

In the movie ? In the game...eh. They worked hard at this noble savage thing. Still laugh at the internment camps used as a dig against the Alliance when dealing with genocidal invader.

 

Yeah, in the game (more specifically in war 3

[Amentep]

 

 

I'm curious if Disney does the same.  I'd imagine they do.

I think, as long as it's confined to it's own corner of the internet, they (and others) ignore it. If it gets to rampant they come down on it.

 

I mean, Esurance had to change their mascot because there was just so many metric tons of porn created from Erin Esurance (with really really really bad puns)

 

 

Which btw, I'd love to know who these people are that watched Esurance commercials and were like "yknow what? I really wanna jack off to this."

 

 

If the internet has taught me anything, its that there are some people who find anything in a vaguely feminine form to be potential stroke material.

[Malcador]

Rule 34 is common knowledge no?

[Blarghagh]

Almost every negative review I've read of this movie states "this is no Lord of the Rings". I missed the part where it ever claimed, pretended or seemed like it would be.

[Malcador]

I guess that is just the bar for fantasy films.

[aluminiumtrioxid]

 

 

 

I'm curious if Disney does the same.  I'd imagine they do.

I think, as long as it's confined to it's own corner of the internet, they (and others) ignore it. If it gets to rampant they come down on it.

 

I mean, Esurance had to change their mascot because there was just so many metric tons of porn created from Erin Esurance (with really really really bad puns)

 

 

Which btw, I'd love to know who these people are that watched Esurance commercials and were like "yknow what? I really wanna jack off to this."

 

 

If the internet has taught me anything, its that there are some people who find anything in a vaguely feminine form to be potential stroke material.

 

 

Fix'd.

[Amentep]

Well, yeah you're right.  I was mostly addressing the esurance crowd (although I guess there could have been people who were there because cartoon) but yeah pretty much everything.

[Longknife]

I googled Plank from Ed Edd n Eddy to see if there truly is porn of everything.

Not only did I find him, but apparently you can "gender bender" a plank of wood.

[Valsuelm]

Saw it last night.

 

I went in with low expectations, and it ended up being surprisingly good.

Nothing amazing, but definitely better than expected. Certainly better than anything Marvel has put out in my opinion. At least a solid 7/10.

 

Current and former Warcraft fans will definitely like it, though it's not just for them. The person I saw the movie with never played a Warcraft game so knew next to nothing going in, and they enjoyed it.

 

I look forward to a sequel. Given they followed the timeline/storyline roughly around Warcraft 1, there's a lot of sequel material to work with.

[BruceVC]

My friends who have never ever  played WOW want us to go watch this movie at IMAX

 

I told them its not good based on the general feedback from gamers, imagine non-gamers watching it?