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Jul 2, 2023 14:08
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I think it's the second or third highest grossing video game movie once Mario is taken into account.
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Jul 2, 2023 14:10
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Fimmel's character is the only one that's interesting or has a personality, but the movie is extremely bad yeah
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Jul 2, 2023 15:09
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I saw it because I love trash and it was trash. It was way, way less fun than Gods Of Egypt, though.
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Jul 2, 2023 15:16
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's amazing how everyone agreed the big CG orcs were by far the best part of the movie and everything else was a disaster. What a tremendous waste of Ben Foster and Ruth Negga that movie was.
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Jul 2, 2023 15:32
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Missed out on having Jamie Lee Curtis in it.
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Jul 2, 2023 15:48
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The MSJ posted:I think it's the second or third highest grossing video game movie once Mario is taken into account. Wikipedia says it was #1 til Mario which is just fascinating. I assumed it was a massive bomb. I'm guessing I could say that for every lovely effects-heavy blockbuster of the last 20 years though tbf.
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Jul 2, 2023 15:48
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A vast majority of Warcraft’s gross was China while it relatively flopped domestically, which unfortunately wasn’t good enough for The Accountants That Be.
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Jul 2, 2023 17:14
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And that may or may not have been some kinda fraud shenanigans going on in China given it was supposedly posting record box office from cinemas in cities currently flooded by a tropical storm.
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Jul 3, 2023 03:48
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GoldStandardConure posted:What a tremendous waste of Ben Foster and Ruth Negga that movie was. That was part of the issue, too, though: every human character, including the king and the Saruman-ish traitor, read as under 40, recently groomed, and fairly-to-extremely attractive. It felt like cosplayers doing a fan film. The CG orcs worked because they were the only part with any texture or gravitas at all. I like the WC games fine, but I loved Diablo 1 & 2 more than anything as a kid. The WC movie was so off-putting and lovely, I never want to see Blizzard adapt Diablo to anything, just to preserve its memory.
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Jul 3, 2023 09:00
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The fishing boat in man of steel is called “Debbie Sue”. Any bets on Deb Snyder’s middle name?
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Jul 3, 2023 12:57
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well why not posted:The fishing boat in man of steel is called “Debbie Sue”. Any bets on Deb Snyder’s middle name? putting it all on martha
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Jul 3, 2023 13:41
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's amazing how everyone agreed the big CG orcs were by far the best part of the movie and everything else was a disaster. I forget the main orc guy but he was a case study in "a stock character with enough extra trappings to keep my interest." And the movie just kills his rear end dead for no real reason!
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Jul 3, 2023 15:21
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I forget the main orc guy but he was a case study in "a stock character with enough extra trappings to keep my interest." And the movie just kills his rear end dead for no real reason! The movie coming up in this thread made me watch it for the first time yesterday, what a shitpile. But I agree, for most of the runtime I was thinking it would be better if instead of it being Warcraft 1 ORCS VS. HUMANS it was just a movie about all the orc stuff because that was a way better executed story. I agree Someone mentioned that Travis Fimmel is miscast but I think he's just going above and beyond every other human actor in it. There's a lot of points where the actors are trapped just sitting or standing facing each other spouting exposition but he's the only one that really gets into it body language-wise. You can tell they were trying to actively avoid it or something too because there's a ton of talking head kind of shots where you can tell he and whoever he's acting across are communicating with each other much more naturally because of how they're moving but the shots are so close up like the camera was actively fighting against the performances. Basically his character was the only one that came off as kind of genuine when everyone else was a video game cutscene incarnate. From what I read Duncan Jones' cut of the movie was 40 minutes longer but I don't think 40 minutes more of what we experienced would make for a better movie unless it's like an Alien 3 style every individual scene was more fleshed out kind of thing AND there's more story and not just a large amount of deleted scenes. The CG generally is really is good across the board and holds up well to me. Also I gotta say, like, ALL the comedy attempts fell completely flat, like dang. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Jul 3, 2023 |
