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computer parts posted:International response seems pretty good so it just depends on the US audiences. The director is just retweeting a poo poo load of positive tweets about the movie so it seems like wow nerds will like it I guess.
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Egad, it's like the moment in LotR when the full fellowship comes together at elrond's meeting and not everyone's in focus. That was 15 years ago. The framing is decent though, better than wheden, though maybe a little too obvious. got any sevens fucked around with this message at 23:07 on May 25, 2016 |
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I haven't seen it in awhile so I might not be remembering correctly but I thought Silent Hill was one of the better films based on video games
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May 25, 2016 23:20
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Dead or Alive is almost on the level of the first Mortal Kombat movie.
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Somebody fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 25, 2016 |
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Somebody fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 25, 2016 |
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May 25, 2016 23:41
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Vintersorg posted:European reviews are somewhere in the middle and it's not total trash is what I'm reading. One of the reviews on metacritic that gave it a 10% score also gave Dragonball Evolution a 4/5 so yeah... What the f-? A major Danish newspaper Politiken gave it a 5/6, and most Swedish newspapers are hovering between 3-4/5. All in all it seems to be ok, I'm seeing it anyway.
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May 26, 2016 00:05
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Marketing New Brain posted:This doesn't sound right. The female Orc body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. i can see why the euros are giving it good reviews. they have a fondness for cinema and rapists. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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effectual posted:Egad, it's like the moment in LotR when the full fellowship comes together at elrond's meeting and not everyone's in focus. That was 15 years ago. The framing is decent though, better than wheden, though maybe a little too obvious. Why does the guard extra have better focus than the human queen on the far right?
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It'll be interesting to see if Blizzard's mobilization of the fanbase can drive numbers in spite of lukewarm reviews, which appears to be the case internationally. If there's a proven market for this, it only needs to be "not bad" enough to earn another film of greenscreened cosplayers featuring Arthas. Metzen has said he views this as an opportunity to redeem his storytelling.
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Toady posted:Metzen has said he views this as an opportunity to redeem his storytelling. Appropriate, given that he's stopped corrupting literally every character he's ever written and started redeeming every character he's ever written. ~warcraft~
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May 26, 2016 00:50
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Toady posted:It'll be interesting to see if Blizzard's mobilization of the fanbase can drive numbers in spite of lukewarm reviews, which appears to be the case internationally. If there's a proven market for this, it only needs to be "not bad" enough to earn another film of greenscreened cosplayers featuring Arthas. Metzen has said he views this as an opportunity to redeem his storytelling. All current and former players would top out at what, like 20 million tickets worldwide? Thats pretty weak in movie terms.
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May 26, 2016 01:22
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Steve2911 posted:This is the board that insists that MoS and BvS have value. The board that has swung a majority to vote in favour of the Star Wars prequels. What if that is what we wanted all along?
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May 26, 2016 02:22
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"Well hello there lady. Here to meet the Lion of Azeroth?  "
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May 26, 2016 02:24
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It's like it has reverse cinema magic where even the real things look fake.
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effectual posted:Egad, it's like the moment in LotR when the full fellowship comes together at elrond's meeting and not everyone's in focus. That was 15 years ago. The framing is decent though, better than wheden, though maybe a little too obvious. I have seen CG fan films that look significantly better than this. I have also seen "real" films that make heavy use of CG that look better than this and spent a tenth of the budget. Whoever approved this for 100 million is about to take a bath.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Whoever approved this for 100 million is about to take a bath. More like $160m according to recent articles. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/summer-box-office-guide-suicide-895245/item/biggest-risks-summer-box-office-895244 http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/05/24/universal-is-trying-for-big-franchise-box-office-without-big-budgets/#700a34bc58e4 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 04:28 on May 26, 2016 |
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May 26, 2016 04:25
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I'll go see this movie and I'll probably love it because I'll have been drinking for five hours up to and then during the movie
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Mr. Flunchy posted:She's a sex slave in the film. That sounds bad. This movie looks bad. It also kind of bothered me that on all the like months-advanced merchandise all the orcs were the usual super ugly dudes but she was inexplicably just a hot human woman painted green. At least in the original game she looked like an orc sort of and was some kind of assassin I think? I don't know, I barely remember Warcraft having a story. ungulateman posted:Appropriate, given that he's stopped corrupting literally every character he's ever written and started redeeming every character he's ever written. Aren't they bringing a dead guy back, a dead guy who went about as evil as you could get after he ate an evil wizard's skull, just so they can redeem him now?
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Nuebot posted:That sounds bad. This movie looks bad. It also kind of bothered me that on all the like months-advanced merchandise all the orcs were the usual super ugly dudes but she was inexplicably just a hot human woman painted green. At least in the original game she looked like an orc sort of and was some kind of assassin I think? I don't know, I barely remember Warcraft having a story.  
