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Why do people also ignore the fact that Duncan Jones has only made one good movie and one lovely/mediocre movie (depending on who you ask). We have no idea if he was a one hit wonder or not. It's appearing that is the case.
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Source Code was good.
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Nov 7, 2015 10:33
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Even good film-makers can make lovely movies, and this movie looks pretty lovely. I don't understand what Duncan Jones has done to earn this blind faith.
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Nov 7, 2015 10:45
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Lurdiak posted:Even good film-makers can make lovely movies, and this movie looks pretty lovely. I don't understand what Duncan Jones has done to earn this blind faith. He made Moon. Which was good, but that's it. I guess that one guy above us liked Source Code. He is no where near as big a deal as people make him out to be. Shouldn't matter to much as his career will likely be in the garbage after this.
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Nov 7, 2015 10:47
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Megasabin posted:Why do people also ignore the fact that Duncan Jones has only made one good movie and one lovely/mediocre movie (depending on who you ask). We have no idea if he was a one hit wonder or not. It's appearing that is the case. Source Code was great.
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Nov 7, 2015 11:05
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The thing about moon is that, aesthetically, it feels like an expensive fan film for Alien, plus a dash of a few other vintage scifi films, without much new to bring to the table. Which is fine and clearly what set out to make... But between that and the fact that the narrative quality largely floats on the skills of one very skilled actor, I'm not sure how it led people to think he was the guy to helm a large scale epic which needed a very skilled visual director to adapt its aesthetic to live action?
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Nov 7, 2015 11:15
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No Mods No Masters posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLhI6CtS9gA
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Nov 7, 2015 11:24
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037bh6m?ocid=socialflow_twitter How in the gently caress...
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Nov 7, 2015 12:08
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I remember Halo movie project failing because Microsoft/Bungie demanded more control - well, this is what you get when you let a videogame publisher into movie process. Also it is funny how the actual warcraft in-world feels more like this than that movie trailer or the big expansion cinematics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmu0XXpUYog just a giant lump of kitchen sink fantasy steampunk poo poo with pop culture references
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Nov 7, 2015 12:21
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GonSmithe posted:He's making Mute next because of this movie. They just cast Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard in it. Oh! Well that's great then! I mean this still looks dumb but hey, whatever lets him do not dumb stuff.
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Nov 7, 2015 12:26
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Megasabin posted:He made Moon. Which was good, but that's it. I guess that one guy above us liked Source Code. He is no where near as big a deal as people make him out to be. Shouldn't matter to much as his career will likely be in the garbage after this. There's probably a whiteboard in a back room of the studio somewhere with a big Venn diagram with circles labeled "Directors who have had positively reviewed movies which made their money back" and "Directors we can afford/push around" and Jones was one of the few names in the intersecting segment. Josh Trank's name was also in there but was crossed out. 
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Nov 7, 2015 12:54
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fatherboxx posted:I remember Halo movie project failing because Microsoft/Bungie demanded more control - well, this is what you get when you let a videogame publisher into movie process.
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Nov 7, 2015 13:25
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I stopped following Warcraft after TFT but why are the Orcs brown? I'm guessing it's related to the weird retcon where the 'bad' Orcs were all actually red-skinned and not green from Warcraft 3?
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Nov 7, 2015 13:34
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Milky Moor posted:I stopped following Warcraft after TFT but why are the Orcs brown? Orcs can be lots of colours in Warcraft, from brown to bright green. Stop being orc-racist. No, really, I'm not being facetious, I'm pretty sure that's the answer.
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Nov 7, 2015 14:06
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It also probably looks better in a more photorealistic environment. Certainly more than cherry red.
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Milky Moor posted:I stopped following Warcraft after TFT but why are the Orcs brown? ufarn posted:Can't wait for Durotan to chug a Mountain Dew and give the camera a thumbs up before heading into battle.
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Nov 7, 2015 14:09
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Vintersorg posted:For comparisons sake heres the WoW:Legion cinematic. Why couldn't Blizzard just give us a full movie of their amazing cinematics? 
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Nov 7, 2015 16:49
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Jamesman posted:Why couldn't Blizzard just give us a full movie of their amazing cinematics? a) Being good at constructing 5 minute scenes of cool stuff doesn't mean you're good at making movies. b) They're expensive and time consuming as gently caress to make. I've said for years a movie made in the style of Blizzard cinematics would be about as good as Japanese animated vidya movies like that Tekken film or Advent Children. ie Not very.
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Nov 7, 2015 16:58
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It's so bizarre to me that they are basing the movie off of Warcraft and not World of Warcraft. Why would you do just Orcs and Humans when you could have the Burning Legion, Arthas, etc plus all the cool races and stuff. Seems like a missed opportunity.
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Nov 7, 2015 17:17
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Steve2911 posted:a) Being good at constructing 5 minute scenes of cool stuff doesn't mean you're good at making movies. Would it have ended up being more expensive, time consuming, and worse than what they ended up doing with what we're actually getting?
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Nov 7, 2015 17:20
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I can't wait for this to come out. So Duncan 'David Bowie's Son' Jones can make his next movie.