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Jul 3, 2023 15:28
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I should probably watch Warcraft again, as it's one of the most astonishingly bad movies of the 21st century. What I remember: - Travis Fimmel being lit like he's a bad guy in a funhouse at the end - The orcs being in some better but still not quite good movie (which is apparently the part Duncan Jones worked on most) - Dominic Cooper's hilarious helmet  well why not posted:I saw it because I love trash and it was trash. It was way, way less fun than Gods Of Egypt, though. Gods of Egypt was just an even less good Clash of the Titans remake
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Jul 3, 2023 18:41
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Xealot posted:That was part of the issue, too, though: every human character, including the king and the Saruman-ish traitor, read as under 40, recently groomed, and fairly-to-extremely attractive. It felt like cosplayers doing a fan film. The CG orcs worked because they were the only part with any texture or gravitas at all. For real, a Diablo (even just a Diablo 1!) movie or miniseries could whip rear end but there's no way Hollywood would allow that. We need more fantasy horror in general. A no-nonsense hard R rated Dredd or The Raid-esque fantasy movie where you get 30 minutes of solid build up of small stuff and setting the stage with a very small cast followed by 70 minutes of violent asskicking to the bottom of the dungeon+revelations about The Dark Lord would rule.
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Jul 4, 2023 00:48
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Neo Rasa posted:For real, a Diablo (even just a Diablo 1!) movie or miniseries could whip rear end but there's no way Hollywood would allow that. Diablo 1 and it would need to be low dialogue, minimalist movie (but still violent as gently caress), otherwise it will get bogged down in the Diablo 2 onwards bullshit of Decard Cain saying 'horadric' nine times in a single sentence.
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Jul 4, 2023 03:01
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a diablo miniseries would just be netflix castlevania but worse it brings me no joy to say this
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Jul 4, 2023 03:19
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GoldStandardConure posted:Diablo 1 and it would need to be low dialogue, minimalist movie (but still violent as gently caress), otherwise it will get bogged down in the Diablo 2 onwards bullshit of Decard Cain saying 'horadric' nine times in a single sentence. Yeah like I always loved Conan the Barbarian but the more fantasy movies I see the more and more I seriously respect it for its pacing and having entire scenes that have no dialogue at all. For real someone give Panos Cosmatos $100,000,000 and a longplay of Diablo 1 and let him go to town.
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Jul 4, 2023 03:40
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Correct.
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Jul 4, 2023 03:52
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Neo Rasa posted:Yeah like I always loved Conan the Barbarian but the more fantasy movies I see the more and more I seriously respect it for its pacing and having entire scenes that have no dialogue at all. Definitely check out Conquest if you haven't seen it. I think it's right up your alley.
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Jul 4, 2023 03:54
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rose tico's sister, but a sith lord. kino.
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Jul 4, 2023 03:57
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Snyder would've probably made a pretty rad Warcraft movie.
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Jul 4, 2023 04:12
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feedmyleg posted:Definitely check out Conquest if you haven't seen it. I think it's right up your alley. I loving love Conquest 
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Jul 4, 2023 04:26
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teagone posted:Snyder would've probably made a pretty rad Warcraft movie. Henry would have made a kickass Arthas
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Jul 4, 2023 05:15
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Neo Rasa posted:Yeah like I always loved Conan the Barbarian but the more fantasy movies I see the more and more I seriously respect it for its pacing and having entire scenes that have no dialogue at all. Panos Cosmatos' "The Viewing" except its the villagers of Tristram sitting around for an hour talking about everything gone wrong in Sanctuary, before they hype themselves up to storm the church and get massacred by The Butcher. Garret Dillahunt as Farnham the Drunkard.
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Jul 4, 2023 05:21
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Picture a molten metal sword. Picture what it does to things it hits. Now picture a lightsaber and what it does to things it hits.
