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[Movies] Holy shit! They're Making a BFG Movie?

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    KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    edited May 2016
    Huh, would the warcraft movie not being good actually be a surprise though

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    Diablo FettDiablo Fett Registered User regular
    renowned movie review site, kotaku

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Yeah, Variety and others also dug it

    Like I wasn't expecting 95% RT Score Smashing Critical Darling

    But most of the negative reviews I see complain about how it is generic fantasy adventure and doesn't do anything new or exciting and

    Well

    I'm totally down for a fun standard fantasy action blockbuster

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    I would definitely place more stock in THR and Variety's reviews than Kotaku's

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    ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    warcraft the game is also stock fantasy that does not do anything new or exciting

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    ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    (I don't really consider that a negative by the way, its fine)

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    warcraft the game is also stock fantasy that does not do anything new or exciting
    Yup, and I like it a bunch

    Sometimes you just want some dumb standard fantasy

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    rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    The kotaku review says they spend too much time on orcs.

    Yeah whatever alliance scum.

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    I didn't really like Hot Fuzz. Shaun Of The Dead is my favourite, and World's End was a lot of fun.

    Oh good I'm not the only one

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    rhylith wrote: »
    The kotaku review says they spend too much time on orcs.

    Yeah whatever alliance scum.
    Yeah that is a big ole plus for me

    Orcs are way more interesting than the Humans

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    ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    rhylith wrote: »
    The kotaku review says they spend too much time on orcs.

    Yeah whatever alliance scum.
    Yeah that is a big ole plus for me

    Orcs are way more interesting than the Humans

    yeah this is absolutely a positive

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    OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    warcraft the game is also stock fantasy that does not do anything new or exciting
    Yup, and I like it a bunch

    Sometimes you just want some dumb standard fantasy

    Yeah it seems weird to expect anything more than that from a Warcraft movie of all things

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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    They've already made 3 movies about a Pandarian Monk

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    rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    I mean, I'm not expecting anything incredible from the movie. The reviews i've read so far, the ones that dislike are all for the reasons every action movie gets mediocre reviews. The ones that like it are the same. So it's probably just OK. But I'm OK with that, and they were gonna get my money even if it was shit anyways so.

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Variety did not like it

    Not sure where y'all are getting that from

    http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/warcraft-film-review-world-of-warcraft-movie-1201780459/

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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I don't know if the movie is good or bad but it's definitely not a movie where I'm going to read the opinions of a bunch of pretentious movie reviewers.

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    OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    A flawed but likable adventure that I would happily go on again, preferably as a double feature with The Beastmaster, Legend or Ladyhawke.

    Okay like

    I don't know if that makes me excited to see Warcraft? But if that's the company its in, that seems like a solid time

    A weird throwback to old corny fantasy

    Though if that really is the company its in, they probably feel real bad about spending a hundred and fifty million dollars on it when half that probably would have done the job...

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Variety did not like it

    Not sure where y'all are getting that from

    http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/warcraft-film-review-world-of-warcraft-movie-1201780459/
    Yeah that was my bad, I misread one of the positive attributions on RT

    It was Crave I was looking at

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Ten years after game maker Blizzard Entertainment announced its intention to take the megahit multimedia property Warcraft to the big screen, it arrives in a striking blend of pricey practical and digital effects. As with many “high fantasy” epics, once you get past the costumes and lingo, the abracadabra and inevitable elves, the movie’s story is as simple as its visuals are elaborate. Beneath the richly textured layers of motion capture, animation and 3D modeling lie the basics: conflict, survival, family, loyalty.

    While the enormity of the undertaking is evident in every frame of the sci-fi medieval-ish action saga, director Duncan Jones manages, for the most part, to keep it from lumbering. With an emphasis on craft over war, the characters are front and center, and those that are partly digital creations are among its most memorable. They have heart.

    This is basically exactly what I would want out of a Warcraft flick

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    LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    I was thinking about this the other week and I don't care about the quality of the rest of it I would love it forever if they included a Warcraft 1/2 line.

    Give me a random Orc saying "something need doing?" or "stop poking me!".

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    This sounds like a movie I will netflix and chill with at one point.

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    This sounds like a movie I will netflix and chill with at one point.

    Hmm

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    He gonna fuck that movie

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    -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    now munkus do you mean that literally or do you mean that warcraft is a movie that you will stop watching fifteen minutes in so that you can have sex during the rest of it

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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Just Munkus on the couch, the Warcraft disc next to him. 2 glasses of white zin on the table, a low fire going...

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Yeah, Variety and others also dug it

    Like I wasn't expecting 95% RT Score Smashing Critical Darling

    But most of the negative reviews I see complain about how it is generic fantasy adventure and doesn't do anything new or exciting and

    Well

    I'm totally down for a fun standard fantasy action blockbuster

    Yeah, it's not like we're getting yearly Lord of the Rings movie or anything. It's not at terribly crowded field right now.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I mean that I'm not gonna watch it in theaters and I'll probably end up watching it on netflix once it pops up there, or I might even put it in my DVD queue and forget about it until it arrives.

    I had not planned on fucking the movie.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Just Munkus on the couch, the Warcraft disc next to him. 2 glasses of white zin on the table, a low fire going...

    White wine? How dare you, sir.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    I mean that I'm not gonna watch it in theaters and I'll probably end up watching it on netflix once it pops up there, or I might even put it in my DVD queue and forget about it until it arrives.

    I had not planned on fucking the movie.

    Thats how we get direct to dvd sequels Munkus

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I mean that I'm not gonna watch it in theaters and I'll probably end up watching it on netflix once it pops up there, or I might even put it in my DVD queue and forget about it until it arrives.

    I had not planned on fucking the movie.

    Thats how we get direct to dvd sequels Munkus

    ...clever girl.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    I feel kind of bad for Jeremy Renner.

    Both in Bourne and Mission Impossible they set it up where he was going to be the star and then the original main stars are like "naw we'll keep doing this"

    So now he's contractually obligated to keep doing these really minor bits in them

    it was a weird choice to set him up as the new face of those franchises anyways, considering he's only eight years younger than tom cruise and he's...the same age as matt damon

    you'd figure that if they wanted to maybe build a franchise around a new dude, they'd go significantly younger (and they'd also go for someone with more star power than jeremy renner)

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    rhylith wrote: »
    The kotaku review says they spend too much time on orcs.

    Yeah whatever alliance scum.

    It's not faithful to the source material if it doesn't favor the Alliance.

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I didn't realize they were attempting that in Ghost Protocol

    I just figured he was New Dude in the team

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    hey since I'm already behind the current conversation, let me pop in and say that scott pilgrim is my favorite edgar wright movie, followed probably by hot fuzz

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    rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    hey since I'm already behind the current conversation, let me pop in and say that scott pilgrim is my favorite edgar wright movie, followed probably by hot fuzz

    Yeah.

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Scott Pilgrim is my favorite movie, full stop

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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    Kwoaru wrote: »
    Huh, would the warcraft movie not being good actually be a surprise though

    i mean all the names attached to it are totally respectable, it should definitely wind up being at least nothing offensive rather than bad

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    DimosarDimosar I am the Brain Genius Registered User regular
    people fancast Emily Blunt in everything because she's amazing, but my entire argument as to why she should be Bond boils down to this image:

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    this is a 007 I wanna see

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    LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    I think that since Hot Fuzz was the first of edgar wright's stuff, it stuck with me the most.

    When I saw shaun of the dead a few years later, it felt exactly like the hot fuzz, and kinda lacked a lot of the freshness. And I'd imagine that for people who experienced them the other way, it'd vice versa.

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