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Sir Kodiak posted:Apparently these were much different games than I recall. don't worry, like that other guy said, this kind of thing 'enhanced' the world of warcraft
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Nuebot posted:That sounds bad. This movie looks bad. It also kind of bothered me that on all the like months-advanced merchandise all the orcs were the usual super ugly dudes but she was inexplicably just a hot human woman painted green. At least in the original game she looked like an orc sort of and was some kind of assassin I think? I don't know, I barely remember Warcraft having a story. They're bringing back Illidan who was a pretty cool but flawed character who they spontaneously made go CRRRRAZY in WoW's first expansion because poo poo we need raid bosses uh lets make literally everyone from The Frozen Throne into a villain because MADNESS and CORRUPTION. It was pretty much where the CCCCCORRUPTION meme really got legs, and for good reason. Pretty much all characterization for Illidan, Vash'j, and Kael'thas was thrown out the window in Burning Crusade and the Draenei were retconned beyond recognition. Some would say that retconning the Burning Crusade is basically a net gain at this point 
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Captain Oblivious posted:They're bringing back Illidan who was a pretty cool but flawed character who they spontaneously made go CRRRRAZY in the game's first expansion because poo poo we need raid bosses uh lets make literally everyone from The Frozen Throne into a villain because MADNESS and CORRUPTION. It was pretty much where the CCCCCORRUPTION meme really got legs, and for good reason. It seems like the new expansion is basically just going to be a retcon of the burning crusade from what I've been told  and no one will miss the green fel flames and purple crystals everywhere. I'm still going to laugh my rear end off if the expansion ends with like twenty five dudes just shanking sargeras in the ankle until he falls over dead though.Are they still playing the "Elder gods did all!" card with every raid? lazorexplosion posted:It's like it has reverse cinema magic where even the real things look fake. More on topic though, this seems to be happening a lot more frequently. There are a lot of times in movies where I'll be like "this CGI looks like poo poo" and look it up and it turns out it was done entirely with practical effects or makeup or something and it just looked like lovely CGI.
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I've always assumed they do a ton of touch up which makes it look more fake.
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Is arthas or kiljaeden in this? If not then pass
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Paolomania posted:All current and former players would top out at what, like 20 million tickets worldwide? Thats pretty weak in movie terms. There have been 100 million accounts, but that number is likely inflated by trials.
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~Coxy posted:There have been 100 million accounts, but that number is likely inflated by trials. I'd bet at least 50% are trials + gold-sellers who were banned on their first account and had to buy new ones.
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We sell some of the merch for this movie at work and I've spent the past two weeks not correcting people who refer to it as the Warhammer Movie. But hey if any goons want a good deal on Warcraft versions of those car-family-sticker things gently caress off because I know the first store to actually sell one of those loving things will be inundated with the hundreds more that other stores couldn't sell
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Nuebot posted:no one will miss the green fel flames and purple crystals everywhere. TBC had the best aesthetic, you take that back  (Not that I'll be touching any new WoW material ever, of course)
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MrL_JaKiri posted:TBC had the best aesthetic, you take that back Sorry but the correct answer is WotLK because there's yet to be any zone in WoW as good as Grizzly Hills (and Storm Peaks).
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Vanderdeath posted:Sorry but the correct answer is WotLK because there's yet to be any zone in WoW as good as Grizzly Hills (and Storm Peaks). Aesthetically Unless you're a really big fan of hills with trees on them, in which case you should come live in Durham because there's loads of the buggers
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Captain Oblivious posted:They're bringing back Illidan who was a pretty cool but flawed character who they spontaneously made go CRRRRAZY in WoW's first expansion because poo poo we need raid bosses uh lets make literally everyone from The Frozen Throne into a villain because MADNESS and CORRUPTION. It was pretty much where the CCCCCORRUPTION meme really got legs, and for good reason. Pretty much all characterization for Illidan, Vash'j, and Kael'thas was thrown out the window in Burning Crusade and the Draenei were retconned beyond recognition. Nah "corruption" was from the RTS games, and were a story thing made on mechanical grounds. The game design wanted every faction to fight every other faction and that made no sense story wise so you needed to gin up reasons protoss were fighting other protoss and elves were fighting other elves and orcs were fighting other orcs and humans were fighting elves and whatever. The easiest way to explain it enough to make it a one battle thing in the campaign was explain that the group you fight was just being controlled by the bad guy or whatever. That carried out of the RTS and went into everything else blizzard. (here is a thin excuse why one of the bosses in diablo II is an angel! he got corrupted! here is a thin excuse why you have to fight the player classes! they got corrupted! etc) It was all a gameplay first thing.
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I'm trying to put my finger on why this looks so bad and fake, and I think it's the lighting? Like the lighting doesn't look remotely like it comes from any natural light source?
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I swear to god every time I see this picture I have to remember that it's not an FMV game from the 90s. I'm sure it looks mostly okay when it's in motion and not as blurry (I hope) but a still like this just makes every flaw stand out. lazorexplosion posted:I'm trying to put my finger on why this looks so bad and fake, and I think it's the lighting? Like the lighting doesn't look remotely like it comes from any natural light source? You're right about the lighting, and also the king looks like he's just floating above the stairs.
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lazorexplosion posted:I'm trying to put my finger on why this looks so bad and fake, and I think it's the lighting? Like the lighting doesn't look remotely like it comes from any natural light source? I think the brick pattern on those pillars was an old Windows95 background.
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BioTech posted:I think the brick pattern on those pillars was an old Windows95 background. Would watch a horror movie set in the Win95 screensaver labyrinth.
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May 26, 2016 15:34
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Maybe half of the 100 million went up Duncan's nose to get him to not retire in shame.
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I always thought the only way to do a good Warcraft movie would be to do it like Spinal Tap, except replace the rock band with mid-2000s wow players.
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Oz Fox posted:I always thought the only way to do a good Warcraft movie would be to do it like Spinal Tap, except replace the rock band with mid-2000s wow players. This would be awesome. For a non-parody version of this watch the documentary "Second Skin". It's funny, depressing, and uncomfortable, often all at the same time.
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