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Batham posted:LOOK at this tower. Just. LOOK. Worst was the, for the plot, completely meaningless segways like the King being at the inn in the 'WORLD OF WARCRAFT AREA THAT PLAYERS WILL RECOGNIZE' instead of simply at his castle.
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That might be what bothered me most. Five minutes in Goldshire and no one begged for gold, or called anyone else a homo.
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Jun 4, 2016 14:13
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Just be glad it's not Moonglade's Goldshire.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He was in there at one point but he got cut This reminds me of one thing I found weird, which is how quickly they went from "Huh, what's a 'boomstick'?  " to human soldiers having guns.
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Speaking of ruining careers, let's hope The Guy From Vikings never gets cast in anything ever again after this movie.
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peer posted:Speaking of ruining careers, let's hope The Guy From Vikings never gets cast in anything ever again after this movie. He made me stop watching Vikings (it went to poo poo for me in season 2 and I never went back) and pretty much brings this movie down as well in all the previews.
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Not Operator posted:That might be what bothered me most. Five minutes in Goldshire and no one begged for gold, or called anyone else a homo. They're leaving it for when they cross The Barrens in the sequel 
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Yeah, gotta echo other people - surprisingly good, not even close to great. It reminds me of Jupiter Ascending - same devotion to ugly, unreal aesthetics, same self-seriousness. It does not make a good movie, but if you are making some shameless blockbuster about giant pauldrons, be honest about it. Personally, I prefer cosplayers doing 200mil rainbow vomit to another watered down, ironic Marvel garbage. Trainwrecks are fun! What is unforgivably bad is all the sequel-setting stuff in the end. Durotan's honor duel achieves absolutely nothing (like all of his arc), portal flip feels like a lazy solution to a script that tied itself in a knot, the king devises his Gamora-framing plan in seconds and he needs time to literally stop to explain it. That hero-blaming stuff made sense in the Dark Knight - that movie hammered its theme for 2,5 hours and it was "uhhhh, blame me, I'm a vigilante anyway", here it is just a callback to a single scene (for which the king was not even present due to Bechdel test compliance). They sure got lucky with a competent director to make everything smooth and a great lead - Fimmel just does his smugass Ragnar from Vikings, dunks on a nerd wizard and it is more than enough. Speaking of fanservice, the sudden Polymorph was the one that got me.
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fatherboxx posted:What is unforgivably bad is all the sequel-setting stuff in the end. Durotan's honor duel achieves absolutely nothing (like all of his arc), portal flip feels like a lazy solution to a script that tied itself in a knot, the king devises his Gamora-framing plan in seconds and he needs time to literally stop to explain it. That hero-blaming stuff made sense in the Dark Knight - that movie hammered its theme for 2,5 hours and it was "uhhhh, blame me, I'm a vigilante anyway", here it is just a callback to a single scene (for which the king was not even present due to Bechdel test compliance). All the action going on behind him in slow motion got the whole cinema laughing at least.
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fatherboxx posted:What is unforgivably bad is all the [spoiler]sequel-setting stuff in the end. Durotan's honor duel achieves absolutely nothing (like all of his arc) It was pretty much all to set up Doomhammer and Thrall for sequels we might never even get.
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I liked the movie, mostly because I'm a sucker for gratuitous fan service of the scenery porn kind.
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The amount of times we had to go back to Karazhan though I mean I love that raid but c'mon
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dog days are over posted:The amount of times we had to go back to Karazhan though Back before I quit playing, I went there as a L100 (or L90, can't remember) and I simultaneously thought it was Really Cool and Really Annoying in a way that's hard to describe. I can't imagine going there at-level.
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MisterBibs posted:Back before I quit playing, I went there as a L100 (or L90, can't remember) and I simultaneously thought it was Really Cool and Really Annoying in a way that's hard to describe. I can't imagine going there at-level. As a TBC veteran I can say that it and Zul'Aman were the highlights of the expansion.
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Possibly the single most brutal movie review I have ever seen.
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The comments of this are going to be what this thread is going to be like, I just know it.