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Jul 4, 2023 07:01
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Hopefully their people never run into this guy https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/man-slaps-molten-metal-with-bare-hand-old-video-baffles-twitter-2856784
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Jul 4, 2023 15:31
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Picture a molten metal sword. Picture what it does to things it hits. Now picture a lightsaber and what it does to things it hits. "Lava sword is just like a lightsaber." . . . Lightsabers have always-already been made out of lava.
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Jul 4, 2023 15:44
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There has to be a lava lightsaber in the whole history of the Star Wars EU. Like, something used by a Sith Lord in a DLC to a late-00s LucasArts game or something.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:03
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To briefly return to Warcraft, it could be used to teach the importance of actually adapting source material. The Orcs are transplanted wholesale from the game, complete with their bizarre proportions. They actually look pretty good, which makes sense since there are short CGI segments in the game. The humans aren't, though, not entirely. They have the big goofy armour, but on normally proportioned humans. Aside from looking stupid (and it does look really stupid) it also results in humans who a) look like they can't move or fight and b) probably actually couldn't do any serious stuntwork. Which means that the war aspect of 'warcraft' has to be on the backburner since none of your human actors can actually do any stunts. As a result, you have to spend a lot more time on the lore, and the lore is really loving stupid. Much more noticeably stupid than if it was at least punctuated by some decent fight scenes or big setpieces. A better Warcraft movie is either complete CGI or more of its own thing, able to adapt the designs, characters and themes into something that works in the context of a live action film. There's also the woman orc who is literally the below meme to a genuinely embarassing extent. 
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Jul 5, 2023 00:56
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Okay to be fair both lady trolls and demons have weird feet. Wait, that's not better.
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Jul 5, 2023 01:09
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Durotan vs Gul'Dan was pretty decent iMO but that falls into the side that all the orc centric stuff was really drat good. I hated anything involving the Alliance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWWIRlDW4M
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Jul 5, 2023 02:35
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Snowman_McK posted:There's also the woman orc who is literally the below meme to a genuinely embarassing extent. Not to defend it, but Garona Halforcen's whole deal is that she doesn't belong in either culture because she's of mixed parentage (and possibly also fel corruption in vitro, thanks Medivh) and that's why she's not huge like literally every other Orc. Durotan's wife is more indicative of what Orc women would look like. Again, not defending the choice (I was supremely disappointed in WarCraft and my expectations weren't high to begin with), but the text did back up their choice
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Jul 5, 2023 07:51
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Snowman_McK posted:To briefly return to Warcraft, it could be used to teach the importance of actually adapting source material. The Orcs are transplanted wholesale from the game, complete with their bizarre proportions. They actually look pretty good, which makes sense since there are short CGI segments in the game. The humans aren't, though, not entirely. They have the big goofy armour, but on normally proportioned humans. Aside from looking stupid (and it does look really stupid) it also results in humans who a) look like they can't move or fight and b) probably actually couldn't do any serious stuntwork. Which means that the war aspect of 'warcraft' has to be on the backburner since none of your human actors can actually do any stunts. As a result, you have to spend a lot more time on the lore, and the lore is really loving stupid. Much more noticeably stupid than if it was at least punctuated by some decent fight scenes or big setpieces. The human knights move and fight and do stunts in their armor fine - it's not real armor or combat so Jones used all sorts of movie magic. The sfx and design aren't really the problem with warcraft, it's the story - of course it's stupid, that's inevitable, but it's also very boring, which is unforgivable.
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Jul 5, 2023 16:29
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just read Anthony Hopkins is gonna voice a chappie in rebel moon
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Jul 6, 2023 22:00
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hell yes he is
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Jul 6, 2023 22:11
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ruddiger posted:just read Anthony Hopkins is gonna voice a chappie in rebel moon Not just any regular sort of chappie, his character is like a knights templar chappie!
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Jul 6, 2023 22:52
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* nudge * * point * That's Anthony Hopkins.
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