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Nov 7, 2015 17:24
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Jamesman posted:Why couldn't Blizzard just give us a full movie of their amazing cinematics? I mean that's basically what this looks like tbh. There are human actors, but I guarantee you could pluck out some orc focused action scene from the film and put it as the intro in the next game and no one would notice the difference
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Nov 7, 2015 17:31
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Kvlt! posted:It's so bizarre to me that they are basing the movie off of Warcraft and not World of Warcraft. Why would you do just Orcs and Humans when you could have the Burning Legion, Arthas, etc plus all the cool races and stuff. Seems like a missed opportunity. They are planning to make this a trilogy lol.
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Nov 7, 2015 17:33
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Jamesman posted:Would it have ended up being more expensive, time consuming, and worse than what they ended up doing with what we're actually getting?
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Nov 7, 2015 17:48
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ufarn posted:Probably, yeah. Also, I imagine they've been cannibalizing on their cinematics division, which affects the games, which is something I actually care about, unlike this dumb movie. This is real dumb. They literally just put out a cinematic game trailer yesterday. Also the movie isn't actually made by Blizzard's CGI team.
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Hakkesshu posted:This is real dumb. They literally just put out a cinematic game trailer yesterday. Also the movie isn't actually made by Blizzard's CGI team. No, he's saying that would have happened if they'd had their in-house cinematics team make the movie. I admit the grammar made it hard to grasp, but I assume that was a typo.
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ufarn posted:I imagine they've been cannibalizing on their cinematics division ufarn posted:which affects the games
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Kvlt! posted:It's so bizarre to me that they are basing the movie off of Warcraft and not World of Warcraft. Why would you do just Orcs and Humans when you could have the Burning Legion, Arthas, etc plus all the cool races and stuff. Seems like a missed opportunity. Orcs and Humans is the simplest story you can do in the Warcraft universe, and it allows you to build off of it and introduce Thrall et all.
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Nov 7, 2015 18:02
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Megasabin posted:Why do people also ignore the fact that Duncan Jones has only made one good movie and one lovely/mediocre movie (depending on who you ask). We have no idea if he was a one hit wonder or not. It's appearing that is the case. Moon and Source Code were both critically acclaimed. So it's more accurate to say all his feature films are solid. Source Code has a 92% on RT and a 7.5 on imdb. But I suppose because you didn't like it he's a one hit wonder.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:They are planning to make this a trilogy lol. I feel like the same thing that's gonna happen with "Eragon" is going to happen here: it's supposed to be a trilogy, first film comes out and then bombs so we never get another one.
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Steve2911 posted:Why in the gently caress would you think that? Movie studios have their own CGI departments.
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I think the most ominous thing about the trailer is the endless predictable "should we trust our enemies?" dialogue. It makes the whole plot feel easy to forecast. Humans and orcs fight a little, then a bigger threat (probably Legion) approaches, then 60 minutes of trying to establish an alliance, one rear end in a top hat orc or human makes the alliance go bad, they kill the guy and then things go good, we see a single shot of a Legion walking through a portal and Bam, closing credits.
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Duncan Jones is a Good Filmmaker, but the quality of a tentpole release like this one has little to do with a young director who has very limited influence. Everyone with a paycheck above one million has meddled with this project at both the film and game company. He was smart to take it, because it allows him to make movies he actually wants to make in the near-future. Even if this fails critically and commercially, no one will blame him and he is so young that it will be forgotten by the time he realizes any potential he currently has. Judakel fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Nov 7, 2015 |
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Nov 7, 2015 19:20
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Judakel posted:Even if it fails critically and commercially, no one will blame him. David Bowie will. David Bowie will be loving furious.
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Hakkesshu posted:I mean that's basically what this looks like tbh. There are human actors, but I guarantee you could pluck out some orc focused action scene from the film and put it as the intro in the next game and no one would notice the difference Yeah, but Warcraft is filled with so much unrealistic elements that making the movie live-action is actually kinda limiting, and then when you fall back to CG for some of those more fantastic moments, they stick out in a negative way because they are juxtaposed against the real-life elements that can't keep up.
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Nov 7, 2015 19:36
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Lurdiak posted:Even good film-makers can make lovely movies, and this movie looks pretty lovely. I don't understand what Duncan Jones has done to earn this blind faith.
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Nov 7, 2015 20:14
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This movie looks like it could be interesting in the same way the Watchman movie was. It will satisfy (sort of) both a niche audience and some people who find "that kind" of movie fun and then sparsely be heard of again.
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Polo-Rican posted:I think the most ominous thing about the trailer is the endless predictable "should we trust our enemies?" dialogue. It makes the whole plot feel easy to forecast. Humans and orcs fight a little, then a bigger threat (probably Legion) approaches, then 60 minutes of trying to establish an alliance, one rear end in a top hat orc or human makes the alliance go bad, they kill the guy and then things go good, we see a single shot of a Legion walking through a portal and Bam, closing credits. Any use of sequel/next one is referring to the obviously planned sequels, and is not indicative of a belief that they'll actually exist. A Buttery Pastry fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Nov 7, 2015 |
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Nov 7, 2015 20:22
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I absolutely agree this looks like one of Blizzard's CGI cutscenes which have cool looking stuff but no real substance and 2 hours of it...yeah, this movie is going to bomb but Blizzard gets their royalty cheque.
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Honestly after watching the trailer I just wished they had made an Elder Scrolls movie. Want to see a lizard-man, cat-man and roguish human fight poo poo in fantasy Tamriel. Red Mundus fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Nov 7, 2015 |
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