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GonSmithe posted:The comments of this are going to be what this thread is going to be like, I just know it. What's interesting about it is that it's definitely been written by someone who doesn't know the games or the lore. Like I mentioned earlier in the thread there's loads of poo poo that I know as someone who played the original games but isn't mentioned in the film AT ALL and is really bizzare. For example: quote:The ones who have lines are white, and the ones who exist as fodder for the action scenes are green — while this dichotomy almost certainly causes some kind of racial discord in the orc community, it’s also our only means of telling these things apart It says Lothar or whatever his name is frees Girona. He doesn't, Durotan does. But that part makes so little sense I'm not surprised the reviewer didn't realise. Taear fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jun 5, 2016 |
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JOSH JUNE 2, 2016 6:06 PM Stop comparing LOTR with Warcraft already,for gently caress sake,people are tired of super hero movies and watch to see something new,good looking and fast actions.No more 3 hour of movie talking and one battlescene were you cant see what is going on screen HUNTER8472 JUNE 2, 2016 9:04 PM This guy… Sounds like he hated the game WAAAY b4 the movie came out to recap the story lol. This guy don’t realize, this movie was made 4 the fans (including me). N the game has been making over @ billion per year so Blizzard wants the movie 2 be epic, yes but its being made mostly 4 the fans that number almost 20million so where do u get a small following from lol… Just go n enjoy it n don’t try to understand it. It will confuse the non-followers  CONFUSED READER JUNE 3, 2016 1:34 PM Trying to figure out why you have people reviewing the story of a nearly 30 year old series who’ve never been a part of it. This movie is pretty much much fanservice to those dedicated to the lore, meanwhile some oiled up hipster wants to throw their two cents into the wishing well to bitch about a story they know nothing about which was noticeable when he dove into racial difference between “white ” and green orcs like some sort of SJW for the fantasy worlds… stick to reviewing your “underground” and indie scene, pleb…. take your pent up hipster anguish and your artisan coffee elsewhere… BANDYBUSHIDO JUNE 3, 2016 4:41 AM More copy and paste rubbish from a Disney fanboy who probably gave The Farce Awakens good reviews. Read this same review on Variety, etc. Watched with the misses and really enjoyed. I guess Blizzard doesn’t cater for party liggers looking for freebies like Disney did when they sold us worse tosh. Deliberately misleading review and should be scrapped.
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They maaaaad, hah. For the first time, I have some actual interest in seeing this thing; a glorious trainwreck was about the best that could be expected. Feel bad for Dunc, tho.
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Bimmi posted:They maaaaad, hah. As long as he didn't piss anyone off like Trank during F4, I think he'll be ok.
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This movie was terribad. I can't imagine any level of being drunk or high that would make it tolerable.Jamesman posted:I tried playing it again recently (last time I played it was when the Reaper expansion came out), and I feel like I can better convey my feelings on why it's so bad. Rares are poo poo and vendors are poo poo. Legendaries and Set items/bonuses have all sorts of crazy interactions. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jun 5, 2016 |
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computer parts posted:As long as he didn't piss anyone off like Trank during F4, I think he'll be ok. Beyond the strong likelihood of having pissed away a couple hundred mil of other people's money, this was clearly a passion project for him: to have (apparently) failed so miserably at pulling it off has got to feel awful. On top of which, production began as his wife was diagnosed with cancer and was wrapping up when his dad died of same, with three no-doubt grueling years in between, so I can't imagine he is a very happy cat right now. I hope his career will recover. But even if it does, he's always gonna be the guy who directed the goddamn Warcraft movie. Bimmi fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jun 5, 2016 |
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GonSmithe posted:The comments of this are going to be what this thread is going to be like, I just know it. I didn't realize the movie has yet to air in the US. 
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GonSmithe posted:The comments of this are going to be what this thread is going to be like, I just know it. Battlefield Earth of the 21st Century makes me kind of curious in it, but I won't be fooled.
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Immortan posted:
"Painted green and sporting a set of plastic Halloween fangs on the wrong half of her teeth, Patton consistently looks like she’s about to lose a cos-play contest for her own character. " Yeeowch.
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Sad thing is it looks like a bad paint job but it's just a bad photoshop filter.
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Bimmi posted:Beyond the strong likelihood of having pissed away a couple hundred mil of other people's money, this was clearly a passion project for him: to have (apparently) failed so miserably at pulling it off has got to feel awful. On top of which, production began as his wife was diagnosed with cancer and was wrapping up when his dad died of same, with three no-doubt grueling years in between, so I can't imagine he is a very happy cat right now. Did Moon stop existing or something?
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Josh Lyman posted:This movie was terribad. I can't imagine any level of being drunk or high that would make it tolerable. High is how I was planning on seeing this. So I hope that's not true.
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I think it's telling that most of the defense of this movie is basically "now, hold on, it's actually just really mediocre"
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PoPcornTG posted:High is how I was planning on seeing this. So I hope that's not true. Try seeing Gods of Egypt while high, I found it amazing.
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Thanks goons. I had to watch this in the cinema (girlfriend is a WoW addict) and you set my expectations so low thatch actually enjoyed the movie. I went in expecting steaming poo poo and hoping for the best, so I was pleasantly surprised by the bowl of piss it ended up being. I kinda want a sequel, just to see if they'll retcon anything in true Blizz style.
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IronicDongz posted:I think it's telling that most of the defense of this movie is basically "now, hold on, it's actually just really mediocre" I like "mediocre," movies, and TV, and books, and every other form of entertainment. I hate the cultural meme that's festered for the last 8 or so years that everything has to be the best thing in the history of ever tour-de-force #gamechanger or a HILARIOUS TRAIN WRECK LAWL, and the ultimate crime is to be average. Average is the trenches, without average things that play it safe but because they are so safe are willing to experiment with one or two bits, truly great art would never be made if you ask me. Sharknado and Troll 2 may be fun for a laugh, but I'm tired of hearing about them as being preferable to "mediocre," movies. I'd rather watch something I can kick back with a bowl of popcorn and ACTUALLY enjoy, even if only in parts or at an overall low level, than waste any more hours on IRONIC enjoyment of trash.
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have we discussed the possibility that Duncan Jones has become corrupted somehow??
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Sanguinia posted:I like "mediocre," movies, and TV, and books, and every other form of entertainment. I hate the cultural meme that's festered for the last 8 or so years that everything has to be the best thing in the history of ever tour-de-force #gamechanger or a HILARIOUS TRAIN WRECK LAWL, and the ultimate crime is to be average. Average is the trenches, without average things that play it safe but because they are so safe are willing to experiment with one or two bits, truly great art would never be made if you ask me. Here's the thing. We've all seen hundreds of movies at this time in our life. The novelty of big cinema budgets and actors is not enough at this point. If you're showing us nothing new or at least interesting you're waisting our time. Especially in big budget CGI action movies.
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Sanguinia posted:I like "mediocre," movies, and TV, and books, and every other form of entertainment. I hate the cultural meme that's festered for the last 8 or so years that everything has to be the best thing in the history of ever tour-de-force #gamechanger or a HILARIOUS TRAIN WRECK LAWL, and the ultimate crime is to be average. Average is the trenches, without average things that play it safe but because they are so safe are willing to experiment with one or two bits, truly great art would never be made if you ask me. I like good things, personally
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Speaking of corruption, the quintessentially Blizzard/Metzen treatment of it on the Alliance side is the reason why Alliance part of the movie is a wet fart thematically. With orcs, the corruption narrative comes naturally - they want more power to conquer, Gul'Dan obliges, Frostwolves don't like it because it is unhonorable and because chaos magic kills the earth quite fast. Conflict! With the Alliance, Medivh gets corrupted by getting space AIDS from his travels (banging Garona's mother?), not because he wanted more knowledge or power like it should be in that kind of narrative. Apart from that, the Alliance is completely conflict-free - the king is a good guy, his wife is even better, Dalaran mages and Lothar grumble about the nerd only for a few minutes. Just an idyllic fantasy kingdom. In LotR you had a whole rainbow of relatable sins leading to supernatural corruption - apathy with Theoden, grudges with the Gondor king, envy with Boromir, greed and pride with Thorin. No scary horns needed (maybe some grimy eye bags).
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In particular to one part of that, Medivh is corrupted because his mother got infested with the will of Sargeras whilst he was in the womb, he's not related to Garona at all unless they changed that. Medivh isn't a story about corruption, it's a story about a good man having to fight against an incredibly insidious form of mind control, he's not evil he's just got the leader of the Burning Legion in his head telling him what to do. It's rather telling that after he fixes that problem he exiles himself and dedicates his life to working out how to stop the Legion permanently. If they actually tried to make Medivh a corruption story that's hilarious.
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Milky Moor posted:I always thought Medivh's thing came from conspiring with Gul'Dan across the astral plane or whatever?
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